Commiunism

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, and once I became aware of the fact realized that I was kinda screwed when it came to video games.

Every single video game I have purchased is on Steam, and considering its DRM and licence business model, I had multiple conversations with my friends who also had the same worry and wondered what would happen if Steam shut down one day. Valve did state that they'll remove the DRM if the platform shut down, but there's no way of knowing the future as million things can happen and for all we know, they might change their minds or not be in a position to remove the DRM once the time came.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

IQ score is a sham - the tests are quite fallible, and historically they were used as a justification to discriminate against people who are poorer or with worse access to education. Nowadays, I see it quite a lot in the context of eugenics, where some professors and philosophers attribute poor people being poor due to their low intelligence (low IQ score), and that they can't be helped while rich people got where they are due to their intelligence (as in they have a high IQ score on average).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Shy bladder syndrome - I can only take go on a toilet and do my business at my own home while no one else is nearby, and this makes it very hard whenever I get hospitalized, have to stay somewhere overnight (thankfully never happened), or being in school/work as I can never use the toilet once the need arises - gotta wait until I'm back home for that.

The worst it had affected me was at a hospital once where it took me around 2-3 days to be able to finally start urinating there after countless attempts over the time period, and 2 weeks to be able to take a shit. It's no fun.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Used to like old MoistCritical, now it's all just drama, stream reactions and an occasional sex toy video. Also took up a gambling site sponsorship for one of the podcast episodes, so I stopped watching him and haven't seen the channel in like a year. Maybe he has changed though in that time.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's this saying about how if something is punishable by a fine, then it's only illegal for poor people.

I don't even have to finish this do I

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

they probably meant web versions of the app that run both on chromium and gecko (firefox) browser engines

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

they were playing the long game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

His money could be used to fix so many issues en masse. It’s disgusting that he chooses not to do so every day.

Pretty sure he posted on twitter a couple years ago about how if someone credible provided a plan to solve world hunger for 6 billion dollars, he would sell Tesla stock and just do it, to which the UN responded with a detailed plan. However, Musk pretty much ignored them, no acknowledgment (as far as I know) and no money donated.

Using the money to fix issues in the world and making it a better place is not a part of his politics.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure it's an inevitability at this point and Musk knows it, which is precisely why he's fueling the flames of the whole ad situation. Since the whole controversy are both about the Jews (as in antisemitism) and advertisers, they can be blamed for the death of the platform instead of business decisions by Musk.

There's also the possibility that some right-wing billionaires who really love to spread their propaganda using twitter are going to buy the company or bail it out or whatever, but that remains to be seen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

wasn't there some drama where some other cracker group exposed "her" as being some bulgarian dude?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The death of the sun will arrive before gamers actually do a boycott that is successful, because boycotts (especially for popular franchises or products) don't work. If you rally up 10,000 people for a boycott, it's less than 1% of sales AAA studios get and 70% of the boycotters are still going to buy the game regardless.

No change is going to happen ever, so the best thing to do is to start ignoring the AAA gaming industry altogether on a personal level.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Finland is capitalist and kind of solved homelessness, with there being around only 1.3k homeless people in the entire country (population: 5.6m, which means the rate of homelessness is around 0.02%).

I don't think that communism or any ideology is an answer to homelessness, it's pretty much the job for the government and what kind of systems/reforms they implement.

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