A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques

This. I feel like OP encountered one example of a very ornate mosque and is generalizing the rest of them based on that. I know the ones near me are a lot more plain.

By example, compare the architecture of small community christian churches to grand cathedrals in Europe. You’ll find similar extravagance, yet it would be weird to ask why all churches are so ornate just based on those examples.

FWIW, no one should feel the need to put their safety on the line for the benefit of their corporate overlords, for a number of reasons.

1. The obvious point of you potentially getting hurt. The company doesn’t want that because they could get sued. So they tell you not to intervene to cover their ass.

2. The chance of the other person getting hurt. The company doesn’t want that because they could get sued. And they’ll blame it on you because you were told not to intervene.

3. The possibility that you are simply wrong. You think you saw someone shoplift, but what if they didn’t? You just assaulted a random person.

4. Basic fucking human decency. If someone is stealing food of all things, why would you feel the need to intervene? It’s not your loss, it’s the company’s. If the company wants to do something about it, they can figure that part out themselves.

takeout.google.com will give you options to download your data for any Google service (guessing this is where you saw the note about obtaining the mbox file). This is probably the easiest way, and Thunderbird should be able to open that mbox file directly after you obtain it.

Signal is just an E2EE message service. It’s a good protocol, but you won’t find VPN/email/whatever else that you may be expecting with Proton.

The only real argument that I’ve heard for not using Signal is that they’re based in the US, but their protocol remains secure from government requests at any rate.

You’re thinking of Huawei. HTC is a Taiwanese company that used to be a major player among Android OEMs, but their business dried up and they exited the global market. I didn’t even know they were still making phones, to be honest.

Can’t speak to the oddity with your blahaj account, but feddit.org is defederated from quokk.au, so that domain won’t see any posts by users from that instance and would explain why you can’t find this one there.

Every country has some sort of “out there” food that others are repulsed by.

I’ve had natto (fermented soybeans) from Japan which weren’t terrible but had a texture I couldn’t get behind, and I’ve had surstromming (fermented fish) from Sweden that is probably the most horrific substance known to mankind.

A few modern poets were. William Butler Yeats is another I know of. His image is somewhat sanitized because he’s an important national poet for Ireland, but he was a rich asshole who was supportive of the fascist movements in Ireland (Blueshirts) and abroad (Francoist Spain). Similar (but less overt) is T. S. Eliot, who also became sympathetic to fascism later in life.

Both of these links are failing to load for me, just spinning indefinitely. What’s the context?

The earliest ones that asked you to type two words were also used to help digitize the Google Books library, for cases when the OCR wasn’t quite able to match a word confidently. That’s why you’d get a pair, one that was clearer but “jumbled” to be unreadable to computers, the other looked more like a fuzzy scan (or occasionally just a complete mess of misplaced ink), though both had a wavy effect applied to them. Only the clearer one was needed to pass the test, the other was just free training for their OCR process.

I’m of a similar mind, but at least no remake, good or bad, will remove the original. Thanks to the hard work of decompilation teams, anyone can play a truly definitive version of the original OoT at any time. It’s both preserved and perfected, available as it was but with support for the controllers, PC setups, and refresh rates that we are used to today.

That’s why I’m okay with the remake even if it is a strong departure from the original game. I’m more interested in a reimagining type of remake rather than one that just tries to do exactly what the original did with better graphics.

How life feels when you check your bank account after a vacation

They tell me that you were able to play Final Fantasy 7 Remake and recognize more of the side characters than I did when I played.

What does the text next to the person in the last panel say? “After kill [something]?”

I’ll always advocate for patient gaming, but in case you were looking to catch up on the first two before this one comes out, I would start sooner than later for a couple reasons. First is just because they are absolutely massive games that may take longer than expected to complete, but second because I think they benefit from taking a break in between. I wouldn’t do one right after the other.

Spring 2027, so less than a year away (assuming no delays). Also will be a simultaneous launch on all systems, no exclusivity window this time.

FWIW, this one isn’t just jumping on a trend, it has a whole fucking odyssey behind it.

Patrice Desilets (original director of the Assassin’s Creed series) had a falling out with Ubisoft and left the company to begin developing this game with THQ between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, THQ declared bankruptcy, got chopped up into pieces to sell, and their Montreal studio along with the 1666 Amsterdam IP were bought up by Ubisoft.

After the buyout, Ubisoft then fired Desilets as a spite move for his earlier departure, canceled the game, and dissolved the studio into Ubisoft Montreal. The only real evidence that this game even existed in tangible form was an early development reel that leaked a few years later. In the interim, there was a whole big lawsuit, and it somehow eventually ended up with Desilets becoming the rightsholder to Amsterdam 1666 again.

So this game has been in something of a development hell for about 15 years now, and it’s pretty cool to see it finally come to light.

Glorious.

Just to offer a style reference for folks