"Hoooman, I'm not gonna help you with that 23 kg limit"

For conversation with beta readers, I usually do DMs over the platform where they usually do their beta work stuff, which these days tends to be Discord but I've had some cases of PMing over topical forums's message systems.

For editing docs, my usual workflow is I set up a cryptpad or etherpad version of the document for them to edit and annotate and then we compare notes. Other times I use my own hedgedoc instance when what I want is light notes or minor fixes, or I just e-mail the document over.

I've been looking for some sort of fandom-established privacy-respecting Google Docs alternative but so far no one seems to have done it, which is strange considering using Google for that kind of stuff give s enough ammo to some evil companies (ahem... Nintendo) to sue two or more people in one go.

I'd probably say mundane ergonomics (eg.: how do your species use chairs, or if doors have knobs or bars) and general interpersonal processes: how does one find a mate, or raise a child in the setting, how are liars and cheaters treated, etc.

Not the spells, but how and why magic works in the first place.

Emphasis mine; interested here. What about working on the "why" do you like the best? Is it the work of placing in "inherent" limitations, or the lore that you can work behind it, etc?

What are those benefits? The only potential one I have direct experience with (besides speed) is that the connector is reversible, but even that's small-time and a flat out objective downgrade compared to the circular connectors of the 90s, which could be plugged in regardless of orientation.

Wait until the Republicans find out about that! /s

Sure, if you want; as long as whoever does that retrofits all my USB-A devices.

Wow hadn't seen that image in a good while!

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

Hah! Like the "legal" services are much better than that!

It's impressive. Any other country in the world that was bombing two (2) (Dos) countries at a time nowadays would get hell of flack.

But not the 21st century Nazis, not them!

So let me see if I get this straight:

Some guy robs you and since they can't pay the settlement bill for robbing you, they are offering you a stakeholder position in their further crimes?

I took the liberty of reading the article but I'm gonna say the title is quite... tendentious. Makes it sound like it's yet another one of those FUD / nutjob clickbait that have been coming at the privacy community for a few days with sensationalist titles such as "The CIA will stop funding Signal" (never has been) or "FBI wants to sell Wikipedia" (never has been).

What is going on?

EDIT: Cosmic Cleric has provided the definition of "tendentious", which I have linked.