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  • Well you want to know the other person gets it, right? Otherwise it's just hollow words. A well-chosen anecdote means that to some extent, you understand each other. I can see the appeal of that kind of commiseration.

  • It was already happening. Plenty of people were insulting those complaining about the cost of living, saying things like "What do you mean? The economy is doing fine." In Canada the finance minister called it a "vibecession", implying it was all in our heads.

    All these people are talking about asset prices while we talk about the cost of living.

  • This shit is why I stopped playing Rust, Eve Online, and a bunch of other games. I can't do the time sink anymore and to be honest, I'm not sure why I ever tolerated it.

    I've been playing Abiotic Factor and Journey to the Savage Planet with my wife and enjoying them a lot, and a big part of why is that I don't need to log in every day. With my guys I also occasionally hop into Dinkum, Volcanoids, Darktide (post-progression update), Helldivers 2... Even Darktide and Helldivers 2 are borderline too grindy for me.

  • Okay so I don't have an example that matches IRL time like Animal Crossing but a game with similar style I can do. If you're down with time progression like Stardew Valley, check out Dinkum, best summarized as "Outback Animal Crossing"

  • People's opinion on insurance: "boy am I glad that's there if I ever need it"

    Their opinion on having extra dispatchers to pick up bursts of activity: "why the fuck are we paying them to sit around"

    Both of those things are stuff you pay for but may never need, but only one of them is a human and that's the one we get upset about.

  • I'm a pretty hardcore lefty: do on-the-ground organizing, contribute some of my time to NGOs, am part of the working group on some causes, etc.. Damn near everyone of note in my union knows me by first name.

    So it comes as a real shocker to them that I think gun control as they want to pursue it is deeply misguided. This is not an emotional decision: my stance is informed by statistics, experience, and theory. You can actually have working gun control without banning anything.

  • There is so much theft of cars happening because car manufacturers did fucking nothing to improve security. Now a guy with a laptop, and antenna, and radio software can clone your car keys and all they have to do is hang around enough to capture a few of the rolling code changes. They can do it from outside your house and through some obstructions too.

    So yeah a Faraday cage of some sort for your car keys is just a good idea now. Guess that makes us all criminals.

  • Glad to see this here. In many jurisdictions, if the law doesn't say it previous rulings do: you must invoke the rights to silence and to counsel.

    It sucks but plenty of judges want to give the police every chance they can get, like those dickheads who OK'd forcing people to unlock their phones because "you already gave police your fingerprint".