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  • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldsus
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    2 months ago

    No apologies necessary*. I certainly wasn’t trying to offend, just be accurate in model setting.

    A more accurate umbrella term for “affair tolerant monogamy” would probably be “non-monogamous”, with the dividing line between that and “polyamory” being exactly what you said : all persons in the relationship cluster knowing the stances of all other participants.

    Accurate and non-offensive terminology can be hard.

    It does circle us back to OP, though. The answer to “what happens when one couple breaks up in a polucule” is a loud and emphatic that depends on what type of polucule you’re in.

    (*: no apologies needed from you. To the extent that I caused you any distress I sincerely apologize. Causing pain was not at all my intent.)


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    While this is certainly a valid form of romance, it’s more accurately described as “non-exclusive simultaneous relationships” than a single “polyamorous relationship”.

    Some people really do live in multi-partner committed households, but those seem most often to be dominated by a single person, such as fringe Mormon polygamy. And the most common form of "polyamory’ is probably “affair-tolerant monogamy.”

    It’s a big complicated world, and variations of how humans with form intimate relationships fills all possibilities when there is no enforced legal prohibition. (And,.sometimes, even then.)





  • Assume that, for the first time in his life, Donald meant what he said. Pretend that he won’t change his mind or panic, and assume that the same GOP which keeps missing Speaker of the House election layups won’t break and let the Democrats take the tariff power away

    The midterm congressional elections are always a swing to the other party. The Democrats are more likely to take at least one chamber of Congress than Trump is to say something dumb. But let’s assume that for some reason they only take one, and you get gridlock enough to preserve the tarrifs until the next POTUS takes office in January 2029.

    A factory would need to break even by that time to be worth a quick investment. And not just break even, but leave you with more wealth than if you just bought a bunch of crypto and stayed home until this all passes. And if you signed an deal today, your break even points might be as soon as only 45 months away.

    You can’t even get a car loan with a team that short.


  • As I understand it, switch 1 digital games are console-bound, but you can migrate your whole console to a new device (such as if your switch breaks.). This was terrible and unfriendly, and why almost all of my family’s switch games are physical.

    I doubt “share once and let everyone play but the owner” was an intentional promise from Nintendo, but I’d have no trouble believing a tale about their DRM checks leaving open a hole like that.



  • Steam sells non-transferable lifetime licenses to each game you “buy”, that let you play it on one PC at a time but never transfer it to anyone else, even as part of an inheritance after your death.

    If you have a family there is a “sharing” plan which allows you to let family members also play some of the games in your library, but not at the same time.

    Nintendo is imposing a bit more ceremony if you want to share digital games each time you share them, but the essential “one device at a time” nature is the same that steam imposes.


  • Nintendo made a huge deal about virtual game cards, saving us from exactly what you’re afraid of.

    Not as good as what Sony and Microsoft do, where we can essentially install our whole library on every console we have, but it’s about as good as what Steam does.

    Plus they’re bringing back a “game share” like feature, so some multiplayer games should be playable in a local family with only one purchase.


  • D- day is a great example of why opsec matters so much. The Germans knew that the allies were going to invade, and if they had been prepared they very well might have rebuffed the invasion. But the secrecy worked, and operation overlord succeeded instead of being a bloody failure.

    If the target of the military raid had known when it was coming, they could have simply relocated anything actually important away from the target zone.

    A useful analogy is probably a boxer and a ring: your opponent knows that you’re going to throw a punch, but you really don’t want him to know exactly what punch you’re going to throw when.