Yggnar

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Let's say you're a mega wealthy billionaire who has suddenly realized that if he cozies up close to a presidential candidate, he could have more power and wealth than ever before. What's stopping you from figuring out who the electorates are and offering them whatever they want if they vote for your guy? What's stopping them from taking the deal?

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Is that the same thing we Americans refer to as an "English Muffin"? I always thought crumpets were cookies or something lol.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally the type of people who make graffiti worth looking at aren't the sort of people who want to draw with a tablet and stylus.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fuckin' yikes.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congress is a representation of corporate interest and little more. Maybe there's some religion in there too, but it's definitely not representing the average American citizen.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Then you wait until you get home or to an otherwise appropriate venue. No one wants to hear a tutorial they didn't ask for about putting up drywall on their commute home or in the grocery store.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Years ago I would've argued real money is backed by something like gold, but here we are now, basing most currency globally off the USD which is just fiat money. So yeah, there really isn't anything making USD more legitimate than Bitcoin as long as humans are associating value to it.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not really sure how to prove this in a Lemmy comment without doxing myself, so suffice it to say that yes, I would gladly lay down my life to defend my beliefs.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fuck that, get violent. Revolutions are never bloodless.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

This is a bad take in general, if your computer can't handle running steam it probably can't handle many games to begin with. It's the least intrusive option presented so far in terms of DRM, and steam has done more for the Linux gaming market with Proton than any other company afaik. You have to launch steam to avoid games wanting to do things like denuvo or kernel level anti-cheat which is WAY worse, and those of us on Linux need steam running while we game for additional reasons. This complaint about not wanting to look at a storefront is just petty, especially when I'm pretty sure there are settings to open it directly to your library.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The one that sticks with me is called "the cold equations", and it's about a pilot flying a ship through space and discovering he has a young girl stowing away on board. Since he only has enough fuel to get to his destination if the ship weighs a very specific amount, he has to decide whether or not to jettison the girl out the airlock. I remember liking it, but I've never forgotten how emotional it was to read.

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Never put your phone in your back pocket. I briefly worked at a Verizon store and like 20-30% of broken phones I saw came from people who sat on it in their back pocket.

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