… are they not both tiny face?

“Only now is it clicking???” They literally said they believed in it! This thread is a perfect example of why so much of the fediverse is fucking insufferable. This is not a climate change denier, you fucking morons. So determined to find enemies absolutely everywhere that when someone says something as innocuous as “several years ago I hadn’t noticed the physical changes yet,” hundreds of people are upvoting unproductive, misdirected, snide mockery.

I’m no scientist but I imagine if you want to cite someone, you need to access their research legally

Holy fuck you people are insufferable. 20 down and flooding my inbox for that? What the fuck lmao

PC gamers haven’t pushed back as hard because the basic facts are NOT the same. The ecosystem is entirely different. I’m not interested in defending Steam or its use of DRM, but the fact that something is illegal doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Piracy is one of the big reasons PC gamers aren’t nearly as affected by the lack of physical media being sold: you just make it yourself. I’ve even pirated games I already own just because it’s the easiest way to have an unmodded install alongside a heavily modded one.

But the lack of options for console gamers doesn’t stop there. Not only are the hardware and software environments completely locked down, but demographically, a much greater number of console buyers are going to be those with bad or no internet. They can’t just download whatever from wherever. If they lose the discs, they may lose access entirely.

I wonder if Grok is also the justification they’ll start using for claiming that random fishing boats in the Pacific are actually drug runners

A few times. I first started disliking NPR in 2016 when their coverage was so bad that I felt compelled several times to ask them to stop pretending Bernie was fringe, but that obviously never changed. I’d say I get fed up enough to send them a thing like once a year. They don’t care; their big donors have always been corporate, even before their federal funding got cut.

Last time I sent feedback I was asking them to make local stations’ newscasts accessible on NPR One; I can’t find an archive of any local station’s newscasts, and the only way to listen to them online at all was to first skip past the national one and just hope the local one was queued up.

Since I sent that, I no longer get my local casts on NPR One at all. Probably a coincidence, I must be tuning in at the wrong time of day… Idk. Fuck em.

Really? Damn, I can’t remember the last time I tried launching a Steam game and it didn’t work. What are you trying to play?

In my fantasyland you would pair them with another device, like a phone, and it would do all the work. The glasses would basically be nothing more than a receiver and a display

I don’t think anyone has the reputation of Fitgirl, but other than her, Dodi is definitely the most reliable name I know of. He also recently said he’s gonna do a soft retirement and not release as much stuff in the future, so, idk, doesn’t seem like the behavior of someone who might be building a botnet lol

Indeed it is :)

I imagine you’ll struggle to find any locally elected politician anywhere who got a bigger turnout than that for the presidential race.

If you’re open to piracy, it looks like Dodi has a repack of Syndicate (2012) up. That’s very good news if you’re on Linux; in my experience Fitgirl installers almost never work, but Dodi’s have never failed me.

Load up your launcher of choice (Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus are the three I’m familiar with), run the installer through that, and you should be set.

Ha, this reminds me of how angry I got at NPR the other day when they aired this. They were all too happy for the centerpiece of their story to be an interview with some spokesperson who did the classic move of blaming Overbearing California Regulations as a problem, saying that it’s forcing them to keep a shitty old system in place, and then they moved on to the next piece without addressing how the real problem was that AT&T is refusing to install new equipment before cutting off service to the old stuff. California’s regulations are saving hundreds of thousands of people from losing service, and somehow they’re the bad guy here.

Drives me fucking crazy that NPR is somehow considered a left leaning news source. I guess it’s all relative, huh…

Edit, I’ve actually been trying to remember to make notes whenever NPR airs a story that pisses me off. Just for fun, I’m gonna include the few I have here:

Explain to me how providing ID to websites is good. Explain to me how this is good for your data privacy. Uploading all your photo ID and whatnot into some private corp or government database, where it absolutely will be linked with your account, which is already grossly tracked across the internet in numerous ways. you’re just asking to have your ID attached to your online activities.

You are clearly not reading the same thread I am. No one is defending those concepts; literally the opposite. You asked “why” in response to the statement that believing government propaganda is bad.

Sure, better parenting is good in a general sense, and parents should be mindful of what their kids are watching, but better parenting won’t stop governments from invading your privacy because they don’t actually do it in order to protect kids. They do it to control people, and they SAY they’re doing it to protect kids in order to keep people complacent until it’s too late. Believing the government when they say they need to protect kids from media is believing authoritarian propaganda.

What explanation are you even asking for? Why shouldn’t you believe fucking authoritarian propaganda? lmao??? That’s like asking why pushing over old people and laughing at them is bad; if you don’t get it, you won’t get it.

Yeah, when you change the context of the sentence, the meaning changes too. “A court allows” and “a man allows” aren’t the same thing.

The court had an issue brought before it. It could either allow or disallow the usage of the maps. There isn’t an in-between. Making a big deal over using “allow” for a court is so mind-numbingly, insufferably pedantic that I can’t believe real people are actually up voting it.

“Approves” I can see a problem with because it implies that the court has made a final ruling. But being mad about it because of some moralizing nonsense is absolutely ridiculous.

Wow no need to be an asshole. Whatever, guess I forgot nothing a court ruled has ever had weight my bad

“allows”

They painted their cars pink and covered them with pro-LGBT text, then drove through rural Alabama. So yeah, they got followed for a bit.