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cccpneveragain 37 points ago +37 / -0

Little over 12 hours in and I've barely partaken of any media today, yet I've already managed to see multiple references to pride month. Oddly enough the only place I haven't (yet) is watching baseball.

by Lethn
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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

I really like optimizing things. So not just conveyor belts, but making sure every thing on the conveyor belt has a purpose and every machine is spending time creating and things aren't backed up. It gets complicated after a while.

I still prefer city builders and things like Tropico more, but in city games I'm still just constantly optimizing.

by Lethn
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cccpneveragain 8 points ago +11 / -3

They keep posting ConPro shit too. If I want to partake in that forum, I have the option to do so. I'd rather not. Really, I just shake my head at anyone who has enough time to bother to spam a forum with such garbage.

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cccpneveragain 11 points ago +11 / -0

All of this has made me more and more rural. I'm already in like a fringe sub-suburb and I'm looking to build on some land I have in the next few years.

I hope they continue to hate and look down on small town life myself, so they will stay away. I like the boring little places just called Cafe or Diner where I can grab a meal, the butcher shop attached to the gas station, a little bit of space around my house, etc. I don't want to be crammed into a tiny apartment and have to walk to some place named like "Avocado + Kale" where I can't actually park a car, just to not be able to order a cup of coffee without understanding all the pretentious BS they write on the menu.

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cccpneveragain 14 points ago +14 / -0

What I was thinking was to have the merits of the case reviewed somehow before being allowed to flood someone with discovery requests, dragging case out with extensions, etc. in order to drown someone in legal fees and take up all their time. There'd still be a lot of caveats.

Like you say though, if the attorneys had more on the line, it would likely take a huge dent out of this stupidity.

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cccpneveragain 24 points ago +24 / -0

If there was any real justice, there would be an express path to dismissal for frivolous lawsuits like this along with disbarment for the filing attorneys.

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cccpneveragain 4 points ago +4 / -0

I cut sugar by probably 90% about 6 months ago. I eat maybe 5g of sugar that isn't from natural fresh ( unprocessed) fruit or small amounts of bread. Replaced the calories with mostly protein from steak, chicken, and nuts. After a couple weeks to adjust I felt like a different person. I already had an above average diet for an American before that. As far as I'm concerned sugar is poison.

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cccpneveragain 6 points ago +6 / -0

Right? Even before all the ex husbands context I couldn’t be bothered to care. I can’t remember the last time I had a birthday cake, but I’m pretty sure I was under 20.

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cccpneveragain 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's not as fake as many, but I wasn't going to make up "women's studies" and include it in my story falsely. It's also pretty tough to be employed in, which was my point. Yeah, it can happen, but it's more likely to be the path to barista with a degree than not.

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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

It was never school for me, ever. They'd go on about follow your passion and such. It was actually grandfathers the most if I think about it, and it wasn't from being rich as they weren't. They were both involved in the small towns where they lived, so whenever I'd visit I'd inevitably end up at lunch at the cafe where they always went sitting around with a bunch of independent men with small businesses. There's a ton of osmosis for a kid in that environment, outside of the "ol yeah you should get your grandad to bring you by and I'll show you my <whatever it is they did for a living>."

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cccpneveragain 17 points ago +17 / -0

I remember my grandad used to go on about not wasting time on a degree you can't get a job with. He had a degree himself in a time when it was much less common. It was more so with my brother who would come up with some stupid shit like Egyptology. "You can't get a job with that, don't waste your time with that!"

We need more of that. It's really not, "If you just believe in yourself and try you can be successful doing anything."

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cccpneveragain 68 points ago +68 / -0

Any time they talk about money and the rich, they are automatically right-wing. It's simple commie class warfare. Except most of the billionaires are leftist, but don't tell the useful idiots that. The billionaires end up as the commissars in the new government.

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cccpneveragain 4 points ago +4 / -0

Keep my ass here.

I actually used to be interested to go to Minnesota. Now, well if I'm going to visit a Muslim country, I'd rather go to UAE over New Somalia.

by Lethn
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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

There has to be like a mindset, aptitude, interest, or what not element to this, because I find doing artwork about as interesting as watching paint dry. I could get interested for weeks if I’m doing some code though. Probably why I’ve never finished a game, I’ll get many things working, then look at the 1000 hours of art detail work I have ahead of me and go do something else.

by Lethn
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cccpneveragain 2 points ago +2 / -0

Really interested in what they do with their next release. I very well may get one. That market badly needs more competition.

by Lethn
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cccpneveragain 4 points ago +4 / -0

I've had a HD7970 that I loved. Currently have an RX 6600. Also a GTX 1660 Super in there too that I still have on a second PC, I never really worked it hard as a "main" gaming GPU. I generally don't have brand loyalty, I've had from an ATI Rage to a couple GeForce and a couple Radeon mixed in there over the years leading up to the 7970. I do discount Nvidia a bit, because they honestly seem like a total shit company to consumers even more so than the others. I'm not going to document or evidence this opinion, so don't ask, it's based on multiples of little news tidbits, etc.

