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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s successful it might under cut the claims against Valve but they can just claim the press from the lawsuit helped break the monopoly – and besides the lawsuit was just for PR and to try to get Valve to break financially. It was always a longshot that it’d do anything else. If it’s unsuccessful, however, it can be blamed entirely on Valve and can be used to get the lawsuit to actually do something as “look we implemented everything Steam did and didn’t get any more market share.”

  But Epic kinda doesn’t have a choice. They’re bleeding money, Fortnite is waning, they have no popular properties on the horizon, they’re hard into AI for customer service and moderation which is only getting more expensive, and they keep doing the sweetheart deals to devs for their game giveaways which haven’t really brought any paying users to the platform.

  It’s either attempt feature parity or start cutting the consumer facing part of the business, and for one of the industry’s oldest and most prominent players that’s really not a choice they want to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but setting it back to the default, and advocating it needs to go back to being the default, shouldn’t be seen as conservative or racist or whatever group you were trying to associate with it.

  If it were the default then affordable apartments would exist again out of necessity, as there would simply be so much less demand the price would have to trend towards the actual cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, no. Housing isn’t a commodity, and independent housing shouldn’t be treated as a necessity for most people. Both of these can be true. Multi-generational family homes or compounds genuinely do benefit both the individual and the family greatly, allowing actual social mobility even in capitalist hellscapes. When your rent is 1/10th of your income because you’re splitting it with a half dozen other income earners, you have enough money to save, or to spend, or to do anything you want with it, including expanding your compound so you have more privacy as your own personal life grows.

  No one should have to live in an independent home, but it’s also not something that is needed or should be encouraged for the vast majority of people. Collectivism is the only reason you or any of us are alive. It is the only reason society exists. Individualism is inherently anti-human, and a poison to everything built by humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ars Technica, owned by Conde Nast and The Wired Group, both of which are owned by Advance Publications, is a zionist pro-billionaire propaganda outlet.

  Fun fact, the owner of Advance Publications, officially listed as “the Newhouse Family,” also has a majority share in reddit and sits on its board of directors. In case you might be wondering where you got your bias towards it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it’s harder. JS is easy mode in web development, all the things just kinda work with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Americans who voted for Trump(who fucked their health-insurance) after hearing that healthcare in Europe is free:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You pay over your lifetime what a US citizen might pay in a particularly bad year. Including all tax burden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to industrialization, bitchass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair Americans don’t really know history, being the most propagandized people on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person goes "missing" and never found. How long does it take for life insurance to kick in and bank accounts resort back to the family?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually 5-10 years depending on country, though almost all countries allow you to file for an early judicial declaration of death to potentially speed things up.

  Though even then don’t really count on life insurance, which almost always has separate clauses for the type of death which would be impossible to prove if there’s no body. Extremely few insurance types pay out for missing people, since it’s a legal and PR nightmare for the company if that person shows up again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨indoor mushroom farming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure thing, my undereducated comrade.

  Fungi (or protofungi) were likely the first large multi-cellular life on land, predating plants by at least a half billion years and creating the soil conditions necessary for plants to make the jump from the ocean. In fact plant life without fungal symbiosis on land likely would have been impossible.

  As to the second part, while it’s controversial in some circles that lean heavily toward divine creation or intervention, the Stoned Ape Theory is nonetheless pretty well supported. As for my exact wording; I’m also including dolphins, which do recreational drugs anyway, and suggesting outside popular theories there’s a sea fungus they’ve keyed in on in the past, as well as octopi who like to get high, even crows like a little chemical help now and again. While we don’t have direct evidence of non-ape species being particularly into eating fungus for its mind altering effects, the fact that pretty much every ‘intelligent’ species seems to enjoy recreational mind-altering drugs does point to a common origin for intelligence itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨indoor mushroom farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, it’s very likely that without mushrooms land animals wouldn’t exist. More controversially it’s possible that without mushrooms no creatures with higher order thinking like human variants could exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Forest Service to Open Millions of Acres to Off-Road Vehicles, Memo Shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey, many of these places have had once in a millennia fires that caused billions in damages.

  I’m sure bringing in vehicles built on the concept of causing multiple explosions per second is a fantastic idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Osama Bin Laden was given the option: commit terror acts against the US; or install trump as president. With full knowledge of the results of multiple trump presidencys which would he chose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever his CIA handlers told him is best for the interests of the owners of the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every culture interprets modesty differently. Many muslim cultures don’t have hijabs but have other hair coverings similar to the ones Christians and Jewish women are required to wear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The middle class doesn’t really exist in any meaningful way in the latest capitalist era. It originally meant the link between peasantry and Nobles in the late feudal period when the more aptly named Merchant class starting rising. This distinction was important at the time because unlike peasants the merchant class could generally own land and lived in relative luxury, but unlike nobles they couldn’t exercise any legal or military authority directly.

