normal people realizing he was never killed

Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

(I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

It’s almost like the trolley problem was created to wrestle with the horrible choices life sometimes puts in front of us, instead of just giving us something to talk about in philosophy class.

What exactly do you think they are trying to reduce the harm to if not human life?

Don’t forget that the same system teaches all the regular people that wealth is a sign of virtue. That silly thought is not limited to the people who have the wealth. Much the opposite, in fact.

They also like to pretend that luck is minor part of it or even a non-issue. It’s crazy to imagine how much good could result from eliminating the concept that people are where they are solely because they “deserve” it and they “worked” for it.

I worked for the stuff I have too. That doesn’t mean I am not incredibly lucky.

I feel like the third panel really captures the essence “I am angry about everything and you’ve shown me something I don’t like, which I guess can exist as long as it hides in the shadows away from my righteous gaze, therefore you are SHOVING it down my THROAT and I am morally justified in attacking those people until they go away”

Oh good. I would hate to make it all the way to lunch time without being reminded that this country is run by mid popcorn movie villains.

This is not a complaint about the OP. This is a complaint about stupid evil people in positions of power, and their enablers.

When it comes to “traditionally geeky topics” I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.

But for me, and I would wager it’s the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.

As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.

Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don’t even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.

We’ve had one, yes, but what about second genocide?

politicians argue “no one will want to be a cop if we hold them accountable for their actions.”

That sounds a lot like when they insist that nobody will ever innovate if they ever have to pay taxes when they get rich off their product.

No, because I can’t shake the feeling that I’ll be watching a documentary in a decade or two and learn that these Nazis took multiple ideas from works of fiction meant to be a warning.

Oh yeah agreed. Their role in the rat race makes up a significant part of their personal identity. That’s part of the design, to keep you focused on your consumption instead of your life.

I guess I should have referred to the noise as attention-grabbing things instead of serious things, lol.

offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray

Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?

I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!

My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.

I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.

I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out “DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT…” with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.

I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.

If you’re putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.

I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.

Did anybody else here make the grave mistake of doing this in Oblivion, the game notorious for enemy auto-leveling?

I went off doing random shit the moment that Captain Picard let me out of that sewer, and by the time I showed up to be the Hero of Kvatch I was this crazy invisible assassin of doom, and probably at the top of the thieves guild or the dark brotherhood or both.

So then if memory serves, the town is under attack from monsters and is on fire. The game drops me into a small walled-in arena and instead of whatever lv 1 imps and cockroaches are normally there, I’m holding my bow and arrow and looking up the fiery eyes of half a dozen 12-foot-tall giga-chad linebacker demons from hell. Oh and look they are already sprinting in my direc-- DEAD!

I probably took some creative liberties there but you get the idea.

I think I had to lower the difficulty slider to get through that room. Then I put it back to normal assuming the worst was over, only to have the game put me through a CORRIDOR of hyper-strong enemies next! So twice I had to lower the difficulty.

On one hand, this happened because my character was a min-maxed glass cannon, and a stereotypical one at that (stealth archer, how original! /s). But that same character had no problem with the entire game before or after that town because the whole point of the game is to have the freedom to approach encounters as you wish.

So in many ways that situation was less about auto-leveling, and more about the meme-worthy situations where a boss late in the game requires completely new mechanics the player has never seen. Or even better, it was the anti-forced-stealth-mission!

I wonder, is hatred of advertising a common thing for folks with ADHD? They take away something you are giving your attention to because it interests you, and shove some other crap in your face just to serve their own interests.

I remember being enraged at the scheduled commercial breaks in the '80s and '90s. The only benefit they had was that I always knew which segment of the show I was in and therefore roughly what time it was.

But now? It is so much damn worse and the normies just seem more OK with it than ever. I just remind myself they are living in a society that conditions them to accept it and gives them a thousand more serious things to worry about.

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Watching TV of any kind at other people’s homes, and especially my parents’ place, can feel like some real black mirror shit.

It sounds like their market research told them they would make more money this way, and my own anecdotal evidence makes me think they are correct, unfortunately.

The area where I live has some diversity and some decent people, but it is majority white christian conservative. The amount of luxury SUVs I see rage-driving around town can be astounding at times. It’s right up there with the amount of frighteningly expensive emotional support trucks with the drivers still wearing their ball caps and wrap-around shades on overcast days.

It’s difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.

Over-designing something using trendy technologies while also spending far more money than it would cost to go with the existing solution that is also more reliable – this can be a valid plan. But it is called a hobby, not a business!

Has anybody told the techbros?