Yeah… getting involved in town problems or local faction quests always felt really uninspired unfortunately.

I want more procedurally generated planet variety too. They start feeling very samey after awhile.

I don’t think safety courses and licensing are a huge barrier to entry though, unless we let them be. And on the other hand the safety benefits seem to be enormous.

And yes, training and a license would indeed make a difference with how riders conduct themselves. Including wearing a helmet or paying attention.

I mean this is easy to say about everything. If people are annoyed at car accidents, they should teach their children to drive cars better rather than whine about it!

At some point we do decide it’s society’s collective responsibility to ensure that something is safe, understanding that maybe not all parents will rise to the level of quality we expect. I think we’re there for ebikes.

I dunno, I’m pretty technically versed on blockchains and I simply don’t see the use. As I said they’re vulnerable to basically everything a centralized database is, with the addition of 51% attacks, and suffer from poor usability and being monstrously inefficient on top of it. Maybe there is a mythical use for the tech out there, but if there is I haven’t heard an argument for anything that wouldn’t be better served by an actual database.

I don’t think running an election on a centralized database is a great idea. I do think it’s a way better idea than doing it on a blockchain, which has all the problems a centralized database and several more besides.

It’s much more difficult to reach and sustain 30 mph on a pedal bike, and if you’re doing that you’re typically quite invested in it. E-bikes on the other hand it’s really easy to get to a very high speed, and I frequently see people doing it while on their phone, without wearing a helmet, and/or with additional passengers.

I think a little bit of education here could go a long way.

I love the idea of e-bikes, but I think people are acting dangerously on them. I think a modest amount of training and licensure – at least to tell people to obey traffic laws, wear helmets, and not go 30 miles per hour on sidewalks or pedestrian zones – would respect freedom while removing a lot of danger.

Why would you want a zero-knowledge database? You want the exact opposite: you want to be able to tie the vote to a person, which is why ballots are associated strongly to your identity and why counting physical ballots remains so important.

In what sense? There have been numerous hacks of existing blockchains even within the past few months. Also of smart contracts on those blockchains. Certainly way more than, say, bank databases.

That’s entirely what you would want a centralized database for; so you can put an authority you trust in charge of it, to ensure it’s fair and auditable.

Using a blockchain would give a bunch of people very strong incentives to perform a 51% attack, find a flaw in the protocol and exploit it, or just bribe, threaten, or cajole the programmers who created the chain to patch it to do what they want.

People keep saying there’s a valid use case for this but what is it? Basically any distributed ledger would actually perform better, be more secure, and be easier to use as a centralized database.

Feel free to substitute “the existence of a God” for “religion” then.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca

No, they’re bad people. Their whole point with federation was to troll other instances.

I seriously doubt these people would be suing if their “investments” had gone up in value. They speculated and they lost; claiming Sotheby’s misled them seems absurd when millions of people were shouting from the rooftops that ugly JPEGs are worth nothing regardless of how much math is done to them.

It sounds like you know the best solution for it… but it’s painful to implement.

You either have it be able to listen to the music without it triggering you, or avoid that trigger. I don’t really know if there’s a third option.

That said it sounds like you might benefit from actual professional consultation on this issue. Therapy is quite common when overcoming strong addictions. Maybe a councilor can give you some additional insight into other solutions.

Uh as you pointed out free speech means you are required to interact with opinions you find offensive.

Are you saying you don’t support free speech, snowflake? If you do you’ll stay in this thread.

I’m not advancing a claim here, I’m just calling your claim rightfully bullshit. Until or unless you have something better to offer, leave. You are a detriment to this community.

Yeah; as you point out, the extant information certainly doesn’t mean what he thinks it means, and there is zero evidence of government censorship here.

Basically the OP has brainworms and is trying to infect other people with them. Hope they’re banned from this community as this is not the first instance of them doing it.