Good.

Reopening the government without ACA subsidies literally kills people when they can’t afford their new premiums. There are people for whom affordable access to healthcare is the difference between life-saving medication and, well, the lack of that.

Starvation of people on SNAP is also literally the GOP’s stated goal. If Dems fund the government and let those people who need healthcare die, the GOP isn’t going to play nice and keep funding SNAP. They’re gonna gut it like they’ve always dreamt of doing anyway. They already signaled this with the BBB.

Even if you were already vaccinated, your body sees the virus and makes more of whatever it needs to in order to kill it when it finds it. Then your body will keep more of that antibody around for the future because it … happened again.

People have varying strengths of their immune system outside of autoimmune diseases, they’re not equal. One person’s natural ability to fight off a disease is not the same as another’s. Immune systems also can get overwhelmed. People can even get multiple viruses at the same time.

While scientifically, if I’m not mistaken, natural immunity tends to be a stronger form of immunity once the person survives a disease, surviving the disease is of course not a guarantee for anyone. Vaccination, when available, reduces the chance a person dies to a disease in the same way that warning somebody about something allows them to take preparatory action.

Prefer? Vaccination every time if available. I don’t like getting diseases my body has to scramble to fight.

I agree on shades of gray. Some are downright evil and malicious, others are uninformed, misinformed, or honestly too stupid or ignorant to care.

I just, at times, find it really difficult to care about the difference between a voter who wanted a white ethnostate, a voter who “only wanted to get rid of the bad ones,” and a lifelong Republican. All of their votes led to this authoritarian, you know?

I’ve known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I’ve know aren’t demons.

I take issue with this. Most Republicans have friends, family, and loved ones. A lot of them simply believe that whatever they’re advocating for with their vote won’t happen to them or won’t happen to “the good ones.” Critical thought ended with an ideal and when the consequences finally come, when they’re finally felt, do they realize they laid the dominos that toppled onto them.

It’s an unsettling thought, but a fair portion of the country are friends or family with people who can’t realize they’re hurting others. Just because the Republican is nice to you / others in public doesn’t mean they don’t privately have problems with or hate people who look/think like you and vote against those people.

If you’re definitely making the hop, copy the whole windows file system to an external NTFS-formatted drive and then mount that and sort the files later haha.

You won’t be able to boot it as a backup, but the files will be there. If you have drive encryption you have to turn it off

Interestingly; Taco Bell has some of the cheapest fast food you can get with their luxe box line, but that more speaks to how bad everything else has gotten post-covid and during this term.

My thoughts reading this, considering most “political” violence came from right-wing extremists was “oh yeah of course the violence is down, they’re either now part of the government doing the violence or are finally feeling content that the government matches their extreme views.”

The amount of violence perpetrated by the American Right is statistically significant in recent years. The opposite is not as significant.

That said, of course I agree it’s the rich vs us.

Bought a gun. Have used them plenty, never figured I’d own one. Political violence by the American right is too commonplace. This administration is sweeping people off the street without due process. I’ve read history books. Might as well buy it and not need it than need it and not have it is how I feel.

And to anyone thinking about buying a gun who has never fired one, take a safety course and try it out first.

I really like Randall but this one feels like an incomplete answer. The question wasn’t how fast can we do it while being safe, the question was how fast we can do it while being alive - which is as we all know very different from safe.

That’s 1800 hours of the-device-that-watched-it’s electricity saved (minus whatever amount humans might have skipped manually)

Competition has grown in the industry and long-term live-service black hole games have captured parts of the potential purchase-base so wholly that they don’t really spend elsewhere.

Game companies have plenty of methods for bringing costs down, but making games faster gives you more attempts at a very competitive market. (Some) Indie games are sort of proving this right. If you make a relatively quality game in a short time period and release it for a relatively good price, you can get your foot in the door of the market. If you spend 5+ years making the biggest game you’ve ever made and it sucks, your studio dies.

The big question is if AAA shifts to making games faster, are they going to be of a high enough quality to justify the outrageous price publishers will still want to set for them? (easy: no)

Basically I see it as the industry splitting even further. The AAA games that make money will continue to do so only so long as their last game lets them float 5+ year dev cycles. Otherwise, companies and publishers are going to reduce risk and investment and push developers to make their game faster, get to market faster. Arguably that would be healthy for the industry, but I know it won’t be.

Apparently not canceled

Network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Lemmy’s largest influxes of users have been when Reddit does something unpopular enough to warrant people looking for other places. Same was true when Reddit became popular because Digg made bad decisions, or Facebook when MySpace did.

The answer is that Lemmy almost assuredly will never be as popular, but at least its future is not dictated by the profits of a company, or censorship imposed by or on that company.

The best we can do is make Lemmy a viable alternative (it is) and ensure it is of a high quality.

Yep. “lol”

The Brave Little Toaster.

Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.

Possible, but I think that particular feature is more aimed at EU electrical prices.

Fix would be government regulation.

Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.