Floey @ Floey @lemm.ee

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If you actually care about animals dying in kill shelters the solutions are to open more shelters, do more to stop abusive conditions for animals before they get out of hand, and most importantly stop breeding animals. Animals are killed either because shelters don't want to take them in do to their condition or they are too full. You can blame the no kill shelters as well, because they don't take in every animal. But they aren't really to blame either, people who support the industries that breed pets are.

Okay, you're only xenophobic, not racist. The distinction is really important to us!

I like Gunfire a lot but it doesn't have story and av comparable to Hades and doesn't have the replayability and difficulty of Dead Cells. A better comparison would probably be Risk of Rain 2, another game with a lack of story and budget art, that isn't as replayable as its betters, but still an enjoyable experience.

certain factions within the US government have been untrustworthy.

between far-right, corporate factions and those groups that actually defend some semblance of democratic liberty.

This just sounds like a whole lot of liberal US apologia. It isn't actually far off from regressive phrases like MAGA or A Few Bad Apples. There was no golden time when the US has been a bastion of freedom and human welfare and it mostly shows signs of getting worse, and you cannot fix the US by removing a few politicians.

Are they at all comparable as reflections of the viability of each respective state's potential to sustain human liberty? No.

I don't see what the point is of picking two specific events when we are discussing nations and governments as a whole. Taken in totality the US does not and has not ever shown signs of sustaining liberty as you put it. The law and order system is a joke, human welfare is a joke, safety is a joke, education is a joke, foreign policy is a joke. A lot of these fundamental issues are completely ignorable for the privileged, and the last one ignorable if you live in the US itself, but I am not looking to have liberty for some and not others.

You're not required to sing the praises of the US, but acknowledging the meaningful degree of difference is critical to preventing the world sliding further into an authoritarian paradigm.

I disagree. I think what you're doing right now is what strengthens authoritarianism in "Western" countries. Always framing Western countries, especially the US, as the lesser of two evils just justifies nationalism and militarism and downplays the need for radical change. What's the point of this liberty you speak of if we don't use it to criticize our own governments, and why stop at just criticism? The truth is you'll only realize how thin your liberty actually is when you actually pose a threat.

But I'm not sure how we got on this tangent. I was simply responding to the notion of geopolitical trust and how that relates to the US and China. The US reneges on international agreements all the time or simply does not adhere to them. The government also partakes in the manipulation of foreign governments, extrajudicial murders in foreign countries in "times of peace", and sabotages countries with embargos. All of this should make the US untrustworthy, but the unspoken part is that when we talk about trust we are taking about among Western countries. These nations have some shared geopolitical goals and because the US's violations aren't against these nations but against ones where say the common religion is different or the people have a darker average complexion they can be ignored.

The government of the United States is also highly untrustworthy, but plenty of other nation's governments engage and cooperate with the US. This isn't whataboutism, it's evidence that there must be other factors.

I dunno, the sway of Apple, MS, whoever else just doesn't have the same weight as the CCP and Tencent.

The fact that you name Apple and Microsoft makes me think there is a blind spot here. If you are taking about big tech with it's tendrils in US policy I'd go for Google and Facebook. Big pharma and the military industrial complex are even bigger issues. These industries don't just undermine the US but harm the global community as well. Then you have think tanks, often funded by capital, shaping narratives and foreign policy.

I only really agree with the endgame being lackluster and that's something that will certainly improve with time as they add more mechanics that get incorporated into Monoliths. The core gear and skill systems are good, which is something that can make or break an ARPG, so saying the developers are unskilled seems a little harsh.

Until it is more fleshed out though I would definitely recommend Grim Dawn over it, which is a game with a lot of content and polish, as well as modding if it's not enough. I would recommend PoE, but it's complex enough that it might be better to wait the 1+ year until PoE2 and try that, maybe also learning PoE if it maintains a large playerbase and good support, they claimed they will continue to release just as many expansions for it.

Big fan of Julia for anything that requires a lot of computation. It feels easy to write things in an optimized way without having to work against the language.

I have a soft spot for Common Lisp. It encourages me to write chunks of code that are very evergreen in the sense that I could easily use them in a future project without modification. I don't find myself using it all that much though.

I'm going to eat a bean instead.

Stop trying to come off as a vegan ally. We don't need allies, the animals do.

Industrial technologies helped capitalist countries succeed just as much as communist ones but you attribute capitalist success to economics and communist success to the technology. Capitalism hardly uplifts, it sabotages the growth of previously colonized countries, extending imperial rule. Even in the countries on the benefiting side of that imperial relationship most of those benefits are going to owners and not workers. The exploited country could get most of the benefits with few of the downsides by just having an open trading relationship, but historically countries trying to achieve some level of self determination are met with a combination of military force, espionage, and embargos.

The Arch and Gentoo wikis are fantastic resources, even if you use neither flavor of Linux.

Communism isn't about equality though.

And I wouldn't say communism achieved worse outcomes. Countries adopting some form of communist ideology experienced some of the most rapid increases in industrialization, QoL, and education. They weren't perfect, but they definitely didn't drag everyone down to the previous minimum.

I use Arch on my personal computers but on servers I usually opt for Debian unless I'm planning to run bleeding edge software.

Replying to slow your gratitude seems like a nice thing to do, like holding a door open, but hardly necessary or expected. I feel like many people answering questions are just hurling their knowledge into the ether to be picked up by whoever comes across it. They know the op and perhaps more people will see it but don't expect a response. If you don't have the time just hit that upvote button, you've done nothing wrong. But if you do have the time don't feel like you are doing something wrong by responding, it's the unexpected things that are the most precious.

Letting my hair air dry with a morning walk after showering.

Stretching before sleep and then again in the morning.

Enjoying some tea and good food while catching up on YT.

Combining booze and difficult games.

How is this an unpopular opinion? Look at consumer purchases of cow's milk vs plant milk.

I agree that DDG's results suck, but so do Google's.

Always good to see more bean propaganda.

But I simply don't see beans as a vegetable for the same reason I don't see potatoes as one, they are very macro dense.

Americans are scared to touch a bean.