Most anti-car people are in favor of improving public transit options.

Orcas are dolphins, though. Do you mean bottlenose dolphins specifically?

You don’t find the Cheese Pervert creepy?

My first thought was that ending the taxes at land ownership was shortsighted - all capital should be taxed - but then I looked up Georgism on Wikipedia and saw that that was basically already in scope (mostly by “including title of ownership for natural resources and other contrived privileges (e.g., intellectual property)”).

That makes sense, and that engine and some of the other games they feature look interesting.

Does that mean that Balatro (and presumably other LOVE 2D games) is packaged like Doom with its WAD files, where there’s an engine (a generic LOVE 2D one) that runs the game, interpreting the Lua game code, which is basically just packaged like an asset? Or is there a Balatro engine that needed to be built for each platform? I saw that BMM downloads a base IPA and an APK patcher, so I’m assuming it’s closer to the latter, but I could see it going either way.

There is a project to convert the Steam app to a side-loadable mobile app (both for Android and iOS): https://github.com/blake502/balatro-mobile-maker

I haven’t tested that out myself and I have no idea how it compares to their official mobile release, but I’m super curious about how it was implemented (it’s the first time I saw a tool that could convert a game to an iOS app), so I’ll be looking into it at some point.

Google Play was having payment processor issues (see https://status.play.google.com/summary for more details) but they appear to be resolved now, so you could try again.

I’m just happy it wasn’t an Apple Arcade exclusive.

Google Play was having payment processor issues (see https://status.play.google.com/summary for more details) but they appear to be resolved now, so you could try buying it again.

I read that Google Play was having payment processor issues, so for anyone experiencing this in the near future - that’s probably why.

Paired with allowing people who own the original to upgrade for $10 (and I’m assuming something similar in the UK) when they’re charging $50 for the remaster if you don’t have the original, that makes sense. They’re just closing a loophole.

I’d much rather they double the existing game’s price than for them to charge $25-$30 for the upgrade or to even just not have one outright.

It sucks for anyone who’d been planning to play the original and who just hadn’t bought it yet, but used prices for discs should still be low, so only the subset of those people who have disc-less machines are really impacted.

Many people hate their fathers and still keep their surnames.

Good call - I took it upon myself to add one, here you go:

Which system(s) are you playing on?

while (true) { print money; }

Someone’s never heard of Bitcoin

I’d prefer countries, especially the US, not fuck with other countries, regardless of whether their goal is “improving” them or not.

They probably have experience with Spring

If your Java dev is using Jackson to serialize to JSON, they might not be very experienced with Jackson, or they might think that a Java object with a null field would serialize to JSON with that field omitted. And on another project that might have been true, because Jackson can be configured globally to omit null properties. They can also fix this issue with annotations at the class/field level, most likely @JsonInclude(Include.NON\_NULL).

More details: https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-ignore-null-fields

UBI doesn’t give any power to those who own the means of automation, nor does it take power away from laborers. Automation does that. Automation reduces the leverage of the laborer by reducing the capitalist’s reliance on labor.

We have the same leverage regardless of whether we have UBI or not, but the leverage of employers is reduced with UBI. That said, if more people opt not to work thanks to UBI, then the people who choose to work will see their leverage increased.

If you’re in the US, unpaid overtime is only permissible if you’re salaried exempt. To be salaried exempt:

• you must make at least $684 every week ($35,568/year)
• your primary job responsibility must be one of the following:
  • executive - managing the enterprise, or managing a customarily recognized department or subdivision; you must also regularly direct your work of at least two FTEs and be able to hire / fire people (or be able to provide recommendations that are strongly considered)
  • administrative - office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations, or
  • learned professional - work which is predominantly intellectual in character and which includes work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment, in the field of science or learning
  • creative professional - work requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor
  • IT related - computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer or other similarly skilled worker in the computer field
  • sales
  • HCE (you must be making at least $107k per year)
• your pay must not be reduced if your work quality is reduced or if you work fewer hours
  • for example, if you work 5 days a week, for an hour a day, you must get the same pay as if you worked 8 hours every day. There are some permissible deductions they can make - like if you miss a full day - and they can require you to use vacation time or sick time, if you have it - and of course they can fire you if you’re leaving without completing your tasks… but they still have to pay you.

Check out https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime for more details on the above.

It’s quite possible you’re eligible for back-paid overtime.

Note also that the minimum exempt wages are increasing in July.

Re your “cover my expenses just to exist” bit and the follow-up about employers catching on and pushing abusive shit… if this is related to a disability make sure to look into getting that on record and seeking an accommodation. If your primary job duty is X and they’re pushing you to do Y, but your disability makes Y infeasible, then it’s a pretty reasonable accommodation to ask to not have to do Y (assuming your HCP agrees, of course).