djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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It's a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that's the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It'd be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I'm sure I'll just eat a ban eventually.

Wow, that is incredible. I can't believe they captured him. He could actually stand trial for his horrible crimes, and his victims could finally have justice. The first of hopefully many crazy authoritarian nuts getting what they deserve.

So, how much longer until we have to start drinking soycaf?

No, I think they're going to stop existing in 5-10 years.

Holy shit this could really work. If anyone can keep the cult of Trump alive, it's another Trump. Think of the hero worship of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. MAGA wants to deify Trump in just the same manner. Trump will become the great "God Emperor of America" who will fight to keep the Democrats out of heaven or w/e, and Trump Jr will act as Kim Jong Il and take over ruling.

It really depends on how quickly the old sack of shit actually dies. It's meant to be the most stressful job in the world, and he's back to unlimited mcdonalds. If it happens quickly, maybe the whole house of cards just collapses.

That's not true!

I can get high too :3

Of course they're stupid; they're Americans.

Good, hope they strip it to the bone. Ever since they started locking up anything and everything in their store, I've tried to use them less and less. They're one of the biggest proponents on the side of the insane narrative that shoplifting is destroying American businesses, even though last I checked they were happy to engage in massive amounts of wage theft.

A big thing that's been weighing on my mind recently has been the impending threat of climate change. Who is actually going to be able to step up and potentially prevent our extinction as a species? It's definitely not America. Europe has too many incoming threats to be able to focus on the climate crisis. In terms of world powers, it sure seems like the PRC is the only chance humanity will have, as long as we can convince them to care.

I don't like that, but I don't see another option. I guess if our options are extinction as a species or the Chinese model, I'll choose the Chinese model.

I suspect he's playing it up for the camera in order to differentiate himself from American conservatives now that they've begun turning on Canada. It's something I imagine we'll see out of Poilievre as well, because otherwise they'll quickly become unelectable.

Just remember that they were chums all up until this point, and that's still damning. Ford supported American conservatives all the way until the leopards turned to eat his face. Yeah, it's cool that he's going above and beyond to fight back now, but he still wants Ontario to act like Texas.

Considering how much of the Internet is now backed by AWS... yeah good luck with a full, 100% boycott, unless you're willing to install a plug-in to let you know which parts of the web are on AWS and specifically avoid them.

That being said, a 100% boycott is borderline puritanical. It's very easy to order nothing from Amazon, and if enough of us do it will make a noticeable dent in their profits.

Just checking in, the state whose economy is grossly overreliant on tourism is openly saying they don't want tourists? That they'll misuse statistics to publicly insult tourists?

I'm sure that'll work out great.

I'm certain he's doing it for the wrong reasons, but it's nice to see the angry raging conservative attacking a genuine asshole for once.

It really doesn't seem that hard to just constantly disprove the lies they're telling, over and over, until eventually the people who are still sane in this country understand what a non-issue the conservatives are freaking out over. I feel the same way about their "migrant crime" myth, which Democrats also immediately capitulated to and started campaigning on fixing despite crime statistics clearly demonstrating migrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than the general populace.

It's almost like standing up for their beliefs was never the goal, and they'll just say whatever makes their corporate donors happy.

There already is, and there has been for many years. Students in blue states, on average, perform better on all standardized tests compared to students in red states. I've also seen some extremely suspect coursework being reported on these kids' transcripts, like engineering coursework getting counted as a foreign language, or multiple years of Christian theology "electives" that every student suspiciously takes being given at public schools.

In fact, the real issue is that this has been going on for so long, an entire generation of teachers were taught by these poor red state education systems. Now you have people who take pride in their illiteracy teaching freshmen U.S. history, to the exact effect that you're imagining.

Edit: Jfc, I just read a student's essay from Virginia where they're lamenting the fact their high school didn't do any literary analysis of books, but instead analyzed Youtube videos and short poems. They're not even teaching reading anymore. Sure, this student was motivated to go beyond their high school curriculum and focused on learning the classics themselves, but what about the other 446 students in their class?

I'm told that I seem like a very calm person on the outside, which is wild because I am also an inferno of rage on the inside.

Also if people think that this is going to be the deathblow to education in the U.S... it's been dead. It's a rotting, festering corpse. I've already seen public highschools in shitholes like Mississippi and Oklahoma pushing 4 years of Christian theology "electives." It'd be great if the DoE was setting education standards, because leaving it to the states has utterly failed.

Honestly, you don't even have to go that far. Just bringing back germ theory would massively advance the health and safety of ancient peoples. You might get a little bit of pushback trying to explain it to them though.

Just hang around. After the headlines have propogated and the backlash happens, Musk will ask 60,000 of them to come back to their post.

Tbf, I sincerely hope a lot of you understand the basic concept of a gearbox. Depending on how far back you go, a water wheel might be a pretty massive leap forward, and it might at least inspire other, smarter people of the time to work on theories of energy, and eventually electricity.