I don’t get why people are so confident that this is a dumb move that won’t work. We know games are buggy at launch, and people rush to buy them anyway. And then the forums are filled with people losing their shit that the game has bugs in it and isn’t perfect. This idea that gamers are some patient group doesn’t reflect the reality I’ve seen over the past 2 decades.

legal verbiage is such a pointless waste and almost unnecessary

Wow. I like the rest of your position, but being precise in language, and understanding what things mean legally is extremely important.

If having no clue what most people need is the metric, were eliminating pretty much everyone from consideration.

What am I missing? I don’t see in that article where it indicates that the us is blocking it, nor the evidence they have that supports it.

Yes but this continues to be true. The top level poster implied that at some point is was true, but it is no longer true. It’s never been reasonably possibly in the us and nothing has changed recently to make it meaningfully less possible.

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It’s not making fun of the lifestyle, it’s the the fact that people who partake in these things seemingly bring it up for no reason.

But honestly I can’t remember the last time a vegan brought up being a vegan for no reason. While here on lemmy it seems every opportunity someone has to claim Linux superiority, no matter how weak, they have to let everyone know how “objectively better” they are.

Is equating Linux users to vegans a thing? I came to the conclusion (I thought) on my own…but now reading this here I’m questioning that conclusion

You’re probably going to get a temp ban for Zionism. Lol

This is the beauty of not consuming any MSM: you can believe it has said or not said anything you need it to have in order to confirm your beliefs.

would also take issue with you characterizing what Israel is doing as “fighting back” and “self defense”.

Literally in the next sentence I make it obvious I don’t believe this is the case. And this is upvoted. Amazing how irrational people can be.

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Are you arguing that they weren’t attacked? And you’re laughing at me. Lmao

Who is arguing that Israel fighting back is wrong? Almost everyone recognizes that Israel has the right to self defense, but most people who think that also believes their response is at least disproportionate.

He asked if it was better, they clearly don’t know. Considering you are asking pretty much the same question just worded differently, it’s clear you don’t know either.

No worries.

From his description, his experience was very “on rails” too, but just including cases where the “rails” very conspicuously were making it so he couldn’t see what was going on around him.

But this doesn’t really answer my question. I’m not saying his experience matches that of a citizen or even that it was accurate. I have no idea I wasn’t there. In fact, it was kind of the exact opposite and that it being “on rails” and only being able to see what they wanted him to see, probably is not at all what citizens live. Kind of the point that they were trying to hide how citizens live.

Which leads me back to my question again. . .you claim we have it all wrong, and my good friend’s experience kind of confirms (as much as he was allowed to) how secretive and weird they are. . .so where is your claim coming from and what is it based on?

You might get up votes if you accompanied a controversial opinion with a reasoned argument.

Ultimately I agree that they should include the argument, but adding a reasoned argument has very little affect on the use of the vote buttons as “agree/disagree.”

Could you go into detail? I’m interested in hearing your take on this and what it comes from. For reference, I have a good friend (with a stupid amount of money) who loves to travel. Having kind of exhausted all of the typical places, and wanting to do something different, he decides to go to North Korea.

His stories are that it was absolutely as bizarre as he was expecting and how he had zero freedom and everything was perfectly controlled so he could only see what they would allow him to see, including being moved around in vans that didn’t have windows when they were going outside of the city where he was staying.

There are some things you don’t joke about, taco bell actually being Mexican food is one of them. It might be a war crime to even joke it’s better than Mexican food.

If the claim was that they were the same in the support of capitalism, the economic system primarily responsible for making us the juggernaut that we are, then I would have not said anything. But when it comes to social, environmental, and how to use (if at all) that generated wealth to support the less fortunate among us, they differ drastically.