I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.
I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.
“I cannot reasonably purchase anything not connected to China, this is an issue”
“Wow guys, he just admitted to buying things from China! What a hypocrite!”
C’mon.
Ah yes, how greedy of a company, to checks notes stop you from telling their online distribution service that you own something you don’t.
Pirate all you want, live how you want. But valve is a company, they do sorta have to follow those pesky laws and regulations.
I strongly encourage people who still think like OP to look up what happened the last time we paid off the national debt.
As someone that couldn’t get into modern fallout games, but actually loved going back to 1 and then 2, this just sounds like 2 but worse.
A couple generations from now, I bet this’ll be unthinkable to those who’ve only ever known lab grown meat. I can’t wait.
While I think we’d prefer a non violent solution, the answer is the national guard. The national guard would very quickly demonstrate to any police force what the difference between the two is.
There is a distinct difference between the smell of freshly generated sweat, and dried sweat mixed with all of the other accumulated filth one accrues when they don’t regularly shower.
I understand the sentiment, but it’s not really Biden’s job to do that. The justice system has utterly failed us, but having the president decide who is and isn’t an insurrectionist probably isn’t a great idea.
The first one that comes to mind is China absolutely does not tell anyone else the level of subsidization.
Fortunately, most animals do not willingly go anywhere near running combustion engines.
“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.
Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.
That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).
Socialism != communism.
They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.
Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.
“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”
“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”
“Communism could’ve worked if-“
Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.
As a general rule, if you’re hearing about something from the news, it’s already too late to profit from it.
This might be the exception, but I’d temper any expectations accordingly.
Sorta, but that’s not the whole story. We have two legislative bodies, the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the senate, every state gets two senators. In the house, every state gets at least two representatives, plus some amount based on population - california has 52, for instance.
The original idea was to “make sure rural voices were heard”. In practice, it very much has been what you stated - if you’re educated but not rich enough to benefit from republican policies, you flee red states en masse, leaving mostly rich assholes and uneducated chucklefucks who are hurt most by the very people they elect. They then have a massively disproportionate effect on policy versus any joe schmoe in california.
Sorry that the developers don’t cater to making life easier for people that haven’t bought their game lmao what an entitled take