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This is the argument every single election. Every time, for decades, and yet things get continually worse.

I'd argue the belief that voting for an establishment party is any kind of a long-term solution is the biggest threat. By all means do it if it'll help a little in the short term, but the ship's still sinking.

Things will get inevitably worse. Voting might slow that decline slightly if we're lucky.

The only hope for any kind of improvement, to reach a slightly tolerable world, is mass action outside of voting, and that just doesn't seem to be happening. So it's hard to care too much.

Mainly that it's specifically calibrated for running games on Linux. I've tried the Steam Deck and it works pretty damn well out the box, compared to any other distros, so a PC version would be cool.

Though I've not dealt with alcoholism specifically, I've experience with very serious relationships that were 'good when they were good, but abusive when they were bad'. Relationships I stayed in for many years too many, because I loved her and I thought things could change. From my anecdotal experience, I don't think there's much you can do but tell her how her behaviour affects you, support her insofar as you're able, and hope that can inspire change.

Past that, I just want to say make sure you take care of yourself. It's a certain possibility that she will not meaningfully change. No matter how much you love a person, you should never feel obliged to put up with being abused, no matter how infrequently nor in what context. And doing so will help neither you nor her. Best of luck.

Super cool, thanks guys for your work. And the join page is another way for people to find Hexbear, which can only be good <3

And does anything require Python v2 anymore? I work almost exclusively in Python and haven't run into that in many years.

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura still remains my favourite to this day.

The world's setting is centred around how capitalism and industry affects society, how it pushed aside feudalism, how racism remains endemic and easily seen as normal, how history is swept away to hide attitudes, all sorts of complex things. Early on in the story, you get involved with a strike by exploited half-orcs and the wealthy factory owner who would rather they all died. Thinking back, it was a big part of how young me started to realise industrial relations are fucked up in capitalism.

One moment (of the many cool things) that really hit me, is that there's an entire sub-plot across the whole continent that's never explicitly mentioned, but is entirely noticeable if you actually pay attention and listen, not to the quest-givers or the industrial leaders, but to the servants of the powerful men you meet. If you're lucky, near the end, you suddenly realise you just.. swept all these weird characters and remarks under the rug as you had 'important' people to talk to. I had relegated servants and whole in-game races to an 'unimportant' role, when actually their stories are key to a whole second sub-plot of their own that affects everything in the world.

I know a lot of that behaviour is because I'm playing to typical game design, but, I dunno, having a real moment where you think back and realise you've been ignoring what should have been an obvious pattern of so many exploited people, and I just glossed over it 'til that moment, it affected me.

It is a war crime as defined by the UN.

Relevant XKCD

Is the core tenet of FOSS not about depriving any entity monopoly over the means of software production? That's basically the definition of socialism, as opposed to a fundamental of libertarianism - the incontrovertible holiness of private property.

Great, that tactic worked for you. That tactic does not work for all children, or households.

And if your children just steadfastly refused to eat rice or beans? For hours. Every day? And you didn't have the spare time or energy to work out a cheap and healthy food solution because you have a chronic illness and you're working 12 hours a day to afford a roof?

Not denying your experience at all, but don't deny others' experiences either. I've lived through periods of it as a kid, and seen it as an uncle; there certainly are struggles that can make that kind of lifestyle effectively impossible for hardworking and loving parents to achieve.

I grew up in a povertous household that had the exact meal you describe about 300 days out of the year. Sure - If you're used to making your own meals, this is fine.

But to a lot of people this will still be a lot of time, thought and energy they don't feel able to give. And a lot of people who never learned cooking skills will feel daunted by it. If you're dealing with a lot of stress at work and/or chaos at home, you'll easily forget to turn off the baking and burn the whole dinner. It's complex when compared to most of these products which are "open, (optionally microwave/add milk/etc) and eat."

Without meat or copious cheese you'll also start running low on protein, prompting need to complicate your dishes further by exploring weird foods you've never heard of or know how to prepare, like chickpeas.

I agree that kind of recipe is a good and relatively easy meal in the grand scheme of meals, but unfortunately it's just rarely that straightforward.

Because Google is more profit and ad-focused than Mozilla (though both force ads down my throat), and they are the only viable choices for browsing the web.

I long for an actual non-profit backed, open-source browser to use, but until then, lesser of two evils.

I think 'foresaw his wife's pained death, choked her out in a fit of rage on a lava planet, lost consciousness, then woke up and immediately learned she had died (which was true by then)' is a bit more convincing evidence his kids didn't make it than 'someone lied to him'.

As much as I also do step 4, to be honest I don't see people use man anywhere near as much as they should. Whenever faced with the question "what are the arguments for doing xyz", I immediately man it and just tell them - Practically everywhere you can execute a given command, you can also read full and comprehensive documentation, just look!

And why are they such big fans of google? At least in part (I'd argue almost entirely) because of the pervasive advertising and attempts to monopolise.

Relevant XKCD

"Every age: "I'm glad I'm not the clueless person I was five years ago, but now I don't want to get any older.""

I've never really heard of alternatives, to be honest. If others are equally easy to use and work with Git, I'd do it. Taking suggestions for alternatives?