That’s an interesting idea. I can see local businesses having a whinge about it for a couple reasons: 1) people less likely to buy snacks/drinks on the go and 2) the business now has to deal with lots of extra rubbish that used to go in the public bins outside. Was there any push back? People were a bit whingey about the plastic bag ban here at first but I think most people have accepted it now (although I do forget my reusable bags on an annoyingly regular basis).

The bug was deliberately put there after he was born so he could fulfill the prophecy.

Fang!

A dapper gentleman indeed!

why would a good scientist stop researching?

Probably when you start to wonder if all your research is for nothing since nobody seems interested in enacting policy grounded in science.

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There should be a simple signup that looks something like:

[choose a username] @ [choose an instance]

Where the first one is an input field and the second one is a drop down or search bar. People can pick whatever instance name piques their fancy to get started. Once they understand the fediverse better they can move to another server (hopefully migration will be built-in at some point).

I’ve lost interest in multiplayer games too with all the battle passes and loot boxes.