At the moment I'm waiting to see what the 8000 series Radeon and maybe even the new Intel stuff before I look to upgrade. Likely a year from now, and into something like 8600/8700 XT. I much prefer the AMD software experience. It's simple enough to set up, overclock if I want, no logging in, and I much prefer how the GPU upscaling works where it's essentially any resolution I want with a 4K output. There isn't like an "experience" and a control panel app. I never have to screw with anything.

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cccpneveragain 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nice! I never got that on my list somehow when I've pushed back into older moved, so it's on the list 100% now. WW1 history and the lead up to it is not often enough given attention.

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cccpneveragain 21 points ago +21 / -0

I bet those games are a sex fest now too. I was playing my final Ubisoft purchase back in April when I was sick for a weekend--Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I accidentally pick one dialogue option in a random quest, and next thing you know, I'm going into some guys house for gay sex, then the blacked screen fade to the next day. One option. I almost never do any of the romance shit in any game, so it wasn't like I led them on or had been romancing them at any point. It was no more than a nice way to click "let's go fuck right now."

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cccpneveragain 17 points ago +17 / -0

Can confirm, started school around that time in the nigga hood. I wasn't even that nerdy at the time. I liked computers but I wasn't really obsessed with fictional universes or anything like the pic. Always black future inmates doing it too. I went to mostly white schools from 7th onward. I don't recall ever being bullied once after that. All the typical bully stereotypes you'd think like jocks or what not liked me and were cool.

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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

Makes sense. I've always been a very bad follower and had no problem sitting in a party with friends hanging out and playing something else. Others couldn't seem to do that.

Even so there's things I'll still play with friends I wouldn't have otherwise, but not buying mainstream things usually.

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cccpneveragain 8 points ago +9 / -1

None of them can just quit and realize it is better that way. My last normie game thing is going to be gone in two weeks (MS Game Pass). I downsized games and systems a TON. The only thing I maybe miss? Maybe the PS3. But RPCS3 does a good job on that gap and would probably be perfect if I'd upgrade CPU.

Still, I kinda believe at least some of this. I've still got a bunch of old friends on Xbox from years ago. All of which were people I either new in person or friends-of-friends. Most I haven't talked to in 5 years at least. They generally are all playing top 10 mainstream stuff, excluding the one guy like me that always played weird things.

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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

I've thought about that, but never read into it. There is some sort of weakness for sure. Having not lived through an amendment really (I suppose the 27th), it's hard for me to say, just because I don't know how the landscape and the feelings of the actual people were when they were ratified. The 26th makes some sense to me, with that being during the whole Vietnam draft, albeit it didn't really work to stop America being the world empire anyway.

I mean if I were to be given perfection, I'll take a benevolent dictator. But good luck making that happen and actually work. Second to that, I still think the US is better off than moth.

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cccpneveragain 24 points ago +24 / -0

I'd argue the constitutional republic as designed hasn't existed for at least 100 years, likely longer. It was supposed to be a state-dominant government. So if California wanted to fly the fag flag and Texas wanted to ban it, sure, fine. It keeps changing so some states can use the federal government to force others to comply.

Even after all the civil war stuff, the amendments passed in the early 20th century, they are terrible.

  • 16th: federal income taxes -- removed the ability for each state to figure out how to levy taxes, allows growth of federal government due to being able to directly fund itself
  • 17th: direct election of senators -- now states can't decide that on their own
  • 19th: women voting -- states could have decided that by state, it was never prohibited to allow women to vote
  • 23rd: DC getting electors -- not a state, federal district gets a say now
  • 24th: poll tax -- again, should be up to the states
  • 26th: voting age -- also should be up to the states

Don't get me wrong, I still think the US did way better in everything you mention because of the Constitution. I just argue to anyone going on about the failed "constitutional republic" is we barely have much of it left.

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cccpneveragain 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yeah I noticed some sort of spike when I looked at it again. I'd be curious to see a chart of short interest over time. It dropped back off very quick.

I'd be careful with it still at best, losing money while the bankers walk away laughing is the opposite of beating them at their own game.

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cccpneveragain 23 points ago +23 / -0

parents and teachers of children who download the content in order to inform law enforcement...

This sounds way too much like something they'd all use as a convenient excuse too. "Oh yeah of course I was planning to take these to law enforcement!" Still better as an exception than no rule at all.

We all knew this is where the slippery slope was heading for years now.

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