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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • No. Democracy is definitionally “Vote what you want to vote for.”

    Ideally people vote for what they think is best for the country/the world/your peers.

    But part of democracy (and a rather important part) is that NOBODY GETS TO TELL ANYBODY WHAT TO VOTE FOR AND WHY (within the legal confines of what allowed political expression is). So yes. A lot of people vote for what they think will be best for them. And people often make fun of people that vote for things that will be bad for them (see the whole leopards eating faces meme culture).

    So “voting to benefit one self” can not be a crazy concept to you…


  • The down votes on this are insane to me. He just gave the original definition of the separation of church and state.

    Every elected representative should only be bound by existing laws and their own conscience. That means that if someone chooses to listen to sky daddy or the flying spaghetti monster while in elected office, that’s up to them. It sucks, but you can’t have a democracy in which you tell people what the basis for their decisions must be. If the people elect an Astrologer to office that person should be free to base their decisions on the movement of Jupiter through Sagittarius or whatever.

    Democracy is designed to empower the statistical average will of the people. Not produce “best” (by whatever measure) outcomes for the country. Just what people want.



  • Downvote. Reasons:

    1. This is clearly fake news by the LAME STREAM fake news media to damage glorious leader the President’s fantastic work to MAGA.

    2. By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).

    3. Even though it is not real, COVID is also just a Chinese hoax that is just a flu so any reporting on it is spreading Chinese propaganda and therefore TREASON (and we downvote treason).



  • “Underspace” auf Steam ist ein sehr ähnliches Spiel vom Feeling her. Es gibt zwar Aliens und mehr übernatürliche Elemente im Weltraum, aber man wird tatsächlich als “Stormchaser Alpha 1-1” angefunkt und 99% des Spiels sind genau wie in Freelancer auch mit Trader Landes zwischen Planeten herumfliegen.

    Ist early access und nur ein einzelner Developer, also ist die Entwicklung ein bisschen langsam, aber seine Dev Blogs haben immerhin Katzenbilder?

    Für 17 Euros kriegt man jetzt schon mindestens 30h Spiel wenn man nur die Story durchzieht und zwischen durch hier und da sein Schiff ein bisschen upgradet.





  • There is a not insignificant (at least by noise level) portion of the Iranian Diaspora that want the US to invade specifically to install Reza Pahlavi as King. I know because they are harassing my wife on social media when she posts her position which is as you described. You are right in that the majority don’t want a war like this, but Royalists specifically (including the prince of nothing himself ) seem to actually believe that this would be a good thing.

    You only have to look at what happened around Huda Beauty, when their Iraqi owner said the same thing you are saying.




  • My gaming friend group is 8 or 9 people. When you want to hang out digitally, you just jump in our discord and see who is currently playing. You jump in the channel, join the conversation. If the others are currently in a match that can’t be hot joined, someone will put on a stream for you, so you can watch and have an easier time joining the conversation.

    Sometimes a friend is playing a game that you don’t own or they want to show you. Easily done with a stream. Streaming on Discord is very useful to us.

    We use the webcam feature for our Tabletop Roleplaying Sessions.

    One “feature” that Discord has that will be missed by our small community: Being able to see who is in a voice call without having to join it.

    We have spent the last week exploring alternatives and it looks like we will be using a combination of self hosted matrix and mumble unless self hosted stoat gets voice very soon.





  • Not familiar with the specific law in question, but for a lot of laws intent and knowledge at the time of crime matter. Eg the difference between manslaughter and murder is a difference in attitude.

    I could plausibly see that in this case there is not enough evidence to determine what the mind set was, while the physical action still undoubtedly took place.

    Eg in Germany showing the Nazi salute or displaying a swastika are illegal, except for artistic or educational purposes. A case could be constructed in which a defendants intent when showing either the gesture or the symbol could not be clearly deduced. This not enough evidence exists wether a crime was committed, even though the physical action that would constitute the crime undoubtedly happened.

    Could be a similar thing is at play here.