You should be allowed to stand your ground and shoot dead anyone rolling coal. They’re assaulting you and everyone around you.

You could go down that train of thought, but you’ll find it impossible to make any decisions for fear of making things worse. “Should I put out this fire in my kitchen? No, what if the house has to burn down to stop double-mecha-hitler from being born??” is not a useful way of thinking.

I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don’t want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.

Many people are sad, cruel, little monsters that are happy those people are being hurt.

It’s really hard to change people like that so they’re better. You gotta get them to see you as in-group, and slowly re-socialize them. Lot of work. Might not even succeed. But it’s also apparently a whole bunch of crimes to round up the maga-hats and lock them in an underground vault somewhere.

Do you mean, like, for kids to play? For adults socially? Or like professional sports like the world cup?

If I saw a dude pop out of a time machine and shoot both of these fucks dead, I’d be like “yeah that makes sense”.

Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it’s basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

I’ve seen a couple games that have the high res textures as a free separate download. That’d be nice. I’m not playing in 4k so I don’t need all that extra crap.

Humans are social creatures. Facts don’t matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it’s all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.

This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity

Good. Now fire the people who said it was a good idea and promote the internal people who said it was bad

I remain surprised no Italian plumbers have visited high ranking Republicans. They’re the worst people.

|| has a similar “oh that’s how it works in other places” behavior. I didn’t realize that for a while.

If Sony was selling a backlog going back to 1980 at deep discount with no monthly fees and DRM-free at the seller’s discretion, they would get less flak.

My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it’s a big multiplier on their incompetence.

Despite civic ignorance, overwhelming majorities are grateful (86%) and proud (79%) to be Americans. Most also believe America is a land of opportunity (61%), and even more believe the American Dream (74%) is available to them personally.

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Consoles haven’t seemed worth the price since like… the PS2 era, maybe PS3.

I might have a little more tolerance for jank than some people, though. Some people are like “I had to go into the settings and change something” like it’s a dozen years hard labor.

This is worth knowing about

He should be in a locked, padded, room somewhere

A lot of Linux works out of the box now. If folks started selling preconfigured Linux machines like you can buy for windows, that’s all most people need. Valve is following a good strategy

Many people don’t want non-whites to get any of these things. They’d rather get nothing themselves than some of them get nice things. They’re scumbags