There are problems with the law as well. The main one is that Tik Tok buys a whole lot of data about Americans and their browser history etc from data brokers. So they don’t necessarily need the app to gather information. Comparisons of the Tik Tok app vs it’s counterpart in China exist and they paint a pretty significant picture of the differences and similarities that explain how it could be used to push a narrative or propaganda. Barring that though two things can be true. It can be true that Tik Tok is a danger to national security, and also be lobbied against by American Tech companies.

What we’re seeing is that this law was the result of several things and doesn’t just have one singular aim. Anyone who says it’s just about one singular thing just doesn’t want to admit the validity of the other arguments because it ruins how they feel about the federal government, Tik Tok, China, Trump, Biden etc.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/08/03/paul-reubens-child-pornography/

I updated my Joycons to the hall effect sticks and they’re awesome. No drift after several months.

Having never used the air B&B app or website I don’t know if there is an option that differentiates the two.

When you buy a hotel room, don’t you vet the room to make sure it’s what you want? Same applies here. If you contact them I’m sure they’d happily explain the accommodations. If not, give them a bad review and move on.

Yeah. I don’t disagree with that. But I think it’s rather more about (from what I can see in the original comment) not the techcrunch media coverage, but the idea that techcrunch runs lots of articles about meta and Facebook, not all of them aimed at the problems with the platform and there is no cohesion (in each of these posts), explaining each time they have before given info on leaving Facebook and the important events that lead them to do so.

The article doesn’t really start off with a “haven’t we been here before”, or anything acknowledging what came before. Perhaps that’s their complaint.

Can you give some hard examples of what you mean, and a contrast of what you would expect from a non-american please? I’m reading through this post and I don’t know what you’re seeing. It’s not clear to me given what you wrote so it’s hard to pinpoint which behaviors you’re referring to.

A lot of the things you bring up (about guns and walking safety at night and sending kids to school) doesn’t jive and sounds quite a bit like media washing the entire country. Like. Yes. Guns are legal and lots of people have them. I don’t see guns on a daily basis and even when I lived in a particularly crime prone area for the most part gun violence wasn’t my main concern.

The thing about corporal punishment of children is that what’s legal and illegal varies by state but it’s not outright outlawed to spank children (and I was absolutely not spanked, but beaten as a kid).

But there’s a reason the public hasn’t broken out in violent opposition of the government as a whole (the liberal majority I mean) and it’s twofold. Americans don’t generally want to have to do violence to force change. If we did there would be a lot more Luigi’s, Trump shooters, and BLM founders out there advocating in public for violence against the system and the people who uphold it.

Additionally, people don’t want to get involved with that if it means that it will significantly detrimentally affect their lives (which in a lot of cases is very much true). Living in between the “eat the rich/guillotine” idealism and the realism of making it day to day is hard and it doesn’t allow a lot of fertile ground for empathy and perhaps that’s what you’re seeing.

People have too much still to lose for a civil war to be particularly viable. They haven’t reached a level of desperation that will allow most of them to commit indiscriminate violence against the system. But also, the education system has been decimated and so they don’t think they understand the system well enough to effect change and that goes hand in hand with not getting involved in politics, lobbying, or playing the long game to indoctrinate liberals in a similar fashion to the way conservatives have been indoctrinated (but for the opposite view point, meaning incensing them to make change via a more long and arduous process that has lasting effects). We didn’t see Roe v Wade get dismantled overnight. That was the result of decades of conservative movement. We haven’t been actively and cohesively trying to counter that with our own movements.

I’d also like to add that the vast majority of people live in cities where nature isn’t easily accessible and time isn’t given to them to enjoy it. I work something like 60 hours a week. Some people work more than that. The system is directly designed to keep people tired, poor, ignorant, and just desperate enough to continue to participate in the system. So yes, we are disconnected from nature in a lot of ways.

The Cambridge Analytica thing happened in 2018. I think the point is that Facebook has been a bad platform for awhile now and these recent articles don’t do justice to their history and appear extremely inflammatory as a result.

COD - Requires Kernel Level Anti-cheat (RICHOCHET).

Paladins - Requires Kernel Level Anti-cheat (EAC).

GTA V - Requires Kernel Level Anti-cheat (BattleEYE).

Destiny 2 - Requires Kernel Level Anti-cheat (BattleEYE).

This is the fault of the developers themselves not making those games compatible with Steam OS, and has nothing to do with Steam or Linux and everything to do with the developers themselves. So, if you’re going to play the blame game, blame the correct people.

I don’t know about VR in Linux, but it looks like the other people in this thread have me covered on that and they have explained in detail what’s going on there.

I’ve been in this space since the original steam machines. You either have no idea what it was like 10+ years ago with Linux gaming, or you’re being willfully ignorant and not finding out anything about what’s going on now and you’re salty for reasons I don’t know and don’t care about. Do not at me. I don’t care what you have to say if all you’re going to do is be sardonic and caustic. You have a nice day.

Said the person who did no research and has no idea what they’re talking about. Steam OS has been pushing game devs and publishers to be more compatible with Linux, not less. Additionally, the only online games that really have problems with steam OS are ones that require kernel level anti-cheat, and we all should be pushing for the downfall of that. It isn’t necessary.

Then people didn’t even check and I honestly just assumed it was residual hate or an assumption of defense so while this clarifies things it doesn’t really make it any better.

If the community is going to assume everyone knows what’s going on, then that’s on them.

I suppose it’s possible that that’s not how they identify and it’s not about gender at all. If someone tells me they like to be called Sara or Brad, I don’t try to figure out the how and the why. I’m probably not the best person to ask this question to because I don’t think I know the answer.

Some people aren’t necessarily trans but don’t feel they fit gendered pronouns. I generally try to abide by their wishes because it doesn’t matter to me why, just that I be respectful to people the way I’d want them to be respectful to me. But people sure do use pronouns like that and it’s not just trans people either. I don’t care what people identify as. That’s not any of my business. But it costs me nothing to respect their choice.

I didn’t understand. Thank you for the explanation.

People who go to prison are more likely to re-offend by an exorbitant rate in America. This is because the system is set up to make them fail. Do you want to be the change in the world you want to see or do you want to set people up to fail by making the entire topic completely one-sided and vilifying everyone involved.

Do you want a solutions based conversation or an emotionally supportive one. Because my point isn’t about the recidivism rates of cheaters but about the fact that labels hurt any and all conversations involving them by smothering the flow of conversation. Meaning someone who is in a situation that might lead to cheating will not seek or is not likely to get advice that would mitigate such behavior.

This is a great slogan but it’s not an absolute. It’s definitively based on an emotional response to a feeling of betrayal, and while I can agree that it’s likely in most scenarios, I really do wish people wouldn’t just spout it as if it is a defining characteristic of every cheating party in history.

Not sure why bot got downvoted. Perhaps others can’t see bot’s preferred pronouns.

Cells can light off individually with color was my point, but you are in fact correct. I’d only seen one video at the time and it certainly wasn’t the best quality so it was hard to tell.

Cells can light off individually with color was my point, but you are in fact correct. I’d only seen one video at the time and it certainly wasn’t the best quality so it was hard to tell.