I miss unhinged communities like AnarchyChess and Okbuddychicanery.

I don’t want to condone anything, but that is probably the most creative slur out there

I will never forget that clip during the Obama vs. McCain race where a woman says Obama can’t be trusted because “he’s an arab”

Sure, but how many of those people are ignoring that fact and instead applying an arbitrary moral standard onto other women?

I’m sure this was well planned given that Biden’s donors were threatening to withhold funds

I agree in that it’ll be hard to transfer between platforms, but doubt it’s impossible. The idea is that you don’t want Valve to nuke your licenses in one go, but Valve also doesn’t want you on their platform.

They wouldn’t know

“Pissing in the wind” is such a great phrase

I don’t think resellable licenses are a great idea. It works with physical media because it will have flaws that affect quality and price, but I don’t see how that would work for digital without screwing over devs. I can completely get behind transfers or trades with friends or between platforms, but not really for resale.

The way I see it, Steam having DRM is Valve’s way of giving publishers and devs that choice, and said choice just makes Steam more likely to stick around for the future, which makes the biggest drawback of DRM (losing all your games) less likely.

It isn’t bash, it’s Linux that’s well-embedded with the rest of Windows. You can get most Linux stuff working reasonably well, and you can even get a working GUI of some distros.

In Texas, it’s pretty easy if you fit within the criteria and you do it early. You apply for a ballot, get it, fill it out, and send it back. As long as the USPS does their job (which on 1 occasion for me, they didn’t), it works out.

The US Federal government no longer protects reproductive freedoms like they did a few years ago, so some states have been cracking down on procedures like abortion and using data from places like Facebook to gather evidence. Depending on the state, having this data might lead to legal headache, but I’m not sure how likely that is.

That print quality looks awful

Why would Ukraine target Hamas?

(/s)

It’s the same reason why the fed controls interest rates. Entities higher up the chain deal with those volatile costs so we don’t have to.

Who will replace him? Michelle Obama doesn’t want to run, Gavin Newsom has full support for Biden, and Kamala Harris is already VP.

This isn’t new, and this isn’t limited to oil companies. Many carbon-credit “issuers” have scummy practices, and many others are misleading despite best intentions

It’s for a completely different purpose. This is more close to AirDrop

When most people say “free software”, they’re talking about software that’s free as in freedom. Using it otherwise just causes unnecessary confusion.

If by “most people” you mean the general population, you are absolutely wrong. Hell, even software devs (at least in the US) would fight with you unless they themselves are interested in FOSS.

When the average Joe pays nothing for an item that they want, regardless of whether that item can be modified, they will say that the item is free. To your average Joe, software is yet another item.