I am sick and tired of videos at "max volume" capping out at around 20% of my system volume. I can't hear shit. Why does this keep happening, and why am I unable to find a more powerful volume control than the standard system one?

Yeah, I liked it better when the joke was Chinese hardware backdoors.

It probably runs on platypus blood, and I bet you have to feed the data in upside down. That shit is totally cray.

Obviously, if their company mascot isn't a sea pig, they're morons.

...No. It's because, being a person who built a religion from the ground up as a business, he correctly understood that, historically speaking, any religion's direct competition is the field of psychiatry. I mean, I'm not saying he wasn't bugfuck insane, but give credit where it's due.

When the same sort of legislation was being pushed in Massachusetts, I personally delivered a speech against it before the Joint Committee on Mental Health. I was there with an army of other mentally ill people, their friends, their loved ones, and even some of their doctors, standing against this dangerous breach of our civil rights.

The speech is here, in the block-quoted portion, sandwiched in a more detailed discussion of the issue. Don't let anyone frame this as the agenda of some cult. I believe in psychiatry, I wouldn't be alive without it, but this legislation is abhorrent.

You'd also be able to move to cities that didn't have it. I'd vastly prefer that some places have the freedom to be hellholes provided everyone has the right to vote with their feet. Hegemonic monoculture is unquestionably what has ruined this country.

Yes, it totally could be fixed if that happened.

Go ahead and try to draw a line from our reality to that ever actually happening. Try to imagine it NOT resulting in a war due to multinational corporate interests wanting to protect the status quo.

There's a reason I said war is necessary in this case.

People don't pay attention because individuals in any sufficiently large, sufficiently centralized society quickly learn that their engagement is irrelevant.

Functional democracy is only possible when the amount of power any one entity can hold is limited to what a person is capable of meaningfully understanding within their lifetime. In other words, their immediate surroundings; a small city. If legislative power goes any higher than that, corruption becomes impossible to stop due to it happening faster than people are capable of recognizing what it is.

Yes, thank you for demonstrating the fatal flaw that turns all large hegemonies into plutocracies.

Leaving aside the completely ridiculous assertion that a system composed of people can be debugged in the same manner as code simply because it happens to be called a "code" of law, the author seems to be unaware that just about every problem with the democratic process has a solution which some part of history has already provided. We simply aren't using them because one of the many safeguards of the system is making the important parts (which are unfortunately the ones troubling us) difficult to change. We are in a degenerate case of democracy; the players who historically won the game have absolutely no interest in changing the rules to make them more fair. It really cannot be fixed without war.

Are you ever going to stop criticizing other developers for having character design that is in fact less "hypersexualized" and "misogynistic" than yours is?

My thigh muscles might be slightly warmed. How terrible.

As a civil libertarian, (not a member of the Libertarian Party, those guys are horrible) the fourth of July is a day of painful mourning for me. Whether it's mourning for democratic principles or the childish naivety I had back when I believed they were ever real is up for interpretation.

Why aren't people constantly dying of wearing sunglasses?