I had a night like that once.
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That's why I feel like there should be both systems. Possibly public and private healthcare, but with the additional requirement that everyone has to have health insurance. Otherwise there's going to be too much of a problem with young people not getting insurance and not paying in. You'll also have NEETs and neckbeards who work 12 hour weeks and aren't paying anything in to the system.
There are a lot of things that they have to do, and they have to do them right with extremely little tolerance for error.
The Web has become the de facto method of accessing the internet for almost everything. Most people think of it as the internet.
A lot of people do critical stuff through web browsers, so if something on a website breaks because of the browser, it's a huge problem.
The only things that I can fill it up with are video games and video recordings. Hoarding downloaded files can also build up over time.
I have mixed feelings. "Because I said so" can get compliance in high school, but that's mostly it. It's not going to be that effective. At the same time, a lot of this overly permissive parenting seems like a reaction by people who are upset about being told no as kids and that will lead to problems, especially once they get into places that don't care about constantly trying to have a debate back and fourth.
The "critical mass of users" is the essential part. People want to participate where there are already other people.
A lot of the old forum applications still exist. A lot of old school forums are actually still around. The problem with old school forums compared to Reddit or Lemmy is that it's just so much easier to get people to join a subreddit or a Lemmy community. If someone discovers a subreddit, all they need to do is go there and start posting. Creating a new account usually isn't that hard but it's still a considerable hurdle for someone who is considering joining.
Old school forums are simply too decentralized. It's a lot easier to get reddit.com to come up in search results then it is for some relatively obscure forum.
I'm going to try setting up an instance but one issue with it that I see is that instance owners will be the only permitted uploaders for most instances since storage and bandwidth is a huge issue when it comes to video hosting platforms.
Odysee is is one of the few alternative platforms with a decent left wing audience. The only other majority progressive platforms are Mastodon and Lemmy, though Lemmy has a lot of neo-progressive tankies and angry conservative tankies.
The vast majority of people aren't even going to know or care. A lot of people will probably just continue on even when their adblocker becomes less effective. Of course the type of people who use adblockers are also more likely to wonder why their adblocker suddenly became less effective and then switch to a browser where it's more effective.
It takes a lot to change the inertia that already exists. People have been predicting the rise of the Linux desktop for at least a decade now and it still hasn't really caught on.
It's a shame because the thing that kills alternative platforms is getting flooded with racists to the point that they drive everyone else out.
A lot of "free speech" platforms box themselves into a corner by declaring themselves "free speech" platforms while intending that to mean they won't ban users for mild wrongthink, but then white supremacists show up, and if they get banned then they start causing a massive shitstorm over the fact that the platform isn't truly supporting free speech. Then they drive out all the normal people who don't want to be associated with them and the platform is forced to shutdown.
Then you have morons like Tim Pool who will endlessly attack "free speech" platforms if they ban white supremacists.
White supremacists celebrate a middle eastern religion that worshiped "Alaha" and culturally enriched Europe by wiping out the indigenous religions and resulted in over a thousand years of women wearing hijabs.
It feels like it was intended to be a religious allegory considering the other symbolism in the game.
Bonus points if anyone remembers the game this is from.
Egg is a meme for a trans person who hasn't realized it yet.
Context: In that level you play as a female character. It will be 20 years old in November.
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I remember getting Call of Duty Finest Hour at the store.
It ultimately was a major contribution that led to my sister transitioning roughly a decade later. She spent a lot of time playing the female soldier levels.