Allero

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Truck is Stupid Big⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen one recently. Don’t know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn’t fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR:

  Socialism: maintains monetary system. You earn and spend money like usual, except you are restricted from using the labor of others to generate profit for yourself (example: maintaining a large business). Key formula: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their labor.

  Example of a socialist country: USSR, Eastern Bloc, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, Allende’s Chile.

  What socialism is not: Nordic model, capitalist states with social support.

  Communism: no monetary system. Everything is free. Communism assumes one of three ways to make it happen: either everyone understands the intrinsic value of labor and does it for the sake of it, or labor is mandatory, or all of the unlikeable jobs are automated. Communism is normally considered not as an immediate outcome, but a future goal. Key formula: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

  Example of a communist country: War communism period in Soviet Russia

  What communism is not: socialism, capitalism with state support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I offer you some cocks in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you aware of fedinsfw.app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innovation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did you get to know my girlfriend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all I know, Goldberg emulator only works with multiplayer titles to enable local multiplayer capabilities. If the game is SteamDRM protected, it should not work and is very illegal.

  Illegality is a general issie with piracy to begin with - Valve can snap on it any time, leaving us empty-handed. It is not a sustainable solution - just the only one we’re left with. Instead of not suing emulators just yet, I’d rather see them actually removing the damn DRM.

  On my end, I make sure to purchase DRM-free games and yarrr the hell out of the DRM-protected ones, but personal activism can only get you so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam does not have any DRM by itself

  It does, and the default practice is to enable it, even when DRM-less versions are available elsewhere. It might not be as fancy as Denuvo, but it is there and it doesn’t allow you to run games without also launching Steam.

  partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Steam features its own DRM, ensuring games cannot be launched without it.

  2. Steam has enormous leverage in the gaming market and could at least influence the devs to make DRM transferable between the publishing spaces (but that might hurt Steam’s bottom line).

  Plenty of games release both on Steam and, say, GOG. GOG versions don’t feature DRM, Steam versions do, specifically so that players would be tied to Valve’s ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, Steam is just one culprit - yet culprit nonetheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. One reason I’m reluctant to purchase games on Steam is how impermanent it really is.

  You buy a game in Steam, you can’t play it without Steam. Should Valve decide to cut you off or just stop existing, your games are gone. And switching to another platform leaves you trapped to play your previously purchased titles on Steam or buy it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can’t hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely, then their business will stop having any reasons to exist in the first place.

  Also, many industries are only efficient at scale, and so putting any limit to that is going to hurt the economy (and hence, you) big time.

  Capitalism, in any form, has this fundamental trouble where it either rips you, or has no reason to exist. Taxing the hell out of the rich is a step in the right direction, but ultimately even that is not sustainable. We need socialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do y’all take info on pronouns?

  Haven’t seen anything in the official announcement: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly in sandbox games. This is where I’m going to interact with the environment the most, and I wanna know it feels good.

  Also, I appreciate destructibility in shooter games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we're cooked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iranian embassies already joked about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Your Freak On⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Your Freak On⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wondered why each and every video highlights the “step-” part.

  Is it not to be caught promoting incest, or is it because actors look obviously too different to be related?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ups and downs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ups and downs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s female feet, after all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ups and downs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so many are into male feet tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you mean by that.

  Stupid as in not grasping some concepts quickly?

  Education is just a narrow overview of a particular field. Once you’re out the narrow scope of what you’re taught - it’s all about your general knowledge. I know a world-class physicist who does not comprehend basic things about society, economy, relationships etc. And, working in a scientific field, I see plenty of such examples.

  Stupid as in unable to aggregate data and synthesize understanding?

  The state of modern tech and media more broadly eats heavily into people’s attention span. People have harder time concentrating, and it gets so much worse when they need to aggregate all the sources they have. They just don’t have enough short-term memory to keep it all together.

  Stupid as in making weird life decisions?

  Everyone’s life experience is drastically different than yours, and, seeing only the surface, people often downplay what others went through and how it shaped their thinking. Sometimes it introduces general logical errors into the behavior, and sometimes it just comes from a much different perspective than you can imagine. In their world, the decisions they make makes sense. In your world, you also normally make sense for yourself, even if you’re actually irrational in one thing or another. This does, by the way, include all the typical political rants - high-ranking politicians and their numerous advisors are unlikely to be stupid. More likely, these people pursue different interests from what you imagine.

  Overall, the word “stupid” is heavily overused and applied to a lot of different things. So, it always makes sense to clarify, or else it looks more like a rant than a genuine question.

  Complaining about people being stupid is as old as the world itself, yet it’s not very productive or done in good faith. Before claiming anyone stupid, try to ask them for their perspective and the way they look at a problem. And if you’re able, unpack what you think is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ups and downs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partners can do this to each other, maybe he cooks for her some other time.

  I wouldn’t automatically assume she’s always a cook, and even then, it’s okay as long as it’s an amicable arrangement and not societal pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On with the Anbernic RG Vita Pro; A Unique Dual-Boot Handheld Finding Its Place (my review!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to emulate PS Vita is honestly an odd design choice. Not only is original Vita design quite dated, this copy looks like its cheap, janky sibling.

  One thing I would keep, though, is these nice lights under the sticks. Truly a delight, and one part that looks just right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real talk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A socialist society can be ecologically devastating. But, unlike capitalist one, it doesn’t have to be.

  Capitalism pursues infinite growth in a finite world. As long as unsustainable practices deliver you more (which is extremely often the case) - they will be pursued, and if you block them all, it will cripple the economy as it will lower the expectation of profit. Capitalism breeds practices like planned obsolescence, aggressive marketing and tracking to fuel overconsumption, it promotes a lavish lifestyle - all to ensure the monetary flow necessary to keep such economy afloat.

  Socialist society is more adaptive in this regard. You can ramp up production and overconsumption, Earth be damned, or you can slow down and invest in long-term, sustainable solutions, even at the expense of short-term returns. The latter, however, means getting less competitive internationally, which is exactly the sacrifice the socialist countries of the past, including USSR, were not willing to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which government he might be talking about 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From the creator of:

  “We’re fighting religious fanatics who seek a nuclear capability in order for some religious Armageddon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA FLAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big if true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever you get convoluted bonus systems, you know you’re being screwed over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some serious advertising for a plastic container with extra steps 😄

  Will look into it, though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to recommend the one I use if need be

  Please do! I never pressed tofu before, only ate it as is, and yes, it isn’t dense enough to my taste indeed.

  Looked up the air fryer recipe, nutritional yeast sounds like an obvious thing I didn’t try! Also, as mentioned in a different response, onion powder is an obvious thing I didn’t add.

  Will also look into fajitas. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll see if I can get something of the kind in my area. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! Didn’t try garlic and onion, despite it being an obvious choice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine lol, most of the time I use something like the mysterious “chicken spices” or something :D

  But what you did tell me confirms some of my own insights. Thank you!