GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

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First, I don't think it did. Second, fire is good imagery for wanting something gone. This is much more evocative. And finally, I suspect those Nike-burning videos didn't start with used Nikes, because shoes wear out pretty fast. That means those supported Nike in their defiance as much as clowns shooting cases of Bud supported Anheuser-Busch in their defiance. While money for that Tesla certainly went to Musk, it's quite likely that none of the artists money for that Tesla went to him.

You acknowledge it as art while at the same time ignoring the ability of art to shape public perception. Interesting.

I think this is the classic "she'll have to work twice as hard for half as much" that the right-leaning voters will insist on to vote anyone for president who isn't a white man.

It always breaks my brain when people talk about Bernie as Democrat, let alone establishment Democrat. He's Independent, and only joins them to run in their presidential primaries.

This is not a criticism of Bernie by any means. He just realizes you have no chance to be president if you aren't part of a party.

BOYZ!!

There is a significant difference between a regular person, even a TV personality, and a politician saying that. Enough so that I don't think the term "to be fair" can be applied to it.

It isn't really that many. Conservative supporters have a high of about 40%, but not all of those will say they vote Conservative if asked (some change their vote from time to time and may describe themselves as undecided). But we will go with that as an upper limit. So 18% of 40% is about 7.2% of the population, so less than 1 in 11. That's still way too many, but a manageable number if it comes down to it.

Okay, Elon Musk is a giant asshole, but not so big that it warps reality around it. Musk provided money and became chairman of Tesla in Jan 2004. The first production vehicle rolled out in 2005. All Teslas were produced after Musk joined Tesla. And while it could be argued that he did a hostile takeover of Tesla, usually theft doesn't include piles of cash going to the victim.

You ruined my joke. I was going to say, "Antique guns, bought new."

I don't support the idea of games being exclusive to one platform or other, whether it be consoles or PC distributors, or kernel-level anti-cheat, and Epic has supported both of those. As far as I know, all consoles and distributors have had exclusives with their own games and while I don't like it I can see the argument for it. Pushing for third-party exclusives is a whole other level, in my opinion, and my general response is to just not play those games until they're more widespread. I don't have nearly as much gaming time as I'd like, so this is a limit that doesn't take that much effort on my part, and I'm sure some would say a stance without a sacrifice is a pointless gesture. But that's my stance. We all have to decide what is and isn't okay for us, and those are mine.

Oh, I get that, but Junk still sounds easier than trying to finagle Heroic to work through the standard game interface, rather than desktop mode. I've done it before, but anything that makes it easier is a win for me, and anything that streamlines using GOG instead of Steam is worth it to me, if only to add pressure to game publishers to avoid DRM.

For a few seconds, some of those planes had all their parts flying under the radar.

I haven't even looked at Epic because I don't want to have to deal with their stuff. Now I might reconsider it. And $6 to make my GOG games play like they're from Steam just sounds like a good idea.

My only hope is he can't stay focused enough to pick just one and starts a world War with no useful allies.

Well, I prefer to learn from other people's mistakes. I've avoided some of the common pitfalls, but hadn't realized the prevalence of this trick. I'll keep it in mind when I research my future purchases.

I have to say, wearing a cape at a Renn Faire with colder than expected weather and having my now wife and her friend snuggling under it for warmth felt pretty good.

"You know, I feel like making friends is so hard, and finding people who I'd like to be friends with is even harder."

"Yeah, I feel the exact same way!"

"Weird! Well...good talk." walks away

And thermopiles.

A l9t of people will. And a significant minority will not. Those people will make Afghanistan and Iraq look like a cakewalk, with the notable additions of a bunch of insurgents who can blend into their territory and share a huge border with them. The guerilla warfare won't be limited to Hamilton, it will spread across America.

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