Shyfer @ Shyfer @ttrpg.network

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I like to switch between different sorts, because like you I haven't found the perfect one yet. I do think you should try scaled every now and then, though, just to help boost the smaller communities. It's fine way to find newer ones when I'm out of content from active or hot.

Meh, we need content. Until we get more people here posting OC, and as long as people comment, which is where the interesting parts have always been in my opinion, I'm okay with it.

I would say helping perpetrate a genocide slightly outweighs making filing taxes a little easier. It's a very, "He makes the trains run on time" sentiment.

Although I do like it. We've been due this for a long time. I wonder if Turbo Tax is freaking out.

Lol gravy seals. Haven't heard that one before, but it's good.

It's one of the first modern democracies and as a result, I think needs a major update. It's way too hard to get things done, filibustering is too easy, money has an outsized influence on politicians and elections due to lobbying, there's no real way to recall certain powerful leaders (from the President to Congressmen to judges), lifetime appointments were an interesting idea but terrible in practice, and all the compromises made for slave states, including the Senate and electoral college, need to go. When are the devs going to put out a new patch?

Oh, and gerrymandering needs to be stopped. Almost forgot that one.

You can't give the US credit for giving a little aid when they're giving way more bombs and weapons. I'm not going to give you credit for throwing a bandaid to someone after you're the one giving the shooter a gun and ammunition and stopped people from coming over to help when their shot. The US is causing more net harm in this whole situation. Also, those other countries ARE giving lots of aid. Look up the nationalities of the doctors and relief workers in there. They're from all over the world. The US isn't even donating to the UN relief org anymore because of trumped up accusations by Israel that haven't even been proven, unlike lot of other countries that have resumed payments. You just hear about the US because they're basically helping Israel hold the door shut, and every time they let it loose a little, aid can come in, which sounds like they did something good when it's more like they stopped doing something bad. Hell, they're supporting Israel while it blocks off aid through truck, which would be the one actual efficient way to deliver it (that little pier is doing barely anything and apparently even falling apart btw). One million people are being displaced right now. The President said they'd draw a red line in the sand before that happens, but operations have initiated in Rafah and nothing has happened.

So, if anyone is pretending that reality isn't happening, it's you. And tbh, I get it. It's tough to reconcile good old America, innocent Israel, and grandpa Joe Biden with all the pictures of the dead Palestinian children and the rubble of their cities, put together with the proof of American bombs that are being used. It's easier to not deal with it because our domestic problems are so big and no one here wants Trump to be President. But it's happening, and you've got to face the problem so we can push our leaders to fix it, because it's the US that are the ones causing it by shielding Israel from the rest of the world (except Germany), and we supposedly live in a democracy, where theoretically with enough popular support we should be able to pressure our politicians to change course on this disaster.

Have you seen the movie Us? Not too give any spoilers if you haven't, but you might get some good ideas from that.

Ya, a lot of genocide apologia in this thread. It's off putting, racist, and paternalistic. There's got to be other ways to support Biden without saying he'll be good for those poor Palestinians, the group they're currently helping bomb. Plus, his administration has threatened the ICC and UN for trying to protect them.

But the fact of the matter is that without huge changes to our political systems, the Democrats will just bring out the Project 2025 excuse from now on forever. This is the most important election in the world. Just like the last one. And the one before it. And the next one. Like in this thread, criticism is impossible against the Democrats, even while they push a genocide, for the alternative is Trump or someone like him. Not to say that Project 2025 doesn't scare the crap out of me. But it does seem best for them to always have the US on the edge of fascism as a cudgel.

They should have had a primary in 2024 if their only candidate was a genocide supporter. If Democrats lose because of this, because they didn't, I'll be so pissed.

There aren't going to be people left by the time Trump takes office. A million people are getting displaced right fucking now. And Biden deserves to be criticized for supporting that. So does Trump, but he's not President right now. Biden is.

Every single one that currently supports the UNRWA, countries that have criticized Israel and stopped diplomacy with them or cut off trade, South Africa launched the ICC case against them, ones that have tried to vote for sanctions against them in the UN or have supported a Palestinian state. So ya, tons of countries that aren't the US.

They could both be doing genocides you know. It doesn't make Biden's lack of response and continual support of Israel good, and it deserves to be criticized.

What a great idea for a page. People are becoming blase about privacy even though it's still important.

Thanks for the explanation! I recall something sort of similar happening years ago with Microsoft recommending WPF over WebForms even when it didn't have all the same functionality or data controls yet. But at least they had different design considerations, separation of concerns and stuff. Still not quite sure what the different design ideas behind Xamarin and Maui is, but I probably have to actually try Maui to figure it out. Going purely by reading, it just seemed like the same purpose as Xamarin, so it didn't seem like big enough impetus to learn something new yet and I haven't been pushed to yet from an outside source, like my work. But I'm sure I'll have to eventually if I keep working in industry places that like Microsoft enterprise software frameworks.

I haven't looked into Maui yet, but is not more reliable than Xamarin yet?

Great picture! So lucky

So they've played this game before, of calling humanitarian and rights groups terrorists.

Awakening people from trances makes it sound like this person has played Mage: The Awakening.

Kung Fu Hustle is so good! I still think about some of those fights randomly sometimes.

Makes sense. I was considering getting a Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch for kinda that same reason.