Seems like I won’t get Steam Deck anytime soon

You can save a lot by buying a lower model and swapping the SSD later; it will end up cheaper in total as well as immediately, which makes it almost a no-brainer. It’s not as simple as a PC but it’s still easy enough that if you’ve ever done it for a PC you will likely manage it. If you happen to live around the Ottawa/Gatineau area in Canada, I’ll do the swap for you if you’re not comfortable with it, you just need to supply the SSD (and I can give suggestions on that).

I don’t know if any of that helps you at all but this is a realm I know well and I try to help where I can.

Oh you have definitely read it. I come from a family of union men, and am myself a union executive. Reading that stuff felt surreal lol.

Great comment, you’ve nailed it.

I think there’s a reason Star Wars gets more shit for being woke than Spiderverse

Funny enough even within the Star Wars universe there are good and bad things. Mandalorian and Rogue One? Pretty great. Episode 7+ and Acolyte? Pretty shit. You’ll notice though that the more forced the progressivism is in a given piece of content, the more it sucks. In other words: bad writing doesn’t just fuck the story up, it bakes in messaging that doesn’t even make sense contextually.

Anyone who has ever read the Sword of Truth series and encountered the author’s obsession with hating socialism has seen what happens when right-wing folk do it: it ruins the experience. Why would we excuse it from progressives?

This is what happens when you only read part of the 1st Amendment.

If bathrooms were properly designed instead of having half walls that don’t even meet, I doubt people would care nearly as much.

Given the nature of their matchmaking approach, this is probably the best option.

Would be easier if we could choose our lobbies out of a list…

ADL report

Opinion discarded. Those ADL fucks lie about damn near everything.

Oh man Transmetropolitan, Judge Dredd, and some other deeply satirical stories like Harrison Bergeron have ended up being closer to reality than even the best attempts at dystopia: Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 (though its critique of what is essentially social media is on point), Minority Report (let’s see how AI in law enforcement goes…), Handmaid’s Tale…

I save a special spot for 1984 because our technology is spying on us, our governments and billionaires are using the media to manufacture consent, and the lies and danger around us make us not trust each other. 1984 did get pretty close, but 1984 was made with the assumption that our elites are competent and willing to work together and that does not seem to be the case actually. That’s our one saving grace and we need to act on it as soon as possible.

Book or movie? Because if you mean the book we’re going to have words.

Oh that is uncanny, I was just thinking about this game today. Really a surprisingly unique car combat game, I still haven’t played anything like it.

Interesting, I remember years of libs ruthlessly mocking right-wing users (and the lefties who agreed) for thinking Twitter and other social media was dangerous. Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?

I’m a lefty with a working memory who knows authoritarians are not to be trusted no matter what side they claim to be on. It seems like the most obvious position a person can hold but people are struggling with even this…

Paper without some sort of code to hide what’s happening isn’t much better, considering if something ever happens you could get searched.

then comes the worst part: angry libs start blaming the electorate instead of the people who lost

I feel like even calling them “angry libs” gives them some measure of undeserved credibility. Let’s call them “fucking crybaby closet fascists” because that’s what they are.

Try some lefty moves or keep losing Dems.

I had to drive a friend of a friend to the hospital because some scumfuck drugged his drink. I don’t even like the guy but I obviously wasn’t going to leave him like that.

When talking to the doctor I was surprised to find out that men also often get drugged and it’s not talked about for some reason.

This comment once again proving that when you hit a lib, a fascist cries out.

when they pick it up like it’s a club

Apparently not voting for the Diet Fascist party means you automatically voted for the Fascist party. The mental gymnastics of these election meme spammers are wild to behold.

This is the kind of job AIs are going to replace. AIs are coming for the dick trade.

“I can’t link this, it doesn’t fit within my corporate values!”

Yeah that’s why I’m here. The name makes this place much more difficult for corpo scum to infest it.

It’s in the nature of males to seek control over female reproduction

Go down to the section titled “Views on abortion by gender, 2024” https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/