MrSilkworm

USA could be, but isn't the greatest country in the world.

Provided that microdick Vlad doesn't pull a Ukraine on the country for trying to have democracy, and entering the EU and NATO

Prison is an sentence, thus a form of punishment, as well as a rehabilitation procedure, as well as mean of protection of the public.

Death sentence on the other hand, is a moronic form of punishment as well as ineffective,because it doesn't prevent the crimes themselves

The movie idiocracy is turning from a comedy to a documentary!

Hi, Your dedicated local Secret Service agent here.

We don't need your smartphone to access your data. We have surveillance equipment for that. That is why we can scan the qr code of your ID app and do the checks we need.

If you want us not to track you, you need a degoogled smartphone and use cash exclusively. Also you could use a vpn while you browse the interwebs, but we ll still be, eventually, able to see where you browse.

BTW we don't stop randomly ppl on roadblocks. You or your car or your route or all of the above was of concern for us.

Thing is that when something similar happened in France, all hell broke loose. Strikes went on for a long time. And even though the pension plan passed with a presidential degree rather than through parliament, the president became so unpopular, that the country is in shambles now

There is a possibility that the Russians could get rid of Putin with less than 2000 dead altogether

Video games always used to be an economic way of entertainment. With an amount equal to a restaurant dinner you could be entertained for hundreds of hours.

Nowadays, video games follow the trend of enshitification. Low quality, repeated material, bad gaming experience, data hoarding, the need to be always online even for a single player game and of course, the "you don't own, we can take it away anytime we want" mentality.

According to the court rulling, if you essentially want to play retro games, you should find a way to access the original hardware and run the software in mostly proprietary mediums like cartridges that could be damaged or corrupted. And the reason you can't do it is because you may actually have fun!

This ruling is so bongers it blows my mind.

So you should never, ever ever

1. Use emulators like Retroarch
2. Find the ROMs of various systems you like in various "archives" through the interwebs for research purposes ofcourse
3. Use a frontend like ES-DE or launchbox to make things look beautiful.
4. Scrape content through screenscraper or something similar to make your frontends even more beautiful. 5.Keep in mind that this combo ( Retroarch + frontend) works in mostly cross platform (windows, Linux, android etc.)

After all, as a researcher you have to be able to tinker a little bit.

Enjoy your research ;)

I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee...

If you like automation and don't want to rely on the cloud (aka the big data corpos) then you could try our lord and saviour Home Assistant.

That's why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp

A few thousand years ago the ancient Greeks said:

"δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ".

Roughly meaning: A wise person doesn't make the same mistake twise.

But again some people keep doing it