Looking at how the clock in Windows defaults based on region, it seems to be mostly the Whiter of the former British colonies plus a few South American countries that use 12h (for computing, at least). The rest of the world are all 24h.

Does she refer to it as “hora militar” though?

Am I having a Mandela Effect moment because I have a clear memory of them releasing the source way over a decade ago

An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all

Those ninja turtles had a pretty sweet pad, especially for Manhattan

Maybe I’m thick but that seems like the answer is the same as it is for anyone selling something on a website without blockchain.

1000% if they tried even slightly they could have passed the server to the community to support legacy gamers, but are choosing to just shut it down instead because crypto bros are always psychopaths

Yeah, the irony is that I’m sure you could do some sort of blockchain-based DRM that didn’t need a centralized server. Does such a thing exist? Patent pending…

yeah, I can’t believe a team of professional astronauts don’t know which way up to hold a camera. I hope someone got fired for this.

/s

To be fair that’s mostly the Sahara desert we’re looking at there, and South America is having a cloudy day

One thing I don’t think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app’s users on a server that isn’t even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.

Fun fact, Mercator would in principle be even more distorted than it is, but almost every map that uses it crops at least the top and bottom 5 degrees to hide it. Mercator’s original cropped to 66°S - 80°N, which shifts Europe towards the middle.

Nice. What did you use for that one?

https://niy.ai/worldmap lets you reproject Mercator to put any landmass you want in the middle by clicking on it, but it doesn’t have that overlay thing.

That’s a great example of the exception proving the rule: companies across all industries do shitty things on the regular, but incidents like Jimmy Kimmel only happen when you get a once-in-a-year massive swell so big that even I heard about it, and I don’t even live in the US.

Your example doesn’t prove that the buyers control the market, it demonstrates just how weak that control is and how big a backlash is needed to get even a tiny change made.

Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?

I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.

are you a bot? I ask because that response was grammatically completely coherent and intelligent-sounding, but the entire content bore no relation to reality. I mean there’s not even anything to argue with, it was just straight up 100% wrong.

just don’t buy the games that use it

This is called the “Free Market Fallacy”, and is always a terrible defence of any shitty practice, whether it be games or vehicles or banks or HOAs. The market just isn’t liquid or efficient enough for that to be a reasonable position.

You know how sometimes a story seems so completely crazy, that you wonder what detail has been left out? Like… the payment provider just randomly wanted a list of all passwords? What?

There’s a sequel novel to the UK time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart on kickstarter, where all the future pop culture references that Gary Sparrow used to make start to catch up with him as he gets older.