Any reason not to do both? Democrats are bad, but Republicans are obviously worse.

XPS13. You can still get a 1080p non-touch screen with Ubuntu pre-installed (at a discount vs. windows). I’ve had mine just over 3 years and it’s still going strong.

Bluetooth headsets. Still can’t have sound and microphone at the same time, which isn’t great.

You said…

Tankies aren’t communists, they’re authoritarians with a red paint job.

Per the definition:

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists

So you have the ability to look up definitions, just not to read them, apparently.

Editing old posts doesn’t prevent them from being used for training AI data. It would prevent the data from being scraped, but Reddit, X, Meta, etc. are certainly storing all of your edits and training models on them, both internally and for third-parties who are paying for that data.

I see, so your personal experience – rife with confirmation and composition fallacies – is how we should debate politics. That’s clearly valuable.

What I’ve referred to is the definition of a tankie.

Oh, I see, you’re the authority on definitions, so whatever you say goes. Even the term “semantic argument” will be bent to mean whatever is convenient for your argument. Can you define “bad faith argument,” lol?

The problem with your argument is that it relies entirely on anecdotal evidence and personal experience, which is heavily influenced by confirmation bias.

You’re making a semantic argument and wrapping it up with a “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

OP is making an assumption about his opposition with zero evidence to support his claim. It’s a claptrap for people who want to feel intellectually superior, even if it’s to a straw man.

Trump doesn’t want the oil for himself, he wants to keep his keyholders happy. He wants U.S. oligarchs to be able to extract resources from Venezuela.

Not a tankie, but this kind of framing is reductionist and condescending. It’s possible for someone to study the spectrum of political ideology and rationally decide that Communism is the best system. It’s honestly disheartening that a non-falsifiable claim presented with zero evidence would garner this many upvotes on this platform.

I tried the free trial recently, and… it wasn’t for me.

Cool art. Running around and interacting is pretty straightforward. Good linux/proton support (though couldn’t recognize my controller immediately, so I just went mnk).

But it’s delivery missions for like 10s of hours. I don’t have much MMORPG experience, so maybe it’s just not the right genre for me. I had more fun in character creation than I did in the actual game. Plus I couldn’t play at all during peak because I apparently chose a popular server/world. Combat felt clunky on mnk.

If I had friends who played, maybe I’d be more inclined to push through, but as a solo player it felt like doing chores.

NPM is suck

He’s not a member of the Democratic Party.

This feels like a trick… BDSM?

Talk? No. Type? Yes. (written from my Lappy 486)

OP said they’re drinking, Pepsi Max which has no sugar.

The comments here are fucking wild.

Outside of the caffeine, there’s nothing inherently special about a fizzy drink habit that would make it remarkable from other habits when it comes to giving it up. So a guide like https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-to-break-a-bad-habit-202205022736 could be useful.

What is BDS?