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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

To be fair, they aren't asking for anything extreme like being allowed to choose whether to take an untested experimental vaccine so it's basically fine.

There's a source port for keen now called commander genius.

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (5/20)

Shadow of Power

"if elected, weather will end"

U fokking wot?

In this case it's really about the consequences of debt.

Feels great while you're spending it, but you can't spend other people's money forever.

That's not just for nations, it's for individuals too -- racking up your credit card feels great, you look like a hero because you can buy anything you want, you can pay for others stuff, you don't even need to earn much income.

Japan also did this strategy of spending tons of debt. America for the past 25 years as well. Japan is a tiny little island that looked like the new superpower while they racked up incredible debt, America was able to pretend it was still a global superpower, but the bill comes due eventually. Japan has been dealing with the consequences for a decade, the US has been beginning that phase, and China isn't too far behind.

"they work really hard for not a lot of money" has always struck me as a weird stereotype.

Tbf precedent doesn't really happen at the trial court level. Typically that's set at appeals courts and higher.

https://osgameclones.com/

Fantastic list of many OSS clones or implementations. A lot of games you'd be stuck using dosbox for or just not playing are totally decent games on a new OSS game engine, and a lot of new projects are popping up based on AI decompilation tools that guess what the old code did.

It's successor, openshell, is required on every Windows PC I use.

But the last good Windows was probably Windows 10 ltsc Enterprise edition, maybe 11 ltsc Enterprise with openshell.

It's like "let me get this straight. You guys have this the whole time, and had it, and you're just refusing to sell it to us..."

You never know what the future is going to hold, but it would be really funny if Trump wins the popular vote.

Thank you.

@HonkHonkBoom tagging you given your post just now.

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/

You're aware of good work being done by these guys? I want to help but I want the help to actually have a chance of helping.

Does anyone know which charities actually have boots on the ground in the hurricane zone in the US and are making a difference?

One really annoying thing in all these discussions is that the thing is not the thing. Neoliberalism isn't actually neoliberalism. It isn't reducing government in order to let the market decide things, it is growing the government while removing anything that might actually help the common Man.

It's like you're getting hit on by someone that you don't like, and they keep on saying that they're going to leave you alone but then they just keep on escalating. It happened so long that you start using the phrase "leaving me alone" to refer to getting hit on even harder. And it becomes really tough to talk about because people here you complaining about this guy leaving you alone, when in reality you're really talking about the fact his hands are already down your pants.

I never even thought about it until you mentioned it, but this is true. Voting has always been fairly easy in Canada.

To vote I just show up at the place to vote. I obviously need to bring photo id, we're not a backwater third world banana Republic like the United states, but even as just an 18 year old it was really easy to vote. You walk in, you check the box, you go on with your day.

Turns into an election issue and suddenly everything's fine they found the money in the couch cushions the check is in the mail you'll see it Friday bro

She's speaking... To a sex podcast while entire states are facing an emergency.

Oh!!! Stabbing people is bad!

Thanks Germany, that was the problem!

Unfortunately there is a case to be made that there's only really a market for going out to save the world in America. You looking at a Canadian and an Englishman there, well the Canadian isn't going to be able to create a new alternative to the university system preaching for saving the parliament (and in fact might find his bank account Frozen), and the Englishman isn't going to find all kinds of opportunities for new relevance based on saving the English Parliament (but you can be convicted as a felon for making a joke), so the celebrities going to get together in America makes not moral sense but practical sense.

On the other hand, the idea that you would have to monetize saving the country is uniquely american, for example Canada is on track to give the conservative party under Pierre Poilievre a massive majority, and while I'm sure that Pierre isn't going to be perfect, and lot of ways I could see him really cleaning up Canada. You don't really have this cottage industry building up there new celebrities careers doing so.

https://338canada.com/

Sell! Sell! Sell!

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