CancerMancer @ CancerMancer @sh.itjust.works

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A typical position held by people who call themselves "left" is a desire to completely ban gun ownership on the grounds that gun ownership leads to gun violence.

Gun violence was much lower when you could buy actual machine guns right off the shelf, and mass shootings were virtually unheard of. What happened since then, and how would banning guns fix it?

This is just one of many blind spots that make the statement unrealistic.

You need clearer language? Only immature people worry about being "grown up", well-adjusted people just get on with it.

Normie filter, based in Canada, less tankies, fun name. I mean those are strong selling points.

"when you grow up" is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.

I got tired of half-assing being someone else. Frankly I'm too busy to bother.

"I can't link this, it doesn't fit within my corporate values!"

Yeah that's why I'm here. The name makes this place much more difficult for corpo scum to infest it.

Ok I'm a lefty but I've always hated this statement. It is the launching point of a great deal of ignorance and idiocy, kind of like some religious dogma.

It’s in the nature of males to seek control over female reproduction

Go down to the section titled "Views on abortion by gender, 2024" https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/

Two groups will 10/10 this game: access journalists and agenda-driven journalists. Everyone else is going to be a bit more critical, especially considering Baldur's Gate 3 exists and is still fresh.

For me it was Valheim, but BotW is a banger. They make it hard to enjoy games even when they're actually decent, like Enshrouded and Smalland. You can't help but feel it's been done better.

I get that sometimes people don't know exactly how something works and they get confused, like ethernet splitters not allowing you to split the output of one cable to two PCs. Fair enough, people used to cable TV and phone lines might not expect that behaviour.

What could possibly make you think monitors can be daisy chained? Nothing else in that space works that way either... Though now you've got me wondering about USB-C monitors and what kind of unholy hell of client confusion we might be bringing to our doorstep with those.

When I went to install a suite of emulators on the Steam Deck, it was one installer and some light configuration. Installing ROMs involved using an app that automatically digs up the box art and adds console collections to the Steam interface.

All of this largely just worked.

As a millenial that was wild. I've never trusted things to just work before but a bunch of open-source devs made it happen. That's what made me realize we live in different times (and why newer generations have no idea how to actually use computers).

They don't understand a lot, but when you say things like "browser to the D: drive and attach the document called 'not porn.jpg' to an email, and send it to me", you will likely get that email.

You can't say the same about other generations because they don't interact with the technology in the same way, if at all.

Among other things I am responsible for setting up our users with software, and the young folk are not really any more capable than average boomers with PCs. They don't understand the file system, basic cables, or even the most basic Windows settings.

Fair lol. There are other games with good support but it's the one I played the most in VR

"Trickle-Upon Economics" really does capture the vibe and the reality of the experience.

There’s a great book called “The People’s Republic of Walmart” that suggests a lot of the underlying computational problems of economics have been resolved within these mega-corps, using the same theories and policies once practiced by Soviet-Era states.

Sounds interesting. Chicago school being wrong yet again would hardly be surprising but it still sounds like an interesting read.

I keep critical applications running at work that thousands depend on. While I was at a union convention, one of my apps broke. I had to login that day and fix it while going over the budget with other members.

This is how the IT world is. I'm the only person capable of maintaining it and I must be available if things go wrong. The show must go on.

To all the "boycotts don't matter" people: lol owned. Protest is good and just, and people do notice. Taking action makes a different so get out there and be fucking heard people.

Non-economist: the economy must be shit because I can barely afford bread.
Economist: UR WRONG, GDP GO UP

That's more or less the state of discourse right now and it's embarrassing.

Flight in VR is truly something else. Not even a simpit can provide that level of immersion. You think jumping into a white dwarf system is spooky in Elite Dangerous? Try doing it with a headset on. When your cockpit is smoking, alarms are blaring, and the panic sets in, you will finally understand.