[-] cynetri@midwest.social 23 points 9 months ago

Wouldn't be a proper week without a leak on a War Thunder forum

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Might be a controversial take, but I'm concerned about people letting themselves shape sweeping, negative views on things that are (keyword: relatively) minor or just don't fully know the story behind. For example, EA was voted "Worst Company in America" multiple years in a row, when it's really just a software company whose worst sins would probably amount to gross overworking/general poor treatment of their employees. That's bad, but I feel like it's pretty inarguably better than chocolate companies who use child labor to harvest cocoa beans.

It's especially concerning when it extends to global/political issues (this is why I said this might be controversial). We don't tend to realize that we share much more in common with people in other countries than we realize, probably helped by the fact that most news sites tend to leave out details or exaggerate bad parts when talking about governments other than their own (a notorious example is the reporting on North Korea . Here's a good vid about it (CW: very graphic) Not saying it's a wonderful place to live, just that it's exaggerated.) Part of the reason political conversations feel so toxic is because so many of us just don't know a lot of what's going on or what each other is talking about, so we're rarely on the same page. Reading a quick Wikipedia summary and/or article can go a long way

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago

musk is really kinda doing the ADL's job for them lmao

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 25 points 10 months ago

is this a /s or a fr moment

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 13 points 10 months ago

Except you actually can, and many states have

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You say that like it's explicitly allowed by the state.

It is. Keeping it a valid legal defense is a policy choice. Some states banned it, they chose to. Other states have not, they decided not to. That's politics.

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 27 points 10 months ago

Total exceptions? No. But many states still allow people to get reduced sentences via the gay panic defense for killing LGBTQ people. That, and some politicians are encouraging hate crimes against them with hateful rhetoric about them being "groomers" and whatnot.

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago

Open-source virtual reality, usually just any VR works too lmao but especially FOSS VR

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

It does go down if you pay things off early, though

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

GNU Lynx is the only acceptable browser

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[-] cynetri@midwest.social 70 points 10 months ago

What I thought was interesting about this is that apparently not only me, but tons of other people have all kinda felt like LTT has seemed off the past year or so, and this video kinda explained it all

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