Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way or parking spot.

Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

• The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
• The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
• It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
• The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.

I typed out the below as a response to you, then reread what you wrote. We might be making the same point just with different words. Hopefully I’m not coming across as overly adversarial.

I think most people on social media, including lemmy, exist in an echo chamber that amplifies specific views to the point that it becomes easy to think those views are much more broadly held then they actually are.

Changing the question around like you suggest might help some people realize that, but I also think that there are a lot of people who think that the views expressed in their slice of social media are actually indicative of broader trends.

I also don’t think I’m immune to this effect, but I do feel somewhat compelled to point out specific instances of it when I notice it.

At the time I’m writing this there are 78 comments in this comment section. I haven’t read all of them, so let’s just assume that every single one of those comments represents a unique individual who believes that the Switch 2 and the Steam Deck (and related) are direct competitors.

Given the nature of this platform and community that number is not even remotely surprising. It’s also an utterly insignificant number of people.

The overlap between people who would buy a Switch 2 and people who would buy a Steam Deck is a tiny sliver of a Venn diagram. Those are two largely separate categories of gamer.

That’s like just your opinion man

You might as well just start insisting that green is actually red, because that is how hilariously, ridiculously, mind-numbingly wrong you are.

Definitely an unpopular opinion, though I don’t disagree with it.

For an additional point of comparison, a brand new N64 cartridge back in 1996 would have been anywhere from $60 to $80. Which based on an inflation calculator would be slightly over $120 to $160 today.

And games are more expensive than ever for studios to make and push to the market. Given that, I’m not surprised we have loot crates, micro transactions, and predatory dlc. A AAA game should have a baseline price closer to $200.

Depending on your setting and desired outcome for the poisoner, uraninite (aka pitchblende) might be an option. It has historical uses in glass making and pottery glazing, which could provide justification for why someone would have it.

It contains Uranium, which is radioactive, but I don’t believe will bioaccumulate, but can build up on surfaces, tools, and clothing providing a source of long-term radiation exposure. In addition, it contains lead, which does bioaccumulate, providing a source of gradual long term poisoning as well as radium which also bioaccumulates and is radioactive, providing an additional source of longterm radiation exposure.

I definitely had to look it up, as it’s difficult and a bit confusing to parse and makes use of some rather dated slang, but yes it does make sense.

It means that buffalo from the city called Buffalo, who bully other buffalo from Buffalo are in turn bullied by buffalo from Buffalo.

Obviously. It’s still just people hiding behind anonymized usernames and interacting with posts that are largely singular ideas.

The risks associated with being an asshole are largely removed and the ability to empathize is limited by lack of access to things like body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and real time communication. Of course people will be emboldened to be their most brazen selves in an environment like that.

Language is under every obligation to make sense. That is the entire purpose of it’s existence. It is, however under no obligation to make sense to you.

Calibre cant natively strip DRM from ebooks, but there are third-party plugins for it that can and integrate pretty seamlessly into the process of adding the book to your library.

I used it to strip the DRM from all of my Amazon bought ebooks back before they removed the download option.

“I’ll have you know there’s no pusseeee!”

…the highlighted bodies under Lunar are wrong. Charon isn’t a moon it’s a dwarf planet in its own right. The barycenter of it’s orbit isn’t inside Pluto. Pluto and Charon are binary dwarf planets not a planet moon pair.

I think it depends more on your instructor rather than the region you’re in. When I was in HS I took two years of Spanish and our teacher was from Spain, so her instruction was in line with that.

I was more thinking of the N64 and GameCube games (Stadium 1&2, Colloseum, and XD Gale of Darkness) when referencing older games with poor graphics specifically. All four of those games were graphically inferior to other titles on the same consoles.

However, every single release has been plagued by bugs that can result in completely corrupted save data, softlocks, and a wide variety of other unexpected behaviors. Major examples being MissingNo and the other glitch pokemon, bad eggs, a wide variety of exploitable, but potentially save corrupting bugs like the infinite item glitches in gens 1-3, and a whole host of bugs that break how moves are supposed to work in battle.

Hell, shinies were originally a graphical bug in gen 2.

I don’t disagree that the graphics could and probably should have been better. I do disagree with the idea that it’s anything more than a minor annoyance with no meaningful impact on the game.

However, regardless of what I think about it, my point was that at this point in the franchise, Gamefreak, the Pokemon Company, and Nintendo have demonstrated repeatedly since the very first game that optimization, stability, graphical fidelity, and any semblance of good development practices are not something they’re willing to commit to. Expecting that to change at this point is unreasonable and continuing to complain about it is demonstrably unproductive and just introduces pointless negativity into the pokemon community.

Because graphics are the most important part of a game?

If the games are fun to play who cares if the graphics are bad? Scarlet and Violet were the best pokemon games since P:LA and that was the best since Gen 5.

Based on the limited information we’ve gotten about ZA there’s no reason as of yet to doubt that it won’t be comparable to P:LA and S&V in terms of enjoyability.

Complaining about the graphics of pokemon games or the bugginess of pokemon games is like complaining about CoD being an FPS or Assassin’s Creed having traversable terrain or Souls-likes being hard. At this point it’s a staple of the franchise with 40 games between the mainline games and major spinoffs establishing a trend of the games being thoroughly buggy messes and/or having shit graphics. There is absolutely no reason to expect any of that to change and constantly hearing complaints about it with every new game is getting fucking old.

seats of political power here are hundreds of thousands of miles away from most people

Not to nit pick, but definitely picking nits, there is no place on this planet that is “hundreds of thousands of miles” away for anywhere else on the planet. The circumference of the earth is approximately 25,000 miles and I don’t think any of our seats of political power are on the moon.

Technically, you’re allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.

Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.