"What is the value (in dollars) of the minimum wage", "What is the value (in dollars) of emancipation", "What is the value (in dollars) of owning your things"
why else do you think Javascript is used for everything these days? It's not because it's good, it's because you can teach it to a brain dead 12 year old that can then be hired to build everything from web apps to, at this rate, a very bad OS kernel
Security is the reason given to us since most of us are too trusting or dumb to look any further into it. It becomes clear security isn't what they're doing it for after giving it more than a few minutes of thought
I feel like it'd be worth it for someone to create an online library of CDs. People could send in their CDs if they weren't already archived, the music would be ripped and stored as flacs, and the CD would be sent back. The library could provide access to the files for the sort of thing nobody is going to issue a takedown for (aforementioned orientation CD or niche garage album) over the net
I love stumbling upon these kinds of things, especially if they've been long abandoned. I feel like an archaeologist digging up artifacts of a forgotten tribe, or perhaps an explorer in an abandoned hospital
For this reason, I'll always love indie games. Anyone who finds themselves bored with moder AAA gaming should really go play some of the 2000s and 2010s indie darlings. Here, I'll even give you a list of games I've been playing
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth,
Bit. Trip,
Cave Story,
Crypt of the Necrodancer,
Cuphead,
Downwell,
Fez,
Hollow Knight,
Limbo,
Octodad: Dadliest Catch,
Papers, Please,
Proteus,
Risk of Rain,
Rogue Legacy,
Shovel Knight,
Spelunky,
Stardew Valley,
Super Meat Boy,
Terraria,
VA-11 Hall-A,
VVVVVV
The culture war politics have turned me, an otherwise normal woman just trying to live her life, into a scapegoat. Any romantic ideas of freedom and cultural tolerance escaped me the moment I started carrying mace out of fear of being hate crimed