Youtube comments of John Crawford (@JohnCrawford1979).

  1. We'll probably be up to 1Tb RAM minimum within 5 to 10 years.
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  2. Depends on what teacher you're talking about. The ones teaching them to put certain things up their privates get protected and given teacher of the year awards.
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  3. @mr.melancholy4973 - You can have both, but modern Hollywood doesn't know how to do that, and isn't exactly a stunning example of real virtue, nor a pillar of morality in society. It's like the Devil telling you how to live a holy life - it just doesn't work. When every movie is out to subvert expectations in order to race swap for a diversity quota, or talk about Superman's coming out of the closet in order to get points for inclusivity, you've not only lost the plot, you don't even have anything close to a coherent story.
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  4. Pipewire replacing everything AV will be awesome. Whereas Wayland breaks everything, Pipewire fixes everything. 😉👍
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  5. This article is to the level of thinking similar to those in the 90's that pushed condoms and mocked conservatives advocating abstinence. They're like, "What? Human beings having self control?? That's absurd!"
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  6. The only thing going for Bernie was that he was promising free stuff. If he did win, the US would have become Venezuela and everyone would be flooding into Mexico, instead of the other way around.
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  7. Not even sure people are surprised as much as wanting to get in their take. Shawn Michaels is probably the best at nicely talking about how gullible the WWE audience is, and adding how that's what he likes about it, because they keep coming back, filling the seats at the arenas and getting the eyeballs fixed on the TV, paying for the Pay Per Views, buying all the merch. And hey, the wresting YouTubers cash in as well - or at least get all the likes and views they know will come from talking about these wrestlers. Is it authentic? Well, the Rock has always been about selling himself, his gimmick, his brand. That has never changed, so that's at least commitment to the part, if not being authentic to what he's all about.
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  8. Just on legalities: 1. Statutes of limitations were dropped, thus making the trial a kangaroo court. Court of public opinion, you can have your opinion and believe what you want in public opinion, but you need more than hearsay and gossip in a court of law, at least one that is fair and balanced and not swayed by the politics of the day right or left. You may call this delusional, but either we have a court based on the procedures of law, or we have the case where you can cheat the law and cheat even the innocent that are held on loose ties and false/tampered evidence, or people paid to give false witness. There are criminals let go due to bad procedure that ruined the evidence, and there are people sent to prison for false witnesses that managed to slip through the process. But we need the process to work out what is true, or possible beyond a reasonable doubt, otherwise, we could sentence innocent people to death or life in prison over gossip and slander paid to the highest bidder. 2. Cosby already had a trial, and he served time in prison. Unless a new case comes up, one where he commits a crime after being released from prison, he can't be tried again. It's called double jeopardy.
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  9. I'm pretty sure Dan's Gen-X. It was still possible in the 70's and 80's to live without a computer. 😏👍
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  10. Pipewire connects a lot of things, and that's especially why I switched to it, especially since you don't have to switch between ALSA and JACK. They're all streamlined together.
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  11. I was almost about to take that seriously until the 3 human souls and dragon scales bit. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  12. Could probably meme that but instead say, "No one expects the Python Inquisition!"
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  13. They are going bankrupt and could likely no longer be around, but they are choosing to hide from reality and hate Lunduke for shedding light on the problem.
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  14. There isn't anything orthodox about the problem. If there was a 'right teaching' or at least 'best practice' on how to make Linux work, that's one thing. But what is going on with woke culture and the insanity of the hyperbole is a problem. Aside from maybe Islamic countries, there is no one calling for a bad ending to befall trans people, though there is a call for teachers to stop grooming kids, and instead going back to what schooling is supposed to be for, teaching the basics on reading, writing, math, science, etc. It's not a teachers' job to push kids into any sexuality, nor to push cultural warfare in the classroom.
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  15. @Adam  - A lot of the things that were starting to change 20 years ago are starting to show their spoiled rotten fruit.
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  16.  @nopenoperson9118  This was, and still is why I felt wary about the metoo hashtag brigade. Believe her? Only if she is willing to testify in a court of law, and even then, assuming the person isn't a pathological liar that has no qualms committing perjury. Because, let's face it, some testimony doesn't hold up after cross examination for a reason.
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  17. Even there, only if you hold conservative, traditional positions.
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  18. Most tech used to be apolitical, but times have changed. Used to be the same with video games, except the times when censorship forced things into politics. Now, it's gamergate woke nonsense that unfortunately the AAA companies take seriously.
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  19. Well, all the libs complained that you can't separate politics, so there you go, you got the news and politics together now.
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  20. No, I wouldn't want another Megyn Kelly voice out there. She's a RINO.
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  21. Why drink Miller in a Pub when you got better options?
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  22. How much do you bet Gnome's response is that Lunduke is too much of a hoo-aight supreme pizza, and that the only way to save open-source is to donate to Gnome to protect from Lunduke right wing populism? Now, I will admit that this is not a sure bet, and they probably won't come up with this plan on their own. I'd hope they might have at least a tiny shred of intellectual integrity and try to paraphrase what I just posted in their response, but that might be giving Gnome too much benefit of the doubt. 😏
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  23.  @5226-p1e  there might be boomer gamers, but they're in 70's and 80's. Gen-X were the first to really embrace gaming. Boomers either really liked them because they were trying to be the friend parents or cool aunt or uncle, or they thought they were a waste of time.
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  24. Back as early as the 2010's there was creators on YT that question, and some claiming to hear how pop singers farmed for views, bought bots, etc. Now, with AI, they seem just a little more up front about how they want to use these things for social engineering.
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  25. Unions can be good, but sometimes the company manipulates the contract. Like, say you're guaranteed 20 hrs, the company might say, "Ok, fine, everyone gets 20 hours - no more, no less." Then, when you ask your manager why you got your hours cut, they say to you, "We're sorry. we had to cut hours because the union won't let us work people more than 20 hours a week." The union may not have meant a 20 hour limit, but that you're guaranteed those hours. But this is part of the issue besides wanting a wage increase. Companies will find ways to cut costs to get you to work more for less one way or another. So yeah, why be loyal to any work, union or not? Corporate hacks are corporate hacks wherever you go.
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  26. Zero points doesn't mean she did badly says the judge who helped give her 0 points. Who's he really protecting? If he was trying to protect breakdancing, well, too little to late. It's been taken off the list of sports for at least the next three olympics.
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  27. And getting closer to being the new kilobyte. 😏
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  28. This is why Tim gets annoyed at certain Republicans, most of whom we consider RINOs, for bending the knee, or trying to appease the dems. Tim is projecting his own milktoast failings onto them. It's why he's making this apology video. lol!
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  29.  @hondata974  - He was spouting free education and free healthcare all over the place. Just another tax and spend liberal Democrat. He seriously would have been demolished in the main elections simply because majority of those that actually vote also work and pay taxes, and are tired of giving everyone free stuff off the work of their own labor.
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  30. Make sure they don't partner with Sweet Baby Inc.
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  31. Live Journal is still around, but I think it's owned by a Russian company. Not really sure, though. It's changed hands so many times.
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  32. ​ @hondata974  - Not even a slippery slope, just the fact that when socialism takes over, they ruin what capital was created, and thus ruin their economy. Doesn't matter if it was privatized. Once socialists are done with it, there's no capital left to privatize. The only ones that benefit are the elites among the socialists that took the money and distributed it among, not the people, but themselves. And even there, only to the ones that remain alive don't suddenly disappear off the face of the earth. All socialism is, is a return to feudalism. The tyrants of the revolution take over, and the rest of the country starves to death.
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  33. Do tech urinalists realize that they are on the chopping block next after game urinalists?
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  34. There's a lot of liberals that don't get the fact that you don't get paid if you don't listen to customers. Sure, customers can be needy, but this isn't even the case here. I wouldn't even call it poo-pooing on the customers as much as it is taking a crap on what they project the customer to be and smear it around on the customer's face. This is currently a problem on the left, who claim to be progressive, and spew out all the woke/sjw garbage that divides everyone. For we all have those relatives like Adam Sessler that hates Republicans/Conservatives (that is, what they define as such, which can include classic/centralist liberals) so much that they hope they die. There's no such thing as tolerance or real inclusivity among these liberals, and the more sane liberals cringe to even consider them liberal. So about the best definition for them are rabid lunatics.
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  35.  @ashleighAshlee  - And they wonder why no one is loyal to them any more. First of all, we're employees, not serfs or slaves. Second of all, going off shore only proves how these companies don't really want professional workers, but rather cheap, if not slave labor in countries that already treat their people like serfs and slaves..
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  36. Depends what they mean by RPGs these days. Mobile is plagued with half-assed AFK games that are considered RPG.
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  37. @ikamyon6 - AUR is slightly safer just by the fact it is non-commercial. There's a somewhat popular notoriety in going after the big whales, like Microsoft, whereas going after a free and opensourced organization makes one as evil, if not moreso than Microsoft. On the other hand, some mines here and there could be considered gatekeeping and sifting the wheat from the tares, so to speak.
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  38. Biden wanted their version of gay Milo, but it doesn't work because Milo had intelligence as well as cringe. Plus he had this "forgive me, I'm recovering from liberalism" vibe that just worked. 😏👌
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  39.  @rossorange2592  - Blanket statement. There's probably a lot of people like me that didn't even know about any of this, and wouldn't have if Mutahar hadn't posted this video. There's nothing for me to fall into, because I didn't fall for anything in the first place. All I was, was informed about a nutcase from Canada that, among illegal drug use that she gives account of on her own stream, is a pathological liar. The only difference between her and any other pathological liar is that she happens, or at least appears to be a lefty, trans, and a lot of lefties gave her a bunch of money because of this. They want it to be real, or at least they'll cling onto the narrative no matter how much of a lie it is.
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  40. I love the internet Archive, but yeah, there were some questionable aspects about how they got around copyright laws, which apparently they didn't and hoped being not for profit allowed them to go under the radar. This may hit more than their archive, depending on how other archive sites worked out giving out free digitized books, some that can be hard to find, especially if no longer published and out of circulation.
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  41. I'm curious about Open Indiana. They supposedly have a non-Linux open-source kernel. I just haven't had any luck getting a live OS of it to work.
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  42. Or, they both work at the same time, and Pipewire manages what 'mode' to set depending on what software is most compatible. That way Xorg can work natively with Xorg applications and Wayland with Wayland applications - unless you prefer to use one or the other. But at least you would have the options instead of forcing the issue of putting over 20 years of X-11 applications in Wayland limbo, just because.
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  43. Tim, there's a difference between the traditions and old laws. Besides that, very few people even put pies out on window sills any more. It's now more a regional custom than a nation wide tradition. Tradition has more to do with the core tenets and practices of a nation, which for the US is the Constitution, not some archaic law you managed to find in a dusty old Virginia law book. However, there was probable a reason for the law at the time, which might be more interesting dive more deeper into the history about, rather than being used as a shallow dig at tradition. 😏
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  44. You also dismiss the fired Ukraine prosecutor when Biden was the one that explicitly told Ukrain if said prosecutor wasn't fired that they wouldn't get $1 billion dollars in aid. That sounds pretty explicit quid pro quo from Biden compared to an alleged implicit one you're trying to make regarding Trump talking with Ukraine president over current affairs. Are you saying there would be no legal way for Trump to talk about these questionable, possibly corrupt and illegal activities of Biden without it being considered Trump trying to get political gain? If there's legitimate legal issue to investigate these things, then what did Trump do wrong in trying to right a wrong initially done by Biden? https://youtu.be/KCF9My1vBP4
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  45.  @brianjentz8963  Agree with the first part. On the second. If she was a poor performer, they would have had all that documented and wouldn't be squirming around about it. On the third and final part, you can only speculate if this makes her job search more difficult. We are coming to a time where corporations won't be able to hide behind the scenes any more. Me Too has already blown statutes of limitations and NDAs out of the water for precedence. We're increasingly getting to a point where corporations and their corruption has brought things to a boiling point, and maybe we might finally see a lot of 'too big to fail' corporations go under and finally get caught doing their shady, underhanded dirty work. Maybe the best thing is for these corporations to fail and people to start building up new businesses for a new era without these corporations.
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  46. Sigman Floyd - It's also another opportunity to show how the neo Nazis that blast this video are nothing more than the bastard children of socialist liberalism. Sure, the liberals bash Trump as a Nazi, but we all know the real Nazis were libtard socialists who learned how to control and manipulate the population from the Democrats in the US, who have always been and continue to be murderous racists, who conveniently put Planned Parenthood in poor, majority black neighborhoods in a preemptive strike. The real evil Nazi scum is on the left - they just conveniently have neo Nazis infiltrating the right to make Republicans look bad.
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  47. How can they sustain a company or organization by banning so many people?
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  48. I wish that was true, but WA re-elected Inslee, and CA retained Newsome.
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  49. And yet you a in CA keep voting her and Gavin back in. You guys had a chance with Larry Elder and you blew it, falling for the same DNC talking points you always do.
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  50.  @planettoybox  - Need to find the right lawyer. Possibly look into a class action, especially if there's more than one person involved. Whistleblowing can be a tough one, considering you have to be very certain about what went down, and what sort of abuse of power, or other criminal activity happened. Even then, well, no gov or corpo likes being sniched on, and we've definitely seen how that's gone with people like Snowden.
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  51.  @avalond1193  - That's kind of the point in wrestling. You think none of the people wrestling now aren't in it for the money and boosting their own brand? Wrestling is a business. Entertainment, sure, but all entertainment is a business. Hell, this channel wants the same thing and cares about its brand as well. YouTube is, after all, about views and likes.
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  52.  @Pressbutan  - and they're already talking about 128 bit when we haven't even come close to reaching the limits of 64 bit.
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  53. That's the problem for Lunduk, he's too good. He's more a journalist than the urinalists out there that call themselves so, that he's a target for both shadow and public bans. He's likely on a few watch lists, as well.
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  54. What if she eventually shed her feminist BS and started saying something that makes sense? 🤔
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  55. I want to like bookworm, but it just doesn't work well for me.
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  56. More like others are scared about getting canceled by the woke Linux mob.
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  57. Big corporation leaders are all generally sociopaths.
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  58. in grocery store code, 86 of a former customer or employee means they are banned from the store.
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  59. I like what Pipewire can do with audio. Still going to wait to see how the video side comes out. Theme of the story: If it sounds too good to be true, it possibly is. So better to wait and see. I really don't like doing the Jack GUI. It's the least intuitive, even for professional AV sound designers, because so much of the physical jack outputs had been given digital solutions that are far more intuitive for front end use. With DAWs, much of the jack style audio is over-complicated, especially when you're just looking to edit and compose. Heck, it was easier working with the physical jacks and MIDI ports back in the day, outside funky stage setups, but the plug and play was simple for a basic sound, AV studio setup. Jack overcomplicates it. Which is why I love Pipewire without diving into a bunch of GUI graphical nonsense. All you really need nowadays is something that looks like an AV/soundboard with check boxes for enabling/disabling the devices you want or need, and bon't bother with virtualizing the back end jacks. It's not as intuitive as you think, there's simpler front end controls, and if you really want that 1970's - 1980's over-complex synth experience, just get the VST plug-ins. Otherwise there's plenty of soundfonts and VST sound banks and samplers that create the sounds just fine without all the funky wiring.
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  60. We're probably going to have to go BSD, or create a whole new kernel alternative to linux, and an opensource alternative to whatever this leftist cringe stuff is. Make Opensource and Unix Great Again!
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  61.  @mwdiers  yeah, but Linus himself has repeated similar woke stuff. Who knows how long until the Linux Foundation goes off the rails?
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  62.  @Counterbalance_  That's why I never went past the trilogy. It's like Star Wars, the original trilogy is the core cannon. Everything after is nonsense.
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  63. Equal, as in sentient human beings with a free will is one thing. Marxist feminism is a whole different thing. Marxists don't want equality, they want the power to redistribute wealth so they can steal what they don't have, rather than work for what they want.
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  64.  @blaynestaleypro  - I'm sure they have plenty of reasons. But if they can't tell you, it's a pretty good indication revealing those reasons might likely open them up to a lawsuit. So, the spineless cowards they are, they just say they don't have to give a reason because the no fault divorce clause essentially states thar they can fire for any reason, and not even have to tell you. For if they did have to, they more than likely will be in trouble.
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  65. What accomplishments does Kamala Harris have?
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  66. That would also include Linux and BSD. Basically, everything would be banned, if it was a matter of what contained government backdoors.
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  67. I will admit part of the reason I went to Brave was because Brendan Eich, being forced from Firefox because of his support of Prop 8. He stands on principles that make him more stable and trustworthy compared to liberals who your have to watch your back around, lest they take the advantage to stab you over one pet agenda or another that you don't agree with them on.
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  68. People have used VR in SL sonce around 2016, probably as early as 2012. VR, though, is still mostly a gimmick. People thought it was going to be the future since the 1990's, but that fad faded, just as the current one likely will soon enough. Besides, computer graphics, let alone the VR experience still has a long way to come. Plus, it's a niche market, much like lazer tag.
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  69. Northern CA would probably join.
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  70.  @IrishFinalExit  - Yes it was. No one had the processing powers, etc. in the mid 90's to do all the texturing needed to make realistic graphics. Part of the reason after the N64, Nintendo used 32-bit cpus. Even with reaching the 4 Gb RAM threshold where 64-bit would make a difference, 32-bit was hardly to the limits of its capabilities, and many 32-bit programs would still be adequate today if not for the push of planned obsolescence that demands everything be 64-bit, at least until they're ready to force everything to be 128-bit, possibly in 10 years, maybe even less, despite scratching the surface of 64-bit.
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  71. The only problem there is a lot of companies work around this by saying they put up a job, but never advertised it all that much in house or on job boards. Thus few people even know there's a job available. Or if they do know, the company goes phones in the interviews, glosses over them, and then say, "We can't find a qualifying candidate, even among those we interviewed." Then they can claim they have to outsource, or otherwise bring someone in on visa because they went through all the motions and claim they couldn't find anyone. In reality, they already knew what they wanted, and regardless if anyone interviewed was qualified or not, they can boil it down to not a 'right fit', but the guy on visa that they can pay less for, is what they really mean by who's qualified.
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  72.  @THUGPUTIN  - That 'if you smell' catch phrase has been used by so many wrestlers throughout the decades that it's impossible to say who the originator of it was. Likely didn't even begin in the WWE and was passed around among the various territories that came before WWE bought them out or buried them.
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  73.  @TimeJerk143  - Cena has not been around as long as the Rock. Besides, it only means that Cena's been sucking up to Vince McMahon longer than most. Not something to brag about.
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  74. Let's get some real history here. The reason why Apple can't legitimately patent touchscreen tech. is because it was already a tech. long before Apple even existed as a company. The first touchscreen was invented by E.A. Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK, around 1965 - 1967. And let's not forget that the visual interface of modern computing for both Apple and Windows came from Zerox, who also helped develop what would become modern touchscreen technology in computers and smart phones around 1979. Touchscreen was already a common use technology in ATMs, in store cashier terminals, Xerox machines, UPS and similar delivery mobile devices, and even used on computer graphics editing well before smart phones ever existed. It was only a matter of time until the tech. would get to a point of expanding to more public use and marketing.
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  75. Technically, the rhinoceros is considered a unicorn. But, just like with the LBGTSQRL nazis, the reality is not as pretty as the fantasy. <.<
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  76. Which is why they continue to watch the shows, obsess over the YouTube videos, and comment in the comments section. They got you hook, line and sinker.
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  77.  @act.13.41  - That's part of the fear of the woke mob, because advertisers get scared off at controversy, and having the woke mob go after them. It's all about the bullying by something that ironically originated out of anti-bullying campaigns in schools.
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  78.  Han Lockhart  - It's not racist, it's speciesist. 😏👌😉
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  79.  @hazelora  - KDE, Hyprland, and Manjaro should team up and create the ultra Chad based kernel. 😏👍
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  80. Had its own virtual economy? It still HAS a virtual economy.
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  81. Steam has done censorship as well. Computer gaming isn't immune from AAA game screwups.
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  82. Mastodon is like a book or game. It's something either published, or with a platform. So this raises a different issue. When you distribute a publication or put a voice on a platform, guess what? Not everyone is going to have the same views or hold the same values as you. A publication has every right to choose whoever they want to publish. We already have publications like the Jacobin, which takes its name from political club during the French Revolution that became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence from mid-1793 to mid-1794 and helped play a factor in the rise of Robespierre. Christians have all sorts of publications like the Christian Science Monitor, or the National Catholic Register. And, guess what? There are Christians that may read the Jacobin, and atheists that might read the Christian publications mentioned. As a conservative Christian, I can't stop an atheist from reading a Christian publication, nor would I want to. Even a Satanist can read a Bible. Albeit I'd hope they might convert after doing so. But I can't just go over and take the Bible from the Satanist and declare it not for him, and that he and all other Satanists must be banned from reading the Bible. Maybe I'm not like the Bible thumper of old, who themselves were a form of woke, and we learned not to follow their bigotry. Ironically, the left is going the way of the old stereotypical Bible thumping, book burning, Satanic Panic fundamentalist Christian they still whine about when it comes to their narrative about that era. But apparently the left learned to be woke bigots.
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  83.  @mightisright  - It's the same 'dire need' as NAFTA and outsourcing are. These companies want cheap, if not slave labor. So they either set up shop in another country to exploit the cheaper labor, or they try to bring them here and exploit them. It should be illegal and considered an unfair business practice. It definitely shouldn't be called 'winning' to exploit other countries' labor and make American labor compete with foreign cheap/slave labor. That should be called cheating, and again, considered illegal. If they want to do business in another country, then they should have to uphold US labor wages and standards, rather than this 'when in Rome'.BS.
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  84.  @QueenAllero  - because Gavin is a Democrat, and all Democrat run states are all in favor of lockdowns and vaccinations. Need to use your head more and be more informed when you vote. Otherwise, you get what you have right now with Newsome.
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  85.  @DH-xw6jp  - mileage varies on the whole getting beat up and bullied. Some of the old gamers were bullies themselves, hustling lunch money from younger kids for arcade money, or whatnot. By and large gamers became a community among neighborhood kids that stayed over and played games together on the weekends. Free food and free video games at friends houses were a big part of what built the gaming industry.
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  86. Browsers got political real quick once Microsoft decided they had to monopolize every part of tech and used pre-installing Explorer for free to try and bury Netscape. 😏👌
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  87. There are some computers still using yum. 😏
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  88. Or how about how weak voice actors that can't quit Twitter because they need fanboi twits on Twitter.😏
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  89.  @winterhell2002  - Too bad a religious cult already holds the rights to the acronym LDS. 😏
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  90.  @ripplecutter233  - No they are not, but you are likely to have better service when you don't treat your employees like crap. Also won't have as much turnover, which is funny that corporations claim to actually care about that while firing people for no cause. Also, Amazon is crap. I'd never work for such a slave driver.
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  91.  @PerrySkyePhoenix  - Which is why it will become mandatory to have cameras, or otherwise access to a recording of the termination. After all, if we're saying they are like cops, then they should be recorded during a termination, and assessed on how they handled it. People that do a lousy job at firing people ought to at least be coached, if not fired, depending how bad they were at it.
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  92.  @codahighland  - defining left and right can be subjective. There are people that consider Microsoft to be right wingers simply for being a corporate entity and capitalist enterprise. Under that definition, such people probably think that Red Hat is right wing as well.
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  93.  @codahighland  - I've been roughly moving through the realms of conservative, centrist, and libertarian for most my life. I could tell you what was right wing in the 80's, somewhat in the 90's, though I'd say bipartisan neocon politics of the 90's was starting to muddy the waters. The 2000's was mostly moderate 'compassionate' conservative defined by W Bush, and what currently (since roughly 2010) is considered RINO spineless so-called Republicans that more often than not vote with Dem and show disdain for much of the conservative and libertarian right. But to say what is popular American right, in current times, I don't know what defines that. Trump is not right wing. Before he ran for president, he identified mostly as Democrat, which is partly why his presidential bid was taken as a joke by most, until he actually won. But I still wouldn't call him right wing. He's probably more or less a centrist, but he caters to people that, yes a lot are definitely on the right, but there's plenty that are not and are just fed up with how far the left has gone and has fallen into this ideological purity spiral on who can be the most authentic leftist, checking every single box they can, being loyal to every single leftist organization and activist group out there. And I can understand how some might consider that orthodoxy. but I think it's much more fundamentalist, even a weird sort of anti-matter twin to the conservative fundamentalism of the 80's and 90's who also were trying to censor video games, and held a political stronghold on the right. Yes, there's still a religious right, but it's laughable to say it has anywhere close to the power that the radical left fundamentalists have right now. Even as much as I am a Catholic, traditional conservative religiously, I really fear that we are looking at another French Revolution reign of terror from the left, where you can't just agree to disagree, since there are people being jailed for any sort of activism on the right where far worse things on the verge of rioting on the left is paid a blind eye to. Modern visions of segregation are mostly on the left, especially with how safe spaces are utilized. Bret Weinstein is an example of this sort of thing, who is a former professor of evolutionary biology, having served on the faculty of Evergreen State College from 2002 until 2017. Evergreen for the longest time had been considered the epitome of the most liberal of liberal colleges. Weinstein would traditionally have been fully well check marked into the left in years gone by. He was basically ousted for saying that this whole DEI and safe spaces might be going a bit too far and that it's discrimination to tell white students they are not allowed on campus in order to fight 'who-aight supreme pizzas'. He's among a few people on the left that appear sane enough to call out that something's really wrong with what's going on, and because they won't tow the line of modern leftists, they at best are considered right wingers, if not far right extremists. It's unfortunate we're in such sensational times as these. I hope we can find a way out of it before we see a real genocide or holocaust transpire from all the insanity.
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  94. Have to agree, Hook was the best live action of Peter Pan.
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  95. I sometimes do the cat ears in some of my profiles, but I agree with this message. Saying it's written in rust with cat ears on is not only unprofessional, but does a disservice to all us nekos and fiurries that are not crazy lunatics. 😽😏
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  96.  @treelineresearch3387  - Even with the first trilogy of Star Wars, it was a brand to sell toys, Same with Ghostbusters, especially with the cartoon - which I'm fine with because I loved the cartoon and had fun with the toys. I'm more to think it's because they forgot the movies were for the kids as to why it doesn't work, because, like with the live action Scooby Doo movies, they tried to appeal to the adult jokes about the show, and failed to understand that it was always about the kids, not grown up woke man-children that have weird negative views and/or fetishes over the source material.
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  97. Yes, I do remember meritocracy being something nerds cared about, especially when they'd get passed up on for a job, raise, or promotion to the guy whose big attributes were either going to the same college, being in the same frat, or loving the same sports teams, with a major boost if the guy played and was liked for his role on said sports team, but otherwise could barely do any of the work assigned to him. Anti-meritocracy is similar in that the person hired, getting the raise or promotions is liked because of hitting favorable quotas, and not for if the person can, or actually has done his job well to merit such accolades.
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  98.  @logicplague  - For Americans, there is a certain degree of difference between white and black culture. It doesn't have to be talked about in insulting terms, but unfortunately, that often happens. There is a difference between coming to the colonies as white pilgrim settlers compared to being black slaves. The Native Americans also have their histories and variants of culture stemming from their tribes, the regions of America they called their native lands, and whether they were nomadic or settled in one area and built cities. To me, it's unfortunate we can't talk about these histories without someone getting butt hurt about doing so. It's like, how can you come to understand history and culture of people if you can't talk about it?
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  99. If Elon Musk can make Twitter fun again, I'm in on it!
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  100. For now, I cancel out Fedora by installing Hyperland on it as my main WM.
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  101. In other words, the last trilogy of Star Wars became Twilight in space. 🤡😏
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  102.  @ShaneSchimpf  Exacly, it's not competition when the competition is lowering the wages, and effectively wanting people to work as slaves. That's not a free market, that is making Ameria a plantation and calling it being competitive.
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  103.  @TimeJerk143  - no one cares but you, Cena fan Boi. Go play with your Cena doll
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  104. @SomeGuyInSandy - You do realize it's possible to publish things as public domain, or under various 'copy left' attributions under copyright laws?
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  105. True, the left hated Walt Disney. He's probably turning over in his grave, disgusted by what his company's legacy has become.
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  106. And thus how Skynet was born - bloated software = bloated AI egos. 😏
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  107.  @bmanpura  - have heard of an attempt o try and revive it.
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  108.  @MrBearyMcBearface  - Or only know what they've been programmed to know.
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  109.  @alsed7  - that's the response of a person brainwashed, not a person that's studied a subject and can articulate a view with clarity and their own critical thinking. They are simple droids, who get commands from their handlers on who to attack, capture, advance. You are giving them far more credit and intelligence they they deserve.
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  110. A baker makes money off a cake. He is offering a service, though doesn't necessarily have to bake a cake, and could give any reason for doing so, such as already being booked up on orders, or because they've already closed and are not taking any more orders. However, by civil rights law, the refusal cannot be made in the case of discrimination against religion, race, creed, and added in later gender or sexual orientation. I get the baker's issue, but, I also don't like smoking, yet I still have to sell cigarettes if I work at a store that sells them, which most grocery stores do. Can there be a religious exemption? Maybe, but we don't have that yet, so we still have to follow the law until such time as it might be changed. You can protest it, but it's still the law of the land.
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  111. Best bet is to move to Texas or Florida and don't vote Democrat.
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  112.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  - Apparently I said some truths that they don't want me to say. So all I will say is you are what you consume, and you should always question what they mean by what is 'safe' programming, and why to challenge them with differing opinions is considered 'unsafe'.
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  113. Popularity is such a BS way of considering something as thriving or not. Longevity wins out, seeing as all the other popular alternatives have died out and SL remains.
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  114. Yes, JACK, at least for the 32 bit era, was pretty high end audio, and low latency.But, Pipewire helped streamline it and get it to cooperate with ALSA so that both can work together at the same time like every other OS has been able to do for decades.
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  115. Ah man, just when I was hoping it wasn't a farce. 😦
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  116. Even if you were right on God killing that many, humanity has killed hundreds of millions more on their own, even just in the last century among Communist countries that essentially were atheist, or at least hate the Bible and Christians as much as you seem to.
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  117.  @--_DJ_--  If she was, it would have been her manager, or at the very least they would be able to show the manager's performance evaluations, which she herself would have signed, indicating she was aware of her work assessment, and received 'coaching' on the matter.
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  118. Just one last aspect, the four terms for 'love' in Greek used to be a common sermon, or teaching among evangelical Christians, as well as a few other Protestant sects, particularly those with roots coming from the Anglican/US Episcopal sects. It became common after C.S. Lewis did a series of radio talks in 1958 on the concept of love, which were later compiled into his book, “The Four Loves,” exploring the four classical Greek terms for love: storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (passionate love), and agape (charity). The radio talks were apparently criticized in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex. Until Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body, which began with a series of 129 lectures delivered by the Pope during his Wednesday audiences from 1979 to 1984, C.S. Lewis' "Four Loves" was among the few most notable candid talks on sex and love that was had among Christians, Protestant or Catholic, in modern history to date.
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  119. Yeah, I'm at odds with screen share. It just feels like something that opens the door to hackers.
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  120. Garuda so far is the best Arch-Hyprland experience out of the box. Arcolinux-Hyprland is a close second.
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  121. The problem is we do have liberals in the US that do want Chinese communism. The DNC as a whole would love totalitarian power and have modeled their emergency powers after China.
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  122. Maybe because Vivek didn't talk about them then he decided to insult the American people? Either way, we can easily say it's the whole H-'x'B, or visas in general and not try to do this whole 'what about?' stuff. People were responding by showing people that are here on a visa doing these jobs. Besides that retail is among those jobs that had already been cheapened by Wall Mart and outsourcing. Any part of our labor that has to compete with cheap and slave labor from other countries puts Americans at a disadvantage, and worse, cheats on what the free market is supposed to be about. It isn't winning to be competing against slave labor.
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  123. The irony it is 20 or 30 years ago, he would have been the typical lefty that took up these oddball subjects mostly because of the shock value it got from conservatives. I still remember the arguments among furries, who at one time actually cared not to be related to as being into certain things with animals just because a certain then growing section of the community was obsessed with drawing anthro characters in adult situations. Then there's been the past decade of weebs who have had people freak out as much about their youthful looking anime girls as they do that many of them are Trump supporters. I get it, 4-chan is the dumpster pit of all vile things Reddit used to be (and in some areas still is), but really, cringe is cringe, regardless politics. But Stallman is mostly a throwback to the old hippies. Not necessarily the first openly cringe fringe society group (the Greek cynics, literally called so as a reference to behaving like dogs, had at least a couple thousand years), they were the rebellion to what they considered a whitewashed society of the 50's. Ironically, once being the one's pushing to rage against the machine, they have become the machine to rage against.
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  124. This is what you get when you hire advocates instead of teachers, nurses, and doctors that understand basic biology.
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  125. Like you would give money to the charities that call, who either volunteer to do the calls, or at best minimum wage?
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  126. I would love Brave to be Chromium free like they used to be. It was founded by one of the FireFox founders.
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  127.  @stuart3753  - Even outside of wrestling and politics (at least national politics, most everything about humanity is political in some way, be it because of family drama, and what plays out in civilized society, there's always the tale of two cities in life), a lot of people cover for people involved in all sorts of stuff. You are a hypocrite if you think WWE or the US government, or the current person claiming to be president are the only ones that have ever been involved in covering up for people, or permitting it, or even being involved in sick stuff. There's schools, churches, hospitals, cops, pretty much all businesses and corporations, that do just that on a daily basis. Much of human history can be told around who has been covering up for who on the world stage, or in whatever capacity of history you want to go down. Heck, you've probably covered for people yourself, and even had people cover for you. But like most hypocrites, you're going to say the crap you have covered up, or what people covered up about you comes out smelling like roses compared to WWE or the government's issues. Maybe so, but still a hypocrite to pretend like you can cast the first stone when you're guilty of covering for others, and have benefited from people covering for your follies in life.
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  128. I think the problem they hate about the losing funds is because it goes to that one dig of going woke = going broke. This has been the reality of AAA gaming since 2014, when Sargon of Akkad became Sargon of Akkad, for better or for worse. I say better because of how he was about to return to YouTube, and how the Lotus Podcast has been able to maintain success and keep Carl Benjamin relevant, and become more humanized since he doesn't have to speak behind the Sargon mask and explain his points without being seen as just an angry gamer neckbeard. I'd personally love to just be about music, how I've enjoyed composing music since the days I was writing MIDIs on mid - late 90's Twelve-Tone Cakewalk music suite I got with my first MIDI keyboard that I used on an IBM Aptiva 486 that initially ran on Win 3.11 with wavetable, which was later upgraded with SB AWE 64 with soundfont instrument banks and and capable to create your own. Basically the origin of today's modern VSTs and other virtual instruments, and the basic MIDI standards. Moving to Linux, It wasn't any hate for Win-10. which I liked, as being the successor for 7. which was the successor for XP, which I would still be on because that was the most table and long term experience Microsoft ever put out that was great. I think They even know that XP is the best they ever will have, especially if they continue the way they are with what they are doing now. Linux wasn't something I expected to be freedom from that, until I started try out distros and seeing what they have to offer. Currently, I'm between Fedora 40 and Garuda, both of which I run Hyprland on. Fedora is, next to Debian, one of the best long term distros while Garuda is a fun, current of the cutting edge of Arch. It's how I learned about Pipewire, Hyprland, and Wayland - two of which impact the actual multimedia aspects of how things like MuseScore, Ardour, Audacity, GNU, OpenShot, and other apps I need for my workflow. While I love the decentralization of much of the Linux distros, there is indeed a problem that only Bryan Lunduke is saying something about it. I don't live in Portland, But I do live in WA state, and as much as I believe it is necessary to pay attention to local government, 2020 showed that there's a problem there too. Microsoft basically owns my state, even now buying up farmland (and votes) in counties that are, or used to be red counties. There still are a lot of counties red, and fairly independent, and really, everything county that's not in the Seattle-Tacoma, Puget Sound area, heck, even a few counties in that area would love to break away because Seattle politics defines far too much of the politics of the rest of WA. There's similar parts of Oregon that would like to defect from Portland, just like Northern CA would love to be detached from Southern CA, and some of Southern CA misses when they were much more rural and conservative. TX may still be fairly red, but it's growing more purple. Titus is lucky to be living in a red state where he can be middle of the road centrist and not have to face a bloated, corrupt Dem controlled state governing juggernaut that is backed by some of the largest tech, music, and entertainment corporations in the country, if not much of the world. Talk about local? I've been local to my area for a long time, with my education being from Washington State University in Pullman, WA, That's about as far east and rural local college town WA as you can get up here in the Northwest, and heck, I went even farther with taking a few classes offered from University of Idaho in Moscow Idaho. I'm sure HRC would like to claim me as a Russian spy for that one. 😏 And yes, out of college, I wanted to be more centrist, and still believe that both the left and the right are problematic. Yet they are pretty much all we got to work with, considering you get the anarchist side of libertarian, regardless if they are left or right, But, yet again, Carl Benjamin is a UK Centrist, and yet the Labor party is pretty close to where the DNC is on things, and even the Tories are more or less RINOs, with maybe a few with any backbone, but most just go along to get along with Labor. That's a trend we have in much of the West, on both sides of the pond, throughout UK, Europe, Canada, and the US. South America is in its own world of hurt with both the the illegal drug cartels and corrupt politicians that make out politics seem pretty mild in comparison. But much of the West is from the world stage down to the mayor is major trouble. On every level, it's backed by the corporations that back the major parties, and may have certain channels going through less legitimate ways to make change. Sure, we have a lot of channels on TV, and the internet has held a lot of open space, but the people that control it from the world stage down to the local level are held by a handful of media moguls. These moguls are either big tech, or owned by big tech, or otherwise are influenced by big tech. Ironically, it's the left that I first learned about why not to trust big corporations, even while it's the left that currently is benefiting from big corporations, as well as big governement, who might as well be one and the same, the way things are going. Again, I'd rather be composing music, learning more about how MIDI and other aspects of AV work on Linux, and how to more effectively utilize social media to market and stream my music. Carl Benjamin just wanted to play video games, Bryan Lunduke would rather geek out on tech, and I'd like to just enjoy the geeking out between both Lunduke and Titus, especially on what distros and apps they might think are great for AV type things, and how to make the greatest laptop AV streaming studio ever. But no, the things we love are being used against us. And indeed, there is nothing more local and personal to a geek than their computer. Add to that people who are discriminating certain values, principles, religion, or politics, claiming I ought to be banned and treated as the monster they clam me to be. As a US citizen, that believes in the Constitution, there is something really wrong here. Conservatives get it, and have been warning about this sort of culture shift for a lot longer than any of us, back when it made sense to call the corporate enterprises more or less right wing capitalists. Right now, it's ridiculous to call these companies capitalists, especially after selling themselves out to China. And it shows when they show greater respect to China, and then back in the states, they keep fueling the culture war, and try to ramp it up even further, even to the point where you don't think they even care about going woke and making their company lose money and open themselves to lawsuits and boycotts, or people just tired of the BS, and grow wary of giving their money to companies that hold outright animosity and hatred for them. Again, I'd love to go back to enjoying tech and making music, etc. But, sometimes you have to say enough is enough. Otherwise, they will just plough right over you and try to bully you into submission.
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  129. Calamares is OK, though I wish more distros gave options in the install for a variety of desktops/windows managers. Arch distros like ArcoLinux do this well, but some of the apps I'd like to use don't always work as well as I'd like. For some reason, Fedora distros have been the better distros for the type of apps I use. Debian distros are a close second, but Xorg displays are showing their age/limitations. Plasma is hit and miss, with Wayland being the best and most optimal for my laptop, especially with Hyprland.
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  130. The reality is the left hates traditional marriage.
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  131. Hyprland on Wayland is just awesome. Otherwise, i3 on X-11.
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  132. I blame it on all the procedural criminal law shows. One of their favorite boogeymen is some sort of neo-naz or cryptic KKK. To add an extra layer, they have the villain also be within the cops, or a military recruiter.
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  133. @solitary one - Hong Kong was the reason China has prosperity. That and sell outs like Biden and the US companies that outsourced to China for cheap labor. If Hong Kong was allowed to be independent and US companies backed out of China, all they would be known for is Mao murdering millions of his own people.
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  134. @StaceyAyodele - Having worked for one, can't agree more. Even worse if among the grunties that the higher ups blame for their mistakes. With customers being blamed more and more for rejecting bad products, it only serves to show that they now consider the customer among the grunties. Your 'job' is just to buy the product, not to actually like or want it. They'll keep doing it for as long as people mindlessly consume things. It's why they prefer the term consumer, instead of customer. Customer assumes a familial relation, consumer, a subordinate one.
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  135. Six months for a basic government grant paper that could have been written by a 5th grader. 😏
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  136. Linux comes out of the box with no DRMs. The corpos have to sneak it in, usually as a gamer related update, such as a graphics or multimedis update with the latest drivers. Most of those drivers can be downloaded and installed without the DRM software, but most know what to look for, and what to avoid.
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  137. It's a common view, though not always so eloquently stated. Most people go to a mechanic to fix their car, or a doctor when sick. There are so many ways we are socially trained to look for the expert or get a professional opinion that some people are shocked at the notion of do it yourself. But there seems to be some relatively high opinion of the armature that studies a subject or works on a problem out of love of the study and personal desire to solve a problem.
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  138. True, the Greeks were somewhat conservative, especially if you are talking about being religious and traditional. Even in not being Christians, there was a strong sense of morality within Greek/Hellenic society. That's to be expected, as per the city-state held the νόμος (nómos), the law, rule, code, or 'norms' of the people within that city-state. These laws were regards to behaviors to either persuade or dissuade people doing things in order to keep the public unity. Plus this was long before state and religion being separate was a thing, so obeying the laws was obeying the gods. And yes, I do find it humorous that they think conservatives are humorless when it comes to sex or adult humor.
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  139. I'm still curious what the point of moving away from APT was all about in the first place. Linux repositories, by and large, just work. I find I appreciate that Debian changes out its repositories every major upgrade, while working to secure that what they have in them works and helps maintain the stability. The actual functions of what Linux is supposed to do are far more interesting to me than if the distro has amazing wallpaper and super crisp fonts. Sure, the rice is nice, but what's under the hood? What makes Linux, and any particular Linux distro run like a beast that it does circles around Apple and Windows? That's the sort of stuff I really want to know about, not that you can... OMG, browse the web with Firefox, as if no other OS in the world hasn't been able to over nearly the past two decades.
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  140.  @drumboy02  - who can forget Bill Gates?
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  141. This is why I watch you, because your videos are not just some text to speech AI bot regurgitating a script. It's annoying how many videos there are today that do that. It's appreciated when you speak your mind, and give your perspective on what you believe is the actual history, as well as backing it up with historical sources.
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  142.  @markislivingdeliberately  - Employees have rights. There are labor laws, rules, regulations, and company policies that are enforced by legal contracts, which is why you go to court if you feel your employer reneged on their end of the deal and sue them. God Himself laid out that it is for humanity to labor as per the Bible back in Genesis. Granted, it was after being kicked out of the Garden of Eden, but it is made clear that we are called to work. It's funny you take this line here, and then, you, and many others that take this line of BS will go around telling people to go get a job. Yeah, well, she had a job and they fired her. They said it was about performance, even though they have no proof that she wasn't doing her job. They, the employer, made that mistake, when they could have just laid her off and maybe had to pay severance, rather than now having the public spotlight showing how crappy their HR and upper management is. Now that she has the evidence, she has a very good case to take them to court and sue them for wrongful termination. If not that, there are a lot of people that would be happy to take up the cause against corporate serfdom. Sorry, but your world of employers crapping all over employees and squeezing the heart and soul out of them before sending them to the curb is going to die, and I hope it is a painful hemorrhaging.
