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

By promoting the lies that either Biden or Harris can single handedly stop the genocide, and that they've made no attempt to do so.

If we just ended our alliance with Israel, do you know what they would do next? They would likely ally themselves with Russia instead.

That would give Russia control over a port that facilitates a huge portion of commerce in the middle east. It would also give them control of a lot of tech companies, including Intel's massive R&D campus, and they would have access to the iron dome, which would be a pretty big intelligence leak. Israel also has an extremely important spy network that western countries rely on, and suddenly they would start serving Russia instead.

It would also allow the rest of the middle east to "escape containment", so to speak. Particularly Iran. As soon as that happens, where do you think their missiles will go next?

Oh, and the genocide of Palestinians would still continue.

Geopolitics is complicated, and Biden was walking a tightrope. He was at least placing limits on how US weapons could be used, and trying to negotiate a ceasefire. Trump will scrap all of that and encourage Israel to kill everyone in the region.

But you didn't care about any of that. Your moral outrage prevented you from trying to figure out why things are the way they are, and you joined the choir of people who were trying to prevent anyone from voting for Harris. A choir that mostly consisted of Trump supporters who were just trying to promote anything that might hurt Harris's chances of winning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The average is more like 25-30 minutes. If it breaks 45 minutes then either it's a really even game (which is fun), or the team that has the lead doesn't know how to use their advantage to win (which is excruciating for both teams).

Still, you're right, that's a long time to be locked in with someone who is clearly weighing down the team. And of course, that person is probably embarrassed about their performance, so they'll often lash out at other people to deflect from themselves, which will tilt the rest of the team even if they were chill until then.

The advantage that a lead gives you is also a lot bigger than in most other games. Players get drastically more powerful as they gain XP and money, so if one team gets an early lead, no amount of mechanical skill will be able to counter their advantage. The only way to catch up is to avoid fighting, drag the game out, farm NPCs, and try to punish the enemy's mistakes. That's extremely frustrating if you're not the one who died and gave them the lead.

It's hard to avoid getting caught up in all of that unless you decide to focus completely on your own game and improving over time, and stop caring about individual wins and losses. Most people don't have that kind of perspective. I didn't either back when I played League a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes, because you helped him win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

No one is preventing you from leaving the USA. Most countries are just making it difficult to enter. I'm all for having more open borders, but that's probably not what you're arguing for.

No one is preventing you from starting your own community either. There just isn't any land remaining that isn't already owned.

And the "punished based on the rules of the given community, or expelled" thing is describing a government, although because of the aforementioned lack of unowned land, they only expel immigrants nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Housing and healthcare are essential for survival. If anyone doesn't get those things because they can't afford them, while others have far more than they need, that's cruel and unjust. You should include both of them under "assistance for less fortunate".

Schools have more benefits than I can list here. It's absurd to not fund them.

Culture attracts people to spend money in your city, which benefits business owners and many laborers, and generates a lot of tax revenue. Usually that brings in a lot more money than it costs, and that turns into extra money for essential services, instead of taking away from them. Sports can fall into this category as well, but those have gotten out of hand lately and sort of turned into a dick measuring contest between different cities.

I'm mostly with you on tax breaks, though. They're supposed to incentivise corporations to create jobs in your city instead of somewhere else, which should have a good ROI, but in practice it's almost inherently corrupt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Congrats, you reinvented the government.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, they're just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don't recognize, it'll still work, but their approach will still block the big companies that can do the most harm with that data.

The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn't a reasonable thing to do by default.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The fans of some streamer are not going to kill you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they're 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if she finds a lawyer who will work pro bono.

Even then, she and her son will be homeless for a long time before winning anything.

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