It’s really amazing. The only (not really) downside is that certain episodes make me tear up.

I was waiting for this comment, lol

Uh huh humm…

I think I can help with the first part: I think saying someone is “trying to be a vibe” is sort of like saying they’re “trying to pull off a look/personality”

For another example, if someone buys a Harley, dresses head to toe in leather, and starts talking like a tough guy.

OOP is saying they’re not pulling it off, then comes back and admits that they kinda were pulling it off.

Sounds like you’d probably be on team “listen to music”?

I respect the tough love here.

14 years! All of those old news segments from that era are absolute classics.

I suppose some mysteries won’t ever be solved.

You can play it on gut bacteria, so it seems possible.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is the accusation that they collect keystroke data from outside the app if you have it installed?

I think you’re absolutely right. When these studios go public and start having pressure from shareholders, it starts the gradual decline in quality.

Goodwill with your playerbase doesn’t show up on a quarterly report, but without it your company is sunk.

It’s incredible that a company with the resources of Ubisoft couldn’t figure that out, even with people shouting it at them daily.

This makes me feel like there will be a large group of retro gamers who will prefer the artisan, human-made games of the past, but ultimately a younger gen audience that won’t know the difference or care.

Because otherwise the data would be artificially lower in areas with more children.

For example, imagine a suburb in Utah filled with college educated software engineers with big Mormon families. If you count the kids, it might look like people there don’t have degrees.

There is a researchgate link in the post body that has more info and a link to the publication. I haven’t skimmed through it myself, but I thought I’d link for anyone who’s curious.

I don’t know, a lot of the red is over pretty rural areas in the south and parts of the southwest, and the majority of the most rural parts of the country are “not significant”.

Also that big blue part in the middle covers some very large cities.

I accidentally uploaded the wrong post and then replaced it within a few seconds. Sometimes that doesn’t always federate right, so if you’re seeing one about a funny guy on LinkedIn and not this, that could explain it:

I think this is a good time to remind everyone that the strength of federated social media (and a big reason why we’re all here) is that no private company or country’s laws can have total control over the fediverse.

Everyone who runs an instance is going to have a different risk-tolerance for legal issues however, and I can’t fault anyone for making a judgment call that they feel best protects the server and their users. I don’t know anything about Dutch or Finnish laws, but I’ve seen many recent articles about people arrested in Germany for their social media posts that were considered hateful or violent (which is frankly a culture shock to me as an American), so I can see why some of the posts on Lemmy in the past week would be concerning.

In my interactions with the .World admins, I’ve seen nothing but people trying to run an instance in the most fair and neutral way they can, and I personally trust them to make the hard calls when they come up. That being said, if you’re frustrated with the legal concerns of a host’s country or have had a run-in with a mod that upset you, it only strengthens the fediverse if you spread out or create similar communities elsewhere.

The darker color in tornado alley is green for “no data”, which is odd, but I assume it’s similar to the darker orange and red around it.

Yeah =(

The map tracks with high American Indian and White populations.