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The thing is that most Unity games don't even have DRM in the first place. At most most will have the Steam DRM which is trivial to bypass. And Unity Games released on GOG will be especially at risk.

The problem with debunking is that it is inherently boring and an inefficient way to learn. To debunk something, first you have to explain the nonsense to the audience (which is ultimately pointless, especially if they haven't heard the misinformation before), and then you go step by step providing accurate data.

Itll always be more interesting to provide the correct accurate>!!< information in the first place, because then you can control the narrative that is used to provide the information instead of being forced to conform to the narrative of the misinformation.

A clear, non sarcastic debunk is simply 50% explaining nonsense, then 50% a list of correct information. And a list is boring. That's why all the debunkers inject personality into the debunks, because that's the only way to make it interesting and entertaining.

Thought Emporium is probably the premier creator when it comes to genetic engineering. I mean other times I've mentioned real things he's done, people thought I was being hyperbolic, but no he is actually training rat neurons to play doom, he did create custom Spider DNA to create spider silk with Yeast and he did engineer a virus to solve his lactose intolerance.

This would be infinitely safer if the baby holder had like sides that protruded enough that the baby would be protected if it were to roll lol. Who made this travesty.

Could've been a TA, masters or PhD student, researcher, anything really lol.

Yeah but if you want to switch from photographing birds to airplanes or fuckin lions or something you don't need to change literally anything.

If an astrophotography invested 10k into DSO wants to take pictures of the sun, they'd need more equipment. Want to do lunar imaging, new stuff. Solar system objects, new stuff. Eclipse new stuff. Comets new stuff.

It's much easier to be a recluse in a city of 20 million than a village of 2000, ironically enough.

In October 2018, Associated Press reported that two Citizen Lab researchers were being pursued by undercover operatives with false identities. The undercover agents had been inquiring about their work involving NSO Group, and also appeared to be trying to goad the researchers into making anti-Semitic or otherwise damaging remarks. After growing suspicious, one researcher contacted AP reporters. Together, they managed to arrange a sting during a meeting with a suspected undercover operative at a hotel luncheon with AP journalists secretly awaiting nearby; after the journalists approached the operative to question him, the operative fled, bumping into chairs and circling the room as he tried to get away. There also appeared to be two additional undercover operatives in the room. The operative that met the researcher appeared to be filming the researcher with a hidden camera during the meeting, and one of the operatives standing nearby appeared to be recording the meeting as well. The operative was later identified as a former Israeli security official. Responding to the AP report, NSO denied any involvement. It was later also uncovered that the identified undercover agent had previously worked on a case linked to the Israeli private intelligence agency Black Cube; NSO Group subsequently denied contracting Black Cube, and Black Cube denied involvement as well.[74]

In February 2019, Associated Press reported that at least four more individuals - three lawyers involved in lawsuits against NSO Group for alleged sales of NSO spyware to governments with poor human rights records, and one journalist who had been covering said litigation - were being pursued by undercover operatives for their work on NSO. Undercover agents again tried to goad the individuals into making racist or anti-Israel remarks. Two of the individuals were surreptitiously recorded by the undercover operatives. Channel 12, an Israeli television channel, obtained and aired the secret recordings made by the undercover operatives shortly before the AP published the revelations.[75] Channel 12 claimed the two individuals were attempting to smear NSO Group on behalf of Qatar.[76] Channel 12 also confirmed that Black Cube undercover investigators were involved.[76][75].

From Wikipedia. Using allegations of anti-Semitism to target critics and investigators.

A civil society NGO in Washington that was hacked by an sanctioned Israeli company that Citizens Lab didn't disclose the identity off? I mean it has to be a Palestinian rights group.

Yep, I was into regular photography, well the boring and hard branch of photography called bird photography and even I struggled with astrophotography.

It really feels like you can either not buy much equipment and struggle with moving the camera a tenth of a millimeter every 3 minutes or you buy an eq mount and hook up your camera to your laptop and come back after a 7 hours nap to a neat pile of pictures that don't really show anything but after 4 hours of automated processing and some manual retouching show something about 80% good as Hubble. Which is nice, but it's not exactly something unique. And the extra annoying thing is the only way you get better is by investing more money.

At least in bird photography once you've got the 600mm f/4 for 10k you're set for life.

America already makes more oil than it uses.

People are going to recommend specialist or convincing them to get hearing aids and what not but that's just not it.

Growing up, my grandad lived with us. And he's exactly as you describe your parents. Deaf and stubborn but refusing hearing aids. Having temper tantrums, etc.

The way to deal with it is honestly to be firm and to set hard boundaries. But at the same time you've got to be able to redirect them and sort of distract them by allowing tolerable BS so as to avoid really destructive bs old people can do.

For example, my parents would indulge my grandfather in his doctor shopping medical bullshit. They'd let him go to different doctors about his diabetes and general age related illnesses and change meds. Inconvenient to take him to clinics and fill his ever changing prescriptions but better than him constantly bitching about his partly imagined health issues to us and to the rest of the family and doing his oh misery is me, nobody cares for me bullshit. We could always deflect by saying you just went to the doctor last month or last week.

We wouldn't let him drive at all. When we moved him in with us we made sure to have his vehicle left at his house in the ghetto. Not driving was a hard boundary. My grandad was prone to getting confused, had poor eyesight and was hard of hearing. So when he'd demand to get his car or want to go off somewhere on his own, we'd always deflect. We'd offer to drive him or offer to do whatever bs menial errand he'd decided was massively important. However, you have to make sure it's at your own convenience. You can let them take over your life like that.

When he'd get upset at something or other like politics, you've got to listen and let it go in one ear and out the other. You can't let your emotions outwardly match theirs. The same way a parent would grit their teeth and flatly respond to a 6-year old child's bullshit, you got to deal with the elderly. You cant be screaming, if they are screaming, it just escalates. You listen, you don't take it personally, and you deflect from that topic as quickly as possible. You tell them, you'll look into it, you'll try. Maybe later. Maybe next week. Oftentimes they'll forget that shit anyways.

Oh and finally, make sure they don't hold any actionable power over you. Like financial power or ownership of the car or house that you use or live in. An old person can be very vindictive and will use it to abuse you if they can. For example, my grandad, had a bunch of money sitting in the bank on account of being a massive miser and offered it to my parents when they were buying a house and stuff. They never took it. My aunt did and still regrets it. He was real mean to her about that loan. It's just not a good time.