MacN'Cheezus @ MacNCheezus @lemmy.today

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So you're still just arguing about what's best for you in the moment.

Say you succeeded with this plan, all the rich conservatives are dead, and all their wealth has been distributed to feed those who are in need. Who are you going to kill and eat next?

And now you know why most conservatives are armed to the teeth. It's to protect themselves from people like you.

See, the thing about charity is that when it's done correctly, it helps both, the giver and the receiver. The receiver feels good because their needs have been met, and the giver feels good for having done a good deed. As soon as you put a gun into the equation, that all goes out of the window, and it becomes a win-lose situation. Only one person is going to walk away satisfied, and the other might end up dead.

And if you think that's not a big loss because you hated them anyway, consider that one day, it'll be you.

No, because their intention is different.

You're not trying to cure conservatives of their hard-heartedness, you're threatening to punish them for it.

Because it doesn't feel like a charitable deed when the money is taken from you by force.

This is like arguing for people to be allowed to rob you at gunpoint as long as they have a family to feed.

But you're still advocating for the murder of an out-group (i.e. conservatives). You're also just shifting the blame to someone else, which is exactly what you're accusing THEM of.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't provide any further sources about the incident, so we have to trust the author to not have omitted any inconvenient facts in order to sell a story. Which, after seeing the details on the previous one, I'm not willing to do.

The devil is unfortunately always in the details, so I don't feel comfortable making a judgment in this case. I do think it's important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors' willingness to help, but it has to be done in a way that doesn't put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

The author is looking for a monitor replacement.

Yes, and he's not wrong, as that appears to be the primary use case for these glasses. For full AR, you still need the Beam Pro, which costs half of the price of the glasses alone.

I do love Snow Crash (it was one of my favorite novels growing up), but I think Google Glass was probably much closer to that vision than these are. Personally, all I want is a big fucking screen fixed in space before me that doesn't make me dizzy when I look at it for more than 5 minutes, or wear out my neck muscles too much because the headset is too heavy.

You tell me. If conservatives really are as greedy and selfish as you say, is that not also a form of weakness masquerading as strength? How are you any better if you hate them for that?

IDK, arguing that homeless people should be allowed to stay somewhere despite committing multiple crimes and posing a fire safety hazard doesn't exactly strike me as the opposite of a "what is good for me right now?" kinda mindset.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Colorado is a firmly blue state these days. Doesn't mean the town can't have a Republican mayor (I'm sure some still do), but unfortunately the city website doesn't mention his party affiliation.

Right, I have a 1600p laptop screen as well and the resolution downgrade was noticeable. What you say about the projection makes sense, unfortunately I haven't seen any specs for the micro OLED displays they use, they only claim that the virtual screen has 1080p, which might be achievable if the displays DO in fact have a higher vertical resolution. It DOES appear that they've increased the size of the displays from 0.55" to 0.68" but there's no information on the native resolution that I can find.

If I saw these glasses in a store somewhere I'd probably try them out but they'd have to be VASTLY better than the ones I tried to convince me to buy them.

Yeah, that sounds shitty, but what the article doesn't mention, despite being literally in the first paragraph of the press release that was linked, is that the real problem wasn't the zoning law violation, but the fact that the police department had received multiple calls for various crimes being committed there, including theft, harassment, drug overdose, and sexual assault. It also mentions various fire code violations involving the electrical supply, people cooking in non-ventilated rooms, etc.

It appears that the use of zoning laws violation to put an end to it was just a convenient excuse, but the author "forgot" to mention that in order to paint the city government in a bad light.

I tried a previous incarnation of these and was not impressed. The screen was too dark in bright rooms and the resolution and image sharpness was lacking. Also the response time was rather slow, which made them basically unusable for playing games or watching (which was primarily what I bought them for). Additionally, the virtual screen was not fixed in space but moved around when you moved your head, which gave me vertigo after prolonged use. I ended up returning them after a week.

It appears as if these are at least the second, if not third generation (mine were simply called Air), and the spatial processing chip might help alleviate some of these issues, but I'm disappointed to see that the vertical resolution has not been increased. But at 32:9, it seems that these have twice the horizontal resolution, which would equal two 16:9 screens next to each other.

I wonder if these might be worth giving another try, but I'm loathe to risk it as my Amazon account has been flagged for returning too many purchases before.

According to the article, this thing is entirely funded by private donations. Apart from the most reactionary right wing edgelords, I've yet to see any conservatives argue against charity. Most just don't want to be FORCED to pay for others via increased taxes, but they're happy to give when it's voluntary.

"You like watching me poop, do you? You sick fuck."

Yeah that's fake. This is iMessage, not Signal.

That's like half of the year out there

Someone flicked their bean

That means Bobby Tables is old enough to be Billy's father.