Isn’t there a way to manually whitelist modified software on your AV, if it’s your own machine?

With modern software, there’s also the problem of just learning whatever weird stack the game is running on, to know where to look.

Well, there’s more than one dimension here. There’s distribution of wealth and distribution of income, as well as absolute wealth and income. Poverty itself has gone way down, globally. Poor countries are able to start exporting stuff and get way richer. Ones that really have it rough benefit from the existence of aid programs, as well.

In China specifically, things began to get super unequal starting around 2000, but the economy’s growth has been so fast it probably more than offsets it as seen by the average person. At least on the eastern side of the country.

I should point out that historically, wealth pretty reliably self-accumulates until a war breaks out. It’s not like an exclusively modern trend, either.

Not sure if you caught that before my ninja edit or not.

Yes, of course, the trajectory has continued. For cis gay people it hasn’t really stopped improving, even, despite government efforts. All three decade pairs were transformative in their own way. From a political non-issue to a fight, from a fight to basic rights, or from basic rights to social acceptability.

Can’t tell if serious. Like, if this was Reddit, sure, but on here it might be sarcastic.

Edit: Oh, “helping the world burn even more fossil fuels”, definitely sarcastic.

You don’t want more of a military, even with Trump next door talking about soft-invading?

Being gay is cool in progressive crowds now, where in 2006 it was still an insult. The pride movement came to exist at all over the 66-86 period.

Eh. We have forest fire smoke season where I live now, as well as more extreme or hot weather, but it’s a pretty subtle shift compared to the internet appearing. At least so far.

All of the pairs of decades going back to 1906 have been a bigger swing than than 2006-26. This century seems on track to be a bit more like the 19th, in terms of social change.

Edit: Although, Those platforms were all brand new, and Reddit didn’t really take off at all until Digg died years later. The basic ideas existed, but they weren’t a part of everyday life yet.

Politics has shifted way more on this side of 2006, as well.

China actually saw a worse growth of inequality in the same period, for what it’s worth. Not sure about the rest of the third world, although inequality was insanely bad there to start with. You might not need that caveat, it’s just a bad story all around.

Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it’s own, though.

There’s specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you’re doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.

Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.

Are they really cheap socks, at least?

That’s kind of an exotic approach. Normally, morality is built around the idea you shouldn’t inflict suffering on others, and to suffer requires consciousness (or something similar).

Sure, there’s other reasons to be a vegetarian as well, like just your own health and saving money.

It’s… just an order. Letters could go diagonally or back and forth, as long as everyone knows how to follow through them. It doesn’t matter where they are on the page, and yeah, you can do that with Latin text as well.

Logographs do carry information more densely, since they’re not constrained by actual speech sounds, but I don’t think that’s what you’re talking about. (They’re a lot harder to learn than a sane alphabetical system, as a tradeoff)

If we’re handwaving the whole transition, nothing too dramatic. It would be more like Canada. People would be healthier and not stressed about the costs of seeing a doctor.

In places where it’s not taboo, people like the sour. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them on a nice salad in place of citrus.

It was the only time I ever chewed something that felt carbonated.

Reminds me of a Sardinian thing.

Maggots never looked bad to me. Anything plump with no bones is awfully close to a dish already.

Does it taste how it smells?

Also this. If it’s not an acute health hazard they will sell it in some processed form.

You’ve seen them eating literal poop, right?

Ugh. Once when I was a kid I got the idea in my head to stick my face in between the couch cushoins and inhale hard. I still can kinda see the cursed salad I was spitting out for a while.