Extremely mediocre game. LP2 is getting patched on steam soon though to restore multiplayer functionality though!
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US just announced additional troop deployment to the middle east
(just taking the first link to source it)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/23/nation/us-troops-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-middle-east/
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net @makotech222@hexbear.net
Ping a site admin they can probably lift it
When they release their first Modern Warfare equivalent a few years down the line the western internet is gonna explode and it's gonna be glorious
They don't know what he sacrificed for us
This is what I will now be telling people whenever they ask me more about Linux on Sony consoles
Someone get Estonia on Lemmy.world they love preemptive last resort actions
Then when the state's violence, which has already demonstrated its capacity for genocide to your own acknowledgement, inevitably turns on you or your loved ones (maybe thats 5 years, maybe it's 50) don't be surprised and understand that your potential allies will have already been destroyed. The people you didn't stand in solidarity with before you are gone and the ones next on the list take the same inaction you espouse right now.
So we're at the point where it seems you acknowledge the horror of the US empire in basically being directly responsible (it could stop the money faucet at any moment if it viewed stopping the genocide as being in its own interests) for what I personally can only imagine as the worst crime against humanity possible to be committed by a state actor.
Tactically the only real electoral power you have as an individual is the threat to withhold your vote, and to deploy that tactic most effectively you'd give a very explicit reason for that withholding in order to apply pressure to the party who ostensibly does want to win an election. Infinitely better than individually voicing this tactic is creating a large bloc of people who exist within the critical states where 10-20k people will potentially determine an election. Getting the number of people in this bloc higher is the only real electoral strategy at forcing Kamala's campaign to acquiesce to electorate demands and bring forth a better outcome for Palestine because if she doesn't she will, explicitly, know she will lose. This provably works because the democratic party has already proven that in the face of an electoral impossibility (Joe Biden winning re-election) they will try to preserve power.
Even if you're a "there are other issues more important to me than attempting to stop my nation's genocide voter" (and if you are one of these people I really recommend a lot of introspection about yourself, your morals, and your convictions)- recognize that the violence being financed, supported, and enacted abroad WILL INEVITABLY COME HOME at some point if it is not rejected by the electorate. I don't know your most vulnerable issue and where it would rank on democrats deciding genociding or interring you would be politically expedient for them, but it sure seems that at least attempting this tactic even if it's just you falsely signaling to them that you won't vote for democrats over their financing and arms supplying of this genocide is in your long term interests so that you hopefully stop or at least delay the empire turning its violence on you.
Just looking for a quick clarification on two points before further responses:
- Do you agree that Israel is commiting genocide?
- Do you agree that the US is the primary financier of that genocide?
I get a call from a relative about their firestick being stuck at the Amazon logo so I start looking into it. This person is relatively decent when it comes to not bricking their devices (they won't just shut the power off during an update for example) so I start operating off of the expectation that this is probably a reasonable problem.
The usual unplug it, wait a bit, plug it back in fails. Try using a different power brick to power the devices fails. Try using the USB power on the back of the TV instead of a powerbrick fails. Stuck on boot logo still- ok, time to start considering researching software-related solutions on my end. I initially go to "let's just factory reset this thing" because it seems like a reasonable step at this point and should solve the problems (or definitively tell me that the unit is broken).
In attempting to fulfill the quest of factory resetting I find out:
- Firesticks have no physical reset button the devices. The only possible input is a microusb power port (more on this in a bit)
- Because of this design choice, the factory reset process is dependent upon a button combination on the remote from within a functional device
- When stuck in the boot sequence, the remote isn't paired so the ability to send that button combination isn't possible
I had no idea prior to today how absurdly irritating the combination of poor hardware design choice (no physical reset button) and downstream terrible software design (needing the signal for reset requiring a failing device to not be failing) could ever be seen as a reasonable product spec.
I'm already irritated by this combination, but fuck it, let's continue on and see if, like with the Kindle products, there's some tomfuckery where if you know certain arcane sequences of settings, menus, and inputs you can get into a vendor mode/debug/etc type mode to operate further.
Turns out, the firestick can be sent a signal using alt +prntscrn + i from a keyboard during boot. Awesome, now if only the physical hardware had a place for a USB plug for this! I know the device has to be powered, so some adapter daisy-chain is going to have to be used in order to provide that as well as enable me to plug in a usb device.
This wonderful abomination is used by pirates (one of hellworld's few remaining heroes) to load USB media off of flash drives to play through apps on the device. They're ~7 imperial war bucks and useless beyond this narrow case, but hey at least it helps me help this working-class person who is probably gonna use it to watch someone on MSNBC say "The walls are finally closing in on Trump and maybe we shouldn't be so pessimistic about the capitalist hellscape that is destroying the planet in new and exciting ways via climate change but also no one should do anything because that would be violence which is bad."
Don't go down that line of thought right now- stay focused on the goal.
Device arrives, plugged into the microusb slot, keyboard plugged into the adapter that provides the functionality amazon probably intentionally didn't include to either make the average "sane" person say:
"This device is irreparably broken; I should buy a new one." or "This probably isn't worth going through the trouble of fixing; I should buy a new one."
Since I've already been driven to a spite-capitalism-in-all-ways-filled existence by living in this world, I fortunately don't have the capability to allow planned obsolescence device get the best of me and hold down alt, prntscrn, and spam i during the sequence... nothing.
Second attempt, alt + prntscrn + i, startup boot sequence is interrupted and I make it into profile selection. The device works again.
It infuriates me that this device exists in a way where this is the route that has to be taken to even get a chance to factory reset it. The idea that locking this standard (and often necessary procedure to prevent e-waste) device option behind remote control functionality that is beyond the point of failure (and fairly common per searches) was what someone decided to be a reasonable and shippable choice when that route is used as a last resort to fix broken functionality is beyond comprehension. It's a decision that can only be reasonably made in hellworld where disposable commodities are a society's pinnacle of innovation.
What irritates me the most is knowing that some shithead team of McKinsey ghouls were probably paid an absurd amount of money to create a slideshow with a chart (exclusively featured in the executive summary) with a little star at the forecasted profit-maximizing point showing that removing repair functionality will increase electronic waste, and profits, to maximally-desired levels.
Because who gives a fuck if we destroy the world, profit has a direct positive correlation with Misery Index, this strategy was/is economically sound and we're all the worse for it.
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Death to Amazon
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Death to the Fire Stick product line
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Death to McKinsey first and foremost and all the other management consulting firms after it
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Death to America
I cheered for Germany against the USA in the FIBA semifinals today and it was great. Final score 113-111 Germany.
Serbia-Germany finals incoming.
vs 
for the 3rd-place game and the second straight FIBA in a row where the US might miss a spot on the podium.
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It's court case related. The battle over the SAVE plan has been going on for months now with kinda no end in sight (awaiting an 8th district ruling that will be appealed up to the SCOTUS which can be partially addressed and sent back down then appealed up again etc. etc.). All SAVE plans are currently in an interest free forbearance period awaiting all of the legal challenges to resolve themselves (which will still probably be months of litigation). There has been no additional advisement from loan processors or the DoE about the state of this period.
The critique I've seen on the admin side is they used a less fool-proof vehicle to institute the plan than what they could have (same critique has been levied for the outright forgiveness plan).
I can't really assess the critique because it's really in the weeds legal battles/administrative tools between a lot of competing interests. If someone else has deeper insight I'd love to hear it.