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Technology & Information / Steam Deck

« on: July 21, 2022, 02:21:44 AM »

So, Valve has finally come up with some decent hardware. I reserved one the day they were open for preorders, and then canceled it a few weeks later because I started to worry that if a joystick broke it would render the entire Deck useless. Now that people have been getting them and posting repair/modification videos, it turns out they are very repairable. And now I regret canceling my preorder because the queue to get one is months long. Does anyone have one?

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Technology & Information / Re: Speeding will be harder...

« on: July 15, 2022, 06:45:26 AM »

Americans are too dumb to drive 90. British people probably are too. The case for 90 might be made if you're a good driver and have a sports car that can brake and handle very well. But most people over here are driving boat sized SUVs and pickups while talking on their phones.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched

« on: July 14, 2022, 08:25:08 PM »

The new minions movie I just watched was unironically better than 95% of MCU movies.

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Technology & Information / Re: Speeding will be harder...

« on: July 14, 2022, 08:21:46 PM »

Anything faster than 70/75 is pretty reckless. No one needs to be going that  fast. If you want to drive fast, go to a racetrack. I hope we get something like this in the US.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trans athletes

« on: July 13, 2022, 02:05:27 AM »

There should only be one league for every sport. Gender itself is bigotry and should not exist.

Thanks for the shitpost.  Interestingly enough, most team sports leagues do not put restrictions on which sexes can compete in them.  If you are a female and good enough to play MLB, then there is no rule against it.  There are probably a bunch of social barriers to jump though.

Sex and gender are not the same thing. Please educate yourself.

Yeah I was being tangential to your shitpost. Incredible that your response is to shitpost again. There are no league’s with gender requirements either, so it’s no big deal either way. It’s almost like the issue with trans people is a bigoted moral panic. Fortuna can tell you more if you are interested.

All of the trans people I've known have been political zealots, similar to you. I wouldn't want to see you in public either.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trans athletes

« on: July 12, 2022, 02:06:23 AM »

Hey bigots, do you want trans-folk to use the bathroom for their sex assigned at birth or not?

https://www.fox19.com/2022/07/08/transgender-butler-county-man-says-group-beat-him-up-using-wrong-restroom/

I'd rather not see them in public to begin with.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Texas GOP

« on: June 25, 2022, 03:51:08 PM »

Almost as crazy as mainstream progressives.

Everything I don't like is a meme.

I'm sure even Lenin himself would shudder at the political viewpoints of progressive Canadians.

If you don’t want me to think you’re a meme, don’t post stuff like this.

You’re far too biased for your opinion on anything political to matter.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Texas GOP

« on: June 25, 2022, 06:27:55 AM »

Almost as crazy as mainstream progressives.

Everything I don't like is a meme.

I'm sure even Lenin himself would shudder at the political viewpoints of progressive Canadians.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Texas GOP

« on: June 24, 2022, 04:00:21 AM »

Almost as crazy as mainstream progressives.

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Technology & Information / Re: I Hate Linux Distros

« on: June 07, 2022, 08:20:13 PM »

This job is chill as hell. It’s kinda similar to the other one, but they have resources and troubleshooting guides embedded in each ticket that comes in, suggested fixes etc.. The best part is I don’t have to answer any phones.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: June 02, 2022, 06:21:27 PM »

In each of those times we successfully avoided nuclear war.

I dunno, Putin is still saying he'll totally start a nuclear war. Postponing it while giving him time to grow stronger (regardless of whether he squandered it) doesn't seem to have worked out so far.

My nephew is convinced we are all about to die in a thermonuclear war (he’s an adult by the way, and he is prone to doom-mongering). I don’t think so because even if Putin is mad enough to push the button, which I doubt, in real life he doesn’t actually have a button. There are some checks and balances even in Russia and when push comes to shove I don’t think they’d actually launch. Prove me wrong, boys, prove me wrong!

Russia’s rhetoric is pretty effective. They are playing up their crazy villain persona that we see them as.

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Technology & Information / Re: I Hate Linux Distros

« on: June 01, 2022, 10:14:51 AM »

They sent me a 32 inch monitor even though it’s an on-site job. Maybe it’s so I can look up microchips and whatnot at home.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Bye Bye Abortion

« on: May 12, 2022, 05:15:54 PM »

After all, men can get pregnant too these days.

I'd completely forgotten about this. Yeah, I guess it's not a women only issue anymore.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Bye Bye Abortion

« on: May 12, 2022, 08:17:35 AM »

How many people would choose to be retroactively aborted? Probably about as many as the suicide rate, which is about 1 in 10,000 in the US. If there was a way to give the baby a choice, most would choose to be born. Still, I’m not entirely pro-life from a legal standpoint. I think it’s wrong, but probably shouldn’t be illegal. Maybe just let women decide on it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: May 03, 2022, 10:34:19 PM »

It looks like that dude is just a Putin clone. A possible upside is that he surely doesn't have manlet syndrome.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: May 03, 2022, 06:12:58 PM »

So instead of flooding somewhat trained soldiers into a meat grinder, they’re going to flood totally untrained soldiers into it.

There’s also this

https://twitter.com/ohra_aho/status/1521464911515332608?s=21&t=nB2ivG5OVoOr3d2cKzvB9A

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: April 27, 2022, 09:34:20 AM »

I wonder if all the rich lefties are going to return their Teslas now. Freedom of speech is literally Hitler.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing

« on: April 22, 2022, 01:10:45 AM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: April 16, 2022, 11:34:56 PM »

Given that Russia can't even hold a city 50 miles from its border, you really think that their nuclear arsenal is capable of anything? Nuclear weapons are incredibly expensive to maintain. Submarines even more so. Russia can't afford to keep a single aircraft carrier operational annually. Their nuclear arsenal is likewise just a bunch of numbers on paper. They're not real. It costs the US approximately 50 billion dollars to maintain nuclear capabilities. That's almost the entirety of Russia's military budget.

Russia keeps threatening use of nuclear weapons. "We'll nuke Ukraine!" ... "We'll nuke Finland if they join NATO!" ... Well, guess what. I don't see any nukes. Russia a bad joke and it's time we deliver the punchline to their face.

Let's not do that either, though. You know, just in case they actually do work. If even 10% of them work it would be a bad time.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: April 16, 2022, 10:30:17 PM »

Russia has a devastating nuclear sub fleet, that can sit right off my coasts not detected.

Yes, and if they were actually that crazy they could just threaten nukes for anything.
"Give us this trade deal or else"
"Move US military bases out of Europe or else" etc...

Acquiescing to their every demand would be just as dangerous as marching US soldiers to Moscow.