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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

locking lug nuts prevent theft

Yeah, I addressed that, can you not read? There’s a whole paragraph there. I think you might be a bit slow buddy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So the fault of the tire you bought
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You mean apples proprietary bit that comes with any cheap as fuck set of security bits? I have an electronics screwdriver set that cost me $10 and does ALL THE BITS, including Apples.

Locking lug nuts: you mean the thing most people with nice rims use? People who own things like a BMW? So instead of the one specific locking bit they now have this specific locking bit? So a 1:1 swap for one custom bit to another?

Also, you realize this is a standard bolt, right? As in, you can take it out and put a standard one in if it bothers you.

This is nothing but morons being outraged. It’s like people complaining about tax cuts for the rich as if you’re gonna be a billionaire someday. Your civic is gonna be just fine and for the people actually in this situation who already pay things like $300 for a replacement window switch, this $5 tool is meaningless.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a special bit, that’s it. Do you have any idea how many bits/sockets/adapters I already own that only fit one vehicle? TONS. That’s just the nature of vehicles and maintenance. And I’m pretty sure if you own a BMW, you can afford a $5 bit. This is a nothing burger. It’s just people jumping on the BMW hate, which if you were smart, there’s plenty of actual things they overcharge up the ass for. This isn’t one of them. You might as well complain about locking lug nuts as a whole because that’s really all this is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s good to hear. I’ll have to give it a look as I sort through alternatives. In fairness, I am in favor of a nitro style subscription for HD voice and video and larger attachment file sizes. But all the paid profile customization and emoji use stuff needs to go. We need to no longer accept that anywhere.

I think a lot of digital things, including video games, became much worse with the loss of dedicated servers. It used to be expected that you would rent a server to host your ventrillo/teamspeak server. It used to be much more common to rent a server for your Counter Strike games, or play on someone else’s who did. You’d rent some server space and host your vBulletin forum or hang out on someone elses. We used to be much more self reliant on hosting our communities and now we outsource it to a company that offers it for free and turns us into the product.

You want to not be the product? Self host your services or pay for a service that does it for you, treating you as a customer and not as some free resource to exploit.

And honestly… For fucks sake how did we get to this point where we expect everything online to be free because it’s “just digital”. No. Fuck no. Bandwith and server space and server time costs money. It cost electricity. It costs actual tangible resources that people love to bring up when you’re talking about how evil AI data centers are, but that’s the whole fucking internet! Data centers and cables and all that shit that makes it work. And so many of y’all sit here and act like it should all be free. It’s “free as in speech, not free as in beer”. That’s what we meant. And it got twisted into this abomination we have now…

Yeah I went off on a rant there. Nothing personal to you, person who responded to me. Just went off on a tangent lol. I appreciated you’re telling me it can be self hosted. That’s awesome 👍
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well lots of ways but immediately adding a paid subscription should be a HUGE RED FLAG. Donations, one time payments, etc are fine. Paywalling features from the get go is bullshit tho. And the fact that discord got away with turning normal features into paid ones for years is insulting and laughable. Using custom emojis being locked behind nitro when fucking MSN messenger has that is a sad example of how far we’ve fallen.

Any replacement candidate that’s just “discord from a few versions ago” can go fuck itself. Discord was a.blightnupon the Internet and it’s downfall should be celebrated, not “hey anyone have a clone of this piece of shit? I want something still shitty, just not this shitty”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But even better? You can use TWO N64 controllers at the same time, one in each hand, for dual joystick controls. I didn’t even realize that was an option until I saw it in the Switch Online Emulator
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Winking smiley is sarcasm and whatnot. You wanted a traditional smiley. I didn’t ignore your smiley at all, I took it as it was.

But since you called me a “boomer snowflake”, you can go fuck yourself, mmmk? Doubling down being a douche doesn’t make you cute. Just makes you a douche. I hope every struggle you go through gets ignored and ridiculed too ;)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So someone posts their issue and you think a flippant joke dismissing them is funny?

Enjoy being a fat piece of shit then. I hope you get zero help and everyone just mocks you too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Omg, is that really the secret to eating disorders? Just “eat more”? Wow! You should be a licensed dietician!

Do you appreciate it when people tell you “just eat less?”. Does that actually work? I guess that means all fat people are just willingly fat, right? They just have to choose to eat less. Why even have health apps in the first place if it’s just that simple? Fat people are just lazy.

You see how when flipped around this is wildly offensive, but somehow you think telling someone struggling with low weight to “just eat more” isn’t?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Health apps also track calories out and this doesn’t work for that. Health apps want you to be on a decifit generally(eat less and exercise more). They’re just not setup for even “maintain” very well. This doesn’t solve the issue that most health apps are obesity centered and have alerts for too many calories, but almost never for too few. This doesn’t create a useful plan tailored to my needs, this is just “use something different and pretend it’s the same”. We do not have the same struggles and the apps don’t acknowledge any of that.

