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- Comment on Security is an illusion 5 hours ago:
We’re a crack house? Surrrrre.
Try crack house brothel of conservatism run by a megalomanical toddler, filled to the brim with weapons of mass destruction, and looking to expand into new territories. Then you’re right.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 1 week ago:
Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don’t know unreadable until you’ve encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 2 weeks ago:
Lucky! You have hot singles in your
areaspam folder, and all I get is blatant blackmail scams telling me they have my (wrong) phone number and that there’s nation-state Spyware on my phone recording video every time I dare to stroke some sausage. - Comment on You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism 2 weeks ago:
“At least it’s not CoMmUNiSm”
— Bartholomew Bootsonhisface - Comment on How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious 2 weeks ago:
That’s assuming they get fair representation, which they won’t. The Republican Party would justify it as Canadians being outsiders who “don’t understand our politics” and shouldn’t be given that much power and influence over future elections until they’re ready (which is never), and the Democrats would do fuck-all about with their moral grandstanding preventing them from using the same delay and filibustering tactics that were constantly used against them.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! You get it.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 weeks ago:
About 20 trips to the grocery store and the associated gas prices.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 weeks ago:
You’re describing the Republican politicians. The Republican voters are a different bag entirely.
Out of the ones I have discussed politics with, their underlying motivations for supporting Trump are emotionally driven but explained through rhetoric aligning with their emotional motivations. It tends to be grouped into one of a few different feelings:
- cost of living/financial security — immigrants’ fault, taxes, foreign nations taking advantage of US generosity
- fear of change/bigotry — immigrants, “DEI”, “wokeness”, border security
- American exceptionalism/egotism — immigrants, 1st ammendment
- distrust of federal government — “DEI”, government corruption, regulatory overreach, socialism = communism
- distrust of industry — vaccines harmful, science bad
Aside from the bigotry and exceptionalism, those emotions aren’t necessarily wrong. Cost of living increases, politicians owned by lobbyists, and profit-driven privatization of essential services are actual problems. The issue with conservatives is that they have scapegoats to blame those problems on instead of acknowledging the underlying causes. All it takes is some loudmouth, ignorant jackass offering an overly-simplified, emotionally-compelling solution to a complex problem, and others will latch on to it, oversimplify and exaggerate it even more, and disseminate it until the rest of them start believing it.
People can be hateful, narcissistic pieces of shit, and it goes without saying that this repugnant rhetoric is spread intentionally. But, it’s also a direct consequence of a public education system failing among a landscape of patriotic propaganda and media controlled by a powerful few who put profit and self-gain above the health of society.
When someone grows up being told America is a flawless nation, is never educated to think critically of the government and media, and is bombarded by a neverending stream of false information that validates their fears and lulls them into feel smarter than everyone else, they end up being indoctrinated into the right-wing cult we have today.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 3 weeks ago:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Trump supporters: “that’s fine, the president isn’t congress”
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 4 weeks ago:
Of the special variety?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully we get something out of this fucking bullshit
At the current trajectory, it be at best a renewed appreciation for how good things used to be.
- Comment on Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative 5 weeks ago:
“He illegally obtained a gun, and that’s a FeLoNY” /s
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 5 weeks ago:
My policy has always been if you want me to use your crap, you provide the hardware. And if they still insist, they get to live with their garbage running inside a VM.
There’s exactly 0% chance I’m letting corporate spyware touch my data or have full access to my hardware. Between being able to lock down the operating system and remotely wipe the device, that shit cannot be trusted.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 month ago:
I see your point, but as someone who preferred my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under
~/.configregardless of what operating system is being used. - Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 month ago:
No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 1 month ago:
Epic Games is also a private company… and they’re the posterchild for “fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly.”
It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.
- Comment on Babyllionaire Musk got r/whitepoepletwitter banned 1 month ago:
“They broke the law,” tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I would be careful with recommending trying to price-optimize power supplies. Sustained/average power draw under load is not peak power draw, and tolerances beyond the rated PSU wattage vary by manufacturer.
The OP is also looking into the RTX 5090, which is even more power hungry.
- Comment on Can 2025 please be the year more games add Text and UI Scaling 2 months ago:
>Mom, can we get quality options? >Mom: We have quality options at home.
\Quality options at home:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Knowing how useless the cops are when it comes to doing anything that involves them having to voluntarily fill out paperwork, I imagine the legal avenue won’t do much until after OP has been assaulted. Violence is bad, but it’s hard to argue against results.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, don’t do this… If the guy is a Nice Guy™, offering up fake nudes is just going to feed into their delusion as confirmation of their approach and make them feel even more entitled. And if the nudes end up being a dick pic, they usually end up getting violent and threatening instead of backing off.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 months ago:
Dbzer0, good. ML, bad. Their admins are trigger happy with instance-wide bans against users who criticize them or their political ideology.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 2 months ago:
Neat. The guy’s argument with you has accidentally leaked into another community, with him replying to me and another poster with ad hominem attacks and desires to see us (who never mentioned religion) institutionalized.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:
- Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity
- Halfway decent customer support
- Unreal Engine 5’s performance
- Keeping their old of games accessible
- Not scamming kids out of virtual money
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
The approved competitor to a monopoly is… *checks notes* a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?
No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.
- Comment on Evil 3 months ago:
>TOML has entered the channel
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 3 months ago:
But how would we get through to normie 12-year-olds who just want to play Valorant and not have their face constantly rubbed in the dirt by “hackers”?
I think it would be good for them to be told the truth: you aren’t being killed by hackers, you just suck.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 3 months ago:
Are they actually going to pay that out?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message.
