No you didn't.

Yeah I don't give a shit if they claim this isn't a problem because it unlocks when the fire alarm goes off screw that noise. This is a little bit of improper maintenance away from being a death trap.

I want to say I wouldn't shop there but I know damn well that with all the monopolies around nasty shit like this will spread everywhere and most places only have two or three grocery chains.

I want to take away the power corporations have to do this and I want to take away their power to starve people so that people aren't feeling the need to shoplift groceries.

As for shoplifting booze since a fuck wad like you is bound to bring it up, people over the age of 21 don't steal booze for the hell of it they're using alcohol to cope with the misery of modern Life. And kids do it here and there and that's nothing more than a youthful indiscretion. Alcohol is cheap and ultra high profit and don't be an idiot if you think corporations will cut prices because shoplifting goes down you don't know the first thing about supply and demand.

What happened to you to make you so mean spirited and angry that you would revel at the thought of people getting punished for stealing food or a little bit of booze to cope with life? Did your dad beat you or something? I get it that sucks but don't take it out on the rest of the world. Be better than your dad or whoever the fuck did this to you. End generational trauma.

No he meant unhoused. And what the fuck is wrong with you? Do you really think you're going anywhere but hell with an attitude like that?

On the other hand Trump said he's not going to heaven so maybe you just want to go to the same place Trump's going...

To take food out of the mouths of hungry kids. They couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about children. I mean except for like they did in the Epstein files but I don't think that's what anyone means here...

The only question is which ulterior motive is the most prevalent. On the one hand this is red meat for voters so that they can offer them something other than a functioning economy. On the other hand they are trying to eliminate anonymity on the internet so they can relentlessly punish anyone who says anything they don't like while also pretending they are persecuted.

Whatever the result it won't help children but it will hurt you and me.

In order to produce enough food to feed a nation let alone the amount of excess food that the United States needs to produce in order to keep the rest of the world even moderately stable you need to do large scale industrial farming.

Small family farms are a pipe dream. They are also kind of pointless because as it stands we only need a few percentages of our population to grow all the food when it's done industrially. If you start trying to turn everybody in the farmers what you're going to have is a bunch of people who do not want to farm and who don't know how to do it and you're going to get food shortages.

Giving everybody a farm like Ubi is a overly simplistic solution favored by libertarian types who want to dream of Independence. We are not going to get away from having a large complex social structures even if teenagers hate them.

To understand that it could never fly in the current system and environment.

I get it libertarians get obsessed with Ubi because they think they can have the capitalist Paradise but they want and that they were promised as kids while having the socialist Utopia that deep down they really know they need.

It doesn't work. There's no simple answers to complex problems and just handing out cash, the simple answer to the complex problem of human beings tending to accumulate too much wealth and power coupled with our tendency to indulge in various forms of disdain and bigotry for people beneath us on the social ladder and the ability for the wealthy and powerful to exploit that tendency.

The billionaires are not going to sit quietly while you improve the quality of life of everybody at the expense of even a microscopic amount of their privilege and power. Remember if you create a system where everyone has a good quality of life then I can go online and tell Elon Musk to go fuck himself and there's not really anything he can do to hurt me. He's not going to like that because a huge part of his power comes from his ability to destroy anyone that significantly crosses him.

Not just Elon but all the billionaires.

That's a lever they are not going to just give up even accounting for the fact that they want that money for themselves.

Never mind the fact that you don't even have the political power to even try to do Ubi.

We watched as the private insurance company methodically sabotaged the affordable Care act until it was barely functional resulting in a law that while popular is still open to attack from a variety of vectors. If you think the billionaires wouldn't do that with Ubi then you're just not paying attention and you're not a serious person.

I am in every way anti-DRM, but it's ubiquitous. A lot of publishers won't publish on GOG for this reason. I agree that Epic is arguing in bad faith. The enemy of my enemy is convenient, nothing more, so I am not delusional about Epic but I still enjoy their actions.

TBH I usually forget to go look at the free games they are typically so underwhelming, though there have been some legitimate greats too.

There are only two features of Steam beyond buying installing games which I care about, and one of them sucks. I like that it handles updates for me, but that is also the bad one, because practically none of the updates are differential. I want them to make that easier so that publishers actually do it. I know that it requires significant support from publishers when they use packed data files, but even that is something that could be addressed. (If the files are compressed individually instead of using compressed archives, then binary patches are feasible.) The other feature is Proton. Anything else including friends, achievements, and even reviews is all optional to me. I enjoy some of those features, but I would still use Steam without them.

To be fair a lot of what makes palworld so popular is that it's Pokemon on a console besides the Nintendo switch. All you have is a Xbox or a PC there's a Pokemon game for you besides emulating old games

Nintendo has been very risk adverse lately sticking with things that they know are going to be successful. Their last big gamble was the Wii u which was a bit of a disaster. The cardboard stuff was super cheap so there was no risk there. Even with the amiibo things they waited until there was an already established market to enter it.

I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.

U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?

And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.

What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?

You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS

Fun fact the Republicans pushed through laws that require a certain number of audits for middle-income and lower income earners. They literally passed laws to encourage the IRS to audit you personally.

The idea was to make you angry at the IRS and then to use that anger to get tax cuts for their billionaire buddies. It worked

You know that old Looney tunes cartoon where Elmer fudd turns into a sucker? If you voted Republican in the last 50 years that's you.

I'm not the one you should be angry at by the way

That's all. One of the things they figured out years ago is that instead of just outright blocking left-wing policy they sabotage it so that they can make sure that it doesn't work.

They figured that out in the '80s. With the projects. Basically we took a shitload of people mostly extremely poor and very black and brought them from blasted out rural hellscapes where they barely had roofs and brought them into what were for the time fairly modern apartments.

Then Ronald Reagan got in charge and he pulled all of the government support those people need it in order to have jobs and lives and let them basically collapse while also structuring welfare programs to make it virtually impossible for their families to succeed. Meanwhile trillions of dollars was diverted to the suburbs from the inner cities.

The right wing does one of two things against the left wing. If the right wing is in power and the power is absolute they murder the left wing. They will also murder anyone who they suspect might benefit the left wing so if you're a centrist the right wing will murder you in a heartbeat.

If they're not in a position of absolute power they fall back on sabotage. So Ubi just becomes an excuse to cut all the other government programs that people need and then monopolies absorb all the money and then the right wing points and says see see see it doesn't work!

There is no point to trying Ubi without backing it up with a whole shitload of other reforms and programs. It becomes nothing more than a guaranteed failure that will be used to convince the public against any further efforts to make anyone's lives better

You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.