We have a serious problem with the jury system in America and nobody talks about it. Voir dire doesn't work. The system would still be flawed with only White Americans. It's entirely unfit for a country made up of Diverse Americans. Unfortunately it seems to be one of those third rails we're not allowed to ever do anything about, like birthright citizenship and one person one vote. You can't touch the sanctity of the holy jury system. It's just the way it is.
Surprisingly a topic about this did get stickied on thedonald today, pointing out one of the major flaws.
That would describe my stance. I used to be more like a "moderate Republican" and listened to NPR on the way to work and back. I didn't care about Trump either way in 2016. He was just a funny billionaire guy. But for some reason NPR kept going on and on with negative stories, taking him out of context, and interviewing random people who claimed to have known him talking about how bad a guy he is, even after the election. I think they had the guy who ghostwrote "The Art of the Deal" on claiming Trump is a liar about everything and the whole book is bullshit. It started to stretch credulity. They would start making statements I already knew weren't true from seeing the full context on YouTube videos, and it was their ridiculously biased coverage of the Mueller investigation when I finally had to turn it off. It wasn't just how bad it was but the fact they kept going on about it like a serious investigation when other news stations had already moved on.
The only people who continue to listen to NPR are those who WANT to believe what they claim because they want to be an enlightened progressive centrist or something. NPR gives them permission to stay in the cave and ignorant and believe themselves better than the backwards right-wing extremists.
Videos of Kyle Rittenhouse shooting the pedos was posted hours (maybe faster?) after it happened, vindicating him long before the trial even started. Various videos of the LV shooting were uploaded there, including an interesting shot of a VIP being escorted out of the hotel by armed guards. But that was all before Elon Musk took over twitter. I don't know which site ends up being more censored now. 4chan has long been the center of pajeet hate, showing the world what it's really like in pooland. I'm sure Elon's army of H1Bs enjoy downranking those posts on X.
When the White man colonized the known world ending slavery, that was white supremacist violence.
Saying "All Lives Matter" is violence.
Failing to acknowledge that trans-women are women is violence.
Your silence is violence.
Accessibility does not always satiate demand for sexual acts, it actually sometimes increases it.
Correct. It is the same as with any psychological problem. If someone is harboring negative feelings you do not want them to continue harboring and ruminating on them. Naturally except for trannies. We've thrown out decades of practical mental health experience and decided the best way to help them is to affirm their delusions because trans rights are human rights bigot.
Nay because supply and acceptability fuels more demand, and if it's realistic and "flooding the market" there's not a good way to tell when it's real or not. You wouldn't be killing the economic demand, but you'd kill any possibility of real investigations.
That's really how it should be. I gave them money for a product. They took the product away when they decided I no longer needed it. I should be able to take my money back. It would be different if The Crew, etc. were sold as a subscription service in the first place, but some these games were sold in boxes too! Granny goes to the Old Games Shoppe and buys a game to put in grandson's stocking at Christmas and at no point in the transaction does someone say "By the way you're not actually buying anything here. Might take it away tomorrow if I'm feeling cute. Thanks for the cash."
So what? If people cheat they cheat. The people who want to keep playing either don't care or figure out their own anti-cheat detection methods. Nobody is claiming you should be able to play every MMO exactly as it was on launch forever. This is mostly about games with a large single player component, and at least being able to launch multiplayer games and still have some access to the product you bought. (possibly with end-user hacking and support needed to be really usable)
It would be like if John Deere - kings of tractors-as-a-service - sold new self-driving models that were all networked together to coordinate and tend your crops as efficiently as possible, and then after a few years they said "Our AI tractor program had a good run but we've decided to end support. All purchased tractors will cease functioning. We will be sending top men to your farms to destroy the equipment to make sure you don't try to keep using them." Naturally some of the farmers who thought they were buying a product will try to get the corporation to make their tractors drivable offline. But inexplicably uninvolved random lurkers chime in with "C'mon man how can you expect The John Deere Corporation to support you greedy farmers forever? These robo-tractors were specifically designed around satellite network connections. You expect them to loan you a satellite? What about all the proprietary IP that powers the AI on a central server and wasn't licensed for public release? Without that server connection someone could drive their tractor into a crowd of people!"
(I point out the latter not to single out you specifically, but because such comments are constantly brought up by anons when this topic is raised. As if we need to consider the publisher's feelings, or they're afraid action here could put game dev in danger despite us having multiplayer games for decades before GaaS.)
Besides his love of blonde women, do we know why he gave her the job yet?