I didn’t personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.

This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk’s presence would inevitably import onto campus

Peeve: it’s not the division that’s the problem. It’s the hate and lies.

If we could channel their cognitive dissonance to turn turbines, we’d solve the energy crisis.

It’s because leadership is a heady cocktail of stupid and selfish.

I really want to stress stupid. That means they draw bad conclusions from facts.

Sometimes selfish is a factor. They have an obscure reason like “my share value goes up because we get a kickback from the city for staffing an office here”. They don’t care if it’s bad for everyone else or the company long term. They’ll get their money and then leave.

Pop!_os has been fine for me. I’m not a tinkerer. It’s a machine for a web browser and video games.

Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

I recently knew two people who came to the US recently.

One was from India, and he came for the money. He has a low six figure job as a “product manager” and the CEO’s toady. He’s quite ignorant of US politics and history, so he’s not really concerned.

The other came from canada, but also has EU residency (or citizenship? unclear). He said he makes more money here. He’s making mid six figures as a software engineer at a startup, with poor work/life balance. He can always leave, since his parents own a house in germany.

Neither were coming here like an old timey tale of immigrants trying to find a better life.

I’ve never heard of this person before but he sounds like a trash bag.

The people who really want racist/sexist/etc comics are free to make their own instance or community. This is the fediverse. There’s no government with guns or CEO to lock it down.

If that stuff makes for a better community, it will do just fine. I expect it won’t.

One of the things right-wingers push for is the idea that they’re normal and healthy, and everyone else is deficient. Like everything else from the right, it’s projection.

I wonder what the “I’ll never vote for a socialist!!” types are doing now to resolve their cognitive dissonance.

I had a really good DND group during the pandemic. Probably the best game I ever ran. But it was online, and when the pandemic called down they all just drifted away. Very sad about it, honestly.

“wearing all black doesn’t make you cool, but it probably doesn’t hurt and I think you’re kind of cool anyway” - no men:
https://no-men.bandcamp.com/track/w-a-b-d-m-y-c

My cat hasn’t done hairballs during intimate times lately, but he has done “HIGH SPEED LAPS” that include jumping onto the bed as part of his circuit.

I remember when the internet was new, I’d make friends with random people I’d “meet”. Like, I’d play Diablo with some rando on battle.net and then we’d stay in touch. Now it seems more ephemeral. Maybe it’s just because I’m older.

That isn’t how this works.

It doesn’t start with the most vile filth. It starts with slightly edgy jokes, employs irony, and works slowly towards getting you to believe whatever racist slop they’re selling. “The alt right playbook” was a youtube series from like a decade ago that covers some of this. I don’t usually like youtube videos, but that one I make an exception for.

Republicans value in-group loyalty more than anything else. That usually is part of conservatism.

Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you’re being robbed.

I dunno it seemed cool if viewed as a 12 year old. “Oh man look at those ninjas and he’s gonna jump on them!!”

People don’t understand things but that doesn’t stop them feeling ways about it.

Also the US tax system seems complicated and error prone.