Commiunism @ Commiunism @beehaw.org

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This time is quite different, actually. First, he learned his lesson about hiring institutionalists as his secretaries and advisors since they would push back against more questionable ideas, now he's surrounding himself with yes-men like RFK jr, Kristi Noem and the likes. There have also been precedents set like the infamous "official act immunity", and just many more lessons learned from 2016 in general.

There's also just much more co-ordination now in general with the whole Project 2025.

I personally use bottles via flatpak and flatseal to make the games not connect to the internet when it's not needed just in case.

If you want native linux games, there are sites for that.

Corruption pretty much. The director of the school would constantly pocket a lot of the public funds sent to school and then offload the cost of whatever that money was supposed to go to onto students.

One of my favorite examples of this is this tradition where last year students before graduating are supposed to leave something to the school, and our class was asked to buy new tables, with other classes having to do something stupid like that as well.

I still see the school in the news from time to time being involved in some new corruption scandal lol

Don't think it will get unlisted, as the lawsuit only relates to spiritual successors of the game and not the original game itself.

Gemini spent a bit too much time on political subreddits

Nah, it's less fun than that. The capital is eating the left, again :(

Some context, albeit simplified: Disco Elysium as an IP and the company behind it (ZA/UM) practically got stolen by some rich investors from the original developers, and most of the original team left or got fired. There were plans for an official sequel of the game, but it got cancelled recently and since then, three games got announced back to back to back by three different studios and have promised to deliver a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. The companies are:

• Longdue. They have some of the people who developed the original game plus people from big companies like Bungie, Rockstar, but they're also in bed with ZA/UM and are the ones suing the other two companies.
• Dark Math Games. While they do have the most 'game' currently as in their spiritual sequel titled 'XXX Nightshift' has some trailers and a Steam page, there's not that much known about them.
• Summer Eternal. It's a workers co-op studio led by an original games' writer. They have a website which hosts their manifesto, and having read it it's definitely very Disco, would recommend.

If 21 % can’t read (are Illiterate) then it makes sense that 79 % can read (are literate). So yes, nationwide and in the US are the same thing.

Seems like I can't read myself, I thought both said illiterate. My mistake.

Trump got 4 years of presidency in the US, which is definitely the more extreme punishment. It's something I would never wish upon my worst enemy

The source seems extremely dubious with seemingly no way to see how they conducted the study and where they pulled the numbers from , and some of the points are not very well worded especially in their 2024 study, there the first 2 lines are:

"On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024."

Granted, English isn't my first language but those statements just seem contradictory. "U.S. adults nationwide" and "adults in the US" seems like the exact same thing, unless someone can correct me. Turns out I'm the one who can't read, thought both examples used "illiterate" rather than "literate and illiterate"

Comment sections are also filled by bots so that doesn't give that much confidence either.

Lemmy is my main but I still use Reddit sometimes for more niche subreddits.

It can also be reversed - there were some popular far-left YouTubers who were advocating for not voting or voting third party as a protest against Gaza genocide, yet things that mattered domestically like LGBT, women's rights weren't even considered or mentioned there. The cost of doing business, baby.

Damn these government bird-drone manufacturer DEI programs, really trying to pander to the woke LGBT cultural marxists...

Love Covered "Master Spark"

Fun fact: 90% of Democrats quit moving towards the right before getting moderate republican support.

But on a serious note, I remember seeing a bunch of comments on Lemmy about how Trump was guaranteed to lose against Kamala and then far-right would splinter and die out and everything would be fine again, yet this is something that might actually happen to the Democrats, given how they're seemingly pointing fingers at everyone trying to find who to blame and who's responsible. I really hope they don't delude themselves into learning the wrong lessons, but it seems likely to happen.

Even though it's too early to say, I wonder what the future would have held for US Democrats if Kamala were to win the election. Would they have learned that going right is the correct call?

What about a future where someone worse than Trump came up, someone who's a religious fundamentalist with even higher support numbers due to constant billionaire-funded propaganda and radicalization in general, what would Democrats do then?

But maybe I'm too much of a pessimist.