But thanks for acting like the entire problem is “just eat more”. Omg, why didn’t I think of that? Why am I trying to use create a plan to help me when I could have just eaten more! Omg! You solved it! You solved all eating disorders! Congrats! All my anxieties just suddenly vanished and I can be normal!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I always hate seeing this. I get a lot of people struggle with being overweight, but there are those of us that struggle maintaining a healthy weight. But all health stuff seems to be focused on low calories and losing weight. I can’t even program fitness/eating apps to help me gain weight - best I can do is “maintain current weight”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ok, and what about games like Rocket League? It was already wildly popular. And didn’t we get interviews from a few exclusivity deal people saying that in the long run it wasn’t better than just launching on steam?

But yes, I’m glad 2 games got made despite Epics shittiness. Maybe if they built features into their launcher they’d have more. How long did it take them to make a friends list? And last I heard, wasn’t viewing your own library still largely dependent on you knowing what games you already owned?

Yeah, never gonna defend that shitstain of a company. They tried to bully their way in and failed and they deserve it 100000%
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not even. I’ve bought games on Steam that I forgot I had in Epic because Epic is just that trash. Fuck Epic for trying to start their store by bribing developers for exclusivity on their platform. Bitch ass tactics to begin with and then crying and whining when their mob mentality strong arming didn’t work. Best believe if their shit had worked and they became popular those greedy assholes would be asking a higher percentage once everyone was locked in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built a partition to separate two rooms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What’s with all of the people thinking this is unsafe? They act like the pre-existing arch wasn’t already there and that you’re not just adding a decorative, non-load bearing wall with a door…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built a partition to separate two rooms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If only it were built in an arch that’s already architecturally sound… This doesn’t support anything. It’s like thinking the garage door supports the roof above it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d recommend stop being a retard, but you seem pretty committed so I’ll let you be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well it’s a good thing we have scientists doing things like measuring carbon in layers of soil to tell us that no, the indigenous weren’t altering the planet like that and were allowing the natural fires to burn regularly.

Stop “guessing” and do some actual research on the subject. They literally tried to teach us about it when we colonized, but “white man so superior” didn’t listen. And this is coming from a white guy.

We know who caused the problems. Stop trying to shift this to the indigenous. There not the ones who built massive cities in fire areas and then refused to let any of the forrests there burn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The indigenous allowed natural burns to happen. They were managing it much closer to correctly. They didn’t create the issues. Industrialization/colonization did most it and you can’t blame that on indigenous peoples.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
California wildfires have only been “managed” for the last ~200 years at most. How old do you think the country is? We’d be going back to the way things were a century or two ago, not tens of thousands of years. Tho yes, a lot of megafauna is gone, and we did it in that short of a time. Puts into perspective how damaging humans can be to the environment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly this. Most land management is focused on “how can we make this better for humans” not “how can we make this better for nature”. The answer largely is “stop fucking with shit and let it do its own thing and self regulate again”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Kinda, but that one’s referencing it coming full circle with philosophy on both side. The specific edit I’m referring to just has philosophy wayyyyyyy off to the right and doesn’t have the logicians addition either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve een this xkcd expanded with philosophy way off to the right saying something like “hey, what are all of you talking about over there?” since philophy was the first asking “how?” or “why?” and all the others came later as more directed persuits of those individual questions. Philosophy first and foremost teaches logic and rhetoric, through which all sciences rely on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
While I get your point and don’t necessarily disagree, I do think it’s important to give philosophy a little more credit. Philosophy was what eventually came up with the idea of proving your claims and providing evidence to back that up. Logic and the scientific method were the creations of philosophy. Math was originally a philosophy/religion/cult(the Cult of Pythagoras for one example)devoted to numbers and believing them to be the ultimate answer to the universes questions.

Philosophy is a soft science, sure, but it’s core teachings are fundamental for everything else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A different comment makes a compelling argument for it being anthropology. If anthropology is" just" psychology of a culture, then economics is a specific offshot of that, one focusing primarily on trade systems/money use.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who farted?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks for labeling this as AI so we know you can’t formulate sentences on your own and aren’t worth conversing with in the future. Makes it really easy to add someone to the blocklist when they’re the equivalent of email spam.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I know it has to do with copyright issues and having to defend them. If someone else is selling “your product”, it enters a legal area most companies aren’t comfortable with. This is why in the past some very successful mods have been given licenses from the company themselves that allow the mod team to operate as a sort of “independent contractor”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
True, but the ones who don’t sell tend to exist for longer. The ones that do sell ALWAYS go down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yup. And then people point to those mods as proof you can charge for your mod and act Pikachu surprised when someone actually does something about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Problem was he sold it. Can’t profit off a mod because it’s technically profiting off someone else’s work. Not defending it, but it’s well known in the modding scene that you don’t do exactly that or this predicably happens.

Basic rules are simple: don’t announce you’re working on it, just release it. Can’t remove the files from the Internet once they’re there. If you announce too early, you give them time to shut it down before release.

And never, EVER, try to profit from it. You run into all kinds of issues, even just using the games name.

This isn’t legal advice so much as “if you want to mod and actually have it see the light of day, follow these guidelines or you’re pretty much guaranteed to get screwed”.