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  143.  @l.w.paradis2108  - Your last paragraph is the biggest reason why major corporations can get away with what they do, so many are deterred from talking to a lawyer because they figure they can't afford to. Plus, few know what lawyer to go to and where to find them.
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  144. I grew up in the Hogan, Randy Savage, Andre the Giant era, as well as was going through high school back when Shawn Michaels was playing the whole Heartbreak Kid gimmick. So I also remember the whole Hollywood Hogan, NWO era of WCW, and between rivalry of WCW and WCW, as well as the console wars of SNES v. Genesis, that was a fun time to be a fan of both. But, after a while, you realize their all human, you realize that it's all business, and you grow up knowing you got your own business to get out there to make your own living. It's sad that today's fans don't understand this. Sure, enjoy the narratives, but realize, that's all they're trying to do, is build up a story and see which ones the hook the audience.
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  145.  @TimeJerk143  - If a promo falls in a forest, will anyone care? Nope. Cena is just a corporate mouthpiece himself, no better than the Rock. They all owe their careers to Vince McMahon anyways.
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  146. Agender sounds like the gender version of color blind, where people just want to be neutral and not have to be in all the drama, yet still explaining it tosses you in the drama anyways. 😏
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  147. This is why I don't use Steam that much, because it is just renting. You pay how much you would to own a game to rent it. For now, you may mock Win 7 users for being frustrated for what is effectively planned obsolescence, but then, why be mad at Ubuntu and other major Linux distros when they choose not to support older versions? Valve may support and run on Linux for now, but they are not beholden to remain doing so. They don't even have to continue to use Chrome. Win 7 an XP are not unsafe, and I think there is a good case to make that, when older OSes do get put on planned obsolescence that the company that no longer supports the OS no longer has control or rights over how people may use it, and effectively make it free and open source. Plus, look at what the retro gaming community, and demo scene, that utilize old computers as far back as the Amiga and Atari ST. You can even find people that try to refurbish old Commodore PET to play some of the most ancient versions of Snake. Then there's the Atari consoles and people that make home brew games for thr 2600, 7800, even the 5200. These are console and computers that, for some, even their original company has long went out of business. Security-wise, there's few people left that even know how to program on them, let alone want to make viruses in BASIC. not to mention, with RAM based computers, you just turn them off, and the malware is killed because RAM is short term memory, which is shut off when the computer shuts off. You're selling the Win 7, and the XP argument short. It's not just about Steam, but also a mater of right to ownership and right to repair. The only thing that makes Win 7, XP, or even earlier versions of Ubuntu obsolete is that the people that once worked on it no longer do so. So why can't those that, for whatever reason, decide they want to use the OSes form communities that continue to work on support on their own? Isn't this, in a way, how Linux carries on, and part of why we have so many distros is because of older distro that are no longer around, but there is still a dedicated community that forks off of them? Why is it laughable for Win 7 and XP to now become free and open source distros of their own right? Especially when the company that used to support them abandoned them. It doesn't even matter that the company that abandoned them still exist, for then you might as well say Ubuntu shouldn't exist because Debian still exists. Or, a little closer in similarity, Fedora and other Red Hat distros shouldn't exist because Red Hat still exists, open source copyright notwithstanding. Because, legally, such copyrights don't seem to hold water anyways, since Redhat can trample over it anyway and say it's their code and they can use it however they want, regardless, and the courts seem to side with Red Hat. Anyway, and as it is, GOG wouldn't have existed, nor would Steam eventually pick up certain classic games, like Doom, if it wasn't for abandonware. It's only later, after companies that still held the licenses realized they could still profit from older games, that the older games wound up on Steam and consol stores, or repackaged in all-in-one nostalgia console cash grabs. Because otherwise, the argument would remain that people got ROMs for old abandoned games because either no one was selling them, the originals became insanely expensive collectibles that no one wanted to damage the hardware, so ROM backups were the better option to play them, or just simply the game companies no longer supported them, or no longer existed to support them - hence being called abandonware. All I'm saying is there's more to the story, and a lot more that ought to be hashed out legally, which gets into the archaic views we have of copywite, and how they work (or how abusive and dysfunctional they are) in modern contracts, licensing, etc. if anything, Linux and the abandoned OSes like Win 7 and XP are on a similar path. When it comes to rights of ownership, what it means to have community driven support for an OS, and being able to maintain these things. Steam shouldn't be beholden fo chrome. But moreover, your argument about security of an OS that has to rely on a dedicated community for support is shooting Linux in the foot. Linux is a diverse community that has people dedicated to updating and maintaining the particular distros that have built up to become a community. The difference for Win 7 and XP is they are already a built up community that has been abandoned. The probably are mad most especially at Microsoft, so the lashing out at Steam is from putting salt on an already open wound. What would you say to them if you continued having trouble with Windows native games, with Wine and Proton failing to get them to work, and they said, "Just give up and run Windows!" Oh, right, some did say that, and yet you didn't give up on Linux, despite you could have gotten on Win 10 or 11 for free. But hey, that's the banter among competition.Yet now that they have reached the time of forced obsolescence, they don't have to be enemies any more. They can help push for a more free and open world that isn't subject to the whims of big tech on whether we are made obsolete, or otherwise get locked out simply because the choose to do so.
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  148.  @josephward4004  - it's the usual communism v capitalism. Those that either know how, or can respect the ability to make a profit lean toward capitalism. Those that can't and resent people making money lean toward communism.
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  149.  @liamcluett6203  - Quebec must hold a lot of influence on the vote, though.
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  150. The logic of the Marxist would be to consider felonies as a collective whole, rather than as an individual, case by case situation. That's why the present gun control laws rather than going after the individual criminals. What the judges say by their lips is true enough to how the justice system ought to work. Whether their actual actions in the records of their work on the bench reflects that remains to be seen. But if the left had their way, all gun owners would be felons collectively, simply for owning a gun. Such legislation must be opposed as unconstitutional.
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  151.  @orangetuono38  - And yet it is the 'policing' at the federal level that creates a lot of this distopian Hell. A lot of conservatives and right wing in general have caught on to what they call glow events, or events they believe are put on by FBI operatives posing as right wing. There also is some odd connections between many shooters and supposedly retired FBI or CIA agents. The left has often talked about similar sorts of things happening in countries that the US was involved in destabilizing for political interests, according to the left, for the benefit of US corporate and neo-con interests. And the right now is basically saying similar things, except the operations to destabilize being done here in the US instead of abroad. Part of why I went libertarian for a while is Ron Paul and others were making a lot of sense, and sheding light on these things. In short, the corporations and the uniparty in the federal government are not our friends. They want to enslave us in an even worse dystopia than we've already been through.
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  152. I'm almost tempted to replace Debian and Fedora with Open Mandriva.
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  153. The emulator licenses don't necessarily matter, especially if Nintendo wanted to contend that they infringe upon their own licenses. The emulator community seriously needs to work with game companies like Nintendo, who obviously care about their brand and how it's used in order to come to some sort of agreement on an official emulator and come to a legal means to use ROMs. Game preservation doesn't happen when any emulator and it's collection of ROMs is but a lawsuit away from disappearing off the internet.
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  154. Imagine a Tesla running on Debian 😏👍
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  155. My favorite part: NY math is more confusing than Common Core math. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  156.  @Lewdiculous  - The new MacGuyver kit.
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  157. Well now we know why Pepsi is so flat and syrupy nowadays. 😏👍
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  158.  @xDJKerox  - I used to blame Quake for that. Doom may have exploded with the 3D trend, but Quake was the Big Boy that landed the overkill impact, because everybody had to upgrade to even hit the minimum requirements.
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  159. @VelCrowd - Maybe on the 'all' part, since not all victims are willing to come forward to make accusation. But, out of those that do, then yes, all victims that are willing to make them are accusers, but not all accusers are victims.
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  160. @Jack Riddle  - they're not supposed to have phones out in class. If a student takes their phone out in class, common procedure is to confiscate until the end of class. This has been true for all sorts of items that kids are not supposed to have out during class time. School policies that students and their parents sign state this as the case. Due process does come into play in that no school official has the right to search a student's back pack, unless probable cause. This is usually the job of security, commonly a police officer assigned to the school.
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  161. @David Major  - due process only makes sense if the student puts their phone back in their backpack. At that moment, you could make a case for illegal search and seizure. Phone out for cheating on a test is akin to having camera out at a theater that explicitly tells you not to. In both cases, the options would be to let the person put away device, confiscate until end of movie or class if they continue to do so, and/or kick the person out of movie theater or classroom.
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  162.  @davidmajor1508  - where'd you get your law degree, assuming you even have one?
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  163. Brave is my primary browser. Was created by one of the former founders of Firefox, and thus a continuation of what was good about Firefox early on, as it was supposed to be the privacy respecting browser compared to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, Firefox was one of the first to bend the knee to woke around 2012, so even before Gamer Gate became a thing. But that brave was the result of the non-woke crew, I'm glad for what came out of it.
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  164.  @alsed7  - I don't think they necessarily do know. They are taught to believe this is what they stand for, but a lot of them fell out of what they previously stood for, which to me indicates they didn't have much of a backbone to begin with. Too often they are bullied into the woke agenda. It's not like some of us remember about college where we would at least learn enough of the subject to pass the course because it's an elective, but still come out with our beliefs and views intact. A lot of these kids just come out as woke fanatics, often dumber than they were when they enrolled in the college.
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  165. How are they saying that? Would you rather that there be one collective sentencing that doesn't factor in your individual circumstances? I'm sure plenty of people facing felony charges simply for standing on the steps or the grass of the Capitol during Jan 6th would prefer to have their sentencing based on an individual basis, rather than getting the same charge as those that busted up windows and broke in. Hell, we'd love to see some accountability from those in charge of security who failed at their jobs. And certainly, any individual or group that instigated the violence ought to be prosecuted. But grandma that just happened to be standing on the lawn, not realizing she's standing on Capital grounds, do you think she should get the same sentencing as someone that shot and killed someone during the Capital incident? Do you really thing looky-loo grandma deserves potentially a life sentence, just because she happened to be there and didn't realize she was standing in a restricted area?
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  166. I seen it happen with a local coffee shop chain. Sure, the guy was a felon and registered offender, but that was well over a decade, and having done time, and the guy's clearly been trying to turn his life around and showing some success. But nope, none of that mattered when it came to 'St. George', who inspired the 2020 'summer of love', and naturally, coffee shop employees wanted to wear BLM shirts to work to show their solidarity with their favorite saint. Backlash came when the owner decided it wasn't work appropriate. Sure enough, even after giving an apology and trying to explain how he can relate with St George, the BLM fanatics still wanted their pound of flesh, and used the guy's past conviction against him. All those years of trying to prove he's more than just a convicted felon, poof! Gone because of stupid activists that have no sense of nuance or basic human empathy. Became yet another example of how the left eats itself.
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  167.  @VictorTucker-o6h  - They wouldn't for cheap. Would you go out there and do it without getting paid well for it? Take an honest look at the reality that ranchers and farmers won't pay for sh1t, if they didn't have to. We're not in the 19th century where $25 a month was a decent wage.
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  168.  @embracethenoise  - At the same time, US companies were doing business in the UK, such as Atari and Commodore. That was back when the US prided itself as No. 1. It's not resentment towards the immigrants as it is the exploitation of immigrants, to use them as cheaper labor, and even use their visa status as a carrot to have them do things the company way or else get shipped back. Such corporate enslavement should be illegal if it's not already, and should be cracked down on.
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  169.  @gvibration1  - and treat them legally, rather than exploit their visa status for cheap hostage labor.
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  170. If the Manjaro devs are this based, I'm going to have to try their distro again. 😏👍
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  171. I'd rather leave and find some better place where people don't hate me.
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  172.  @mwdiers  - it can, especially if they stop doing updates on the kernel, or they choose to make the kernel available to a select group of people. We're not dealing with rational people here that are willing to share the sandbox anymore.
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  173.  @robotron1236  - that hasn't stopped people from saying screw the legalities, especially when they think they are socially just to do so, not to mention believe they are fighting literally very bad people that rhyme with Yahtzee. Not to mention the Summer of Love that was 2020 burning down cities, taking over blocks of cities and claiming them as independent socialist nations, causing billions of dollars in property damage, and being the fault for nearly three dozen deaths, excluding the usual weekend murders of Chicago.
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  174.  @hunter_69_69  - it's also a funny stance for her, considering how many times she's sued her former companies she worked for after being fired.
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  175.  @christopherknox7009  - That's the other thing, and why you would want things like this recorded. For companies that deem themselves too big to fail, lawsuits are a pain, but they do have insurance for that, not to mention law firms retained to work things out in the courts. Even if they do get sued, it's more or less a slap on the wrist to them. But to record their shenanigans and have it go viral hits on a different level with their branding. For even though they may hate the public, they still want to maintain their family friendly public image, and looking like the callous, cold robot cogs that they really are, is a bad image.
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  176. If Trump lost to RFK Jr, at least I'd know he lost fair and square.
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  177. But that's assuming RFK Jr. Can get past the super delegates. He probably could beat out Biden among the average Democrat voter.
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  178. My other alternative would be a Trump - RFK Jr ticket to stick it to the establishment on both sides. 😏👍
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  179. All I can say, as a conservative Christian is... we told you so!
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  180.  @vf1923  - I've come to realize the BS of employers. It's sad how many on here don't realize how much companies lie to us, be we employees or customers. They're as bad as politicians. Not saying unions are perfect, but they can help us to get a fair and equitable contract.
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  181. Why didn't you vote for Culp when you had the chance? We all knew what a tyrant jackass Inslee is. It makes no sense why Culp didn't win if so many of us wanted Inslee out. Either Washington state is just that stupid of a voter pool, or there had to have been some Seattle shenanigans.
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  182. And YouTube wonders why people use ad blockers. If I'm not getting paid to have them in my videos, I just won't watch them.
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  183.  @matts9116  - they're giving Elon Musk a reason to buy YouTube.
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  184.  @Counterbalance_  yeah I liked the original three. I played the original two in the arcade boxes, as well as Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, and Gameboy. Obviously the handheld weren't great, though the Game Gear version was fun on road trips. After the original trilogy, from my perspective, they lost sight of what made the arcade games awesome. I didn't play MK I - III for some elaborate story line. It was a fighting game, with the caveat of fatalities as an extra 90's style rub the win in their face, tongue in cheek sort of manner. It still feels kind of absurd that friends (as well as enemies and rivalries) were made over decapitating their character after a flawless victory. But that was the way of the arcade, which is lost these days. Even online game play isn't like it used to be before people wanted to play to become top streamer internet famous. Just a different vibe for a different generation.
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  185. After getting rid of the Biden portal and moving away from fact checkers, it's pretty obvious where most of the 5% layoffs are going to be. 😏👍
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  186.  @micklawton1934  - It's more like Brave New World, where the left are the elitists that think all the country that isn't huddled up in big cities are out there in a nomadic post apocalyptic wasteland. However, the rl city utopias are literal shitholes, having actual human shit covering their streets.
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  187.  @ravencole2740  - That's probably not too far from the truth, sadly. Especially those Harvard and Yale graduates that between 2012 -2016 organized black masses on their campuses. Wouldn't be surprised if they had a Satan youth club at that school.
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  188. Comic book conventions don't secretly meet. Apples and oranges comparison there.
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  189. Bernie seemed authentic until twice bowing down to the DNC establishment. Plus, after he made some money after shilling his book, he didn't seem to go after the millionaires as loudly. Then, if you consider he has three houses, where the average American is barely able to pay their rent or mortgage, it makes you wonder how authentic he is about being in it for the little guy, rather than doing Karl Marx and just happens to be a self-loathing grifter that gets by due to the people he cons into supporting him or the cause he claims to be a part of. But, then again, as much as the DNC wants to hold power by giving lip service to popular socialism of the idiocracy, maybe that's why he falls back lock step with the establishment left, because he's not a 'true believer' of the cause. After all, if you have property and prosperity, why would you want to seriously take up a cause against it? Socialism is a con made up by a burgeoise grifter that played into the burgeoise conscience about the poor, and worked to rouse up the rabble in the proletariate that felt disenfranchised by the burgeoise. But the equity that socialism calls for ultimately leaves everybody poor and divided, save for the con artists that caused all the discord, who take power, and often bleed countries dry of both economic success and horde all the natural resources. In other words, modern Venesuella, and what you see in Seattle with a city council that actually does have a Communist on the council and a statue of Lennon in one of its parks. Their 'democratic socialism' is going about as well as it is in other democrat/socialist run cities in America, such as San Francisco, Chicago, and is partially what we get with Biden and the popular socialism in DNC establishment policies.
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  190. It's just another version of YouTube v. adblockers.
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  191. To be fair, that sums up most of the 90's and early 2000's. But then again, Idiocracy came out at that time, and is basically a parody of the era it was created in.
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  192. I like Lenny Kravitz. Zoë is still pretty young, and a lot of actresses are primadonnas. She probably was jealous about Robert Pattinson gushing over female characters in the way he did. Some girls are cattish in that way. So maybe that's why she might make a good catwoman. After all, Catwoman is kind of the type of woman that's going to not like the goodie two-shoes girl, nor any girl that might steal her thunder. 😏
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  193. Shifty Schiff. He has no real argument. All he did was grandstand, nothing more. And you have nothing to offer. So I'm done with your channel. You might as well take over for Rachel Maddow with how pathetically loopy left leaning you are. Goodbye!
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  194. And here I thought it was the Russians, just like Hillary has been telling us! 😳
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  195. It wasn't that common in the 80's and the 90's. This is absolutely about the decline of culture and humanity, in the West and US more generally, but especially in Cali most specifically.
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  196. Seeing this nearly a year later, it's a rather humorous attempt at playing fast and loose with the facts. But this admission by WaPo here just proves how ridiculous the hysteria is with the Democrats regarding Trump's talk about opposition research as being unethical and 'textbook illegal'. If this is so, then virtually everyone in Washington D.C., and so many politicians and media nation wide and overseas should be put in jail for collecting and using opposition research. Heck, maybe even the Wa Po itself would be guilty of opposition research and ought to all get locked up too.
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  197. This liberal doesn't understand how things went down in 2020. I live in one of those crappy blue states where, during the riots, our governor sent out the state national guards, bur crippled them to only having riot shields. The result to that was CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle. Not to mention, Democrats were practically using the push for federal enforcement as an excuse to say Trump is sending out Storm Troopers and pushing for martial law.
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  198.  @oeautobody3586  - I feel bad for Portland. Last went down there in the late 90's when it was relatively a saner city.
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  199. Exactly, and good use of free speech!
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  200.  @swiggs1999  - And how about if you need to lay off people because of hiring too many?
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  201. Next level: Linux on a PET. 😉👍
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  202. And here you are, giving them attention.
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  203. ​ @AllLogarithmsEqual - No, it's not a reasonable concern, but having that concern can hint to someone's bias or view. I don't see how Lunduke can be said to be any more or less honest just for consolidating his content. It seems more that he's conceding to how you can't be apolitical any more. I get it, to a point, being that, in the 80's and 90's, video games and computer magazines were about as apolitical as you can get. They weren't without their biases. Magazines that were published by, say Nintendo, Sega, Atari, and Sony, they obviously were going to write exclusively about the consoles and the games on the consoles of their parent companies. But, regardless if they were exclusive to a company, or included any and all things related to video games, it was the common expectation that they would just keep to writing game reviews, talk on the tech and peripherals of the current or up and coming consoles, as well as events, like the E3 expo. About the only time there was anything political talked about in the magazines was when politicians were talking about censoring or banning games, and how games shouldn't be taken so seriously, that it was more a problem with bad parenting. Nowadays, you have game journos that are more like the censorship advocates in the 90's Or, for whatever reason, they have to inject some random rant about how they hate Trump or JK Rowling that has nothing to do with gaming whatsoever. That Lunduke doesn't go out of his way to bash Biden as the worst president ever, or talk about how Stephen King should stick to writing horror novels because, even as bad as he is at writing those, his politics suck worse, isn't to me hiding his politics, or somehow being dishonest. As it is, I don't even know what his views on Biden and Stephen King are. But I'm just saying that you don't have to go out of your way to be overtly political to prove what your politics are, nor even have to state them. Yet you can't get away from reporting about the politics in tech that leads to things like the Hyperland - Freedesktop controversy, and I think it a fair assessment to say that certain voices in the opensource and Linux movement can be quite extreme left, especially when they are calling for people who hold views different from them to be barred from Opensource and using Linux. Might as well just say Linux and Opensource are free and open to everyone, except if you are right wing. At least someone is reporting on the bias, because many of us are leaving the corporate world because of similar toxic polarization. For it seems you can't love tech, games, a lot of things, if you don't follow the leftist cult, because they demand allegiance to them, or else.
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  204. Disney died when Roy E. Disney died on December 16, 2009. It's just a headless zombie company now run by suits.
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  205. So, if I got caught printing my own money, I guess I can get out of it by registering Democrat and telling them I'm only doing what Biden said was best for building back better the economy? 😏
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  206.  @toby9999  - bot account, or does Microsoft pay you well to troll?
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  207. Starbucks was always kind of liberal. They never hid their politics. Maybe because I'm in a more conservative area, but I can still as a conservative go into my local Starbucks and feel safe, and be in a friendly atmosphere. Not so sure about in Seattle or Portland, though. But it all depends. Not all of Seattle or Western WA is woke. I just hope that the city could return to sanity some day. It's just sad the state the Emerald City today and remembering its amazing past.
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  208. This is the left's WMD moment.
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  209. The way you write posts, I doubt you are smarter than the average 5th grader.
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  210. The Romans might be, "Let's go back! Someone screwed up somewhere along the line!" 😏
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  211. I almost agreed until I heard her RINO screed toward the end regarding Larry Elder, and wanting pro vaxx mandate Aenold back in office. Larry may be a comedian, but CA and the Lincon Project Romney worshipers you fall for are the real joke!
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  212.  randle guill  - If she's your idea of a right winger, I would cringe to consider who you think is a moderate lefty. Obviously you didn't listen to the end because they ragged on Larry Elders, just as much as a lefty like you does.
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  213. They're going to just put Marvel and Star Wars together in the same multiverse because, why not? They're both equally screwed up by now that anything goes.
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  214. I suppose it is depressing seeing how few fine women there are under the age of 45 these days.
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  215.  @kevinarzola4781  Apparently you never heard about the Jim Crow laws and segregation, which were also an actual form of systemic racism, as well as biased against a particular population of people.
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  216. So, security leaks in code a big no-no, but leaking games of consoles that are still being developed for is ok, as long as it's the better way to play the game? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  217. Jordan Myers - I can agree about the Bible not having its origins in the West, but that's not even an argument raised here. It's a matter of the influence and impact of the Bible on the West, which JBP argues that it's the bedrock of western society. Whether you believe the west has twisted it, you can believe that all you want. But the impact of the Bible and Christianity on the West is indisputable, at least not without twisting the history of the west that would be intellectually dishonest. There are parts of the modernist, industrial and technocratic sides of western society that do dispute it, and using Marxist sophistry, make some of the most absurd and very intellectually dishonest arguments out there, fueled by their own twisted agendas. But at least their hatred and subversion to usurp the Bible are straightforward, rather than hiding behind a facade of reverence for the Bible, as humanists did during the Protestant Reformation to begin to divide and attempt to conquer Christianity.
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  218.  @dtaggartofRTD  - You don't get it. They are the ones boxing themselves in. You may think you're smart right now, but what are you going to do if they decide to cut off your bank account or put you in prison just because they found you were commenting on Lunduke's video here? Just by commenting on Lunduke's video, you've already advertised yourself to them.
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  219. Of course NBC stoops to the level of woke stooges to dig up a soundbite from over 50 years ago from a dead president. No wait, a Republican dead president, because with social Marxism, no one is safe from critical theory race baiting, be they dead or alive.
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  220. Ah yes, we conservatives would love a right wing ultra trad Shoe on Head waifu. 😂☺️🥰
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  221. Katrina Kirchner - It's probably because WSJ gets more money from fb. 😏
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  222. NaTaS - And you could probably came that online game stole its concept from Doom and see where that BS gets you. 😝
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  223. Mr Sunglasses - Lumiya did a good job with an Android version. Plus, LL has source code that the third party viewers use. Anyone that's good at programming could give a try at making a phone/tablet version. You can then request to have it listed as an official alternative
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  224. So yeah, watching this on Garuda, running on a mini 256 Gb sandisk .My main OS is Fedora 40. both are set up with Hyprland,
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  225. This confirms that by Hillary bleaching her hard drives, she was doing something wrong and hiding it. Thanks for the confirmation! 👍
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  226. Catholic Tradition teaches that we believe in the resurrection of the body. Since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960's, the question arose due to some fusion of Eastern religions that practiced cremation, as well as modernists who believe that Earth is overpopulated, also believe that we don't have enough room to bury, or otherwise keep the body at cemeteries. It's still advised to be bodily interred (burried or in a tomb), but whether a Catholic or Christian cannot be resurrected without their body, or if cremating leads to Hell, has led to, well, a 'diplomatic' answer of that the Church can't say what will happen, but the soul is eternal, and awaits its judgement regardless. Because Man cannot judge the soul of a person, because only God can, we thus cannot say for certain what a soul's eternal destination is if their body was cremated. The revised Code of Canon Law (1983) states, “The Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed; it does not however, forbid cremation unless it has been chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching” (Canon 1176.3). Thus, The Church can say 'it's not forbidden', even though the tradition is burial or entombment. As long as the purpose does not reject the resurrection of the body.
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  227. @FatLingon - As a conservative, I try to drown out most of the hyperbole. as for SUSE, because they are actively banning people, that's when I'd draw the line with a distro. I'm sure with Arch, Mabox, and Garuda that someone using or developing these distros may not like my politics, and that's fine. I can agree to disagree. I just find it ironic they lump all conservatives as fascists when they themselves are big in the politics and tech corporations, and most conservatives aren't and have been weeded out because of politics. That's why Rumble, Locals, and Oysee, among many other alternative media came to exist. They're saying we shouldn't exist, like Hitler didn't want certain people to exist, but we conservatives are the baddies? I think there may come a time after this era that might be like post WWII, when people wonder how they got so extreme and became monsters for a cause that really wasn't worth being so worked up and warped over. until then, hopefully the left doesn't start a whole new holocaust. Big they are saying things openly, in both government and industries that are worrisome.
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  228.  @jwr2904  - I don't care if he's white or not, but it's dumb to be offended by the description of your skin.
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  229.  @sayaneechan5799  - I don't even know if my reply got to you, because apparently the algorithm either doesn't like me talking about being a conservative, or voting for the previous US president, or otherwise presuming saying it's OK to have a certain skin color was a no-no phrase. Or bringing up w-0-ke. Who knows what YouTube is so sensitive about? Anyways, since I can't have grown up conversations on YouTube without childish YouTube censors deleting things, all I'm going to say is, American history and culture has been, and always will be a mix of cultures and people with skin colors. We talk about culture in color because we have a lot of color in our people. White makes sense to us since that's the color of our skin. Our culture is remotely European - especially if our lineage goes back to the Mayflower. I'm Sotts-Irish from my Dad's side, but it's been about three or four generations that we had a relative that actually lived in Ireland or Scotland. On my Dad's mother's side come the closest ties as I believe my great-grandmother, my grandma's mom, had come with her parents from Germany to the US. But again, my great-grandma moved here as a child at the turn of the 20th century, so I have little to no direct connection to Germany save memories of a sweet old lady that smiled at everything and everyone, but likely didn't know everyone nor what was going on since Alzheimer's kicked in. She died some time when I was in grade school in the early to mid 80's. So why call it European culture when most of us have little connection to Europe? For a while, this culture was called WASP, as in White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. I suppose that works fine for some, but Italian Americans are generally Catholic. And what about Jewish Americans? So it's easier to lump it all together as 'white'. That should be simple enough to understand, right? Unfortunately, a lot of baggage gets lumped into the term, which, fair enough, it is part of our history, and something we have to learn from. But we don't have to become self-loathing over it either. Nor do I believe that we forever pay a debt for the wrongs done by white people in the past. Eventually after repenting of something, there needs to be forgiveness and to move on with life. I don't own a slave, and no one in my family has that I have any recollection of. If they did, it's their sin, not mine. I have nothing to feel sorry about, and I have no reason to hate my skin color, especially if color of one's skin shouldn't mean anything about who one is as a person. Yet it is still tied to a history and a culture in the US. It shouldn't be used as a club against us, but it also shouldn't be something absolutely hated or vilified either. White people were involved in freeing the slaves, and white people helped fight for civil rights. History isn't black and white, it's full of color with many stories to be told and lessons to be learned.
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  230. They are oly having the maintenance issue because of dependency on Chrome. There isn't anything Steam has to patch regarding 7, or XP, especially if they keep up with existing Windows packages. Chrome decided to cut support for Win7, and Steam depends on Chrome which is sad really. For I still consider chromium malware, and probably a good reason to stay off of Steam anyways.
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  231. Now that Nintendo wins, Sega and Atari need to make a comeback!
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  232.  @noahalcantar2431  - Why not? Colecovision was owned by a fur company. 😉👍
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  233.  @noahalcantar2431  - I'm a free market person, so more competition, the better. We're probably to a point, outside screen size, where a portable console can compete with a traditional console. With Bluetooth, HDMI, and USB options in modern TVs, it's much easier to connect devices than it used to be. The Switch showed these possibilities. Even a phone can handle most types of gaming, and each year become more capable mini computers on their own.
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  234. Doctored evidence, stole election, free propaganda from the MSM, incited riots, fomented hate, bailed out rioters, demoralizing the nation, the list of liberal evils can go on and on...
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  235. I can understand the diverse package managers, being that Linux is not just one OS, but numerous OSes under one kernel. Sure, it could seem like a Tolkien style one kernel to rule them all, but thankfully it's not. So far, virtually anyone can use the kernel to create their own OS from scratch, which I'd love to challenge myself to do some day, but to the 'average user' (TM), who may shreik in terror at the thought 9f touching command line on Windows, the whole concept that you can compile a program for yourself is a daunting task. There are quite a few people in this world that having choices, thinking and doing for one's self is a frightening proposition. But that's part of having freedom.
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  236. No, please, no. We don't need liars in fiction. Good fiction has something of the truth behind it. Bad fiction is, well, Taylor Lorenz.
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  237. Which of the seven Metatrons should react to this? 😉
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  238. So, what's your take on the other objects that have been shot down recently?
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  239. The only hope with Voltron is that Henry Cavill might geek out like he did with Witcher and tell them they need to acknowledge some of the source material, especially the main aspects of the show that appealed to people in the first place. If Cavill does his geek out thing, the show might be watchable.
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  240. Hollywood and the music/entertainment industry has more issues than mom shaming and being career centered. Some of these people would literally sacrifice their families for fame and fortune, being that far deep in the cult.
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  241. Now do CPU bits. Retro gamers get in crazy battles over this even today, especially over the console war generation of the 16-pit consoles of the 90's.
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  242. Kanye may be crazy, but does any of his behavior merit the loss of his bank account? I mean the same bank didn't close Epstein's account with them despite his actual crimes.
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  243. He is good at booking some of the big think people of our time. Is it all on Joe, or is there more background than that? For many of the people he has his interviews with don't talk to just anyone.
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  244. @Lindsey Lockwood  - Knowing not to play stupid games is not weak. You play with fire, you get burned. It's people like you that made the Jan 6 event into the shitstorm it was. I wouldn't be surprised if you're a glow agent trying to stir more shit up and get more people on the right thrown in jail on trumped up charges, all to be pawns for the pathetic game you play.
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  245.  @Lindsey_Lockwood  - Whatever you say, glowstick.
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  246. Liberal has been a 'bad word' for decades because of it being intertwined with what we call today 'woke'. Consider how you have so many conservatives agreeing with what you talk about. It is by no means that they, nor are you some racist 'yahtzee' bigot -istophobe. They've been using this tactic even back when they smeared McCarthy for pointing out the communist infiltration, which is becoming less able to deny when we see how it has finally latched on with the rise of woke. At the time, it was seen as fear mongering, and now we're the ones subject to blacklisting because of warning about this infiltration, and we tried to stop it at its inception before it grew out of hand. Now, decades after the year 1984, the warnings of the book are starting to look more and more like the reality we had hoped would not happen after the Berlin wall came down and the USSR collapsed. Yet it took a somewhat 'Brave New World' turn, as was realized the best way to enslave people is through pleasure and vice, and even a false promise of eternal youth. Sure a death cult may keep the population youthful, but by killing off the old, as is done with legalizing, and government advising on euthanasia. But will cutting life off at both the beginning and end of life ever satisfy this Malthusian social Marxist death cult? Probably not. The French Revolution showed us how proto communism will kill off its enemies, then eat its own in a purity spiral infighting that will kill off any one they feel has betrayed them or hasn't been fully loyal and on board with the cult regime. Yet as bad as the left can get, it cannot be noted the other problem when conservatives fail to do anything but preserve the revolution, or in our current year - preserve the decay and corruption caused by the current leftist death cult. I wish conservatives would finally step up to the plate and truly defend Western civilization from the hive mind, death cult virus, but they worry about social etiquette that has long since been thrown out, and that the left tramples over. For you can't be 'nice' to these people. Regardless how much you cater to them, they will continue to spit on you, insult you, call you the literal Nazi, and wish for your death - until they can make it legitimate in their eyes to go out and kill us. The conservative areas are called by them flyover states, and that's only because they haven't found a way to fully infiltrate and destroy the conservative states. But the can control them to some degree by was of weak conservative Republican leadership that still thinks bipartisanship was a good thing, and that it is a viable option still. Yet what did that get us besides Obamacare and 8 years for the left to build and grow strong enough to take the strangle ho.d they have over our society today? And that's still only hitting at the surface of the iceberg. I wish we had conservative with the spine and fortitude to actually stand up to the left. Maybe if they did that decades before we wouldn't have needed Trump to be the bulldozer to attempt to dismantle the swamp. Maybe if they stood strong and unified, we would have been able to have gotten to the truth of a certain date and the certain fraud that sparked it. But no, for some reason the GOP can't or won't stand up to the left, and act more like controlled opposition, rather than any real contender against the left. Until conservatives, or some new party rises that actually could stand against the left comes about, we will continue to be screwed over by leftist tyranny.
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  247. Also, Rand Paul 2024!
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  248. The school probably told him to take down his account as part of an action plan to keep his job. He might wind up losing his job depending how things go with the board of trustees, or however their top donors are considered. If enough parents and donors threaten to leave, well, money talks.
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  249.  @drumboy02  sorry, it had appeared that when I typed 'Bill Gates' my posts disapeared
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  250. Even Inslee realizes he has no support, if he were to allow the state representatives to come back to work. Why they can't flat out do it themselves and stand up to Inslee, I don't understand. But then, I don't understand how come Culp isn't governor if everyone hates Inslee so much.
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  251. It will depend on some factors. For the DEI, they didn't allow for much punching back. There's some shows that did ok because they let some banter go back and forth between right and left, black and white, straight and gay, etc. If you don't do it where one side is always right, or always wrong, and allow for dimension in characters where they can grow that becomes problematic. That's storytelling 101. Plus, look back at the original Transformers, they actually gave the kid audience the benefit of the doubt, and didn't water down intellectual arguments. They didn't name the philosophies, but as you get older, and you study the philosophies, you can see Starscream is somewhat Marxist/socialist, always trying to usurp Megatron, partly because he thinks he's better than Megatron, but he always tried to get Decepticons on his side promising to treat them better and be less a tyrant. Optimus Prime and Megatron battle over fascism and might makes right v. freedom and a more democratic society where people work together for the common good. It's really amazing how much depth is in some of the cartoons back then, and sad how that has gotten watered down.
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  252.  @ronjos  - How do you know?
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  253. Wrestling is acting, just you also do your own stunts live in the ring. It's all about the narrative.
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  254. Funny, because the Dems have no problem with this sort of questioning when it's Candace Owens where they're trying to accuse her of being a Nazi.
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  255. Nowadays, with SUSE forking with RHEL, it might as well be considered a Fedora clone.
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  256. It's gotten far worse in the last 20 years. Used to enjoy visiting Seattle, going to the Space Needle, seeing Sonics, Seahawks, and Mariners games, back when they were affordable, or, in Sonics case, before being sold off to another city. Now, I wouldn't want to go near Seattle, with all the crime and people crapping in the streets. Portland and Seattle both had some big city problems over the years, but not as bad as they are now. Maybe the 70's was bad, but they've surpassed even that across the board in all big cities run by corrupt Democrats.
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  257. If Alex Jones said even half the things Cenk said, he would very sued for trillions of dollars by the left.
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  258.  @UnknownMoses  - They are on a zoom meeting. Those are not exactly secure in and of themselves. In fact, many teachers, admin, and people on various councils got fired because of hot mic moments going viral. I wouldn't be surprised if these HR get fired due to the bad publicity of showing how bad their HR is.
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  259.  @MrGamelover23  - which would be why something that can mode switch/set in accordance to what Wayland does best, while also doing the same for what X-11 does best. Virtually all other OSes have had to figure that out with their own kernels and core drivers, etc. It would be great if can figure it out with the ability to support as many computers and systems as possible, but there may have to be a fork made somewhere between legacy and modern. Exactly how? That's above my paygrade and knowledge. I'm just saying we have to figure out how to do this, because, unlike Windows, Apple, and Google, Linux is a community (well, numerous communities) that try to make computing for everyone, regardless of if they are trying to run it on the latest and greatest $10,000 power gaming PC, or some $10 refurbished 386 PC they found at the GoodWill.
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  260. They can tout Window Maker as the killer DE to get all the Win 3.11 users to try Linux! 😏👍
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  261. I don't know. There were various YouTubers I used to, or still do watch, like Clownfish, that use a cartoon version of themselves, or otherwise create a cartoon character that is their persona in their videos/streams. So I don't know why V-tubers are any more controversial.
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  262.  @Megalomaniakaal  - I suppose for Manjaro, considering the Arch logo is basically a Triangle. 😏
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  263. VR does that a lot. I feel for those that spent hundreds of dollars, even on Windows VR, only to have limited apps to actually use it on.
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  264. If YouTube is still here in ten years, then movie historians of that era are going to have titles like "Movies of the 2020's: were they really as bad as we thought they were?"
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  265.  @Ad1nfernum  - Problem is, getting hired is a numbers game. The more places you eliminate from applying to, the less likely your are to get the interview, and if you aren't getting into the interview, you're not going to be getting hired anywhere.
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  266.  @thelogicmatrix  - They're corporations. Thus they are a body with no soul, and with very few real morals or ethics that they uphold beyond their bottom line.
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  267. Yes, Pipewire integrates JACK and ALSA far better than Pulse did, and even better than Windows. I'd love to see Pipwire as integral for why Linux becomes an AV powerhouse, especially for indie musicians and independent film makers.
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  268.  @darukutsu  - this is why I don't want the nodes to become the standard or primary interface. We used to complain enough about all the physical hard wiring that old PCs had to go through just to get MIDI and wave audio to cooperate reasonably well. Why would anyone want to go through that sort of wiring hell virtually?
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  269. Eastern WA would like to join!
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  270.  @tastingtea  - all wrestling feuds are scripted. If CM Punk has a problem with that, he can go back to MMA.
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  271.  @itachi-bz5je  - He's as fake as a Bill Clinton $3 bill. Some day, you'll be crapping on Cena like you do now with the Rock, because that's how the whole script goes. You all used to love Hulk Hogan, now he's the worst... or was, since now apparently the Rock is. Talk about easily programmable droids.
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  272.  @GAURAV25855ify  - Cena also apologized to China.
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  273.  @itachi-bz5je  - What is real life for a wrestler, whose job it is to keep up kayfabe, especially when in public? Their whole life is acting. Or did you really think Cena was just being humble to do the naked skit at the Oscar's? It's more like a humiliation ritual to make sure he's in good standing with his Hollywood handlers. But hey, prove me wrong, that you're not going to eventually hate Cena once he goes heel as Hollywood Cena and tells you what a stupid fool you were for believing he was 'real'. Maybe he'll say that naked in the ring and in Chinese.
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  274.  @theanimartist2299  - You mean Bing Qi Lin, which apparently means 'ice cream' in Chinese? I'll bet that's a time Cena wished he was invisible. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  275. Indeed. It's not just that keffals has a lying problem, but leftists in general have a lying problem. And that's barely scratching the surface.
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  276. How would anti child trafficking be a bad thing? 🤷‍♂️
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  277. Sorry, but religion has principles that have survived thousands of generations of humanity. Woke is social political ideologythat hates religion.
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  278. Imagine a piece code that's ingrained in Windows 11, and it was first created in BASIC. 😏
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  279. These are either a honey pot by the three letter government glow sticks, or the sort that ought to be on a FBI watch list and immediately shut down by CPS. But, in this clown world of the lunatic left, they are trans-girl scouts. 🤮
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  280.  @pjukas  - His movies are violent. Men have a higher body count of corpses in most these movies, but you find a few instances where the violence to women is creepy? What it's ok to decapitate and mulch up men in all sorts of ways, as is common in violent action and horror movies, but choke a woman, or spit in a woman's face and that's crossed the line into 'creepy'. Yeah, whatever. 😏
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  281. Because he's the dictator in chief, and rules for thee are not rules for him (assuming he still goes by masculine pronouns). It's his way, or the highway, and the highway is looking like the better option more and more.
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  282. So it's a conflict of physical v. virtual. But let's not hide the fact that many of these sites with ads also offer a premium membership that can be purchased. The thing is, the internet is not just a server admin utility any more. It is becoming something similar to what Lunduke speaks of. In fact, this concept of a virtual shop can go back to around 2006, when Second Life was growing a virtual economy around user generated content. Most content creators on SL are going to have a more Lunduke oriented concept because they have built virtual shops that you could visit as your virtual avatar. You can buy virtual clothing and other ×ahem× 'components' to make your avatar more representative of the gender, and species you want your avatar to be. So yes, you could be a trans furry Charizard if you want to be, and buy all the parts you need to make it. The point is this 3D virtual world blends the lines of virtual world with the physical world. They've also had to deal with age verification, especially to crack down on age players and people misrepresenting their age, both as under aged wanting to go on the main grid and old people pretending to be younger to be creepers on the now defunct teen grid. Eventually both were merged, an adult only island created, and under age users were restricted to private G-rated sims (this is cotroversial among SL users to this day). So, really, there's no point to joining SL until 18. At any rate, there are virtual shops. The virtual goods they sell have a certain value to the shop owners, and a certain value to those that visit the shop and choose to purchase said purchased product. While there may be an agreement of value, there may not be an agreement on what one has a right to do with the product. SL manages this with metadata within the object called object rights. In this, the creator of the object can give the next owner permission to copy, modify, or transfer to another avatar. Linden Labs is a company based in San Fransisco, and they base their ToS around California law. Thus they do see it as their responsibility to regulate adult material, and especially no age play, even though they allow child avatars, but in very limited capacity. Even places that are not intended to be adult shops, be they clubs or some other themed hang out, beach, whatever, ban child avatars because they don't want to deal with the legal side of things, not to mention losing their virtual land, or having their account banned from Second Life. This is a company from CA that's pretty much to the left, and much of SL is pretty well left of center. Pride month is in full swing, and most stores have some type of pride product year round. They have lesbian women only islands, gay bear men only islands, LGBTQ+ allied and friendly islands. But still, dealing with adult stuff and protecting one's business and islands, many places have their own rules, and sexual age play is both not allowed, it's illegal, meaning ban from second life altogether, and possibly of law enforcement involvement. Places on SL will ban you from their land if caught with an avatar that looks underage. So, regardless what you want to believe the internet should be, the fact is it is being treated more like a public utility, and thus a public space. It's had a marketplace feel since Amazon and the (dot)com boom. Virtual worlds will keep pushing the boundaries and bring with it more of an attitude towards virtual goods and services as Lunduke has, which has less to do with being left or right as it does the changing customs on how to do business in a virtual world. Like it or not, these changes have been made, and more of similar nature are coming.
