Yeah, while most big actors have put on an outward show of solidarity with the strikes, let's not pretend they're not basically in the same position as the studio execs
If you're being an asshole on social media, I absolutely have the right to "punish" you by downvoting your post and calling you an idiot. If I'm the owner or moderator of the platform you're being an asshole on, then I absolutely have the right to censor you by banning you - or just blocking you if I'm an individual user.
I do agree that the government doesn't have a right to intervene however, unless you take it far enough that it constitutes targeted harassment - but in my experience, when most people complain about being "censored" for being asshole, they really mean that privately owned platforms are deciding to not host their BS
There is no right to not have to put up with assholes.
EDIT: Because @charonn0@startrek.website keeps making comments then immediately deleting them, I'll just answer here for when he finally finds a version of his response he's satisfied with - since they've all been basically the same.
If you say "Of course I meant purely the legal aspect, that's what I was saying the whole time", then I'd point you to the comment of yours I actually responded to, which was
There is no right to not have to put up with assholes.
This is the remark that I've been talking about, and you don't need to government to intervene in order to not have to put up with assholes. If you said "There is no right to have people you think are assholes put in jail", then obviously I'd agree with you, but that's not what you said. What you said is that we all have to just put up with assholes because we don't have the right to stop them from being assholes, which is factually untrue for all the reasons that I've already stated
Yeah frankly I'm tired of this rhetoric that you have to either be 100% pro Isreal or 100% pro hamas. It's possible to condemn Hamas while also condemning the treatment of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel
A common one recently is in response to the assertion that chatGPT and similar LLMs have a leftist bias, when the reality is that they're just regurgitating the data they've been fed.
One example I particularly remember was someone asking chatGPT what it thought of trump, which it responded to with a list of things Trump lied about or fucked up. Never mind that it was all accurate, it "clearly" showed that it has a left bias lol
It's a piece of jewelry she wears literally every day of her life and she loves it - I'd say we got our money's worth even by now, let alone over the coming decades
Easy, you just make sure each one goes on about 5 seconds after the last, remember the order, then when the time comes, you weils that spatchula like a legendary warrior wielding his/her trusty sword and don't stop for anything
(I might have my facts skewed but that’s what I took away from my history classes 20 years ago)
I don't think the typhoid blankets your referring to (at least that's what I assume you meant by "gifts that would harm them") were specifically given on the "first" thanksgiving, but you're absolutely right that it happened. Even if the first thanksgiving was 100% as advertised (which it probably wasn't) then it was a short-lived and tiny amount of human decency in what was otherwise a straight up genocide. Nevermind that the story was more about the natives helping the settlers than vice-versa, so really we're just celebrating the time our victims were nice to us while we were still getting ramped up on eradicating their people
I confess, as a total scifi nerd - I fucking loved the over engineered doors in this game lol - I swear I think they hired a whole team whose job was to do nothing but make doors lol
No one has really ever called either movie cerebral or claimed they were deep
Ii definetely disagree on that point, there were plenty of folks on reddit who treated this movie like it was a documentary and that it was required watching for understanding the faults in our actual society
That being said, I agree with everything else you said, some people just aren't good at separating "I like this" from "this is important"
The trouble with all these technologies is that on paper they're super exciting, but honestly name one company in existence today you'd actually trust enough to purchase it from?
Idk about you, but I can't think of any, and I wouldn't trust my govt to handle it either tbh
As someone who basically finished it (was putting off the final mission until I wrapped up the side quests, but then got bored and haven't bothered to pick it back up to finish it) I think waiting for a sale is the best choice
For one thing, by then there will be mods, and this game desperately needs some mods to make it better, lots of QoL issues or half-assed gameplay that could be improved by mods
But it also is pretty much as you describe, it's a fine game, but nothing to really get excited about. I had some fun with it, I also got bored of it pretty quickly. And for a game whose story is literallt built around the concept of Newgame+, there's very little reason to actually do one, because there aren't many different routes you can go - you can really only play as "Savior of the Galaxy", every other playstyle you might try leaves you actively fighting against the game
If I picked it up for less than $40, id call it money well spent on an alright game that can kill a week or two of evenings, but for full price I'm left feeling a bit ripped off
I'd argue it's the exact opposite - it's pretty good by Bethesda standards (in that it's relatively stable with lots of the kinds of content Bethesda likes to add), but bad by most other standards
Yeah, while most big actors have put on an outward show of solidarity with the strikes, let's not pretend they're not basically in the same position as the studio execs