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@ WheeGeetheCat @sh.itjust.works

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  • How is pirating software a thing?

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  • same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90's

  • How is pirating software a thing?

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  • Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?

    it's a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there's the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you're not going to do it?

  • This is kremlin

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  • Perfect, no notes

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  • This is pretty much it

  • Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?

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  • I feel we have been taught to ignore the social contract and compete with each other for survival instead by the increasingly capitalist structures among us.

    Also, in most countries a smaller proportion of the population is 'bought in'. Home ownership is way down. A lot of days, I kind of passively hope for collapse because the status quo is shitty. So there's little incentive to uphold the social contract for me because there's little hope it will result in a good outcome for me.

    And this makes perfect sense and is predicted. As wealth inequality rises, social contract breaks down

  • I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

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  • This one seems to make even hardcore gamers hate it with difficulty. Seems similar to rain world a bit? I own rain world but have barely played

  • I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

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  • I've played both.

    Obra Dinn is better for me, but I enjoyed both

  • I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

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  • Have you played Return of Obra Dinn? Also Inscryption, the creator is half mad

  • What do they have in common?

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  • such propaganda.

    edit: oh are we doing wrong/opposite answers? mb

  • Does anyone still burn their movies to DVD?

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  • What are the specific DVD discs you're using?

    If it's got any type of rewriteable ability, it likely won't play in a DVD player.

    If I remember I had the best luck with DVD-R discs ( NOT DVD+R ) but it has to do with the dvd burner and the final dvd player they end up in. Might be worth trying both.

    edit: just read your comment that it previously worked but stopped working? In that case Id agree that maybe your DVD burner needs a replace

  • What do they have in common?

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  • Bill Gates has a lot of you fooled. https://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/9/report_gates_foundation_causing_harm_with

    L.A. Times investigation reveals the Gates Foundation’s humanitarian concerns are not reflected in how it invests its money. In the Niger Delta, where the foundation funds programs to fight polio and measles, the foundation has also invested more than $400 million in companies like Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron. These oil firms have been responsible for much of the pollution many blame for respiratory problems and other afflictions among the local population.

    The Gates Foundation also has investments in 69 of the worst polluting companies in the U.S. and Canada, including Dow Chemical. It holds stakes in drug companies whose drugs cost far beyond what most AIDS patients around the world can afford. Other companies in the foundation’s portfolio have been accused of transgressions including forcing thousands of people to lose their homes, supporting child labor, defrauding and neglecting patients in need of medical care.

    He was still doing it in 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/gates-foundation-has-14bn-in-fossil-fuels-investments-guardian-analysis

    He said again in 2019 he won't divest from fossil fuels https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/5672.htm

    People who think Gates is doing good with his wealth basically don't understand that a lot of the problems we are facing are caused by wealth inequality in the first place. Some of you are watching 6 monkeys hoard all the bananas and then when they throw you 1 you love them for it?

    Edit: Theres a french journalist who wrote a whole book about the gates scam. Here an interview on youtube with him https://youtu.be/Dqzt6yAmdDE?t=246. Also fixed formatting and missing link

  • Never say never

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  • relatable

  • not exactly what i was aiming for but i loved the vibes

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  • looks like nighttime and daytime at the same time to me. Almost an underwater aesthetic.

  • Existence of the state is incompatible with Communism

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  • I wish everyone would embrace this view so we could start talking implementation details instead of the endless ideological warfare. These capitalists and communists might as well just make a fucking church out of it already, so much dogma.

  • WTF is this new crypto scam on reddit? Karma is now on the blockchain????

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  • These motherfuckers went through all the trouble of integrating ethereum blockchain tech but they don't actually want to use it to pay anyone anything useful so they make up a stupid community coin instead of just letting people tip others in ETH.

    It'd be interesting to do a REAL blockchain social network that did allow meaningful micropayments. Anyone aware of project like that either in progress or defunct?

  • *Texas not included

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  • *Texas not included

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  • Thats what SAYS he means but in actuality these guys mean a black person jogging on 'their' street.

    To clarify, I'm saying there's no way we can behave that will be accepted by the right, because they don't speak honestly about what they want and they argue in bad faith. Trying to satisfy them is a mistake. Like trying to satisfy Putin.

  • How come we experience so much more inflation than deflation? in other words, why does our buying power decrease far more often than it increases?

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  • I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the 'risk' for the rich never plays out.

    The rich don't actually risk their money. They risk the government's money and other's lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don't pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.

    Rather than inflating everything, why don't we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE

  • How come we experience so much more inflation than deflation? in other words, why does our buying power decrease far more often than it increases?

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  • all these takes kinda suck.

    The people most affected by inflation aren't the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.