greenskye @ greenskye @lemm.ee

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We reserve them for tankies and fashies with boners for world domination.

Our neighbors are literally the fashies right now. They're dismantling our government as we speak. We're literally being conquered.

You said violence isn't 'secure' but then said you need violence to protect yourself from tankies and fascists, unless they're already in your country I guess?

I'm just not following. And I'm not sure how your last statements relate to the idea of 'nothing won by violence is secure'? How is the embarrassment that is the Democrats related to fighting back against tyranny with violence if necessary? If anything Democrats are the argument that peaceful methods are failing, not an argument that violence will gain us nothing.

Unless you are taking over the entire world (through peace somehow), countries are what we have. Honestly doesn't really matter the name. Call it what you like but the concept is going to exist.

How are you going to keep other groups from just conquering you?

If I'm not understanding, can you explain what level I'm supposed to be thinking at? Is this some sort of anarchy thing where everyone exists as their own tiny little sovereign homestead?

What country has ever been won through peace?

I absolutely love when games do that. Just a random, faceless dude for the second player that isn't acknowledged at all by the plot. My favorite coop games growing up were all like that.

I started skipping a couple of marvel movies after endgame and now the trains kind of left me behind. Interconnected movies are awesome until you fall behind. Then you've got a bunch of movies you have to watch first. Or at least that's what my brain feels like I have to do (even if it's not true).

I played the first one as kind of a fluke. It's absolutely not my typical interest. I usually hate games with punishing resource limits, but some quirk of fate lined things up where I was in the right kind of mood for that one. Absolutely loved it.

Haven't (and never plan to) played the sequel. Just don't think I'll ever be able to top how magical the first one was for me and I was pretty happy with the original ending.

I think current 'lifestyle creep' for many is getting used to things like 'health insurance' and 'something other than beans and rice'. Hard to give up simple human dignity once you've had a taste of it.

It's still possible, but only with a physical Kindle device and I believe only one of the older ones. You can copy files off those devices to your PC and crack them that way.

Otherwise I'm not aware of any other method. It really sucks too as my favorite genre literally only exists in the Amazon ecosystem (small indie authors that rely on KU and so don't publish anywhere else)

Just call it 100 freedom units and everyone will love it.

Could just switch to grams. Selling by fraction is the problem not by weight itself.

I struggle with driving on m&kb. Last time I played I just had a controller off to the side and would switch between them depending on what I was doing.

Yeah, I was surprised at how dextrous their front paws were having grown up with only dogs. Definitely little hands.

Honestly selling the company is understandable. Getting out is normal.

It's the ones that turn into sociopaths that bother me.

Ordered food at Sonic on their app. After I ordered, it popped up with ads for travel, various credit cards, etc. Completely crazy to me that they're triple dipping on monetization now (sell me food, sell my data and then sell me other shit while trying to sell me food.)

Which is honestly just the end game of a practice that's been getting worse for decades. It's partly why stuff was outsourced. The more layers between us and the atrocities, the less humanity can focus on reacting to them.

There's been a concerted effort to introduce as many possible layers as they can to divide people and break up communities in order to break humans ability to empathize (and then use that empathy to affect change).

Honestly if someone is competent enough to put together skynet, I think that might be an improvement.

More likely we'll get a shitty chatbot that some tech bro claims is skynet and the world will fall to the absolute worst, buggiest AI overlord imaginable. It'll be an unholy fusion of Terminator and Idiocracy.

You're specifically paying for an agreed upon amount of time with the product. The negotiated price reflects this limited access to the product.

'Licensing' something with no stated time frame that one side can arbitrarily choose to end at any time makes little sense and they know it. They were perfectly happy with leveraging the assumption that you owned a copy of the product up until it became inconvenient to them.

There's no possible path to gun control with a broken democracy. We have terrible options available to us right now, but that's because we've allowed our foundations to rot almost completely.

You've gotta fix the structure of our democracy before you can even begin to address issues like gun control, discrimination or reproductive rights.

Trying to go after gun control now is like a nation focusing solely on stopping muggers while they're in the middle of being totally overrun by hostile invaders. Yes it's a problem, but unfortunately we've just got even bigger fish to fry at the moment.

If Democrats were smart, they'd temporarily drop talking about some of the more controversial and not immediately relevant political hot topics.

Like gun control is not an immediate need at this moment in time. The focus needs to be on fixing our democracy as quickly as possible so we can get back to the actual process of governing once again instead of this shit show we've had for the last decade.

You're making assumptions that I'm some young kid, naively thinking I can change the world with overly simplistic 'solutions'.

I've been in this career for a decent chunk of time, and, more importantly discussed these issues with others that have been here 40+ years (my company has been around for 100+ years). They feel the same.

You see it over and over again, management makes a short term cost saving decision, gets promoted or leaves to a new company and the rest of the people spend the next 3 years dealing with that decision. Things that used to be fixed in 2-3 days now takes 2-3 weeks. Projects that used to be completed in 4-6 weeks now take 4-6 months, etc.

These are things that I've noticed after 15+ years in the job and things that my 40+ year co-workers agree with and things the next two levels of my own management agree with (both 30+ years at the company). Hell, these are things executives I've been on better terms with have agreed with in the past (only to get let go after failing to implement culture changes).