Xanis

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure. Except those on the Left won't. Couple reasons:

  1. Can't agree on a reason.

  2. Won't agree on a where and when.

  3. Will disagree whether it's worth it right now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The first thing I did when I was issued a laptop for a job was check for monitoring software of any type. The second thing I did was become extremely suspicious when I couldn't find any. I suppose the rule is "most likely" or "more often than not" while also being "always assume".

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Authoritative knee jerk with a bit of ignorance thrown in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I've had it for AGES. I agree that ads have been a bit much and many websites almost unusable without Origin. YT Premium though has been fairly solid with a couple hiccups.

Admittedly, I use YouTube as my primary source of entertainment. So the price is easily justified vs other services.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love reading and playing Chess. Writing is a personal passion and maaan do I love to talk about psychology, sociology, and the larger sciences. At the same time I do enjoy exercise such as hiking and exploring in general, though I need someone to pull me out to actually do these things. Otherwise, I'll stay home and read, play games, and continue to learn the motherfucking piano, which is proving to be a nice challenge.

Intelligence here is simply someone who is curious and driven enough to ask questions. Solid +3 modifier to sexiness if they're smarter than me. Like, let me listen to you talk about amphibians, historical setbacks, or how a geological formation potentially created a series of tunnels full of mystery and allure. I eat that shit up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

tldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer's security.

This means continue not going to sketchy sites.

Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment.

Continue not being a dumbass.

Proceed as normal.

Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Rethink this stuff before you put yourself up as a reactionary

immediately reacts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where companies with monopolies are found to gain that title by ousting competitors and brutal buyouts and tactics literally every time, Valve exists. Literally. They just exist. Big difference between a monopoly and the best.

Other companies also exist. In fact there are several launchers and two other digital distributors, and several websites, where one can purchase games. There are some things Steam is shit on. The still feels old interface as a broad example. Competitors could push in, like Epic. Instead, they manage to create the next step up from a gold-tainted dung pile, shit on their own launcher or store stability and performance, and create an experience so bad that Steam is able, through the fuckups of their rivals, maintain a market majority.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's not REALLY incest that turns them on usually. It's the deep taboo of the potential act itself. Thus plenty of people are turned on by the thought when it involves others, and plenty more are turned off when it comes to their own family. Similar can be said for a lot of sexually charged taboo subjects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly why "we" is important. People are struggling and it's difficult to consider the world when your own life is falling apart.

Unfortunately I don't have a true solution to this beyond the need for a real leader to step up. Well...there is another solution, though I'd rather not speak of it for fear of ending up on a list. It's also not one I support. Still, I feel strongly that we can find our way.

At the very least I'm not just going to roll over.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I was taught a lesson when I was younger that you cannot compare your trauma to that of another. I also learned that it isn't rage which defines progress, it is determination. Apathy, a loss of hope, quells the spirit and stunts progress. Those not on the Right are especially individualistic. We cater to the spirit of independence, while also celebrating love and community, though always as individuals to individuals. It's not "I" or "Myself" that makes the change. The shift happens when we step up together and change sets in when there is a united, achievable goal.

In near every recent movement the Left has been a part of with the exception of Bernie, there has been nothing that was clearly defined and clearly achievable. Just a bunch of angry people loosely pointing fingers. FeelTheBern DID work and imagine how things may have been different not if Bernie had been elected, but if we with our strength of spirit continued down a united path. Bernie's ENTIRE message was never about getting him elected, it was always about us coming together and being active as one.

I'm sad that so many people seem to have forgotten that.

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