I mean, yes, but it kind of misses the point, right? I mean, if somebody breaks into your home and murders your child, you shouldn’t be arrested for not having bought better locks.

For almost every human being on the planet, the loss of their child is more than enough punishment for whatever fraction of blame falls on their shoulders in situations like this.

I mean, I’m not the most empathetic person on the planet, but I do still have a drop or two of humanity somewhere inside of this withered carcass I call my body and I can clearly tell that it is horrendous to arrest the parents of a child that was accidentally killed because of someone else’s mistake because they let the child out of their sight.

I know nobody with a soul at Microsoft and the ability to do something about it will read this, but maybe, just maybe, shoving your AI agent down your users’ throats against their will and cramming it into every single application on their computer is not the best way to engender goodwill and user adoption.

Maybe if you offered it to them as a voluntary upgrade that they could use to try it out without it being forced on them would have done a better job.

But you know, go on being Microsoft. You’ve been this way for 50 fucking years, you’re gonna keep being this way, and nobody can stop you except your own complete and total downfall.

So what you’re saying is that having nothing to do with Lutris itself, there is a discord where people get together and say things that are hateful.

But we can still use Lutris. It does not mean that we are endorsing the hateful rhetoric of the discord, right?

Surprisingly, I’m much more okay with it if I’m lied to. If you tell me no, no, no, there are no bugs in this, and then I eat it, and I do not detect bugs in it, and it turns out after the fact that there were bugs in it, okay fine, you got me, fair game.

How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.

“Tom Waits once said there is no devil, there’s just God when he’s drunk, you know?” - Robin Williams.

I wonder if you tried the electrolysis trick to remove all of the coating and then tested the bare metal if it would still have lead contamination.

If the coating contains lead and you get rid of it, and then the bare metal doesn’t, then you could just re-season the pan and it would be fine, right?

I speak for a sizeable portion of the human race when I say I’ll never voluntarily eat bugs.

I’d rather be forced to be a vegan.

No shade on you if you choose to eat bugs, it’s just not for me.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the hammerhead shark as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the shark had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

When was the last time you had an alert for anything that either solved a problem, lowered your stress, or improved your life in any way?

What does this have to do with PC gaming?

That’s really dangerous.

For one, you’re inflicting psychological harm on someone that you claimed to have loved or cared about at least.

And two, some people fly off into a psychotic rage and murder people when they are cheated on.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.

It is the only song of theirs that I will not immediately change the station if it comes on.

One day, out to a cliff That overlooks the water I jumped in to save a girl It was somebody’s daughter And now the ring that’s on my hand It was given to me by her And to this day we all sit around And dream of ways to get higher

-Nickleback, Leader of Men

In the original Civil War, the Confederacy had the land advantage and a surplus of people willing to fight.

The North had just as many people willing to fight, but also money.

And because they had money, they had better weaponry, better cavalry, and healthier, happier soldiers.

Further, there were many people in the South who did not agree with the Civil War and who supported the North’s conquest of the South.

The South was in a very bad situation financially and organizationally to fight a civil war, whereas Cascadia, being Washington, California, and Oregon would have quite a bit in its favor, Especially if we did something outlandish like ask the Chinese for help in exchange for a trade agreement.

Having a new country pop up between America and the far west would be disastrous for America’s financial stability.

I am not saying that we should start a civil war or that we should actually secede from the union. I am just saying that this would not resemble the civil war at all, and barring an early blitzkrieg or a nuclear assault, they could win.

I mean, yes, or we could annex the tip of Idaho and exile everybody that voted for Trump Or that does not swear allegiance to the new Republic of Cascadia.

Part of me would rather have Washington, Oregon, and California become the new Republic of Cascadia.

The other part of me would be happy to become a Canadian.

Either way works for me. Somebody just roll out the bill and I’ll sign.

In our defense, it is VERY post-apocalyptic, like 400 years or so depending on where you tag in.

It’s not like the bombs dropped yesterday and all of a sudden they have holodecks and microwaves that make food out of raw materials and transporters and warp drives.

If you consider our technology in 1625 versus today, Having that kind of tech in 2425 seems perfectly reasonable.

Yep, I quit using Firefox.

You fuck with me? I drop you like a bad habit. That’s just a very simple standing rule that I have abided by for a very long time.

And it’s frustrating, but it works and I’ll keep dropping every single fucking company that wants to fuck with me for the rest of time.

I would rather Firefox come out and be like, look, we need you to give us two dollars a year to use our fucking browser than for them to try to sneakily, secretly extract money from the background from my web searches.

That goes double for when this money extraction process does not actually improve the product but makes it measurably worse.