AHemlocksLie

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[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't one of the military branches release the Tictac video or something and admit they didn't know what the fuck it was? It's not an admission of aliens, but it kinda is an admission that UFOs exist.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Got my bachelor's and wanted to go to PhD, but realizing this has me strongly considering skipping it. I want to do the research, but holy shit, there's so much other bullshit, and it's so fucking competitive for funding. Since I'm considering an international move, I also have to consider how stable my position will be so I don't get deported. I want to push science forward, but I dunno if I can wade through all the bullshit to get my chance to...

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think Valve would help implement something like that. They've shown a lot of initiative in trying to push Linux into the mainstream for gaming, and a move like that would be counterproductive to that goal.

Plus, it ignores the fact that the Deck isn't trying to be the only piece of hardware in the space, just the first to prove it's commercially viable, and they succeeded in that. Competitive devices are coming to market, and when gamers start buying them, it's going to seem foolish to whitelist JUST the Deck.

Rockstar's only semi-viable play of that nature is to attempt to require SteamOS as your Linux distro, but I see no way to do that so you always and only block other Linux distros.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That may very well be the official stance, only officially supporting SteamOS in much the same way games used to only officially support a single major distro, often Ubuntu. However, I don't see it actually stopping you from playing on other Linux systems. The functionality is there at that point. It's just a matter of making sure you have whatever it depends on from the Deck.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Hmmm you may be right. We'll have to see how the numbers shake out to be sure either way, but I'll concede it at least sounds plausible the collateral damage is unacceptably high.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I haven't seen reports of significant collateral damage. I'm sure there was at least some, but that's different from large amounts of collateral damage. To be considered indiscriminate, I think it would need to have either used larger charges with a bigger blast radius or distribute the pagers more widely in the hopes that Hezbollah agents got them along with the public. From my understanding, which may be flawed, neither of those conditions are true, so while there almost certainly was collateral damage, I don't currently think it was widespread enough to consider the attack indiscriminate. If you have a source to contradict me, I'm open to reading it.

Fuck Israel's rampant genocidal war crimes, but I don't think this counts as one.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

To be totally fair, pretty sure he explicitly told them he'd do it, too. Could've sailed off and enjoyed their loot.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it was worth stressing about, it was worth discussing with me when I was on the clock. The entire premise of a job is that I work in direct exchange for money. No money? No work. Pay me or wait until next shift.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

And 100 out of 100 times, we build emulators that run on PC. They can take years to make with the complexity of newer systems, but they'll get there.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude this all started because top comment knew this post was gonna be full of people discouraging voting for Harris, and then you jumped in and accused people of being pro-genocide for it. This is what I mean when I said you walk a similar walk. Anyone who disagrees with your perfect view of the world MUST be an enemy who directly wants genocide.

None of us like genocide. We're just tired of it being used to trash the candidate who's objectively better on the topic, shitty as that may be. I, at least, don't care if some posts about her are negative, but I'm real fucking tired of people trying to pretend that her failings here mean getting the objectively worse Trump elected on purpose or on accident is somehow a coherent idea, much less a good one.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'll admit I was mistaken given your comment was sandwiched between two people suggesting otherwise and given your suggestion that anyone tired of listening to those people try to discourage voting for Harris is pro-genocide. You may not be one of them, but you walk a very similar walk here, so I wouldn't be so surprised by the confusion.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 weeks ago (22 children)

Maybe they just have a tendency to confuse the painfully obvious consequences of not voting or voting against Harris for your actual intended goals. Trump is clearly going to be worse for Palestinians since he outright said Netanyahu should just finish the job, so if you're on a clear and obvious path to getting someone even worse elected, we can't help but wonder if you don't actually care about the Palestinians because for all the bitching and moaning about Harris's stance, you're on your way to making the situation objectively worse.

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