After seeing a bunch of tankie memes on Lemmy, I’ve become a bit more aware of the popularity of low quality “picture of text” memes that confirm you are correct and others are wrong. It’s fine to have beliefs but saying you have them because you paid attention in school is silly.

Metal Gear Solid 3, Subnautica, Papers Please.

I love the Metal Gear series but the Cold War setting of 3 works so well with the theme of the game. It also features crab battles and the ladder boss.

Subnautica really captures the feeling of being lost in some alien world and slowly making it your new home. The electronic voice assistant manages to send chills up your spine with lines like “oxygen.”

Papers, Please explores complex moral decisions in such a simple way. I wish to live my life more like Jorji.

Also wasn’t the kia stuff really easy to do and needed like no special tools?

KIA/Hyundai removed immobilizers from their US models because US regulations didn’t require them so they didn’t do it to save money.

Immobilizers check that the ignition was turned by the car’s key. Without it, anything that turned the ignition would start the car. The ignition also isn’t a keyhole. It’s just a rectangular hole. So any object that fit in that hole could start a KIA/Hyundai

What about goats in circular pens? A goat is tied to the fence of a circular pen. How long does the rope need to be so that the goat can reach exactly half of the pen’s area? What sounds like a high school math problem was eventually solved in 2020 via complex analysis.

Here’s the answer:

As a union member, yes.

Unless you’re talking about the exit code of a computer program. Then coming up zero is a good thing.

I’m guessing his kids’ favourite teams?

They’re a marching band, I presume?

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Literally unplayable

The rest of the post is a simile and doesn’t matter. It’s like ignoring this sentence you’re reading right now since it doesn’t actually matter and could be removed without changing my point.

As a labourer, I’m not sure I get the point of this post. Is the point that my job is bad? I lift things with a forklift, not my back. I also get paid more than the national average thanks to my union. Sex work can be normalized without putting down labourers.

Musk paid $44 billion in cash for Twitter. Billionaires only have wealth on paper until they want to buy a company, then magically they have the cash.

I clicked your source link and it just sends me to bluesky??

What this means is that the White House still overestimates how much the military is in their pocket

When their enemy is civilians, they only need a few willing soldiers. China ordered several army units to use deadly force against protesters in Tiananmen Square. Several generals denied the order. Whole squads threw their wepons into the river and deserted. The Square was still covered in the blood of thousands. A few loyal soliders in tanks is all that’s needed. The generals and soldiers who denied the order were court maritaled.

Absolutely no one should respect a billionaire who fucks over others to slightly see her numbers go up. She didn’t need that money from cheating, but she did it anyways and fucked over everyone else.

To add some concrete numbers. Martha Stewart’s net worth is about $400,000,000 and the insider trading was to avoid losing $40,000 in stock value. In other words, she fucked people over to avoid losing 0.01% of her wealth.

because apparently the constitution is detailed enough to specify things like that.

It’s impossible for laws to include every single possible detail. Lawyers and judges exist to apply generic laws to specific cases. In this case, a lawyer argued that removing bike lanes creates a saftey issue and since the constitution says the government must protect “life and security of the person”, removing bike lanes goes against the constitution. The judge agreed with the argument.

I’m bald.

the rules are clearly presented

I use Voyager. Community rules are hidden unless you specifically go to that community page, open the menu, and select “sidebar”. It’s incredibly easy to miss.

If a community only wants some people posting then a quick fix is to not allow just anyone to post to it.

Ancient Roman satirical poet Juvenal wrote that all people care about are “bread and circuses” over 2,000 years ago and it still applies.

I think it mostly comes down to baby duck syndrome. People don’t like using a package manager for programs on their desktop but are fine using an app store on their phone (which might literally be running linux). People simply expect a desktop computer to work a specific way and when things are in different spots and called different things they get upset. I think it’s changing as more companies bake Linux into their product.

Steam Decks running Linux changes people’s impression of it. If a mainstream company sold desktop computers that came with Linux preinstalled I’m sure its use would skyrocket. It’s not that it’s impossible for the average user to understand, It’s that it’s not the default option.