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The non-voters still matter because they can still choose to vote. They're important and mobilizing them can make a difference.

I'm skeptical of any claims when they're only touted by the one selling it. I'll wait to see if it actually gets implemented anywhere and is verified by a third party.

Unfortunately a day off, while I'm not against it, wouldn't make as big a difference as folks would like as the kinds of jobs already keeping people away from the polls would likely still be open.

I mean, if that was the best example, all you have is someone doing their job. It's like complaining about a secret service agent protecting trump.

Because that would be a biased subset. That's not how statistics works. I'm not saying it can't be, just that statistically we don't have evidence of it.

half the voting population of the country. i don't really know a good gauge for how much of the full population wants to vote for him. honestly, the version of conservatism that holds power right now could probably be defeated if everyone voted.

never thought i'd see someone ignore a problem with trump because it involves someone that had worked for the government during the trump administration. if that was your best example, something he may not even had realized was fully going on at the time, than wow. sure, let trump get away with something because you hate trump. the damn logical inconsistency is astounding. you hate him so much (which is fine, i think he's terrible too and should be in jail) that you've wrapped around and are now accidentally and implicitly defending him. its like you had a buffer overflow error.

Folks aren't even able to get out of debt. Considering debt generally has a higher interest rate than savings, folks are even held back from saving. OP even mentioned that straight out. If you're a disaster away from destitution, you aren't investing money. Money years from now isn't worth more than money today when your bills are due today.

Generally it's more about the interaction. If the user views it as interacting with the viewport, it tends to be inverted. If the user views the interaction as interacting with the scroll bar, it's "natural". Scroll wheel is the only odd one out. However it was introduced prior to mousepads supporting gestures. So it basically started as an extension of the scroll bar interaction, but as mousepads introduced the concept of interacting with the viewport, scroll wheels were given the option to respond either way based on user preference.

One of the beliefs is also the education of CPR is taught on male-form mannequins and that's how folks are taught anatomical landmarks. Many people don't actually know how to find the correct location to compress when breasts are present apparently.

I mean, your given example isn't actually an example of your previous points. Its not a "every cloud has a silver linings" statement, it's a "I still believe in God even when bad things happen. This isn't proof of neither his non-existence or his non-caring." Eve your example is a poor thought experiment because it assumes a limited power god who can only break your foot, but can't actually prevent the drink driving accident in any less painful way.

It's a "I'm going to pretend this was supposed to happen and is a good thing regardless of whether good things come from it."

It's the response to "earthquake kills 1000s".

The other, less religious reasoning you provided is much more clear and less stretches with a lot better phrases. Even your descriptions would work better than providing the phrase itself to someone who is currently hurting. This phrase ultimately defends the bad thing as a good thing instead of telling the person shit happens, play the cards you were dealt, you can still win even when you're coming from behind.

I'm not denying that buggy games exist and that some big mistakes exist, but there's a lot more games that are bug-free enough to be playable (I don't believe any game will ever be fully bug free as they get more complex) than are unplayable. That's all. I'm not defending the ones that do get released either. Though I'll say it's the fault of executives and not the actual developers. At the same time, there are specific scenarios where I get it and would defend it, but they're rare and don't really apply to AAA games (needing to release the game to stop from going out of business, and it's only defensible if they still fix the issues after the fact. This obviously doesn't apply when the decision to not push back release is for shareholder revenue instead).

Edit: my point is Cyberpunk 2077 is not the norm.

Because most games do work at launch and the initial sales are what drives development and more games. If it fails at launch, it didn't matter how many folks buy it at $20, it's not getting a sequel.

And what do you even mean by "sustainable" in this context? Obviously it's sustainable at the other price as well, otherwise they'd stop doing it. I mean, let's be glad most developers aren't like Nintendo at least.

I mean, even if we accept that, it's far from the normal. At least in regards to Jedi, it again, made the news cycles because of how buggy it was. Think about how many games come out a year, hell even a month.

Not saying buggy games don't exist. Just that they're not the norm.

Is it the new normal though? Pretty sure this is widely known because of its issues. I don't think we've had anything reach those levels recently.

instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.

Why do that when you can just have a buggy and crappy experience taylored specifically for each device?

In things where I can't avoid an account, I use an email alias (personally I use Mozilla Relay, but Proton Pass offers logins as well if I recall.

Edit: for clarity, this adds at least a level of abstraction from my actual data. It's not the only thing I do, such as blackhole DNS via PiHole, VPN in other scenarios, Tor for others (for those curious, pihole and Tor don't work at the same time, and pihole and VPN generally doesn't either without extra work and it's not compatible with every VPN).

It doesn't come across insulting at all. It comes across as naive.

Like, it literally has a Wikipedia page and doesn't mention anything else.

I mean, literally isn't used to mean just figuratively. It's actually an exaggeration to mean that the concept is so strong that it literally triggered the figurative comparison for real. Context is key there. And context is important. That's the great thing about that though is you rarely need extra information to show which definition you mean. If I said it's so hot outside that I'm literally on fire, you don't need to question the meaning.

But here? Let's be honest. The word usage has exploded on Lemmy. They wanted so badly to use the term in the cool way. No one would have used the word that way before. No one uses its 'literal' definition now really. Because it's generally not how humans in society have discussions. No one describes the enshitification of something as a clinical description. If it were used as a joke? Sure. But now it's either someone so divorced from reality that they don't even know how to communicate or it's just folks who heard the word, thought it was cool, but didn't really understand it. That's all that is. I can't believe folks are trying to defend the "evolution" of language on one hand by describing a loss of accuracy and clarity in language, but then on the ither hand defending it from some weird historical perspective. It's honestly entertaining to see people come at this and argue with entirely contradictory points of view. "Words change meaning and this is it's new meaning" vs "that's been its meaning forever". Like, let's try to at least coordinate the defense of the person who wanted to sound cool. No one says "enshittified" in place of "it'll go to shit" or "get fucked". But instead you expect me to believe this is some ole-timey bastard saying, "sir, it will be enshittified." Come on buddy. It's weird you even thought all those words you spoke would sound insulting. Like you actually had a good point or something. See? That last bit there. That's what something insulting sounds like.

Your ability to determine how another is feeling via words is lacking. I'm not fuming. I'm not even that angry. I just am having a discussion and you're responding like you're not even out of high school. Its just frustrating communication.

Grow up.