What with microtransactions and whatever in the PC environment, even in paid games, it’s often more profitable to target the high-end of gamers who have more disposable income, then to target the median gamer.

It’s like how airplanes are doing less coach, and more business and first class.

There’s one guy that did a fairly convincing recreation with a squib, but idk if I believe that. There were some other guys that did analysis of the time between cracks, and found it didn’t match the shooter being where the shooter officially was.

I think the biggest thing is the timeline of rifle disassembly and reassembly doesn’t line up at all, especially considering the disassembled rifle wouldn’t be able to fit in the backpack that was in the video. There was some gun guy that bought the exact rifle, and the exact backpack, and the official story clearly doesn’t line up there.

But ultimately I don’t think it’s a huge deal what really happened. It’s created a decent amount of conflict among conservatives, what with Candace Ownes, most people don’t care anymore, he probably did actually die, and exposing Kirk as alive probably wouldn’t change much tbh.

Given she voted to give them anti-air missiles, it’s more about Iran, not that that makes it much better

I don’t think posting to Hexbear will make him that much more famous, and the guy that got punched is the one that posted it for the world to see, and it got a decent conservative response there. I don’t think lefties posting it will make him any more known to the police or the right.

how much profit the companies running these businesses are making?

Well, the article mentions $6.2 billion being shipped overseas, so they’re making at least $1.5b, which is nothing to sniff at. But I imagine most of it is used domestically, and considering the massively inflated hospital prices here, they probably make at least as much as from the exports, so you probably get less than 1/3 of what it’s value is, at the very least 2/3 if you assume they make nothing from US plasma (lol, lmao).

Seems mostly great, but I’ve heard a lot of negative things about /e/OS. It’s probably better than Google-ized Android, but GrapheneOS had a lot of complaints about its security, and most importantly it has proprietary systems and applications included. Proprietary applications by default (some that they’ve written?) is weird and worrying for a privacy focused OS.

GrapheneOS is the goat, imo. Hopefully we’ll get more devices supported soon.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

Not perfect, you’d probably want to change away from Google for example, and Microsoft/Google seem to get your IP address or location along with the search, to get relevant results. Still seems leagues better than Google or Bing directly, and the issue seems to mostly be Google/Microsoft getting data, rather than Ecosia collecting data for itself.

Interacting with people on the internet can be wild, people aren’t even willing to copy and paste stuff into the searchbar, or click on links. It makes having conversations with some people basically impossible.

Protecting Pedophiles is the worst kind of government, except for all the other ones we’ve tried.

I mean, can you imagine living in a country that doesn’t Protect Pedophiles? Only crazy authoritarian communists would want that.

but fr North East Ohio Regional Sewer District seems awesome, shame they’re in Ohio.

That’s where they stick the flourine into the water. Don’t be mislead by the color and smell, you should be drinking the soup. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, amirite?

There were those massive climate walkouts back in 2019, a lot of Middle Schoolers participated just like the High Schoolers

Yeah, the size and coordination of the walkouts have been wild. Something like a dozen high schools walked out near me all at once, with basically every student leaving and all marching downtown to meet up together. Kids I’m related to, kids that have had internships, really all the teens I know, have all walked out over ICE in the past few weeks.

Didn’t he move to a much more expensive place in Georgia (US State) last year?

Go to the piracy Wiki, there’s a bunch of websites where you can do direct downloads. That way you won’t have to torrent, and therefore don’t have to worry about your ISP looking and complaining about that unencrypted torrent traffic.

I’ve posted stuff in the Discussion thread, and I’ve talked about it in the Mod Chat.

I think if you keep all or most of the megas pinned because visibility, the people that made the complaints the admins are trying to address won’t be satisfied at all. That list is a lot of posts, and pinned posts would still take up most to all of the screen on load. I feel like visibility is just contradictory with the goals of this experiment. Keeping all the megas and portalling the events is a decent idea, one that I think most people will agree with, just not the people that want 1-3 pinned posts total and complain about pinned post bloat (even though you can make them disappear, and the take no time at all to scroll by). They’re a small group that wants to minorly inconvenience everyone, rather than have to deal with an even more moderate and minor inconvenience, so I think we really should just ignore them. It’s such a selfish, uncommon, and unpleasant that most people just want it back to normal, and the few people that are trying to find a compromise don’t actually themselves believe it’s a big deal.

But the mods and admins seem to really care about that minority opinion a lot, they talk about the opinions of people that don’t even seem to exist in the thread. If they can’t get something with very few pinned posts, I think they’ll just return to normal, then try a very similar experiment. I honestly think it’s likely they’ll keep doing it, over a long timespan, until people finally agree to have basically no pinned posts.

Thanks, I like it too. Maybe they could have it as a pinned comment so it’s more visible than the post body?

if you had “tankies” with wealth and power, he’d have been targeting them

The PSL, along with a number of other Marxist-Leninist and progressive groups, is backed by an American multi-hundred-millionaire left-winger, Neville Singham. I haven’t found him in any of the Epstein files at all, and he’s a quite wealthy and powerful guy, along with being a literal tankie.

the kind of wealthy socialite Epstein was doing, you would have to abandon your communist principles entirely

This might be true though, but I think the emphasis might be more on “the kind” and “socialite” than wealthy. Doing stuff with Epstein kinda requires abandoning your principles it seems, if you had any, even if those principles weren’t at all communist. Pedophilia being bad is a nominally common principle.

The funny bit about that is that the new Trump admin has gotten rid of a lot of people in the military he didn’t like. And even just normal bureaucrats.

Biden fired (“purged”) a number of Trump people as well. He left way too many, though, it was kinda shocking.

A lot of his fanbase are pedophiles, including fairly high-up “lieutenants”, and he’s acknowledged it a number of times. They barely conceal it, that ice snowflake symbol and the term 'p are just dead givaways. He doesn’t appear to really be a pedophile himself though.

I think there’s a much simpler explanation than him being a pedophile, it’s just meta post irony. It’s exactly the kind of thing that would appeal to the young disaffected right-wing males that make up his base, he can say and do wild things and it only makes his charisma with them stronger. It appeals to the pedophiles in his base, but everyone that already likes him isn’t going to be put off by this. Making light of the situation like this might even gain him anti-pedophile followers, oddly enough.

The PSL, along with a number of other Marxist-Leninist and progressive groups, is backed by an American multi-hundred-millionaire left-winger, Singham. I haven’t found him in any of the Epstein files at all, and he’s a quite wealthy and powerful guy. He’s also a very literal tankie.

He does live in China now, but for most of Epsteins socializing and being terrible he was here in America.

Like FunkyStuff said, most of the powerful and wealthy tankies are outside of the global north. There just aren’t that many communists in America, at all.