Of course it is! When some hoodlums steal all the leaves from your yard (as is clearly visible in panel 1), you have got to restore the natural cover somehow.

There are a great number of nutjobs running (F)OSS projects, so I wouldn’t assume much about any software maintainer. Also, Linus explicitly only cites upsides to FOSS that pertain to developing the software itself, not to any greater social effort.

You kinda missed the part where you get the skins by gambling in the first place. A ton of the gambling sites just emulate that and be done with it.

And then Valve uses the same underhanded tactics to get around gambling regulations. In France, players had (have?) to buy a certain skin before they can gamble open cases, and they can see the result of the case before “actually” opening it (but they can’t open anything else before they do), because all this makes it not gambling, I guess.

I mean his presidency is a month old, and his election win is still just three months old, whereas his loss is four years old. That is a pretty significant difference. In the current AI craze 4+ year old stuff is ancient, while a ~3 month old model is not terribly out of date yet (other than current world events, obviously).

bred sticks, it seems

Damn. That’s good money. Glad it’s getting funded.