I’m still stuck on Mumble.

I mean, at least you can.

I’d imagine they were effectively banned, but not explicitly banned.

*7 hours (I just had this discussion with my partner, I thought ten as well)

I believe they reach adulthood in their mid to late thirties. Merry and Pippin are technically in the equivalent of their late teens when they head off with Frodo in FotR

Water makes other water wet. If you have a single water molecule then it is not wet, as it has no other water to make it wet. Otherwise water, as a grouping of multiple adjacent molecules, makes itself wet.

He said it like that, or is that embellishment for the sake of clickbait?

Back in my day it was TL:DR! Get off my lawn!

Is it? Or is it pragmatic rather than pessimistic?

People dont just neatly fit into boxes, to be dismissed as having singular motivation that is all completely surface level. Every single person you meet and deal with will have a complex and unique history that defines them as a person, just like you. And just like you, they may dismiss you as just some simple-minded fool who does things for obvious reasons.

Have You ever wondered why they act that way? It may not just be as you assume, that they’re terrible people, but instead that all empathy and sense of community has been ground out of them by a system that punishes you for thinking of others.

*economic organization

But the idea is that, under capitalism you have to work in order to survive. Under a different system you work to benefit society, by your survival is otherwise assured.

Really depends on how it’s organized of course. Hard to say now since there is such a death grip on keeping capitalism for some reason.

Just watch out for the zombie mode.

Does this give them any actual control over Blender development or is it just one of many groups saying “We like what you’re doing, keep at it”?

Not saying there isn’t the possibility of pressure because “If you don’t do what we want, we’ll pull our funding”… but again, if they’re just one of many patrons at that level (amongst many at a smaller level) so that’s not necessarily going to make that big a difference.

Are there requirements for these programs? Or can they make it as onerous as possible to disincentivize usage of said program? (More rhetorical than anything)

… no?

“Legal” is now (more) dependant on political loyalty than it is actual jurisprudence.

And if it weren’t for microchips we’d all be living in Fallout.

So nothing relevant to you at all, in these circumstances.

Yes, in the three nine fourteen hour window they might show up in.

All those rocket engineers got cushy jobs with NASA too.