"Nature has been extraordinarily kind to you."

For the 1000th time Tesla: don't call it "autopilot" when it's nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.

Whales are the idiots who keep the Madden games alive.

Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.

Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don't. Through ~~bribes~~ "contributions" they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also "modify" pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment.

It's one thing for ME to have a perspective and quite another for a news company owned by billionaires and seen by millions of people to have a perspective.

So is Donald Trump "presidential" yet? Trump will never get a bigger or better venue than Madison Square Garden between now and the election and THIS is the stupid shit he is going with.

I'm glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.

It's called "sane-washing" where our "liberal news media" (you know, the one that's owned by six corporations) covers up Donald Trump's fuck-ups or re-writes them as subtle genius.

Meanwhile Harris has to not make a single mistake, no matter how small.

If you're using Steam, they use a native Linux client and a custom Proton that has all the settings and presets for their game library.

Everything I bought on Steam works for me under Linux Mint. And almost all my older games, like "Deus Ex" or "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" I can run directly under Wine with the default settings.

Well, you should care about it because that's how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the "real" one by the number of subscribers it has.