I recall when Bernie briefly forced the subject into the public consciousness before the Dems forced him out and buried it again, there was a study done on this. It found that when universal healthcare was described in plain language without buzzwords that have been poisoned by propagandists, something like 70-80% of Amerians support it.
Your story doesn’t make a lot of sense, but there are a bunch of extra details that don’t appear in either of the articles I’ve seen:
https://www.wptv.com/news/national/chris-gaither-11-year-old-boy-shoots-intruder-who-cried-like-a-baby
https://globalnews.ca/news/2675426/he-started-crying-like-a-little-baby-11-year-old-shoots-suspected-home-invader/
So if you want to discuss the story’s details, maybe we should agree on those details, and you can give us something more than “trust me bro”.
Also, eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and traumatic events make it even less reliable, and when you’re talking about a kid it’s even harder to get straight. I ask my kid what they said 10 seconds ago and they can’t give me a straight answer. Maybe just fucking lay off the child. Jesus christ.
It’s not like there’s one person at the helm. It’s a machine with diffuse decision making and responsibility.
That shields the people in charge from the horror of what they’re doing, it reduces their personal exposure to risk, and it reduces the chance that they will even think about this scenario.
These people are fungible to the machine, so if they try to not screw over customers, they can be replaced by someone with less scruples and less awareness of what they’re doing.
It’s by the same guy that made The Stanley Parable, but it’s more serious.
It’s the same themes from Stanley Parable except made into an actual story instead of one long recurring joke.
I’m not saying the long recurring joke is bad - someone will probably hate that I said that - but they’re just two different things that both do their different things very well. The Stanley Parable explicitly never builds to any kind of conclusion.
Lemmy isn’t a monolith, and understanding that the fediverse has set itself up as an alternative to centralised platforms, I don’t think we should be surprised when trolls who tend to get banned on those other platforms find their way here.
Of course we’re going to see a lot of reactionary opinions here. These are the reactionaries that are too reactionary for reddit. They’ve learned to be less overt in their views because lemmy can excise a whole instance that’s just reactionary.
I’d say right now they’re trying to radicalise the normies. Vote manipulation is probably part of that strategy to make their views look more accepted than they are.
This unironically gave me a massive hit.
I’ve been showing my kid some hbomberguy videos, and they started with the new ones. When we went back a bit they were like, “wow, he looks so young”.
It was completely the wrong way round to me, but I couldn’t argue with it.
The commonality here is how expensive the things are. Scalping is another one of those things that’s trashy if you’re poor and classy if you’re rich.
Such a good analogy. I’d go further and say all laws are like this. They don’t actually stop anyone from doing anything, and they don’t even guarantee anything will happen to them as a consequence. They’re just lines on the road.
We have to kill him, or else he’ll die!
Not lately.
Because bourgeois morality is false. Throw off the chains they have placed on your mind and become a based murderist.
Awesome! I was going to say there’s a lot of foundational concepts that are needed for this build, and I’m glad they helped.
And yes, the choice between megafactory and lots of little factories is a subject of debate among players, and neither one is necessarily better. I have a hybrid, where I’m working on a megafactory, but also I have a lot of satellite ore processors because usually there is only one way ore can be used, so it doesn’t make sense to transport it raw.
Another benefit to satellite factories is performace - big factories can get laggy. I just like megafactories. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And this game can be played blind, but it’s one of those that really benefits from some wiki knowledge. There’s only so much you can get from raw experimentation. I think I developed part of my different style when I was playing without tutorials, but I definitely took a lot from watching others and I wouldn’t have developed it this far without some of that input.
A wallpaper app is already targeting the most vulnerable. Nobody who knows how to remove the spyware that’s already in Windows is installing a wallpaper app.
You only have sympathy for people who are already technically competent to some standard you’ve chosen? It’s those who don’t have technical competence that this shit works on. I’d bet that’s the reason a wallpaper app was chosen for these shenanigans, because it filters out the people who will be wise to it.
Like it or not, building a secure internet means making systems that are safe for regular internet users, and if you’re getting snooty about the kinds of programs a person installs, I’d wager that’s not you. Even if it’s just the least competent 5 or 10% of the internet falling prey to this, it’s the predators that make the environment more dangerous for everyone. Put the blame where it belongs.
Also, those people aren’t using Linux partly because Linux is an elitist community that shits on anyone who’s not comfortable in the command line. If you want Linux to be a viable threat to the Windows monopoly, you need to accept that these people will need to be accommodated, unless you’re happy selfishly keeping it to cloistered group of nerds who are toxic towards every newcomer, and you think that’s the way it should be. I’ve certainly met Linux people who think that way.
USB has always been reversible. In fact you have to reverse it at least 3 times before it’ll FUCKING PLUG IN.
I love hearing that, I try to make them more than dry tutorials.
And you finding me in two places is almost scary to me. It’s like my videos are gaining traction or reach or something.
There should be a general exception for games that update in the game, or a Steam API setting that differentiates between play time and update time, and penalties for games that don’t abide by it.
Always has been 👩🚀🔫👩🚀.
But actually that article is pretty thin. I believe it was originally a joke about how many astronauts are from Ohio, so they’d get to space and it would turn out the whole planet was Ohio. It is in fact a reference to real world thing, it’s just a very obscure and absurd reference.