A standard legal income in North Korea is from $12 to $36 per year.

That seems like it can’t possibly be true. Where is this statistic actually coming from? I can find a bunch of other unclearly-sourced estimates like $50/month, which is more more reasonable.

(Looking for actual papers I find this, which cites an estimate of $1700 purchasing-power-parity-GDP/year/capita. The paper itself estimates per-county wealth via radiance as seen from satellites, and gets “around $790 per capita and 60% poverty rate”. It’s pretty unclear how this can be price-adjusted but it’s not “100 eggs per year” low, at least.)

It’s clear what must be done - all US household sockets must be changed to 220V. Sure, it’ll be a notable expense, but it’s for the health of the gaming industry.

What is happening with this image? The quality is low because OP lazily reposted it from some other secondary source, but what’s that yellow rectangle?

I wouldn’t say I “like” the idea, since it’s one of the most doomed ways for a universe to be, but Greg Egan’s Arrows of Time is a good exploration of this idea.

this person probably should not be a mod of this community, or any community really

That’s not possible, because it’s their own community and they’re the only poster in it. When this person inevitably gets banned and their community wiped, they’ll just register at another instance and make their own community there and continue. I don’t think that’s worth paying attention to - such behaviour just fundamentally cannot be eliminated without getting rid of the fediverse’s freedom.

Invidious alone has been working quite badly this year (stopped working for months until inv-sig-helper was invented, etc), but combined with FreeTube it almost always works; can recommend.

Have you considered just not watching shortform video like tiktoks and youtube shorts?