they don’t allow VPNs
Most likely to reduce the risk of ban-evading cheaters/griefers. Plus that most people usually avoid using a VPN when playing such games, due to the risk of increased latency.
For some reason, my steam ID wasn’t banned.
All of these plugins initiate only an IP ban, so the person is able to rejoin with their “real” IP address.
But you’ve actually tried asking for your Steam ID to be whitelisted? Shame that their admins don’t know how to/don’t want to do it.
Why not ask the server admin to whitelist your Steam ID? If you’re apparently a “regular” and don’t cause problems, I don’t see why they wouldn’t whitelist you.
It also draws attention and could make you a target. Like, I disdain the whole “what do you have to hide” fallacy, but that’s the impression that’d be broadcast to anyone who sees your place on streetview if you were to blur it out.
I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.
I never would have thought that Jim Cramer was a Lemmy user.
Isn’t that just the same pig, just wearing different makeup? I’m not a fan of msedgewebview2.exe allocating 500+ MB RAM just because Teams is open, but maybe that’s Teams fault…
there’s always a reason for why things are the way they are
Of course, no one is saying that the Danes were so drunk that they simply wanted to make their numbering so much different than everyone else. The problem is that they don’t want to change it, probably because “it has always been this way” or something.
Even Norwegian, which was historically more like Danish, changed to using “normal” counting in the 1950s. So it can be done, but Danes seemingly don’t want to change, despite the fact it makes their language harder to learn/use.
You’re joking though, right?
I’d also assume it’s referring to TPE-based toys? All that “jelly” stuff is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to be sold.
It must be annoying to remove their mobile antennas though? It seems like most new cars have built-in connectivity.
You’re usually not supposed to interact with the screen either when driving, and it’s easier to put your hand back on the wheel when the screen is mounded instead of dropping your phone… but I get what you mean.
Japan to start getting their own militaries strong enough
Thanks in part to the SCAP in post-WW2, they’re not even allowed to do that. But we all know that Trump doesn’t care about agreements.
It could also be some IDN tricks. Most browsers translate mixed scripts into punycode nowadays, but it can be easy to get tricked. Just go to their official site if you’re unsure.
For example: www.prοtοn.me/ looks like a normal link… but the O’s have been replaced with the Greek letter omicron.
I don’t abuse alcohol. I love alcohol, so why would I abuse it?
The last two are Meta, and Philip Morris International.
Aren’t the budgets based on the tax income for the districts? Wealthier people tend to be white, and wealthier people have more alternatives on where to live… so why would they choose to live somewhere without clean water, just to save a bit of money?
It’s still the same answer in the end… but it’s not like some councilman is saying “those blacks won’t be getting clean water as long as I’m in charge”, no? I’d imagine that neighborhoods filled with poverty-whites would also have bad water quality.
the blank cheques being handed out wastefully
What blank cheques exactly?
And I’m not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There’s not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.
And how many “blank cheques” to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it’s not about cutting “wasteful spending”.
What happened to “snowflakes”? I guess that just like everything else, it was projection.
Many think that Windhund/vinthund is referring to wind (sighthounds are fast), but it’s most likely folk etymology. It’s believed the name most likely originated in lower German from the Wends - as sighthounds were mainly known from that region at the time.