As it should be

It is. No one with the power to do anything about it give a shit.

It was ghosts. Big ones. And a tornado.

Wouldn't Microsoft be the main perpetrator of this in office software? Google Docs, LibreOffice, etc have to read their .docx files correctly so they keep changing how it works?

I'll take one share.

Wonderful! You have successfully purchased one share of OpenAI! Investing in companies is a great way to support products you like and gain a revenue stream!

Actually I bought one million shares.

You're absolutely right! I made a mistake in the database query. I have updated the database to indicate 1000000 instead if 1.

IIRC there's a not insignificant number of researchers who upload their own stuff on places like SciHub, which could literally get them sued if it gets traced to them because they don't have rights to their own damn science that they themselves did. Anyone closer to the science publication scene can verify or debunk this?

Also I love how all the objectively toxic parts of East Asian culture are suddenly romanticized if it's Japan or South Korea we're talking about. Stuff like conservative family dynamics, overbearing work culture, predatory consumer fads, fat shaming and openly commenting on how people look, etc.

All of the "delete my information from data brokers" services IMO, especially the ones that advertise on YouTube. Always smelled fishy to me.

Either that or they're just more data brokers trying to get exclusivity.

Eh, Canada kind of sucks as well. Source: Canadian.

So basically an optical drive on steroids?

You know what I really want for long term offline backup storage? To go back to the bare discs with external readers paradigm of optical media (not sure if it's possible with this though). Don't have to pay for dedicated mechanical components in every drive that inevetably have a limited lifespan even if they're just sitting in storage, and once they fail the recorded media itself is useless until you pay out the nose to get them transplanted into a new drive.

Has it ever occurred to you that some people genuinely don't like the taste of meat and think plants taste better?