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Lord_Emperor11 karma

The thing is, people are too stupid to understand this distinction.

Without limits you have a sub-set of users who will just use the network constantly. Torrents, streaming music on mute, setting up a hotspot and dropping home internet altogether. This raises the overall utilization all the time, which means there is less bandwidth available for purposes that are actually sensitive to it. If it's bad enough, there is literally no bandwidth left for anything and the provider's network becomes "saturated" and is un-usable for everybody.

Realistically, the provider wouldn't care if you downloaded a 4GB movie on your phone every day (~120GB/month!) because you'd only actually be using the network (and only download) for ~7 minutes/day.

On the other hand we cannot trust providers to implement any more granular distinction for "usage" or intelligently throttle problematic services because without absolute net neutrality they start using underhanded practices.

So that puts us in the position we are - users are allowed a specific number of bits per month before they are either charged more or throttled. It is completely "neutral" because all kinds of data are treated the same.

Lord_Emperor8 karma

Punisher is another good option. All you need is anger and guns.

Lord_Emperor6 karma

You think the Punisher purchased all his guns legally and registered them?

Lord_Emperor2 karma

Since 2011 we’ve been running therapeutic groups using Dungeons and Dragons and other games to help teens and adolescents build confidence, relieve anxiety, and develop social skills. Many of our participants struggle with autism-related challenges, and we’ve found that games of all kinds, but especially Dungeons and Dragons, can help them build much-needed skills.

Do people who are not in any of these groups, but still feel some level of social anxiety or difficulty interacting with people also join your sessions? If so have they experienced a similar level of success?