I don’t disagree on that… Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don’t see anything else that represents a way forward.

Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc… All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting… is.

Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

I mean there’s 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of… replicating massively over large distances very quickly… IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update… differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

True on the gist that, a single corruption can’t hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can’t randomly damage the first 19 characters.

I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

My thoughts exactly, what’s next “cigarettes are bad for your health, fossil fuels may have something to do with climate change”

I’ve been somewhat interested, I’ve heard very similar descriptions of it. Honestly the second game is one I’d really like to play, but I have no desire at all to play the completely unrelated game that you have to finish to get to it.

But all homophobes are secretly Lindsay Graham

Based on the looks of it… a forbes article rewritten in AI to be an affiliate link to be reused as an ad link for proton mail.

Or after… or in-between trump 1 and 2.

I mean to me honestly… I hate stories in MMOs. Because to me they seem to greatly hurt… well the MMO portion of the games.

IE the point of an MMO is, about meeting real people playing together etc…

Stories tend to lead to things that IMO harm them… first and foremost, quest chains, In the old days of ragnarok online, Everquest etc… You find people, you group together and kill things to level up. Generally speaking they usually had huge ranges that you could work together on… Often in the points of like 50-60 hours… you could take 5 days off, and when you come back join up with the same friends you ran with before you left.

Quest chains on the other hand… oh sorry I played for 30 minutes while you were having lunch, I’m on quest 6 of the chain… you’re only on 2 now… you’ll need to solo I guess.

In addition I don’t find quests immersive, under the raw concept that, MMOs can’t be immersive. The defining requirement of an MMO is… the world can’t change because thousands more people need to do exactly what you just did. I remember WoW used to drive me crazy because the NPC would be thanking you for killing all the werewolves in his garden, while you can see the werewolves respawned right behind him as he’s thanking you, and of course as you are walking out from killing the big bad of the region… you’re getting begged by people to come help them kill the same big bad.

I love MMOs… but I can’t help but feel like the desire for story… is drastically harmful to the whole concept of them. Because there’s 2 key problems… Most people can’t be the stand out legendary best guy… with thousands of players, and the world can’t change.

But yeah that being said I kind of looked at new world as a potential game to fit the itch that I’ve had for years… of an MMORPG that actually was group based, working together as a team like the old days… but amazon owning it basically made me say nope… and looks like that part alone was a good reason not to.

I mean… I have to say, civil war wise this is possibly worse.

Trumps initial claim of her was that she was weak and she didn’t have the support of her people. Obviously it’s BS… but look at it now.

Imagine being one of the Venezuelan people. Someone just kissed the ass of the guy who just kidnapped your former leader. Regardless of her capabilities… Everyone will know she took power, by overtly sucking up to the guy that’s been bombing their fishing boats, killed 80 people in the process of kidnapping their leader. No matter how you look at it I can’t imagine the people of Venezuela are going to see her as anything but having sold out their country.

Really currious what the overlap in really shitty politics and really shitty behaviors is. I mean obviously we’ve got the blatent shit at both ends like Gingrich, Trump, Sinema etc…

Clinton, kind of iffy on both ends there, I mean honestly he accomplished a lot of things republicans wanted but couldn’t have done… ripping up Glass-Steagall etc… His affairs could be looked at as far less, but I do have to point out the power dynamics are what should have been the bigger deal than they were. I haven’t heard much on how Weiner’s policies were, I don’t think I’ve heard much on his policies, only his too hard to stop laughing at misconduct.

Now now… political discourse, it’s not like one nation can just call out a bounty on another nations leader and assasinate or kidnap them without severe political consiquences… any nation dumb enough to set that precident would have no leg to stand on when another nation tries to do it to them right?

at one point there was talk of moving the pirate bay to The Principality of Sealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

I mean not sure who’s talking about boycotting the DNC, I’m sure some idiots are going that route… but I do have to point out the obvious problem…

as you are right it’s about backing the progressive candidates. But the key point also is to realize how hopeless the DNC is…

IE if they lose… they say they must have gone too progressive and shift further to the right.

If they win… they say “whew… ok we did well, now we just need to shift further to the right to solidify everything”. They will always shit on the left, always try and push further right.

Now I can agree with you, backing progressives is the way to go… though I will point out, it’s about knowing the DNC is going to do whatever it can to oppose progressives getting into the democratic party.

I’d assume because many people in these discussions are married… in which case yeah getting an STD would be the booger on top of the shit sundae. But yeah the test results only have to be checked overall at the start of the long term relationship… at least assuming you can trust your partner… while pregnancy is something you’ve got to be alert to in the entirety of a relationship.

Adams died due to the anger he caused others through… a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP VINDICATION SYNDROME.

was my thought exactly, from everything i understand… bee’s are just prostitutes. They let flowers nut on them… to gather the food they need to feed their families.

He’s saying that there’s no new users, the existing users are 173% fatter.

Honestly it doesn’t sound like it. To get that many new users and that little revenue pretty much implies that most of their “new users” are people who come in to get the free game, and won’t put a dime into using it.

If I ran a bookstore and did a promo where I gave a book away to everyone once a month. I went from 1000 customers a month, to 2,700 customers a month. but only sold 10 more books each month. That would pretty strongly demonstrate that people don’t want to buy my books, and almost all of the increased traffic is people just taking free books and leaving.

Not the headline in this case, it’s how stupid the concept is.

In short, Felony murder is if you are commiting a crime and someone dies, you are held liable for it. In some cases it’s half reasonable (Lets say if 2 guys go to rob a store, shopkeeper shoots one of the robbers, the surviving one is considered responsible for the death). But in execution it often leads to some horrificly stupid decisions like, say someone borrows a friends car, uses it in a crime in which someone dies… the damn friend can be responsible even if he had no idea of the plot or the crime that was intended, simply because he in some way provided something that was used in the crime.

and yeah here, it’s basically depending on maga’s extremely stupid interpretation that Renee Good just was going out looking to cause trouble for ice and tried to run one over. Which so far seems absolutely BS, everything seems to point to she was just driving back from dropping her kids off, got flooded with contradictory orders from the keystone cops, who shot her for being nice in the fray of it.

It’s bullshit on 200 levels, but at least trying to interpret what the bullshit argument that’s attempted to be made. If you grant all the bullshit claims made by this administration, and you accept this bullshit law felony murder that’s rife with misuse and full of unintended horrific consequences, and you squint, you can vaguely make out something resembling an arguement for it. (again that’s in a fictional world where you are dumb enough to believe what this administration says happened, over all the actual video of the events that blatently contradicts it.