WolvenSpectre

@WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Lammy says Sikhs’ blade ‘privilege can be taken away’ after Henry Nowak death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Certain Male Sikhs carry ceremonial religious daggers normally secured shut by cloth, and wear them because it is in their religion to use the daggers, which were historically larger and unsecured, to defend OTHER religions right to believe what they believed and to defend themselves when attacked by weapons. The dagger, known as a Kirpan( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan ) has become so ceremonial some are just a handle attached to a sheaf.

  The Sikh who stabbed Henry Nowak was believed to be mentally unstable and was barred from his Sikh Temple because he, among other things carried a larger second dagger/Knife, which he had no right to carry, and was what he used to stab Henry Nowak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a third party launcher?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First Party title is the one who develops it. The Second Party is the Publisher/Distributor of the product. The First party can choose to Self Publish/Distribute, but that would make them still a First Party. The majority of professionally made games are Published or Distributed by third parties, often for partial or complete funding of the game while in development. The Third Party is the one who you typically buy a game from. But not only ones that you buy a game from. The other form of ‘parties’ comes from not the business side of things but from the consumer side. The deal is between you and who you buy the game from. That could be the developer but more typically is from a digital store like Steam, Epic, GOG, and so on. In that case Steam would be the First Party and you would be the Second Party and if you installed something like Playnite that would be a Third Party Launcher. Then further on you have the “Game Keys” route where the parties change again.

  The whole thing is that the “First Party” and so on comes from contract law in businesses that bled into common usage especially with how common First, Second, Third Person was with video game characters point of view, although it is entirely different. Who is First or Third party is entirely based upon point of view and relativity which is why they actually spell out which is which and what they mean by it in the beginning of legal documents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It turns out it went multi-engine, probably to prevent getting cut off of Google’s Results. It probably mixes results from multiple engines like the old multi engine search engines in the old days of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When they were purchased it was with the understanding that they would get no user data and that Startpage does not collect it, and it has the same CEO who started the company so I believe him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I should have said “by default” because that is how most people will use it, but the power users will use other engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing an old mini fridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Difference between the manufacturer and some seller making a sign. If the Manufacturer is calling them “Mini-Fridge” on the packaging they are asking for a lawsuit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Startpage gives you google results with your privacy intact and less ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Uses Bing results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Post Apocalyptic Fantasy and Post Apocalyptical High Fantasy are two phrases I keep seeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well except that if you are doing it with cards you have to worry about being skimmed. Here in Canada they have chip and pin but guess who gets stung with purchases 4 out of 5 times when it happens because it doesn’t ask for the pin all the time.

  Now if you do it through a smartwatch, phone, or some other device that can’t be skimmed when it isn’t being used, then that is the way to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are loose plans to do that here in Canada long before that, but nothing solid right now. My guess is they are going to have to move from rounding to the nickel to rounding to the dime and pricing and taxes will have to follow. From when I was a kid a penny and a nickel are worth 1/5th of what they were in purchasing power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this great article. For those who are paywalled you can read it using Archive.IS archive.is/…/worthless-pennies-united-states-econ…