  The “modern” term started with a random fuckass UK statistician that had that same mindset, but called nobles and the incredibly wealthy “upper class” where as pretty much all business owners and managers were middle class because they controlled large amounts of ‘human capital’ just without any real legal or military authority.

  But really it’s all bourgeoisie, Either you work or you don’t. You produce or aid in the production of something, or you’re a ‘manager’ or ‘owner.’ There is no effective middle class in modern societies, because even if you do own a small business, the gap between you and the lowest paid worker in your society is minuscule compared to the gap between you and the real bourgeoisie; so you’re either bourgeoisie or a class traitor if you consider yourself middle class.

  That all is to justify: We should be focusing on eliminating the “middle class,” by total expansion of the working class to the standards of said middle class. The government should be empowering the poorest members of its society, its foundation, instead of worrying about a mythical and nonexistent middle class or showering the top with infinite money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What could China do that the US dropping more bombs than were dropped during the entirety of WWII didn’t do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What… what do you think modern Chinese history is? While it’s widely regarded as over, no peace treaty was ever signed. And while the KMT dictatorship lost power across the Taiwan islands in 1981, the resulting pseudo-government that formed afterwards also failed to introduce any cessation of hostilities. Hell right up until 1973 the KMT still wanted to invade the mainland again.

  This war, like the Korean war, never ended. There was no formal end to either war, simply a continued pause in the hostilities. Worse, for your position, there is no active ceasefire agreement between the PRC and the pseudo-government on the island. The sole reason hostilities stopped in 1965 was because the US dedicated a carrier group to the area (and all the CIA-backed KMT soldiers that sheltered in Burma were finally routed and slowed their terror attacks down to focus on running drugs). At this point the PRC has dedicated itself to a peaceful unification, which has been the PRC’s position since 1965 when it was clear the few thousand remaining KMT soldiers could do no harm to mainland Chinese citizens and the need to be ever ready for war was taking far too many resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症）⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly Answer: American morning rituals are sacred. They are to be hidden from our enemies.

  Actual Answer:

  Small Data sources compiled over time with rough geographic approximation (or direct geographic information such as GPS sensors on phones) as well as likely consumer information can actually form a complete or near complete profile on the habits and locations of individuals, groups, and companies, including military targets. As an example, if we assume all Chinese companies are secretly government controlled (they’re not.) extensions of their spy agency then, for example, a useful profile might include:

  Time the alarm clock went off + time water heater gets activated + time coffee maker is set to make coffee + time refrigerator is opened and closed + time recorded by alarm system + video from doorbell cam = Accurate morning routine, including when the house will be empty, when it will be occupied but not actively monitored (during a morning shower), if and when the person might be gone for a run and how long

  If you need to target say, a general who you believe has classified information in his home office, then it would be amazing to know all of this. It’d also be easier to just bribe the maid to get what you want (which is how 99% of ‘spying’ operations actually work.)

  If you extend that to all things that might form some amount of data on their use, you could get a total profile of everything someone does in a day in their home… or office… or possibly military base.

  Now is this is a risk? Yes.

  Is this a likely risk? No. Not even a little. Again bribing a maid or maintenance technician is cheaper, easier, and way, way less risky.

  Then why do so many Chinese appliances send this information to unknown and scary ip addresses?

  Because data is valuable to advertisers, and theoretically it’s valuable to engineers to know how their product is being used. This combined with executives’ push for everything to have an app, because data is valuable and because it makes the product seem ‘modern,’ fully offers a simple explanation on how and why we find ourselves here. But sinophobia in the Amerisraeli Empire is the only way the Epstein class actually maintains any control – if there is an enemy who they accuse of doing even worse, the subjects of the empire let them do anything they way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey, anthropology questions on a primarily western instance filled with Americans and Europeans, this will end well.

  Simple answer: It heavily depends on the region and time period, there were periods of equality and periods of great inequality in every area of the – it was Greece. and the Germanic tribes that eventually formed Rome. That is the reason why it is prevalent in western culture as a meme, as well as anywhere western culture colonized.

  Complex Answer:

  Women have historically been equal to men or held in higher positions of power than men for most of human history. In early human societies (and intact uncontacted societies today, from observation) there was no clear sexual hierarchy, so we can conclude it didn’t really start there. From western development we see women in equal roles in pre-dynastic Egypt and across multiple middle eastern areas. While some greek tribes (and for that matter some germanic tribes) did have women in spiritual or leadership roles, this was incredibly uncommon and as ‘European’ culture became the ‘civilized’ culture, women took on a much more subservient, lesser role in society; as they saw the male form as more capable.

  As one culture and viewpoint started to dominate, it started to leak in and infect practically every aspect of society. Early Catholicism and christianity, for instance, had women as equals, though the church lost that idea by the 9th century. By the 19th century when we see modern women’s liberation movements, a fully patriarchal society had developed which was incredibly domineering and widespread. Thanks to colonization by western European powers.