Pika
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- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 day ago:
Fully agreed its dangerous
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 day ago:
technically the check for judicial was supposed to be a mix between it being a life position and the legislative branches impeachment/revocal process. The court was supposed to be an impartial non-political, but it’s been slowly slipping into a very heavily politically motivated group.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 day ago:
in the case of constitutional amendments, this gets even more complex. Technically states have the ability to force a constitutional convention hearing in the case of a legislative branch either not bringing to the floor or denying an amendment that has clear popularity in the states.
The issue with this is that it requires a 2/3 vote of the states in agreement, and that it also requires a system that only has the bare minimums defined legally on it. It doesn’t define what a convention is, or even how many people in the state have to agree. It’s fully left on the states to decide it on an individual basis how that system would work for them.
How it would work is
- currently legislative refuses to hear a popular amendment
- at least 2/3 of the states organize some sort of system that can act as a commitee somehow representing the overall choice of the states citizens
- upon 2/3 of the states agreeing, a convention is forced potentially excluding the legislative branch as a whole
- the bill that gets created at said convention is then put up to the 3/4 state vote required to ratify it.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 day ago:
I thought the intent behind that wasn’t to revoke previous pardons, but was to prevent a president from pardoning themselves in an impeachment trial.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 1 week ago:
From a company POV it’s probally meant to try and encourage you to let a friend know, but it seems that the page in this case might change upon login because it says to sign in to see your deals if you are an existing member
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 2 weeks ago:
maybe they updated it, for me it says first 12 months and then specifies “new customers only” under the “who’s eligible for this plan” section on the deal page. It also doesn’t give a link to login anymore and informs existing customers to sign in to see their own specialized deal
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
omg yes, I loved when games gave a replay stories or replay core concepts section of the menu, it’s not that hard to add but it lets you recap as well!
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
unpausable cutscenes. Nothing bugs me more than getting interrupted in the middle of a cutscene and not being able to press escape to pause the cutscene. You’re forced to try to split your attention between what interrupted you in the cutscene or restart and see the cutscene from the beginning again.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
I saw Silksong and split fiction and I had one creator I follow play death stranding 2. one just started e33 last week so I been watching that. The rest fell out of my circle of 40 or 50 streamers.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
the nominations for most things this year was fairly disappointing. I hadent heard of any of the events, the content creator one I didn’t watch and only knew of one by name,
I pegged myself as a fairly casual gamer and I do a lot of stream watching but, a good chunk of the games nominated I had never seen or never saw anyone streaming, many I had never heard of. It was surprising since most of my entertainment is via watching people play games or by gaming myself.
- Comment on Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting” 5 weeks ago:
My only thing with this is the claim is a glass cannon if its true. If no company resources were given out in this ordeal, if I was one of the 40 employees involved I would be leaking the forum messages publicly to show how there wasn’t any inside information involved. Make the entire case fall apart because if it’s shown no public info was involved, the claim it wasn’t over unionization becomes harder to fight. But I guess that is a better situation for in a court scenario.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
Many of them “use” them, as in have them enabled to allow for members of the community to use them, and sometimes they might offer patch note releases for updates via the announcement system or major issue posts, but most of them don’t actually provide support and assistance via them or even moderate them at times. Huge problem actors are inde studios but, even large producers have the issue. My latest one that I tried to post a bug report to is Phasmaphobia, which locks all support to their discord, but like most games don’t do official support via the forums.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
there was no sorta promised to delete, they stated in the press release, the actual age verification page and the FAQ page about age verification that the files were temporary… then apparently just didn’t, as I highly doubt 1.5tb of photos are “recent” photos.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
I refuse to join any of these in protest, and when I can’t submit bug reports via public forums I will rate the negatively.
I am firmly against using closed chat platforms such as discord for informational and support.
Years down the road obscure issues with the game are going to be unavailable either due to the server being abandoned or inability to look for issues soley due to everything being on discord now. I refuse to take part in it.
