That’s not very democratic. How about letting him run, and letting people vote him out?

Housing / home ownership counts as a temptation too.

Same.

In my case, Gundam: Witch from Mercury was the one that single-handedly brought me back into anime after 4?+ years of not watching.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Looks like he’d propagate chain mails

Looks like downvoters don’t get the joke. I first seen it on the cover of Horrible History.

create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

Smartphone with internet connection.

You can introduce interoperability. I am on X. I can’t go to Bluesky. Let’s say that Elon Musk decides to block me because I said something he didn’t like. He has blocked me before for a couple of weeks. Now, I have more than a million followers on X. I cannot leave without losing them. If I go to Bluesky, I have 10 followers. Interoperability would mean that if I go to another platform, to Bluesky, when I post something on Bluesky, then my 1 million followers on X can hear it.

Sounds like Fediverse’s ActivityPub

So, a bullshit job as per David Graeber?

That’s pure torture to me. I’d rather do something meaningful.

What’s wrong with using Ubuntu?

Sounds like the UAC from Doom (2016).

Nathaniel Chapman, a designer who has worked at both Blizzard and Obsidian, also added: “The slow grind on something you do not believe in is 10x as soul crushing as crunching for something you care about.”

I felt that

Just got to avoid pissing off the unemployed dude in office suit with lifeless eyes, and you’ll be fine.

It’s probably a feature, not a bug.

See: Dark Pattern (to be specific, Roach Motel)

My layman understanding of space is that there is harmful radiation in space already. One of the purposes of astronauts’ spacesuits is to protect them from said radiation.

The conspiracy theory that there’s a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.

They can simply count which products are being sold more / run out of stock more quickly.

(But I get that they probably bought into the hype of AI)

Maybe the real monsters are the people we met along the way.