Dentists do this in the US as well. I had one prescribe me $2000 work of work because all four quarters needed fillings according to him. He died suddenly and it took me a while to get around to finding a new one. When I eventually did, I didn’t mention the old diagnosis and the new dentist didn’t mention needing any work done.

Lesson for everyone. If a dentist prescribes a suspicious amount of work, seek a second opinion.

I thought it was more to do with packet loss.

It’s grounded. It’s also running parallel to an underground power line, but I made sure to maximize the distance between the two as much as I could. Around 12 inches if I remember correctly. No issues that I knew how to test for at the time and it’s been about ten years with no need to modify anything. Something I knew I would have had to do by now if gone with a wifi bridge.

I needed to get internet to a building that’s around 400 feet away. I had the opportunity to get a trench dug, so I took a gamble, laid a conduit and ran shielded CAT6. I say gamble because that’s over the rated limited of CAT cable, but I figured it was going to be easier then trying to get a reliable wiki bridge running. The home network itself has been solid since.

It’s obviously not great, but there are way worse things about it then the memes make it out to be.

They already did that test with homeless people.

They spent the money on necessities.

Lottery players tend to have a specific personality type. Desperate or gambling addicts or generally bad with money. Regardless, winning a lottery is not a sustaining income plan. It’s fast easy money and the most responsible thing to do with it is pay off debts or other necessities. Not giving your second cousin that you haven’t seen the the family reunion 10 years ago a handout to get their business going isn’t really an asshole move.

People who seemingly became asshole when they got rich were probably just asshole all along. You can sometimes see that attribute poking out from under someone’s mask when they aren’t careful. Ever native how if you criticize a rich person’s attitude, someone will chime in that they’re successful, so it’s ok?

There are some rich people who either luck into money and remain humble and quite. Those people are more or less invisible in the news cycle. If you find one or two in your area and you do charity work, you can sometimes approach them for donations.

There are also those who are successful small business owners and all of them that I’ve dealt with have some degree of asshole behavior, but that comes with the territory. If you let yourself be a pushover will bills or late deliveries, you lose. If they can compartmentalize, they’re fine, but I know some who can’t turn it off. You always feel like you’re walking on eggshells around them.

No. That would be taking money from the parents when they purchase the game. The kids would only be playing the game and so long as there’s no store front in the game, there’s no problem.

Would you ban kids from riding bicycles because stores sell them?

You could just sell the game at a flat cost. You know, like they use to and still do. If you want a “Live Service” game, just sell a DLC/Expansion Pack every few months.

Money doesn’t corrupt people. Corrupt people are just better at getting money.

hmmm. Lovingly made indie game vs AAA slop made on a crunch? At least with the indie games I play, even the quasi EA stuff, is stable as hell.

Well… that’s not quite what I said. I said civil rights. Not equal treatment under the law. If the government passed a law banning Jewish people or that I can own a black man or that trans people can’t use their preferred bathroom, that law could be equally applied to everyone, but not effect everyone equally.

You act like we only exist on this forum. Some of us have conservative family members and coworkers that we have to hear from constantly. You have to hear a none stop spew of hateful bullshit and the moment you voice any disagreement, they start shouting at you.

They have very few ideas, none of them are new and I’ve already heard every single one.

I haven’t seen a person identify as a conservative on Lemmy without also a shitheel about civil rights.

Do you have ancestry from a country that makes immigration easier if you can prove it?

On that same idea, camrips sold out of the back of a car. I knew someone who bragged about being able to get them and I always thought they looked like ass. They just liked acting like they had hood connections.

They really need to update that to twinks wearing programmer socks.

Not software, one my the reasons I dropped The Flash tv series was the speed at which the “techie” created new tech that would win anyone several noble prizes.

I never get too invested in any online community, but during covid, I made a discord for some irl friends. We all knew each other irl and understood each other’s sarcasm, but one of them invited someone I had never met and took great offense at any criticism of Biden I would post in the political containment channel. If I posted a critical article or unedited clip, he would start calling me an immature Brunnie Bro. Absolute toxic Facebook brainrot shit. I shortly after made a alt account with a mostly same username, passed admin privileges to that and left. Most of the people on there still are so boomer that I don’t think any of them realize that the person in their friends list and the admin account are different.

Normal people don’t buy lottery tickets. Hell, normal people can’t save money anymore.