After Trumps assassination attempt, allowing you to buy as many guns and as much ammo is as you want is not a certainty.

In reality I would do what most people would and just keep to myself…

Just thought I would add some comedy to the thread 😎

“Im sorry, but you are fucking stunning… if I told you you had an amazing body, would you hold it against me?” ^{cue cheesy smile}

It’s probably not going to get me anywhere but it might make her laugh, or at least not file sexual harassment charges for speaking to her… lol

Capitalism has destroyed the middle class and absorbed all of the wealth…

No one has disposable income to upgrade to a phone that has no major feature changes over the one that came out over 5 years ago.

Until workers are seen as assets rather than expenditures, the enshittification of all facets of life under capitalism will continue to get worse.

Yeah, it’s an hour walk one way to that store…

Where I live owning a car is a requirement :(

I live in rural Oklahoma…

Here are my walking distances: * To the nearest convenience store: 4.667km * To the nearest chain supermarket: 24.140km * To the bus stop: 27.358km * To the nearest park: 321.869m * To the nearest *big* supermarket: 33.7962km * To the nearest library: 32.1869km * To the nearest train station: 70.8111km

I get what you mean. I am 100% behind any humans right to be whoever they want to identify as. I am also not naive to the fact that hormones do alter muscle density and development.

I am not an expert, but I do have critical thinking skills.

That being said, I feel like if a trans person wants to participate in sports with cis gender of the same sex, maybe they need to have their hormones monitored to be in line with the average of that gender for a decent period of time so they don’t have hormone based advantages?

If anyone has a better suggestion, please by all means, let me know. That idea is the best one I could personally come up with while defending the trans community from a co-worker that leans very far right and brings up pedos claiming being trans to go to opposite gender bathrooms and trans people having unfair advantage in sports after some body builder claimed to be trans and got world records even tho it was obvious that person was doing it specifically to get the unfair advantage…

Trump again floats the idea of serving a third presidential term (May 20th, 2024)

What time period did you work for free while also working shitty jobs for rent?

Lots of people are working two full time jobs to barely survive…

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you have to look around and understand that a 1 bedroom apartment can easily be one full time jobs worth of salary to rent if you’re a GenZ, then your second full time job is utilies and food… And depending on where they live, that’s WITH a roommate.

Once you’ve worked 16 hours a day, plus commute time, unpaid lunches…you basically only have time to sleep.

Where in that schedule do you propose someone donate their time working for free?

This is me.

Parents are baby boomers but had me really late. I used to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in my Super Mario themed tightey whitey underwear when I was like 4 years old…

I remember in my small town leaving the house on my bike when I was 5 years old at sun up, and being gone playing with friends until the street lights came on, because that was when dinner was ready. I could easily have killed myself or been kidnapped, my parents didn’t see me for 12+ hours at a time.

I’m from Oklahoma and I remember the walls of my schools Gym shaking from the Murrah Federal Building bombing.

I was in Middle School and remember lots of high schoolers having gun racks, with hunting rifles, in their trucks parked in the student parking lot. And it was normal.

I was in A+ classes at a community college while in high school and watched a live stream of the TODAY show as the second plane hit the WTC tower…

I’ve watched the world go to shit, I have a kid that just turned 18 and I’m angry that they won’t get to live in a world that even resembles the one I grew up in.

I’m just fucking angry.

As long as you aren’t expecting it to run games like it has a RTX4090 in it, and are fine with the limitations of both the battery life away from a charger and the fact that some games might have issues related to the fact that the SteamDeck runs Linux, you will probably not regret your purchase.

The new OLED version is slightly updated for better thermals, and from what I’ve read is slightly more capable than the OG Deck.

I have had an OG deck since I got the chance to purchase after putting $5 down to pre order (I want to say a little over 2 years?) and the most demanding game I’ve played on it was Baulders Gate 3, and I had no issues with performance, and the small screen at 1280x800 resolution looks good on the OG but I’ve heard the OLED is even better.

I just bought my sister in law a Refurbished 512 OG Deck for $379 after tax/shipping, which about half what I paid for mine as an early adopter. You might see if you can pick up a refurbished one or get the OLED with a smaller SSD and upgrade it yourself.

Thank you for putting to words something that’s hard to explain. You’ve given me some talking points I can use towards a friend that tries not to act like he’s alt-right leaning but seems willing to listen.

I’ve never seen a player in person but I actually have around 20 of the cartridge style vinyl disks my dad gave me…

I would have to go look to see what all they are, but among them I have the entire original Star Wars trilogy… The CED releases were the only time the theatrical releases were available. By the time the VHS copies were released George Lucas had already altered them…

I was on Darktide, but, I was an Anti back in the early days and was never part of any RPK monarchies like Blood…

I was in Schattenkind -> Fists of Vengeance -> Samite -> Killer Whale -> Art of War… then went on hiatus and when I came back in like 2014 I joined Charlie Chans and I’m still hanging out with those guys

AC was released in late 1999, I started playing in August of 2000 and played till around 04, took a break on and off for several years and in 2014 I came back and and played till they shut the servers down in 2017…

Even played for about a year on one of the emulators around 2019-2020…

It’s the only MMO I’ve played—and I have thousands of hours in GW2, hundreds in WoW, and hundreds more over Warhammer Online, Aion, Lineage 2, DAOC, RS Classic, New World, and I’m sure several others I forget now—that truly scratched that itch for me.

You can make whatever type of character you want and the best armor in the game is loot gen.

There were like, 14 years of monthly updates…

I will say, getting used to Decal and all of the plugins will make your head spin that those programs were allowed during retail…

It has been the one MMO that I want to suggest to everyone, but it’s kinda hard to get into and even during the height of its popularity the servers never had more than like 10k people online at a time…

“over the past 60 years the West has begun to shift away from the culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion, with economic growth slowing over the same period. The frequency of terms related to progress, improvement and the future has dropped by about 25 per cent since the 1960s, while those related to threats, risks and worries have become several times more common.”

I mean, when people are struggling to survive it’s hard to let yourself get excited about technology that will likely only benefit the most wealthy. All of the “easy” discoveries have been made. Anything else getting research funding is to further capitalism.

What a shitshow

Seeing some really bad crashes since the update on iPhone 11 ProMax on 17.1.2, some of them cause my phone to become unresponsive briefly and even force closing Avelon doesn’t allow other apps to behave correctly for up to minutes later or I’ve even had to reboot my phone to get apps to become responsive again.

Not sure where I can get logs or how to send bug reports with real data though.

I wasn’t going to respond to this thread again because honestly I was just trying to get people thinking about the little guys, but people are taking it to the extreme, so sure I’ll bite.

There was a period when I was younger where I was barely making minimum wage, was on food stamps and WIC for my wife and newborn. I was lucky that I got out of that situation, but not everyone gets lucky.

When I look at the direction the future is heading with self serve kiosks, self checkouts, automation systems everywhere you look… I can’t help but worry about the people that are being replaced for the sake of corporate profits.

If we had universal basic income, I would say bring all of that stuff on. Since we don’t, my sympathy lies with the workers, not the corporations.