Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.

Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.

A VPN isn’t necessary. But you do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).

There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).

in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?

Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.

Once they get so crusty they can stand on their own. That’s about 8 hours in shoes, or a week next to the bed.

It’s under Settings -> Blocks -> then down at the bottom is the block instances option.

You can on instances running .19 or newer. Settings -> Blocks -> then at the bottom is an option for blocking instances.

Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.

My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.

Seconding ThinkPad. Excellent linux support as well.

I’ve always felt being on the fediverse was antithetical to Beehaw’s mission. It wants to bee a kind, safe place for disenfranchised users, but it feels like less of a tight knit community when it is federated.

The best example I can think of is like a high-school club/group. Being on the fediverse is like your group claiming a table in a crowded lunch room. Yes you’ve got your group together where you can talk amongst yourselves, but everything you say can be heard by everyone else in the room and likewise their conversations are going to butt in whether you like it or not. An unfederated or semi-private forum is more like getting an unused classroom for your group to meet in. It’s still open for anyone to join as long as they don’t create trouble, but having your own room makes the conversation feel more personal/intimate and people are more likely to open up about personal stuff they wouldn’t want to yell out in the lunch room.

Probably a poor analogy, and I may be misunderstanding their goal, but that’s my 2 cents.

Your account is unable to download any more free games at this time, please wait 24 hours before trying to redeem a free game again.

That’s lame if true. I hadn’t logged into epic in almost 2 weeks.

Edit: VPN problem. Try turning it off if you get that error.

Give me good ole rosin core 60/40 lead solder any day.

Admittedly I’ve never used any “good” lead free solder.

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specifically designed to kill toddlers

“Lead designer to ensure child lethality” is such a badass job title.

2 wheels for me please.

But, thank you for taking the time on that well thought out, informative post.

Exactly. Death wish is inversely proportional to vehicle size.

Death wish? I love kei trucks but I fear getting into a mash up in one of them.

A string attaches to the sear and runs out the small hole above the barrel.

You’ll have to print/machine your own tho. And this probably falls under the NFA’s AOW category, so you’ll have to ask the ATF permission and pay for a $200 tax stamp.

Clutch - Power Player has been stuck in my head since last night for reasons unbeknownst to me. Now it can be in yours.

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