HalloweenSnarry
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The left just gave up on gaming and online communities
I don't know if this is the right way to describe it. Certain kinds of leftists sure wanted to make those kinds of communities their own, but they irrevocably cleaved them apart.
Agreed on the rest, though. Musk at least sure made it seem like he was encountering DR talking points for the first time well after everyone else, after he bought Twitter.
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5mo ago
Meanwhile, back "home", I can pick up my instrument and join in when I have time and when the fancy strikes me, and when I get tired I can put it back down, confident that the music will still be there when I come back.
Man, imagine if more aspects of life worked this way. Maybe that's just me talking, though.
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5mo ago
Perhaps the Indian Wars?
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5mo ago
You'd have to wonder how willing Canadian gun owners would really be to defend True North Strong and Free from the Americans.
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5mo ago
So...why is it Trudeau's legacy?
Perhaps it's much like how a President tends to own a bad economy, whether they want it or not, and whether or not the trends/conditions actually began before they took office. Trudeau has been in office for quite a while, and it was under his administration that the issue got to the Threshold of Complaint.
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5mo ago
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5mo ago
Skimming the link, at least it seems like both the dam is there and the minnows aren't extinct.
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5mo ago
Quick comment:
The Chevrolet Tahoe is a large vehicle with controls in the form of a dial you twist from R to P to D to N.
Chevy isn't the only brand to do that, IIRC. Jaguar and Land Rover also do that, so does Mercedes, so does Audi.
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5mo ago
But so many companies expect employees to magically appear, fully formed and massively overqualified, and would rather hire for months than actually try to help somebody improve.
I'm under the impression that this isn't even confined to tech.
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5mo ago
I guess it makes sense, the De Santis vs. Disney episode of the Culture War had the right looking at copyright terms, and that probably made Disney flinch when it came to Steamboat Willy.
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5mo ago
More concerning to me is how a former Green Beret can't even rig an improvised explosive device correctly.
"We trained him wrong on purpose...as a joke."
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5mo ago
I do wonder how the Soviets of the latter-era Union felt about these kinds of extreme measures compared to the Soviets of Lenin and Stalin. This was the era of the Gerontocracy, men like Andropov were most likely alive to witness Stalin's regime. Then again, perhaps the gerontocrats were soft by comparison precisely because they were alive to witness Stalin's regime.
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5mo ago
I wonder if Disney's own power in that regard has waned as of late. I think there was a potential copyright expansion some time ago and it never came to fruition, almost as if Disney...just didn't care?
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5mo ago
Now hold on, surely the counter is that some of them were Republic Chinese instead, who lost out to the Communists.
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5mo ago
Eh, I thought the real backlash always started with those kids trapped in the cave and him calling that ex-pat diver a pedophile over being told that his submersible idea was bad. It wasn't exactly partisan, but I think that was the beginning of the polarization.
Plus, also, I think people were looking for anything to make Elon and Tesla's fanboys shut up, and it just escalated from there.
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5mo ago
As I understood it, "compromise" in the sense of "nobody is going to let you have this dream, give it up."
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5mo ago
Besides what SS raised, there's been a few more government movements against Big Tech than was typical during Biden's admin. There's probably more examples.
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5mo ago
The common counterpoint to this is that they mostly just come here because even an illegally-low wage is still more than they can earn busting their butts back home. I wonder if "we shouldn't pay the cost for other countries being poorly-run" would be a strong counterargument to immigration.
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5mo ago
The latter policy which might be considered intentional by those who enacted it, but has eventually spilled northwards to fairly negative effects.
I'm pretty sure the Radical Republicans did want to make the freed slaves go back to Africa or somewhere like Liberia, but were defeated on this point by the necessity of compromise, never mind the practical challenge of such after a costly civil war.
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5mo ago
Is this not the real source of your gripes, then? This probably isn't a problem universally across America like some here seem to think.
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5mo ago
I think tech and tech policy wonks are another area where this breaks the other way. Fight For The Future, for example, is a pretty liberal organization (at least now, post-election), but much of their messaging is about the dangers of things like facial recognition and data brokers.
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5mo ago
I wonder what Azerbaijanis are going to do about it? Are they going to just say "shit happens" and let it go, or there would be some consequences to their relations with Russia?
Could go either way; it would be an incredible own-goal by Russia to have pushed away Armenia and then also push away Azerbaijan. I could see Russia making at least a token effort to smooth things over instead of doubling down on denial.
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5mo ago
That was because computer hardware was improving at a rapid pace in the days of the Internet Explorer anti-trust suit. Nowadays, there's more freeware (free as in speech and beer!), most PC games worth playing can still be run on hardware from a decade-plus ago, and some of the code monkeys competing with the H1Bs being discussed in this thread sometimes pop out a very useful piece of open-source programming that might solve some need you have.
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5mo ago
Maybe it's some deep-rooted primitive instinct. Defectors in the tribe are supposed to end up dead, lest they end up destroying the tribe.
Given how post-Cold War Mexico has turned out, I've honestly wondered if this wouldn't have been one of the worst outcomes for Mexico, if not an actual improvement. And for the anti-immigrationists in the audience, that would have obviously been a great motivator to figure out how to close the border!
To respond more seriously, though, I cannot help but imagine, whenever I see people here complain about the "color revolution" of the Euromaidan, some sort of counterfactual timeline where Russia manages to salami-slice Ukraine into their sphere of influence without as much bloodshed, and the same people whining about "NATO expansionism" now are instead bitching about how the US/West/NATO was so weak and ineffectual as to prevent literal aggressive expansionism from encroaching on Europe.
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