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  • Russia's problem is that they've never been hit with a genocide themselves

    Haven't they hit themselves with genocides about half a dozen times or so in their history..?

    “And then things got worse” and all that...

    Or do you only get a free pass if the genocide wasn't self inflicted..?

  • I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties

    If you care about it, you should make sure that you still have it, and not just useless plastic, and make backup copies (and / or upload it)... magnetic tapes and discs degrade quite fast, and even CDs and DVDs have a limited lifespan... vinyls will probably be fine, though if treated properly.

  • Big, but orders of magnitude smaller than what all the Steam games I've bought at sales and never found the time to play would need if I installed them all at the same time.

    “Piracy” really is a service problem.

    (Fuck, I've got Amazon Prime for the free deliveries — it comes bundled around these parts and is surprisingly cheap — and I still torrent Amazon series because it's more convenient and gives me better quality...)

  • It's not about CPU time, it's about power cycles.

    Turning computers off isn't good for them. Turning them on isn't good for anyone, including the computer (but especially the user who has to suffer it, and most especially the IT tech who has to suffer both).

  • the police clearly don't.

    No, I mean that maybe they're not investigating because they do already know, they just don't care (or they don't want to catch the culprits, or the culprits are not the kind of people laws and police investigations apply to, or they're the cops themselves).

    Sure, don't suppose malice when incompetence or stupidity suffice... but don't discard it either.

  • I don't know, zombies don't usually inspire much sympathy... though, if I were American, I would vote for zombie Biden.

    (I'm not sure what the constitution says about the living dead holding office, but then again Reagan might have set some sort of precedent towards the end of his second term...)

  • If your family has been hunting mushrooms in the area for a few generations and you've been going with them as a kid (and you're not dumber than the mushrooms) you're almost certainly fine.

    If not, don't bother, you'll end up poisoning yourself (and possibly others) and probably ruining the forest for those who know what they're doing.

    • 10m actual episode content

    More like...

    • 4m45s actual episode content
    • 15s mid episode card
    • 15m ad break
    • 15s mid episode card
    • 45s scenes from just before the ad break
    • 4m actual episode content
  • Happier coders probably write better code, though.

    (Not that writing better code will help if ES6 is still running on Morrowind's relabeled gamebryo engine like everything they've released since Morrowind, of course, but one can hope...)

  • No, we're depressed because of rampant enshittification.

    Because the rights our parents and grandparents fought for are being eroded at an accelerating rate in the name of short term profits, religion, and other forms of irrationality.

    Because we've fucked up the world to the point of it being too damn hot to survive in and we're not only not doing anything to fix it, but we're doing everything possible to make it worse.

    Because we can no longer have any rational hope for a better future and can only irrationally hope for an ever more unlikely revolution to fix it, and even that probably wouldn't make it any better in our lifetimes, or even our children's lifetimes.

    Because we can see civilisation collapsing around us, and we know that this time there's probably no coming back, since we've squandered any and all resources a future civilization would require to reach the heights we've reached.

    Because we murdered the future, and now we, and our children, and our children's children, have to try and survive in its rotting corpse.

    That's why we're depressed.