The cost of those to the service provider is generally not zero though. And cost is per user, and these all have fewer users than mainstream social media and “services”.
Though Linux is an exception here, with it costing only the time of hobbyists (at least as far as I know)
How can that be. The protest votes against the Democrats (including non-voters) were supposed to be the anti-genocide votes. I am shocked. Nobody could have seen this coming. Everybody is surprised.
/s
I don’t think so. It probably goes further back, from whenever R&D started. No idea how much earlier though
Yes, it’s safe.
The microphones are generally not listening to and processing everything you say.
You can turn off your own devices’ passive listening. (E.g., Siri, Google, Alexa…)
If they do listen to what you say, they’re almost always not going to care beyond “How can we use this to sell you shit you don’t need?”.
It would be too much effort for too little gain, even with AI, to try to “catch” anybody for your “satirical jokes and banter”. In the government’s eyes, you’re not as special as you feel you are.
And even if they did, you’re unlikely to be charged for a crime unless you live in somewhere like North Korea, China, Iran, or maybe the UAE?
Consider what happens when a train passes through a place where pedestrians cross vs. what happens when cars do the same.
How often do trains pass through places they’re not allowed to at times they’re not allowed to? How often do cars? (Red lights, stop signs, yield signs…)
How often do trains veer off course of the line they’re moving in (aka. change lanes)? How often do cars do it?
It’s a gaming comfort food for me. And if you keep your levels low enough, it can be challenging.
Catching all the Pokemon satisfies the hunter-gatherer urges in the brain for me, lol
I always wondered why it sounded like Eevee was making “b” sounds, lol
FWIW, Eevee is basically Eevee in Japanese (aka., E.V.).
But ouch…“Blacky” the Pokemon, eh?
I never found it bad in Gen 1 and 2 because the maps were a lot smaller than even Gen 3. You move more slowly, but you still get to where you need to go fairly quickly.
Even the battles feel fast because the animations and text tend to be quicker. Grinding sucks though. And Gen 2 has the slow HP bar glitch.
Damn. I didn’t realize it was so drastic. 100% fatality rate seems crazy, even rounded
Why Europe? Most of the world uses KM/H.
Those tend to be more predictable than cars in terms of where they’ll be
I’ll recommend in a different direction. Abomi Nation on Steam is basically like if Pokemon were built around Nuzlockes challenges. Often goes on sale for only a few bucks. It doesn’t have any real Pokemon, but I really like the designs.
If you’re looking for other games to play, check out RetroAchievements. They have all kinds of events and stuff to reduce the “decision paralysis” that can come from having access to way too many games.
It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.
TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)
What? Why’s it more expensive than Walmart? Do Dollar Generals sell electronics and appliances? Or do Walmarts not do that in the States? Lol
Maybe it’s AC? Or haven’t adopted solar well?
Tabla? Probably something close to that
Can’t you make your Steam friends list private?
I stopped all those things too!
It gets more complicated when you have to factor in profit…and then shareholders…and then demands for exponential growth. That makes it harder to estimate how much is costs, how much is greed.
(Not that all of this should be free or delivered at cost, necessarily – it’s healthy for people to be able to make a living off of products or services they provide)