I mean, the argument that communism is slavery to the state is a real and valid argument as of 2024.

It’s not like capitalism is any less a form of slavery, except instead of stealing from everybody to give to everybody it steals from everybody and gives it all to insurance companies and other businesses benefiting oligarchs. The whole system is slavery under another name, work for the luxury of having a place to sleep at night so that your owner can live a comfortable life. Slavery to many masters who use your body for their gains.

There’s not going to be a system that you’re not a slave to though, unless we somehow find a way to trivially convert matter to energy and vice versa and build a utopia where machines do everything for us… and we all share the rewards. All hail science fiction communism? (and keep in mind science fiction keeps becoming reality! Just don’t hold your breath for this in our lifetimes.)

Yeah, this shit makes no sense to me either.

Maybe the answer is to just let twitter die like it should have ages ago.

Cool, now sell it over the counter. Is there any compelling reasons for this to require a prescription?

I don’t understand how you can convict someone based on the testimony of a person getting a plea deal for turning in another person.

The last thing the person getting the plea deal would want to do is turn over someone loyal enough to them to rob a place and shoot another person with.

Does anyone think this would have happened if the accused was the son of a wealthy white couple? How about if it was the police chief’s son? Any senator’s son?

Just saying. Testimony without hard evidence shouldn’t be enough for criminal conviction, let alone a fucking execution.

Given this is a lawsuit from the conservative telecom industry in a conservative justice system against policies that protect a largely ultra-liberal group (hollywood) I can see this going well for the telecoms.

What we want as individuals is for the policing to go away but that’s not how the US works. Instead there will be some other kind of system devised to try and lock down media even further while keeping fines and enforcement responsibility away from the telecoms.

Maybe the IP holders will be granted unprecedented access as middlemen to monitor traffic and police it themselves, or maybe electronics will be required to be sold with special DRM mechanisms that require an authorized source of media, like they’ve been trying to inject everywhere for ages unsuccessfully.

Either way this lawsuit has no effect on me, or most people. Piracy that would lead to ISP action is avoided by proxies or VPN anyway, right? I can’t imagine anyone allegedly acquiring illicit material not using one of those services.

Well let’s see…

They took a 40-60 hour PS1 game and tried to make three $70-$90 titles out of it. They weren’t content to just remake the game in a modern engine, it had to be a trilogy full of a bunch of extra padded stuff. Because just like the Hobbit, they wanted MONEY, not to create something of great value to players.

Not to mention they waited 23 years to remake FF7 despite everybody begging for it at least as far back as the xbox 360 days, if not the ps2 days. I saw the remake as a cry for more traditional JRPGs like they had been known for and wildly successful for in the 90s.

Now they’ve released another main line final fantasy game in a format that is nothing like what originally made them popular. I’ve played it, I don’t particularly enjoy it. I dropped it about half way through the story and have instead put 80 hours into Unicorn Overlord which I picked up for $40 just two months after release. A game that almost certainly has a way lower budget - and i’m not even done with it yet. I keep picking up that ps5 controller every now and then and doing a level or two before life takes over again, and each time I love it and want to keep playing. It feels more like a final fantasy game, albiet final fantasy tactics, than FFXVI feels like a final fantasy game.

I just can’t help but feel like maybe a big budget and big pricetag doesn’t mean quality. That stellar graphics don’t always mean fun. Maybe Square needs it’s own paradigm shift where they figure out how to make really cool games that are cheap with a lot of staying power without giant budgets and huge art production teams. You know, avoid the things that necessitate $210-$270 in release prices to be financially viable.

Or maybe the people who made final fantasy great in the 90s were cut from a different kind of cloth than the people who work at square today. Total shot in the dark, but i’m left questioning why they do what they do like I have now for about 18 years.

The poll that was released showed that the majority of the teamsters were pro dumpy. The messaging on the press release was that neither side gave any promises to the teamsters.

Small claims court? Get a refund for all money spent since they took your stuff and ran?

This shit is the 21st century witch hunt. Covid cripples the economy from all the governments basically telling you to stay inside and businesses shuttering all over followed by ballooning the national debt by giving out tons of handouts for this. Then once they say “ok it’s been enough time, go out there and get back to work” suddenly all that covid money given to people is being spent, driving up the cost of everything.

Now just a couple years later, everyone is looking for someone to blame for why costs are so high. “They gave us money to survive before… now it costs so much to do everything! It must be the BROWN people’s fault!” simply because they are the newest wave of immigrants in a country built by immigrants for centuries.

Surely it can’t be due to poor zoning laws, bad economic policies by the last administration (which set us up to fail with massive multi-trillion dollar debt thanks to all those big business tax cuts) and a news media gone wild, controlled by a handful of oligarchs who have more money and power than ever before after profiting from it all.

As always, a masterful performance by the rich and powerful. Let’s make america get fucked again! #Recession2029

Really? a 66k maple syrup dollar pension is somehow outrageous? is this a joke?

Okay, so then i’ll focus on the specific claim of right during/before the early 1900s everyone was peacefully coexisting.

Sure, near the end of the ottoman empire there was a very brief period where there was some coexistence. Very brief.

The area was effectively a bloodbath until the twilight years of the ottoman empire for a very brief period.

From the muslim conquest of the levant in the 7th century, to the christian crusades across several centuries… there has been seemingly countless wars in the name of religion in the region. The conflict goes back much, much longer than 124 years.

Anyway, you talk about this being a question of something. I see no questions whatsoever. I just see hate after hate, bloodshed after bloodshed. It won’t end until humans bring themselves to extinction or one side wipes out the other because we’re incapable as a species of anything else.

I’m glad that the UN is pushing to get Israel out of the Gaza Strip at the least, but the damage is already done. The cycle will just continue because the hate will never end.

Make sure the 17 year olds in the military get the good stuff though.

The lack of ethics in judiciary nowadays is astounding.

The one branch of government that would be truly terrifying if it was no longer impartial is no longer impartial. Welcome to the 21st century!

Yeah, and then you get all the people who go into the comment thread and start talking about all this shit which they ascertained by a headline.

Nobody has the patience to figure out the details anymore. By the time you figure it out and try to talk about it nobody cares anymore, the next headline dropped.

Yay the internet. I miss a lot of the pre-internet things.

14% of Republicans compared to 11% of Democrats said they would “take action.”

The headline is clickbait and does not accurately describe the content of the article.

I think we all expect another jan 6th insurrection but the percentages are way to close to show anything, it’s probably within the margin of error.

Oh sorry, you can’t choose a prosecutor. You need to select from one of these shills that the defendant/offender put in place, as is tradition according to the constitution.

Right?

The jewish and the palestinians have something in common. They were both driven from their home. It’s a shame that coexistence wasn’t the way it went but that’s humans for you… everyone who isn’t one of you is an other, and humans hate others.

Peace seems to always lose.

Nope, it’s just the grammar meme.

Hey, we have to draw the line somewhere. Let’s stop at a gigaton.