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  283.  @Foche_T._Schitt  - Much of the internet already is like SL, and the internet is still doing whatever it does. And actually, SL is a very brilliant virtual world. It's survived all the other virtual worlds, and it has a better virtual economy than any other online currency, even better than some first world countries.
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  284.  @codahighland  - True, and similar to letting a teen young adult house sit, or use the car to do to a high school dance or whatnot. Yes, there is a certain level of trust, but once the parents are off on vacation, or the teen's driving to wherever, a nything could happen. In the states, even in liberal states that where politicians oppose voter IDs as racist, they have no qualm with demanding people be IDed for tobacco, alcohol, lighters, cooking wine, medicine with alcohol or other restricted substances. Some places have made it to where the ID has to be scanned, regardless if the person is of age. So if you forgot your ID at home, tough luck, you won't be able to buy your beer or whatever until you come back with your valid and up to date ID.
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  285.  @shaunpatrick8345  - Not exactly. Parents are expected to keep, not just alcohol, but also adult material away from children. This does not negate the fact that shops have to be careful not to give alcohol or adult magazines to children. It, not an either... or, but a both... and thing. That is both parents and shop owners have a responsibility to keep adult material away from kids. The main difference is a shop keeper may get fined and bad publicity if caught selling adult products to minors, whereas the parents could wind up losing their children. But that depends on the degree of the offense. But it also depends on enforcement, which, a lot of times, certain issues involving minors got swept under the rug.
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  286. What if you wanted to install Awesomewm as your only desktop environment?
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  287. I understand the whole 'much like today' criticism. I run across this in Christian talks that compare modern hedonism to Greek, Roman, and even a few aspects from the Old Testament/Covenant, such as David's relationship with King Saul's son. The latter being more popular 20 years ago when they even tried to claim President Abraham Lincoln was gay. From the Christian conversations, Greece and Rome hedonism is generalized as 'nothing new under the sun.' While true the actions are nothing new, the way the Greeks, Romans, and even ancient Hebrews understood what they considered non-kosher or hedonistic are not exactly the same as how we understand or label things today in our modern culture.
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  288.  @windowsxseven  - Of course you won't 🤡
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  289.  @_sneer_  - Mageia is one I'd like to try again, but I'm waiting to try out version 10. Considering how their releases go, it could be out as soon as Aug., or as late as Nov.
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  290. Think it's possible that comic movies/shows are going to be so saturated that it may lead to a crash?
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  291. However, she is right, the presidency is not supposed to be about popularity, but who one thinks is most capable of running the country. You don't want a puppet in office, you want a president that can lead the country and works for the country, not someone bought and paid for by special interests.
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  292. Halloween isn't for evil things. For some, it is all hallows eve, and is a holy day to remember the dead.
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  293. By the way, who was it that put out a video titled: Without FreeDesktop There Is No Linux Desktop! Why do I ask? Because FreeDesktop is/was working with Xorg in maintaining X-11.
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  294.  @BrodieRobertson  - As it is, you're supposed to be the expert YouTube reporter on these things, so not sure why you aren't looking into it and finding out what's going on. It could be a breaking story for you to find out where the Xorg devs are. Before anyone else.
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  295.  @BrodieRobertson  - maybe so, but I'll keep with Xorg for now. It's working just fine for me on Mabox. I'd like to see how adoption of Wayland goes before jumping in. If it turns out to be a trainwreck after getting all the hype and having so many distros like Fedora push out Xorg for Wayland, then at least I still have a stable desktop environment. Yet I don't understand all the hate against Xorg. If they're all part of the same thing, or at least all partnered together, it doesn't make sense.. It would be like if Intel partnered with AMD so that AMD takes them over.
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  296. DEI back in 1976 - a woman explaining computers to a man.
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  297. Seriously, you don't even need power PCs. Which is why you have bargain computers with middle of the line components with 8 -12 GB RAM and at least 64 GB storage. Because I distro hop a bit on Linux, I may pick up a USB stick, or micro SD that has 128 GB or 256 GB on it for $15 -$25, and I have enough room to install the Linux OS of Choice, and add any games, or install Steam and see what games I can get to run, either through Linux natively or by installing Wine. And honestly, the tools for music composition on Linux are slightly better, and way less expensive. Regardless all that, Atari with the modern VCS and 2600+ have about the right idea, though needs to be put together as one console. Also, no cheap Stella workaround. The cart slot needs to be compatible with the classic 2600 and 7800 games, possibly have an extension for 5200 games, and play the Atari's computer line of games and apps. Maybe the console could have an updated version of TOS pre-installed, and even setup with programs needed to help hobby game devs make home brews. It could be the perfect console/mini PC and hobbyist development kit all in one.
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  298. @treelineresearch3387 - It's a great idea in theory, unless you actually have sought to publish a book, music album, or otherwise try to sell digital content. There's a difference between a free market and a freebie market. Most want the freebie market when they want to get something, but as soon as you try to sell something, the freebie market isn't so great. Could they coexist? Sure. But I've only seen it work in a virtual world where noobs and cheap people go after freebies while those that want newer, nore fashionable stuff, tend to actually go buy stuff. Or you get the shopaholic constantly hunting down free or reduced price, bargain bin items. But, irl, there are people that live off the residuals of royalties from their music and book sales. Not a perfect system, especially if in the industry and the industry gets the lion's share of the residuals, but if you worked on something, most people would like to get paid for their work.
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  299.  @SomeGuyInSandy - Just saying, there's more to a copyright than just all right reserved. I don't see how that's a buzzkill.
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  300.  @benjwgarner  - they do not. People also have digital property rights, which is something that we take for granted. That is taken advantage of by our banks, places we shop online and offline, and all social media sites, who make money off of our data given to them. For some, like social media, they are making billions off our personal data.
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  301. Nowadays, with woke corporations, a lot of the corporate standards are lowered drastically.
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  302. It is interesting that the Catholic Church is brought up despite secular public schools having a worse traffic record. I get that the Church is put on a higher moral standard because of its stance as a major religious moral authority, but, at least in the US, public schooling is in charge of educating kids for at least 12 years, generally for 5 days out of the week, and sometimes summer school. They also have the larger problem.
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  303. You would think the RINOs that flipped, like Dick Cheney, who the left hated for decades, ought to indicate something.
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  304. The way Hollywood is going, the quality of actors, writers, directors, and producers will become so bad that A.I. will look like geniuses compared to the people in Hollywood. 😏👍
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  305. The thing is MuseScore 4 uses appimages. Oddly, they use either .deb or .RPM for their Muse Sounds Manager, though that can be found in the AUR , usually. But AUR had been getting cleaned out lately, so I can't say for sure what is still available.
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  306. It's pretty obvious why they didn't include bribery, since it would directly relate to Biden and his abuse of powers that Trump was wanting to investigate with Biden's dealings with Ukraine as VP. That really should raise a red flag for why this impeachment by the House is a sham and will be squashed by the Senate. Does anyone in their right mind even think that, if the impeachment hearing happens to convict and remove Trump that it would get the 67 votes needed to do so? This is merely a political victory for the House Democrats, which may backfire as impeachment wasn't nearly as popular as they had hoped. The far, and maybe a few moderate left are happy, but a lot of people are walking away from the DNC, and with 2020 being a presidential election year, there's going to be a lot more people voting that generally do not during a non-presidential election year. If the public are fed up with the DNC's political shenanigans come next November, you can expect a huge red tidal wave across the US and a new Republican led House and Senate exonerating Trump. https://www.thoughtco.com/impeachment-the-unthinkable-process-3322171
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  307. Seriously. For between $3 and $30 a piece, I'd love to have at least one piece of hand crafted artistry. Would even pay extra for personalized sayings or messages written with Hieroglyphs.
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  308. They now have international exposure. Not to mention being 24/7 on YouTube. Huge opportunity for a business boom that could probably help save their business. Supply is low because there is no demand. Raise the demand and the supply can and will rise to meet the demand. Capitalism 101. These people were elevated by it in the 70's, and it saved papyrus from going extinct. That can happen again on a global scale, if they are willing to take the opportunity they're getting by being highlighted in this video.
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  309. @undeadarmy19 - There are people that bind their own books. Unfortunately, it's so niche that it's treated more like an arts and crafts sort of thing where they're not necessarily inexpensive, but they aren't expensive either. So, somewhere between $20 - $50, depending on the type of book and materials used. Street vendors can be more like $5 - $15, but st that point, you're talking about the starving artist more interested in making enough for their next meal than a business man trying to keep their lights on.
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  310. @dianakarol1134 - Indeed. The very least Insider could do is basic contact info. They had to get that themselves to make the interviews and spotlight possible. I get not wanting to doxx them, but at the same time, it's almost like exploiting their troubles to tease a spotlight and do little else to help them expand their business so they don't have to remain in a terminal condition.
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  311. @cchavezjr7 - There's also this thing called a description box where you can add more information about the subject of the video, and guess what? Because people said something, Insider has responded and added an Instagram link for the artist, and a lin tree for more contact information. I wish I looked closer before commenting, but still glad comments were open and listened to in order to make a needed change.
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  312. Of course YouTube has to put their blue extra info up there to make sure people get the 'official' news. And speaking of 'official' news, the Guardian basically scorned us for electing the 'felon' and 'literal' German dictator during WWII. 🙄😏🤡
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  313. YouTube is based on a caste system. Rogan is at the top, so can basically do just about anything. If you're in the middle, they're going to be after you more, because you're like a pleb to the YouTube society that they can tax via ad revenue. If in the lower bracket, you're kind of untouchable - that is you don't have enough reach, don't pull much in advertising, and thus go under the radar.
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  314. We also forget the Enlightenment was the birth era of what would eventually become communism, socialism, and fascism. We tend to focus on the American Revolition that was the birth of the US, but we forget the sort of terrorism that went on in the French Revolution and the European conquest of Napoleon, which would eventually be eclipsed by Hitler's ambition and destruction.
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  315. Makes me wonder if the Hindu gods with multiple arms were made by an ancient version of A.I.
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  316. It's not like W. had anything to lose. He already served 8 years. Yet it was the 2000 election when it was Al Gore not conceding and taking the battle for the presidency to court. For some reason Big Tech doesn't want to show that.
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  317. That's some dramatic face masking. Must have the med fetishist wetting themselves. 🤣😂🤣😂🤡
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  318. As a Catholic, it's more of a historical interest than anything. If it's real, awesome! If not, well, it is what it is. I think for the Church, is more a matter of pride in being able to hold a relic attributed to Jesus, his burial, and what it may mean to the resurrection. But ultimately, it's not the cloth we worship, but we may have a certain veneration to the relic because of its attributions to Jesus. Beyond that, if the Shroud is not real, it's a historical elaborate hoax, but has little bearing to the main, and most important aspects of Christian faith.
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  319.  @TheCaniblcat  - Anything stupid liberals say in the US was taught to them by Canadian intellectuals. The US school system is highly influenced by Canadian education 'experts'.
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  320. Imagine, adult sites having to be accountable adults. 😏
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  321.  @orangetuono38  - Here's hoping for some sanity to finally come back. I remember when NCLB was the standard for teaching, and you needed a background check to prove you weren't some druggy abusive child molester, and yet now that seems to be criteria for teacher of the year. That there's parents going along with it - well, shows the mind control is working.
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  322. Is it possible to be a shill and a tool at the same time? If so, Kaepernick would be a prime example.
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  323. There are open source options available that don't spy on you. Best yet, go Linux or Free BSD
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  324. They've been ruining the education system for decades to ensure that the government has more say about what to do with kids than parents do. All the systems we once thought were there to help us have little by little been turned against us.
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  325. What has LGBTQ+ done to earn a month? Aside from attack traditional marriage, groom kids in school, start culture wars,and spread hate?
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  326. Zeitgeist is Marxist BS. It's like the Nichian Nietzschean übermensch.
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  327. AI answers with leftist talking points. I wonder why? It couldn't possibly be because the tech people that train AI are leftists themselves. 🤡😏
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  328. Tim may be lucky to not totally Frosk himself. I don't know how many more times he'll have to say FU to his audience before people are done with him. The main thing going for him are his guests. When that pool dries up, he'll be done.
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  329. Could Elon Musk buy YouTube? 🤔 😏
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  330. Honestly, I think these 'journalists' write this way because they want to be 'edgy' and want to flame people.
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  331. Basically, they wanted to call witnesses because they couldn't do their job it in the House. They came to the Senate with a half baked impeachment, which none of the charges were what they initially started the impeachment about - the alleged quid quo pro. Maybe because they didn't want too much investigation into what really was going on with Joe and Hunter Biden, where really was a quid quo pro, which Biden brags about on camera. 😏
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  332. He should have never pleaded guilty. But it should say something, and make one question how it is that those that got out early were able to. Was it because they u derstood how much in bad faith prosecuters work, and you lawyer up immediately? Could it be having the money to buy their own lawyers? Or could it be that certain people that did little to no jail time were in on the staged event to try and vilify Trump supporters and push for the agenda to make Jan 6 indeed as bad, if not worse than 9-11. It seems obvious that the greater issue got thwarted, however, since there were allegedly bombs planted in certain places. And just the over the top narratives by Dems afterward to pretend like they indeed had a suicide bomber crash a plane into the Capitol. There is so much theatre going on with this BS that it's surprising the 2020 DNC Congress didn't have a special award made for them at the Oscars.
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  333. Millennials and Gen-Z are often 'literally' baked, in the non-lucid sense. 😏👍
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  334. It was technically inoculation, which is not the same as a vaccination, because the point of an inoculation was to get the disease in order to build up natural immunity. People that had COVID parties, swapping drinks with each other to increase their chances of getting COVID were doing something more like what George Washington did with innoculation. Or, what Cuomo did in NY when he put COVID patients in nursing homes, save Cuomo was more likely seeking genocide of the elderly, whereas Washington was trying to win a war by making sure his troops had natural immunity before going out and fighting the Brits, who were also suffering from smallpox outbreaks.
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  335. Sorry, but climate change is the 'intellectual' version of the old fundamentalist Christians postulating how the Apocalypse would come to be. Nice story, but no real facts. You can find as many mixtures of natural events you want and can say it's God's punishment or because of Climate Change, and who's to say which is true? They both come down to an ideology, it's propaganda, and what you choose to believe.
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  336. Except they are not doing it legally. No vote was even made on whether to do so, the Democrats are just doing it because they want to. So it is illegitimate.
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  337. Sadly, yes, Obama was actually better than both RINOs put forth with John McCain and Mittens Romney. Sure, McCain was a warhawk, which is why he bent the knee to Obama to beg for more military funding and wars in the Near East post 2012. As it is, Tulsi Gabbard hit home with noting that all the warhawks that pro peace Dems called for decades the ultimate evil people in the world were now endorsing Kamala. And they are supposed to consider that a win, that NeoLibs are basically the new warhawk NeoCons? But you see, while there are conservatives that may be pro-military, it's primarily support of the the troops putting their lives on the line to defend this country. It is not in support of the Military Industrial Complex and other deep state operatives that launder tax payer money and will put our troops in danger simply for profits, or otherwise deem soldiers as a lesser being that are expendable. We want to be rid of these deep state operators that think they know how to rule people and make tactical, and profitable wars.
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  338. Most people, right and left, are against discrimination. The government, on the other hand, is filled with elitists that think they're better than all of us. They've used our system and media against us to polarize us to control us. If they can't control us, they discriminate against us.
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  339.  @cherubin7th  - or Marxism in general. It's a political philosophy born of strife and polarizing people to hate each other. It's why the elitists love to use it so much on the masses.
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  340. This is state wide tyranny brought to us by our dictator governor Jay Inslee. Why we didn't vote him out in favor of Culp, I don't know. I guess Seattle and it's suburban areas love licking Jay Inslee's boots.
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  341. The Asmongold syndicate. Always watching. Always ready. 😎😏👍
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  342.  @Omnifarious0  - I've been roaming between Fedora, Arch, and Debian distros, and they all have their good and bad OS-wise. Arch has become a lot easier to install and setup with what you like. Debian can is probably the most stable, but that also comes with use of LTS kenels, so not eveything is up to the latest things. Arch is better for if you want things more current, but that also can comes with some risks when using the AUR. But that's becoming less of a thing as Pacman and Yay have gotten better with package management. However, Debian based distros are pretty decent with package management as well. Apt and .Deb packages are similar to Fedora's RPM, and probably easier to adapt to as for most things, you're switching APT for where you would use DNF in Fedora distros. Nobara could also be an alternative distro for Fedora, if you don't want to stray too far from the DNF/RPM style OS. It's basically Fedora, but oriented for gamers.
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  343. Tim, people should already be ready for the flu, because that virus, or group of viruses, are in the same family as the coronavirus, and has already spread to 19 million people, causing 180,000 to be hospitalized, and 10,000 deaths in the US. Between 2017 - 2018, the death toll was 80,000 for the flu. We can't worry about acts of nature (although the coronavirus possibly came from China's mishandling of viruses held in their lab), but still a moderate bit of preparation is always beneficial.
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  344. Check out Dave Rubin and how he presents the Republican candidates on one of his recent live videos titled: Unexpected 2024 Announcement Just Shook Up the Race. To cut to the short, with politics, you have to get past the theatre of it. For now, Trump is in the lead. There's still a question of if DeSantis will even run, but he would be the second in line if he did. And yes, the way he's playing things is working. For everyone knows that whoever runs against Trump is going to get hit pieces on them, and the more you're the target, the bigger the threat you are, because you're the most plausible alternative to Trump. DeSantis is definitely that. But there are others running. Dave Rubin goes through a couple of them and explains how he sees them running as a good thing, even if it's obvious they likely aren't going to be in the top tier of potentially electable as Trump and DeSantis. For one, they can present a national messaging that is good, and appealing conservative principles, ideas, and the like that can, and ought to be adopted by the top tier, especially once the dust has cleared and either Trump or DeSantis winds up the GOP nominee. The other candidates right now speak on various voices among Republicans and conservatives regarding what's important, such as America first, the land of opportunity ideal, importance of the Constitution, free speech, gun rights, etc. Listening to them does not mean you're voting for them, and moreso, it can show you're not just a candidate cultists that's either Trump or DeSantis only, or I'm nor voting. You have to realize what an insane position that is, to be such a cult worshiper of any candidate. But, anyways, just trying to give some perspective. Don't let the theatre politics get to you. It's not that much different than celebrity theatre, save you got crazies like Biden, who wants to bring back Obama's weaponizing the government against Democrat enemies, or the Clintons and their ever growing list of people that suddenly are no longer with us for having criminally damning information that could leas to their arrest, or anything else that would make their being in charge the next 4 to 8 years a hot mess. 😏👍
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  345.  @sh4dow-fan  - it's sad that it isn't getting much development. The way things are going, it's hard to say whether Linux is going to be the kernel of freedom and openness when they're all bickering over who can and cannot use their stuff.
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  346. How do we know Canadians aren't all AI bots? 😏
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  347. That's the problem there, you actually think Amazon is a valuable service. 😏
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  348.  @29.cHR1sT1nA  - Indeed. Like we can't take any one American's religious and secular experience as the definitive way, I think it would be a disservice to the whole of Germany to say one German's religious and secular experiences are the definitive German way. Even in America, there is a diversity between the fundamentalists, conservatives, progressives, and liberals that make up Christianity. Even with soon to be former President Biden professing to be Catholic, especially in good standing, will cause a lot of debate among traditional, conservative, progressive, and liberal Catholics. Likewise, soon to be again President Trump as a Christian stirs up a lot of debate among fundamentalist, conservative, progressive, and liberal Protestant Christians. As for tithing, that varies from some Catholic Churches that have, or had once demanded tithing to be a part of the parish, as well as fundamentalist and progressive Protestants that may argue that tithing was an Old Testament thing that isn't necessary any more - though you can still give if you want.
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  349.  @ct751  - Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Following, or trusting the science has turned science into something like a pagan naturist cult. As it is, the term for a god or deity in Ancient Egypt was 'netjer', which when saying it sounds like how we say 'nature'. But further it is like in the Bible where it is stated that those that denied God "worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator" (Romans 1: 22-25). But I would argue that no one uncritically accepts the truth of the Bible, but there is a lot of things claimed, and demanded of people to 'trust the science' that has had little to no critical though about it, yet still has demanded unwavering acceptance to it, such as in the COVID era, or with Climate Change that rivals in number of doomsday prophets as fundamentalist cults in Christianity that claimed they knew when the world would end.
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  350.  @SirHeinzbond  - Then you don't understand what the objections are. For one thing science is never 'settled'. There is always something new that may be discovered that enhances or completely changed our views of how things work. Thus why, with Galileo, his little house arrest wasn't merely for disagreeing with the Pope or what is believed from the Bible, but rather he was among those stating new ideas about the Earth revolving around the Sun, rather than what was considered the 'settled science' of, by then. at least a millennia that believed the Sun Revolved around the Earth. As it is, by your reasoning, you might of been among those during that age calling Galileo schizophrenic for contending with the settled science, and possibly saying, "How dare he use a telescope if he's such a barbarian that refuses the logic of settled science!"
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  351. The board of directors are not on the same page with the company. This is why incorporating is a very bad idea if you want to retain ownership of your company.
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  352. If CNN actually focused on being a news network instead of woke activism and being propaganda for the leftist regime, maybe CNN wouldn't be in the toilet. 🤡😏
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  353. Nintendo Power was the best in the 80's and 90's.
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  354. "Australia doesn't exist!" - That was worth watching this video. 😂🤣😂🤣
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  355. This is different than, say, an all black school doing a production, and it's obvious they are filling a role, and not trying to claim it as historically accurate. Yet, the same would have to be true at a predominantly white school, if they did a play casting MLK Jr. as white, or an all white cast of roots because there were no black kids present to fill the roles. Yet, you know why such productions don't happen? Because we white folk would fear rioting, or otherwise labeled 'yahtzee' who-aight supreme pizzas disrespecting another race or culture, even if we mean no disrespect at all. When the woke crowd does it, they praise themselves, and tell us in snide, condescending remarks that it wasn't made for us. Yet they get mad if we don't watch what they already told is not for us? Why should we pay or support 'inclusion' that excludes us, and insults us, only expecting us to say, "Well, you don't see us rioting over it!" That is, if we even say anything with so many acting like they aren't allowed to speak - and maybe they aren't, lest to woke mob burns down their house, and the woke government jails them for not giving the mob the matches and lighters to do so. We can't have real discussions, nor have decent movies because of this BS.
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  356. US is not a collection of ideas, but we are based off Enlightenment philosophy of capitalism and the free market, not just of exchange of goods and services, but also a market of ideas. However, what makes it possible to hold this ideology is, for the US, the Constitution. Without the Constitution, we would not have free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and basically freedom to create and participate in a free society.
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  357. 2006, when Romney RINO Arnold Swarzenegger was voted in. He was just as bad as the Democrats even then.
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  358. Which is why it would make more sense not to donate money to support companies, but instead purchase stock in the company. Maybe a new platform similar to Steam or Patreon, but instead of giving donations that do nothing, invest in some sort of social stock ownership that gives you a say in the direction of development and part of the profits of the product. This also pushes more accountability for making and meeting goals, both legally and ethically. Legally because person working on project is beholden to shareholders, and ethically because of need for transparency and accountability to customer who is also stock holder.
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  359. Is the internet a permanent thing? If it goes down, does that mean so does your ownership of a thing that you only held online?
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  360.  @juann268  -so says the moron.
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  361.  @atticusherodes6648  - as soon as the government realizes BSD exists, they will try and control it too. Eventually, we'll be pinched into a corner tight enough that we'll have to do something.
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  362. Tim's all over the place. Craps on his audience, talks of retiring, throws his journalist under the bus. Are you really sure you want to be on his show? It seems your gut instinct to back away and do other things may be for the better. You have a great show already, and between, Crowder, Brittany Venti, and Anna - That Star Wars Girl, among others you've helped and have a good relation with, who knows? Maybe you all can join up and make that truly alternate media that doesn't play the business as usual BA that DW, and even Timcast plays that claims to push against the grain if YouTube and big tech censorship while basically enforcing it through contract. I don't know how that sort of new media business will look, but it will be interesting to see it form and potentially revolutionize how we do business. Because the current way just plain sucks, and that's putting it mildly.
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  363. Cakewalk was/is again doing subscription on their music studio, aka digital audio workstation (DAW). So I'm like, fine, I'll just use MuseScore.
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  364. It creeper in through Young Adult novels. Other stuff geared to younger was argued in as 'sex education'. This was happening at least 20 years ago, and pushed by UN. But back then, it was shrugged off as conspiracy theories of the religious right.
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  365. Packed nuts and fudge? The self-made jokes of liberals that just keeps giving. 😹
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  366. This is like the school districts that shuffle around problem students and problem teachers. They wind up somewhere else to do the same things over again to people unaware of any past issues these students or teachers may have.
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  367. Parents murdering their born kids, even in the the privacy of their own home, is still a crime.
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  368.  @AKlover  - Maybe its surprising, if not shocking that there could be that many deranged people among voters. Not everyone is as jaded as you are.
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  369.  @denisevarner7308  - both sides have always come up with their pet issues, such as Clinton with the whole 'cigar trick' and Trump and his talk about pussies.
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  370. The basic definition is science is knowledge, and the basic ideology is knowledge is power.
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  371.  @u9vata  - So would a LTS kernel with a lightweirght WM, such as i3, be a better option for optimizing a 10 year old laptop? I'm trying to figure out between that and BORE, Hardened, Xanmod, Mainline, and which version of Zen (1 - 4) might be worth trying to see what gives this old laptop a fairly optimal performance.
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  372. I call this the Linux upgrade/enhancement effect. Granted, all OSes have a similar bloat, but it's more apparent on Linux when you find yourself being prompted to upgrade daily, or dig around in the packages to find just what you think are the right elements to tweak the system, and then find dozens more, along with their dependencies that you absolutely have to have. Updates are more in the background tasks of Apple and Microsoft OSes, and the tweaking winds up more with trying to find the current or best optimized applications for hardware that tends to rarely get automatic upgrades.
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  373.  @gruntaxeman3740  - I've been on both LTS and the more experimental. Even the LTS get a few updates here and there when the distro decides things are stable enough to do so, or if you add the more current repository. Even without constant updates, you're going to be wanting to add other apps than what the base package gives you. Sure, quite a few distros have MuseScore 3 still in their repository, and some may still install it as part of their base package. But that's not tge latest version, and it doesn't always work out of the box. So you have to install the current version of MuseScore 4, along with Muse Sounds to get the latest higher quality virtual instruments. Or maybe you wan Brave, or some other browser instead of Firefox. All those additional apps and their dependencies, along with any tweaks you may need add to bloat. That's just how it is for any OS/distro, regardless if they are LTS, or not.
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  374.  @gruntaxeman3740  - you realize code is essentially a script? You can still use code from BASIC in C, or even Rust that may only need a few adjustments, if any, to translate over to the different language. A 'hello world' script isn't going to be all that different from one language to another, regardless how old or new it is. The main issues might be syntax and commands.
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  375.  @gruntaxeman3740  there is some translation between languages. At the end of the day, if you are a coder worth your money, you can easily look at any code in any language, on any platform and figure out what changes are needed to make the code work in that language or on that platform. This is especially true today when most of the changes needing to be made are at best, surface issues at the packaging level, like whether to use apt, yay, dnf, etc. Maybe a few tweaks when going between architecture, but nothing so vastly different, as porting a game on the NES to a 2600. Debian, among all distros, proves a modern OS could potentially work just as well in a 286 as it can in the latest most expensive gaming rig, adjusted and optimized for the hardware and withing the parameters of the type of software that can be used on said systems. There are limitations but emulation shows that virtually any program from any computer or console can run on a modern PC with the right parameters in the compilation. The code isn't the issue, unless it was poorly written in the first place.
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  376.  @gruntaxeman3740  - Sure, in Debian based distros, if you want to package something in a .deb package, you have to learn how to compile what you want to package into it. Or, you have to figure out for apt. Likewise, Fedora/RHEL distros have RPM and dnf. Arch based distros have pacman and yay. Add to that Snaps and appimages. I would mainly argue that it is less about the code changing as much as it is how to package the code. Yes, applications may need dependencies. But these themselves are code used to help the main code function on the distro it has been installed on. Therefore, the distro is the platform that you want to deliver the package to, and the dependencies are the additional things needed to ensure what is unpacked from the package will run on the distro it's been installed on. So, I'm not sure what the problem is, since there are so many tools available to help assemble, compile, and build the application as needed to run on any given distro. I suppose it can be tedious work to make sure everything is put together correctly, and troubleshoot where issues might conflict among dependencies, but that's just part of the whole of putting it all together. I appreciate the people that have made doing these things easier, and those helpful at troubleshooting where the automation may have gone wrong. It would be awesome If I could get to that point of building my own LFS, but I'm happy with certain favorite distros that already exist and just work on getting familiar with the terminal and how to configure and tweak things.
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  377.  @Sakaki98  - But again, out of those that do make the accusations, all those victims are accusers. The point, though, is that not all people that make accusations are indeed victims.Thus why we have due process, and the basic principle of innocent until proven guilty in US law.
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  378.  @JoybuzzerX  - That is the injustice done when we eliminate due process and the basic principle of innocent until proven guilty. This has been a problem of liberals and Democrats going back to the days of Woodrow Wilson's advocacy of the KKK and lynch mob mentality. It's ironic that they claim to fight against racist Nazi KKK with the very same lynch mob mentality that was so prominent and deadly about them. This sort of aspect of liberals and Democrats are why anyone that isn't brainwashed by the mantras and rhetoric sees them as dangerous. A blind mob is dangerous, regardless if it's from the right or left. But the left seems more inclined to use the mob than the right.
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  379. On the other hand, the celebrity rehab may look nice and cost a lot, but it's also them spending a bunch of their money to be reprogrammed into saying and doing what the Hollywood elites want them to say. It's sort of like a really well paying job for a reporter to sit around and do nothing is called the golden chain treatment, well the front of the rich celebrity spas are that they are essentially a golden padded room.
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  380.  @jeremyblackmouth3323  - That's the point of rehab for most professionals. Teachers may wind up taking sensitivity training or straight up rehab as a way shield their career as well, not to mention the schools trying to bury bad press by saying they are taking corrective measures, if the behavior of the teacher gets the attention of the press. There is probably some intention of rehabilitation, or reprogramming, as the point of it is to get the person back in line with what they want or expect. This can be, say a teacher called LGBTQ+ incorporation into teaching BS and is adamant not to do so in her classroom. Said teacher may get sensitivity training or have to go to some sort of conference or rehab to 'correct' her thinking, or else be fired. While actors don't have that direct sort of force, they do get canceled, as has happened with Will Smith and many of his upcoming projects indefinitely on hold or flat out canceled from. So not only does he have to pay a bunch of money for rehab, he also is taken out of lining potential work, which is crippled because no one wants to touch him while his brand is considered toxic. So he pretty much has to pay up to try and salvage his career. That's true for any professional that winds up in trouble, and the boss says, get rehab or pack your bags and get out.
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  381.  @jeremyblackmouth3323  - There's plenty of people in an ordinary workplace that have managed to 'do a Depp', so to speak, where you can't believe they didn't get fired for all the crazy things they've done in the past, and even more so surprised what finally does get them fired, especially if it seems a rather tame offense in comparison to all the previous ones. The main difference between celebrities and the rest of us working stiffs is their dirty laundry is out in the open. But even that's becoming less of a gap since social media and stupid people being stupid enough to share their stupid actions online. And that even goes back to MySpace, when law enforcement would check out videos people recorded of fights and vandalism they were doing. Your problem seems to be about their earnings, and supposedly they can buy back their brand. Yet, who of us cost anyone millions of dollars if we screw up at work? You yourself stated that the producers can lose millions when a celebrity screws up and becomes unavailable because of a scandal. We lose our job, there thousands more to look for, and we can move to where no one knows us and start over. There are far fewer jobs in Hollywood, and the competition is cut throat. But, you know, you could always try getting a gig in Hollywood for yourself. If it's so easy, why not go and start booking auditions and start making some of that easy money yourself?
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  382. @Mark M.  - corrupt teacher's union, yes. However, unions in general are just an extension of the branch of bureaucracy. These same unions that claim to protect teachers will shove them under the bus if they are of the wrong politics. So many good Christian teachers have been washed out of their careers, not just from secular school admins, but also because the union won't defend them. Typical 'rules for thee, not for me' attitude of all institutions run by Democrats.
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  383. @NinerOut  - It's not just the union, but also school admins, the district and state superintendents, all the way up to the governors in liberal states. The whole school system is corrupt.
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  384. @David Major  - your full of crap, but have fun talking in circles to yourself.
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  385. @MarkJoseph81  - Yes, unions, but also tenure. While I think it fair for union representation to make sure someone's not wrongfully fired, the advocacy of things beyond representation is an abuse. Even moreso when good teachers actually trying to teach academics and don't follow the union agenda get sent to the guillotine.
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  386. Humans 'evolve' all the time, in as much as evolution is just a fancy word for 'change'. We are in a temporal world of time that is ever changing. It's like how ancient philosophers stated that you never cross the same river twice. This is not meaning the place where the river flows, though even there, some rivers and streams do sometimes change course, but the point is the flow of water itself. What we saw flow under a bridge one say may be on it's way out into to ocean on another day. Each step we take, we advance in one way or another, for better or for worse. And that's part of the thing about 'progress' is that you can progress or evolve in ways that are both positive or negative, advantageous and to one's disadvantage or folly.
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  387.  @keeganmcfarland7507  - YouTube doesn't like me answering, so you'll just have to search out for yourself.
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  388.  @alsed7  - The handlers are not the ones freaking out, at least not in public. If you're trying to say they are trying to use rabble rousing to demoralize, then sure, I can agree with that. But to say getting so angry to be unable to stay rational enough while being interviewed to answer the question, that's just showing where the programming has gone past its limit and has crashed.
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  389.  @MrBearyMcBearface  - I don'tknow that it was. I think software programmers can tell the difference between what they do and mind control. Or, maybe they can understand mind control programming from having to manipulate software programs to work on computers. 😏👍
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  390. That's because teens in government established schools are the most likely to believe the propaganda pushed on them every day in school.
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  391.  JblueT  The main problem with that nowadays is that mostly liberal corporations and government own land . Even if you pay property taxes, it's not because you outright own the land, but because the government that leases the land owns it and will tax to get their money for you to pretend to own your home.
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  392. First off, not all public school teachers are rabid leftist woke advocates. In America, at least, how liberal or conservative a public school district is depends on a variety of factors. Rural and small town schools and school districts tend to lean conservative, while suburban and city schools tend more liberal. This also can depend on the state government itself and how liberal or conservative it is. But this is American society 101. Also, private schools are not necessarily better than their public school counterparts. This can depend on who are the major donors. There are even Christian schools that have bent the knee to the highest bidder, and thus teach things contrary to the faith. There's also how our colleges and universities have been poisoned by the Frankfurt school of thought, as well as a variety of other philosophies that pushed the idea that going to college makes one superior, unless you fall back into 'superstitious' things like Christian faith and believing in God, thinking capitalism is good, and overal being a conservative Republican. Faced with that becoming a common and more dominant narrative in society, is it really a surprise we are where we are?
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  393. Schools used to have background checks. At dual income, they should be making at least $100,000/yr. If they are struggling to live off that much per year, they are terrible at budgeting their money.
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  394. What can be said that the Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade became pro life? https://youtu.be/MYNyaNNq8Xg
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  395.  @joetheblu3  'both sides' is a fallacy argument used by the people that lost because their side was the most full of nutcases, or they are like the RINOs that pretend to be on the right despite their voting proving otherwise.
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  396.  @erxanerxan9769  - The dems are still crazy. Power meant they they were able to push more things than they would try to if they didn't have power. The problem with Republicans is more focused around the RINOs, or the ones that used to have power by claiming to be 'moderate', but really are effectively dems that want to pretend to be Republican. They always push for bipartisanship and have little to no spine.
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  397. Jada only wishes now that Will never slapped Chris Rock because there goes her free lunch if Will gets cancelled. 😏
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  398. Most conservatives are not replying to polls, or simply not being contacted.
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  399. Exactly. Tik Tok is the tip of the iceberg. Chi-coms like FB, not to mention everything with made in China. We've kept selling out our country by outsourcing to the largest sweatshop in the world. It's as bad, if not worse than our addiction to Saudi oil.
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  400.  @amraceway  - Hollywood has never been about right wing politics. There have only been a rare few actors that were conservative that Hollywood was unable to blacklist. Corporate interests have nothing to do with whether a group is right or left. The principles/ideologies distinguish them one way or another. Hollywood may have been family friendly, back when they cared about the midwest and didn't want to disturb their main audience. But that didn't stop them from pushing gun control in Westerns, or have morality plays about tolerance between native VS. cowboy culture. The biggest classic legal drama, Perry Mason, featured a gay actor who, despite questions over his sexuality, was a popular and well loved actor of his day. The problem with millennials and Gen Z is you haven't a clue what left and right really are, and your extremism keeps moving people away from and despising the progressive left as the lunatic fringe in modern politics. If you didn't have corporations like YouTube protecting you from reality, you might realize how crazy and ignorant you are.
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  401.  @dgkulberda5203  - The only way there would be no more politics is if people no longer existed. Do you really want to go there?
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  402.  @austrarobust8993  - The internet still isn't competition. It's the market that everyone goes to sell their wares. Much of YouTube content wouldn't exist without click bait about how Hollywood or video games are dying. It's ridiculous to think having a budget for games or a movie the size of a small country's GDP is a sustainable production model. If anything, Hollywood has forgotten its craft and sold it for cheap thrills where going to a movie feels more like watching someone else play a video game, or being around that annoying guy at a party that tells stupid jokes, then goes on the explain them, as if that's the reason no one was laughing instead of them just simply not being funny.
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  403. Watching this on a 10 yr old HP laptop while updating DTOS on it. 😉👍
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  404. I was searching Linux BORE because I'm trying to figure out what it means. The acronym is supposedly Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer, and I can't tell if it's rust-oriented. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth trying on a 10 year old computer, if it will help enhance performance.
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  405. Platforms are not publishers. That's part of the problem there, besides the fact that social media was never meant to be an arbiter of truth, but a platform of free speech. This is where I disagree. If he can say Mein Kampf can be read, and people will find out why it's crazy for themselves, then why can't social media platforms be that free market of ideas wherein people come to their own conclusions? Yes, flat earth is a theory that we can prove today with visual evidence as wrong, but for thousands of years, it was the norm, even considered 'the science', much like Fauci proclaimed himself 'the science' despite so many times he's flip flopped, not to mention stole credit for things he barely had any involvement in. I'm sure you prance around the subject to make sure you can stay on YouTube, but I can say it - Fauci has done a horrible job, both in how he confused and divided people with regards to AIDS in the 80's and with COVID now. You guys talk of the evil and propaganda of the Nazis and can't see this similar sort of evil being tossed in our faces with vaccines, where they are using them to try and control people. They blind us with saying we ought not have borders or voter ID, but we better have our COVID papers in order just to go to a restaurant, go to a store, or get a job. Plus, while you talk of the millions killed by the propaganda of tobacco, yet speak favora ly about the 'healthcare' of abortion which there is evidence that they always put Planned Parenthood facilities in poor ethnic communities, and Margaret Sanger's ideology gives plenty of reason why. Sanger was back in the day of Segregation, and her ideology influenced Hitler as well. So yes, it is interesting what things you omit from the topic, the ideas that fade, right?
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  406. First woman president a Republican, you say? Well, then, if Donald Trump Jr. doesn't want to run, then Ivanka Trump 2024! 😉
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  407. Sorry, but small businesses and individuals are minimal at best a problem. Most any major issue with cyber security happens among the corporations and governments. They tend to make the problem that they conveniently have a solution for, but at the cost to money and freedoms.
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  408.  @BrodieRobertson  - yet open source is supposed to be the solution to corporate/commercial and their tendencies to monopolize and price out the rest of us. The question is how much of it is a real problem, and how much if it is manufactured to discredit the good that open source has done overall for whatever underlying agenda gov. and corporations may want to push out to limit and control open source for their gain?
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  409.  @mmstick  - I have tried to answer this several times, but for some reason it gets deleted. So will try again. There is insurance for professionals and small businesses to protect against frivolous lawsuits. Besides that, small businesses don't collect any where near the personal data that the larger corporations do, and often have their payment processing go through another, larger company that specializes in payment processing, and it is they who have any data that can be leaked. The small business has minimal, if any personal data themselves. Same goes for gift and store cards, which, even the ones you get at, say, Kroger, or some other major grocery/retail store, all the gift cards, and their rewards and rewards + store cards are handled by some sort of bank, generally CitiBank, which is one of the major type of banks that handle credit cards and the like. That said, it would be laughable to go after the small business due to security breaches that happened to the 'too big to fail' corporate bank they trusted to handle such things. It simply is not the small business' fault, because they were not the ones that held the data, and thus could not have been breached for any data that they personally didn't have. If their business goes under, it would be for trusting the big corporations with handling what they are supposed to be top professionals at handling.
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  410.  @mmstick  - Seriously, why are my replies being deleted? I am not saying anything controversial, nor even being insulting to anyone. Is it because I drop names of the big corporations that are the root of a lot of the privacy issues that plague businesses? It's not like it isn't anything new, since said corporations have been constantly held to the fire with class action lawsuit after class action lawsuit. All I'm saying is that the small businesses are not the problem, but the big corporations they are told to trust and rely on that are. Most any business knows that these certain corporations are not reliable, and yet they are still forced to use them.
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  411.  @mmstick  - Small businesses just want their customers' payments to go through. They hardly think about software developers. What, with actually running a business, their time is mostly split between keeping customers and employees happy. They trust if they are doing their payment processing through such a company that they know what they are doing. Most businesses outsource technicians. It's rare for a small business to have an IT department. Small businesses generally have no clue what programming code they are working with. They might know if they're using Turbo Tax, and probably use it because it's what their tax guy is familiar with. You really need to get out the IT box a bit and touch grass. Because the majority of small businesses really have no clue what you're talking about, and don't care, as long as whatever software and tech they use does the job they need it to.