I’m only in one discord that is based off a game, and that is satisfactory exclusively because I was in the alpha program so It seemed right that I joined the main discord after the alpha ended.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
interesting. The other person explained what it was, I never knew there was a diff between it.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
oh that’s pretty cool, yea I’ve always just thrown marshmallows in the freezer. Didn’t realize there was a difference between them.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
can’t you just throw marshmallows in the freezer and then consume when wanted?
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
It’s not just you. Customer curated content in general on steam has gone drastically downhill over the last year or two.
Like review bomb mitigation can only go so far when the company refuses to block people from writing reviews that write enough off topic reviews.
The discussion forums are the same way, its all award farming ever since they released the ability to give steam points to people.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 2 months ago:
even if it did, its not like any existing motherboard requires internet to boot, you can just change the MB clock to be prior to the expiration and theoretically it should boot regardless of restrictions.
- Comment on Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right' 2 months ago:
payday still exists? I haven’t heard of the game in years. I’m surprised they even attempted this as a whole because it sounds like it’s only going to piss off their remaining userbase
- Comment on Thanks for nothing 2 months ago:
Can’t you disable your account without deleting? info would still be out there but, nobody would be able to see it again till you made it live
- Comment on Thanks for nothing 2 months ago:
Yes, I would rather have no email if there is nothing to update. I mark every one of these style emails as spam because I deal enough with garbage mail, I don’t need legitimate companies bolstering my inbox to get their name shown. Cause that’s the real reason for that. It’s meant as a reminder that the platform exists, to encourage you to go back onto it again.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 2 months ago:
I don’t. I passively mention lemmy when I’m discussing my activities, and if they show interest I go into further detail. They have never shown an interest past “Whats a lemmy”
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 2 months ago:
I don’t think this policy is enforceable in my state. Not that we have much of a mixed language anyway.
I don’t think its appropriate to have as a rule in general. I can understand having a universal language for work related topics if there is someone who doesn’t speak the language present (or isn’t fluent), but a straight out ban on all other languages but the target language? that’s just unneeded and creates a hostile work environment.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 months ago:
I hadent heard of him until BL4 was released, but man does he seem like a real big piece of work lol
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 2 months ago:
I use that coupon every once and awhile, but that still makes it 3$ more than what it used to be, and requires me to use a coupon when I could redeem for points or use something else. And thats also forcing me to use their app. Which the app itself is actual trash now. They removed the search bar for items, they added point expiration(ok this was awhile ago) they now charge you immediately upon placing the order, despite not actually starting the order until your GPS detects you are at the establishment. Theres no ability to cancel and order once placed, regardless if its started being made. Their FAQ page intentionally lies to you telling you that every purchase is final, despite the fact that if they haven’t started making the order, it will eventually refund the purchase. They added a waiver for class actions to the apps TOS meaning if you want to sue you must use third party attribution. It massively harvests data. All for the benefit of paying more for something that I used to be able to spend 12$ not even 10 years ago on.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 2 months ago:
Agreed, I almost exclusively go to dominos for that carryout deal. I can get 3 meals worth for < 10 or one meals worth for twice the price. It’s a no brainer.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 2 months ago:
Sorry I havent been on lemmy as often so delayed reply.
My standard order is 2 bacon mcdoubles(currently $4.89 a piece), a large fry($4.99) and a lemonade($2.49) or a Mcafe($5.99), so it ends up being $17.29 for my food or 18.64 after tax, or if I wanted a cafe it would be 19.76 or 21.34 after tax.
Just 5 years ago I could get 2 bacon mcdoubles, 2 large fries, a 20 piece nugget and a lemonade for about 18$ (granted that was with a deal).
Back in 2016 I could get that same bacon burger meal above for a little over 12. I can’t warrent it.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 months ago:
I haven’t gone to a mcdonald’s by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it’s now 22$ after tax. yea no I’ll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 3 months ago:
It depends on how you are looking at it. Since you called it “Investment properties” I have to assume you plan to maximize profits on it so I would have to say yes it is. However if you are renting the property out for market value and only doing a modest increase to cover costs and the mortgage I don’t think it is. Obviously you need to cover expenses for the property or else someone else who won’t do the same is going to obtain it.