Bold of you to assume incompetence and not malice
They did
And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I'm aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)
But that just further proves the Teflon claim:
He did get locked up.
And now he's president again.
Idk how it is in the first world
But over here it's pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it's usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they'd ALL be behind bars.
I would say "and THAT is how you do it, America"
But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.
Roko's Basilisk cultists when a minor brownout kills god:
I know there isn't
It's just that delivery cars aren't really a thing in my country. It's all motorbikes all the way.
WELL for a big grocery delivery -- Yeah. That makes sense. A lot of sense.
I was imagining like. A couple take-out boxes on the shotgun seat and someone driving a whole-ass car for those lil' boxes.
And it sounded like whatever the driver would get from this haul wouldn't even cover gas. To say nothing of the environmental angle.
Do Americans really get their shit delivered by car?over here it's motorcycles 99% of the time (and bicycles the other 1%)
Seems rather.... Sluggish and inefficient for delivery drivers to go by car.
Anywhere so long as they don't try to kill adblockers
Everything else the forks can work around. What's important is they don't give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.
The ROI was eternal life
Do people just forget religion exists and believers take it fully seriously?
Right?
With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) -- A lot of the books they pushed on us (I'm in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?
But y'know
When you're 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) -- AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you've got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) -- AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?
Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I'd been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking "I hate books", I just thought "wow all these books suck".
They didn't suck. But they just... Were very much not for me?
Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you're a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other's guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.
Humans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we're wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.
-- Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious circle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (...) -- Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.
That's just capitalism
You're describing capitalism
And pretty much everyone knows that's how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.
The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.
By forcing kids to read books that aren't just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn't even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.
Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media... Provided they like that media.
But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.
Unfinished art of my fursona by my artist friend
Those are all just
Like
Your opinion
Man
(Whereas wotc being a terrible company that mistreats its players is straight up fact)
Okay but as long as we are complaining about shit we see on RPG forums
"I wish I could do $thing in DnD"
"$otherSystem has a very cool subsystem for $thing"
"Omg how dare you"
Had this conversation enough times to make it a pet peeve of mine
Anyway the only thing about 5e that does suck is Wizards of the Coast. Otherwise it's fine. It's just fine. You can have fun with it.
I'm more of a Pathfinder 2e guy tho.
(And pf2 is basically a more advanced take on what 5e was doing so....)
Like I'm not one of THOSE. I know higher = better with framerates.
BUT. I'm also old. And depending on when you ask me, I'll name The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask as my favourite game of all time.
The original release of that game ran at a glorious twenty frames per second. No, not thirty. No, not even twenty-four like cinema. Twenty. And sometimes it'd choke on those too!
.... And yet. It never felt bad to play. Sure, it's better at 30FPS on the 3DS remake. Or at 60FPS in the fanmade recomp port. But the 20FPS original is still absolutely playable.
Yet like.
I was playing Fallout 4, right? And when I got to Boston it started lagging in places, because, well, it's Fallout 4. It always lags in places. The lag felt awful, like it really messed with the gamefeel. But checking the FPS counter it was at... 45.
And I'm like -- Why does THIS game, at forty-five frames a second, FEEL so much more stuttery and choked up than ye olde video games felt at twenty?
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This meme¹ made the rounds here on Lemmy some days back.
And NSFW artists in the Furry fandom will often talk about how payment processors give them guff.
It holds true in lived memory, but like...
... Why?
I actually understand it for Google Ads and the like -- Google, Metabook, Bytedance et al. are really just advertisement companies with a side-gig in providing online services, and if you're an advertisement company, then "how other corporations perceive you" is what you live and die by, which forces the whole "corporate sanitisation" thing down on the users. -- So like. It does make sense, even if it's hateable.
But for the likes of Visa, and Master Card, and whatnot -- It doesn't? As I understand it their whole thing is they transfer money between parties and take a cut of the transactions. (and also give credit and charge interests on that and such) -- Why the fuck would they care what those transactions are about, so long as people are... Transacting, and thus giving them their cut?
¹ Reuploaded as an image because I couldn't be fucked to find it again.
I know this isn't quite the proper forum for asking this, but I can't think of any other place. Looking for a site where I can post little videos to share on Lemmy Meme Communities. A -- Non-youtube-y place.
Bonus points if it plays nicely with Lemmy, opening on apps and such.
Title. While doing some other work, he realised that underneath the console where his TV went, there were a bunch of cables from past-inhabitants-of-this-house's cable TV setups.
He reasoned he'd solve this by sawing off those unseemly white cables, thus opening space for new stuff.
Except... The ethernet cable that connected the internet router to the Switch that routed it all over the house, connecting to our shared family homeserver and such? Yeah, it was also white, and also down there.
So. My dear ol' dad took a saw to his internet. And chopped it down. Now he'll need to call someone to run the cables through the walls again (this is Brazil. Walls are solid concrete. Running new cables through walls is NOT easy!)
EDIT: It is fixed. And all it took was me and the technician spending 8 hours running around the apartment, pushing/pulling cables into/from holes in the wall, and yelling "DO YOU SEE ANY MOVEMENT?"
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