That’s very interesting, thank you for taki9ng the time to explain

lmao you’re living in a fantasy if you think Americans have the capability to stop the government through instant, direct action

The only power we have is withholding our labor, and convincing people of the necessity of that when they’re brainwashed by capitalism is not an overnight or even over-4-years affair

Better to be surveilled by a foreign entity than a domestic one. Otherwise all those tax dollars going to ““defense”” are being wasted.

The big bubble. May it pop before we do.

What the fuck do you think they’re gonna recommend?

Nuclear war, it’s gonna recommend nuclear war. Or at least threatening it at a bare minimum.

[REDACTED] all billionaires.

All AI is for losers.

If you have to use any, like ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO for some reason, then use Deepseek. Glory to the CCP robot.

California has SO MANY languages

Is that because indigenous people also realized it’s the best part of America (half joking, mostly not joking), or because of Spanish colonization somehow?

USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children, so Hegseth isn’t too popular on the home front either.

Here’s how Ron Paul can still win

I’m not an economist, so I don’t know shit about fuck (though most economists don’t either tbf), but some people are comparing this to the railway bubble. Shit’s (potentially) so bad that they don’t even have a comparison from within our lifetimes to point to.

It’s gonna suck for the working class WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than the people who will lose their fortunes as a result of the bubble popping

sorry

it always does

Michael Saylor, one of the biggest owners of one of the other “doesnt actually do anything” bubbles - Bitcoin - is a great example. He made a fortune during the dot com bubble.

With that said, if I have to eat hard tack and canned beans and use leftover charcoal from the park BBQ grills instead of toothpaste in order to never have another AI bullshit feature shoehorned into my existence, it might be worth it

I havent, but it’s not really the getting my ass beat that turns me off from the games, it’s more the

not really having fun while it happens lmao. Even when I first started playing BF3, I’d still have exciting moments between the repeat deaths on deaths on teamkills on deaths. Soulslike games have, for me, usually just felt like a slog and a grind. Maybe it’s just because I havent gotten good at them, quite likely really, but the barrier to entry just doesn’t seem worth surmounting to me when there are so many other games to play out there without the barrier to entry.

I’m sorry, I gotta be honest, that only makes me like it way more

Any Soulslike anything. I have gotten my ass beaten by enemy NPCs in Smash Bros, and I have gotten my ass beaten by enemy players in Battlefield, and I stuck around with both until I got quite good (Smash Bros more than Battlefield, but still).

But Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Elden Ring… I’ve actually owned all of them and played none of them for more than a few hours at most. I got the furthest with Elden Ring but it’s just not fun, it’s harder than Smash Bros but about as fun as Ghost of Tsushima combat - which is to say, not very fun.

Oh also, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla or whatever the viking themed one was. I’m not a picky AC player, I loved the originals and I loved Origins and I loved many (though not all) in between those. But the viking one just had the slowest, least satisfying combat in the world. Which sucked since I’m Danish American, can’t even live out digital viking fantasies, but pirate fantasies are a decent second I guess.

On the flip side, the Stanley Parable is so good that I haven’t finished it because it makes my brain feel like it’s tripping but in a disorienting and uncomfortable way. It’s so good but I cant handle it for too long.

Same, loved the story, loved the writing, but the combat was so awful I couldnt play it for very long

I only have a desktop right now, but I’m leaning towards buying an actual PC for gaming and video editing, keeping that on Windows just for simplicity’s sake, then switching my desktop to Linux and using that for all non-gaming and non-editing purposes.

But you can just lie lol

That’s what I always did as a kid. Maybe some good reasons not to do that, but that’s still the reality of it.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require “commercially reasonable” verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.

I hate Newsom but this seems like a non-issue.