Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It’s a decade overdue.

It seems obvious to me too, but the internet is full of people missing simple information like this who don’t realize it until someone points it out to them.

Yes, but only in a legal environment where showing that this CEO made decisions for their own profit that would reasonably predictably lead to some number of deaths (10, 100, 1000?) would validate a defense of defense of others.

It will reduce their durability, but… Turn them inside out and tumble them with something small and hard.

As in, you wear a different pair each day and wash them all once a week? Or you have one pair that you wear for seven days between washings?

The Learning Channel changed their name to TLC when they stopped carrying educational content.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Battle for Wesnoth OpenTTD Doom

They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

There are many other countries, including some with some shared legal history with the US, where civil fines are proportional to the income and/or wealth of the person. Rich people get four or five or six figure traffic tickets, etc.

No. I predict we would revert to the status quo of 20-100 years ago, with very affordable state-run schools providing excellent education, and high price private schools catering to the rich. Cheap schools got expensive because we allowed the for-profit student loan industry to run wild.

Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …

If something is not for sale, I have no qualms about pirating it. Disney vault, abandonware, obsolete versions, etc.

There are cheap household gadgets that rotate a can or bottle in a [salt] ice water bath to chill it rapidly. https://www.amazon.com/Chill-Matic-Automatic-Beverage-Chiller/dp/B0148K37K2?th=1 etc

Also more expensive ones with better temperature control for wine bottles.

I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.

It’s a legal complaint. Someone is going to get fined, likely thousands of dollars, if the complaint is substantiated. I strongly suspect a human will be reading the whole thing more than once, before proceeding to gather much more info.

Why would that be the spirit of the law? If the parent suddenly started making more money, the kid would (probably) have more spent on raising them. Why would that same outcome not apply to the parent’s responsibility being suddenly replaced by person who makes more money?

Sure, and taking photos makes it a camera, and doing arithmetic makes it a calculator. But we don’t call it those things.

In many parts of the US, not sure about Texas, child support is based on the parent(s)'(s) income/wealth. The same should apply here, but for the drunk driver’s income/wealth.