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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What actions are you referring to? I appreciate Steams contributions to the Linux ecosystem but that’s about it, and even that is completely self serving. Locking everything on their platform behind DRM? Taking a 30% cut of everything sold after monopolizing the PC gaming market?

  He’s a big proponent of microtransactions and was one of the first to introduce lootcrate mechanics for skins. Skins that you can buy/sell with real cash off-site. There’s a billion dollar online casino ecosystem where you use skins as chips to play games that’s basically targeted at kids. Valve is completely aware of it and it breaks their ToS but they profit greatly so they look the other way and continue to push shitty scratch off ticket loot boxes to kids. There really is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

  Unless you know about some great philanthropic work he’s doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand and don’t necessarily disagree with any of that but let’s not pretend GabeN is anything other than another greedy billionaire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And they purposely target kids with addictive loot crate mechanics and look the otherway while loot/skins are sold on 3rd party sites.

  Maybe GabeN really needs a 7th yacht but maybe he’s just a greedy bastard who wants all the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When it hits you....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who was an adult when it came out but didn’t see it until years later.

  It’s an adequate live-action adaptation of a classic piece of animation. With Christmas coming up you should probably go ahead and give it a watch, if for no other reason than to say you did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When it hits you....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Jims acting and the roles he’s chosen, but Adam seems like he’s probably a nicer person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like most people just want to pick one and stick to it; stop changing it back and forth every other season, my body will adjust to the changing days just fine on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Yeah part of Gods plan is me helping him Mother. Now be a good woman and obey like the book says you should.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love seeing the explosion of interest in pawpaws over the last decade. They’re very good, a bit of a cross between mango and a banana. I’ve actually seen them at a local fsrmers market this season, I was pretty surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BNSF operates a northern rail that connects Chicago to Seattle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do private lobbies but you gotta have friends to have people to play with.

  On the PC front GTA-RP servers are alive and thriving and very safe and stable at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A goodbye to kbin ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, moved to kbin then hopped around some after it went into limbo. Ended up on .zip and appreciate its kind of hand-off, user-deals with it, federation/blocking.

  RIP kbin you were a real one and I hope all your devs (Ernest) future projects go well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am currently a men, am I bad?

  Are you a men? Are you bad because of it?

  If not, by virtue of being a not-men are you good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little funny that networking is one of the most critical skills you can have in hard science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They'd just appear out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just ignored it, got what i needed from storage

  This is the most American Male statement I’ve ever seen. You probably had a fucking stroke or something bro, dang. Good luck out there, try to take care of yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They'd just appear out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t threaten me with a good time young man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a couple friends and we all used to dial into each others computers after school and play Doom (and Duke Nukem 3D and later [Descent](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game) which was mind blowing at the time).

  It worked just fine, it was a blast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All’s grist that comes to Thiels mill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude couldn’t act at all, sounded downright robotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People make fun of them but they built their own little empire busting their asses consistently and a little luck. It’s admirable, they never sold out and had creative control the whole time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go spend $100 to print 3 pages every six months I’ll keep doing mine for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine let’s you print an amount for free every month.

  if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

  Print shops are not at home either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a library card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately 70 years, their fight started just after FDRs New Deal. The entire modern Republican party exists to work towards this. They want a return to the guided age with themselves as the robber barons and everyone else as a permanently toiling underclass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The second biggest was letting a bunch of traitors go home with their heads held high to establish a mythos about some imagined poo oilof Drfewheritage. Officers should’ve been hanged/shot, lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, “40 acres and a mule.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been here, I don’t blame them for not stopping by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In every business I’ve worked in, any email longer than a paragraph better have a summary and action items at the end or nobody is going to read it.

  In business time is money, email should be short and to the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monkeysphere theory, or more appropriately, Dunbars Number is a “suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely wasn’t a “bad cop”.

  But by virtue of being a cop, was a bastard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason it failed was because the traitors mistakenly chosen a good and loyal American soldier who informed FDR of the plot.

  Smedley Butler is a name that has essentially been forgotten due to his later views on American business interests and foreign imperialism.