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Any official that behaves like this should be arrested and tried for attempted murder, or murder in the first degree should the execution be carried out. There can be no wiggle room in society for such deliberate, premeditated homicidal injustice.

That sounds like antisemitism. /s

I’m not following. Ectopic pregnancies are not viable. Ever.

In that case you are best off with Kubuntu, since UE for Linux is distributed as a .deb.

If you prefer to compile the engine yourself, then you can use anything you like, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is worth a look since it’s a rolling distro and stays up-to-date (especially handy for GPU drivers).

Exhibit number 4,923,768 for why patents should not exist and need to be aggressively banished from civilization.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

Authoritarians compartmentalize everything. The conclusions are indisputable and so no two justifications must ever be mentally compared to one another. They don’t even realize they’re doing it, and will assume it is being done to them.

While the joke is indisputably funny, it’s important to remind everyone that it’s still a harmful stereotype. Bi/pan erasure is a genuine problem. You don’t stop being bi/pan simply because you enter a monogamous relationship.

Desktop environment will be the most impactful for you. I recommend picking a distro with KDE Plasma, which will feel like the best version of Windows you’ve never seen before.

If you are almost exclusively gaming and don’t want to fiddle much, Bazzite.

If you like to fiddle: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora. If you want more Ubuntu compatibility, Kubuntu.

There are lots of options and it’s hard to go wrong. Bazzite is special in that the system is immutable, so everything needs to be run as a container.

The thing about authoritarians is they never, ever wake up. They will justify, compartmentalize, excuse, hand wave, and intellectually retreat to protect their forgone conclusions. There is no reason behind their beliefs or behaviors, no knowledge or logic that led them to being authoritarian, and nothing will lead them out. Their identities, personalities, and egos are built wholely upon those foregone conclusions and to change their minds about those things is to essentially kill themselves and destroy their very reality, which is unthinkable. It is a mental illness that cannot be cured. It can be dampened slightly through first-hand exposure to diversity, but never completely cured. It is a significant, serious, and dangerous mental illness that has been allowed to propagate.

Compartmentalizing and blindly following aggressive authority figures are the key traits of authoritarians (RWA). These are not desirable traits and RWA should be recognized as the dangerous mental illness it is.

If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.

Why would missing one appointment even be grounds for deportation for anyone in the first place?

Because evil.

I haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.

Every day the Criminal in Chief commits impeachable crimes. Every. Day.

This is just the latest. But Congress is currently packed with illegitimate, undemocratically placed criminal cronies who face no accountability while shielding their criminal collaborators from accountability. So here we are.

…no I won’t name the reasons why. Do your research

Oh. Oh no.

I will explain the reasons why, because it’s important to understand this without sounding like the antivax equivalent of a white knight.

First, forget the word monopoly. It’s a red herring. We are going to talk about trusts. A trust is any kind of organizational structure (one or more companies) that control or seek to control a market through centralized leadership. Trusts can lead to monopolies, but they are distinct and do not need to be (and rarely are) monopolies. The key defining feature of a trust is the use of market capture strategies that are unethical, anti-competitive, clandestine, underhanded, etc (“legal” or not).

Valve is neither a monopoly nor a trust, by definition. While they control a huge portion of the PC gaming market, they operate with transparency, do not sabotage competitors, share their technology freely with potential competitors, and do not push any anti-competitive policies (like exclusives, rules preventing offering products cheaper on other outlets, etc).

There is healthy competition in the PC game space, but Valve has held the lead by offering the best, most attractive platform for consumers. From social features and integrations, to regular discounts and sales, to a healthy and robust community review system, to automatically elevating great new content that might otherwise be missed, to enabling new platforms and technologies (VR, Steam Deck, Linux)… they provide things that customers and sellers love.

Compare their competition. GOG is great but their DRM free policies (which are great) limit their use by sellers. Publishers all have their own stores now, but those are unattractive for a wide variety of reasons - splitting your library, using even more proprietary software to access your content (new stores and launchers), and for all that inconvenience you don’t even get a discount when Valve isn’t taking a cut. Finally, there’s Epic. Market share is Epic’s game to lose, and they are losing on their own merits. Their product lacks basic consumer features that Steam users expect (social features, performant storefront, trustworthy reviews, etc) and they have repeatedly engaged in anti-competitive behavior through the use of exclusives. At one point, Stardock’s Impulse platform was well on its way to becoming a legitimate competitor, but then came the fateful decision to sell out to GameStop, who destroyed it.

Steam is no monopoly or trust. They are simply successful because they are well liked and they are well liked because they give customers and sellers what they want. Nobody else is even trying to compete with Steam right now. Epic could, but they aren’t, and only Tim Sweeny could tell you why.

Growing and bettering ones self is what matters. Good on you for breaking the cycle. Not everyone can do that.

What is a “Reddit atheist”? Are those the people who decry all religion as being inherrently evil and announce their atheism unprompted everywhere they go like Arch-using crossfit vegans?

It depends. I’m atheist/agnostic, but I have a lot of respect for certain core religious philosophies. Buddhism, Sikhism, and the teachings of Jesus (note that I did not say “Christianity”) in particular.

If a persons particular practice has an ethical, humanist core I can accept that. If it encourages any kind of blind appeal or deference to authority, I cannot. I can tolerate some mysticism and mythology, but I cannot tolerate unethical teaching, dogma, or behavior.

We don’t appreciate the “R” word around here.

The alternative is “drop bombs”.

Rounding up leaders and putting them on trial seems like a more civilized international approach than engaging in the same bloodthirsty, explosive, surprise-murder that is literally the whole problem here.