They kinda are necessary, given how they’re the byproduct of capitalism’s private property model and its commodification.

You could technically remove them by having the state manage all the housing, but that’s overly idealistic given how that’d go against the ruling class interests which would cause heavy lobbying by big landowners. It would also make the state a monopoly landowner which would have its own implications.

In other words, they’re necessary not because they’re useful, but because of how dogshit the system is.

I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment

ML’s when you point how many resources USSR had traded with Nazi Germany, which allowed them to commit to their war effort in the first place.

I like them as an option, there are some programs like Bottles or specific game launchers that work under flatpak better than the versions available via native package manager (with Bottles in particular, you can use various built-in sandbox features via flatpak which makes things a bit more secure), but it’s also a bit of a pain because it’s an additional package manager you have to update separately now, or tweak if things go wrong.

Yeah, pretty sure its the devs of the game that are ultimately responsible for moderating their game forum, making internal employees or trusted players mods and so on. The main issue comes from communities that aren’t being moderated, or from the general steam forums.

Not as bad but still quite terrible are probably the steam forums. There are some systems in there that literally encourage and reward saying the most stupid/offensive shit, and with a very lax moderation it’s just a complete mess.

I mean, even this kind of argument doesn’t really work in reality. We already live in “hell on earth”, and via electorialism usually two choices are given: the progressive “nothing ever happens” option (so your socdems, democrats, you’ll be lucky to get a good policy or two but no real change to the status quo) or “literally hitler” option, maybe some parties that stand in the middle of the spectrum if the country is “advanced” enough.

In other words, via electorialism you can either preserve the hell on earth or make it worse, and the process of voting legitimizes this status quo as it’s what “people have decided” rather than who the ruling class cast as candidates, who had the most money and media influence for campaigning.

It’s important to see electorialism for what it truly is.

That name rings a bell

The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Wonder if Musk will get half the spoils for the crypto scam Trump pushed at the start of presidency

Fitgirl is a repacker, not a cracker so this really depends what kind of a release is it, so you’d have to test by yourself.

It should work when it comes to launching the game, I’ve done it before in the past. But in theory, it’s unlikely to work with achievements given how cracks tend to overwrite the steam api dll files and hooks, likely disabling achievements in the process as part of the crack.

Something you could try is to copy the steam dll files like steam_api64.dll from the original copy on steam to the cracked one and see if that does the trick.

America when the most milquetoast social democrat gets elected in a local election:

socialist candidate

looks inside

another socdem

Think the billionaire is safe, even more so considering the proposed pro-business policies by the candidate

Critical support to imperialist conflict

The investigation was done by a private content mill, which makes the research a bit questionable given their interests - lots of potential for cherrypicking examples and so on. There aren’t that many states mentioned in the article, but those that are were either blue already, or deeply-entrenched red states that wouldn’t have made a difference at all in the final result even if there was an upset.

Also - would literally anything come out of this? Dems don’t even have the spine to oppose monarchies (not making this shit up, look at the “few notes” section) let alone confront an active, powerful administration in a meaningful way.

Yes, nothing gets me going like innocent proletarian blood spilled in bourgeois conflicts like these

Calling it right now: it’s a nothingburger as nothing ever happens

I was told that I was smart and great at school, that I’d get some cool job like working in a lab, but those are just platitudes when you’re unable to get disciplined or function consistently at your max.

And honestly, so far in my life I feel its been a blessing in disguise - while I did go for education in a specific field, graduated and failed to get a job, working simpler uneducated jobs does give a degree of freedom. You can take up odd jobs, work in a factory or in a shop if you want - whatever doesn’t require a specific degree and can switch between these jobs when you kinda feel like it going for jack-of-all-trades type of build, while if you got a well-paying specialization then it’s what you’re pushed to be stuck doing for the rest of your life.

Maybe that’s secretly my brain coming up with cope, but experiencing new things constantly for lower pay > high pay specialized work you’re doing forever.

Long walk through the park is quite nice - no cars, no pollution, just lots of birds chirping and strangers passing by

In a sense, yeah. BG3 can be much slower, and you do still have to rely on a party, though I only played DOS1.