HungryJerboa

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[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is disingenuous. Scammers have gotten smarter over the years and not everybody is technologically savvy. All it takes is a perfect storm of factors for even the most experienced people to fall prey to scams.

Stop victim blaming and focus on education. It's the only way this gets better.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can minimize this by having a higher invincibility stat (another hidden stat that influences how many I-frames you get after spinning out).

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

If only climate change could be cancelled.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Poachers are scum and deserve to be punished.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fear.

Fear of losing bodily autonomy and control to mandatory vaccines, fear of government overreach (easy boogeyman to paint), but most of all, fear of unknown things they don't understand (microbiology and immunology).

Too bad they will have to relearn the fear of losing their children to a formerly eradicated disease.

Of course, the bastards with a financial incentive to profit from any patsy that falls for it also perpetuate this cycle of fear and loathing.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Obligatory fuck /u/Spez.

This type of behavior needs to be regulated. Foreign interference isn't acceptable, and if Canada passes the online harms act then the ensuing regulator needs to handle situations like this or at least hand out massive fines for greed and indifference.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It does exist: that's what Late Stage Capitalism was all about.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If there's anything Activision knows how to do, it's follow the money.

And what better source of money than young adults spending their first paychecks or teenagers begging their parents to buy them the hottest and newest game that all their friends are playing?

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Honest fact based journalism is an essential pillar of a functional democracy. Being informed is absolutely in the public interest, and government funding should support it, precisely because it often isn't profitable or sustainable for private companies (as we keep seeing over the years).

I don't understand why this is so hard to grasp. And the people whining about liberal bias and calling for defunding of public media are missing the forest for the trees (even if some of the journalism is questionable in quality).

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

This piece of trash needs to be arrested and extradited.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even a scooter or motorcycle is better than a car (though not necessarily safer).

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