Have a few ebooks and audiobooks in calibre that have been removed from Amazon/Audible. Nothing dramatic drama wise as far as I can tell other than the license expiring/moving.

It’s nice not having to worry about it.

One is probably the Disney River Boat movie.

Decently entertaining for what it was.

It’s a mostly standard view of Tolkien scholarship. They’re much more a medieval view of jewishness then something straight racist like say, JK Rowling’s goblins. As makes sense for an Old English scholar like Tolkein.

Ancient people, separated into familial tribes, outcast from their ancestral home, not really welcomed anywhere but tolerated some places, warrior poet tradition, noble ‘in their way’, beards, gold, noses.

Sprinkle on some Norse/Germanic for flavor and there you go. Though then you can get into the side conversation of Yiddish being a Germanic dialect/language.

It’s also the preferred descriptor for some. I’ve had friends with dwarfism that thought “little people” was condescending as hell and hated it.

None of this is ever black and white. Especially when it’s just interjecting into comments on the Internet talking about the fantasy race that’s either Jews with battle axes or persons from Svartálfheim.

I believe Starfield at least was brigading to prove the point that the awards are silly at best at this point.

Did the job pretty well.

Their entire business is making things for inmates. Those boots seem to not be steel toe because they’re trying to stop metal getting into the prison.

Don’t know about them personally but given the industry would be suspicious of the quality. It’s likely they’re one of the few or only suppliers people can buy things from while incarcerated.

Sync is nice IMO.

Is it still possible to get any versions of Plants vs Zombies that aren’t riddled with micro transactions? I feel like the non-updated version of the original became hard to find anymore a few years ago. Though maybe that was just on mobile.

It should be. But I would be extremely surprised if everything in the terms of service isn’t worded something like “you’re buying a license to view this content that can be revoked whenever”.

Agreed that it’s probably the school selling themselves, but could be a bunch of overlap? Math 101 counting for each degree, etc.

Arms. Not guns.

We’ve decided it’s not okay for someone to have a Patriot missile, nuclear landmine, warships, and many other arms.

No no. The rest of the world is constantly out of sorts on what common measurements are. It’s like how monolingual non-English-speaking people are constantly aware they’re not speaking the natural language of English.

/s

Isn’t the point for the consumer to measure their cost? Not the overall efficiency of the production and distribution for each source of fuel?

Like I buy X gallons per month of gas because my car gets 20 mpg and I dive Y miles. If this electric car uses Z amount of electricity and I still drive Y miles, I’ll save ß dollars.

More one of those long ramps that switches back several times that you can ignore and take the stairs.

There are ~20,000 objects in orbit large enough to be tracked as hazards. Personally unclear if that includes active satellites, but that’s ‘only’ another ~10,000.

There are ~100,000 airline flights a day worldwide.

How crowded does the sky look with planes?

Yes space junk is a thing to be concerned about / regulate. But at the scales involved it’s basically negligible. We’re orders of magnitude away from any kind of cascade or locking ourselves out of orbit or any other doomsday scenario.

IIRC its more just poor notification of low battery.

If you’re moving and the battery gets low it can not have enough power to keep the board stable. Early ones I feel like I remember hearing they would just ‘stop’.

Which were Facebook branded/partnership.

I do think it’s weird those flew under the radar when people flipped out so much about Google Glass.

See also SEO. Or marketing in general I guess.

In theory, you have a better widget so you want to get it to the top of the relevant search results. In practice… 10,000 people trying to make money off a lemon pie recipe create a hellscape of mostly indistinguishable garbage that technically fits the description.

This is the only reason I haven’t bought one yet. I have no use/need for a new laptop, but really like the idea at the very least over… every other manufacturer really.

Being able to choose/swap out ports alone would be fantastic.

This is like asking if using left handed threaded screws would make it easier or harder for China. They’re already the ones manufacturing all the components and the device itself. Removing/adding a step in the process doesn’t change anything.

DRM hampers legitimate customers / repair without actually doing anything against piracy.