argv_minus_one @ argv_minus_one @beehaw.org

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Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?

Since when could young people afford to buy a house?

Not sure where that leaves the young people today

On the street.

For some reason, the position of that asterisk made me think you're talking about a chess-themed porn site.

Good riddance to bad spyware.

With a console controller? Being barely able to aim isn't my idea of easy. Mouse and keyboard, please.

Who needs a wireless mouse when you're sitting right in front of the computer it's plugged into?

What's the issue with Liberapay? I've never used it.

That's not a union. That's an auxiliary HR department.

Even if it’s utterly pointless I prefer the anonymity

Cryptocurrency proponents are quick to remind me that cryptocurrency transactions are not anonymous, and are in fact highly traceable by virtue of being stored in a public ledger.

and some sites default to reoccurring donations and emails when using a card

Meaning, they try to mislead you into donating more than you intend to? Doesn't that make them crooks, unworthy of your donations?

most people hate the poor, and especially hate the unhoused and just want them to disappear.

Yeah, that's true. Everyone seems to hate the homeless. And they'll probably continue to hate the homeless even as millions of working middle-class people lose their homes as a result of the housing and job crisis. Hell, the newly homeless will probably hate themselves, too.

But I don't understand why. These homeless people didn't choose to jack up their rent and slash their wages; their landlords and employers did. They're victims, not perpetrators. Why would people hate them? Is everybody's brain malfunctioning from microplastic poisoning or something?

the recently unhoused quickly learn to follow suit if they want to stay alive and have any hope of improving their lives

So, they remain docile because they cling to a false hope? As far as I can tell, once you're homeless, you're going to stay that way for the rest of your life, no matter what you do, precisely because everyone hates you for being homeless.

Is there a reason you didn't use your credit or debit card?

There’s also that desktop web browsers generally request that their title bar not be shown.

Those have the excuse that they're basically several windows in one, and the tabs are the title bar-equivalents. Very few apps have that excuse, though.

Side note: KDE's tabbed windows feature was pretty neat. Too bad it's gone.

As far as I can see, the only application of cryptocurrency is to facilitate crime: money laundering, ransom, paying for contraband, etc.

[meme where the hero pulls the mask off the tied-up Firefox's head, revealing Safari]

“Pirates? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the gazillion sales we're about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.

As is Bethesda tradition.

Even that doesn't really explain it. The streets are crawling with people who were evicted from their homes because their jobs didn't pay enough to cover rent. These people have nothing to lose, and yet they still stay quiet.

Protests don’t work.

Yeah, that's why I didn't say “protests”. Our forefathers didn't get a 40-hour work week by asking politely.