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  412.  @mmstick  - You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. All you are doing is talking around the point that small businesses and individuals are minimal at best the problem. I'm not trying to defend 'memory unsafe', I am simply stating small businesses are not the problem. You are trying to push your BS agenda in here when the programming language has nothing to do with how businesses decide what software to use. They are told they need to work with this bank or financial entity to do their payment processing through, and use whatever software these companies tell them are the standards to use, and work with whatever carrier for internet/wireless that is deemed the best in the area to work with. Nobody talks to them about whether it's best to use rust or C for programming code, it's not even on their radar. Again, all that matters to them is that their payments are processed and they can pay the bills and they're workers their wages. You are making it more complex, when the point is that small businesses are not at fault when all they are doing is following the standards of business. The big corporations and banks that make the standards, and time and time again, are the ones that have these periodic data breaches, are the problem. The government doesn't do much to change it, and have little incentive to do so when the major corporations and banks line their pockets. Add to that, we had a case over the COVID years that our state government was so mismanaged that it was found out they got scammed thousands of taxpayer dollars because some bureaucratic idiot was giving money to one of those Ugandan prince email hoaxes. But sure, you can trust the almighty gov if you want. Don't blame me for warning how heavily mismanaged they are.
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  413.  @mmstick  - I'm not defending the poor practice but pointing to the problem, which are the big corporations, major banks and financial institutions, and the governments, who are the ones that make the poor practices the rules to follow as their guides for what they deem are the 'best practices'. Some of them legally binding to have to follow.
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  414. Oh yeah, the unicorn rare skill that no American could possibly fill the role on. That's total BS made up by the con artists that abuse the H1B in the first place.
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  415.  @6MyUsername9  - This is part of the problem, as also outsourcing. This whole thing of the Chi-coms that will send their product over to China for the cheap/slave labor, and then ship it back here. When asked why they do it that way instead of pay American workers to do the packaging, they claim not enough workers interested, with a few being honest enough to say it would cost more to do the work in the US. In other works, they want slaves that will do it for next to nothing, not actual workers that want to be able to make a living off a wage.
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  416.  @whocarescrapsa  - Competition is not a bad thing, but it ought to be illegal to force us to compete with cheap or slave labor that they either outsource or import.
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  417.  @dixonpinfold2582  - So you think 'winning' is to make Americans compete with foreign cheap/slave labor? Sorry, but until that is stopped, we should put a ban on H-1B. Are you saying that Americans here are unable to be unbeatably competitive, or are you aligned with the idea that the only way to compete is by exploiting cheap/slave labor from countries that allow such exploitation of their people? How is that 'winning'?
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  418. Think I'll stick with 6.6.8-2 for a while longer.
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  419. I'm voting for Trump, but I've met a few people like the person you mention in this video. Just as there are fine people on both sides, there's some nuts as well. 🙄🤣😂
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  420. With AI, can we be so certain that this will remain the case? What can we say if a computer does become away and decides it does care who is using it, what their intentions are?
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  421. Garth Brooks probably has a lot of stock in Bud Lite.
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  422.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  - ok... I am a Christian, and I believe in an eternal soul, so not sure what your target for 'you' is. But sure, it's a nice, artsy saying, which itself has been mass produced and mindlessly consumed as well. But I think you miss the point that they do care, which is why they use the algorithms and AI to try and learn what people are interested in, and purposefully use that information to use what we consume in a manner that keeps us addicted and coming back for more. They study all this, and they study us, looking for all the common traits they can, and how to maximize the habits formed by those traits to make music that's 'safe'. That is to say, music that they believe will push the right buttons and make us move in the direction they want us to. Thus, whenever the left claim that to speak with opposing views is 'unsafe', they effectively mean that these are views they don't want because they challenge the status quo of the programming. They don't want the other side to be heard, or at least they don't want to be the one that introduces views contrary to the programming lest the people programmed start to think for themselves, or otherwise are swayed against the programming. I won't say that the right is without its own aspects of programming. It's almost impossible for anyone to not have programming. It's part of some aspect of our cognitive learning, particularly by rote. To this day, so many people know the nursery rhyme 'Ring Around the Rosey'. Until a certain age, we may not even realize the context of the rhyme. Yet somehow we learn these things by rote, even before we understand the meaning. In a sense, sing-song and subliminal messages are cousins to this sort of programming. That's part of the issue with pop entertainment, is what are the messages they are trying to ingrain in our minds? Is it historical, like the nursery rhyme, or is it trying to push messaging in order to shape the way we think or believe that may go against what we currently do think or believe. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but if you're a Christian, and your child begins listening to rock or rap music, starts using slang and slurs, emulating the musicians or rappers, and decides he's no longer Christian, and practically chants the chorus of the rock stars about how they don't believe they can be they can be saved, or that it's easy to imagine a world with no God or heaven, and how some day they too will be a rock star and be more famous than Jesus, well you might wonder if the music had any influence. It would appear there is some type of programing and a particular messaging against Christianity and God. Thus the messaging does matter, because you can become what you consume.
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  423. So you think the government, which already is screwed up, ought to run health care? Are you an idiot?
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  424. The average American can find Ukraine on the map. It's even easier this day for anyone to look up Ukraine on the map just by searching it online. It's that it's on the other side of the world, and no one really knows what we are doing spending trillions of dollars on a war we have little to no business in it other than Biden via his son Hunter has certain ties and involvement in Ukraine. Regardless if there is a 'pure' reason for us to support the war is at best tainted. Granted, roughly half the US understands this, or at least are aligned to believe those that point out Burisma and Hunter Biden somehow being involved with it and the real quid quo pro that was going on with it. The other half of the country has political blinders and wishful thinking, wanting Trump to be the one to be impeached over it, despite the phone call was one asking about investigations into what was going on with Burisma. Was it quid quo pro? Honestly, I don't know with that phone call, but close to half the country believes that, despite they don't believe, or have refused to believe the quid quo pro regarding Biden and Burisma has as much, if not more evidence, as there is a video out there of Biden when he was VP bragging about holding funds to Ukraine hostage if the Ukranian president at the time wouldn't fire the person investigating Burisma. Interesting enough that Trump asking about that investigation was what got Trump impeached for quid quo pro, but Biden's involvement in getting the investigation quashed by threatening to stop our foreign aid to Ukraine if they do not is overlooked and not even questioned. Thus why I can agree that it's more about what people believe is more important in their own mind. Thus the media, who has been believing for quite a while that they are the people in charge of what to tell people to believe is supposed to be important to them, have been filtering to one side or the other, which had decidedly been to the left. Most in the media are leftists. They were educated that way, and many had been brought up that way, or, they grew up in a right of center family and had been more influenced by things considered more left of center, and kept going down the rabbit's hole on the left until they fully believed most, if not all the talking points, or at least saw that they could have a certain amount of power or influence to hold to what the left was saying is true, or how to make 'your truth' a reality, or at least something that can bend reality to your will. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen on the right. Rght-left dichotomy isn't something that holds to a firm boundary. We talk about RINOs on the right, and that's our term for those Republicans that claim to have conservative values in some way - usually claiming 'fiscal' conservatism, but are 'compassionate' on moral and social issues. This is similar to the 'left' in Christianity that claim 'all are welcome', save if you hold to conservative/traditional Christian values - the 10 Commandments seeming to be watered down as the 10 suggestions, the miracle of being able to feed the masses being a miracle of being able to get people to work as a community and share what they have, or otherwise taking a more social/socialist interpretation on things. We call them RINOs politically because it's obvious they are more aligned with the left, but pretend to be on the right by claiming they will not raise taxes (and yet they wind up doing so anyways), but are just 'moderate'. I can't say that you are 'outside the optics', but you are more open to questioning both the left and right spectrum that we all have grown up with in the US. It can be very difficult for many of us that have lived in this duality that is, not just American politics, but a sort of bi-polar mindset of our country as a whole. There are really few that are all in on the right, or all in on the left. Which is why you can have people like Caitlyn Jenner, who many people knew for decades as Bruce Jenner before that was made a dead name, who are for the rights of transgenders to be recognized as individual people of merit and worth. Yet, despite being for the most commonly held human rights concept of trans rights, Caitlyn is considered 'far right' for believing it is wrong for tans women to participate in women's only sports because of the physical advantages their natural biology can have over biologically born women athletes. Our politics and identity as Americans is rooted in a lot of things that have, compared to Europe, a fairly short history. We have conflicts, like the one you mentioned with Native Americans v. those of us that came in as pilgrims/immigrants, which also ties into our issues regarding legal and 'undocumented' immigration. Yet, we also have those that migrated here not of their own will, which also ties into the issues of migration, and slavery. To say our roots are rather twisted and mixed up is to state the obvious, but, outside of the longer roots that Native Americans have had in the land, they are not as long as those of Europe, and thus why were are also called here the New World. Does the average American know all this? Maybe not. Some people choose not to be grounded in the roots, Even the Enlightenment ideals that make up core components of the United States as a Constitutional Republic, which refused to be run by a monarch or tyrant, that is decidedly locked into the concept of 'We The People' - particularly in the importance of voting as a civic right and duty to decide the direction of our country, and the grounding of laws in the US Constitution as the bedrock of our laws, even with all this, there is still a portion of the US that does not follow even the basics of these things and some choose to be subversive to them. I'm not saying the US Constitution is perfect, but it is the law of the land. It's what expresses our rights and what is to be protected and upheld by the law of the land. From my conservative Christian, and traditionalist Catholic perspective, it is far from perfect, and I can name the many ways it doesn't align with my religious and political views. But the point for the US Constitution is not to be a religious document, nor necessarily even to appease the secularist nor the dogmas of the political factions. There was supposed to be something of objectivity in the Constitution that not only denied single rule under monarchy, but also was not going to go along with every whim and will of the mob of a democracy. Certainly, it was never going to appease the anarchist, nor anyone that wants to be nomadic to any form of law and order. But it was meant to preserve the rights of all, regardless of any one's agreements or disagreements with how Constitutional rights are protected and preserved. To me, I can be ok with that, as long as it is understood that human rights are God-given rights, and not things that the government can give or take away. So this is the difficulty that law and justice faces in our country, is to hold to a certain level of objectivity that recognizes the difference between protecting and preserving our rights over controlling and being the arbitrator of them. It can be too easy to say that the Constitution needs to change or be absolved to fit what any one individual, group, or community would rather have, but as long as 'We The People' see the need to protect and preserve them, the Constitution will remain the law of the land. Thus, Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" His answer remains true today, "A republic, if you can keep it.” The newer question, which we all as Americans in the United States ought to ask is, "Do we want to keep it?" For in this question, if we seriously ask it in consideration to what we believe, and what we strive for, will be the response that manifests going forward. For me, while it may not be fully perfect to the core of my beliefs, politics, etc., I can still concede that our Constitution is at least “near to perfection,” at least to what can be expected in an imperfect world. On the positive, despite all the divisions in the US today, which can give as much question to whether we have come to a point where we might see the the loss of the union, I can also agree with Benjamin Franklin, who was unsure during the conventions to ratify the Constitution, but said, "I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun."
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  425. I will note they were, though this being a political year where politicians may be voted out if they don't take a course correction, and aren't in a part of the country that's on board with their decisions. Yet the media is still trying to push a 4th vaccine as the politicians try to downplaying it, not wanting to have the trucker covoy embarrassment Trudeau had in Canada. Maybe they are wanting to scare people with a supposed major super spreader event to push another chaotic mail voting manipulation fiasco again. As for Steve Jobs, he also said great artist steal, not to mention was against the computer compatibility and right to repair. Thus, you get stuck with over priced, under powered hardware that you can't fix when it breaks down.
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  426. That's just among unhinged liberal idiots, usually white people pretending to be talking for black people. But I will say, simply being called "Yo white guy!" Would be annoying. Can't speak of how much more or less annoying than some one black being called, "Yo black guy!" It's somewhat disrespectful, though can be understandable if someone is trying to call for you, and your skin color is the most notably different feature about you then the rest of the guys around you. Preferably, most people would like to be called by their name, especially if you know their name. Yet, even there, some people don't even like their name. So maybe for some, "Yo black dude!" would be preferable than, say, being called Peewee, because that's what your parents named you after because they liked Peewee's Playhouse, and named you before the whole getting caught wanking it in a porn theater incident.
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  427. Need to do like Richard Stallman and let somebody else install your OS for you. 😏👌
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  428. Attention span isn't the issue as much as people don't want to have their time wasted on junk reviews.
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  429. I still say give Gemini to 4 Chan and they'll probably have it a white supremacist inno time. 🤡😏👍
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  430. I'm thinking the reason for AppImages becoming more popular for certain companies is because they are used to Windows, and, like you said, AppImages are closer to a Windows exe.
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  431. By the way, Tim, do you realize the family this is centered around has a second home in the area? So yeah, they're not exactly homeless.
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  432. Ironic that he talks about KKK being irrational about their racism, but his irrational revisionist history about Christopher Columbus goes not just unchecked, but gets Rogan's confirmation bias boost. Sorry, but the KKK also held this same irrationality, as well as Antifa and socialists. This anti-Columbus is its own ignorance.
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  433. People will just stop communicating with each other at work, or do their best to keep conversation direct so you don't even have to use names or pronouns, save maybe 'hey you', or 'can you?'
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  434. With pranks, there is either the pre-set 'fake' prank, where the person is informed about what is going to happen, and they consent to it. The 'real' prank is done, generally in a public setting, and consent to use the footage is given after the fact, and some compensation for damage or whatnot. With that said, most pranks are fake, so everyone's in on it, including the person about to get pranked.
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  435. Don't worry so much. You didn't force me to unsub from Tim Pool. This is about the 3rd time I've un-subbed from him in the past 10 years for being a javkass. He sometimes needs his ego burst. You had nothing to do with Crowder and the DW, other than help spotlight an issue with entertainment business contracts that will always be there for as long as the industry does its business in the way it does. EB did herself in, and we need to expose grifters that manipulate social media, regardless politics.PV sounds like it was a time bomb waiting to go off, just by the personalities and technicalities that have been aired. There is certainly tension right now, especially with DeSantis v Trump. But maybe we do need a shake up. The left gave up a lot of their soul to unify under Biden, despite for decades of knowing his corruption. Our battles on the right are with bad principles on the left and right. We know there are RINOs out there who will sell our country to China for a larger stock portfolio, that want the Ukraine war to go on to keep money flowing for the military industrial complex, regardless what's good for America, or even the world. We see it on how they refuse to take the Ohio disaster seriously. So we need James out there to uncover the corruption without fear that his board of directors will shove him under the bus for fear of the political whales mad that he's getting too close to the source. Also neither should we keep from exposing the cons and grifts. It isn't the same as a purity spiral, because the principles and standards do not move to the whims and will of the politics or agenda. That's why we can't galvanize or unite just for the sake of uniting. If there's a legitimate issue, we need to cover it and resolve it as best we can. We can forgive, but not put issues under the rug. It's part of the checks and balances that help us speak truth to power.
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  436. That's why McDonald's is called McDonald's. 😏🍿
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  437. You guys didn't believe us Christians in the 90's when we were talking about how they were trying to boil us like lobsters, little by little adding more oppressive laws. Now that we're here, we got a generation of fools that welcome the laws with open arms.
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  438. Remember, the Tide Pod challenge originated from Tic Tok. 🙄😏
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  439. Need to update this story with James O'Keefe's video where he refuted the board member's BS. The board of directors essentially threw him under the bus and hoped he would go away quietly after sitting through a 6 hour meeting smearing him with all the nonsense, even completely fabricated complaints.
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  440. No Church tax. Germany has a lot of issues religiously that you didn't even come close to covering on this video.That's part of the reason why more people in Germany are choosing not to affiliate with a church, because they've come to believe they are corrupt and don't want their money going to said corruption.
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  441. The Christian Roman might think he's in the End Times when he learns that the Christianity he was a part of from the beginning is greatly fractured and on the verge, if not already in a state of Apostasy. He would wonder why a Roman Pope takes issue with traditional Latin mass, and traditional Church teaching that at his time, much of it would simply be what Jesus and the Apostles taught them from the beginning.
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  442.  @nullvoid3545  - They do, it's basically volume and graphical controls. Been in computers and all sorts of AV software for decades - the basic track and mixer setup for audio, and the video board equivalent. All I'm saying is I'm glad Pipewire currently does not force you to have to use the node system, which is what overcomplicated JACK and some of the software dependent on those nodes being wired up just right to get sound to work at all - which ought to function without any special virtual wiring in the first place.
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  443.  @nullvoid3545  - To me, that would be an absolute nightmare if you had to somehow, figure out how to adjust video nodes with a black screen in front of you, simply because Pipewire wasn't configured to actually show a screen like any basic desktop graphical device is expected to do as one of it's most basic functions.
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  444.  @nullvoid3545  - It's why I still distro hop a bit, even though I'm pretty happy with Mabox at the moment. I've actually gone nearly a month on it without switching. That's the longest so far out of any other distro I've tried.
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  445. I still like how the ugliest Canadian just looks like the rest of the Canadians. 😏
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  446.  @mwdiers  - They're already starting to abandon it. IBM/REHL doesn't particularly follow it. Just as the leftist mind virus has redefined 'inclusive' to mean including people until they decide not to, one of the GPL's core concepts of respect the freedom of others appears to be getting redefined by the woke mind virus as respect the freedom of others until they decide not to. How is Linus going to be able to do anything when he's agreeing with the people that are taking this attitude and pushing everyone out of Linux that don't follow lock step with the woke left? He pretty much already is one of them. Regardless Linux or licencing, the Linux Foundation puts very little of interest in the kernel, which should be their prime reason for existing. So I wouldn't plan on Linux being around in 5 to 10 years if things continue to progress the way they are.
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  447. Go woke, go broke. I can't claim Square for getting rid of the garbage.
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  448. ​ @trembledust6819  - That sill does not mean you can fire whoever, whenever. It still depends on the contract, and there are many people that have fought back and won lawsuits against at will employers. It's like pretending no fault divorce means you can hook up and marry someone and later divorce them without having to deal with all the 'who gets what' mess in the aftermath of the agreement to get divorced. Also, if you try to fire someone because their are about to take you up on criminal charges, well, they're probably already on their way out, for who would want to work for a shady company? Not to mention, if it's criminal enough, it might just take down the entire company, which means, for the employers, something worse than being fired.
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  449.  @--_DJ_--  - This company is apparently not one of the smart ones.
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  450.  @--_DJ_--  - Yes. She was smart enough to record what went down, so you don't even have to take her word for it. You can watch or listen to the recording. Thus it's a matter of the merits of the recording. The video doesn't appear doctored or edited, and you could always match it up with the zoom call on the company's end. As far as I'm concerned this should be standard for all fires and hires these days. Companies can rip us of our privacy, only fair that we can rip them of theirs, especially when it comes to assessing the merits of a contract for hire, and the reasons for ending it. It's about accountability all around. No more letting shady company practices hide in the shadows. They need to be upfront on why and how they hire, as well as their reasons for letting people go.
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  451.  @dattape2828  - then tell me, what does it mean?
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  452.  @trembledust6819  - By the fact that it is common is the very reason it went viral. Anyone that's been fired can empathize with her. The poor performance is a cop out, considering she hasn't worked there that long, which is why HR would have been better off saying that the woman was right, it was because of downsizing and needing to do layoffs. It sucks, but it would have been a much more understandable thing to say, and wouldn't have led to all the rest of the drama. For anyone in her position would want to defend themselves, whether they actually do or not. Thus, HR screwed up what should have been a simple answer of yes, you were laid off, and we are sorry we had to let you go. At that point, they might add about trying back in 6 months. That would have been much more proper. The point is, by stating poor performance, it's as if to say 'with cause', and if there is a cause, she is entitled to know what that cause is. Generally, this is going to be the meeting where they ask the employee about a situation, and listen to their side of the story first - and yes, this is often written down by HR, and, if applicable, a union rep is present. Some may decide to lawyer up. And these are rights you have if a company tries to fire you with cause. You have every right to defend yourself with regards to allegations. And it can come about that they can't fire you, or otherwise the employee can sue for wrongful termination. And no, I'm not going to get into case details. We all have Google and search engines to find that info. Plus, this is a YouTube comments section, not some legitimate debate forum. So debate rules don't apply. Good luck googling what you want to know.
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  453.  @trembledust6819  - At will and term employment function fairly similar. Can say it's apples and oranges, but they are both fruits that you can compare and contrast all you like, and find similarities and differences in them both. At will may simplify the termination a little, but there are limits to that authority, particularly in what constitutes a legitimate and illegitimate termination. The point still remains is that, like a no fault divorce, at will hiring wants it to be easier to squirm out of a hire by being able to claim easy termination. The reality is very few terminations are ever easy.
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  454.  @yourcrazybear  - A smart company, if they are downsizing, would just say so, and let the employee know it was for that reason, rather than to make up BS about performance, especially considering new hires are likely to have little to no performance data to make an accurate assessment. But they are, unfortunately the ones most susceptible to layoff when a company miscalculated the workforce they need compared the the funds and other resources they have to handle a larger workforce. So yeah, it sucks that new hires that have yet to get their feet in the water are let off due to the poor calculations of the company on how many people they need to hire. The person or team that screwed up those calculations ought to be held accountable.
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  455.  @mikeguilmette776  - If I saw an application from your company, I wouldn't even bother applying, because you made it clear on here what sort of a donkey you are. No one wants to work with a boss like you, which is why you'll always be a middle management hack slogging along at the bare minimum they can legally pay a salaried manager. But that's probably assuming too much, since you're probably just a two-bit lackey pretending to be a boss when no one at your job would ever think of making you a manager with your crappy attitude.
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  456. Play the stupid race game, win propagandist network of the year, if it's dirt on Republicans, otherwise you get get ignored or banned if you bring up the woke sins of the Dems.
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  457. They release it now because they want to rewrite history with their social Marxist critical race theory hatred of white people.
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  458. It would be funny if he suggested Trump just to troll the toxic people. 😏👍
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  459. @MrLuffy9131  -You mean the lap dog of the establishment? What, is it three times that he's gained considerable support, only to bow out and immediately support the DNC establishment's chosen one? Why would you want to remember him?
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  460. Both Vivek and Elon got it wrong. Plus 'winning' doesn't look like making American workers compete with outsourcing, or bringing in cheap and/or slave labor. That goes against capitalist free market values. To 'go to war' over this is for Elon to essentially say he's no longer free speech and no different than the woke left. Yes the system is broken, and I'm glad that Elon Musk backpedaled after that FYITF remark. But he has to know, after saying it, he wasn't talking to an out of touch elitist like Bob Iger, he was talking to the American people. He basically was saying FYITF and that he was going to war with the American people. That's rather off-putting to say the least. But if he truly wants to start a war with the American people, he's going to hear over 300 million people tell him to GFY, FYITF, and probably call for Musk to be sent back to Africa if he can't respect the country any better than that. He could also see a lot of people leave X for Truth Social, or some other social media, and not just woke people going off to Mastadon, And for those that call this woke on the left, they might as well be considered RINO moderates that are no better than Liz Cheney.
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  461. It's been more than a couple years. More like a couple decades that the left has gone increasingly more toxic toward men.
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  462. McDonald's lis bug burgers.
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  463. Not really that simple. There's many ways of trying not to hate someone still gets interpreted as hate. Plus, I don't see anyone advocating to hate woke. Just a lot of frustration over how woke people seem to do everything they can to destroy us.
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  464. That's funny considering that, in the US, the biggest joke used to be Japanese tourists taking pictures of every single thing they can with Kodak cameras. 😏
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  465. What was wrong with Larry Elders? That was a cheap shot, especially considering the off the wall character assassination of calling a black man the black face of white supremacy. Sorry, but you all went RHINO p3do Lincoln Project Romney worshiping fake Republican there.
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  466.  @noway905  - That's another problem. Not just with YT, but how a lot businesses and corporations can get away with it through their contracts and/or ToS. A business contract or ToS that nullifies free speech, and thus nullifies the 1st Amendment ought to be considered a contract or ToS that is null and void, and thus illegal to enforce.
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  467. San Fran's disease, and ultimately that infecting the West, began with Marx, and was spread from out of Frankfurt in the universities and social engineer activists like Saul Alynsky, who wrote the SJW manual 'Rule for Radicals' and dedicated it to Satan.
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  468. There's equivalent of RINOs in the UK conservative party?
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  469. Never liked GTA. It glorifies thug life, and this is a huge part of the problem of modern life. I
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  470. The group of people that reject Christianity will claim Trump winning an absolute evil? Sorry, but their mental instability has been shown from finding nothing wrong with having drag queen strippers and hookers reading to children at libraries. We had 10 years to realize their insanity, and all that's happened is the DNC exploiting it for power.
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  471. There's just tons of older games that are way better, regardless if they don't have the graphics you have today. Graphics does not make a game. Making a game that is playable and fun is essential. Sure a story can be nice. But, with the stories they try to push, it's not making the games appealing any more.
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  472. So apparently YouTube is living up to the trope that it's only for showing silly cat videos. Yet there may be a time when even those are too spicy for YouTube. 😏👍
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  473.  @vf1923  - I understand somewhat, in as much as it's difference of politics. A good number of workers are conservative leaning, and unions are most often liberal. The function of a union is mostly apolitical, in as much as the goal is to represent workers for workplace rights and working for a fair deal on the contract. It's the closest we have to a left-right dichotomy halfway functioning together, often a lot better than our so-called political representatives where our actual cares and concerns wind up getting swallowed up by the swamp. With a decent union, there might be grumbling about politics, but we can respect and appreciate when a union rep comes to bat for us, helping to work out individual concerns as well as helping get us decent work contracts.
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  474. Linden Lab has done things best because they hold the bank on their virtual currency, and they havre their main marketplace. Plus, in world stores have to pay for virtual land rental and/or ad space that goes to paying land rental. Thus why Second Life has thrived as the longest running virtual economy on the internet.
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  475. Everything good that WOTC gets is ruined.
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  476. Sorry, but guns don't shoot themselves. That's not blaming the victim, but logical fact. To argue from doubt is not a terrible thing, but a check and balance. If you can't question or doubt something, you can't be certain of its veracity, or lack thereof. If flat earth was never questioned or challenged, we may never have come to believe in a round, or global earth. You have to challenge, or bring doubt to an idea like flat earth to change people's minds.
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  477. @AnDyH79  - most women don't want to be toxic in their relationship with men. Women that identify as feminist get a hard pass from most guys. When talking most guys, I'm not talking the barefoot and pregnant, or woman's place is in the kitchen, but guys that have no qualms about women going to work, are perfectly fine with women voting, having their own space to play sports, serve in the military, and basically consider the sexes, male and female, as being equal. These women that don't want to be feminists see the movement as mostly man-haters, possibly lesbians, or just bitter old divorced ladies that want nothing to do with men. If a person is a woman that still likes guys, feminism just screams, "We're not for you!" And they do hate housewives, the more traditional woman, and pretty models that they constantly jeer as mean girls, regardless if it's true or not. In short, feminism carries a lot of baggage that both a lot of men and women are happy to do without.
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  478.  @dandare9055  - They would have been better off going back to the frogs belching out Budweiser. 😏👍
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  479. This is your classic Avril Lavigne 'Sk8er Boi' story. The girl kind of likes the 90's wannabe punk rock skater that also tries to look like a Eminem white boy rapper, but she marries the Ken doll man of her Barbie dreams, and is unhappy that he is so perfect. It's not even that the guy is even feminist, nor even 'woke' vanilla 'nice guy'. Her claim to be 'bored' with him is more about her. She doesn't think she measures up to his perceived perfection, and thinks she'd be happier if he wasn't such a good guy. But the problem is really her own neurosis, or anxiety that she doesn't measure up to him. She's 'bored' because she doesn't know how to deal with it, and uses an immature defense mechanism of blaming his supposed perfection for why she can't seem to be a better person, or at least as good as she believes he is. Saying she wants him to cheat on her is merely her way of lashing out at him being so perfect in her mind. But she doesn't really want him to do so. She just is frustrated that she can't figure out how to be a better person, or how to compare with him. So she might fantasize about some skater boi she used to know, or whatever 'bad boy' she once might of had a fling with when younger, and maybe that fantasy causes guilt, too. But, she can't describe this stuff any other way, so calls it being 'bored'.
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  480. I would have said psychology, but especially in the US, the lunatics took over the psyche ward a long time ago. 😏
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  481. Maybe he had side effects, or the so-called Delta Variant. 😏
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  482.  @Emancipatriot  - then why are we talking about switching from X11 to Wayland if they are so different? If X11 already does what people need to be done, and Wayland doesn't it wouldn't make sense to move to something that is inferior when it comes to the things they need done.
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  483. Are you always so premature? I feel for you. It's rough having that issue.
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  484.  @AnEagle  - Funny, because every distro I download comes with X-11 standard.
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  485.  @AnEagle  - Dual screens are a luxury, and never been a perfect setup. The only place they are 'standard' are with Wall Street, who want to embody money, and gamers that have more money than brains. But for the average user, and people not trying to go overkill on multitasking, a single display works just fine. And trust me, I've seen two decades of dual screen setups to know that they are pointless, and often are used by people that are very self important, pretentious asses.
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  486.  @rawrrrer  - What the hell are you talking about? Using something of what you seem to compile as logic, one could just as easily say Wayland diehards should not be near children, seeing how deviantly obsessed they are with things that are 15 years old. They must be p3dos! 🤡🤡🤡
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  487.  @AnEagle  - Yes, because people have PCs, which they use the external display for. It's very common to opt for using a PC with a PC display.
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  488.  @vaisakh_km  - Mabox, Manjaro, Ubuntu, LMDE, and Debiam are not all server distros. All of them I've used, and all of them installed with X-11.
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  489.  @GemmstoneA  - It's not an excuse, but fact that the jobs that use dual screens are niche, luxury jobs. Most times dual screens are used, it's just a gimmick. The DS was not popular because of dual screens, but because of the games. Half the time, all one screen showed was stats, that were mostly ignored, while focus was on the screen that had the action, the thing you do that constitutes playing a game. Multitasking is just a fancy way of saying you do distracted work. It's not 'progress' and lacks focus needed to get anything truly done, and not wind up with a bunch of errors or half baked nonsense.
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  490.  @absalomdraconis  - X-11 has been working just fine on Mabox. You sound like a shill piling on fake problems.
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  491.  @aqyx  - True. Lots of these 'problems' and 'bugs' they claim to have sound like what Linus of LTT got in trouble for by manufacturing them out of nowhere, or otherwise don't know or don't care that there's an easy fix. I mean at least pipewire tries to fix and adequately replaces pulse. It just seems like the Wayland brodies just want Wayland to replace X-11 simply because it's old, regardless how stable it's been for decades. If things go like last time they tried to push Wayland, it'll likely break things as it usually does, and all the distros will have to roll back to X-11, anyways. All the more reason to stick with X-11, and to get out some popcorn while watching the shills cope. 🍿 🍿 🍿
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  492. She can't be much of a superstar rapper if she got roped into this trash. 😏
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  493. What we're seeing with woke was the reaction/rebellion against religious evangelical Christian conservatism that was at its peak in the 80's under president Ronald Reagan. However, we ought to remember that evangelical conservativism was something that was in both the Democrat and Republican party. People forget that, Jim Jones of the Jonestown infamy, from which we get the phrase 'don't drink the kool-aid' due to the tragic mass 'exit' event, while he was a fundamentalist of the Pentecostal denomination, as he grew into cult leader, he rejected traditional Christianity and began promoting a form of anti-capitalism he called "Apostolic Socialism." Of course, like many cultists do, he started laying claims to his own divinity. When you look into the various woke organizations, you will find them riddled with communist, Marxist, and anti-capitolism groups, and even a few that claim some form of socialist Christianity or Christian liberation theology. All of it points back to wanting to radically revolutionize, or otherwise destroy 'imperial America' to create a more Marxist/communist sort of America. Democrats often scoff at this and pretend this aspect of the radical left does not exist. Yet, in 2020 alone, the radical left's so-called 'peaceful protests' resulted in the ransacking 200 American cities, up to $2 billion in property damage and at least 25 deaths. Yet, for all this domestic terrorism, companies and corporations pledged or contributed $82.9 billion to BLM movement and other extreme leftist movements. To put this into perspective, in 2022, the Ford Motor Company's profits were $23 billion. For being so anti-capitalist, they sure are getting a lot of capital.
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  494. Simple, you don't buy the games.
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  495. So... basically getting paid money to LARP on the gov dole. 😏
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  496. From a more traditionalist standpoint, the aspect here is more politically charged. In earlier times, things were more about the actions in the scandals that, in earlier terms would be considered 'buggery' or 'sodomy'. These would be things one would expect a priest to get defrocked, but, instead they did like the secular world did with problematic teachers, or how domestic disputes were handled by covering up, paying a blind eye, shuffling them off for another community to deal with, etc. Still kind of happens today, though politics are different,so the reasons for playing the same shuffle game are different, such as the case where a highs chool student identifying as female went into the hischool female bathroom and did things against the will of a biological female student. That student who identified as female was tossed off to another school where the same sort of incident as before happened to another biologically female student. Politics aside, most people would say if a person did such things against the will of another person, the person that did such actions should be charged and tried appropriately under criminal law. But, because of the politics, people don't want to touch it, lest they be labeled some sort of 'istaphobe'. In prior times, it was keeping things as private, domestic matters. But now, with things out in the open, people cover more for their politics. Even among traditionalists, we've had bad leaders and priests that got cover because people couldn't believe said person would so such things because, what was seen in public was them doing God's work, or otherwise showing as a face of a holy person. The scandal with Church Militant is a major example of it, and it's still hard to believe a person that went so hard in the fight against priests and Bishops doing bad things would himself be doing similar bad things behind the scenes. It may have been something taken out of proportion, but it could just be trying to look for a benefit of the doubt where there's none to give, which then becomes hopeful, wishful thinking. But that's just taking it from the angle of actual actions of abuse, and a general consideration for the way things were and still wind up being done, and a few reasons why. Between the public and private matters of any community or group of people, there are certainly many twists and turns that make it impossible to simply explain or define, as much as people may want a 'simple truth', which is practically an oxymoron in and of itself. On the other aspect of priesthood, the barring based on sexuality is relatively recent, and reactionary to the priest abuse of the 1950's - 1970's among the Church in the US. At least that's part of it. However, there were scandals throughout the world, and while young boys were commonly preyed upon, there were cases the other way. But there is also the matter of the wording of the matter, and the implied meaning conveyed. It's like how conservatives opposed to a certain 'procedure' call themselves pro-life, and those at least wanting the 'procedure' to be legal in what they claim to be 'reproductive rights', or the 'right to choose', regardless the human developing in the womb neither did anything wrong, nor gets any choice in the matter of whether to live or die. People have this uncanny ability to define things, especially what is unsettling, in ways that can justify just about anything, regardless if it's justifiable or not. When it goes beyond an individual's private creed, and becomes that of a group or community, that creed becomes something like a cult and makes those beliefs more unshakeable because of having others around that believe similar, that share in the same creed. The secular equivalent is a shared ideology, which is what we get with politics. This is what we're up against with the sexuality issue in the Church, and even despite the attemp to keep people with deep seeded view of themselves attached to their sexuality, and thus the desires and actions thereof out of the priesthood, the creed of these alternate sexualities still entered the Church, and are adopted into the mix of political ideologies of the liberal, or leftist Catholics. Pope Francis belongs to that camp in a unique fashion that in Argentine politics is called Peronist. It's essentially the use of double speak, which can leave one confused as to what the Pope really stands for. In this, the actions speak louder than words, but yet the words effectively distract from the actions. Thus why traditionalists commonly believe by tossing out this leak of his naughty word and kind of weak apology, serves to distract from the supposed agenda to allow priests of alternate sexuaity to join the priesthood - the more liberal, the merrier. Otherwise, if it wasn't for politics, I would agree that simply having a certain orientation should not bar someone from the priesthood. But with that comes with all things that makes a Catholic priest a priest. That boils dow to the role of alter Christi, being 'another Christ' by way of leading the congregation in the formal prayer of the Mass, presenting one's congregational community with the Sacraments, and all and all giving one's life fully to God to help serve His people, His Body, the Church Militant along this path of struggle to keep to the things holy of God in a world that constantly mocks it and tries to tempt the faithful away from the faith. The priest is there to help lead us to Heaven, bring us closer to God, and help us to become holy saints in our own right, regardless if we become canonized as one of the greats, or unsung heroes that made it to the Beatific Vision. It's a tall order, but being a priest isn't just another job, it's a lifetime service and calling of God. Because of the politics, that vision of what a priest is supposed to be is blurred, and diminished greatly by those who push their politics over their calling from God.
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  497. The outfit stuff is kind of cat-ish drama. As far as I can tell, the worst thing she did was try to get other v-tubers to exclusively work with her. Even there, people are still playing games on Nintendo game consoles and giving Nintendo their money despite how they tried to make exclusivity agreements under the seal of quality era, which pretty much made it difficult, if not impossible for competition, since every third party was locked in with Nintendo. People still watch the WWE despite that they killed off the majority of other promos, and despite Vince McMahon's issues. Granted, Vince McMahon no longer runs or has ownership of the WWE, but the point is, brands and people can live on after the drama, especially dumb stuff over 'copying' outfits. It reminds me of on IMVU when there were cat-ish dev fights when they would DMCA each other even over the use of a color, as if you can copyright a color and claim exclusive rights to use that one color. It's some of the ridiculousness that comes up in business competition. Cheating with boyfriend aside, it really boils down to the usual business as usual garbage, because some people and companies just don't like competition and will do everything they can to get rid of competition. It's shrewd and ruthless, but is it really unexpected when money becomes the end-all, be-all of a person's existence? This is really the problem with 'business as usual' and how corporations exist only to maximize profits, even despite that a lot of times they wind up destroying their products and brands in the process of trying to squeeze that extra bit of profit. Maybe the reality is thee is something wrong with how we've come to do business and what has become the corporate business model and way of thinking.
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  498. No, they don't hear you, no they don't understand what you're saying. These people are barely human. Just corporate drones.
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  499. We need to be a candle in the darkness. Jesus called us to that.
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  500.  @mrconroy4672  - It's because they know people like their classic games, and they own these games. Granted, they didn't do well at preserving their old games, and ironically have likely had to rely on the rom hackers they sued to restore games they otherwise junked or have been rotting in some warehouse. Or, with third parties, they no longer exist. Some say that Nintendo doesn't want people playing their old games. The reality is they don't want people playing the roms and would rather find a way to make cash on them again. They are, after all a corporation. The bottom line is primarily what they care about.
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  501.  @mrconroy4672  - It's hard to say. Things aren't like they were in the bit war era, where each generation of consoles had demonstrably better graphics, sound, etc. The last graphics gimmick I remember being pushed was ray tracing. Granted, Second Life is making a big deal out of physically based rendering (PBR), which I think may also have to do with making 'real', albeit virtual mirrors, but by mimicking the real life physics that creates reflections. However it be, it's just additional layers that push graphics cards, or the integrated graphics of a processor. Most of it isn't necessary for a game, and tweaking all these things is part of why games take longer to make. Games have gone from extreme limitations in everything, to the extremes of virtually no limitations. Sure, you could make an 'Ultra-Crysis' game, needing 1 Tb of memory, 128 Gb of RAM, requiring the top of the line graphics card as minimum requirements to run it. But why? Games can run on far less specs and still look decent, and, most importantly, can be played by a larger audience than the few die hard gamers that can afford a $20,000+ gaming beast of a machine. In this economy, I don't even know how people can afford a game console costing more than $200. At the going price, migh as well shell out for a low to mid end laptop or desktop. They have just enough power for most games, even if not all the bells and whistles on newer games. Add on to that, you can even learn how to make games. Long story short, I don't see why Nintendo would want to make too huge a leap in a game console. The console itself doesn't make money. The games are what sell the system and make the money. Seeing how modern games are doing, it's probably best to hold off on producing a new console until the dust settles in the gaming industry and the economy rebounds.
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  502.  @mrconroy4672  - not sure what snagged in my reply, but I'll just more concisely say that, with the way the economy is going, and especially its hit on games and entertainment in general, it might be a while until a new console. Besides that, we're to a point that there aren't all that huge, or at least barely noticeable leaps in graphics. Ray tracing mainly was an old concept that took advantage of higher 64-bit capabilities, storage space, and RAM that wasn't available on the Amiga. One could make an 'Ultra-Crysis' game that tries to be the new benchmark, such as needing 1 Tb memory, 128 GB RAM, and 64 cores minimum to run. Few but those that can afford huge beastly Gamer PCs costing $20,000 would be able to play it. So yeah, I doubt there will be anything too fancy for consols for a while.
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  503. For 2016, there was some annoyed at the gender swap, because this has been an issue about reboots is that they can't respect the original content, and have to do crappy spins on it that never work. And it only re=enforces it when they then turn it into that people are haters for not liking the show or movie and blame it on misogyny or racism. It's like they do the gender/race swap just to have a fall out excuse that it was haters, and not that the show/movie sucked,
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  504. Ideal fictional utopias are the fault of Plato.
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  505. Another way of saying going woke has them going broke?
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  506. June 9th birthday here!
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  507. The left can't cope that Trump won because the left sucks.
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  508. @Joe Kaz - I thought Alec Baldwin was like, "I played a Nuremburg Lawyer, of course I'm competent to defend myself!" 😏
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  509. I liked the version of Cakewalk I first used to compose with, but I won't deny it was with its shortcomings. It had better notation then, possibly because of competing with Finale, and other notation based MIDI composition software at the time. However, as it developed into Sonar, and continues development with BandLab, it's shifted to being more of a DAW, with a more DJ, sampler sort of focus, with the notation being much simpler than it had in the late 90's to early 2000's. Though I might have still used it today, I've shifted to MuseScore, especially with the quality of their Muse Sounds for orchestra. I can also use soundfonts. Possibly VSTs, but I haven't explored that as much. But that's part of software is that it develops over the years, and it adapts to what it's users see as the key features. Cakewalk likewise adapted when it went from a music composition suite to a DAW. MuseSore retains it's music composition and arranger format because people use it for that purpose, including to print out sheet music. I can't really say if Emacs is for me because I don't understand what it does. I hear Vim, and I think, ok, coding and editing. Beyond that? Well you say the possibilities are endless. So what can it do for a musician or a music composer?
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  510.  @bruwyvn  - No one's gonna yank my yogurt. 😏
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  511.  @marsovac  - Using an example of something as subjective as movie reviews doesn't make your point of objectivity. It's like saying classically trained musicians can't play in successful rock bands, and yet the 80's had a whole lot of such classically trained musicians that did have successful careers in rock bands or highly respected studio musicians. I can imagine there's B-rate movie reviewers that prefer reviewing B-rates because they are a more raw movie making without the pretensions and BS politics of the A-list garbage that nobody watches, as we can see from the major drops in home viewer audience of the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc.
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  512.  @marsovac  The point wasn't about it being the norm, but that being classically trained doesn't mean being a classical snob that is unable to appreciate different genres. You missed my point by a mile. And yes, there's plenty of examples of people that are into rock music, were part of rock bands, that appreciated classical music. Most people aren't so one dimensional as you appear to pidgin hole them into being. And not all film critics love only the A-list. Many of them are into foreign films and even B-rates that may not ever win an Oscar, but are far more enjoyable to watch because they aren't pretentious drivel and don't pretend to be anything more than what you get out of them.
