Sounds like it does the opposite of what OP wants:

I stopped counting after 2000+ vendors

I got a book that was recommended on Lemmy! It’s called Blindsight by Peter Watts and I mentioned the book to family and they got it :) Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/22134494

Sounds like marketing

Perhaps too subtle for most to care but it’s there

I’d rather say it’s only something to care about when you are in high school or peaked in high school.

Nobody cares in community servers who’s got animoji and who can send a sticker from another server.

It essentially creates a caste system where equal exchange can’t happen.

If you experience Nitro members being seen as more important than others, you’re in the wrong Discord communities.

I’ve never seen someone being glorified because they are a Nitro user, and although I’ve seen some member pretending to be superior because they have Nitro, they were quickly to be ridiculed and put back in their place for trying to gloat about paying for it.

Source: been on Discord for over 9 years.

Friendly reminder you can cancel your trial version / free month if you have activated one recently, and you’ll keep the perks until your trial runs out.

Glad they are going for this, although it seems a bit weird that they aren’t going for bigger players that have similar or worse tactics.

What is an advertisement?

Ah you got me fam, let me donate some more to Biden’s election fund to make up for it

double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

As a Dutchie, we pronounce W as “Weigh” or “Way”. No double nonsense.

It’s a lighting technique that creates more realistic visuals, especially reflections.

The technique allows the GPU to “track” / calculate how the light should actually travel and what it bounces off of (like light in real life), compared to the pre-calculated methods of before.

So it will cost you processing power and therefore frames, but it greatly increases the visual accuracy of lighting, shadows and reflections.

A simple but effective example is Minecraft with Ray Tracing. The following video showcases the difference:

https://youtu.be/9qxfavtUs7w

Notice how the game looks completely different. That’s what lighting can do for a game.

Obviously this is less noticeable when it’s a game with realistic graphics and a lot of time spent on getting the (prebaked) lighting just right.

Company A raises prices because they are greedy bastards. Company B is then impressed with the sheer display of dominance by A and raises prices accordingly to “keep up”.

When there’s a dozen manufacturers, they won’t all do it. As I mentioned, this is price fixing and illegal in a lot of countries.

Secondly, what’s stopping someone from creating another company to undercut all of those greedy bastards to corner the market?

Here’s a good breakdown: https://econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/unboxing-universal-basic-income/

As for my thoughts, yes there would be a noticeable impact at first, but UBI would help stabilise and strengthen the economy in the long term because purchasing power and demand will increase. If supply can keep up, prices won’t go up. Companies can’t just raise prices as that’s called price fixing. Antitrust laws should be there to prevent that, but your mileage may vary depending on your country. That means that if some companies decide to raise prices because of more purchasing power, some smart company is going to charge less to gain more market share. So we’re still doing capitalism, but there’s a social safety net.

Also, people will still go to work to find purpose. Except “work” in this case could mean the freedom and flexibility to contribute locally, or take higher risks like entrepreneurship or becoming an artist.

Ah, so more like this? https://acpeds.org/position-statements/the-impact-of-pornography-on-children

So you don’t mean age declaration “please insert your date of birth to access this page” type, but the government ID type?

Efficacy, risks and invasiveness are all related to justification imo.

Here’s one that compares each model and rates them: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Online-age-verification-and-childrens-rights-EDRi-position-paper.pdf

Is that similar to what you’re looking for?

Do you mean certain types of age verification, or any type at all?

Arguments at the dinner table were solved by an exasperated FINE, I’ll get up and get the encyclopedia just to prove you wrong

Also, we had Encarta. It wasn’t online, but on a CD-ROM so you could view it digitally compared to the dozens of hefty books

That looks amazing, thanks for sharing sag!

92% of songs are about love or sex.

That’s got nothing to do with my personal taste, that’s sex selling (pop) music.