It’s also no different than a RuneScape membership in the 2000s, or hell, Roblox Builder Club almost 20 years ago.

Both of those brought me an immense amount of joy and connection to others that I would never otherwise had gotten to experience living in an isolating rural area.

pp too short, visions of disappointment

That’s how I heated my university dorm that only had a boiler for heating. Figured it was safer than a space heater and wouldn’t require me to haul an additional object home every summer, plus funded my lavish college diet of ramen and "how many soda refills can I get with my 99 cent McDonald’s cup’.

Built a script to monitor the rooms air temperature and throttle mining accordingly to ensure that the room stayed within a few degrees of what I wanted. Would start up automatically after a few minutes away from my machine and stop if I was using the machine.

The left is also fighting itself. Literally the comment chains in this post are prime examples.

People who probably align with the majority of the stances, tearing each other down with bad faith arguments, grandstanding over the remaining things they disagree on.

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

I might not politically align with the average .ml user, but my views are a hell of a lot closer aligned with them than MAGAt views.