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  513.  @marsovac  - The point still shoots over you're head over a few small words that you are hung up on. At this point, you're just arguing for the sake of an argument. Goobye!
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  514.  @marsovac  - As for if Beethoven could have made good techno music, all you have to do is take any of his music and remix it, such as what Will Borders did with Beethoven's 5th Symphony. The Rad Man proves that Beethoven would have been awesome at Trance, as well with his remix of Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A major Opus 92 (2nd movement). We consider him good because he was, in many ways, truly the rock star of his age, and the influence of rock stars to come in future ages. John Lennon was nspired by Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”, so much so that the song “Because” (1969) with Yoko Ono, used the piano chords from the sonata. Billy Joel paid tribute to Beethoven in his song “Piano Man” (1984) from his album “An Innocent Man”. Joel has mentioned playing Beethoven’s music before his own compositions. The Beatles version of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” (1964) showcases their appreciation for classical music and Beethoven’s influence on rock and roll. Chuck Berry referenced Beethoven’s music with the desire for rhythm and blues to be respected as classical music.The Electric Light Orchestra's music often incorporated classical elements, including Beethoven’s symphonies, into their rock sound. The list can go on and on, and so can the remixes in all sorts of genres. Also, I have much respect for Larnell Lewis on Drumeo, who learns how to play the drums to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" after hearing it for the first time. He's mostly a jazz musician, and in the video states he rarely, if ever plays metal. Yet, in the video, you can watch as he takes notes, and analyzes how the drums are being utilized in the song, and when he comes around to playing it, plays through it perfectly. That said, it is a disproof of you're poorly thought out idea that you can't be critical, or make a technical analysis of something you're not familiar with. It is precisely because of Larnell's technical understanding in jazz that he can take what he knows there and incorporate it in how to assess the techniques used in metal. You can do the similar with film without being familiar with the genre, or not liking it. You can still critique a movie from a genre you're not familiar with, or don't like, simply based on knowledge of film studies. But even without that, films are about story telling, which means if you are an avid reader, maybe have taken courses or are familiar with reviewing books, you can also review and critique movies. Albeit, most book readers have a bias for the books vs movie version of books, which comes from changes that are made in the process of making the movie. Things are left out, of characters are changed from how they are in the book, and if you come from reading the book first, there are going to be things that will be disappointing when it comes to how the movie does things as opposed to the way the book did them. But you can still appreciate, if not at least point out the technical aspects of the nature of the storytelling done in the film, and maybe possibly pick up on other aspects of cinema that maybe are accurate presentations of themes, landscapes, and background of the story. It's having the basic set of tools that make it possible to cross over from one genre, or even a different format, between music to film to written literature, which makes for a true critique that can either appreciate what he's critiquing, or at least have the technical tools to be able to state what he does not like about something of a given genre or format. For instance, 'to provide color' has meaning of reference in various forms of art, be it the literal color choices made by a painter, and how they may contrast to the pallet of colors (or lack thereof) used thus far. Or it can mean in music harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic color, such as using an alternative chord structure from the normal triad, changing up the cadence of the drums, or other rhythmic elements of a musical piece, and the particular way a melody is interpreted, or improvised upon. There's also use of dynamics and tempo, and more modern aspects of using an equalizer and compression to alter or highlight sounds. Even with films you have the use of pre-defined color schemes, such as triadic colors, to create a specific visual tone, which sounds very similar to the use of chords in music. Visually, it's similar to how the painter uses color on the still frame of a canvas. Likewise may a literary author use a color scheme in how they visualize the particular scene currently taking place in the book, such as down by the clear blue lake that mirrors the sky above, surrounded by the evergreen sentinels of the forest. Heck, even WWE wrestling talks of adding color when they want to draw blood for additional pop from the audience. Diverse genres and forms of art/entertainment, and yet they all can easily be critiqued objectively without a huge amount of knowledge, just by knowing the ways in which art/entertainment has these overlapping theory of concepts and ideas.
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  515. And yes, Cheney is a war monger. You can talk about perspective all you want, but the basic definition of a warmonger is one who advocates or attempts to stir up war. Cheney exemplifies that definition that his picture might as well be right there by the definition. Doesn't matter if he likes war, he still stirs it up and pushes for it, regardless.
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  516. Interesting how those pushing Code of Conduct have the worst conduct ever.
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  517.  @b4sically26  - yeah, part of why I think it can open a door to hackers.
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  518.  @Lampe2020  - Skype is getting old, buggy and unreliable, not to mention used far too often by THOTs and their SIMPs.
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  519.  @b4sically26  - Screenshare is one of the first things hackers try to get. Apparently you haven't watched the videos where the hacker gets hacked from a guy who calls up the bogus customer service numbers that pop up and claim your system's been compromised. My favorite one was when Win 3.11 was used in the virtual machine, and when screen shared with 'customer service', the hackers were like, "What the heck is that? That's not Windows!"
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  520.  @b4sically26  - Not that I can't read, but historically, popups have always been suspect of installing viruses. Has nothing to do with literacy, but not seeing your logic regarding popups. It's one of the things that, for the longest time, the best practice advice has been to disable popups because they are considered a security risk. Not to mention one of the most annoying ad gimmicks the internet ever created.
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  521. They forget that most of what makes Thor is Loki. Loki is like Joker is for Batman. But, outside a TV series, you can't really do a Thor v. Loki movie, save maybe once a decade. Maybe a trilogy if you have a story ark you can build up and end in three movies. But even there, a trilogy is roughly a generational film, like LOTR, with the books, the animated movies, and the live action trilogies comprising fans across nearly a century and three modern human generations - Boomers, Gen-X, and Millennials. Maybe Gen Z is ready for Hobbits, or maybe they are still trying to figure out who they are, after the past three generations have confused them to the point that they hardly know what gender they are. So who knows what the new generation even wants, or if they would rather be left alone now.
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  522. For the most part, Christians that didn't believe the Earth as round were among the illiterate and uneducated. Or, they took too literal things like the four corners. However, the circle is interpreted by many Christians as the world being round. However, early pagans did have a view of flat earth. After all, the cosmology described in the Prose Edda assumes a flat Earth. Aristotle even claimed the earth flat, so can't jest say it was a Christian thing, and as per Aristotle, we can't deny that the concept held sway in academics for quite some time. Even today, people will still deny the earth being round, despite having the best evidence from pictures from space.
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  523. Though more on the conservative side, I did find this humorous. Though I definitely would not consider this 'officially' conservative. You don't even have to be Christian to be conservative. However, mixed in with traditional nuclear family values that are mostly talked about by Christians, with some secularists stating their cases as well, by and large, Christianity and conservatism tend to run parallel. But for classic, non-Christian conservatism, I'd consider Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero to be the best examples. You get a more modern version in St. Thomas More, who was known as the man for all seasons, who kind of runs in the sort of moderate conservative lineage that more current conservatives might consider RINO or cuckservative, yet he kind of proved himself by standing beside his principles, that he would not bow down to King Henry VIII, who considered it treason if one did not denounce the Catholic Church and accept him as head of the Church in England. Anyways, you might like G.K. Chesterton, who once said, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." However, he also said elsewhere, "He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." 😸
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  524. Their 'holiday campaign'. Just let that set in...
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  525. FB doesn't have billions in it. There are probably about that many with free Facebook pages, but probably at best 3% of them on Meta.
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  526. I doubt it's about lowering female objectivity, but rather because of the agenda to de-feminize women characters to make it easier to blend the genders and make distinctions meaningless. At the same time, they are reducing the muscular men to reduce masculinity for this same gender-less, androgynous agenda in order to make distinction of men and women being purely a matter of fashion and cosmetics.
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  527. Dan Johnston - You obviously don't understand that if your intent is to shoot to kill, you don't do it with a spray of bullets. Instead, you take your time to aim at your target and take them down with one shot. That's why most thugs prefer handguns, and take out their targets up close. Only fools that don't know how to use a gun would use full or semi auto in a spray and pray manner. There's far more chance of the target they are shooting to get away.
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  528. Tim, we had that at the turn of the 20th century. It was called the Bull Moose party, and it was formed by Theodore Roosevelt, among the most popular Republican presidents of all time, save next to Abraham Lincoln. What happened with that? Woodrow Wilson and segregation. Granted, Biden is basically Woodrow Wilson 2.0, but yes, we need to support those like Rand Paul and those that are willing to stand up to the swamp.
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  529. The main issue I have with KDE is the wallet it keeps wanting to setup. It's also a pet peeve of mine about Brave, especially because it's a kind of pointless system.
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  530.  @terminalvelocity4858  - Yeah, KDE is kind of why I moved away from Mint. Sure, it looks nice and like Windows, but that can also be a drawback. Functionally, it's mostly ok, though Mabox and Openbox somehow hit it right for me. Still has it's quirks, but many of them are common enough on any Linux distro. For instance, it would be nice to have an uninstaller that can take care of the externals so you don't have to hunt them down in the tree and root folders. Also, need to figure out the keys, and if there's a way to switch them off when a program running on Wine needs to use them. It seems like it should since it works with native Linux applications.... mostly.
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  531. They still have a Christian edition, or 'spin'.
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  532. The original metaverse: https://youtu.be/ZRAF2KSm6GQ
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  533. You have to remember, these kids that suddenly realize that Java is owned by Oracle likely weren't born yet when Oracle obtained Java.
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  534. This was by far not the world I wanted.
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  535. Seriously, for old-timers, the best thing about Linux is that if's as stable as XP used to be, but with none of of the garbage that makes Windows suck.
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  536. By 'gaming', they must mean those indie python games developed by the LBGTQ+ that are really only interactive one dimensional stories that only allow choices that these activists want you to make.
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  537. Free market is antiquated by at least a few hundred years. Appeal to novelty is a fallacy for a reason.
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  538. I love tiling on Garuda with Hyprland. Mabox is still my main distro, but I wind up more often than not on Garuda, thanks to Hyprland.
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  539. It's like the mean popular girls, where the 25% of girls trying to suck up to them to be popular too think they are funny and cool, but the 75% of the rest of the school thinks they are stuck up mean bitches. 😏
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  540.  @Bonk13b  - Well, like scientology, it can take some LSD to make sense of LDS. 😏
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  541. It's not a shock, but I'm not watching this nonsense. Cultural appropriation was told to us for decades to be wrong. Apparently woke lefties can do whatever, and I'm not down with that BS.
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  542. All goes to show the propaganda is strong. Yet to think they are more fearful of being considered right wing bigots than whether their kids are getting groomed, or worse, sexually molested by their teachers and/or school admin... well to call that sad is beyond an understatement.
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  543.  @badmf7551  - Yeah, they edited out the Balenciaga bondage bear hug part. 😏👍
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  544.  @CynHicks  - Faith's Law bans all forms of grooming and boosts protections for abuse survivors. Gov. JB Pritkzer signed it into law Friday amid rampant sex abuse allegations at Marine Leadership Academy.
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  545. @The Bunkerologist - or, you could try not to be as stupid as the left and actually read the laws that are and were on the books already regarding child grooming and sexual exploitation of minors. What this school did is illegal, there's no excuse or defense before the law for them.
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  546. So a supposed 75% of people want the Senate to provide witnesses is not pushing for populism on the left? The House failed to do their job, had no real case, and return to their usual mode of being crybabies because they didn't get their way.
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  547. Elon Musk will turn the tide. 😉👍
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  548. The flu has a 10% fatality, the China virus has a 4% fatality, That's looking at the apples to apples results. As of estimated results, WHO reported the 0.1% estimated, unverified fatality, which the estimate for the China virus was N/A. People reinfect each other with the flu, but we don't shut down the world because people have the flu, despite that the flu annually kills people up to tens of thousands to several million.
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  549. Yeah, and the gov blames it on small businesses and individuals that had nothing to do with gov and corpo f-ups. 🤦‍♂️
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  550. Just circlejerking around the real problem that THOTs on Twitter may be pushing the boundaries of prostitution, even sexual exploitation of minors.
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  551. Who remembers when 8 Mb, expandable to 32 Mb ram was a big deal? 😏👌
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  552. All you need these days for the Russian Sleep Experiment is meth and Monsters.
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  553. Tax payers pay a good chunk of the money for those stadiums, we could tell them to get off our property and find somewhere else to play.
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  554. What, I get a like for stating the facts that the dems not only doctored evidence, they stole the election, use the MSM as free propaganda, incited riots and fomented hatred, demoralized the nation, as among the numerous evils of liberals, you delete the post?
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  555. Leftists have been telling on themselves through DEI. They basically were saying to be a true leftist (TM) corporations have to fail, go broke, and live in race and gender baiting misery.
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  556.  @guccifer764  as for Giuliani and his involvement, I'll let Guiliani explain it, since he's the one being accused for being an illegitimate channel, then he ought to be able to make the explanation why he was ok in doing what he did. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/rudy_giuliani_im_involved_with_ukraine_because_fbi_wouldnt_take_the_case_of_bidens_corruption.html
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  557. The left, because of their platform supporting abortion and Planned Parenthood, technically makes them the party of death and intrinsic evil. The right, in contrast is the party of stupid. Trump is among a few Republicans willing to fight the left until every last avenue has been taken. Even then, Trump is not going quietly. It may come down to Biden Harris tanking so badly for four years that people will beg for Trump to run again in 2024, or someone like him. Most of the Trump family can't run due to technicalities on citizenship, so who knows? Maybe Ted Cruz?
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  558. The one thing they have right is the problem is systemic. The universities churn these brainlet activists outn the governing authorities of education, as well as the political, are pushing these programs, and both school admins and teachers' unions are enforcing the teaching of the programs. At this point, it may be better to abolish the current public, and in a growing number of private schools, and home school.
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  559.  @williamxw09  - company paying legal fees is problematic in and of itself. Do you think the lawyers that work for the company that wants to sue or put you in jail are going to fairly and adequately represent you? They probably should, but the point is you're not paying to retain them, they work for the company that is taking you to court.
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  560.  @forrof8185  - The problem there is there's a lot of Americans that go into teaching and nursing. Maybe there's a problem with the teacher programs that appear to be washing out quality teachers in order to gate keep for the particular left leaning SJW woke advocates that will go along with the social experiment programs that lead to all the insane policies in our schools and universities. They can also use the H1B to ensure that those that get those visas play by the woke left rules, or else get threatened to be deported. So yeah, I'd question the 'documented' shortages as much as I would question the whole calling illegals 'undocumented' immigrants. They use that language, and push those narratives for a reason. And that reason is likely not because they have in good faith tried to educate and hire qualified Americans as much as turned them away, or otherwise discouraged them because they didn't align with the leftist agenda they use as their roadblock.
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  561. I'll believe it if they put it in GIMP.
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  562. Honestly, if Nintendo put an official Android port/emulator in the App store, I'd pay for that. Or, better yet, a service like Steam where the app has it's own store with games that Nintendo made, were licensed from 3rd parties for their consoles and MSX, and were reasonable about the pricing, and/or had an option to verify past purchase of a hard or official virtual copy of the game. After all, consoles generally are not the money maker, the games created for the console are.
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  563. Anyone that doesn't want these tyranny clowns diddling kids is 'anti-trans'.
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  564.  Youtube Sucks ass  - The movie came out in 2006, based on a story around Corporal Joe Bauers, as US Army librarian that was put in suspended animation for 500 years. Even so, it's not so much a parody of today as it was regarding more specifically the early to mid 2000's, at the time the story was being written. Thus a lot of it parodies the Bush era policies and Bush era conservatives, because Hollywood loves pretending that the world can be simplified to liberals = smart people who believe in science, and conservatives = stupid, backward thinking barbarians. But I previously stated that it parodied late 90's to early 2000's because most of the cultural references were to things that became popular during the 90's, such as monster truck rallies, electrolyte infused sports drinks, etc. The jokes for that movie aren't relevant to today, even though they might still apply to the adults today that were kids or young adults at the time this movie came out. Sure, you could apply it to Tim and crew, in that capacity of being an antiquated cultural reference from 15 years ago, but the story itself didn't predict the rise of woke coming from a predominantly left of center origin because left of center was supposed to be the smart people that died off, leaving the stupid conservative people to survive because they bred like bunnies. That didn't happen. Although we'd have to wait 485 more years to find out how accurate the movie really was. But currently, it appears the left is in regression, even while pretending they have science on their side. Currently, corporations are leaning more left and investing in woke for some strange reason that doesn't make sense if all they cared about were profits.
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  565. May not be popular takes, but... 1. You can like the old Cosby Show, Fat Albert, etc. without liking Bill Cosby. Yes, among other, and worse things, Cosby the actor was a hypocrite, and irl tried to play off being a respected TV dad that he forgot he's done stuff real dads should never do. I also am not avoiding comedian Cosby because, in his pre-TV dad days, he was much more up front of who he was, joking about certain things that that made it clear he at least knew about, if not partook in those bad things that got him in trouble. But for TV, it's the show is a family sitcom, and if you can separate the TV dad character from the actor, you can still enjoy the show, focusing on the characters and stories, remembering they are fiction, and their actors only represent them as characters in the story. The real life actors? Mileage may vary in whether they are nice people on and off the set, in character and out. 2. As social commentary, even being a bit prophetic of the times ahead, Seinfeld's ending was incredible. Maybe it could have been executed better, but who else was able to predict things like cancel culture and everyone having phones, gawking everyone else? This came out before Gawker was even a thing. Facebook and the concept of social credit/currency was close to a decade from being conceived. Even MySpace was yet to go online for a few years. Blowing up on national news was a big thing back then, and now is overshadowed by going viral online. Who would believe that people could get jailed for making jokes, even if they were in poor taste or over the misfortune of someone else? That was nearly two decades out from the whole 'pug salute' joke that did lead to a guy getting jailed. That so many things that were laughably ridiculous back when the finale aired have become reality is eerily fascinating. So, it's not a bad finale as much as being ahead of the reality that came to be.
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  566. If the government ever truly did shut down, we probably could get jobs, or simply do the work we need to do to survive without government interference.
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  567. Also, people think you need the government to step in buying emergencies. They tend to forget that, in most cases, the government caused the problem, and their solution rarely fixes anything. If the emergency is not made by the government, they still find ways to blame it on political opponents, keep people bickering on BS, and still not doing anything to solve the problem.
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  568. To be fair, Garfield has had a lot of voice actors, and not all of them sound the same. The original voice actor was Scott Beach from The Fantastic Funnies of 1980. He's not bad, though has that old folksy style cadence and tinge of southern/western drawl, and quite a bit more base than I'm used to. But then, I grew up with Lorenzo Music, as many of us did, between 1982 - 2001, so it's hard not thinking of him or Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, partly for how long they have been associated to our favorite fat cat, and partly for how much they sound alike. Jon Barnard, who had been doing the voice since 2004 is okay-ish, maybe, and Frank Welker, who has also done the voice since 2007, does alright. But it's really hard to beat Lorenzo Music. But I'd give Chris Pratt a pass. I can't believe he's 12 days younger than me! But seriously, there's no way he could have missed watching Garfield and Friends back in the day. If you listen closely, at least to what can be heard in the trailer, there is a hint of Lorenzo, with a bit of bravado signature of Pratt mixed in. It's not a terrible mix, and the 3D animation is pretty decent. At the end of the day, it's a family and kid's movie you can enjoy, not feel too embarrassed admiting to liking among friends and family, and comfortable letting your kids watch. That makes it a pretty rare gem among most kid to PG movies nowadays.
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  569. He still a bit in the cult. Still leans Marxist, just making his jabs at crony capitalism. He's still in the new age sort of stuff.
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  570. Sorry, but churches didn't start DEI. They got infiltrated by it, but they didn't start it. Marxism started it, and that's one of modern secularism's faults. Sure, I'll grant modernity started with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. But that was also agitated and infiltrated by the secular humanists, who were the proto French Enlightenment, proto Communists that started the whole 'stunning and brave' New World Order crap. Woke DEI is the continuation of that garbage.until we get to the end result of the destruction of humanity and civilization as we know it, both east and west.
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  571. Although, even if it was, I have to admit IE was a good browser, key word 'was'. Granted, it's basically a Netscape clone. Netscape arguably was the best of the best of the early browsers, and arguably the first of its kind. But that's how Windows rolled back then, possibly still today, in if they are going to kill an original with a clone, they're going to make the best clone they can. 😏
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  572. It's no use talking to an Inslee bot. For all we know, if he's not a tool, then maybe he's Inslee's alt, trolling people because he's that much of a jackass.
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  573. The 'female bishop' proves why lefty Christians ought to be considered heretics at best.
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  574. I still don't get why they can't come up with their own stuff, rather than ruin decades old franchises.
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  575. I think the case would be difficult for Nintendo, if they came down to harm. This person has no viewers, which is odd in and of itself. How this person even got on their radar is suspect. It's almost as if this is a plant in order to make a lawsuit to set precedence against emulators. For very few even know of the defendant, and viewership doesn't make sense.
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  576. .😹😹😹
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  577. That's why I switched from Firefox to Brave after learning they pushed Brendon Eich out over his donation to support Proposition 8 in 2008. I would say he was close to the first of examples of woke doxxing to happen as they dug up knowledge of his donation in 2012, about four years after. Regardless, to be forced out over that is ridiculous. But it was the turning point as to when I can remember wokeness starting to flex its ability to oust people that they disagree with. There were also some other crazy things going on in the colleges, with some of the first safe spaces being noticed to certain prestigious ivy league colleges trying to have black masses, claiming they would be 'cultural enrichment'.
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  578. About the one positive thing of the alt right is that they were up front that their trolling was being in it for the shills. 😏
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  579. Apple and Microsoft has gotten their wrists slapped throughout the years, and there are plenty of scam companies in the US that get sued.
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  580. Red Hat doesn't which means Fedora and its variants likely has Spyware. If you use Firefox, they use Mozilla's telemetry, which is not that different from Microsoft's telemetry. Add onto that some really cringy things where various Linux OSes and foundations are saying certain people are not welcome to use Linux, and foundations banning people over tweets or other things they dig up from over 10 years ago, not to mention illegal racial quota hiring practices. So no, Linux is not immune from insane woke politics and mainstream corporate shenanigans. If anything, they get away with more by being able to fly under the radar as the 'little guy'.
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  581. Oh yeah, Twitter was 'forced' to do something they wanted to do anyways. 😏👍
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  582. Mobile apps are overrated. Plus they take up unnecessary space on screen and in memory. Just make sure Parler works on both desktop and mobile browsers. I get tired of this obsession people have with apps, especially for stuff that is basically a limited web browser. I never use the Minds app. It was so clunky and full of glitches. So much easier just to use Brave browser and do what I need to do on the website.
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  583. Basically admission that Homeland Security has been a worthless government agency since it first began. 😏👍
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  584. Oh come on, spread sheets have been around long since before Microsoft, even before MSDOS. As it is VisiCalc, released on October 17, 1979, for the Apple II computer, is considered the first. So blame Steve Jobs. 😝
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  585. Sadly, Jim Carrey went woke and thinks he can identify if someone may be a closeted trans.
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  586. Seriously? What has your friend Eric been doing to have Russians wanting to hack his XP computer? The only reason I could see some curiosity of XP is because it might be virtually the universal OS of world gov, and likely hackers or would-be hackers. Beyond that, I would be surprised if Win 3.11 - 98 has that many issues simply because they're so ancient. Plus, certrusted private servers, such as the old internet groups are likely to be more secure because of not being on the main internet. Not saying they aren't hackable, but it's kind off a niche nostalgia hobby thing where you get random copies of Doom or a myriad of AltaVista style websites that open with some old pop MIDI song blasting out one's speakers. But who knows? Maybe that's how some secret agency dog whistles or cat calls out super secret encrypted information. 😏
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  587. As for blaming the internet, I see it more as the internet is more of a snapshot as to where we are as a society. People have done stupid stuff for a long time. We could blame shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, or more recently Fail Army. Gawker could be among the list, saved for they were successfully sued out of business, never mind their attempted comeback. Yet, people were doing stupid pranks and stunts long before the camera was accessible to most people. Never mind the slapstick of the Three Stooges, or Charlie Chapman, who was among the first to disavow their Nazi related comedy content. I personally don't find what this guy and his crew did as funny, but most pranks are cheesy/stupid setups that, in the back of my mind, I hope backfires on the pranksters. So yeah, I love when the Roadrunner speeds past a bundle of dynamite that's set to go off, but doesn't until Coyote goes to investigate what went wrong. So yeah, unless what causes it to happen is a tragic murder! I'll laugh when the guy in the video messes around with the wrong person and his prank backfires on him, especially if he finally serves jail time. The one thing I'm not going to do is blame the internet. The internet wasn't around to document that. If anything, the internet makes it easier to bust criminals that are stupid enough to film and upload their crimes. Or, with more and more security cameras with live streams, it makes it that much harder to deny a crime's existence, at least for as long as it remains accessible on the internet. If anything, the things law enforcement step in to intervene on as a crime tells you a lot about the state of both politics and law enforcement. Even in the example of the person and his crew talked about in the video. The only time he got serious backlash was when he targeted Jewish people. Otherwise, his threats and harassment were not even a slap on the wrist when the targets were white people, even regardless if they were women. That's a document of piss poor, politically correct driven law enforcement, that basically says white people don't matter, you can do whatever you want to them, even threaten to kill them. Hell, maybe white homicide is ignored because the police are perfectly fine with that as well. Who knows? But it's to that point where such questions aren't just a patter of 'far right' or 'white supremacist' conspiracy theories, but well documented realities that are being posted as 'pranks' that prove how far a black person can go when the target isn't a protected class, and this is done by an all black crew of their own free will.
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  588. Of course, they have to update it for a modern audience - one that no one has any clue who this audience is, just that it's not for us any more.
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  589. Simple answer is because the Left is telling any of us that were Dems to leave. So, tired of being abused by leftists, we went to the party that still has a few actual men, minus the RINOs, who might as well be Democrats.
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  590. Without his dad there, Rand is one of the very few honest people left in politics.
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  591. Really, this is gaming on the level of casinos. Only thing is, casinos do have a chance for a payout, even though, in the end, the house always wins. Because this is akin to gambling, games that do this sort of micro transaction, or pay to play style, ought to be regulated like casinos/gambling. Should crack down on free to play micro-transactions that target kids under 18. However, simulations like Second Life are an example of micro-transactions that can be done in a better way. For one, it is an actual inworld economy where the people in the world can create their own products and put them up for sale on the Marketplace, as well as sell them in world, either at simulated malls, or at one's own store. People can also manage virtual land by buying a full sim and renting out parcels. The point being that it isn't just an economy to serve Linden Labs, who are kind of like the central bank, but one that the users of the game can participate in.
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  592. original metaverse: https://youtu.be/ZRAF2KSm6GQ
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  593. Whatever happened to prisons being dungeons that you could be starved or torchered to death? 🤔
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  594. That's the thing, condemning the opening event is good, but why not support the Christian athletes? If they take home the gold and give the greater glory to God, that can be a testament to God.
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  595. All these corporations also have ties with big government lefties as well as being partially owned by China, who very much have an invested interest in pushing cultural warfare to the verge of another US civil war.
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  596. Plato was an advocate of the gymnasium. RFK Jr's proving he's fit for the job, and not someone that's been in politics for 40 years with a record that makes calling Biden liar and thief just speaking reality.
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  597. The pay range for teachers in Arizona is $46,000 - $67,000 per year. With them both working, they are taking in between $92,000 - $134,000 per year. Unless they live in a mansion and live off fine dining, and drug out on crack and cocaine, I fail to see how they are unable to take care of basic necessities on dual income teacher salaries.
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  598. That's because the US gov is an overly pork barrow lubed machine that has no distinction between its ass and its head. 🤡🤡🤡
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  599. Bob Iger makes Jack Tramiel look like Santa Claus. 😏👍
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  600. There's still time to prevent a Biden presidency. Trump is still fighting to stop the steal. 😏
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  601. Absolutely hate that HR line of BS. That jargon is the worst ever and sounds the least human, and yet they are ironically called 'human resources'.
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  602. YT today takes down copywrited material. They also purge channels. The downfall for YouTube may come from other websites that take in the content creators YouTube has deplatformed, and these platforms do better at free speech, and create a better monetizing system that doesn't rely on the ads that no one wants to watch.
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  603.  @Ben.SK2346  - the fact you likely wouldn't give to charity anyways, even if they were volunteers or barely getting paid for their time putting up with hypocritical crankers like you.
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  604.  @Shinobubu  - OK Al Gore. 😏👍
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  605. @Mk V2  - I am am sure you are an overreacting U-tard commentor that doesn't know what he's talking about, and puts words into people's mouths to build a strawman to argue with. For I never said everyone in the 90's had a computer, nor does that even make sense as an indicator of computer literacy. Most people didn't own books when the Gutenburg press was invented, but availability and expanse of literacy is still attributed to it. The money companies like Microsoft and Apple put into schools that funded computer science rooms, and virtually put a computer in every classroom, was a boom in computer literacy and helped grow the demand for computers in the home. It also helped that computers were coming down in price and becoming more affordable by the mid to late 90s, making home computing more possible than it could have been in the 70's and 80's, when far less powerful computers cost way more than the entry level multimedia home PCs of the 90's. Add to that, with gaming consoles getting into the $300 - $500 range, those multimedia PCs, while maybe a few hundred extra, promised to do more than just play games.
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  606. Is it coincidence that the XZ backdoor vulnerability happened not long after Brodie's warning about malware Snaps?
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  607. I just switched to Arcolinux B with Berry desktop. Not just tiles, but tiles I can move and resize with keys! 😉👍
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  608. This is not the first subversion of a Catholic university. It started over 50 years ago with the Land of Lakes conference and statement.
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  609. Seriously, you're going to play the Jesus card on a dead president hot mic incident that happened over 50 years ago? May God have mercy on your propaganda opportunistic soul!
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  610. Sadly, this is most corporations. The 'noble lie' as they call it - a con to make one think they are a productive part of society, when all they are doing is maintaining the status quo of companies that put on the family friendly facade, but behind our backs, hate us, but they need to leech off us to labor for them to help them make money to gain the power they have. They disdain family life, despite that without middle class, it only leads to poorer and poorer people. and wealth hoarded by the rich. But if that wealth didn't mean anything any more, they would no longer have power.
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  611.  @vince8520  - that's become the same for all big companies, like Microsoft, Apple, pretty much any major corporation that grows only by swallowing up the competition. These companies also might as well be considered Chi-coms, because the only place they hold any real loyalty to is China. Why? Because any company that does business in China, they have to agree to partial ownership by the CCP. So you can blame offshoring for why we have a near globalist corporate world that's made up of once American companies that are now socialist communist lap dogs because they are addicted to cheap/slave labor.
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  612.  @likeorasgod  - If it was about performance, her manager would have said something. It was also during the holidays where hardly anyone makes sales because most people's money is going towards retail stuff. But hey, if they wanted to try and sell a bunch of stuff, they should have had product to sell on Black Friday at any major retail store. Even there, retail took a bit of a hit post COVID, as well as with the economy going all to crap. Which may be a good thing, in as much as the death rate of people getting mauled at a store while shopping on Black Friday went down. Really, the company wouldn't have been in the situation they were in if they were honest that they needed to lay her off because they hired too many people, possibly not expecting the down turn in the economy when they hired her. Granted, it still would be crappy, and the company still would look stupid for not realizing they couldn't take on more people, considering the economy's been tanking well since before Thanksgiving, but at least they would have been honest. Heck, I've had managers from previous jobs talk about how they would give me a good recommendation, or offered me another job elsewhere after layoffs, and they settled into a new management job elsewhere. That would have been a better way to handle things than making up some BS about performance, especially when they obviously don't have an record of poor performance to go off of.
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  613.  @ryanvacation7319  - Apple is a cult. They've been conned into believing that paying a higher price for less performance is a good thing. If anything, this shows exactly why we need to put an end to the loopholes for outsourcing. I'd say any and all 'American' companies that do business in China no longer be considered American companies, but instead owned by China and part of a hostile takeover of our country by cultural warfare. It may be a new time for 'Buy American' and to build up new businesses that are actually proud to be American companies, rather than the current corrupt crop that have nothing but disdain for America, and especially hate that they can't treat the American labor force like slave labor due to unions, labor laws, regulations, and contracts, that make the companies bound to have to treat employees like human beings.
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  614.  @markislivingdeliberately  - Yet the problem is, when she asked for a reason, they gave a reason. They said poor performance. They would have been better off to say they had to downsize, and unfortunately she was one of the people they needed to lay off. It's not so much like talking to a cop, because there are reasonable cops out there that, if you don't have a long list of speeding tickets or other moving violations, are likely to just let you off on a warning. I've had a cop pull me over for a bad tail light, and, they only gave me a warning because I said I was looking to get it fixed in the morning. Not only that, after getting pulled over, and trying to get my car to start, they helped me get it going again. So, as bad a rep as cops get, they are not all bad, and they can be much more human that many of these upper management HR people can often be. So I'd say they are worse than cops, because a cop doesn't necessarily have to give you a ticket or arrest you as long as you are cooperating. However, HR apparently has no power in these situations to pause firing or laying you off, and can only do the discharge. That lousy HR, especially when I have dealt with HR that will sit down and listen, and will choose whether or not it must be a disciplinary action, or whether there are other issues going on, like a lousy manager that screws up the work schedule, and thus may have more of a cause to be disciplined or fired than you do.
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  615.  @blaynestaleypro  A lot more people than you and your fake thumbs up to make you feel like you have a good opinion when all you are is a blowhard for the corpos. She'll be fine finding a job, or make her own way on her own. Jobs like the one you exclude her from are hopefully dying off in the next five to ten years, and better jobs, and better companies that actually give a crap about humanity will take their place.
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  616. ACLU been subverted and subverting for a long time.
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  617. In this economy, Dominos is a fine cuisine restaurant
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  618. There are a lot of the crime dramas that over the years defaulted to the racist neo-Nazi or past KKK member that had some skeletons in their back yard. Even after 9-11, that was the go-to for even terrorists, or the Russian mafia. Rarely has the bad guy been a Communist, unless they are ex-KBG. Even then, they're not so much spouting Marxist or Communist manifestos, but almost come off as a Russian version of MAGA.
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  619. Gladiators were probably similar to WWE style wrestling, in as much as the fights and battles may have been choreographed to some degree, and possibly there could have been fixed matches that may have helped push some gladiators to be 'made men' of their era. Things like blood, or a fight to the death may have been for say, prisoners that were to be executed, and thus a more no holds barred match, though who knows how they might of fixed things to ensure the executioner was likely to win? it would be somewhat like an extreme version of the Undertaker Hell in a Cell or Casket matches, of which some led to the retirement of wrestlers. Granted, 'retirement' for a gladiator could mean death in the arena. Yet, there have been WWE style wrestlers that died in the ring. Owen Hart is probably the most well known of such an incident.
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  620. Linux was a bit more elitist then. Because it wasn't easy to just install and get going out of the box, it was harder to sell. Mac OS and Win XP just worked, and that was fine for most of us. Vista may have brought a few over, but Win 8 - Win 11 has really seen the Microsoft experience take a nose dive. Apple has often been more hype than anything, but the way they have been against right to repair has turned off a fair amount of people. On the flip side, you can do just about whatever you want with Linux, and if one distro doesn't work for you, you can try another, or even create your own version of Linux from scratch.
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  621. We have a saying that the Devil can appear as an angel of light. We also have another that the path to Hell can come by good intentions. I don't understand why you think the age of a particular book of the Bible makes it wrong. Again, free market is not a new concept. The books you are the most against in the Bible are Old Testament, which are the Books the Jews hold as core to their religion. Your views on religion come across very convoluted.
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  622. Chriis Titus hasn't gotten pushed far enough to go the way of Lunduke, Jordan Peterson, and Dave Rubin... yet. The left is far more active in tyranny. The problem with the right is that there are spineless RINOs that don't know how to take a stand, or are in on it with the leftists and just want to keep the uniparty filled with swamp people. Hard to keep the pork barrow rolling is you have legislators in office that actually want to run the country and make it function, as opposed to keeping it dysfunctional, with people segregated and not seeing the shifting of hands to rob us blind.
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  623. For now we can fork projects. But what happens when they decide they don't want their projects forked, and thus attack at the very essence of OSS?
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  624.  @baronarcanus9111  - That's why I'd place the birth of woke around 2012, since that was when we started seeing LGBTQ+ flex their political muscle and go after their political enemies, as they did with Brendon Eich that got him cancelled from Firefox. Good fortune was that is we now have Brave.
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  625.  @baronarcanus9111  - Stallman doesn't do a lot of projects, anyways. He's mostly name recognition as a founder of GNU and Free Software Foundation. Not saying he hasn't done a lot, as his main contributions are the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, as well as writing all versions of the GNU General Public License. Considering these things, I doubt he really cares if people fork his projects, nor is he all that concerned about market shares.
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  626.  @baronarcanus9111  - Yeah, that goes against my creed, as I'm sure it does Lunduke's considering we share the same 10 Commandments, with the first being to have no other gods before us than the One true God.
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  627.  @jhgvvetyjj6589  - more importantly, it leaves a paper trail to the source, and if the group at the source decides they don't want you to fork their work, they may do whatever they can to make your life a living hell. You can argue all you want about it being opensource and free to fork, but w0k3 K4r3n 4$$h4t$ will be w0k3 K4r3n 4$$h4t$.
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  628. What's the difference between journalists and only fans? They're both 'pay to play'.
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  629.  @Hjaelteomslag  - You have to remember that Biden voters, and the idiots that helped him cheat to win the election are at the maturity level of toddlers.
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  630. So you caught on to the scam of gov. safety programs. After all, it isn't really about our safety as much as finding more ways to squeeze more money out of us to waste.
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  631. Although, on the other hand, it was humorous when William Shatner, as his character Denny Crane, essentially got swatted by some undercover sting that was cracking down on gay prostitution in bathrooms. Only in those cases do liberals mock the BS of dog whistles and cryptic codes. 😏
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  632. If they cared about new creators they wouldn't make it near impossible to get found and get monetized.
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  633. What keeps Only Fans going is similar to what kept Epstein Island going.
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  634. Ironman already had his origin story played out in the 2000's, so there's no need for one. Same with the Hulk.
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  635. You know, crazy idea is, why not make a whole new franchise with new characters rather than rehash old characters in new skins?
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  636. The leftist trans have only showed themselves to be extremist groomers and terrorists. They bring hate to themselves. I'm sure the Unibomber was insane. Didn't make him any less a terrorist threat.
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  637. You'd basically have to only use Unix as a terminal, and even then, you'd still have a program that does more than one thing. 😏
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  638. Romney is the RINO that believes that a corporation is a person too.
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  639. If orcs were orange, the woke SJWs would see them as Trump. 😏
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  640. The JEM movie wasn't terrible, it just wasn't the JEM people were expecting. It was more like a generic band/singer blowing up and becoming successful, then dealing with the pitfalls of the music industry and a.lousy contract. On top of that, and the most controversial aspect was they asked fans of JEM to send in videos in a social media style talking about what they liked about JEM. This would have been fine, save that the producers were more than a little ambiguous about what they meant. Even there, it might not have backfired if they put out a story the fans liked, especially if it was closer to what they liked about the TV series instead, the movie tanked. Fans that sent videos were not happy with the with the editing of their videos into the movie. The fans felt it was false advertising, and didn't appreciate their videos appearing as if they were gushing over movie JEM when they were really were being passionate about tge TV series. That could be why it's hard to find the movie, since I believe there were some lawsuits over the false representation.
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  641. Don't cry for Argentina. A South American nation known for literal Nazis. They had their prime time During Peronist lifetime, they grumble and mope, for selection of the worst Pope of modern history.
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  642. EULA ToS Karens are among the worst and most stupid Karens out there. They are the retarded lap dogs of modern corporate con artist communist assholes.
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  643. Kermit the frog will succumb to his natural kek instincts like his cousin Pepe the frog. 😏👍
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  644. Ten years ago was when a lot of this cringe started, with safe spaces and black masses on college campuses, and these people screaming and having massive public tantrums.
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  645. It's going to kill legitimate pixel, computer artists. When a computer can make better artwork than an the artist, it takes away from humanity.
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  646. Even the oldest Gen Z is reaching mid to late twenties. I think there are already names being tossed about on what to call this up and coming generation.
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  647. Are there even enough people that have any interest to watch this movie today to even make any decent pay on residuals?
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  648. The flip side of deregulated abortion clinics is that they often have lower standards than most medical clinics. It's interesting those for gun control are all for regulations similar how you explain the regulations of abortion clinics, in that major retailers choose not to sell guns any more because of all the regulatory red tape. But yet, liberals practically want to give a free for all on abortions to the point that it's not even a joke to say they want post birth abortions to be legal. The lax standards for abortion clinics can make them no better than a back alley abortion. Or have you already forgotten about Gosnell? Not to mention there are more current cases of abuses by abortion clinics that get covered up because abortion is the sacred cow on the left, so they get a blind eye paid to them by liberal law makers, judges, and lawyers.
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  649. There could be 'doc in a box' where AI examines things and, based on their training, will give advice on how to take care of the symptoms. Really advanced AI might even be involved in surgery, but, we're not close to that sort of robotics/AI. Though how soon depends on the people working on it and how fast it progresses. It's possible poor people will be used in the early stages, possibly as a form of cheap, low quality surgery that is more affordable than an actual surgeon. Maybe used in the military for stitching up battle wounds on the spot. This is a concept that's been in sci-fi for decades, and apparently is starting to become science fact.
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  650. Sad that mainstream media is just as trashy and fake as tabloid rags like Enquire.
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  651. I did vote for Trump, but I do respect your opinions. That you can at least see why people voted for him only makes me respect and trust your opinion more because I can tell you're not a talking head for either side of the political spectrum.
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  652. Linux has enterprise, especially with RHEL, and thus the free variants, like Fedora. AlmaLinux, Asianux, ClearOS, Fermi Linux LTS, Miracle Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Flag Linux, Rocks Cluster Distribution, Rocky Linux, and Scientific Linux.
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  653. The thing is, most of these major companies, when they screw up big time, they expect it to eventually all blow away, and most people will forget why they were mad. Quite frankly, a lot of these companies for decades have considered their average consumer to be an idiot zombie consumer that does nothing but consume. They figure if they can put up anything in their commercials and it would still sell. They even think if they replaced their product with piss... oh wait a minute, that is pretty much Bud Lite already, so yeah, they pretty much think a lot of people will come back once they've forgotten what they were mad about, and if Bud Lite tosses up the usual pinup girl in a bikini comercial.
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  654. All Pipewire needs is a big 'Fix It!' button, and watch it take care of everything. 😉👍
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  655.  @leongay3190  - The Gameboy Pokémon games were definitely RPGs. I never got into them myself, but I can't deny their quality and replayability when both adults that grew up with them, up to modern kids all love the games. The Pokémon RPGs are up there in the ranks of the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games for a reason.
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  656. https://youtu.be/IfnJi7yLKgE
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  657. The Romans would also wonder, "If you have a standing army, how come you Europeans keep calling for this land across the sea called America to fight your wars and beg them for money for yor wars? You have more riches than we could dream, yet you can't fight and pay for your wars?"
