ProtonVPN stinks. Websites refuse to load and I get autobanned on Reddit etc.

Mullvad just worked everywhere. I'm going back when my year plan on Proton ends.

The consumer VPN heyday has long passed. Most Mullvad endpoints i use are blocked in increasingly more places, including and especially reddit.

It's the only VPN I've tried thoroughly, so i don't know how they and Proton compare today (or, really, ever). The landscape has been degenerating across the board, I reckon.

I don't understand the video game industry from an insider perspective, but is it wise for id Software to unionize after Doom: The Dark Ages didn't do as well as Eternal? I haven't spoken to anyone who mentioned D:TDA IRL, but knew a fair amount of people who preordered Eternal.

TDA was so good timing the parrying. Eternal too, once you play these games the other games are slow in comparison imo.

I'm not a fan of parrying in any game and mentally put Eternal into the "Wait for cheap Steam sale" pile when I saw the shield. I wanna rip and tear in Doom.

People were shifted from Java to Javascript and kept the Java patterns and maybe the organization had standards requiring their use.

Who cares? I've installed every graphically intensive game on SSDs since the original OCZ Vertex was released.

Their concern was that one person in a squad loading on HDD could slow down the level loading for all players in a squad, even if they used a SSD, so they used a very normal and time-tested optimisation technique to prevent that.

Their technique makes it so that the normal person with a ~base SSD of 512 GB can't reasonably install the game. Heck of a job Brownie.

Nonsense. I play it on a 512GB SSD and it’s fine.

It's hard for me to use a laptop with win11 and one game (BG3) installed on a 512 GB SSD.

>AI is a filter.

>It strips away everything that can be automated, leaving only what requires actual thinking: creativity, collaboration, real-world problem-solving.

This is rich coming from an article written by AI instructed to SEO it to the moon.

Who are these mythical people who can pay $500/month to park below 60th street but will be bankrupted by the congestion toll?

$1.50 toll on rideshare drivers/users and/or people getting dropped off at work.

> $1.50 toll on rideshare drivers/users and/or people getting dropped off at work

Anyone Ubering to and from work is not among New York's poor.

You act like driving in NYC is free even without the congestion price. You realize how much it costs to park in Manhattan right? $50/day? And if you are coming from the Jersey side, you realize how much the toll is for the tunnel? $17-27.

So yea, if you're poor, you're not driving your beater to SoHo and parking in a lot for $50 daily.

Most people driving into the city aren’t parking in Manhattan. When I was living in west Chester county, I would drive in into midtown and always find street parking near Columbia, free. I was surprised how easy it was to drive into the city because I heard lots of stories that it wasn’t. No tolls either.

I'm confused, if you lived in Westchester and were parking by Columbia why would you be in Midtown? Mind you, it's still like $14-$22 to cross the GWB and if you parked by Columbia after driving down from Westchester you don't have a congestion charge to worry about.

I’m not sure, I’m a bit hazy about the names, it was a dormitory, I never actually saw the school. The dormitory wasn’t on campus. We were interning at IBM Hawthorne at the time and my friend was living at a Columbia dorm and commuting. Sometimes when I took the train the nearest train line stop (to get back to Hawthorne) was Harlem.

I get it, remember the congestion zone isn't the entire borough of Manhattan. It's just below 59th street. And, if you were driving down there, good luck finding parking in the literal densest place on planet earth during work hours (187k people/sqm). Driving in the congestion relief zone is not a right.

(Also, this thread's root was "regressive tax affecting the poor" which I assert again, is just a silly mischaracterization)

Columbia is over 40 blocks north of the congestion zone. You’d be able to do the exact same thing today.

The American mind truly struggles with the concept of people not owning cars

We did perfect their mass production, and it propelled us to the world's largest economy. The only country with better GDP growth over the last 100 years is Japan, and that's in large part because they perfected the manufacture of cars themselves.

Right, it's not the geopolitical situation, but cars. Natural resources + every potentially powerful hostile country is across entire oceans = success.

> We did perfect their mass production

I mean... Toyota would beg to differ (and realistically US car manufacturers today are closer to the Toyota model of car mass production than the traditional US one).

But we're talking about New York City here, not Kansas. Specifically the congestion zone which during the work day is the most congested place in the world (187,500 people/sqm).

> I like walking around new cities, but a lot of people are car life types

Congestion pricing makes driving in New York better. Broadly speaking, the tendency for someone to have a problem with the scheme is proportional to their distance from and inversely related to the amount of time they've ever spent in New York.

What does the size of the state have to do with anything?

... I mean, that seems entirely irrelevant when discussing New York City, which is, geographically, rather small (though very dense).

Just like the comment I was replying to and your comment. Both add nothing and deserve nothing but flippant responses to this discussion.

Couldn't even keep an em dash out of the title

BOOOOO

AI drawn chart and AI written article

The type of depression that makes the sufferer lie about not having suicidal ideations

Or the type of depression that doesn't lead to suicide ideation because depression, in and of itself, is an incredibly broad term and not everyone that is depressed wants to die.

The type of person who doesn't have suicidal ideations are on the low end of the pool. They are the type of depressed people that things like hanging around friends, going outside, or eating a diet that's not poo works on.

I forgot about the rule of 3 but that's obviously AI writing

Yeah maybe the AI thought leaders will be replaced by AI

But not in the sense of singularity and explosive intelligence, but in the sense of a flaming explosive bubble of slop