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He's still anxious about people mocking his hobbies, isn't he? And then suddenly they don't care, or rather they do care but for the good reasons.

I've been using SMB from the Linux side of the things and File Manager+ from the Android side. Both are things I'd already have even without that:

• SMB - I have it since my mum had that old W7 laptop, so she can store her junk in my computer. (Her laptop had notoriously small disk space). Eventually its usage evolved into my main method to share files at home, specially with the TV box, so I can torrent full anime seasons and watch them from the TV.
• File Manager Plus - because the Google one is rubbish, and this one has network access. That's it.

I might try some of those out though. Packet in special looks promising.

all of you refuse to face

Stop assuming.

Can I materialise just enough to move objects? Then I'd be hiding people's keys, unpairing their socks, moving furnitures ever so slightly to screw with their muscle memory, playing with their cats 3AM. Stuff like this, just for funzies.

Most things people mentioned here, plus: the ability to buy separated components with different specs, and build your smartphone at home. Like a PC.

(I'm aware this will probably never happen.)

why isn’t there H₂O₂

Because the undergrads used it for acetone peroxide.

I had to websearch this so might as well share it here: 6DOF = six degrees of freedom. You can move and rotate in all three dimensions.

Accurate for Descent. I played this game as a kid. At the start I hated it, because unlike Doom you need to aim vertically (Doom has three degrees of freedom: X axis, Y axis, rotation). But eventually it grew on me, it's like going from stale bread to a buttered toast - harder but nicer.

More like both talking at the same time. In a huge cacophony.

What’s profitable about losing sales of adult games?

From Visa/MC's PoV the situation looks like this:

1. force itch.io - lose sales associated with that content
2. leave itch.io alone - lose sales associated with anyone who takes Collective Shout's noise seriously, while Collective Shout starts smearing shit on Visa/MC by saying "they finance rape!"

Visa/MC likely determined #2 to be more than #1. In other words it's more profitable to do #1 instead.

Also, what leverage do these groups have over banks and payment processors? [...] I just don’t get it. Some random group in Australia has leverage over Visa and MasterCard - American companies - is that what we’re saying here?

It's mostly their ability to cause brand damage (reasons people avoid your brand because they see it negatively - like #2).

Visa and MC know that, when it comes to sex, people become really irrational. They take insane troll logic seriously, even if they wouldn't otherwise; and those religious groups like Collective Shout are really good at weaponising that irrationality. The way those alt right groups work is that you don't even need to know about the group to repeat their talking points, and spread support to those talking points.

I think you might have too much faith in government.

I don't. I'm picking the lesser of two evils here: a government is less worse than those megacorporations.

But ironically, I think YouTube and many other platforms quietly accept that if we want to live in a somewhat harmonious society, we can’t leave it to the government to make all the rules. (eg. YouTube banning vaccine misinformation and disinformation during a public health emergency.)

They didn't ban vaccine misinformation "because it's misinformation" or "because society would be better without it" (even if both things are true). Truth and morality doesn't matter for those platforms; what matters is brand damage.

but there’s a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.)

• scam - AFAIK already illegal in most of the world.
• spam - should be illegal, at least in the most egregious forms.
• deepfakes - it depends a lot on what is being done with the deepfake in question; plenty of them (like non-consensual sexualisation of someone) are either illegal or should be.
• hate speech - it targets the dignity, well-being and often the lives of marginalised groups. Should be illegal.

Are you noticing the pattern? Those are things that should be handled by a government in defence of the public interest of everyone, not by a platform in defence of private interest of its shareholders. Even if a population has weak control over its government, it's more than it has over a corporation.

The law isn’t fast or flexible enough to keep up and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

This problem is not a good reason to create an even bigger problem. Like the one we're seeing - private interest dictating what should be allowed or not in the public sphere.

And, seriously, if the problem was just porn who would give a fuck. (Okay, some people would, some wouldn't.) The problem is that those corporations will happily target any group, any interest, any person, as soon as they deem profitable; because they have the power to do so, so porn is in this context only the canary of the mine. And this power needs to be curtailed.

But let's say, for the sake of argument, that implementing such a wide law would be unviable. Well, focus on financial service providers then - banks, payment processors, and the likes. Problem solved.

If forced to leave my homeland, Uruguay. More specifically Montevideo - large southern cone city like mine, so I can keep my life pretty much the same.

If allowed to zig-zag between the new country and the current one (southern parts of Brazil): either Italy or Slovenia. Probably Italy given I speak Italian. I can get two winters and autumns per year!

Facts first:

• Lions can hybridise with tigers.
• Tigers can hybridise with leopards.
• Leopards can hybridise with pumas.
• Pumas are closer relatives to domestic cats than ocelots.
• Domestic cats can hybridise with ocelots.
• Some feline hybrids are fertile.

Now, I don't know if viable or not, but I really want people to breed lion manes all the way into the domestic cat species. Why should I get a maine coon, if I could get a mane coon instead???