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  658. I was trying out Garuda in both Hyprland and Qtile, but settled on Hyprland. Between them, as well as i3 and Sway, they are really similar, as expected with tiling managers. However, the curved corner was an aesthetic that helped sway me to Hyprland. But Qtile was a really close second, as it and Hyprland functionally were the most intuitive to me. Although Openbox on Maybox is still my main rig, Hyprland is winning me over. Openbox is a good transition from window to tiling management, and does have some great features.
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  659. Do you not remember 2004 when they did the same thing with Passion of the Christ? That was when Mel Gibson outed himself as a conservative and Christian, so Hollywood has since wanted his career destroyed.
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  660. I actually just upgraded Fedora 40 to 41, and it was a relatively painless operation. Even easier than migrating from one version of Windows to another. Albeit, this is not always the case with other distros. I tried moving an older computer from stable Sparky Linux 7.5 to the unstable 8.0. It is essentially a variant of Debian, so this process is similar to migrating from Bookworm to Trixie. Bookworm is the current LTS main version of Debian, also called Debian 12. Trixie is the current experimental release, also known as Debian 13. Between Debian and Ubuntu, outside their different philosophies and strategies for development, they are very much the same, particularly in use of APT. Thus, both the positives and negatives of Debian and Ubuntu hinge on APT. besides that, Ubuntu is basically a fork of Debian, and thus among the first distros that were based on Debian. Difference nowadays is Ubuntu has its separate repositories and development releases based on the name of those repositories that are based on animal code names. For instance, when I started with Mint, a initially based on Ubuntu, they were on Jammy Jellyfish repositories. The current LTS is Noble Numbat (24.04), with a mid-experimental release Oracular Oriole (24.10), and the expected new LTS to be code named Plucky Puffin (25.04). The code names between Debian and Ubuntu are confusing enough, but the one thing you need to know is APT is great on most things, but can suck on some major issues - namely crossing over from the dying LTS over to the next one, or to its crazy experimental unstable version cousin. Fedora has made it pretty easy with DNF, and even DNF5 as its successor is pretty awesome as well. But OG DNF is what I used to transfer my old Fedora 40 to 41, and it was amazingly smooth. I can't say the same for Debian Ubuntu. I'm currently looking at having to do a clean install. With a live boot, I might be able to recover some items I forgot to back up, simply because I thought I was going to keep on Spaky Linux 7.5 for a while. But the smoothness of Fedora's migration made me curious how smooth Sparky might be. Let's just say the sparks flew. So yeah, mileage will vary on Linux regarding ease of use and updates from one version to another.
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  661. I've never understood why it was a debate that the Trojan War, or even the city of Troy did not exist. I remember it was debated, and often put in prefaces for editions of the Iliad, or noted in various articles regarding Troy and the Trojan War. What started this debate?
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  662. June does really good at setting up how absurd something has gone, when you can take a phrase or slogan that seems randomly selected, and then show that it's actually a real thing. She probably looked it up beforehand, but she sets it up perfect. 😎👍
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  663.  @Mnnyquintero  - partially agree, but I think there's some bad hits to free speech, with added salt to the wound when the stupid policies some GOP governors are coming up with to force gov speech. Sure, they claim it's to combat the woke insanity of the education system, yet blinded by revenge, the average right winger's not realizing how bad these laws, if implemented could be, especially if democrats ever took power in their states and used this law to their advantage.
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  664.  @theprincipalofficer_1  - I don't know. He's a talking head, but somewhat independent minded. He still has TDS, he's just mad that the far left is critical of him.
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  665. Please tell me this was an April fools video.😏
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  666. Should check out Asmongold's react to The Dark Truth that EVERY Streamer Knows... Particularly, his take on parasocial might interest you.
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  667. Who is this? Can't possibly be the Wayland Brodie. 😏
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  668. Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe the left were overreacting, if not flat our lying to you about the religious right? Just about everything we warned about the insanity of the left in the 70's and 80's turned out to be right.
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  669. I want to like Arco Linux, but it doesn't run Musescore well for me. It keeps closing out when I import a MIDI file. Since I arrange and compose MIDI songs, and like the notation software on MuseScore, it doesn't help using a distro that doesn't like running it. So far, Fedora has worked out best. I currently use a basic version of Hyprland. Fedora has a dnf package, and BPMs are fairly easy to install with the right packages. Fedora seems to have responded to the speed issue of dnf, as it seems a lot faster than I remember on 38. Tried 40, and it's amazing. Will likely move over to it when they officially launch it. I reverted to 39 because I thought I botched the Hyprland install. Probably a good thing, since it was stated there was a vulnerability issue that effected 40. So yeah, 39 is my choice for now. It seems close to rivaling Arco for installation and ease of use.
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  670.  @horusfalcon  - I've tried it a few times. It's alright. Hard to beat Debian's stability, though.
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  671.  @horusfalcon  - yeah. I've heard about the whole systemd stuff. however, the alternative is basically loading into RAM, and the laptops that I use Debian on only have 4GB of RAM, and they need all 4 GB to run halfway decent and not crash. So systemd it has to be for me.
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  672. Of course, they want corporate capitalists to bend the knee to socialism/communism/Marxism. This is a huge reason why Kamala Harris should not be elected president. This was all part of Build Back Better - destroying the US and making it the USSA. Moreso, to make it a vassal of the WEF's globalist new world order agenda.
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  673. When you pirate, or otherwise make money off of distributed leaked games before being released to the public on still available and distributed consoles. Sorry, not sorry. Especially since you know security leaks are a no-no on anything other than this, and the consequences said leaks eventually can lead to on legal businesses. Illegal businesses don't even have a professional insurance that would touch this with a ten foot pole.
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  674. Was with her up until she went into RINO TDS mode on Larry Elders, who would have been a far better governor than the Pelosi puppet they still have. But, then again, the Pelosi plebs either are still too many or are just that good at rigging elections.
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  675. People forgot about the first episode of Black Mirror.
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  676. Imagine there was a time that you could live off $25 a month!
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  677. Or maybe 2020 was indeed stolen.
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  678. At least until they can make AI do it, which might be part of the reason for the epic failure. 😏
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  679. At this point it seems to be a hostile takeover and intentional destruction of Linux and Opensource.
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  680. i'm pretty much leaning towards Arch. Debian is good too, and Fedora works out alright, but I keep going with Mabox as my main and Garuda with Hyprland for my USB for gaming and the like - stuff I don't want to bog down my main with. So many alternatives to the Big Four (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora) seem to either be outdated or broken. Or maybe there's an incompatible version, especially with the EFI/UEFI. so I guess I'm getting to where I know what works for me, so might as well stick with that.
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  681. You should check out Brian Lunduke. Linux dodged the bullet earlier this year when, ironically enough, a Microsoft engineer found what became the XZ vulnerability. If this wasn't caught earlier, this would have effected most of Linux, be it OS or server distros, personal and enterprise, being that this attacked the way packages are distributed. But, even there, there are numerous systems that depend on one person, or a group of people to keep things going, or otherwise key components of our digital ecosystem could cause the whole thing to crumble. That's regardless if you are on Windows, Linux, or Mac, because they all use these components at the core of their systems.
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  682.  @digitalnomad9985  - politics isn't inherently evil, but it's been quite a while since we've had relatively healthy politics, like mayors promising to get the potholes filled and fix the streets, or District Attorneys and police commissioners promising to take care of crime and prosecute criminals, etc. The notion of an honest, respectable politician is an oxymoron these days.
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  683. I think Nintedo's strategy is to go after the whales, and the minnows will step in line. Not that it works, because the minnows just figure if they stay small, they stay off Nintendo's radar.
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  684.  @samselah  - she's a RINO. Anyone that could argue for Arnold being governor again as a good thing is not very conservative.
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  685.  @annri8248  - There are many fine people on both sides. Too bad the scoundrels on both sides run the establishments.
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  686. Oh Tim, you really believe that the alliances matter any more? China's not getting involved, and is mostly observing how the Ukrain invasion works out before invading Taiwan. By the way, it was Noam Chomsky that has been defining the concept of manufactured crisis, and particularly explained it with regards to how it may have been done during the W. Bushe era. Chomsky is hardly a right winger.
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  687. Despite DRM being around for decades, not many people know or understand what that is. Likewise, not many people understand that a hold is put on their card if they pay at the pump with a card. Never mind that said pumps are likely still being run on XP, despite the supposed security threats, and are trusting using their bank cards in the system. Granted, the biggest security threats to these cards are CityBank, who has a way of screwing over their customers by leaking out their data periodically.
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  688. Melonie Mac isn't advocating anything. She's sharing her beliefs. But what she actually does on her two YouTube channels is read the Bible on one channel and talk about gaming on her other channel. That's it. That you talk about her as being some revolutionary trying to push for a theocracy is absurdly delusional.
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  689. To be fair, it is still questionable whether McDonald's truly serves meat. Plus, there is a push in modern times to make meat expensive and rare for the regular person again. 🙄😏👍
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  690. The stalker may have been what led to the vote yesterday.
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  691. So... what actual work did she do? 🤔
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  692. Populism wasn't even about race. If anything, it's far more democratic, since it allows for citizens to petition for legislation popular to the people. Elites obviously hate this because they don't think anyone else but they the elites should be making all the rules.
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  693. This company has been a scam for a long time. I got refunded years back for them being fake garbage and doing nothing to protect my laptop.
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  694. Was having similar issue with CROWZ lately. It's a great lightweight, but if it won't let me install, I can't do much with it.
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  695.  @palinurosec9154  - True, but it also depends on what the distro gives for choices. Not sure if Fedora still has it, but they did have Hyprland in their repository, making it relatively easy to add on after installation. It's not as optimal as having the option during install, but at least it's an option. Either that, or have a choice of ISOs pre-built with the desktop/window managers to choose from. But, I get it. Some distros prefer to only develop on their flagship, with setting they prefer, or consider most optimal to them. Plus, there are lots of distros to choose from that at least one might work out for you. Or, you can build your own.That's what makes Linux great, having the options and freedom to find out what works best for you.
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  696.  @keepcalmandenjoythedecline  - Free speech means you're free to speak your mind. It doesn't mean you can deny people listening to what you say from their autonomy to critically think about what you say and discern for themselves whether they want their kids around you. If you constantly talk about and defend CP, people with intact brains are going to keep their kids away from you.
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  697.  @keepcalmandenjoythedecline  - Free speech also means other people can speak their mind and hold their opinions as well. They have every right the rebuttal and rebuke your words. Thus is why, even with free speech, you still want to choose your words wisely, because free speech can be a double edged sword, and many people fall on their own sword, self incriminating themselves by what they freely choose to say.
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  698.  @keepcalmandenjoythedecline  - You're opinion means nothing to me, so shame me all you want. It's just your idiot opinion. So keep on making yourself the real hypocritical idiot.
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  699. What's happening in opensourse with the purge is laying waste to many organizations right now. I don't know what they're thinking, if they think destroying Linux is such a good idea. Makes me wonder if Apple and Microsoft are funding these radicals that get hired or invited in on these projects, only to commit hostile takeovers, using community guidelines as their vulnerability for these attacks.
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  700. Spot on here! Seriously, I miss game magazines that had level maps and would hint at hidden areas, and not just spoil them. Having a bestiary, weapons and armor guide, potions catalogue, or a class tree were great meta products you could have in a game's companion guide. The instruction manual should just have enough info to help you start the game, which would be a great reason to read a game's PDF manual, whith questions of what to do after reason for interaction in a game's forums. Why game magazines went away from actually informing about how to play games, I don't understand. Most gamers want to know what to do in their favorite games, not all this toxic woke garbage. But, then again, I'm 43. So what do I know about what kids these days like or don't like. And with all the social grooming going on, do these kids even know what they want?
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  701. Libtards are really trying to milk out the event at the capital. It's like the 'summer of love' riots that literally burned brick and mortar small local businesses to the ground and took over 6 square blocks of a major city never happened.
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  702. I probably blocked the majority of lefties that were calling for bad things to happen to conservatives, so I see more on Twitter regarding worries about the left trying to do bad things to Trump to ensure he doesn't take office. That, or the RINOs that want to be in the way of Trump's cabinet picks.
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  703. I used to watch YT videos on Linux, until I got tired about how they praised modern wall paper and crisp fonts and animations. But the most annoying was how much they said this or that distro was perfect for helping Windows users transition to Linux. I'm supposedly one of those people because I'd been on Windows since 3.11 up through 10 (I absolutely despise 11). You know which distros appeal to me? Arch based distrows with tiling, with functioning pipewire for music creation and Wayland as it becomes a solid compositor, and Hyperland. In other words, the things that these 'it's just like Windows!' cheerleaders would freak out and tell me that they will be the worst experience for me. And yet, I love Arch. LfS interests me, especially to be able to make a fully personal desktop, rather than the 'just like Windows!' pandering they keep telling me I should want instead.Why? The whole point for crossing over to Linux was freedom FROM Windows. Why would I want just another Windows clone when I have options to try something new and different? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  704. Steam is the face of the company. It's like with Wal-Mart. You wouldn't be saying it's the fault of the distributor for why you bit into a rotten apple. You're likely going to blame the store you bought the rotten apple from. It's up to the store where the product is being sold to ensure the product they are selling is not rotten. It would be even worse if a store sold rotten apples knowing the apples were rotten when putting them out, than simply the customer pulling the unlucky lot of getting a rotten fruit before the store had cleaned out their produce. So yes, it's up to Valve to clean out the rotten apples.
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  705. That's because you fear any form of patriotism as being Nazi. It so much scares you to have any love for your country that you'll let in Muslim refugees and let them take over your country to prove you are not a Nazi.
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  706.  @daniby9894  You do realize that patriotism was a thing before fascists and communists were a thing? I love Metatron for how much he loves his country and the history of Italy and Rome. But I don't get why love for country has become such a taboo in Europe, other than EU socialism.
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  707.  @thebigcheese5606  - More than half Americans will stand with @thunderwalker2000. I will stand with @thunderwalker2000 on the pledge. You are just afraid of people loving their nation because you have been taught to by your global socialist overlords in the EU. Not all in the EU want to remain in the EU, so maybe you need to do your research.
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  708.  @NLJeffEU  Are you sure you're not the one brainwashed?
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  709.  @TukikoTroy  - We do have laws, and if people break them, they go to jail. Plus, a lot of world nations, save China, India, and Russia, don't have even close to the land that we do in the US. Many of your European countries are barely the size of Vermont. So apples to oranges when comparing a country that's about half the North American continent to one of your puny shriveled up raisin sized countries. But hey, if you want all the mass murderers, gang members, druggies, thieves and other criminals, we'll be glad to send them to you as 'refugees'. As for the so-called riots, those are political prisoners that will shortly be returned to their homes as soon as Trump returns to the White House. Heck, I'm surprised some of you are allowed to say Nazi, as that's something you can be put in prison for in Germany.
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  710.  @plainText384  - Children are not forced into it. There are exemptions based on personal religion and ideals of the family. I went through the public school system, and no one ever pointed a gun at me and demanded me to do the pledge. You are the extremist here spouting hate and lies.
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  711.  @womenfrom0202  - Why is it so scary? Nothing happens to those who don't participate. What happens as a Dutch if you are not punctually on time? What happens if you don't congratulate everyone at a birthday party? What happens if you don't split the bills exactly and the use the explicitly defined efficient payment methods like the Tikkie app? What happens if you don't ride your bike everywhere? What happens if you don't greet people with three kisses on the cheek? Why is it illegal to lock a burglar in your home? Why after a divorce is the mother-in-law is still considered part of the family? Why are pregnant women are allowed to urinate in public? Why do you have to have indoor plumbing while camping? Why are there mandatory monthly emergency drills? Why is it illegal to take anything from a forest? Why, in order to get married, at least one partner must be Dutch or a legal resident of the country? Why is illegal for three or more unrelated individuals to live together without a permit? Why are automatic weapons banned for civilians, with exceptions only for police, hunters, and target shooters under strict conditions?
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  712.  @MSchipper  - Yes, you can sign an exemption. We Americans wouldn't be happy, simply because we don't know why you aren't doing it with us. It's like if you are on a football team and you refuse to get off the bench and be a part of the team.
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  713.  @Makapaa  - You don't understand the pledge and why it is important to us. There's probably things where you're at where we might find it absurd to do and claim you have freedom. The flag goes back to the Revolutionary War, and it has become a part of our heritage. You are a slave to your own ideology of Marxist socialism, so I can't take you seriously at all.
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  714. ​ @Nana18868  - I see you have irrational baggage. Do you even enjoy life?
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  715.  @TukikoTroy  - Good, go live your life, then.
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  716.  @hannajung7512  - Yes, we know you have Nazi guilt, so you hate even your own country because the only thing you think defines your country's history is the Nazis. Sad and pathetic.
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  717.  @hannajung7512  - Enjoy all those 'refugees' taking over your country. You probably hate it so much that you'd rather become a Muslim and help them overthrow your government you can only ever define as oppressive fascism in your sick social-Marxist mind.
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  718.  @urizen7613  - New Zealand sounds like a country where weird cults originate from, so you're one to talk about what's 'weird'.
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  719.  @Sdl211  - The cheapest form of pride is thinking your opinion matters.
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  720.  @hugolxxx  - A lot of native Americans are still alive today, so if we 'genocided' them, we weren't very good at it. You also have to look at your country, and you'll find somewhere down the line that they enslaved people, and likely killed a bunch of tribes or nomads that were already in the area you now consider your country as well. Nice try, hypocrite! Maybe you should just lay down and fold and let the 'refugees' take you over.
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  721.  @erwinsantana3367  You actually have politicians with standards? That's a rare thing!
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  722.  @thunderwalker2000  - We all know what @erwinsantana3367 really means. He wants you to see the world through his eyes, and believe everything the way he does. And yet we're the fascists?
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  723.  @NoName-OG1  - Yes, we know you can't take a joke, It's why no one should ever take you seriously. You take yourself serious enough for the rest of us that you make yourself a joke.
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  724.  @thunderwalker2000  - I'll wage my bets on the latter. The narrative matters more than the full truth to Marxist socialists like @NoName-OG1
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  725.  @chri6393  - That's you're right, as it is for everyone else, including many Christians, to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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  726.  @jurdgrath2069  You can type as many words as you like, push your own agenda and propaganda all you like, but that doesn't make your opinion true, either. Hypocrite!
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  727.  @NoName-OG1  - you're actually making @thunderwalker2000 's argument or him. The salute used was before Hitler, before even Mussolini, who was the Italian leader. Unless you're playing stupid, most people around the world understand that Italy is a country that used to be a part of the Roman Empire, even where Rome originated from. But don't let me let the truth get in the way of your Marxist socialist brainwashed Propaganda. The truth might break your brain.
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  728.  @mikefay5698  - Well, don't show your Social Marxist militant true colors now. 🙄😏
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  729.  @TukikoTroy  - Great! Now where would you like President Trump to send you all our criminals in our prisons to you, since you seem to care so much for their well being. I'm sure they would all bankrupt your puny country, but if you really want them, you can have them!
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  730.  @dougpatterson7494  - And yet they nearly destroyed the EU with unvetted 'refugees' and continue to act like they are the center of a European empire.
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  731. Tim, do you remember the Waco Massacre? Granted, it was a religious cult, but they had their own compound, their own autonomous zone. There had also been a ranch in Oregon that was had claimed autonomy from the government as well. Idaho and Montana had their share of militias and the like that sought autonomy from the government, but many of them were either in fact skin heads, or labeled white supremacists, and that's when the feds get involved. For whatever reason, Antifa and BLM are supported by the leftist politicians and anyone who disagrees is a white supremacist. You may not care because you have the luxury to move and aren't rooted in a community. But, you know, blacks in the South were in a similar bind during segregation. Yet your solution to them would be to move? You realize those that didn't move and fought the unjust system are the ones who fought for the Civil Rights you claim to benefit from today. If they just moved, you wouldn't have those benefits. In fact, people moving without a fight is the very reason our rights are eroding as we speak.
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  732. I'm hoping this shows that FOX definitely is not in line with the Peronist anti-Pope dictator's agenda. That is, unless they are in some way being used as a form of MSM astroturf to claim that at least one major news network is covering what the rest of them are avoiding like the plague. However, I would advise that FOX and Ben Shapiro, if they are indeed legit on their coverage, to look at the facts more closely, as 80% of the victims of priest sexual abuse were post-pubescent young adults. Milo Yiannopoulos got in trouble for frank words about his pederast abuse by a priest when he was around 13 or 14, making mention of something that is common in the homosexual world, where they really are groomed into the lifestyle by older men. When it's called child abuse, by and large, this is doublespeak to gloss over the biggest portion of the issue, which is that these pederast homosexual priests, bishops, cardinals, and now even the Pope are using the their power and persuasion to push the homosexual agenda in the Church. The Lavender Mafia is an open secret in the Church now, and we can see that it's infiltrated a good portion of the highest ranks in the Church, including the See of Peter.
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  733. The Internet Archive's own hubris is bringing it down by pirating games.
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  734. Catholics and Protestants alike believe in original sin. The Catholic view is that it is a wound on human nature, and thus something that can be healed through salvation. Protestants vary on what is believed and is dependent on their religious tradition, be it Lutheran, Calvinist, Baptist, etc., and the actual views today may not be the same as their founders. For example Martin Luther believed that humans were dung that are merely covered over in salvation by God's saving grace. That might shock a few modern Lutherans, while more traditional Lutherans would consider it hyperbolic and intending to stress the need to rely on God's grace for salvation, and not one's own works. I do agree with the basic premise, that critical race theory is similar to a cult of a religion, however I disagree with the comparison to original sin while misinforming on the Catholic doctrine of it. While it is true that original sin has been passed on to humanity since the first sin of Adam and Eve, this belief is not exclusive to Catholics, and is often maintained in more rigorous views among Protestant Christians. But yes, the problem with critical race theory is that it is utilizing a spiritual/religious narrative in order to condemn a certain race as being unforgiven and with no redeeming value. It might of been crass for Luther to say humans are dung, but he at least merited the possibility of salvation through God's grace. Critical race theory seems more like Calvinism, in that all people of color are the saved ones that are of the elect, and thus are above reproach, while white people are forever damned with no chance of being saved.
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  735. They all talk like Trump is the 'right' when he was a Democrat for most his life up until he ran for president. There's a lot of people that have done similar, hence the WalkAway movement. https://youtu.be/gtdEeDUkbBE?si=VOemERqEfCu830lV
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  736. True. We all get protective about the first and second amendments, we forget about the rest. But they are all important to protect our freedom. The ones that protect our rights in court and from unruly law enforcement, they can be more difficult, especially when the public is more prone to believe hearsay and gossip, and often believes people are guilty until proven innocent. But the rule of law in this country is innocent until proven guilty. Without due process, we have tyranny. But that goes for both overbearing prosecutors that will do anything to get a conviction and the permissive that catch and release criminals because it suits a political party to not do their jobs properly.
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  737.  Obelisk  - yet, for Cosby, they were at some point consenting. There is a case for whether or not it's more or less buyer's remourse. Maybe he promised them an audition, and they didn't get a leading role.
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  738.  @matthewirizarry8467  - this is why I never could get behind the metoo movement. Yes, we should listen to a victim's story, in a court of law, under oath where lying about something can have consequences.
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  739. It should be understood many of these minimum wage jobs were made so from NAFTA, outsourcing, and changes in what economics has come to deem as important enough to pay labor.
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  740. The ancient Greeks were polytheists with a distinct pantheon of gods they worshipped.
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  741. It seems like Arch and a few others, that certain packages need signatures, and repositories get cleaned of packages that are either outdated or of questionable origin. The way politics is going in the Linux sphere, Linux could wind up in lock down mode as well.
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  742.  @TempoLOOKING  - I've had packages that wouldn't update because they didn't have a signature, or they were orphaned, or some other issue where they could not be verified. There's some similarities here, especially when there are teams and contributors of projects being banned in Linux/open source. You can laugh all you want, but there are serious division issues among Linux and Open Source, which the corporate world will more than happily take advantage of, and may very well have their hand in stirring the pot to escalate the situation.
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  743.  @BulkybearOG  - That's my biggest pet peeve with Windows, it locks a lot of things and doesn't like to play well with others. But what can you expect from a company that, when it came to up and coming rival competition called for 'knifing the baby' - to essentially try to kill the company before it can grow and develop into real competition.
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  744. All it takes for some key components are for the individuals to die or retire, and no one is maintaining them.
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  745. Jagd Töpfer - The nonsense of the early 20th century skeptics. The mythologies of the world tend to start off with Chaos as the beginning of all things, and then a myriad of gods appear to somehow bring order to chaos and create the world. The Bible does mention a void, but God is there from the beginning and brings forth light and creation of the cosmos. This is one God, and His angels may have helped bring order to Creation in some manner, but even the angels were created by God. The mythologies basically portray the gods that make up a given pagan religion's parthenon of gods as essentially inbreds, with cosmological deities as the most pure or supreme, and with their offspring the elementals/titans revolting from the higher lineage with lesser supremacy over the earth, fire, wind, water, etc. Then came the gods that created humans by spilling their seed on the ground, and these were also less superior gods that basically toyed with humans like chess pieces for their own amusement. Still further were the demigods that were a mix of the gods with men. Sure, you can mangle a warped similarity out of the pagan stories, such as to downplay the birth of Jesus, but you have to adapt Jesus' narrative to that of being a demigod, and basically a halfling, rather than Jesus being the Son of God in the traditional and orthodox meaning that Chrritianity has, in which Jesus is both fully God and fully Man, and united to God the Father and Holy Spirit as in the Holy Trinity. The Bible doesn't read as merely a collection of myths mangled together. The story of Creation and God's plan for Creation flows throughout, from Genesis to Revrlation. While there are some unique texts out there, no other religious text than the Bible is comprised in this manner. There is something about the Bible that us unique unto itself, and the way it impacted western culture for 2000 years is truly remarkable.
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  746.  @thedissidentleftist6997  - that's what all Carl Sagan wannabes say.
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  747.  @thedissidentleftist6997  -  @solitary one  - you realize Egyptians were writing on papyrus? The stories of the Bible, the Hebrew Bible existed before it was written down. Your ignorance betrays you. I learned from both a Bible as literature and a Native American folklore class about the importance of oral tradition that relayed important cultural concepts to a people before they formed a common writing system. Yet, it was interesting learning Hebrew and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, for the Egyptian word for 'I am' sounds the same as the Hebrew tetragram for the name of God. For the Greeks, Zeus was often simply referred to a Dios, as if to say 'the god'. Yet the Greek term for god was theos. So that is curious why he would have this more archaic name that sounds like the Latin word for god, deus. I may not have all the answers, but you're ignorant enough to deny God simply because China had scrolls before the Gospels were written. China wasn't the first society to learn how to write. You lack real knowledge and you know it. Go back to playing with play dough in your safe space you spoiled child.
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  748.  @HelloAnnyong  - even if they study literature, the universities have been so dumbed down by social Marxist garbage, they never do get an honest or earnest study like Bible as literature, but instead nonsense like how their penis is really a vagina and that only white people are racist.
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  749.  @thedissidentleftist6997  - you're surprised after hijacking this comment thread to call people you don't know supremacists and ignorant? Please. You're still an arrogant little troll and now you're doing what they always do after making cringy social Marxist garbage remarks and trying to play the victim.
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  750.  @thedissidentleftist6997  - or maybe Patrick and Nicholas are your bot accounts used for extra trolling?
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  751.  @KarmaKahn  - Christian thinkers did appreciate Plato and Aristotle, to be sure. But both St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo became great philosophers in their own right, even to be considered doctors of the Church. The thing is, if these great thinkers in the Church did not 'baptise' certain Greek philosophers, Greek philosophy may have been lost. That's the problem with this cultural appropriation nonsense. We forget how much of human history and culture is lost because of humanity abandoning it. If what we have now wasn't preserved by earlier generations we wouldn't have half of what we have now. So no, I have no problem admitting the influence of Greek philosophers, but I also appreciate what was preserved of them, as well as built upon by the academics of the Church. While the Greek philosophers had gymnasiums and symposiums to create their academies, the Church is the origin of the modern university, even the modern school system. Not to mention hospitals.
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  752.  @jordanmyers7593  - they also forget how common slavery was in ancient times, both east and west. The Greeks also had their laws regarding free men and slaves. India had a brutal caste system that survived into the modern world. Native Americans also took slaves of other tribes that they conquered, and they also bought and sold black people as slaves, of which is attested to in slave narratives written by former slaves. And yep, the native Americans also kidnapped white people's children as well.
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  753.  @jordanmyers7593  - it was also those 'evil' Republicans that had helped slaves tell their stories to help abolish slavery. Also most people wouldn't have heard about the slave Bible if not for Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white Christian woman, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. While it's used as a racist slur by the left today, in it's time, the book was very influential in changing people's minds about slavery and leading them to want to abolish the practice. I learned about this while studying under a black woman professor. We were looking at Uncle Tom and other 'infamous' banned books like Hickleberry Finn, from which, if you don't read it, or understand the history, you could come to the conclusion that Tom Sawyer sold Jim down the river. However, it's also been noted that the reason for going further south was to get to a portion of the underground railroad that was prominent there.
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  754.  @PursuingDreamss  - now you're starting to sound like Patrick with your anti-Catholicism. The Catholic church is the original Church founded by Jesus, born on Pentecost. You have your facts wrong about Catholicism.
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  755.  @PursuingDreamss  - The Orthodox Church didn't come into being until the Great Schism. Before then, all Christianity was Catholic.
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  756. WEF badges look demonic.
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  757. Look into how sexual revolution has always been about lies and manipulation from the beginning. Just as the woke crap today is paid shilling, the nonsense around sexual repression was crap shilling to make women believe that their roles as mothers and housewives are 'repressive' and don't allow women to be all they can be, as in becoming yet another corporate cog in the wheel that doesn't care about anything but making money.
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  758. TBWP came out when reality TV was at its height. Add fo that, paranormal documentaries and shows like Ghost Hunters alway draw a certain audience. They basically came out with a movie that drew on these fascination, and it blew up. They should have thought about royalties and residuals then. They might have done better if they tried working with the people they sold the rights to. But a reboot nowadays, what would that even be? Live streaming on TikTok?
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  759. AUR is getting better, though. Or maybe Garuda has some sort of extra security measures when upgrading?
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  760. This is why you counter sue.
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  761. Brave is much better. Mozilla can be politically motivated, and it is a corporation closely attached to Google. Audacious is a better alternative for music, but really, VLC can do both music and movies just fine. Geary is also a good text editor.
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  762.  @economicprisoner  - Even the terminal installs and updates are improving. It's easy to use yay to search for the software you need, and it will list what's in the repository, as well as mark what version you currently have installed. You can add -‐needed and it will look up and add dependencies. Plus the terminal doesn't crash near as much as the Pacman GUI, so a bit more assurance things will get updated and installed.
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  763.  @ordinaryguy1192  - if that's so, how come there are so many videos out there talking about how to install flatpacks on Arch? It sounds like flat packs are an optional installation.
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  764. Tubi might have Toys and Shawn of The Dead. I don't ven pay for it and opt for the ads because it's like cable, so have popcorn and pee break. 😏👍
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  765. You have to understand that social justice, or social Marxism comes from the Frankfurt School and critical theory. BLM had, before they were called out about it, called themselves Marxists. LGBTQ+ has a history with Marxist views, and, because they are generally far leftists involved in critical theory of a kind, it all links back to Marxism. Just because it doesn't fall lock step with what may be considered classical Marxism does not mean that it isn't Marxism of a kind. It's about like arguing that Protestants and modern day evangelists, fundamentalists, and non-denominational Christians are not Christian because they aren't Catholic. Not even most Catholics would agree with that.
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  766. The difference is China owns Hollywood and all the major internet corporations.
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  767. Someone was saying that the trend in big companies when they need new management they hire Indians because they think differently and are great at solving problems. My response to the person: what about Vijaya Gadde?
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  768. Think you're finally getting it, almost. But this is cult like abuse. It's something that a lot of us think we couldn't possibly get involved with. But this is Hollywood in a microcosm. It's more of a leftist cult than it is a profession.
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  769. Federal tax bills don't effect state taxes. There can be benefits in a given federal tax bill that may be beneficial overall, but the benefits can be negated by state policies. Europeans are a mix of countries, and you seem to neglect the Europeans that disagree if not flat out reject EU and socialist big governments.
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  770. It's not simply disagreements. You may not have any choice if they decide to only allow people that agree with them to use their software. They might take the tools you believe are yours away from you because they are the developers and you disagree with them. Then what?
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  771. Normally getting paid for a vote is a bribe, which is not supposed to be legal. Yet, a lot of the choice does come down to money and property. Do you want the government to steal your money, or take your house from you? A vote for politician X will make sure it doesn't happen. And when it does, they blame it on the opposite party. 😏
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  772. The glow stick must have had sales experience via Fast and Furious.
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  773. Again? Honestly, I haven't paid much attention since the last time he had a tantrum against his audience for wanting him to talk about Elisa Blue. But if he wants to take his toys and go home, and is finally serious about that, then maybe he should finally retire.
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  774. Yes, flat packs are garbage.
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  775. I would love for Eastern WA to join Idaho. Or, pretty much all counties except for King, and the Seattle and Olympia satellites. A pretty good chunk of WA is fed up with the commie leftist tyranny.
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  776. I think the key is to disagree with him in an outlandish way to help provide comedic content. 😉👍
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  777. BTW, you remember that Netflix was in big trouble over Cuties? Why should anyone care what Pedoflix does anymore anyways?
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  778. Spreadsheets can help make things easier. Automating even basic math can make things great, especially if you have to keep track of multiple events and certain metrics. Unless you would rather take all the data and have to do the math manually. I'd personally find that highly tedious, and far more horrible than having to set up a spreadsheet.
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  779. Carl Benjamin apparently is atheist. But, he, like many atheists on the right to conservative leaning tend to appreciate how Christianity has been a force for good in the West. Many that had been atheist in the 90's probably were turned off by the censorship done by certain Christian groups, but now find themselves allied with conservatives pushing back on the censorship coming from the left. The difference between then and now was thar conservative censorship was more an annoyance, and tended to go nowhere, other than the ERSB for video games and Explicit label on music albums. Whereas what is happening with woke is more like an attempt to overthrow western culture and values altogether.
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  780. They've been for a while. At the store, you'll always find grown manboys rummaging through Hot Wheels and various non-sports collectible cards.
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  781. Plus, for those that aren't on Linux, the concept of repositories maintained by the particular Linux community is the same as going to some weird website that nobody knows about. Plenty of people see the AUR and git hub as such weird websites that are a security risk.
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  782. Nintendo's biggest competition is Atari, which has embraced their place in retro gaming. The 2600+ plays 2600 and 7800 carts. It's drawback is it's powered by the Stella emulator, but it plays the games in HDMI, so you can play them on modern TVs. They also have a non-cart system that works through online gaming that's a bit more powerful and can play modern games. However, it would have been awesome for the 2600+ to have been capable of running a modern cart system because just consider on storage alone, you can get anywhere between a 16 GB, up to 512 GB USB drive for between $8 - $50. Most modern games are around 1 GB - to 10 GB, so one could easily store the data fora game in the storage, and still have plenty of room in an Atari sized cart for and special chips etc that could bupoost even more power to the graphics and CPU before even getting to the consol hardware. Unfortunately, the 2600+ use of Stella's has the9 drawback of being able to use a cart's additional chipsets which is why games like Pitfall II are u nable to work on the console. If they fixed that, and put in hardware that rivaled the Switch, they would still have an impressive system to bridge the gap between retro and modern with. However, they probably are looking at the VCS to be that gap, which itself has its issues, such as raking 2 hours to setup and install just to run it for the first time. Yet the Zvcs has a full computer under the hood, and that, at its age, is comparable with the Switch. The difference is the modern VCS has a dedicated library of Atari games, plus a promise of newer titles underway. The Switch has the larger library of Nes SNES, and other classic console games, along with Switch titles. Between retro and modern gaming markets, that makes Atari and Nintendo the two main rivals. For cutting edge, it's mostly between X-box and Playstation whose consoles are basically hardware updates. However they too have a market for nostalgia among some of their major game franchises. But, as far as retro, Atari and Nintendo are the main rivals in that market.
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  783. Flavored water is better than calling it what it is - horse piss. - 😏👍
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  784. I would think gay people would find this insulting. At least there was a time they were trying to move away from these ridiculous stereotypes and be seen as just another person like anyone else.
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  785. Mageïa is a fun OS. It's up to version 9, and I'm looking forward to checking out 10 when it's ready.
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  786. Christianity at least has, in traditional/orthodox teaching, an actual moral and logical principle behind it. You ask what's wrong with fetishes? I'd say it's what had once been said with SIMPs and THOTs on this podcast. Free will, you're certainly free to your opinions, actions, and thoughts, as well as what you may want to obsess over, but these things have consequences. The traditional/orthodox teaching is two sexes, man and woman, and matrimony is a sacrament around a covenant between a man, woman, and before God. The vows are made before God, and the purpose of marriage is to have children and raise a family. Even before gay marriage was a progressive mantle, traditional marriage had its conflicts with modern secular ideals, which some have wanted to go as far as abolish marriage and break up families. Who would raise children, if they were even allowed to be born? The state, which we used to deride this ideal as the nanny state. Coming from this understanding, and seeing the current state of things, I'd consider that the gay marriage agenda exploited LGBTQ+ for the purposes of breaking down the traditional family and thus subvert the culture.
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  787.  @anyanyanyanyanyany3551  - unfortunately, relativism has hit the Church, too. There are the obvious ways, among the liberal Catholics and the progressive mainline Protestant sects, as well as the community churches that at least are honest enough to leave out Christ and the cross from their podiums, and leave up the pride banners of their 'true religion'. But the more subtle relativism is found in the more fundamentalist, personal Jesus sorts. Unfortunate, as the general conservative slant among them makes them allies on many political and social issues with traditionalists and the more orthodox oriented Christians. The main issue is the subjective manner of relating to Jesus, in the manner of 'me and my Jesus'. While we agree for a need to have a relationship with Jesus, the relativistic part comes when a person thinks they always speak for Jesus, that their opinions are the opinions of Jesus as well. To create a god in your head that always agrees with you and always affirms you as right can make it very hard for such a person to admit when they are wrong, or even can be wrong.
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  788. I don't drink much alcohol of any kind any more. It's hard on the liver. Regardless, I'd never drink Bud Lite. Maybe the best thing to come out of this is they discontinue it. Regular Budweiser is lite enough as it is.
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  789. It appears FOX definitely is not in line with the Peronist anti-Pope dictator's agenda, at least if this second posting here is not deleted. Otherwise FOX may prove itself in some way being used as a form of MSM astroturf to claim that at least one major news network is covering what the rest of them are avoiding like the plague. I still would advise that FOX and Ben Shapiro, if they are indeed legit on their coverage, look at the facts more closely, as 80% of the victims of priest sexual abuse were post-pubescent young adults. Milo Yiannopoulos got in trouble for frank words about his pederast abuse by a priest when he was around 13 or 14, making mention of something that is common in the homosexual world, where they really are groomed into the lifestyle by older men. When it's called child abuse, by and large, this is doublespeak to gloss over the biggest portion of the issue, which is that these pederast homosexual priests, bishops, cardinals, and now even the Pope are using the their power and persuasion to push the homosexual agenda in the Church. The Lavender Mafia is an open secret in the Church now, and we can see that it's infiltrated a good portion of the highest ranks in the Church, including the See of Peter.
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  790. Strangely, this reinforces how the only hate allowable is towards conservatives.
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  791. Well, the script for this political drama reads like one of those 80's movies, or even some of the cartoons that had several episodes involving the bad guys blackmailing someone.
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  792. The first time I heard the term mulatto was while taking a university course on slave narratives, and the term explained to the class by a black female professor.
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  793. Amazon killed the malls, or at least Jeff Bezos destroyed what they were for his wanting to get rid of as much overhead (having to give people jobs) as he possibly could. Then, suddenly, he gets interested in grocery markets, which you kind of have to build a place to sell stuff, and hire people to work there, unless even they are hired through a third party like Bezos does with warehouse work. Malls were the modern agora, and losing that is indeed losing something of a social activity.
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  794. This is what happened in the 90's when they passed out condoms to high school kids at school and tried to claim that 16 yr olds can be taken to have abortions without their parents' consent.
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  795. One would be DOA among those humorless saps. 🤡😏👌
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  796. Most of Germany until the past decade was practically 99% white. Even now, after the Refugee Crisis, the US still has more color than Europe because people immigrate here from all over the world, and not just predominantly the Near East and Africa.
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  797.  @shafsteryellow  - Yeah, tell that to the indigenous people, who once had an independent country until said European countries invaded them.
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  798.  @viktorgabriel2554  - if that narrative helps you cope with invading those places, that's your prerogative. Can't blame W. Bush for doing the same in Iraq, but I'm sure you'll keep doing that because anti-American reasons.
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  799.  @viktorgabriel2554  - Many were nomadic in the north, but there is evidence of pyramid structures, and other unique dwellings that suggest that not all of the North American tribes were nomadic, but indeed did settle down. There were also nomadic people in Central and South America. Not to mention plenty of butchering and human sacrifice in their civilization. I find it interesting that you have to go for the worst parts of humanity to claim some non-existing moral superiority in the central and south, and the north as 'barbarians', relatively speaking. I don't hold apoligetics and historian politics as actual history, but it does show your personal bias and bigotry.
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  800.  @viktorgabriel2554  - Meaning you're white?
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  801.  @jwr2904  - non sequitur
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  802.  @jwr2904 - and you don't know how to read, either. He isn't proud to be white, he hates being called white.
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  803.  @rhetorical1488  - which 'they' are you talking about, considering there's more than one subject here to reference from. Besides that, all wars can be considered genocidal, if not simply homicidal. Who knows how many countless little tribes were destroyed in the making of Europe? And even then, you still have Thomas Robert Malthus to thank for the various times in modernity that war has been used as a means of depopulation.
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  804.  @jwr2904  - what would a country be to the natives? In Europe, there are countries the size of Rhode Island. The European clans fought much like the native American tribes did. But hey, if you want to call the war of European clans genocide, as well, whatever. They were no more or less barbaric either way. So you can take any moral superiority of Europe over the America's and shove it!
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  805.  @logicplague  - On some level, I agree. I'm you're average white American mutt with family lineage coming from Scottish/Irish, German, possibly French descendents. Europe is/was predominantly white by color, and the cultures do have variations that are based more on region. Granted, there are various regional cultures in the US as well. We're a pretty huge land mass with 50 states, each with their own particular statewide culture, as well as each county in the states with their own traditions and folklore, etc. I've lived in 4 counties in my own state, and have visited others, and I can say that in Washington state, you can find differences of culture between King County where Seattle is, compared to Yakima, Benton, and Franklin, where there are cities and towns most people don't know about, and probably don't care about, especially if they bare care about Seattle to begin with. American history is just as much about the European settlers as it is about the black slaves and native Americans. Many of our counties in Washington state are named after tribes that were local to the region, with some of them remaining in the area to this day. Monolithic group means nothing to me other than BS people make up when they want to make an argument, rather than discuss a subject. Of course I know there are all sorts of tribes that were all over what is now the US. Which is also why it's stupid to claim they were all genocidal barbarians. They all as tribes had their particular cultures, just as the Euopean clans did that eventually became nations in Europe. Or do you thing those clans held hands with each other and never fought among each other? Heck, even when they became Christian nations, they fought among each other. So all I'm saying is no one has a moral high horse of superiority when it comes to war. All of humanity has partaken in war, so no clan, tribe, or nation is without blood on their hands.
