Jeremy [Iowa] @ jeremy_sylvis @midwest.social

aka [@jsylvis@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/jsylvis)

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The thing he quite demonstrably did as shown by the article in question?

Call someone a troll when it isn't hypocrisy.

Edit: My god, self-important smug trollbait is literally all you post

Is that more, less, or about the same intentional dishonesty as portraying one side as pristine and flawless and the other as the exact opposite?

An opinion article which lambasts a party while pretending another is pristine? Surely there's no agenda to such balanced persuasion...

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Like about how that... doesn't actually change anything that was said?

Oh, it absolutely is. We're seeing much of the same in the 9th Circuit.

I didn't take that as the point of the article, though.

Leave it to Vox to make a lot of noise about nothing significant. I'm looking forward to their next reversal of tone back to but Bruen was a disaster etc.

We went from a time where you had to rebuild your fucking kernel to get your graphics card to work and fucking around with Wine to get to a point where you nearly throw your PC out the window until you can get a little app to run to simply running apt install nvidia-driver-xxx and clicking on a button to make a Windows game run in Linux.

I have fond memories of getting World of Warcraft working on Linux back in ~2008 only to realize it had an OpenGL mode that ran better than the DirectX mode I was trying - and failing - to get working.

You aren't wrong about kernel and driver shenanigans.

Right, so anyone adopting such a "buy for a month and binge watch" strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn't exactly surprising.

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I see we can mark off "double down on wartime economy boost" on the recession check list.

Yeah I can almost guarantee that the original plan was always for him to leave. He was going to be the scapegoat with a golden parachute, allowing the company to keep the unpopular changes while disbursing the bad publicity. It’s exactly what he did with EA too.

I hadn't considered that... fair point. Pay someone handsomely to take the immense PR hit and move on.

You're not wrong; I suppose my criticism is as much of that practice as it is of this individual specifically.

My only complaint is such maneuvers tend to come with golden parachutes - his mismanagement of Unity leading to the whole fee debacle and erosion of trust deserves no such soft landing.

I consider the privilege of choice in taste of one's preferred stimulant to be one of the few small joys to late stage capitalism.

I think the right move for the rest of us right now is to support the group who is in support of democracy.

Oh? So "support this candidate" is somehow mutually exclusive with providing valid criticism of missteps and flaws?

That seems like a degree of intentional ignorance.

Frankly, I make solid six figures and still have a hard time even contemplating buying a new car. With how much value is lost short-term it's like just burning cash.

I think the best vehicular investment I've ever made was a moderately-used Chevy Volt for, like, ~14k. That thing is a tank and still gets some EV / efficiency cred.

Unless I'm missing something, that graph indicates the rate was consistently below 7% - often significantly - from ~1860-1970. How the heck do you define slightly?

In the same sense that your response was in any way tied to anything stated, sure.