There is no “harms of social media” per se. There are harms of unregulated companies that purposefully create addiction machines that are harmful to everyone, young and old alike. Our collective grandma became an antivaxer at the ripe age of 71, our collective dad became racist not at 13 either.
I have the complete opposite experience, I almost cannot escape it here. My reddit infinite scroll was way more diverse, here it’s exclusively american politics and linux, and if it wasn’t for linux I would quit this whole platform
Damn, americans are pathetic. Pweease, generate a candidate for me so I can find enough motivation to send a letter.
Fucking idiots, you lost your country to fascist without any resistance, and brought problems to the whole world
It depends on a game, some, rarely, you can just start, but most will check for a steam account to see if the game isn’t just copied. As far as anti-piracy measures go, it’s quite a tame one. You want them to allow you to just copy a game and start it, and it never how it worked.
So yeah, like I said, you need to login into steam once, and then you can go offline.
The alternative explanation that “you” are trying and failing spectacularly.
None of that makes me l-o-fucking-l to be honest.
It’s deeply weird to me that you assumed I stan Clinton when I just point out this deeply funny statistic. The fact that you assumed I stan her might say something about your motivation and ideas than you care to admit.
It even prevented you from understanding why I brought up this and what it means for the “everything is rigged, nothing we do matters, better not to do anything” side of this argument.
At some point, when you’re combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks.
My lack of awareness about your effort shows that your effort sucks and you didn’t achieve shit. So the same way you criticize Democrats of not listening to you, I can criticize you for not being loud enough so they can hear you.
Yeah, it absolutely isn’t
You’re not getting a progressive because you aren’t trying. You can’t get enough people to win a popular vote once. DNC doesn’t even need to rig anything, the only people who actually do political activism are those “establishment democrats”.
Progressives either don’t do shit other than bitching on twitter, or there are so little of them so their effort is in vain. I don’t know what is worse. You can say what you want how primaries are “rigged” because delegates don’t do what you personally don’t want them to do, but fact of the matter is, Bernie also lost the popular vote quite definitively.
In the history of DNC, there was only one time when delegates didn’t chose the same candidate as the people, and that was when Obama lost the popular vote to Clinton by almost 1%.
The software that you don’t open yourself shouldn’t behave like that, and “just uninstall it” isn’t an appropriate answer here. It shouldn’t be normalised, it should be ridiculed and criticized.
because I have to log into steam to access them.
You only need to log into steam once to download it. After that you can go offline forever, and, unless I’m missing something, the game will always be playable.
You can always make your case. IT doesn’t want an additional headache of dealing with another infrastructure, but a lot of the time they will be OK if you will convince them that you will deal with your weird shit on your own.
Sure, quite often there are weird security problems, sure, sometimes there is no way to use necessary software on Linux, but just as often there isn’t, and you just need to convince them that you know what you’re doing.
My whole life it was a common knowledge that Windows alternates between OK and worst shit imaginable. 95 was shit, 98 was passable. ME was terrible, XP was OK. Vista was dogshit, 7 was all right. 8 was cancer, 10 was functional. 11 was doomed from the beginning, and it’s weird that some people don’t know this.
For me it started crashing when I open an instance on another device
Popular vote reflects how people who actually vote think. Candidates aren’t appearing out of thin air, they’re nominated as the result of political campaigns.
You can’t shift the blame for candidates to ambiguous “them” if you didn’t get your ass to try to affect it in any way. The delegates represent pretty nicely the opinion of people who actually vote in Primaries, with almost perfect track record. They don’t represent your opinion because you don’t vote therefore don’t have an opinion. So you don’t get to complain about what party that you’re not in is doing. Want it to change? Use the ways to change it. Those ways aren’t hidden from you, aren’t secret, aren’t gatekeeped by a shadow cabal, you just need to do politics about it. People who get their candidates elected do that.
In the history of Democratic party, there was exactly one time where the candidate that the DNC chose, actually lost a popular vote. Exactly one.
It was in 2008, when a young, generational candidate actually lost the popular vote by 1% to the (kinda boring) establishment choice, but was chosen anyway.
It’s nice to have this simplistic worldview, when “they” control everything anyway so you don’t have to do anything and just complain when “they” don’t do what you want. It’s harder to confront the reality when “they” actually consist of all the people around you, and the only reason you don’t get what you want is because you don’t do shit.
The time to criticize Democratic party is when you run, support, canvas for a better candidate, (better candidate in the framework of Democratic party, since US is a two-party system at the moment). If you’re doing nothing for a year and just start shitting on the party when it’s close to elections, you’re a willing on unwilling conservative supporter, it’s simple as that.
If you believe that you will be able to just get third party going, not only you’re braindead, you actually don’t care about lives of other people, and optics are more important than people to you, which makes you a bad person with bad morals.
If you just sit around, waiting for a good candidate to materialise before your eyes, you’re just braindead.
That’s why Dems only run establishment boring candidates and don’t want to change anything, because their support is steady and consistent.
Oh boy, so this is what you think resistance is? I’m afraid you’re even more fucked than I was afraid of.