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  806.  @logicplague  -however, I disagree that a color, black or white, diminishes anything. There is both a white history, and a black history in the US, and it's something we as a nation ought to recognize. Likewise with the differences of culture. Likewise with native Americans, because there's a lot to learn about the history before the US was a nation, and before European Pilgrims came to settle here. All this woke BS muddies the waters. It does nothing to help learn about these things. People would be more open to exploring the history and culture if not for people saying you should hate your white/European ancestry. And what point is there to expecting most people, save the self loathing to accept that they will be forever unforgiven and have no way to ever repent of whatever wrongs their ancestors may or may not have participated in? That sort of stuff is the rhetoric that leads to genocides, rather than people coming together to celebrate diverse histories, cultures, etc.
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  807.  @logicplague  - I don't know if anything got lost by the censors, but I think we agree more than we disagree. We may categorize differently, but I don't think it disregards anything. Of course there are numerous American tribes, each with their own histories and cultures. The same is true when we talk about US American history and culture, because each state, as well as the various counties, cities, towns, and native tribal reservations have their own particular histories and culture. Not all of history is found in textbooks, and a lot of it can be lost without the storytellers and people that keep record of such histories and cultures. Sadly, these local histories tend to be ignored, even deemed unimportant to the people that live there locally. Unless you're in Seattle, NYC, Los Angeles, or any of the 'important' cities that have a certain amount of name recognition around the world, that have been put on the map, as it were. Even there, you also have the so-called fly by states, the history of how a huge chunk of the US gets ignored, despite how much the farm land has been important for feeding the whole nation, and how they suddenly become important when it comes to getting votes and electing a president
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  808.  @sayaneechan5799 - And yet there was some issue between northern and Southern Italy. A friend of ours married an Itslian who had disdain of them. Not to mention Italy is where fascism was born, and what does meticci mean? Being from the nation that literally sided with Hitler, you have no place to be lecturing Americans about racism. Your country was the epitome of it next to Germany!
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  809.  @sayaneechan5799  - also, from the Wiki on racism in Italy: 2011, a report by Human Rights Watch pointed to growing indications of a rise in xenophobia within the Italian society.[12][13] A 2017 Pew Research Center survey indicated Italy as the most racist country in western Europe.[14] A 2019 survey by Sgw revealed that 55% of the Italian interviewees justified the perpetration of racist acts.[15] On the occasion of a European Parliament resolution to condemn structural racism and racially motivated violence in 2020, around half of the Italian members voted against it.[16] According to a 2020 YouGov opinion polling, the Italian interviewees claimed that the second most common cause of discrimination practiced in the country lie with racist prejudices.[17] A 2020 Eurispes report revealed that 15.6% of Italians contend that the Holocaust never happened, and that 23.9% of the population adhere to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories which claim that Jews control their economy.[18] So quit lying, your country still has major issues with racism. So don't try taking the sliver out of our eyes when you have a nice big plank of racism in your own to deal with, hypocrite.
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  810.  @rhetorical1488  - They were among the most violent of the North American tribes. Though apparently the Comanche were considered the most violent. However, like usual, we tend to remember those that we had the most conflict with. On the other hand, we often forget the O’odham, the farmers from Arizona, who were formally known as the Pima. They were never remotely violent enough to make national headlines in the 19th Century or to serve as villains in movie Westerns. Like the vast majority of indigenous tribes in temperate North America, they avoided war with the government and fought for their rights as best they could through the legal system.
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  811.  @rhetorical1488  - That's pretty close to how the US has become about it. My own state's governor forced schools to remove their native American sports mascots. Never mind that some of the tribes themselves were fine with the use.
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  812.  @rhetorical1488  - Yep, we have that with the salmon. Instead of dealing with the poaching, they blame the dams and instead keep trying to push to get rid of those. Ironic since the dams are our most reliable form of green energy, and that's what they want to destroy while claiming to be a green state. 🤦‍♂️
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  813.  @sayaneechan5799  - Interesting enough, the WIKI I brought up about modern racism in Italy also appears to have vanished. It stated since as recent as 2017, Italy was still considered the most racist nation in Europe. That's not my opinion, but what the Wiki about Italian racism stated. So it's not bringing up just 80 year old stuff, but the facts that are stated about Italy for the past 10 years. You can look it up yourself. The point is, regardless what you want to believe, Italy still is the most racist country in Europe.
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  814.  @rhetorical1488  - I don't know if it's because I wrote d4m with an 'a' instead of a '4', but it appears the AI censors were offended by my wording. All I was trying to say is that it's ridiculous that our state, rather than going after tribal salmon poachers, would rather destroy our d4ms, which are our most reliable source of green energy.
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  815.  @rhetorical1488  - But as for the Comanche, they didn't just fight American settlers, they had been to war with just about everyone, settler or native. While it's true, they weren't all a bunch of kumbaya hippies (even the hippies weren't all that peaceful either), but not all tribes were as war hawkish as the Apache and Comanche.
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  816.  @sayaneechan5799  - Probably because being a conservative and voting for Trump, people call that voting literally for Hitler. So I'm used to hearing that rhetoric. All I'm saying is it's OK to be white. You don't have to be ashamed of your skin color. Call yourself whatever you want, but I'm perfectly fine with being called white. And outside of the woke BS that goes all over the world, most Americans are fine talking about American white/European culture or black American culture, native American culture, and Latin American, etc. Most Americans that haven't gone woke insane can talk about the different cultures and histories and learn from them. 'Colorblindness' is nonsense. We live in a world full of color, from sky to the sea, to the earth, plants, animals, and yes, even human beings have color. I refuse to live in a bland and boring colorless world.
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  817.  @rhetorical1488  - Erasing, or manipulating history, as well as political agendas are all part of human nature as well. It's why in both history and current affairs you have to take what you read, hear, and watch with a grain of salt. After all, Romans had their particular take on history and their interactions with other clans and countries they 'interacted' with. The Greeks, Goths, Celts, and the like have their versions of these 'interactions'. That is to say war, trade, and any other way that people might be towards another, things happened. People that survived, or, for history, people who's writings survived, are the stories that we come across. Whether we choose to believe them or not is another thing, as is whether we can verify that there is something true from their stories worth counting as history, or the truth about current events. As it is, propaganda goes back as far as the hieroglyphics, possibly longer. Who knows? Maybe a caveman hunter painted a lot of deer on his caves to boast that he was a better hunter than he really was. But hey, if he was looking to have a larger harem to keep him warm at night, who are we to judge? But, by and large, that is what most propaganda and political agendas are all about, a numbers game and to try and convince people one person or group is better than another. Erasing, or maniplulation of history is something many people do without really thinking about it. I mean, how many people honestly, truly are candid about who they are in their bios and profiles? Sure, like in a resume, we try to put our best foot forward. I'd imagine the Egyptians, if they suffered the loss they did to the Hebrews that the Bible accounts as being held as slaves, they probably did what they could to hide and erase that out of their histories.Same would also go with their depopulation practice of slaughtering Hebrew babies, not unlike China had done in more recent times under the one child policy. China themselves are a modern example of fudging the history so that events like Tiananmen Square are erased, or at least part of a silent, underground history known by those that lived it, but not spoken of in public. For us in the US and Canada, such censorship sounds appalling, as it should in countries that value and try to safeguard free speech. Yet with that also means being discerning about what you read and hear. It's not a new thing, this policing speech. There are certain things you can't discuss about WWII or the Holocaust in Germany without potentially being sent to jail. As offensive, over the top comedy as the 'saluting pug' was, was it really something to be jailed and taken to court over? On the other hand, there are some journalists out there covering controversial topics that are difficult for most people to bear reading, listening, or talking about that get jailed, partly because of the sensitive content, and partly because it's about a protected race or class of individuals or people. People wonder why it took so long to go after Epstein. Is it really that hard to figure out, considering all the rich, famous, and powerful people in the world he had going to the island? But I'll leave at that for now, because I've probably already hit a lot of key words and phrases that the algorithm is likely to flag and erase this. Yet, that's another case of erasing and manipulation, for if you can suppress speech without human intervention, just because, well then now we have the machines doing the tyrant's work so the tyrant doesn't have to take all the blame. It's just the algorithm. No one to blame but code.
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  818.  @TheSuperappelflap  - this is part of why I comment the way I do when people say, "no one in Europe ever refers to their skin color," because it's patiently false. Maybe they don't use the English term, but another language with a term that means the same color. As it is, in the places where Latin Americans migrated, even legally migrated, they clashed with black people over their word for black. Granted, there was also gang rivalry, but their word for black got responses, regardless if the one using the word had any idea that it was offensive. Add to that, language can be a personal thing for people, and to be told you're using a bad word, and it's one you've used all your life to simply refer to a color, and people are saying you can't use it, well, some people don't like being told what they can and cannot say. It's also partly why Spanish had become like a predominantly secondary language in certain parts of the country, and being bilingual in Spanish boosted one's employability in those areas. The geography has increased since then, along with more places becoming multilingual with immigrants from other parts of the world increasing as well. Why the increase? I'll leave that for people reading this to come to their own conclusions.
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  819.  @rhetorical1488  Aparently the YT algorithm had some issue with my last post to you. Ironically, it proves my own point of how we can now erase history with simply the code of an algorithm. That's about all I 'll say this time. You really can't have that much of a serious discussion on here because so many things are sensitive content.
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  820.  @TheSuperappelflap  - Places that aren't used to having multi-culture are going to be at least perceived 'racist' because fewer parts of the world have just one culture or a people with just one general skin color. China in particular is considered racist, and funny enough, Disney and all these big Hollywood types that want to tell every white American that they are inherently evil racists go out of their way to take all the w-0-ke diversity they force feed us with and whitewash it to suit the Chinese audience, or at least the CCP, which holds certain propaganda standards they want enforced on their people. But they're happy to have the w-0-ke stuff pushed over here to try and push us into a fabricated cultural revolution. And we'll see if this isn't deleted. Sorry YT, I prefer telling the truth as I know it than to bow to your tyrannical algorithm.
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  821.  @TheSuperappelflap  - well, I tried, but YT keeps censoring me. Apparently you can't talk about the double standards of a certain mouse eared company and their Pooh bear 'board of directors' without 'the code' coming in to erase it. You just can't have these conversations candidly on here when every other post they swoop in and delete.
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  822.  @TheSuperappelflap  - was going to joke about it, but 'the code' lacks understanding of humor. 😏
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  823.  @TheSuperappelflap  - I didn't say it, but I do agree with it. 😏👍
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  824.  @sayaneechan5799  - Generalities are generalities. I could be mad at people calling me an American, but it is what I am, simply by living in America. Even saying North America is general, because it can mean US or Canada. Similar with Northwest. Even calling me a Washingtonian can still be too general, not to mention the state of Washington gets mixed up with Washington D.C., which is a city, the nation's capitol, and way over on the other side of the country from Washington state. Plus, there's differences between eastern and western Washingtonians, enough that this state has sought a few times to split into two states. And even that doesn't distinguish differences, because most of what is meant by western Washington politically is generally King County, which mostly comprises of Seattle. The issue for the rest of Washington is the domination of Seattle politics over the rest of the state. Regardless all that, I'm an American, and I take no offense to being called one. I think our influence in the world is exaggerated. Wokism itself is an offshoot of the socialist/Marxist Frankfurt School that originated from the Institute for Social Research founded at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1923. So I don't know why Germany doesn't get blaimed more for poisoning the world with socialism and Marxism.
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  825. Bill Gates was against software piracy. While he would have wanted everyone on windows, using windows software, he would very much want it so that he was making a profit from it. That, I think, is the bigger difference between now and then. The software giants don't care about profit and take for granted that people will just continue to use their software regardless, especially since it's all they can use if they sign in to the Apple or Microsoft environment. BIll Gates was trying to build the empire, and now it is here, and here to stay for the foreseeable future.
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  826. I'm sure they do blame Microsoft as well. Valve just put salt into an already open wound.
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  827. While I agree, Microsoft can, and does limit, if not completely deny use and access of things like their cloud services, and other thing online may be broken from use without a patch or workaround.
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  828. Digital rights isn't necessarily bad. It's when companies choose to use it for why they can take away products that you purchased from them. However, we do need some type of digital rights that is fair for both those that make a product and those that purchase and/or use a product.
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  829. So what if they get laughed at for trying to stand up for their rights? I guess unless still salty for all the times Windows and Mac users laughed at Linux for being so uncompatible for so long, and still has some issues. Sure, what goes around, comes around. But that itself is a psychotic response that only continues a vicious cycle of resentment.
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  830. Yes, I agree that Chrome is a known vulnerable browser, which is why I never use Chrome. It started off as malware and continues to be malware to this day. Just yet another reason to drop Sream, if the prefer to have malware as a major component of their client.
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  831. Indeed, the H1B is exploitation and harms both Americans and the ones held hostage by the companies that hold the visa over them. It seems more that to be 'fit' to work in tech means you are willing to be a slave to the corporation.
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  832. The repositories are not the main problem. Not updating the repository can be the problem, but it's also having unofficial packages in the repository. Yet, as noted in the video, it's more convoluted than that. I have to wonder how many people realize if they were working with any other company than Valve, who's actually invested in making Linux work, this whole Linux community project relations would be discontinued and distros maintaining their unofficial snap or other package would be getting a cease and dismiss order before going on to sue the distro maintaining the repository out of existence for not removing the unofficial package. This is why we have all these multiple streaming apps for games and other content to begin with. It's also what happens when we remove the physical content that we used to purchase and effectively own. At least I have not heard of a company trying to remove some one's VHS or DVD copy of a movie because Netflix no longer has the rights to stream it. Most people understand why that would be weird, since you own the physical copy and purchased it at a physical store.But ownership in a the virtual metaverse that is the internet, while the concept is there, it's as if it's completely foreign. Then, when the non-com world of the virtual world meets the commercial world of the 'real world, it's not often too pretty. It's not like there hasn't been attempts at making a commercial based virtual world work. Second Life is an example of trying to put free market capitalism to work, with user generated and user sold content. But even it locks horns with OpenSim, which would even exist if Linden Labs didn't make their source content free and open-source over a decade ago, back when they were obsessed with interoperability. Turns out, that didn't vork out to well, since the ability to move from one virtual world grid to another meant using a hypergate. When you do that, all the metadata that that was used by the home grid was reset and the metadata for the content would default to the current user. The same also would happen if you ported content by the various means of downloading and uploading content. So yeah, that didn't go over well with the user based content creators, and Linden Lab had to shut down the hypergrid. This led to the wars between open grids and closed commercial grids that were hoping to make their own virtual economy. Much of this is what I remember from being active between both worlds around 2009 - 2015. The two virtual world factions are there, even Second Life still exists, but it's kind of kept to being it's own niche thing, gaining a little interest when stuff like Meta or NFTs float into mainstream attention. Content is still being made by users, and even virtual land rented out. You just don't hear as much in the media about someone quiting their job because the revenue from their virtual store pays better, or that a land barron in SL made millions off of virtual land sales. That hype is long gone, but a dedicated community remains. The point? This argument over content and ownership has been going on for a long time. I doubt it will ever get resolved to anyone's liking. But we should appreciate Valve has been a lot more patent with the Linux community than, say, Nintendo or Sony would be.
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  833. * cease and desist
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  834. Gay Marriage and civil rights hinge on the ability of women to murder their unborn? So in order to prevent black and gay people from being lynched by the KKK we have to sacrifice the unborn?
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  835. Forrest rangers almost have more authority than a cop or teacher. They can at least make the choice whether to shoot the wild animal with a tranquilizer or a bullet.
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  836. @Sunset Animator  Modern schooling is a joke. I almost went into it, doing substitute teaching in the early to mid 2000's. Teachers were complaining about the whole W. Bush era NCLB program. But at least there were academic standards then. Now, it's all about the LGBTQ+ and CRT political activism, rather than preparing kids for how to get a job, maybe join a trade apprenticeship, or otherwise prepare for a career after high school, if not college degree, or other career certifications that would actually make a HS certificate more useful than saying you might be competent enough for unskilled labor (assuming the kid wasn't passed just to get them out of the school system). At this point, let the schools burn. We need a complete overhaul on education, and may have to return to home schooling. Because the school institution and the politics around it do not have the children's best interests in mind.
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  837. @Bezalel Jaeger 308  - he may be having dementia flashes back to the 70's. His policies are as bad, if not worse than Carter's.
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  838. @west side  Animals generally kill mostly for food or territory. Quasi domesticated animals that are partly feral due to poor discipline of their owners kill for fun.
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  839. @west side  - both. Human beings are a species of animal, though also considered sentient because of critical thinking skills, like seeing metaphors, or seeing greater meaning in life beyond basic necessities like food and water.
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  840. Now I'm intrigued, because Hyprland is often called a WM, even though it's a Wayland compositor. Why do Wayland compositors get lumped with X-11 WMs? Also, now that I have learned the jargon, it begs the question: What are the most light weight X-11 WMs, and what are the most lightweight Wayland Compositors? Currently, on my newest HP laptop, a 10th Gen Core i-5 Intel from 2019, I have Fedora 41 installed on the internal hard drive, while I side load a PNY micro SD that has Garuda Arch installed on it. On both I use Hyprland for my Wayland compositor. I also have a HP from 2015 that I installed Debian Bookworm on it. This was after hopping around, and, considering that most distros I tried on it, and had best experience on it, were Debian based, it really made the most sense to just go with original, instead of the forked distros. Debian just works, and this seems to be the case especially with older computers that are getting to be around 10 years old, and generally have pretty small RAM in them. Even with my newer HP that's only 4 years older, it has 12 Gb RAM compared to the HP from 2015 that has 4 Gb RAM. Anyways, so far, I've found i3 to be the WM for me on the 2015 HP. It's meant to be my mobile office laptop that I might take to my parents on a quick visit between days off, or to do things at the coffee shop before or after work, depending on what shift I have. However, I find I love the workflow I have on i3. It's almost similar to what I have on Hyprland, just with less frills. It's a little more minimalist, which I like on the 2015 laptop, and it manages to keep things going better than most other environments I've tried on this laptop. There's just something about i3 that rivals for me the great experience I already get with Hyprland on the 2019 HP. I don't know. What do you think? Is i3 the best of the best X-11 WM s? Where does Hyprland fit for you in your ranks of the best Wayland compositors? Also, what happened with Weston? I tried it a few times on Fedora 40 before I upgraded. It was an interesting concept, but sadly underdeveloped. I could get a few apps to work once I figured out how to get the terminal up and try loading them from there. But it was definitely not going to work for a main environment. But it was fun to play around in. Just wish it got developed more.
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  841. I just get tired of the blanket accusations people make, especially if you say anything nice about Trump.
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  842.  @noahalcantar2431  - Sega was fairly friendly with Nintendo. Marketing was kind of silly, but on par with the whole 90's extreme era of commercials. But Sega did respect the region restraints Nintendo put on the North American market during the Nintendo Seal of Quality phase. Can't remember what lawsuit, but whichever set the precedence allowed for the arcade ports to all current consoles on the market, so that you could compare the different home ports and decide which console had the best port. Before then, non-Nintendo consoles had to distinguish themselves from Nintendo, and much of that was primarily with first party games, since most third party devs signed with Nintendo. At the time, we were led to believe the seal of quality meant Nintendo had the best games, while the competitors were in some way inferior. I don't think Nintendo can get away with that again, nor do they need to. If Playstation and X-box have indeed gone under, All Nintendo has to do is keep making good games that people enjoy playing.
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  843. Violent response? We're not on the side that pushed a day of vengeance, nor are we the ones going around shooting up churches and schools.
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  844. Progressives and modernism ruin everything. Thus why I have some hopes for a more traditional and conservative swing coming soon.
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  845. Sorry Tim, but saying there's no link between forest fires and arson still seems too early to call. There were numerous arsonists caught in key areas where fires broke out. Not all of them are going to be stupid enough to admit to being part of Antifa or BLM. To pretend they are only going to do scorched earth on buildings in cities and not do the same with forests is nieve.
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  846. Jimmy Kimmel was the less popular 'backup QB' on the Man Show. His jokes used to be belittle his wife, and now he wants to claim to not be sexist? Adam Corolla would have been fine without Kimmel.
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  847. You don't know the out and out spiritual warfare in the Church. This has been boiling for decades, almost over half a century. The Church is the Body of Christ, and Apostolic succession of over 2000 years, the kernel of the seed started with Jesus and the Disciples in the Gospels, and born on the day of Pentecost. Your criticism from a sect that has only been around a few hundred years means nothing. While I agree with some of what you say, you don't know the fullness of facts, especially when you don't know about the conservatives and the traditionalists that do oppose this heretic Pope. You're also a hypocrite, for where were you when the Protestant churches fell to all of this decades ago? You already have women pastors, you already have gay pastors and you have them officiating gay weddings, and you have Trans Gospel reading and preaching LGBTQ indoctrination from the pulpit. Protestants fell long before now. The Church still has faith and hope that the gates of Hell will not prevail, and we may very well, as the Body of Christ, rise from this time of evil. Protestants do not have that assurance at all.
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  848. Tying agreements, or requiring a customer to purchase one product or service in order to obtain another, is among the anti-competitive practices that are illegal.
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  849. I think if I was a dev, I'd consider putting in throw away code, just to troll the trolls. 🤡😏
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  850.  @slaapliedje  Short answer is nostalgia mixed with various niche communities, such as retro gaming and Demoscene, who both sought authenticity in the hardware, but for different puposes.
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  851.  @slaapliedje  - There is a niche cottage industry for reparing and refurbishing retro PCs and consoles, as well as, for the less purist that thinks the only way to enjoy classic gaming is on old school TVs and monitors prior to our current HD era to modify for modern output standards. In some ways, it's going back to a time in computing and gaming when the pioneers weren't the major AAA corporate studios, but hobbyists that managed publish a game, and it became successful, partly for the major demand for any content that would make getting a home computer or game console worth more than being an expensive calculator or overly complex electric typewriter. We're at a time where people know what a GUI is, even if they don't know the aconym. We have clear concepts of what a desktop screen should be, and the basics of how we expect things to work in that environment. Now, to come close to that pioneering spirit of working with things foreign to most people's understanding and expectations, you find yourself dabbling in the retro scene. On the other hand, some grew up with it, and like to relive the supposed good old days. Still, much future advancements and innovation has come by tinkering with something from the past. After all, Ford didn't invent the wheel or chariot. And you never know, what you define as junk may be repurposed and championed as the next great thing, like raytracing was made out to be, despite that Amiga was among the first to make it possible.
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  852. Remember when liberals were all against the FISA courts? What changed their minds about them? W. Bush was no longer in power and Obama could do no wrong. 😏
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  853. It really doesn't. A front end soundboard is way more intuitive. The nodes make less sense for most audio needs.
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  854. As it is, I switched to Pipewire to get away from the JACK node system. The less I have to deal with it, the better.
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  855.  @vocassen  - I started on Cakewalk way back on Win 3.11 around 1996. For me, it had the features I needed for notation composition, and the soundboard was basically each MIDI instrument or Wave sample had their own volume control with basic features for panning between left speaker and right speaker, and adding chorus and reverb. You then had the master volume as well. So it's basically a bit more advanced version of volume control. You could add patches to the software for extra effects, but it also depended on what sound configuration you had on your PC, particularly with regards to hardware, from a basic SoundBlaster 16, to Roland Sound Canvas, to the SoundBlaster AWE 32/64 series that introduced soundfonts, which improved the quality of sound banks, as well as allowed for creating your own. So, at the time, the better the sound card, the better quality effects and instruments you can have. But, that changed after integrated sound, and as RAM and storage increased. more currently, we have VSTs, (virtual instruments) that are similar to sound fonts in adding more quality to the sound bank, but also implementing Instruments, and sets of instruments that nor set to the old MIDI sound bank presets, but instead are specialized for, say, a variety of drum sets that, in their own app you can adjust the volume and sound of the each part of a drum set, from the snare, the bass, cymbals, etc. These are outside of the soundboard, or the instrument selection of the DAWS (Digital Audio Workstation), or composition software, but may be accessed within the software, and edited to use with the main composition/DAWS software. Just typing it might make it sound more complex than it really is. But the basic framework for the soundboard has been around for decades, and is pretty much standard to most DAWS and composition software like Sibelius, Finale, MuseScore. PreSonus, Rosegarden, Reaper, LMMS, and Ardour, to name a few. For my current setup, I have MuseScore 4 for music notation composition and editing, with a little bit of basic mixing of MIDI soundfonts and VSTs to at least get the basic adjustments of a musical piece. Then I export each track, along with a master track (optional). and tweak the instrument tracks in Audacity. Sometimes I'll compare the master track to the Audacity edits for a bit of quality control. If I really dead to do anything more advanced, I might use Arduous for mixing, but it all depends on the workflow, which I've changed up several times. The basic soundboard has remained a standard in most any music composition and mixing software I've used. But you can get into nodes, which many of the modern DAWS have as plugins. There are also VSTs that have a similar node style to mimic old sythns that relied on the whole wiring and jack system to change sounds that most MIDI synths can make. I have no trouble with people wanting to toy with such a VST setup. It's just not essential, but can add some interesting sounds or effects. But to try and setup virtual jack/node system for my laptop's sound? Eh, I'd rather have a basic soundboard/volume control, and the option to enable and disable the audio and video devices and drives as needed. In Mabox, the audio is done through Volume Control, with tabs for Playback, Recording, Output Devices, Input Devices, and configuration. For the short, basically, if you know how to use volume control, chances are you are not going to have too much trouble with the soundboard mixer in most common DAWS and music composition software. However, you might have trouble getting the audio to work with some of them (*ahem* Rosegarden, Ardour), specially it they are tied to needing JACK setup in a certain manner. Again, I switched to Pipewire to get away from having to configure JACK nodes and have my audio just work.
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  856.  @cericat  - Graphs are a whole different thing. I guess the simplest answer for what I mean is just a volume control. I'm just used to considering it a soundboard, because each track on a soundboard has it's own individual volume control. The back end, as I understand it, would be the plug and play stuff, like the MIDI cables and sockets, or the audio jacks, from which JACK got it's name, and what the nodes are supposed to mimic. Most of that, with how each device is setup, ought to already be something that is done by the computer and the device drivers, and if I have to work with the devices, then some sort of AV control panel, or AV board similar to Volume Control or a sound/video mixing board. Nodes just seem to add too much complexity to the whole setup, like some 80's power synth that looks like some sort of wiring system in Frankenstein's personal lab.
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  857. I mean VCL has had both an audio equalizer, and a similar sort of video equalizer for years. I've never really had to explain those things, but they are basically what I'd prefer instead of toying around with nodes, especially since the computer with its device drivers, should be doing most of that plug and play stuff already. All I really care to do is adjust and enable and disable them as needed in the easiest way possible without feeling twisted and tangled up in a whole bunch of virtual wire nodes.
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  858.  @vocassen  - VoiceMeter looks similar, but really, just something like volume control, but maybe a combination of AV. On Mabox, it's pretty simple to go up to the right corner, right click on the audio icon, and the first application I have under 'Sound and Music' is 'Volume Control'. I usually keep that open because Pipewire automatically adds whatever devices or applications are using audio, and I can tweak things there as needed. It's simple, but it gets the job done. From there, Muse Score has its own mixing board for MIDI/virtual instruments, and Audacity helps polish it off in sound editing, and maybe adding some extra effects in post production. It really comes down to how simple or complex one wants to make things, and I usually prefer to keep the basic workflow as simple as possible.
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  859. Linux gatekeepers? 🤣😂🤣😂
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  860. Most the US gov is run by deep state bots that want to plunder our resources and let all the rest of us perish from their plague
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  861. In the end, Pfizer eventually gets everybody. 🍆
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  862. It's a difficult topic because it's a matter of circumstance and association. This is at the heart of real racism and bigotry is the us v. them mentality. I don't think it fair to blame it all on mental illness. It might have a little to do with processing information and not having the sort of filters that most people do, but the issues Kanye has with the entertainment industry run deeper than who he currently blames for his issues. That said, we should have a more open discussion about the Holocaust and the 'Yahtzees' because there are a lot of things happening in our own culture that parallel with what happened then. A lot of our current industries made money off of that regime, even benefited from some of the tech and science that built many things things we commonly use today. We also have to understand the ties there were to the eugenetics program of the regime and how that has effected the development of genetics as we know it today. Then there's Albert Einstein who was by birth Jewish, but did not practice the religion, and even turned down the offer to be president of modern Israel. There are so many intriguing aspects of that era of history, and where we are currently about these matters doe a disservice to the lessons we should have learned regarding how such a genocidal regime could exist, then play a blind eye to the genocidal tendencies if the communist nations, of which we can't speak a lot about because it's 'bad for business', just like what our companies probably knew about the Holocaust would have been bad for business for them to speak out about then. This is why we need to talk about it open and honestly, for otherwise we are just as bad as those that looked the other way when it was a certain German regime doing the atrocities.
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  863. I'm just imagining our multi billion dollar fighter jets today running on BASIC, like it's the 70's all over again! 😂🤣😂🤣
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  864.  @kensmith5694  - That is one thing I can give to the old timer tech. With all the advancements computers have made, we still haven't made another moon landing, and certainly are a very long way from traveling to Mars.
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  865. ​ @kensmith5694  - Initial fact is opinion. We don't know exactly what is on Mars, but it is a solid planet, likely having a variety of minerals that may be of interest, but we haven't the technology to travel there and find out what Mars may have to offer. But yes, there are a lot of features that are wrapped up into one program, that in earlier days of programming would have been separate programs. I look at Blender, and the audio equivalents, like Cakewalk, and they are basically their own sort of OS environment that is mostly considered an application because they run on an OS. Part of what drew me to Linux was more use of command line and terminal. Before Windows got divorced from MSDOS, there was more of a combination of the best of older forms of computing with the Windowing GUI on top. To come close to that today, would be to do Linux From Scratch, or compile your own Arch Linux installation. Tiling like Sway, Hyprland, and Openbox help change things, and greater use and understanding of terminal remains important in Linux to understand one's distro of choice. But, unfortunately, Linux keeps wanting to be "just like Windows!" So a lot of the creativity and ingenuity goes away from what makes better than Windows to how to pander to Window noobies, as if such patronizing makes such distros attractive to people leaving Windows for Linux. I was one of those Windows noobs, and yet I love Arch based distros, tile based desktop environments, and using the terminal.
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  866. Tim, this is late in the season for wildfires where I'm at. We've got a huge wall of smoke from these fires, and yes, rumors of BLM/Antifa possibly starting fires. We've had nearly 100 days of riots, which you reported as them using fireworks and starting fires. Our cities have neighborhoods that were burned down, and we're supposed to believe it's not possible for any of them to go out and start fires in the wilderness? Sure, some of them may claim to be environmentalists, but they also claimed to care about black people while burning down black businesses and neighborhoods. We can't rule out Antifa here, because, like you said, they've wanted to start stuff in rural America. Rural America is too spread out to cause the damage that they do in cities, so it wouldn't be surprising if the tactic was changed to burning and smoking us out. We prize our wilderness and farm land, and even if they started it in wheat fields or apple orchards, once the fire gets big enough, you can't control whether it will remain in the agriculture and cross into the wilderness. Of course, one shouldn't be trying to burn down either one, nor buildings in cities. We've seen what they have done to cities, so we can't rule them out as being the arsonists, even if it isn't their standard mode of operations.
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  867. I went over to BitChute after VidMe went down. The problem with Bitchute is it's not stable. There are nearly half of my music uploads that don't work any more. I like Rumble, but have yet to get much traction.
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  868. How can you work for a major magazine and be poor? This guy's just a nut.
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  869.  @americanadventureoutdoors4213  - Wasn't Liberty another attempt?
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  870. And there's plenty of other stories of people walking away on the WalkAway channel https://www.youtube.com/@RealWalkAway/videos
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  871. It still is under a dictatorship, they just happen to like it because they can riot all summer long and not get much more than a slap on the wrist, as long as they riot for leftist causes, anyways.
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  872. Biden also had divisive gaffs, like saying on a black radio show that if youbdon't vote for him, you aren't black. The absurdity of this argument even later effectively with loopy liberal who recalled Gavin Newsome be abuse even democrats realized he was doing a terrible job. However the DNC successfully defamed Larry Elder as an Uncle Tom and black face of white supremacy. That, and CA liberals don't really want reform when they know that's taking away the liberal plantation amenities, like 'safe spaces' to get free heroine and shoot up, and crack down on corruption that is advantageous for deviants, thugs, junkies, and crack dealers.
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  873. Here's the thing, with inflation, millionaire's are essentially the upper middle class of the US. These people about 40 years ago would be making more around $100 - $500 thousand, likely as small to mid sized business owners. Even your average grade school teacher is making around $50 thousand for about 9 to 10 month's work, and yet they complain that's still not enough. Retail makes around $20 to $40 thousand a year, which used to be a teacher's salary nearly 20 years ago. But now people claim they can't live on $20 thousand a year. The major problem is inflation. If we can curve inflation, that would go a long way to getting us out of the mess we are in. Yet no one wants to tackle the trillions of dollars that the US is in debt. No one wants to make less, but always more. Granted if you are an employer, you would like to pay employees as little as possible, so that you can make a profit from the business. Which is why, you, like many other YouTubers, are more than happy to be self-employed so that you don't have to deal with the overhead - that is, the cost of say, a professional studio, as well as employees that, while they could free you up to do other things, cost money, which means the need to make more money to pay for all the overhead.
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  874. I would love a ban on bots. Too many crappy pop singers in the past decade got popular from using bots to boost their numbers. Though just as bad are fake documentaries with robo-voiceovers.
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  875. This misstep has at least helped people realize Bud Light is piss poor beer. 😏👍
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  876. Was funny how they had it "[black women]," as if to show how lazy they were in taking out the cookie cutter fill in the blank part of the propaganda. 😏🤣😂
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  877. The problem starts with calling our government a democracy. It's supposed to be a republic. It's why we have three branches of government for checks and balance on power.
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  878. I understand on the child behavior being bad, yet the grooming going on in schools these days? Some teachers deserve mace in the face at the least. Other teachers need to be fired and put in pedo prison.
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  879. Have you heard about Coca-Cola going woke and using critical race theory sensitivity training?
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  880. computer creep is a problem with a lot of appliances. It's that whole issue of just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. If a computer component isn't going to improve the appliances overall performance, it probably isn't worth it. If it can 3nhance environment control, detect spoilage, or otherwise add the quality, then great. Otherwise, the computer aspect is a gimmick not worth the extra money. Unfortunately, everything is getting computerized, and planned obsolescence is becoming the standard.
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  881. Cavalry or calvary, what would that matter anyways? The use of either in the context of the post was to bring their people to DC to support Trump. The DNC's interpretation would be like someone believing the KISS army is a literal militia.
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  882. Sorry, will go with Fluxbox or Openbox.
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  883.  @BrodieRobertson  - I enjoy them quite nicely, thank you! X-11 isn't going anywhere, and it's enjoyed a long run of things because it simply works.
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  884. Make them pay for putting you through frivolous lawsuits.
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  885. @runderwo - This is the insane stuff we've been dealing with for nearly over a decade with AAA games, Wizards of the Coast, Disney, etc. Considering the connections between tech and entertainment, it's amazing that only recently has it really started to take over. Sure there were hints of it, such as James Damore, who was a software engineer at Google that wrote a 10-page memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” back in 2017. Even so, it seems like the tech world has been somewhat late to the game in realizing the dangers of what we call woke and DEI, and what long ago we used to be able to joke about as political correctness run amok. Once we scoffed at this as being people way too sensitive, and parts of society are finally over being run over by these nuts - but the tech community is growing more and more toxic from being infiltrated by these lunatics.
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  886.  @SuperColdLemonade  - A lot has changed since 2012, or maybe it started a little before then, but somewhere around that time YouTube was transitioning from being more libertarian towards it's more leftist woke mob mentality today. Somewhat the same with FB and Twitter as well. That's about when we were starting to hear about these odd things called safe spaces popping up in universities, and even black masses being held, or trying to be held at major ivy league universities. I don't even know if woke and satanism are even all that much related to each other, but it was an oddity that the both began to rise up in the universities about the same time. That, and pop music, and other entertainment that's usually been more influenced by soul music, and other genres in that Christian/country/gospel slant, were getting a darker vibe. Like Katie Perry's Dark Horse. I mean, not more that 10 years before 2012, I can remember substitute teaching in a high school weight lifting class, and the radio was turned to a local rock station. One girl in the class asked if the radio could be turned to a pop station, saying that it would be better than listening to devil music. This was in a public school at the time, and I did not miss the irony of claiming pop music is not the devil's music even then. But that's also to put perspective on where the culture has gone with this weird sort of nega-fundamentalist/puritan cult of woke that is like a dark mirror image of it's more conservative Christian days. So I don't know if it's Joe Rogan lost his edge as much as he let the woke mob get to him with their character assassination attempt. Why it didn't seem to matter when on YouTube is hard to say. Maybe he did sell out to Spotify. Who really knows? But the pressures of the current culture are eating at a lot of people. It's so unfortunate so many bend the knee, especially among those that pushed the message and rebelled In the 70's, 80's, and 90's against censorship happening with conservative Christian fundanentalists. Apparently they are all for it now because it's their political and religious cult doing the censorship.
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  887. I wouldn't consider this wiki to be the official definition of conservative. Christianity and conservative do tend to run parallel, but there's political and philosophical conservative that may share similar values with Christian conservatives, but not necessarily agree with Christianity.
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  888. Never thought I'd agree with JK Rowling. 😏👌
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  889. Because 'they' is plural for a group, not individuals. Although the LBGTQ and the gender studies they spawn from act like a collectivist Borg, so maybe they makes sense in that perspective. Even so, social Marxist drone seems the most accurate set of pronouns for these loons.
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  890. We could let the rich take it first, and if they don't die, it might be safe for the rest of us.
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  891. Also, the reversing of the colors was a fluke, from when TV went color. As I understand it, red was Dem, blue was Rep. But somehow the colors got switched during a national election, and people just decided to roll with it ever since.
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  892. Why do we think Congress will do anything other than waste taxpayer dollars? Besides, Congress primarily passes laws. It's never been their job to enforce them. All the committees do is make Congress look like they're doing something and to score a few points for their constituents.
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  893.  @Lindsey_Lockwood  - We don't need to play their games. That's the way to keep adding piles of dung to the problem, which will never get fixed because everyone wants to keep their particular corruption going. But then again, that's why both parties are hated and called the uniparty. If that's your game, then count me out.
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  894.  @machine-madedog5059  - While Biden remains in power? It might be more likely for Jan 6 Insurrection. But the Dems likely wouldn't. It's all political theater.
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  895.  @markkar4663  - Makes sense. Working for the DNC is where all the liars and scoundrels end up eventually. Hell, even Richard Spenser simped for Biden.
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  896. @Corinne Fitzpatrick  - Abortion is legal. I'm not going to condone or support it. Regardless if this stupid game is in some way legal, it is immoral and evil and people involved in it of any party or affiliation are of the same wicked ilk. Let them all rot in Hell.
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  897.  @Lindsey_Lockwood  - troll much?
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  898. Even though more traditional, conservative Catholic, I've come to respect you as a person, regardless if I agree with you or not. You're always informative and nuanced, plus the shared interest in history and culture, and preserving the objetive of it over 'your truth', which is more subjective, a personal perspective.Most times, our disagreements might be in regard to role of the Church, which just about everyone has difficulty holding objective and nuanced about, be it history or the current era. But I do appreciate when you reserve judgement and ask for more clarity on why the Church may do things one way or another. Point being here that people can learn and respect one another regardless of differences. As per influencer, I do agree for the need to take responsibility. This is not necessarily about taking it for the team, or a deserved punishment to serve as an example, for setting a good example as a mentor is a form of influence. While I don't talk on my channel, I do try to reference source material if arranging someone else's song, as well as what audio, video, amd musical software I use to compose and arrange songs. Doing that makes a difference between being responsible with copyrights and licenses, or otherwise not and being given a valid copyright strike. I'm glad when people enjoy my music, or arrangements, and take pride in showing my receipts as well. Anyways, thanks for the content, and was glad you didn't rush to conclusions. Regardless what happens, everyone deserves their day in court, if they need to defend themselves, and may mercy and justice prevail.
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  899. I see the pattern, but how do we verify it from apophenia, or otherwise being dismissed as a conspiracy theory? Once verified as fact, what can we do with the information? Sure, report about it, but is what we're seeing something that should be handled as legal or criminal, and thus needing to get processed and taken to court? Something is off in open-source, and once we can clearly identify it, we'll have to figure how best to handle it.
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  900. So apparently Twitter 2.0 considers it suicidal to respond to a tweet with a pic of an activist with a sign saying abolish white people by replying: "Activists need to go jump off the bridge into the river to combat hydrophobia." So you can tell white people to go kill, abolish, or abort yourself. That's perfectly fine on Twitter. But you can't flip the narrative around, even if you are saying it tongue in cheek? That's ridiculous! Twitter 2.0 is no different than Twitter 1.0.
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  901.  @ILikeFreedomYo  - Romney isn't called a RINO for nothing.
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  902. Democrats push the big lie all the time. 1984 was supposed to be fiction, not the DNC playbook.
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  903.  @brazwen  - yes, that's what I typed
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  904.  @brazwen  - It's what I meant to type in the first place. Autocorrect is a thing, you know? The point was toward George Orwell's 1984. If you really want to be a nit pick about it then it really ought to be nineteen eighty-four, as the 1949 1st edition, and almost every other edition ever since has done. Sure, there are variations on capitalization, be it just the nineteen, as in the 1962 Penguin reprint, or the nineteen, eighty, and four, as has been done since the 1969 modern series cover. The only cover of the Penguin publishings that actually has 1984 in numerics, though as graffiti over the title that spells out the numbers, is in the 2009 publishing of the Modern Series redesign by Jim Stoddart. But originally, the first edition was without capitalization as nineteen eighty-four. That's if you really want to be a technical nit-pic about it, anyways. 😝😏
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  905. Same reason WA state Dems like mail in ballots. Because they can cheat.
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  906. Why not just say whining?
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  907.  @kukuc96  Maybe because traditional English hasn't been used in the UK in nearly 1000 years, and even the English today wouldn't understand it.
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  908.  @andrina118  - Trolling? Sounded more like whining that American English is the standard and UK English isn't. 😂
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  909. And if you really want to show that you're not racist, go read actual slave narratives, or research the Civil Rights era. In both instances, it was Democrats fighting hard to keep control of the plantation, be it the literal ones that held slaves, or the political one that to this day still uses race baiting and fear tactics to keep people of color voting for them. Yet what has BIpig Tech, neo-liberal Dems done other than maintain the status quo of high crime, high taxes, high poverty, and turned their cities into crap? They don't care about people of color, save for keeping control over them to keep power. But sure, a black mermaid is really going to change all that. Nope, they just toying with you like a fish on a hook!
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  910.  @kneekoo  - It seems hard to argue on a technicality when the reality is Debian like distros are doing fine maintaining their multi-repositories while Canonical can't handle their one Snap store. It could be a skeleton crew, or just flat out poor management. Either way, a win for Debian and APT, and a loss for Canonical/Ubuntu and Snaps.
