Yeah, though I would argue that we as a society would be way better off if the same scrutiny that was applied a few years ago due to the "woke panic" were applied to modern day content about pro- you-name-it propaganda (military, othering, etc.).

Nowadays, you see that in the masterful omission of facts when news are reported (e.g. why aren't illegal trade embargoes mentioned when talking about poverty and instability in certain countries? Why are there no reactions when the thing they were confidently showing turned out to be false or GenAI?), or the way things are portrayed in videogames (why are enemies in military shooters almost always middle eastern? why don't you have to fight off racists, fascists, and corporate militia?), or the movies (why do we get shown mostly content where a single individual carries the sole responsibility of taking on the single villain?).

Sorry for the rant; games are indeed beautiful... There's some things I've been starting to pay attention to where you have to swallow or brush aside some propaganda so that you're allowed to play with your friends... And that makes me a bit upset.

A suspiciously highly upvoted psyop disguised as lengthy diatribe authoritatively waxing poetic in a tone that conflates the thing that has been linked with everything that is wrong with humanity but that can be boiled down to empty platitudes that end up tiring the average reader and successfully prevents more people from engaging with the content.

A comment the adds nothing to the discussion but derails the conversation with an anecdotes from the writers childhood because how this topic vaguely reminds them of something kind of similar.

A simplification inquiry. Gets downvoted to death.

> Though it could be argued that water consumption of these centers might be the reason for it.

Indeed! And we also shouldn't forget the CO2 and NOx emissions from gas-powered turbines (on some)... Also IIRC 9+°C warming in the surrounding areas, loud droning noise, and I seem to recall that there might have also been local water well pollution.

Had a similar process when helping my parents settle in after relocating to Spain recently. I ended up having to ask an acquaintance to put down their phone so I could get some verification codes or information about an appointment in order to sign them up for... a Home internet + mobile phone lines bundle.

Cherry on top of this dystopian situation was that the number needed to be a Spanish phone number. Couldn't be from a different country code.

Not to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.

"Legislation will continue until morale improves."

The regulations sometimes feel like additional burden of the user, but not for the manufacturers (aside for the attestation logic); consider:

> (MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY requires a security patch in the last 12 months)

Think about how this essentially codifies planned obsolescence due to not forcing the manufacturers to maintain the devices for life.

And we need groups of locales for teams that are split across multiple locations; e.g.:

  new_date = add_workdays(
    workdays=1.5,
    start=datetime.now(),
    regions=["es", "mx", "nl", "us"],
  )

Hopefully "es" will have Siesta support too.

Might be better to calculate them separately for each locale and then tie-break with your own approach (min/max/avg/median/etc.)

Gah, just posted a sibling comment echoing the same thought. Do you think there's a revolving door between the Sci-Fi Writers Guild and the "Let's build billionaires a Torment Nexus" think tank?

This is all giving me Altered Carbon vibes.

Bene Tleilax, Axlotl Tank.