As I recall pseudoloc is just randomly picking individual characters to substitute that look like the Latin letters to keep it readable for testing, so it would be something like рг (Cyrillic) ο (Greek)... etc, and can change from run to run. It would also artificially pad or shorten terms to catch cases where the (usually German) term would be much longer or a (usually CJK) term would be much shorter and screw up alignment or breaks.
I seem to remember that it was mostly adding various accent marks / umlauts / etc. to English words so things were indeed readable but I'm not going to bet any money on that as I didn't have to actually log in onto those machines super frequently.
They also have a tv show dedicated to selling off storage units that are unpaid, but my friend whose family owns a large chain of storage units has told me that it’s basically fake. (He said usually the unpaid units are filled with something worthless and on the off chance they’re not, it’s donated to charity)
War bonds, rationing and other measures long since abandoned were introduced then too. How weird would it be if everyone were still limited to 8oz of sugar per month in 2025 due to the exigencies of WW2? It's no less weird when it comes to healthcare being linked to remuneration. Heck, there are better free market approaches not adopted by the US, since its usually horny for that sort of thing, right up until it's pro-labor I guess.
Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time.
The US was not an export-focused economy in the 50s and 60s. In fact trade as a percent of GDP bottomed out in those decades. Arguing that the prosperity for the average person was only "sustainable" in an environment where there wasn't foreign competition is an argument for tariffs.
In what way would the citizens of the US have been worse off had the rest of the world had reasonable manufacturing capability? I'd have thought that either it'd be the same, or better, because same production + trade.
Nintendo is going to be doing digital game lending now so that's an interesting addition. I'll probably still buy physical since the first-party games hold their value so well.
But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree with her politics, people might see that as censorship, or at least shady.
That is true, a social network doing it is not the same as an individual doing it.
But social networks are businesses too, right. They're beholden to advertisers, just like network TV. So what they allow is constrained by what advertisers will accept. And lastly, the network is beholden to its own users. If the users don't like being surrounded by Nazis, they'll leave.
Compare Twitter when it was bought to it now. On any metric it's much worse. Lower revenue, 10x lower valuation. It's a cesspit, but at least no right winger is censored right! That's something.
I mean, Gruber is a clown and as far as he's concerned everything Apple has ever done is pure and right and everyone else is sad and wrong. If you're actually trying to engage with him on technical merits you're going to have a bad time.
That makes sense, it's just that we've noticed over the years how it still degrades thread quality. I think it's a medium-is-the-message thing to some extent. It's no big deal (and can be quite fun) to call $whoever a $whatever in small conversations, e.g. over a drink with friends, but on a large public internet form the dynamics change a lot.