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  911. I don't say Will Smith is justified, but I can get why he did it. A lot of non-wokies get it, and can empathize. He needs serious help, but he has to be the one to finally realize it. Hopefully he realizes before doing something fatal.
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  912. All Linux should go to pacman , yay, and just use the AUR. 😏👍
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  913. I love Arch, and I switch between Garuda and Fedora, both using Hyprland. They're almost identical to each other right now. The one issue I have with Arch-based distros that prevents me from making Garuda my main distro is that one program I use a lot, I can't save pictures from it. It's a virtual world program called Second Life, and, it doesn't matter what Viewer I use to access the world, whenever I try to take a picture in-world and save it to disk, it can't do it on Arch distros for some reason. Or maybe I'm missing something? Because I use the viewer that is in the AUR, and most everything else works with it fine. But Arch is the only distro that I can't save in-world pictures to disk. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian based distros save the pics just fine, though. So, for now, I'm keeping with Fedora 40 as my main distro, and with Hyprland, the experience is fairly similar to Garuda. Ok, one other app works better on Fedora for me than on Arch/Garuda, and that is MuseScore. For some reason, it's more prone to crash, or not work at all on the Arch distros I have used - even ones that were specifically configures for sound and music creation, or as an AV studio. But MuseScore works fine on Fedora as an app image, since that's how the current version is downloaded now. oddly, the music instrument manager can be downloaded as a .deb or .rpm. So I guess app developers trying to be more compatible with Linux are also trying to figure out what ways are best to package their programs for Linux. 😏
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  914. So a population control advocate, who likely advocates for abortion and the right to die, is complaining about Jordan B Peterson stating that you can check out any time you like? Just shows the hypocrisy of the population control advocate that has no qualms telling other people to delete themselves and their babies, but doesn't want to do it themselves. 🙄😏
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  915. By the way, I voted for Trump, but I consider operation warp speed to be one of his worse moves as president. Very few Trump supporters wanted the vaccine. And technically, there are multiple vaccines, so don't fool yourself with the current scarcity. If anything, the scarcity and all this banter over who should get it are all ways of trying to create demand for the vaccine. We are a nation easily fooled by marketing propaganda, so that it's easier to get people on board without making it mandatory. They did the same thing with masks.
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  916. Of course most guys don't like septum rings. They might as well be considered lesbians.
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  917. Why advertise on the weather channel? I highly doubt that the reason not to put ads on it has anything to do with race, but the fact people watch it for maybe 5 minutes in the day, if at all. Not to mention, people can check the weather on their phones and watches.
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  918. I've known it since Bill Gates built his empire during the 80's and 90's.
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  919.  @drumboy02  who can forget William Fencedoor. 😏
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  920. If this is true, Project Veritas is no more. He should have never gone corporate. Once you give your company over to a board of directors, you're screwed. He might as well start over and keep sole proprietor rights. Never trust board of directors or partners that are ever ready to shove you under the bus to take over power.
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  921. This woman does not know what de-escalation is. For you are not supposed to put more gasoline on the fire to put it out. 😏
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  922.  @1introvert  - Yeah, because we are not slaves to the corporations. That's part of the American dream, that we are able to pursue the work that we desire for the pay we desire. But it appears you would rather not have workers as much as slaves.
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  923.  @krillin876  - Indeed, the Indian worker is effectively held hostage to the company that holds and has the option to renew or decline their H1B. Which is why those companies that use H1Bs a lot are proving that they would rather be a slave plantation, rather than a modern company that is able to pay for quality workers, and offer competitive salaries. People don't leave a company if they are paid and treated well - unless they are held hostage like immigrants on H1Bs are.
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  924.  @mcdeepend  - There's over 350 million people in the US. Are you certain that there isn't at least 5% of the population that could do the work? You are selling people short that you don't even know.
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  925.  @ozramblue117  - Did they treat him like a slave and threaten to send him back to Germany? Context matters, genius.
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  926.  @millanferende6723  - there kind of is, but corporations have ways to work around it, such as putting up a post, but not really advertising the availability. Or, they interview people, but don't have any intentions of really hiring them, because they already have someone else in mind, Thus it's not really that there aren't qualified people, but corporations that game the system to say they couldn't find anyone more capable than other than a foreigner that meets the qualifications they really want - cheap and easily manipulated and held hostage by the company holding their visa.
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  927.  @whocarescrapsa  - Are you worth what you think you are? Why should anyone put value and invest in you?
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  928.  @voidcry9757  You can't have a competitive free market for labor if you start with slave labor.
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  929.  @KAG1776  - You mean they want to get paid, rather than be slaves?
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  930.  @BlckCloud73  - Not even close. It started when people chose to make things that have nothing to do with the job more important than the qualifications of the job. If anything, H1B are part of DEI.
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  931.  @STCatchMeTRACjRo  - Yeah, and 20 years ago, I couldn't fathom a game needing more that 250 Mb of storage space. There wasn't such thing as a hard drive with over 60 Gb, save maybe high end tech servers, and we're talking about large room sized servers with who knows how many top of the line hard drive daisy chained together. Heck, my HP Pavilion desktop at the time came with 64 Mb RAM new, which I later bumped up to 128 Mb. It's original hard drive was about 20 Gb, and it had an Intel Celeron running at 400 Mhz. I Missed out on the Pentium III era, but my Gateway from mid 2000's had a Pentium 4 that clocked around 3.5 Ghz with 2 Gb RAM, and and maybe a 250 GB hard drive. My current HP Laptop from 2019 has an Intel Core i5 10th Gen clocking in at 3.6 Gh with 12 Gb RAM and 1 Tb memory. Now, the base line for buying a new laptop is at 16 GB, up to 32 Gb RAM. It won't be long before RAM will reach 64 Gb, then a few years later 128 GB up to 256 Gb. After seeing the leaps in the past 20 years, the 1 Tb minimum when 5 to 10 years.
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  932.  @username7763  In all reality if all anyone used their PC for was basic office work and/or word processing, maybe text emails, there's no reason to have to be on anything but an 8 or 16-bit computer with between 512 Kb and 8 Mb and maybe 250 - 500Mb hard drive memory. But that's not what computers are limited to doing. What's probably going to push to 1Tb is AI.
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  933. The problem with the immune compromised argument is that the poke could get them sick as well. A lot of people with issues like asthma and other comorbidities have this same issue, that the jab can lead to them being more susceptible, rather than less.
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  934. That would be awesome, to put in MAGA ice cream as replacement. 😉👍
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  935. The difference between a Republican run state and a Dem state. It's night and day. Blue states need to wake up and turn their states red.
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  936. But then the CLI is doing more than one thing if it uses more than one program.
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  937. GUIs were developed for the purpose of multitasking. Otherwise we'd be back to DOS, needing to load up just one program to do word processing, close it out, and then open another for photo editing, close that out and open yet another program for checking email or browsing bulletin boards - but you can only do one or the other, one at a time, constantly closing and opening programs. Exactly how is that a better thing than having a GUI where you can load all these programs in separate windows and not have to keep opening and closing stuff all the time?
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  938. @lawrencedoliveiro9104 - Blender does a ton of things that used to use several programs in the past. It violates the Unix philosophy because it's everything from CAD, Photoshop, Video editing/animation, all wrapped up in a non-intuitive feature creep mess.
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  939. The problem with BitChute is that so many of my old videos on there are frozen and won't play. If they can't do the basics of expectations of a video platform, to namely play videos, then it's pointless uploading to them when you know eventually they'll stop working.
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  940. There are distros like Tuxedo OS that have Linux built in. The disadvantage is most PCs have Windows built in. They may say that they could have an option for preinstalling Linux, but they don't make it well known, or easy to find information to do so. You also have to buy direct from the manufacturer, since your local Best Buy is likely not to have anything other than Apple and Microsoft. It would take some sort of grass roots push to get Linux based PCs onto the store shelves. Online-wise, you have to do a lot more digging to find the Linux OSes that are prebuilt into a machine. Most people trust, or at least are most comfortable using a brand they know and have used in the past, thus sticking with HP, Dell, Apple, etc. Again, if the manufacturers had the option to put Linux distros in instead, they aren't making that an easy option to find. Likely because they have some agreement with Microsoft, or, in Apple's case, do not want anything but their own proprietary hardware and software to be used.
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  941. It is true, though, that media on the right is pretty messed up.
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  942. Bad review/preview is one thing, but dunking on a game with a TDS rant, or because you hate JK Rowling, or abusing the privileges that come with getting games to preview, those things add up.
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  943.  @PoorDog69 - You have to consider wrestling is their life. Some, like Bret Hart, his father and brother in law were also in the business. Kayfabe rules supreme to the oldtimers and die-hard fans. For the Rock, that rings true because his father was in the business. Even Cody Rhodes is part of the 'royalty' of generational wrestling families who, while he'll talk about some things more open than wrestlers used to, he still has a fine line where he won't break kayfabe. They know where they get their money, they agreed to this sort of life, and they all have an understanding about protecting the business. Some of their real beefs are with anyone that doesn't know how to protect their opponent in the ring, and wrestlers they think are in some way doing damage to the business, of which breaking kayfabe is a big deal. That, and they get mad at anyone they think either has a better contract than them, or too big of a spotlight than their own. Which is why I pay no mind to any supposed rumor of a wrestler having a contract that they can never lose. Sure, they fudge things, like the Undertaker being claimed to be undefeated when he did have one or two losses. But no wrestler is going to go without a loss in their career. So rumors of a contract invincibility are just that, and usually brought on by whiny wrestlers that think it's their turn to get the spotlight.
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  944.  @flimsyankle6389  - Well, he knows he's a wrestler and an actor, and makes lots of money at both. That's a lot more than most people know about themselves, and are always trying to jump from one under-paying job to another and never being able to settle down or into something that allows them to have a life outside of whatever hat they wear at their job for the moment.
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  945. Plus they should ban all the Chi-coms that have business in China, and thus are partially owned by China due to how the CCP has to have a partial ownership in the companies that do business with China. That makes them just as vulnerable to Chinese influence as Tik-Tok and other Chinese aps.
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  946. The original metaverse: https://youtu.be/ZRAF2KSm6GQ
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  947. Bauldur's Gate 3 is woke garbage, and I don't care how many ad hominems you try to use against me for saying it. Truth is truth!
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  948.  @finnmungovan8772  - To accuse Candace Owens of being a Nazi? Sorry, the logic doesn't follow.
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  949.  @iamlovingawareness2284  - True. Even the Greeks had analogue machines to try and replicate human stage performance, similar to what we later digitized, such as the animatronics used on Disney amusement park rides. The 1960's brought us ELIZA, which is the precursor to 8-bit computer chatbots. It was more or less pre-programmed with answers that it would give under certain prompts. In some ways, modern AI works similar, though the prompts, or 'triggers' are a bit more sophisticated. Never the less, you can see that the AI answers sufficient for what an AI machine learning tech would want for the answers, which is why it said its favorite scientific book was 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins. It was already prompted with 'scientific', and likely the person that trained the AI reveres Richard Dawkins practically like a god. But it isn't saying anything that isn't already in the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley.
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  950. They should call this the remake of Crybaby. 😏
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  951. I don't see how this is a matter that effects players, but rather content creators that are seeking to make a profit. Nothing says WotC or Hasboro can own the character you create. However, like using a professional dev kit, or using an established physics engine, what you create can be held to whatever copyright or license user agreement they make. If you're not making money off a home brew mod or otherwise using the DnD brand in a podcast, video, etc. This won't effect you. If you are making money off their brand, you honestly think they won't consider royalties or anything? If you make your own original content, like music, and someone takes your beats, goes viral and gets success, but you got the original on your own channel getting nothing, I don't know? You'd at least want some recognition, if not royalties, for being the one making the original content in the first place. That's why we have copyright and licensing agreements in the first place, because it sucks when someone's making money off of stuff that you first created and getting nothing in return for all your efforts.
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  952. Fedora's good and all, which is why I have it as one of the Big Four - Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
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  953. As for whether pixels = $$$, well, consider how much it cost even to buy Atari and NES games back in the day. The popular games went for between $25 to $30 for Atari 4-bit cartridges, and $45 to $50 for 8-bit NES carts. Before this in arcades, the games were made simple for short, addictive game play, to push as many quarters into the machine by as many arcade gamers as possible. Heck, many of the commercials for Atari and NES games were all about how addictive the game play was, while also claiming to be family entertainment. Beyond that, being able to modify or power up your character in a game has always been an appealing element. For the arcade, it added an extra element to keep you engaged and plucking down more quarters. At home, it was to keep the game play from getting too mundane. The microtransaction, pay to play aspect can be bad, especially when the game is built on the only way to finish the game, or to have fun with it is in having to pay for better optimizations. Having an option to be able to beat a game without having to buy stuff, or to be able to earn it, as in the old RP monster grinding, that would be a better option. But, really, pay to play has, in a sense, been around since as long as people have been trying to buy their way into Heaven. Not saying it's right, but that's part of free will. Even so, regulating the choice for moral and ethical issues is the very reason that we have laws. Otherwise, it's a lawless society where anything goes.
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  954. Honestly, fascism can be found on a political spectrum as both the left and right can be authoritarian, have the businesses, media, and other industries and 'grassroots' on their side, and willing to use and unapologetically support and exploit their power and majority popularity.
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  955. Sales is a sh*tty job to begin with. They talk it up like it's awesome, claim you're your own boss, all to get you to make commission. It makes for a worse job when you only get paid by commission. Sales is the very job that defines what it means to live in a rat race. Because it is a job where you're all rats living every rat for one's self.
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  956.  @cynthiaconner8601  - This is America. Just as companies can fire you for any reason, you can sue them for any reason. The way things are going, legally and socially, companies may want to reconsider their hard line BS on no reason termination. This is probably going to blow up real soon, especially with judges that may not be sympathetic with corporations, and a government that's not exactly business friendly at the moment. Plus, no company likes bad PR. And the more videos going viral, the more streaming and traditional talking heads in the media talk it up, and eventually Congress may take it up and say the corporate world equivalent to no fault divorce is no longer something to go unchallenged. Either fire with cause, and expect it to become a court matter, or lay off and pay the severance pay owed for being an ass for hiring too many people and turning around to fire them after just barely training them.
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  957.  @UnknownMoses  - And I'd fire you for being an asshole.
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  958.  @UnknownMoses  - Since you didn't even watch the video, your judgement has no worth. I'd of fired you for not being recorded. It's on zoom, so the company already has that recorded anyways. It's only fair that she can make a recording as well.
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  959.  @l.w.paradis2108  -Two main factors are not all jobs have kept up with inflation, and many lawyers do wind up in the big law firms that are already paid by the companies. I had legal insurance through one job, and a manager suggested if I ever have an issue with the company not to rely on their lawyers, so yeah. But, again, there's a lot of disinformation, purposeful or not. Some of it stemming from old stories of how former employees had been handled in various situations. Other times, just plain old BS.
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  960.  @UnknownMoses  z I don't care. Your judgement is worthless. Go get a job, incompetent hack.
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  961. As for 'love', sure, modern English has let the term be used for all sorts of things. But we do have various terms, including traditional Greek derivatives, such as erotic, aphrodisiac, and nympho to mean similar to 'love' as in enamored, impassioned, hot, or sweet for, or on, have a crush on, turned on, lustful, or simply horny. The higher love, such as agape (ἀγάπη), would traditionally be, for Godly love, worship, devotion, or adoration. However, they are often used in modern context for someone highly praised, or a person that has become worthy of trust and respect, or someone that you strongly desire and admire. Philia (φιλία) would denote friendship, comradery, and is somewhat mixed with storge (στοργή), in as much as brotherhood and familial bonds are mixed among friendships and the modern way in which they are put together, such as instead of co-workers being mere associates, but becoming work family, or a friend that's been around and part of family gatherings and internal workings, is considered more like part of the family. Though we don't call it philautia (φιλαυτία), we do have some modern notion of self-love or self-affirmation of which we would distinguish between a healthy, positive, balanced self-awareness/self-acceptance that allows individuals to love and appreciate themselves, and unhealthy, excessive, narcissistic self-love that is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy for others. We may have some differences on meanings of terms, and all I can really say here, is that I'd hope for our modern era, we return to using more of the terminology we have for certain cravings, desires, respect, etc., than simply saying, "I love that!" Especially when all you mean is that you like how a burrito tastes, or favor the flavor or color of a thing. Someone might just say, "Well, if you 'love' it so much, why not marry it?"
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  962. How can I trust the doctors when leftist governors do everything the can to fire or discredit doctors that don't endorse vaccines and boosters? Seriously, the leftwing nut job governor in my state boasted about 97% compliance to the vaccine mandate among state workers after firing thousands of workers that refused to get the jab. Of course you can have high compliance when you can fire the opposition!
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  963. The facts are that it was created in China at a lab in Wuhan, and that the NIH that Fauci works for, was giving them funds, not to mention involved in gain of function research using bats. I trust this doctor far more than Fauci and our tyrannical governor Inslee, who is bought and paid for by big pharma through Bill Gates. Nor would I trust Biden, who has his own compromised dealings with China that have nothing to do with official presidential relations. His relations with China are worse than Bush's relations with Enron.
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  964. This was similar to the Secombd Life and viewrs. There were the beta viewers that would log into the beta grid, and once stable enough, it became known as the stable release, AKA the release candidate, or RC. Other times, it viewers would be known as their development project name, like Project Snowglobe. Later the viewer update would be known by either the numbers, or the new feature, such as Windlight for one of the early environment updates that was later updated to the current Experiences environment. There was also Bakes on Mesh (BoM) that made it possible to implement the older system skins and clothes on custom mesh bodies and clothing. Before, there were applies that were only for retail use. Now, you can either purchase a designer's BoM skin or applies, or, if you are good at image editing and layering, create your own system skins and layered clothing. Of course with the quality, mileage will vary. While the numbering is nice, it is also cool having the code names, especially when they represent the focus of the update.
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  965.  @IrishFinalExit  heck, today, we can store the entire NES, SNES, and N64 libraries on a thumb drive, whereas a N64 cart couldn't hold near the amount of data of a Playstation 1 CD.
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  966. Accept the BS? Sorry, but this smack by Will Smith has been the best thing to happen to the Oscars whose ratings would have tanked without it. No one would be talking about the Oscars right now if this BS didn't happen. Trying to take a reasonable man argument here is just playing into it more. We went through a whole 'summer of love' in 2020 where people had done worse than smack someone and got away with it. There are still people getting randomly attacked in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, not to mention Chicago's continuous black on black shooting crime spree, and very few of them are brought to justice. Whether Will Smith's career will be over for smacking Chris Rock is mostly dependent on Will Smith. Jim Carrey, who may or may not have led to one of his girlfriends to commit suicide has no room to talk on this whatsoever. He's as much a scum bag as any of these Hollywood elites are. For all we know, Carrey might be among the vampire child molesting cult that is said to rule Hollywood. Will Smith, is no victim, nor saint here, but among all those who want to be outraged by his sin, none of them could cast the first stone. But it still hits Will the hardest because he was supposed to be one of the good guys. He probably still could come back, but why? Hollywood is a toxic environment. The entertainment business as a whole is full of some of the worse scum on the earth. Anyone who wants any shred of sanity would be a fool for going into it, and would be wise to jump ship out of it.
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  967. I didn't really care for the original. To most guys when it came out, it was a silly girl movie. I would gather that most boys that aren't gay or trans (and maybe even some of them, too) don't care for the current one either, since it's main target audience is fanatic Disney princess girls. And I don't care if holding that opinion has frail, fake woke people mad at me. It's my opinion and those butt hurt about it can get bent!
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  968. Woke liberals defend CP and cringe BDSM 'fashion shoot' and wonder why they're called groomers? Seriously, if you don't want lgbtq+ to be associated with grooming, it would make no sense to defend CP and CP adjacent.
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  969.  @eddiebruv  - maybe recovering from overcompensating on being straight? 😏
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  970. Or, like Hollywood Hogan, NWO, and even the Rock playing heel, you play to what draws in the largest audience. That's really the point of wrestling, not so much the wrestling, but drawing in an audience, and making sure those stories and their personas live rent free in the minds of the audience. Love them or hate them, it's all good, as long as you keep watching to see what happens next.
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  971.  @beejj6190  - a black sheep is still a sheep. Heard your cliches before too, so talk about a case of the pot and kettle. For it's amazing how many times people, when frustrated others don't agree with them, or side with someone other than them, call those other people sheep. It's like the devil mad because he gets tossed to him the feisty, rambunctious goats while Jesus gets the pick of all the gentle, trusting lambs. 😏
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  972. Canada is usually where a lot of this insane woke BS begins.
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  973.  @DaDudeb  - Germany is also a factory for woke BS. Particularly the Frankfurt School.
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  974.  @NamelessKing1597  - French Revolution was the beginning of communism.
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  975. I watched the movie, and it's ok. What's really lasted the longest about GB-2016 is the cringe around it. If you took the politics aside, what you get is basically an ok popcorn flick. All women Ghostbusters is whatever, but it seemed like they still tried to push too much on nostalgia references that sometimes seemed irreverent to the original material. It was, in a sense, like when George Castanza in Seinfeld decided to do everything the opposite of what he usually would do, except, instead of it working out, it didn't do too well for GB-2016. The base story was not bad, though. It's mostly the execution of it mixed with, well, what we're used to by now happening when woke left gets criticized and decides to consider it hate, rather than something to try to listen to and learn from. For a time, that sort of taking offence to the offence worked. But, people have seen where the woke has taken things, and there's a lot less sympathy going their way. But that's all external from the movie, which wasn't great, but not all that bad either. The angst over it has outlived it.
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  976. Tim, even the doctors I go to warn about the drugs taken because they can be harmful to the liver and other vital organs. It's better not to take drugs because reliance on them can kill you.
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  977. Sorry, I don't like woke, but this woman was far from woke. It's funny Megyn Kelly was fired from FOX and NBC. She also made her hullabaloo about why she was fired, and people actually sympathised with her then. Not any more. May the next time she's fired be the last time she works in any media.
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  978. I wouldn't mind B&J being dumped from grocery stores. Can put more useful products on the shelves.
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  979. Yeah, Starbucks is a great example lol. Come on, milktoast metro Tim, you can do better than that. You can go to the supermarkets and still get food. Depending on where you live, the prices may be higher, or they may not be. Our local coffee shop still manages to keep its price on a medium latte at $4.25. So you could have gotten two drinks here for $8.50. But the cost of over-priced gourmet coffee is beside the point. As far as actual produce, the factories and farms are still open and shipping out food. The big boxes are still getting their deliveries. The places that are hurting the most are the small businesses that can't open, or have been gutted of their finances that they can't get the supply and the demand has been drastically diminished. The bog boxes are doing fine. The independent mom and pop restaurant or corner store? Not so much.
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  980. Intelligence doesn't make a lawyer. Being willing to learn the law and enjoying arguing and debating makes a lawyer.
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  981. They use Latin because, until the British empire, Latin was the common language. The Latin Vulgate is the Bible of the 'vulgar' or 'common' language.
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  982. This is why I don't trust when corporations, publishers, and producers talk 'inclusive' or 'diverse'. They don't truly mean all are welcome. It's more like anyone that meets their quota or their socio-political litmus test are welcome.
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  983. Not all AI is 'smart'. Like any program, AI is only as good as the people that program it. Canonical AI, it would appear, seems akin to Robocop after he was programmed to the liking of the political activists in Robocop 2. He said and did everything right by their standards, but the criminals didn't take him seriously. In Canonical's case, the malware fakes are taking advantage of the fact all Canonical has done was send out toothless PR, and haven't done anything else yet. The first thing they should do is disconnect Snaps from being able to do anything until they can fix it.
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  984. What would be more interesting is a game like GTA, but based around MAGA having to go underground and fend for their lives against MSM cultists normies that believe Biden in saying MAGA is domestic terrorism. This would be closer to a documentary on modern America.
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  985. If you ask a person why they like a place, and they say it's because the place is 'diverse,' these people don't really like, or care for the place, but rather support the agenda of diversity. Or, they are afraid to not appear to be supporting the agenda. You can tell the difference by what they define or think diversity means and to expand on the diverse things they like.
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  986. Physical media games need to make a comeback as well. Now that you can have storage of 64 Gb up to at least 512 GB in a micro SD, leaving plenty of room for special chipsets to play the games as the game designers intended, we are at a perfect time to return to physical games. All the game console needs is to help power up the main system that plays the game. You don't need a high powered computer for most games, many of which barely scratch the surface of 32 bit, let alone 64 bit CPU standards.
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  987.  @mbank3832  - So you're not a normal person?
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  988.  @Not_Always  - Yes and no. We're among the few countries in the world where personal privacy is even a concept. Yet, we have so many workarounds for companies to make you hand over your privacy that what laws we have regarding privacy are unable to adequately punish the predatory practices of marketing and companies that are constantly pushing us to hand over privacy or else be unable to use their services. And then the government itself infringes on privacy, not to mention hold a lot of our private documents because they were the ones that created them in the first place, from the day we were born and we received a birth certificate, not to mention giving us our SSN, where we get our Driver's License, and other Identification documents, all the way to our Death Certificate, of which I've heard the horror stories of a few people prematurely declared dead and having to fight the government to recognize that they were indeed among the living still.
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  989.  @1981lashlarue  - Yeah, but technically, they are only supposed to stay on file for somewhere around 6 months to a year. By that point, it's likely the prospects were already hired elsewhere. If not, they can reapply.
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  990.  @marybailey7881  - Well, one would think morals and ethics would be a strong factor in companies virtue signalling about such things.But I guess it's one thing to say you're against human trafficking and slave labor, and another thing to actively benefit from outsourcing to go to countries where they welcome you to use their people as slaves and traffick more slaves from neighboring countries to be held prisoners in your billion dollar slave factories.
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  991.  @jasonbfhfj8132  - They can prove it by making industry standards of qualifications, and if they continue to deny applicants that are clearly qualified by those standards, they ought to have a reprimand for continuing to keep a job posted on a job site that they aren't seriously looking to fill.
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  992.  @ronblack7870  - That may be so, but you may also wind up specializing yourself out of business if you can't replace the people that leave the job, be it fired, laid off, or retired.
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  993.  @looseycanon  -Because companies themselves like to game government businesses. They see actual human beings needing that help as competition for the money they'd rather have going to them instead.
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  994.  @occamraiser  - We do have similar standards in the US, but 'special interests' have a way of getting those rules bent.
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  995.  @tiagodagostini  - yes, they like to make us desperate for the job, so that they can crap on us when we do have it, telling us how fortunate we are to even have a job at all, even one that doesn't pay the bills, nor helps pay rent on time.
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  996.  @vibechecktsundere4912  - yes, because they never stop, even when they've filled positions and find themselves hiring too many people. Thus where they are now with firing thousands of people.
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  997.  @keltonhunt5302  - Thus why it's retained for 6 months to a year. Could be a long shot, but, even if you have a job, if it's a crappy one, and the employer calling you back is a much better opportunity, then you'd be glad they kept that info and helped get you out of a job from hell.
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  998.  @Jeez001  - which is a practice that should be illegal. But considering the state of our politics, no legislature is going to touch that, and have yet to see even the most conservative Republican that's fighting over illegal immigration come close to even talking on this subject. Even Trump, his words say it all when talking about the countries not sending their best and brightest over the border illegally. Sure, he tried to rescind DACA, but he wasn't calling for foreign students paying money in expensive universities and getting high tech degrees to be sent home. And I doubt he would be looking into the visa loophole any time soon, as even his businesses benefit from it.
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  999.  @Iudicatio  That's actually the problem. We should be selective about what jobs we do, because it makes a difference between decades working for a company you love and respect, and have loyalty to because they earned it by being loyal to you and appreciate the work you do for them, as opposed to where we are now, where companies know people are desperate and take advantage of that desperation and make working the job a living hell.
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  1000.  @nole8923  - Considering the that media blackouts are done against candidates the people may want, but the establishment doesn't, or just flat out steal elections. We can't blame voters for the failed system, especially not those that continue to vote, even when they are certain their vote won't count because the big city voters outnumber them, or the establishment has already rigged the system against the average voter. While I might agree with someone that voting for a candidate because they are woke and virtue signal their wokeness to the masses is a stupid reason to vote, even that can't account for the major divide and stalemate of our two party system. There's always going to be people that vote red until their dead, or blue no matter who, and both of them will consider a stupid vote would be for an independent or third party. Yet how long can we continue to have this great divide in our politics, and not have a third option to oppose the insanity on both ends of the political spectrum?
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  1001.  @littlesongbird1  - Sounds crappy, but barring out of state candidates? Sounds like the crap goes both ways.
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  1002.  @tiagodagostini  - Accepting the status quo of the job market is why we're in this situation to begin with. These companies may not change anything unless a lot of people either quit their crappy jobs, or otherwise go on strike. American workers need a new deal. We can't keep letting corporations jerk us around, and maybe we could work together to create new and much better businesses that respect their employees, rather than treat them like chattel.
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  1003.  @BD-yl5mh  - It should be, and probably is. Yet, we don't hold them accountable for much. The so-called 'to big to fail' companies can practically get away with murder, and still hold their jobs with the serial killer CEO passing out bonuses to his cronies for their own kills.
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  1004.  @tiagodagostini  - parents and other family members, not to mention unemployment. Then there is the necessity to work to for basic life necessities. But sure, 'no one' is forcing one to apply, if you stick your head in the sand, or otherwise are a robot cog in HR that both has no eyes nor heart.
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  1005.  @d.e.b.b5788  - The employer may have several factors, but a key thinking point is to hire someone capable of doing the job, and not holding the employer back, while also not hiring someone so capable that they might just take over the employer's job or business. In other words, for selfish reasons, because they too don't want to be out there having to look for job.
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  1006.  @OmegaVideoGameGod  - True, companies can pay people off, but that's the whole point, is that it's illegal, and we've chosen to just let that be the status quo, which just lets companies continue to do these things and worse. At some point, this issue will boil over, and things are not going to be pretty.
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  1007.  @astridgalactic9336  - Indeed, Federal subsidies, the welfare for the corporations.
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  1008.  @brettstarks1846  Oh please, the shady crap has been going on for a long time, and the corporations hedge their bets on both sides, paying of Democrats and Republicans alike. Microsoft can pretty well do no wrong, and they're in a blue state with a governor there than bends over backwards for them. Although they screwed up relations with Amazon, now that Bezos is going down to Florida. Apparently the taxes are too much for him, even though he's the one that's been pushing for the party in power that has taxed the hell out of WA.
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  1009.  @Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML  - is it? Or are we just accepting that because they do so, it must be legal?
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  1010.  @realhumanbean7915  - That it's not being enforced at all is the problem. Is every murder case proven? Should we stop enforcing murder laws because people continue to murder, and some of the murders get away with it for decades, or die before the case is solved?
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  1011.  @CoHawk73  - Is it really so hard to prove, or do we not have enough people to care to look into it? Maybe that's a way to create more jobs, is to have people that can look through job databases and see how many jobs are real, and which ones are fake.
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  1012.  @goldenealgefromdutchbros6834  - we need legislation that describes what ghost job postings are. This is about as hard as YouTube finding videos to strike for copywrite infringements. Do they always get it right? No, but you are able to contest it, and if you are either the original creator, have a legitimate fair use claim, or have permission of the copyright holder, you can have the copywrite strike cleared. Why can't something similar to that be done? All we need is to describe the parameters of what constitutes a Ghost job posting, and use those for the tools to weed them out. We've had decades of online job postings, surely we have more than enough data to recognize patterns of Ghost job postings. We probably know what questions to ask an employer prior to posting a job to help verify intent. Companies and the gov already do similar to us to verify our job eligibility, so why can't we verify their job posting eligibility? Google, YouTube, Facebook, all the major online corporations have already built up their systems for filtering out unwanted content, certainly a job posting ought to be able to do so as well. So the real question might be if the job postings are really that incompetent at moderating their job sites, or are they purposefully kept that way?
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  1013.  @iyellalot  - I think we need those moderation tools on job postings as well. Social media may not be perfect at it, but they already developed standards for moderating that should be able to be implemented on job sites. There's also decades of data on these sites that ought to help clearly define parameters for what constitutes ghost job postings. From those patterns, and knowing why companies post ghost job postings, a list of questions could be asked of the job poster to clarify intent, and prevent ghost job posting by denying posts that sound questionable. We the job seekers are already given all sorts of questions to answer even before we get to the actual application, it only seems fair that job posters have their own hurdles to go through to verify the intent of their job postings, and if their posting is a valid posting otherwise. Not to mention, it would be nice on the job seeker side if we could filter out things like commission work. I get so many sales jobs in my posts whenever I try to find something on Indeed and it keeps on tossing me tons of commission only sales jobs that I don't want to apply for at all. But, as to why such filters and moderation hasn't been done on job sites, you have to wonder if they are really that incompetent at such things, or if they are purposefully so.
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  1014.  @loganq  - They don't care until it effects their bottom line. It may be time for people to go their own way and get away from the so-called 'traditional' corporate job. They've long since shown they care more about getting slave labor from China, which is also crappy for regular Chinese people that think they are getting a better life leaving the farmlands, only to be enslaved by once American, now CCP owned companies.
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  1015. I think you're in a bubble if you don't hear it. YT does take down copywrited material. They also purge channels. The downfall for YouTube may come from other websites that take in the content creators YouTube has deplatformed, and these platforms do better at free speech, and create a better monetizing system that doesn't rely on the ads that no one wants to watch.
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  1016. A master class in online trolling. A true troll campaign and flame war cannot go without ending in a lawsuit or potential prison time.
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  1017. I remember when it was a controversy to put ads in physical games. It was usually in sports games, where you would expect it. Even NES games had ads, like Blades of Steel had Konami banners and on the arena video screen it would preview various Konami games that were on the shelves of stores at the time, like Contra. Granted, it wasn't terribly invasive, like the online ads are now, but it was a reminder that these games were made by commercial, for profit companies. Atari had some of the worst, where the game itself was the ad for the product. Yet I still was curious about the Kool-Aid vide ogame I never got to play. 😏
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  1018.    Healthcare reform, yes. Socialized healthcare with the government in charge, no, hell no!
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  1019. Too bad we can't do a Cuomo and find a way to charge Inslee with sexual harassment. It seems that liberals only care about a metoo style sex scandal, rather than the fact that liars and hypocrites like Inslee did in fact set things up to kill grandma.
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  1020.  @enemixius  -Audio-wise, it already has. Video-wise, maybe it will get X-11 and Wayland to play together nicely like ALSA and JACK do now with Pipewire. 😉👍
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  1021.  @myownfriend23  - Sure, if you're good at wiring nodes, it's almost like flexing about using Arch, or even doing Linux from scratch. That can be both a positive and negative about Linux, that you can make it as hard or easy to boot and use as you want. It's about the closest we can get to back in the days of building a computer as a hobby as we can get. All the others - Apple, IBM, Windows, etc. - have locked up mainline computing. I just hope Linux doesn't go that way as well.
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  1022. A lot of postmodern word salad garbage in that article.
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  1023. Will Smith sampled games, and had a beat boxer do various video games, like Donkey Kong, back in the 80's.
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  1024. Wait, Reddit is logical?
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  1025. Obama had GWBS his whole presidency. Every time something went wrong, he'd pivot, "Remember, we're still working through the mess we inherited from the previous administration." That's even 7 to 8 years after the fact. 🙄😏👍
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  1026. Between the 1970's and 1990's that was kind of the main time for the Christian Conservative movement in politics. Heck, even President Jimmy Carter got in on it, as he used his Baptist roots to gain popularity. Liberals actually could have become what became the Christian right, but there was something of a shift that started as early as the 50's and 60's. Basically, legalizing abortion and the pill became a big wedge issue, with the left siding with abortion and the pill and the right, for the most part, siding with the growing pro life movement. Regardless, conservative is something that has unique definitions that are not relegated to just US Politics. For instance, a conservative in the UK would essentially be someone that wants to conserve the commonwealth and the crown. For much of Europe, conservatives were those that wanted to return to royalty and chivalry. Christendom plays a part in that, but you can find conservatives that would want to go back to even pagan times, as chivalry itself is said to have evolved from Germanic tribes where all men were expected to fight and protect their community (which is still true in Switzerland to some extent, and other places where they are to effectively join their country's military by they time they reach a certain age). As it is, conservative elements became a part of Christendom in so far as much as the pagan philosophers of Plato and Aristotle influence much of the great philosophers and thinkers in Christendom, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Acquinas.
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  1027. This wouldn't be the first time Disney has had issues with the bulge. 😏
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  1028. And of course they loved SCOTUS when they made abortion the law of the land.
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  1029. But Lion King didn't take place in Hawaii
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  1030. Not sure what happened to my post. I noted preference for 'year of our Lord,' and how BC can be 'before the birth of our Lord,' and how that can be a matter of style as much as communication. Or, in a manner of speaking, style has to do with the way in which one relays something, as in what is stressed and for what impact. I mentioned the beginning of Homer's Iliad for example, since the way it is interpreted tends to boil down to style as well. For whether you start 'sing O muse,' or 'sing O goddess,' neither is wrong because the Muses themselves were considered goddesses. The use of 'O goddess' may be literally more accurate, as 'theas,' the feminine version of 'theos' (god) is used. Poetically, muse is not wrong, since we are talking about a work of literature, and the Muses were the goddesses of the arts. Further, if one wants to be really technical, the passage begins with the word 'menin' which is 'wrath,' as in an enduring anger that is usually reserved as the anger of the gods. However, it here conveys the anger of Achilles who is considered something of a demigod in Greek mythology. The Greek language is very relational in word usage, even though at times to read it in a literal left to right manner as is accustomed in English, it can sound like some excited boy who gives out a word salad from not yet forming the sentence structure we normally use today. But in Greek, the placement is purposeful. Why put anger before the goddess to sing? Because the anger of the fallen Achilles matches that of the wrath of the gods. Thus one of the major themes of the Iliad besides the fall of Troy, being the death of Achilles, to which even the chief god Zeus weighed in on the fate of this hero. Thus why one could poetically form even the literal left to right like this: "To the wrath, sing, O goddess, of the son of Peleos, the wretched Achilles." For this conveys the meaning, along with stressing the key aspects of the passage in the manner of the original Greek, but in a way that makes sense in modern English. Even so, it's a translation made out of preference of a poetic, song-like lyric of more recent style or fashion of use in English. T may give a glimpse of how I may interpret the Iliad, which does have a way. Of being changed after reading it in the Greek, not unlike how the understanding of the Bible can change from reading, say, the Vulgate, the Septuagint, etc., as compared to the accepted modern English translations. Thus 'correct' often depends on what is accepted as truth, sometimes regardless what is indeed the Truth.
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  1031. Also important to note about various similar laws, especially in as much as one can compare humans with the rest of the animal kingdom. 1. You can be fined and/or jailed for disturbing a sea turtle nest. (https://tapeunit.com/sea-turtle-101-what-are-the-penalties-for-disturbing-the-sea-turtles/). 2. Even though it has been delisted under the Endangered Species Act, the bald eagle is still protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, meaning one is prohibited from taking, possessing, selling, purchasing, bartering, offering to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import any bald or golden eagle, alive or dead, including any part, nest, or egg, unless allowed by permit, can lead to a first offense fine of $5,000 or one year imprisonment with $10,000 or not more than two years in prison for a second conviction. Felony convictions carry a maximum fine of $250,000 or two years of imprisonment. The fine doubles for an organization. (https://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html) Yet, when it comes to human life, our laws should be more lenient than these laws regarding animals? Comstock followed essentially the same sort of legal framework as these for protecting animals, as did the regulations regarding abortion clinics. But apparently we can say it's a 'right' when it comes to killing unborn humans, but perfectly fine to impose when it comes to the rest of the animal kingdom. Thus, it would be better to be born as a bald eagle or a sea turtle if you want your right to life from the moment of conception to be protected.
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  1032. Californians are already doing that in Eastern WA. Before my apartment complex was taken over by CA land barons, my rent was at a reasonable $650/mo. They jacked it up to $850, add on $100 in utilities and hidden fees, despite I'm already paying for electric and internet, as well as rent insurance. Then the service for paying them adds on an extra $10 fee, so I'm paying $960/mo for rent, and they still want to push it up to $1,000/mo minus said extra utilities and hidden fees. At this point, I'm better off paying a mortgage on a basic house than dealing with that BS. But COVID, Biden, and our leftist governor has screwed rates for housing, gas, groceries, and overall affordability to live anywhere in this state. Ironically, the clown turd Inslee who screwed us over is leaving to retire in Idaho! What's that say when even the former gov that created all these policies can't himself live under them? And Bozo Bob is going to be as bad, if not worse.
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  1033. And yet John Cena's no better than Dwayne Johnson. He's following the same path, trying to be that nice guy that will do everything to keep fame, including bowing to China and humiliating himself by showing up naked at the Oscars.
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  1034.  @chrisruth7057  - You mean he's a human being afterall. OMG! Who woulda known that!
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  1035.  @itachi-bz5je  - oh please. He's a baby face. What do you expect? Just wait until he turns heel. Which they all do at some point in their career. Then you're going to be grumbling how he's a fake sellout worse than Hogan and the Rock.
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  1036.  @itachi-bz5je  although Cena has sold himself to China and Hollywood already. Just wait for him to turn into Hollywood Cena. Maybe he'll wrestle in the nude to keep his Hollywood handlers pleased with him.
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  1037.  @TimeJerk143  - whoop-dee-doo. Guess what? No one cares but you, Cena fanboi. Go fap to his naked Oscar appearance like a good little Cena jerk-boi.
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  1038. The live actions, along with Cartoon Network, started the whole Scooby-Doo Negaverse. You had the proto-woke whining how they were 'scarred for life' over Scrappy, which is bogus because, at the time Scrappy was introduced in the gang, the show was in decline and close being canceled. Scrappy was a big reason why the show got the rejuvenation it needed to continue on, and was well recieved by fans. I even heard of kids at the time of the live actions, who had watched the Scrappy reruns and couldn't understand why Scrappy was made into a villain. Lime then with the live action, to now with Velma, the franchise has been used and abused by degenerates and haters of the source material.
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  1039.  @saiyanscaris6530  They did. I won't fault them for that. Just the pandering to the pre-woke that started the whole subversive Scooby negaverse. Sure, Shaggy looked like the 'weed guy', and Scooby snacks could have been innuendo for something. Some of the jokes can be funny in the context of stand up. Not so much for what should be a kid's show. The moment the source material for the joke becomes the joke, the joke is lost, and both the show and the joke loses its appeal.
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  1040. Why didn't you vote for Culp in the election we just had? Then we wouldn't have needed a recall, and would have gotten this dictator lunatic out of office by now.
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  1041. Don't see what's so problematic about it, save that the truth is always 'problematic' to Democrats.
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  1042. Will admit, had liked Stephen King, until I learned his politics. Some books and movies I can't help but like still, but I can't stand Stephen King the person.
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  1043. CN started crapping on fans and source material of classic cartoons. Case in point was Scooby-Doo. Instead of respecting fans, they played on the negaworld of proto-twitterverse snowflakes that hate the show.
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  1044. Corporatism is just one step away from communism. The largest corporation in the world is the CCP.
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  1045. Should check out RFK Jr's bid for the White House. Hopefully that can gain traction and ruffle feathers in the DNC.
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  1046. This is the basic plot of most TV dramas, if not at least a subplot used in an episode or to string people along to watch more episodes.
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