You know we have a real problem in our society when these women haven't been able to come forward with these allegations until the press have contacted them.

If they fear coming forward after being assaulted by someone who is hardly discreet about being a sexual predator, what must it be like for the victims of more outwardly respectable public figures?

Ah thanks, I don't think I have enabled it. Will that allow me to try out windows-only games in Linux? That's crazy.. literally no more reasons to go back to Windows..

I've recently started gaming on linux with surprisingly little problem, given that the last time I tried was about 15 years ago. I don't even know what proton is, but I just installed steam and then my games.. surprisingly on some slightly older games (tf2, HL2) I get a huge FPS boost in Linux compared to windows. Not sure why that would be.

Touché

Even if this isn't the most dangerous of challenges it's still incredibly pointless and uninspired. Are there any that aren't?

I've not seen a lot of coverage of this in the English press but his mother also shut herself in a church and went on hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of the poor boy.

If the only people defending you in this type of case are your mother and Woody Allen then I think you can safely assume you're in the wrong.

These challenges are awful in absolutely every way. It's hard to think of a more senseless way to go.

Are there any social media "challenges" that are actually funny, entertaining or creative rather than just being unpleasant and/or dangerous?

You won't find any of those things in any reputable IQ test. I'd be surprised if you found them even in a bullshit online test.

Maybe you just had a particularly bad experience and it has given you a false impression of what an IQ test is.

I have the same problem as you with mastodon, I'm interested in topics not in people so the format just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I've had very limited success with following hashtags, it sounds like a neat idea, but I've not found enough hashtags that I'm interested in with enough activity to make it worthwhile.

The nature of it also makes it more superficial - it's short comments and posts on a topic rather than more in depth discussion.

In the end, I think mastodon is a really neat replacement for twitter - but I never had a twitter account for a reason, and those reasons are still there with mastodon, for me at least.

This isn't true at all. IQ isn't some magical catch-all measure of a person's intellectual ability, but it's not entirely total quackery either.

I suspect that academic success would be very strongly correlated with having a supportive home life, but IQ not so much. Maybe the gifted kids you refer to were the academically successful ones and not the high-IQ ones?

Hilarious, in my opinion.

I'm old enough to remember having to do this myself. Unfortunately I'm also old enough to have completely forgotten why.

Yeah, I'm saying they shouldn't, but plenty of them do. They use geoip or location services to work out where you are and then use that to send you to the local site or the site in the language that they feel is appropriate for that location.

If you're really lucky they then make it difficult (and sometimes practically impossible) to switch.

Besides the problem you've highlighted for countries with multiple languages, you also have immigrants, people on holiday, multilingual people, VPN users... And it's not great for your SEO either.

The correct solution (as with languages on websites) is to auto-detect but then make it super easy and obvious how to change if the auto detected version is not what the user wants.

Also if any web developers out there are reading - don't use the user's location to determine the language/region they want, and especially don't force it. I have no idea why so many websites do this but those responsible deserve to permanently have small amounts of sand in all their socks.

We're not entirely rational creatures so even though logically we may know it won't be the finished product, it can still massively impact how something is perceived. First impressions can always make a big difference no matter how much you try to rationalise them away.

I don't know what tears of the kingdom is, to be honest, so I can't comment about that.

You don't say... 🤔

I think they made a book of that movie too!

I just commented something similar, asking for examples of when piracy is unethical, because I couldn't think of any myself, but your example of leaking is really interesting.

I can see how pirating/leaking an unfinished work could be really harmful to the creator and I know that would feel horrible if it happened to something I'd created.

I'm not sure why there's so much acceptance of (and even enthusiasm for) early leaked unfinished products.

I'm not sure I can think of any examples of unethical piracy, except maybe bootlegging for sale as mentioned elsewhere.

I don't believe that piracy hurts anyone, so I can't understand any arguments that it's unethical.

Oh but the tourism!

This is the Britain we all dream of.. isolated and desperate, wheeling out archaic practices and dressing in silly hats in the hope that foreigners might think it all hilarious enough to throw us a few coins.