It opens a separate session in the browser and prevents saving any cookies, history or other state locally when you close it. Doesn't change a blessed thing on the other end of the connection.

We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

I'll believe that if his plan is to unify humanity under his rule.

You don't even have to go that far back. Howard Dean's enthusiastic-but-awkward yell was such a non-issue, and it still ruined his whole campaign.

Also worth mentioning, in addition to those things, the relatively recently discovered oil and gas deposits in Ukraine, much of which is off the coast. Before the first invasion (where they took Crimea), Ukraine was getting ready to tap into that and compete with Russia for western energy money.

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

That's a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he's already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

That would explain a lot.

Came for the decentralization, stayed for the nonconsensual lemon party redirects.

The problem is all the other people voting the wrong way with their bigger wallets.

That's a very elaborate way to spell "leeches".

That was always part of the enshittification formula. The final stage after exploiting users is to exploit business customers to the breaking point.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Now that's putting the "shit" in "shitpost".

It could depend on time-of-day browsing habits. I've noticed NSFW stuff tends to appear more during the night time for the US and Europe. It's still a small minority of posts overall, though, and I don't click them enough to observe any trend in proportion of hentai in particular.

I even got an error page the first time I tried to load this post. Just like old times! 🥲

Easy, just send him back in time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/

"How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb."

Having read it, this is basically correct. The last hurdle was that the sewer system was designed to use the river to dump overflow in the case of heavy rains. Now they're finishing up a large reservoir to use instead.

Gulf War: 1990-1991

Idiocracy: 2006

You may be thinking of the sequel, Gulf War II

That's what they want you to think. (not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not)

Even if that's true, once they become a part of the ecosystem, they will start looking for ways to dominate it. That's just the nature of for-profit corporations.

Good question. Maybe they did it deliberately to make it feel more alien and strange? Or maybe there's another rule about the relative number of syllables (e.g., Tom and Jerry, Jak and Daxter, etc.)

If they're truly trying to be old school, I agree. Many such games actually come with adjustable filters to simulate that kind of distortion, and even arcade-like screen curvature (e.g., Hammerwatch).

That said, modern pixel art is evolving its own aesthetic that is valid and enjoyable in its own right. I don't think everyone making modern pixel art games is necessarily trying to be old school.