paultimate14 @ paultimate14 @lemmy.world

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Was there an exodus from Facebook to Lemmy I didn't hear about?

Did this place have bike racks?

As someone who worked in a parking lot for years I can tell you 90% of the time the cars that park in these designated spots do not have anything hung from their mirror or on their license plates indicated they are allowed to do so. We couid have theoretically had the cars towed, but when there's still several empty designated spaces it's just not worth bothering with.

I'm much more upset about minimum parking lot size requirements built into zoning codes than I am about an easily-movable bike being left in a space for a few minutes.

Insane that it took 38 years to go from the first black woman in Congress in 1977 to the first black Republican woman in Congress.

Mia Love would have been 2 years old when Shirley Chisholm entered office.

That's easy for someone who can afford more expensive protein sources to say.

Eggs used to be one of the best protein per dollar values available. You still have flour (and flour products), lentils, and pinto beans as options. Maybe oats and peanut butter, although that's starting to transition from "protein per dollar" to "calories per dollar" to make sense. And those other sources will start to get more expensive as people move to them.

It hasn't gotten as much press, but the cost of chicken meat rises with the prices of eggs too. That has historically been the cheapest available meat, so I would expect people moving to alternatives to drive up the costs of pork, lentils and beans. Maybe beef and seafood too.

It's a significant blow, especially to people who do a lot of physical labor and need that protein. This isn't just as simple as "don't buy the videogame that's overpriced" or "don't watch the movie with the problematic actor" or "don't buy the low-quality fast fashion products made by slave labor". This is messing with people's food. Go look up all of the long-term ramifications to populations after famines.

Society is never more than a few hungry days from collapse. This could very well push America closer to that.

True wisdom is realizing that most sports games are just a sub-genre of RPG.

Why does this feel like misogynist incel nonsense?

So these people are advocating for defending the police and military then, right?

The regular people seem to be using the word "oligarch" pretty often nowadays. Maybe he needs to actually talk to some regular people?

Growing up the son of a wealthy emerald-mine owning dysfunctional family in apartheid South Africa explains a lot of his behavior too.

The 9070's on eBay are getting cheaper and cheaper the further we get from the launch. I think scalpers underestimated AMD's stock and they are slowly discovering that.

Immediately after the launch the XT seemed to be starting at $1,200. Now they are down to $800. The non-xt is down to $650.

Depends on how much stock AMD can provide in the coming weeks and months, but I'm still thinking I'll be able to get one at MSRP this year.

Is this meme sponsored by a commercial real estate investor?

Been in my backlog for a while, and this may have convinced me to check it out soon.

Also I gotta say I love the idea of Mid game reviews. Everyone talks about great games to death. Terrible games get s ton of discussion and have the "so bad it's good" angle. Mid games are often solid values and rewarding experiences that get forgotten about over time.

Sometimes external adversity is the best motivator for internal self-improvement.

That's been rumored for years. I remember back in the day seeing rumors about Halo coming to PlayStation.

Not entirely without merit. Minecraft has been released on pretty much everything with a CPU, although some of those may have been before Microsoft purchased Mojang. There were a lot of weird scenarios after the Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard where the now-Microsoft-owned studios had pre-existing contracts with Sony they needed to honor. It looks like some of the IP they recently purchased that had traditionally been multiplat might remain that way, like the "Age of ___" series, Doom, and Call of Duty.

I've seen rumors that Starfield might come to PS5, but nothing substantial. I don't think there would have been any chance of that if it had sold well on Xbox and Windows.

I've also seen rumors of Halo, Gears of War, and Forza, but I will not start buying those unless there are more signs that Xbox is giving up on hardware entirely. If they could get deals done to get GamePass on Playstation and Switch that might start to look more realistic though.

Most of their games are still exclusive though. Avowed just released last weekend for Xbox and Windows and no hint of a PlayStation release for example.

The reverse is also true. Sony has published MLB games for the Xbox and Switch for example.

Nintendo doesn't "personally" do anything. They are a corporation.

And they do purchase both IP's and studios. Just off the top of my head they bought Monolith from Bandai-Namco and Bayonetta has been exclusive ever since the second one.

Microsoft has been way worse than Sony. Zenimax alone was might have been bigger than Sony's entire portfolio depending on how you measure. Activision-Blizzard was far, far bigger. And at least with Zenimax, it seems like most of their studios have gotten worse since acquisition, with a lot of them being shut down.

I don't mean to overly defenf Sony, but just paying publishers for 1 year of exclusivity seems pretty mild in comparison. I'd prefer they didn't buy studios like Bungie, but at the same time the acquisitions of Naughty Dog and Insomniac seem to have worked out pretty well.

Depends on whether you consider Xbox and Windows to count as 2 different platforms or not.

It's so weird to me how many people seem to just hate Sony for doing milder versions of what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing for much longer.

Sony didn't buy Zenimax or Activision-Blizzard. Or heck, you could point to the gigantic graveyard of studios that EA and Microsoft have purchased and shut down over the years.

Do you honestly believe people from non-"Western" countries don't complain about the weather?

If they did, how would you know that they do?

You also don't know all of the battles that others are fighting. Just because you were born and live in a country that is relatively wealthy compared to other countries does not mean each individual is well-off. What might be "slightly cold" weather to you could cause debilitating joint pain for someone else. For people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, grocery prices are a huge deal. The fact that you consider them trivial speaks loudly to your privilege.

Wow the propaganda you're consuming must be really, really effective. I can't imagine believing that looking for ways to improve society is a "western" thing. Perhaps you need to look more closely at the news and media you are consuming and start asking yourself where potential biases or gaps in perspective could be.

Do you not think the people if Gaza are complaining right now? Or the Hong Kongers fighting for their autonomy and what's left of their democracy? Or for that matter pretty much every country to the south east of China who is having their sovereignty infringed upon? Or within China, the Uyghurs and Tibetans and other ethnicities are being brutally repressed. Does Argentina count as western? Bcause they are talking about impeaching their recently elected Libertarian president already. What about the migrants to Qatar that are effectively indentured servants? For that matter, is Ukraine far enough east to count? Or the various other countries where Russia has been infringing upon borders, like Georgia and Kazakhstan and Moldova. I haven't even touched upon Africa yet, but there's another genocide happening in Sudan. India is still trying to modernize itself and get rid of the caste system.

I think this is a you problem.

Do they self-identity as Jews?