I had to look it up to understand. They drop their young and split under threat. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-03-12/quokka-babies-daddy-long-legs-australian-animal-myths/13188740

IDK, but the only explanation for something IDK is that it's a conspiracy!

For fucking real? The salon? Against the media?? Fuck off. (I hate him too, I hate pandering bs as well)

Those are covers over additional lights to protect them from damage when they are not required.

I'm pretty sure the images are both trebuchets. The one on the left is still using only counterweights to provide energy.

Yes, we had this ability all the way back in 2012 on the Galaxy S3, which had NFC and Wireless Charging built in to a user replaceable battery pack. It was available on many phones in that era and could easily be brought back if we gave up some "thinness" that we have now.

It's not as if they didn't still get paid under the previous model. It's just not conducive to a profit line that has to be on an incline forever, else be axed or forever altered, such as in this case. It's greed, pure and simple. They have to find a new way to make the line on a chart go up and people who are more interested in short term gain figured they can wait out the backlash storm and rake in more profit on other businesses that are already locked in. They're not dumb, they just aren't incentivized in anyway to be concerned for the long-term health of what they are built on.

I do not like defederating instances for moral/ethical reasons. If that is the mission of the instance you join, so be it. I would only defederate as a last ditch effort to stave off technical or legal problems. Burggit plays in a grey area with the legal side, but I still wouldn't defederate until it's demonstrably causing a problem. I would also support defederating from instances where they are abusing federation to inflict harm on other instances/users.