SapientLasagna

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

People think the Olympics is about athletics. It's not. It's about corporate sponsors and construction contracts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Most games work well; some don't yet, and a few probably never will (CoD, PUBG). The easiest way to check is to go here: https://protondb.com and either look up the games you actually play, or just give it your steam profile URL on the profile page and have it scan your library.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Unlike Canada, where the consensus seems to be that the country is ruined now. Not damaged, or heading in the wrong direction or anything, but actually ruined. The only things that can save us now is banning all gender bathrooms and adopting bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like most of Microsoft's more odious features, this one can be turned off through GPO/Intune policy across an organization. As such, the liability will mostly fall on the organization to make sure it's off. The privacy and security impacts will be felt by individuals and small businesses.

They claim that the data is only stored locally, so far. We'll see, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is a good example of class struggle, at least not directly. The bear meme is valid in as much as it describes one woman's feelings, but the truth is that in 85-90% of cases, the woman knows her attacker^1^. The random man is simply not the issue.

The issue is power disparity. Teacher vs student, employer vs worker, landlord vs tenant. It's difficult to reduce the power difference due to physical strength, but the others are all changeable. More (meaningful) oversight for police, better tenancy boards, and stronger unions are all examples of structures that might make it harder to victimize women.

Class struggle explains economic, and maybe political power, but those are not the only types of power in play.

And if I'm wrong? Then we've made a better society for nothing.

^1^ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/most-victims-know-their-attacker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Many people who aren't vegan still choose free range eggs, organic beef, fair trade coffee and chocolate.

The 500 mile diet is absolutely a moral choice, even if it includes meat.

Albertans preferentially eating large amounts of Alberta beef is viewed as a virtue there. Veganism is viewed as immoral, unalbertan (amongst some communities).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Furries, to be sure, but atheists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What "other side"? Vegans? I suppose there are some who are just sort of "cultural vegans" too, where they don't have a moral stance, but are vegan because their friends or family are.

I'm not sure if maybe you're reading more negativity in my comment than I meant. There's certainly nothing wrong with animal welfare as a moral stance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The question is so vague as to be essentially useless. It leaves so much to the reader to imagine that everyone is all over the place drawing different conclusions. How much does the reader know about forests? What kind of forest did they imagine? What kind of bear? When the reader imagines a random man, what pops into their mind? Does he live there, or was he randomly kidnapped and placed in the forest for the purpose of the scenario?

Further, even if we go with what some other posters are saying, and ignore the bear, it's still kind of useless, except to highlight how careful women feel they have to be around strange men.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

For what it's worth, in Canada the recommendation is to base the response on bear behaviour, taking into account the bear species. Don't challenge or threaten a bear that's protecting its cubs, or guarding a kill. Do challenge a curious bear, and fight back against predatory bears. Some information here: https://bcparks.ca/plan-your-trip/visit-responsibly/wildlife-safety/#page-section-405

Of course, since bears behave like big dumb humans, the advice mostly also applies to meeting people too :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Fully automated luxury gay space communism FTW.

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