The Innsmouth people may like it.

Tax evasion on top of the other illegal activity can increase the consequences if you're caught. They tend to require warrants before divulging information to other authorities, however any information gathered through legal means can be used against you.

The main benefit of reporting the income is to reduce the likelihood that somebody gets suspicious of the change in buying habits and starts in investigation in the first place.

It's probably less about the former president, and more about the GOP trying to torpedo efforts to pass a bipartisan border security bill. They've been fear mongering about the border for so long and so consistently, it wouldn't actually benefit them as much if such a bill were passed during the election season.

Even if he's only removed from the ballots in blue states, it'll have an effect on an downballot elections in those states. The base of the Republican party is still very deep into trumpism; and they're more likely to vote at all if their guy is on the ballot. If he's not, they may refuse to participate at all, which could potentially swing local races or otherwise make them competitive rather than safe positions.

On the national scale, if a congressional district is already competitive and those otherwise reliable Republican voters don't show up, it could give the democratic nominees for those districts an edge- assuming "keep Trump from getting back into the White House" isn't the only motivation energizing the Democratic party's base.

The Republican party's majority was already thin after the midterms, and the gap has been narrowing due to party infighting; on top of that, they barely won back the house during a midterm election without securing the Senate during the election cycle that is most advantageous to the minority party (since a ton of voters only vote during presidential elections).

The more states that ban Trump from the ballot, the more likely it is that the discouragement felt by the Republican party's base- particularly the Trumpist faction- leads to a number of them no longer feeling energized to vote, which may lead to progressive and centrist Democratic wins in competitive districts up and down the ballots, which may affect local or state politics enough to affect policy in a way that less more toward the progressive side of things- again, provided that the Democratic party doesn't rely too heavily on "we're not Trumpists" and find themselves going against Haley instead of Trump without a cohesive plan.

Tl;dr: Trump missing from the ballot in only blue states could still significantly affect downballot elections and initiatives, and give the Democratic party an edge in their efforts to take back the house and solidify their hold on the Senate- provided the Dems work on their messaging, energize their base, and win over independents.

I've been enjoying Signalis. It's a survival horror game with a top down 2.5d perspective and a late ps1-early ps2 graphics style. It's very reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games where ammo is scarce(more or less is available based on difficulty), inventory space is limited(adjustable limits are available in settings), and there are specific rooms with a storage container where you can store items and save your game (there is no autosave or checkpoint system; you have to manually save your game), but it very much feels like it's own thing.

I picked it up on a whim when looking for games with female protagonists to play on a new-to-me hand-me-down Steam Deck, and it happens to run perfectly on it.

For the longest time I didn't understand why some quotes were in unwrapped text blocks that made it unnecessarily difficult to read on mobile; difficult enough that I just passed over posts and comments that featured it.

Now I know that the code block feature is being used, and I feel unreasonably annoyed that it's being used for anything other than code blocks.

For the record, I'm using Connect.

It's not hard, but it's still a hurdle. Warrants also can't be requested from a judge by just anyone in the USPS iirc, so the start of the process often relies on an employee taking time out of their day to report something they deem suspicious in the first place, likely in an understaffed and overworked office that's not built to handle the package volume of the area they serve.

Iirc, the USPS can't unilaterally search your letters or packages because, as a government institution, it would be a major violation of the 4th amendment- even postal inspectors need to get a warrant to open a letter or package that's not expressly addressed to them if it was in the care of the USPS. I think the only exception is when it's an 'Operation Santa' letter, and there are regulations in place for how those get handled to protect the privacy of the sender.

The private parcel and package companies probably don't have to abide by the same restrictions because they're not government owned and operated.

What's frustrating for me is when the PC side cripples mixed-input entirely even though I just want mouse-look, gyro aim, and analog movement from my controller without any aim assist. (Looking at you, Destiny 2 and Halo.)

There's a couple. For one, they specifically promoted her on Twitter even though she'd been monetizing the work of other people without their knowledge or consent, and her use of their videos are practically never transformative enough to fall under fair use. It may have been a while ago, but a company with very aggressive copyright practices promoting a content thief doesn't look great.

She escalated an issue she's having on YouTube by allegedly engaging in offline harassment and doxxing his home address to millions of her followers on Instagram. YouTube is inextricably linked to this because her videos, and his videos criticizing them, are hosted by YouTube, and YouTube is earning ad revenue from all of that. She may have used Instagram to perform the alleged harassment, but people tend to follow online personalities on multiple social media sites, so there's definitely audience crossover.

Her audience trends young, and she's had at least one or two videos taken down for violating community guidelines involving bullying, iirc. At the moment, there are rumors that a video of her on Omegle doing blatantly illegal shit has been reported to the FBI, and that the video had been up on her YouTube channel for nine years, though the video has since been deleted.

He's not calling for YouTube to act just on the offline harassment, but the full collection of provable bad behaviors on the site on top of the potential harm he and his family could face as a result of her present illegal actions and access to a platform with a lot of reach.

This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve's own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.

Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.

I'm in my 30s and just played a 15-year-old fan remake of the first episode of Doom, which itself came out in 1993. Yesterday, I just started playing a fan demake of that remake which was released November of 2022. I've also waited over a decade for Skyblivion, and waited for the FF7 remake to hit PCs before playing.

It gets easier to wait when you feel time pass by faster, and sometimes oldies act as comfort food.