Not_Alec_Baldwin @ Not_Alec_Baldwin @lemmy.world

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Indoctrination doesn't make kids gay, you must know that, right?

The crime happened in the past when the children were abused. This is some weird amalgam of criminal trolling.

Edit: yeah yeah I get that csam is criminal, that's why I called it an amalgam. It's both trolling and criminal.

Don't forget the incessant lobbying for charter schools even though nobody wants them and there's no research to suggest they are better than the public system.

People like people like them.

'Abolish ownership' is a pretty simple talking point, how would you make it work in a legal sense?

Who determines what is your responsibility vs the neighbor vs the city? How do you establish legal boundaries for purposes of theft, vandalism, or trespassing?

Laws might seem cold (because they are) or inhumane (because they are) but they are also the thing that keeps society organized. And that makes them one of the most important human inventions. Rights are the result of laws.

If you're concerned about land prices, or people being 'priced out' of things, there are important alternate solutions to that kind of problem. Things like social services, improving education, breaking up super corporations, promoting healthy neighborhood design and small business, etc.

My wife and I hope to be in a similar situation in a few years.

I've stopped mentioning it because there was so much negative reaction and I'm tired of explaining. I usually just blurt out whatever is on my mind but this is now among the things I treat as taboo.

What people need to realize is that there are different kinds of people. All kinds of people. There are greedy, corrupt, evil business owners, landlords, politicians, lawyers, cops, etc. But it's not the job that is the problem. It's the people.

The only thing that makes the world better is when better people go into those professions. And the only way that happens is if we appropriately respect the importance of the role.

We aren't interested in price gouging some struggling family that is having trouble making ends meet. We just want to cover maintenance and taxes. If you treat us and our home with respect we will treat you with respect.

I feel like that's how it should be.

Wagner is the name of the organization.

Apparently depending on your brand of vegan, some sugar doesn't make the cut. I don't know the ins and outs I literally just googled it.

TIL Oreos are vegan.

Great point. I greatly* prefer the convenience of having my steam library.

On the flip side I pirated most of the old nes/SNES games that are harder to emulate well.

F YouTube premium, I just use an ad blocker and NewPipe.

YouTube literally can't make the company work without premium. 2022 revenue was 30 billion. YouTube has almost 3 billion users, and only 80 million premium subscribers.

At $12/month, 12 months/year, that's almost 12 billion of their revenue coming from premium subs... Meaning that the other 2.92 billion people account for only 18 billion, around $6/user/year.

Their whole business model is to keep making the experience of YouTube shitter so that they can charge a premium fee for what should be the default version of the site.

I hope the whole business fails.

I legitimately did, I stopped pirating except for old obscure stuff that I couldn't find anywhere.

"The cloud is just someone else's computer."

I had the same question, and found the answer in the thread.

It would be like if Steve from GN was detained during a fab visit by the Chinese government. That would be tech news regardless of whether or not they mentioned GN.

She's been meaningful to the community both as an engineer/designer and as a public figure.

You really don't deserve down votes for not knowing that, but I think a lot of people were just triggered by the way you asked the question.

Hallelujah!

If a few million more of us do this maybe the industry will improve...

Sorry to be contrarian here, but at the high competitive level chess is a cardiovascular challenge. If you listen to serious chess players talk about playing it's not just a simple mental exercise.

High performing chess players have a higher HRV. Chess grandmasters might be sitting still but their body is undergoing a high degree of stress. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-14359-001

Men statistically have higher HRV on average, and the outliers are even more extreme. https://www.whoop.com/ca/en/thelocker/normal-hrv-range-age-gender/

So when you enter into a competitive environment it's just nicer to know you have a MORE level playing field.

I know chess specifically is controversial with regards to gender stuff and I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm just saying that there are real reasons to support separate brackets.

They treat your subscription as a promise of continued business. You're literally funding them trying to continue monetizing you and dominating your attention.

Fuck Spotify, fuck Netflix, fuck all of them.

The mob is angry and you mentioned empathy.

People just aren't ready to have empathy, yet.

It's cult of personality shit.

It's something Madison talked about in her Twitter rant.

For most of these people it's their dream job, and they don't believe they'll be able to do it on their own. For many of them they tried to do it on their own for years before joining LMG.

So they'll do anything to try and hold onto the fantasy. Including destroy themselves and the quality of their work. Which is really why the mental health of the company is in the shitter.

I mean this honestly: I like many of the team members and I hope that LMG is able to fix itself... But I don't know if it's possible.

Ironically I'm less concerned with battle passes as long as they don't sell power. The actual mtx itself doesn't bother me, I've easily spent hundreds in path of exile. But I prefer to enjoy the game first, and then at some point decide that I want to support the devs, and then maybe I buy something.