Personally I know several people who have been to prison, and many of them absolutely needed some institutionalized treatment.

Well, really they needed a strong community with support, mentors, and motivations to succeed, but in our broken society where community is all but dead, they needed prison.

Prison is a broken hellhole system, but with total reform, it could be a positive tool for society.

Maybe in a utopian society we could do away with prison, but there are a ton of changes we need to make before then.

I don't know why you'd want to rent the game if you've already got the cracked copy, but I would be surprised if the save files were any different between the two platforms.

Maybe 30 years ago.

But in the last 20 years there has been a lot of of funding towards prevention and researching a cure.

https://avac.org/project/resource-tracking/

An HIV vaccine has proven itself to be an extremely elusive target.

But with recent developments in biotechnology, it may not be much longer before we finally have get one.

PdaNet used to work for me years ago, but more recently it fails to work on T-Mobile.

It's frustrating since I rarely need a hotspot, but when I do I really need it.

I think it's good for USB standards to move slow.

Finally just about every device I buy has USB-C now. If they release a new connector that'll just mean using 2 different cables for everything again.

I like my phones to be lightweight, thin, and durable.

Ya know, so I can have my phone at-the-ready when under a car, upside down trying to fix my sink, or when I only have half a hand while scarfing down some lunch.

Turns out a heavy-ass foldable doesn't lend itself to doing any of that without risking permanent damage.

So Samsung, when your foldables are less than 200g, less than 72mm wide, fully ip68, and less than $1000 in today's dollars, I will consider them. Otherwise, I've already got a perfect phone.

I think I'd be more interested in finding a cardiologist at that point.

Lemmy.world got way too big too fast and the small team behind it can't handle it all.

Everyone should disperse to a random stable instance, or make their own, and it'll be better for the health of the network.

It's definitely been in their back pocket since the early days at Google.

It's a little bit of both, but you're right. Google has had years to improve their algorithms.

But as an advertising company at heart, the more time people waste on those bullshit sites, the more Google profits.

There's definitely a need for regulation, but I'm not going to pretend I know where to begin.

Surely this isn't true.

I think they're planning to release a real-money karma system that'll revolve around awards.

So they need to sunset the old awards, to make room for cash awards.

It's such a terrible idea for a social network that I'm convinced Reddit is doing it.