MrVilliam

But at least he isn't using autopen! /s

That dumb motherfucker is the autopen.

You're right, I guess it's the entire story itself, and not just the source, that is trash. Great point.

Yep. "Now that you don't pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you'll still have higher net pay."

It's all for the oligarchs. They don't give a shit about the people.

Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

Okay, but now do housing and groceries and you'll see why people don't have extra money laying around for another Nintendo and its Mario kart.

Economics is significantly more complicated than a bar graph of inflation-adjusted video game price tags lol. Hell, even just value of each game in their respective release time period is more complicated than that. I doubt there's anything unique to this new game (other racing games have done the open world thing several times starting like 15 years ago), but the kart racer genre itself was new back in the 90s.

Because people continue to accept that price by agreeing to pay it. The price of a product is dictated by what people are willing to pay for it. If the price is so low that the seller isn't happy with it, they don't sell it and stop making it.

In other words, if you think Nintendo prices are bullshit price gouging, then vote with your wallet. With enough votes, the prices come down or the company goes under. You don't have that luxury of choice when it comes to groceries or shelter, but you absolutely do when it comes to luxury entertainment expenses. Make them earn your money.

As somebody who lives near Winchester, VA, I know how you feel lol. They're overly upset and direct their anger at people who don't look like them because the fountain they drink knowledge from is a firehose of disinformation. I don't know why they choose to be so angry and hateful all the time.

Well, LLMs can't drag corporate media through long, expensive, public, legal battles over slander/libel and defamation.

Yet.

I'm concerned that it wouldn't back up the parade at all. Reboots and remakes of 80s shit has been the trend for a long time, so it's not far-fetched to think we might see a new, American "Tank Man" scenario. It's not what I want to see, but I didn't want to see people getting disappeared away to concentration camps either. But fucking here we are.

Lafayette Square Massacre. Rated NC17. Coming this Summer.

To quote a genius billionaire regarding a time of immense hardship due to receiving abrupt bad news,

"CHAINSAW! YaAaAgHhH!"

I'm sure that somebody's heart goes out to him. He seems to have quite a bit of the Nat-C party standing behind him.

privacy and security

I'm not really sure how much my OS affects that though. If I remove that avenue, cool, but I'm still signed in on my browser and YouTube and various other apps, so to really protect my privacy and security, wouldn't I need a whole slew of other changes to actually be effective? Credit bureaus, which I never even asked to have involved, can't even keep a lid on my shit. How secure and private can I really expect to feel just from changing my phone OS, and is that warm fuzzy really good enough to justify moving from something that is working exactly as I want and expect to something that is, in a word, uncertain?

Not trying to attack you or anybody with these questions, just kinda frustrated that any time I've tried to look into it, all I find is a vague statement about privacy without any real elaboration, or worse, a bunch of speculation that the guy running it is unstable or something. Idk, it just feels a little like the wave of people screaming the praises of crypto.