Melllvar @ charonn0 @startrek.website

*Seer* of the tapes! *Knower* of the episodes!

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Election in November.

And neither of us will be the first person proven wrong on our respective points.

You're hardly the first person to think they can kill their way to Utopia. It has never worked.

That's from FO4. I don't think it appeared in any other game.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Kid_in_a_Fridge

Normalizing political violence will inevitably, and possibly literally, blow up in your own face.

There's a quest where you find a ghoul child locked in a refrigerator on the side of the road (it's implied he's been in there since the war). You have the option of selling him to a named member of the gunners.

Not only is it normalized, but it's being weaponized. See, for example, the recent XZ backdoor which was equal parts hacking and a psi-op against the maintainer.

“He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” Mr Barr said, adding: “At the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him.”

So either we're counting on people to refuse the president's orders, or we're hoping the Trump is more mature than he lets on?

How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?

I haven't been having any major problems except for occasional framerate stuttering, but then I don't use that many mods.

My only real complaint is that there's really no new story content, it's just a couple of new locations (Enclave checkpoints like FO3) some new armor and weapon types, and a handful of quests that are pretty much radiant quests with a coat of Enclave paint. Considering the download was like 10GB I was expecting more. If Google is telling me the truth, that's bigger than all the other DLC combined.

When in doubt, shut up.

The best way to make money in Vegas is to sell light bulbs.

This part:

a desperate attempt to keep young people from discussing Joes pet genocide where they can’t be censored by the us govt.

suggests that users are being censored by the US government. Doesn't it?

That's the opposite of what the court said.

It's almost as if hostile nation states are manipulating public opinion to destabilize western democracies and alliances.

Well, no. The courts struck down Trump's Tiktok ban because he used an executive order that overstepped his authority.

What do you mean?

Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.

I've seen that too. But they're mistaken. "Censoring the internet" is not what this law does. That's hyperbole not based on any reasonable interpretation of the actual law.

Don't misunderstand me; this is not a good law. Nobody should be happy about it. But it is prudent, wise and perhaps even necessary. Refusing to acknowledge this while ignoring that actual 1st amendment concerns that this law will be challenged on does not help your argument.

They could use their advertising platform to manipulate US public opinion and elections. And, again, this isn't to say it's fine for domestic companies to do this. But that's no argument against this law. In fact, I daresay the "gamer-to-far-right-radical pipeline" you identify is an example of this.

No, of course it's not fine.

But if it's not fine for domestic social media apps to do it, then it's even worse for a foreign adversary to do it. Right?

Which Tittok users has the US government censored?