Have not had a chance to watch it, but yeah, hoped that was conclusion

It’s always felt dystopian to me. You’re likely buying the stuff of someone that was unable to pay for the unit. Turning someone else’s misfortune into capitalism

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“Just” is not the word I would use for non-consensual nudes

This becoming true again because of waves hand at everything going on but trend wise this has not been true for the last few years. It is also not true outside the US.

Because they’re not disruptive. At all.

They disrupt traffic a lot. Especially in the US where we are reliant on cars so much. That is pretty huge. Parades are disruptive in the same way.

despite being not disruptive they make people feel like they’ve “done their part,”

Maybe, but all protests have this issue. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do them

Americans’ pain tolerance is disgustingly low for people staring down fascism while running and manning the world’s deadliest, evilest war machine.

I don’t think this is the case, but this makes it sound like you don’t know what it means to live paycheck to paycheck, which is pretty bad anywhere but very bad in the US. You can’t necessarily afford to take time off, and if you call out you could loose your job and subsequently your health insurance. That could be life or death for a lot of folks The US is fucked in a lot of ways, but especially this one.

here’s a widespread trend of highly underestimating the pain and effort it’d take to drag Trump out of power

This is never going to happen short of prolonged and bloody civil war. I think we may see that unless Trump dies in office (of natural causes, assassination will just make him a martyr). The best we can hope for outside of full empire collapse is pushing out the shitty dems and getting actual progressives/leftists in office.

Ultimately I don’t think these protests are doing a lot, but they are not doing nothing either. And they certainly aren’t hurting anything. The normies that go to these were not going to organize outside of them, and maybe (very maybe) these protest help them see what collective action can do.

On a basic level, weekends are when the most people can afford to show up. And I mean that monetarily. The sheer number if people living paycheck to paycheck without much PTO would mean fewer showing up.

On a less basic level, why are you against weekend protests? Because they are less disruptive?

Miss me with that shit. First off, no need for the “fat asses” jib. You can express the same opinion without it. Second, open civil war is going to be bloody, and mostly for already marginalized people. I believe it will happen, but don’t wish it on people. It is going to be devastating to a whole hell of a lot of people.

For real. Literally before anyone has even announced candidacy is like the best time.

At least in the US, it is used almost exclusively in a racial context. I know that is not how you were using it, but that is the connotation it gives.

I don’t know why anyone would care about a TV show reference, but you might want to remove “uppity” from your lexicon.

https://www.npr.org/sections/visibleman/2008/09/how_bad_is_uppity.html

Hogs?

I had like 2 friends back in my CS 1.6 days that insisted on Xfire, but I paid for a Mumble server shortly after that. Might self host one again…

Shit, I forgot avout Xfire. Mumble and Teamspeak are still going too

I’m so tired of this refrain. 49% of 64% of US voters voted for him, but even that is an oversimplification. The reality is that in some regions it is hard to vote. Waiting in line for hours. It is not a national holiday, so no pay for taking time off to wait in line. Polls often have limited times, and people in the US work too much just to stay alive. And that does not even take into account electoral college bullshit. The right has done so much to make voting hard or even impossible for some.

The US is vast and diverse, which makes hand waving dismissals like this even more frustrating.

Yeah, there is that. There is also the fact that even going to the source I cannot find the actual study/data. No idea the sample size, method, or even list if questions. Mostly this feels like clickbait from PC Gamer.

By the time the Cybertruck came out we knew what Elon was. This is not about all Teslas on the road. The article is, but the comment was specifically about Cybertrucks

Also see a lot in the Seattle area. Plenty of suckers in any given population center

It does not for me.

Altman already has plenty of mud on him.