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Shitposting and its consequences have been a disaster for Intenet discourse.

If COVID-19 digs in deep in the US then there is going to be a transformational change in how US citizens think about work, travel, entertainment, security, and the relationship between US citizens and their government. All of these aspects are intertwined:

Work: More people will work more time from home and many firms will switch to virtually full time remote with limited physical gathering. This will decrease the cost of office rents and alter the work/life balance. It will affect wages because people can live outside of city centers and still work so companies will pay less. We may be on the cusp of US government guaranteed sick leave.

Travel: People will, for the short term, do less travel for pleasure, but the big impact, long term, business trips will decrease. More and more business meetings will be replaced with voice and video conferencing. There was no big driver other than some cost reduction here, but now safety and security will be the big drivers here. Global pandemic concerns (prevention, containment) will complicate travel to varying degrees, and in a way that most US citizens aren't used to - it will affect interstate travel, not just trans-national travel.

Entertainment: Many of the sports that have been deferred or canceled will likely be replaced with other forms of entertainment that can be viewed on television or the Internet. Fewer people will go to live performances, both because they can't (cancelled by the government) and reluctant to after COVID clears. This will affect service workers - where most of the lesser skilled jobs have been created in the last three decades.

Security: Security will no longer be seen as just a physical access control concern. Business has been preparing over the last two decades for the eventuality of global pandemic - now they can put those plans into action, and the impacts of them will cascade into personal lives. US citizens will be demanding more from their government in disaster preparedness on pandemics - it will affect travel.

All of these tie into how US citizens see their relationship with their government, and what they demand from it.

Isn't it the aspirational goal for several churches/religious orders to do just this?

Why would they add that when they can just sell you a remaster for the price of a new game?

Speaking from experience (856 days sober, had my last drink a year after moving to Milwaukee), Milwaukee is a hell of a town for an alcoholic.

One of my favorite coffee shops is right near the PKWARE building off Pittsburgh Ave.

If you're going to treat investigative reporting and news gathering as a profit making venture then you can only charge what the market is willing to pay, and for the vast majority of people, that's nothing.

Think of the poor buggy whip makers!

Not every desirable activity in life is profitable. If your business plan is "make website -> get money" then perhaps you're in the wrong business.

A site that renders completely blank without JavaScript is a site that I don't enable JavaScript for. They don't want me to view it, and nine times out of ten I can find the information elsewhere.

Margaret Sanger unapologetically supported eugenics and sterilizing 'inferior' people. Does that make Planned Parenthood a bad idea?

GOG games are DRM free and typically show up on torrent sites immediately after release, so anybody who wants to pirate the game won't bother to go through the buy->download->refund flow with them.

Terminal middleware already exists - screen and tmux seem to be the most popular here.

Wait, does anybody actually believe any major sport doesn't look the other way when the right team cheats assuming it gets more butts in seats? Major sports aren't about the purity of the game. They're about money - pure and simple.

If MLB could replace all of the players with robots that played a game simulated on a computer, designed to play out a storyline as a drama instead of a legitimate competition, and make more money doing it then they would in a heartbeat and not lose a wink of sleep over it.

What sort of encryption and authentication can I expect if I do that? Can anybody who guesses the port dump code into my running Lisp instance?