TheRealKuni

I had not heard of the YPJ before. Remarkable group!

Also please, let us pronounce it correctly. “Cinco de Drinko.”

Until they realized it was a mistake?

Let’s say someone moves to the UK from the US. They’ve figured out that you have to drive on the left side of the road instead of the right, but they didn’t know you can’t turn (left, not right) on a red light when there’s no traffic coming. So they do this several times.

A cop sees them do this and pulls them over. He informs them that this is illegal, and decides to be gracious and say, “since it’s your first mistake, I’m not going to write you up.”

Would you then pipe up from the back seat and say, “They actually turned on MANY red lights. They made this same mistake a lot of times!”

If people are going to change for the better, encourage that change. Don’t belittle them for not changing faster. We want people to be better.

They will not ever naturally care about other people.

I don’t know believe that. I don’t believe that empathy is some inherent trait that cannot be learned. People change, but momentum can be hard to overcome. They’ve just been handed an opportunity by having their momentum disrupted.

They’ve been slapped personally enough to realize MAGA was terrible. They’re already talking about having been fed their opinions. That’s important, it means they’re now reflecting and thinking. Those are important steps.

We Americans have, unfortunately, a very individualist society. That sort of thinking prevents us from acting in the best interest of people who are not ourselves because we don’t see the immediate benefit to ourselves.

It’s extremely shortsighted, foolish, selfish, and the exact opposite of the message the dominant religion in the nation preaches. But it’s hard to shake that kind of cultural thinking. That journey took me a while, and I started in a more “advantageous” position (in regard to this topic) than some because my parents instilled a deep sense of compassion and a desire for truth, even if they themselves are still stuck as single-issue pro-life republicans.

Every individual who gets slapped out of their conservatism by personal consequences has a chance to end up breaking free and realizing how harmful myopic thought is, and I’m cheering for them even if they have a long way to go on their journey.

What is the most important step? The next one. Always the next step.

Yeah but how else am I supposed to shut the thing up so I can ignore it when I’m at a restaurant? Should I just let it keep screaming? I mean, I do that, too. No one else is trying to have a nice night out, right?

-every shitty parent

Oh that’s great. The NSA has definitely shown it can be trusted with backdoors, after all.

(Massive /s in case it wasn’t obvious.)

Do you want brain drain? Because this is how you get brain drain.

Liberty Media owns Formula One Management (FOM), the company responsible for the production of F1 as a piece of media, while the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is responsible for the rule formula itself, the stewards, marshalls, race director, etc.

So when the person said, “no one outside of the US has heard of either” they were wrong. Liberty Media certainly isn’t as well-known a name as Formula 1, but it owns Formula 1.

I wanted a cantilever setup so I could use it in bed or on a couch, so I didn’t bother with the Logitech offering. My typecase one is working fine but I haven’t had it for long. When it breaks, if I’m still liking it, I may go for the Apple version. Depends on how long I get out of it.

Man, what is even happening at Intel? Apple and AMD have made them look absolutely pathetic, not to mention their own processors grenading for fun.

Yeah but then look at how the knockoff Magic Keyboard cases, which provide nearly the same functionality (with the exception of pass through charging) cost less than a third of the price.

It’s absolutely insane what Apple charges for that thing.

That’s what distributed computing is, after all. Like Folding@Home.

Game company: “People are pirating our game! We can’t have that!”

Rational Person: “Look, there are a lot of reasons people pirate stuff, and some of it we can address, like pricing and delivery. But some of it is just going to be people who wouldn’t ever pay for it anyway. Just make a good product and let the people who pay for it have a good experience and they’ll tell their friends who might also pay for it.”

Game company: “Screw that. Let’s punish the people who buy our game instead.”