What the Fuck happened with Gen X?
At least according to Wikipedia, Generation X is the generation referred to as "the forgotten generation".
So... you've quoted that both Gen X and Gen Z voted more for Trump than last time. Perhaps the issue isn't specific generations, but a larger turn out for Trump across most demographics?
Or you can always keep looking for reasons to get upset at strangers you don't know for demographics they belong to that they can't control. Very bold. We'll have to see what the crowd thinks when it hits the fashion runway in Paris.
Many people across a wide swath of age ranges and demographics had to vote for Trump for the numbers to turn out how they did. I feel that trying to find some small subset of people to blame is a self defeating choice compared to truly trying to understand what drew people to vote for him rather than Harris.
You must have a very different experience with social media if you are seriously able to say that with a straight face.
Most moderators use those criteria exactly the same way I have, and many other sites and communities restrict posting privileges on new accounts as an effective measure to curtail spam and astroturfing. The only reason that isn't being used on Lemmy is a lack of moderator tools to do it.
Additionally, shitpost is not some catch all category. Traditionally shitposts are intentionally false, misleading, or low quality posts done for the sake of humor or to try and elicit an emotional response from others (see: trolling). But fair enough, this particular comm has been becoming a catch all lately.
EDIT: Maybe a better place for this sort of thing would have been !casualconversation@lemm.ee
Anyway. You want to look more natural? Go participate in other comms. Make comments on a wide variety of topics, not just about the latest social media site that's clamoring to profit off the current situation.
Until then your response amounts to little more than an indignant "nuh uh!" with nothing behind it.
OP joined six days ago, and this is the only post and comments they have made.
Plus, how is this a shitpost?
Totally organic content.
I think believing that any one of these platforms isn't trying to maximize what they can get out of the TikTok ban is a very naive assumption.
It's a fun meta-game to see in any survival game if the katana is good or not.
Zomboid? Rare, one of the best melee weapons.
Death Road to Canada? Otaku Katana breaks in about three swings.
PowerShell does that by default, and it's my least favorite feature in my most used language.
$ErrorActionPreference = Stop
At the start of almost every script.
-ErrorActionPreference SilentlyContinue
yt-dlp is a CLI program for downloading videos from an absurd number of sites. Originally created for backing up Youtube videos, but has expanded to cover thousands of sites over the years.
Plus housework, plus child rearing for some people.
If I remember right, the devs of Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl and the devs of the GTA Remasters experienced something similar. They had bug fixes ready to go but had to fight with the rightsholders (Viacom and Rockstar, respectively) to be allowed to publish the patches.
Official data export method: https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644/
Yt-dlp also appears to support downloading videos from Facebook.
How in the fuck did this pass peer review?
It's definitely not for everyone, but the begining does an absolutely shit job of selling the game's depth and the more interesting bits about the setting.
As you progress through the game you have vastly different landscape types where "hold forward and don't tip over" isn't enough to make it through. River deltas, canyons, mountains with and without snow, swamps, craggy wasteland strewn with boulders, open plains with enemy camps, forests, etc. You also get a decent variety of tools to use to tackle those challenges, and multiple ways to approach each one.
Do I skirt around the edges of the terrorist camp or try to speed through on a motorcycle? Should I try to defeat them to make the area easier for a while? What tools do I need to get through the terrain on the outskirts? How many ladders and climbing ropes? How am I going to carry that all with the cargo and deliver it within the time limit? What do I need to defeat them? Can I? Should I do that while I carry the cargo, risking it? Should I clear it before I take on the delivery? Should I take the time to build a zipline network and then come back later when I can just zipline through? Is there enough bandwidth for buildings that I can afford a zipline network? Should I grind out some other delivery destinations to unlock more bandwidth? Maybe I should repair the highways in the area instead and drive through? How do I get the resources I need for building this stuff? Will I do repeatable deliveries for the materials, scavenge them from lost cargo in dangerous places, fight the terrorists and take theirs? Do I take on extra difficult delivery conditions (time, cargo damage) for higher rewards? How do I deal with those additional requirements?
But again, the game does a piss poor job of demonstration any of this depth off from the begining. It also does a terrible job signposting how and when you unlock more tools. So you can grind shit out the hard way, then do one mission for someone different (that you could have done the whole time) and unlock something that would have made the grind half as difficult. Shit didn't really "click" for me until more than 20 hours in, which is pretty unforgivable.
For anyone thinking about playing or picking it up again, my advice:
Get the deluxe edition. It has a bunch of seemingly minor QoL additions in terms of new equipment and some added functionality for old ones that make a ton of difference.
Slam through the starting area. Unless you really want to grind, just do the main quest path and ignore the side stuff. You can come back later with gear that will keep it from being such a slog. This would have cut down my "20 hours until it clicked" by a ton.
After you take the boat to the second map, you can take things slower. I reccomend focusing on the main quests until you unlock each new "hub", then do as much side content as you're interested in. On the second map the game does a better job of indicating the story sections in advance that you might want to grind out side content to be better prepared for.
Most of all, don't treat Death Stranding like a normal game that's meant to entertain and keep you hanging on for the next beat. It's a slow, contemplative game while you grind out sidequests. I mostly play it to relax. Put a video up on my second monitor, or listen to a podcast, and deliver shit.
For the era of tech shown, you'd also have tons of clicking and whirring hard drive noise as well. Old Hard Drives are noisy. You can hear all the seeking and read/write operations.
Personally, I find that noise comforting, but the inconsisent nature of it would make it hard to tune out.
I mean, Paypal is a bank that isn't beholden to all the normal bank regulations and customer protection rules due to technicalities. They have been caught effectively seizing customer funds through locking accounts for questionable reasons before, and offer no reasonable way of recovering funds from locked accounts. Numerous stories of people operating online etsy (and similar) storefronts getting accounts locked for vague claims they were actively money laundering, with no means for appeal.
Anyone just now becoming aware of the paypal execs' corruption hasn't been paying attention.
In my experience the "privacy and security" argument is a smokescreen.
The real reason is that it makes someone else responsible for zero-days occuring, for the security of the tool, and for fixing security problems in the tool's code. With open source tools the responsibility shifts to your cybersecurity team to at least audit the code.
I don't know about your workplace, but there's no one qualified for that at my workplace.
A good analogy: If you build your house yourself, you're responsible for it meeting local building codes. If you pay someone else to build it, you can still have the same problems, but it's the builder's responsibility.
Then shouldn't the owner of the house be the one to make the decision? Not other guests?
I see no one calling for the removal of an existing trigger warning here. No changes to the status quo being requested. I see an asshole being a tool about someone making allusions that there should be a trigger warning.
Sorry to be pedantic. I'm generally supportive of your argument, but confused as shit because it doesn't appear to apply here.
"The forgotten generation" strikes again!