This reminds me of a scathing bit in I think “Bowling for Columbine” that covered a group of well-meaning women and their ineffective political activism. They made a bit of ruckus in some senator’s office, then had tea and cake afterwards patting each other on the back.

Every acronym should be run past a bunch of ten year olds. No idea how they thought this was a good idea, but then again, they greenlit Concord at about the same time.

The class with the flamethrower is so much fun in Halls of Torment.

Why settle for 60? Even a mid-range GPU should be able to render a PC port at 180 fps by now.

They actually spread multiple different stories about what these concentration camps were. First they denied their existence outright, then satellite photos and documentation was published that proved these were real, so they claimed they were factories, schools, prisons for terrorists, etc. Many of these lies were published at nearly the exact same time.

That’s how we know that they are actually concentration camps, that there is actually a genocide going on.

Teslas are among the safest cars on the road by all metrics. It’s just that they get the most press out of all EVs, because they are 1) sort of a poster child for electric vehicles due to how influential the Model S was and 2) due to that idiot at the helm of the company receiving constant attention from the press.

This scene alone is a totally different experience in VR, by the way. Far more intimidating of an interaction.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/658920/HalfLife_2_VR_Mod/

Wouldn’t it be more in the spirit of this community to use a free and open source alternative to Minecraft like Classicube?

https://github.com/ClassiCube/ClassiCube

I discovered this one recently. As the name implies, it’s a reverse-engineered clone of early versions of the game. It has extremely low hardware requirements, which allow the client to run on virtually anything.

Here’s a list of supported server software:

https://www.classicube.net/server/host/

If you use MCGalaxy, then players will even be able to join your servers through their web browser.

Everything the Nazi party did in Germany was legal.

This is a common myth (just like “Hitler was elected”), but not true at all. The Nazi regime knowingly committed countless crimes that were illegal under their own laws, from corruption to mass murder - and after the war, Nazi officials were (at least sometimes) persecuted by German courts using laws that were in effect from 1933 to 1945 (since they couldn’t be persecuted for laws that didn’t yet exist, at least not by German courts).

The key lesson here is different, but still highly relevant: Most of the laws of the first German democracy, the Weimar Republic (which in turn had inherited most of its laws from the German Empire, laws that are still largely in effect today), remained intact during the Nazi regime (which, among other things, allowed e.g. two parties to settle a legal dispute in a manner that was barely different from before the Nazis’ rise to power, provided none of the parties was Jewish, of course), but the appointed persecutors and judges were instructed to employ “gesundes Volksempfinden” (difficult to translate, but it’s roughly “healthy people’s subjective interpretation [of the law]”), which was just a fancy way of saying that both old and new laws had to be bent according to the directive of the regime (but the regime insisted that this was how “normal German people” would see the law). There were only a few attempts of both civil and military persecutors to act against crimes committed in the name of the regime, most of them unsuccessful and especially near the end of the war, show trials and kangaroo courts that made a mockery of legal procedure became commonplace.

Judges appointed by Trump have already used questionable to downright illegal procedural tricks to get him out of trouble. This should have been a warning of what’s to come, how more and more appointed judges will both refuse to persecute crimes committed by Trump and his administration while at the same time weaponizing existing laws to use against his opponents, until even this pseudo-legal abuse of state institutions isn’t even necessary anymore.

Here’s another important lesson from Nazi Germany: Within days of Hitler coming to power, so called “wild concentration camps” were created all over Germany. Political opponents, journalists, lawyers, Jews and often times simply people who were personal enemies of local Nazi figures were imprisoned, tortured and sometimes killed in a chaotic and uncontrolled manner. These camps were only temporary, but within weeks, a legalization of concentration camp system followed. New legal camps were built, “wild” camps closed or converted within years. The entire process was no secret, with multi-page spreads in newspapers praising them as “hard, but necessary labor camps that turn enemies of the state into useful people”. It was a sanitized portrayal, but even from the officially released photos you could tell that these were places of terror. Importantly, the torture and murder happening there was never legal and a state secret. Courts could now sentence people to be imprisoned at these camps - and anyone who was released (which was most victims, these weren’t death camps yet) had to sign that they wouldn’t talk about what they experienced or else they would be imprisoned again. I could imagine something similar happening in the US as part of the already broadly announced terror campaign against undocumented immigrants.

Technically it does, but not locally in the age of national governments. Before you’re saying it, the moment it stops being a local movement, it would work even less and lead to the organized repression I mentioned. To support my point, see how harsh government reaction has been to activists merely gluing themselves to the street (not to mention, how most people were happy about this crackdown).

And no, I doubt “The Revolution” that magically solves all of our problems (unlike most revolutions) will be started by anti-AV riots.

Singular acts of violence don’t work, organized violence doesn’t work either and will only lead to organized repression in response. The actual solution is to elect local representatives who are willing to prevent the nightmare scenario from the video from happening.

If you want to see a real-world example of this: Toppling over rental e-scooters didn’t get them removed from cities, but petitioning municipal governments to ban them did.

This is precisely the kind of niche, but vital use case that even places that have otherwise already completely banned cars (like certain islands) allow cars for. Nobody will ever take this away.

I doubt that. He wasn’t even able to convince Democrats beyond young, white colleges educated men - who are outraged by the mere thought that his appeal starts and ends with them (edit: called it), who dive head first into conspiracy theories that have one thing in common: They all ignore this simple fact.

Look, he’s among a small handful of truly incorruptible American politicians and he deserves respect for this, but he has never been presidential material and never will be.

Haven’t tried it for quite some time, but does it finally have a UI designed by and for human beings instead of Vogons?

Arab-Americans

0.639% of the US population. This is a tiny minority of no relevance to American politics. Trump has 51% of popular votes already, not that this matters, because the districts that carry Trump to victory have few voters with this kind of background. Arab Americans could not have changed the outcome of this election, even if 100% had voted for Harris.

And Trump will be better for Palestinians how exactly? Anyone who prefers inane grandstanding instead of picking the lesser evil (no matter the topic) is a moron. That’s how politics work. The ideal candidate doesn’t exist and will never exist. If you ever come across one who 100% mirrors every single one of your opinions, get your head examined.

Edit: Also, every single credible poll out there indicates that American voters - idiotically - picked Trump due to their dissatisfaction with the economy. Middle Eastern wars were not high on the list of priorities for most voters.

Too bad this won’t save you from the bastards that call themselves the SVP. Those are among the extremist parties who might feel emboldened/inspired by Trump and Project 2025.

Switzerland removed explosives from critical infrastructure years ago.

The fallout from another Trump presidency will be global. Your dual citizenship might not be enough to keep you safe. Copycat far right governments, wars, pandemics, general instability and uncertainty. Pick your poison.

Thank you for the detailed answer!