I named* my first self-built computer after him! Does this make that machine gay? They put chemicals in the bytes that turn the friggin' hardware gay!
*call me a weirdo but I do often name stuff like household appliances and my trees.
Valve just did the same thing. Valve who’s pretty famous for fighting back did the same thing.
C'mon, that's whataboutism. Let's focus on itch.io.
Those words are lawyer words. Not truth, lawyer words.
Yes. And I'm blaming them for that.
I surely doubt itchio would come away scot free if they went to the press and said that they were forced
The payment mafia is all about "brand damage". If itch io said the truth in the statement, while still complying with their threat, I don't think the mafia would cut it off - because doing it would bring a lot of brand damage to the mafia.
"Look at itch io! You can't even criticise the payment mafia, it'll get in your way! We need to rely on alternative payment systems!" is a situation even the payment mafia would want to avoid.
Read the statement linked in the article. Focus on the words itch dot io used there:
The only reasonable explanation for the presence of those euphemisms in the statement is, that the people in charge of itch dot io aren't even trying to fight back. They're painting the MC/Visa/PP mafia as "concerned partners". Like a dog a bit too eager to waggle its tail to its master.
That's why I'm assigning at least some blame to the platform. Less than the payment mafia, and way less than the conservative nutjobs; but they are not guiltless IMO.
[itch dot io] "To ensure that we can continue to operate and provide a marketplace for all developers, we must prioritise our relationship with our payment partners and take immediate steps towards compliance."
Emphasis mine. Why are they calling those mafias "partners"?
Even if most of the blame should be geared towards the Christians in Collective Shout and the greedy PP/MC/Visa mafia, itch dot io should get part of the blame too.
If you try to trick Laziness, then Hyperactivity eats your face. And vice versa. They claim dibs on fucking with each other.
I have two chimps inside me. They keep flinging shit at each other. And then devour the faces of whoever comes close to them.
Here's a picture, stolen from some cooking site (because it looks better than mine):
It's a common dish here in Paraná, known locally as "cuque de farofa e banana"; basically Streuselkuchen plus sliced bananas. I'll share the recipe I followed, it works fine, it's just that I didn't give the yeast enough hours to act:
Recipe
For the crumbles:
Mix all ingredients by hand, adding more fat as needed; you know you got enough fat there when the crumbles barely hold themselves together, once you press them with your hand.
Batter:
I think it's a mix of what both IninewCrow and Jay said: survival bias + higher early exposure to dirt, pollen etc.
My banana crumb cake turned out tasty, but it didn't grow as much as I wanted. I kind of forgot to take into account climate on yeast times, plus I'm not used to cakes so I had no clue if the batter grew as much as it should (for breads this is easier for me).
Beyond that I'm playing some Pokemon Emerald. Mostly abusing RNG manipulation for shinies, and faketime for berries. I'll probably start some Leaf Green or Fire Red playthrough, gotta catch'em all...
Bought a bottle of vodka. Now dumping all citrus skins in it. Some months later I'll have my fun with it.
No plans for Fri/Sat/Sun as of yet.
Sorry for the double reply.
In the short-ish term, I think a good way to address this would be if governments across the globe had laws like "a service provider cannot refuse to provide services to a platform based on the nature of the lawful content within that platform".
Odds are Visa/MC/PP wouldn't even try to fight against such a law - they don't really mind servicing itch.io, from their PoV it would be yet another customer; the problem is pressure exerted by those Protestant nutjobs in Australia, but once a law is present they can't exert that pressure.
Right, that’s why they CAN do it, but I’m talking about why they WANT to do it.
The reason why PP/MC/Visa "want" to do this has zero to do with "porn saturation" or whatever. It's basically "brand management"; they're seeing servicing sites with specific types of adult content as "brand damage", so they pressure those sites to not do it. That's it; if they believed the opposite they'd gladly force itch io to show a dick in the front page.
In turn, the reason Collective Shout is pressuring PP/MC/Visa through "brand damage" mostly boils down to conservative babble. Check this, regarding the group's founder and take your own conclusions.
This infographic is still incomplete; I'm posting it here in the hope that I can get some feedback about it. It has three goals:
Criticism is welcome as long as constructive.
EDIT: OK, too much text. I'm clipping as much as I can.
This is not some sort of fancy new development, but it's such a classical experiment that it's always worth sharing IMO. Plus it's fun.
When you initially mix both solutions, nothing seems to happen. But once you wait a wee bit, the colour suddenly changes, from transparent to a dark blue.
There are a bunch of variations of this reaction, but they all boil down to the same things:
"Wait a minute, why are there a reducing agent and an oxidiser, doing opposite things? They should cancel each other out!" - well, yes! However this does not happen instantaneously. And eventually the reducing agent will run dry (as long as there's enough oxidiser), the triiodide will pile up, react with the starch and you'll get the blue colour.
Here are simplified versions of the main reactions:
(C₆H₆O₆ = dehydroascorbic acid) Eventually #2 stops happening because all vitamin C was consumed, so the triiodide piles up, reacts with the starch, and suddenly blue:
EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:
Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: ()
Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.
Based on
SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.
Aue, patrue placentae! (Oi, tio do pavê!)
I'm sharing this pic because it might be useful, to advertise Lemmy in Reddit meme communities and the likes. It isn't supposed to be a full info dump, just to spread the word that Lemmy exists and give people some room to ask questions about it.
The copypasta is from @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The meme is from @JokkaJukka@lemmy.world.
Here's the source SVG file in case anyone wants to edit it.
EDIT - @Libb@jlai.lu had a great take on this idea, I need to share it here:
The manga has heavy "Charmander evolves to Charmeleon!" vibes.