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- Comment on Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome? 7 hours ago:
It’s not as rare as you think it is. My SO worked in addiction counseling, and it wasn’t rate by any means.
- Comment on Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome? 8 hours ago:
Addiction is an illness. Some people don’t choose to be drug addicts, and it’s incredibly difficult to stop once you’re hooked.
Not everyone addicted to drugs chose to do them in the first place. Parents shoot up their kids, and abusive partners shoot up their abusee.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 9 hours ago:
Because they won’t support routers that were EOL a decade ago?
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 13 hours ago:
There’s not really going to be a low cost solution that just works out of the box with no calibration.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 18 hours ago:
I think Prusa is a good brand to go with
- Comment on Some videogame ads from the 1990s 18 hours ago:
Probably in playboy and such
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 1 day ago:
99.9% of consumers couldn’t care less.
- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 2 days ago:
Do you need me to explain what a dictator is?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 days ago:
The technology has existed for well over a decade now.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 days ago:
- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 2 days ago:
His whole dictator thing
- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 2 days ago:
Because Trump is going to crush any media that’s against him.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 days ago:
You likely can’t. The reason being the patents for the technology are owned by patent trolls who refuse to let them be used.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
You just reminded me I need to pick that back up.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
They have no sensibilities if they voted for Trump.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 3 days ago:
Because accelerationist arguments are always wrong.
- Comment on Covfefe 4 days ago:
Well, with the coming nuclear wars, you might just grow a third.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 days ago:
If the earth were shrank down to the size of a golf ball, you could feel houses.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 6 days ago:
Trump is planning on canceling sessions so he can do recess appointments.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 6 days ago:
While the ultra wealthy don’t have billions on hand, they do take loans against their assets, which we could tax more.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 6 days ago:
I’m not sure why you think his appointments are the issue here.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 6 days ago:
It’s too late, buddy; the fascists already control everything.
- Comment on fuckery 1 week ago:
¿Porque no los dos?
- Comment on As a word of caution for those buying physical used games on Bluray, check the disc for holes. 1 week ago:
The worst that can happen is they don’t return the disk
- Comment on Problem? 2 weeks ago:
Me with 3d modeling/printing something from scratch.
- Comment on Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix and Black Ops 6 nuketown this weekend, which will you be playing? 2 weeks ago:
Neither
- Comment on American Politics 2 weeks ago:
Please predict that Trump will win.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
They made fake pictures before computers existed too.
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 3 weeks ago:
Too bad they own everything that could stop this
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 3 weeks ago:
Iirc he killed himself because he had an aggressive form of dementia and didn’t want to live like that.