I think it is partially about numbers, and the fact that toxic gamers have more than once banded together for significantly increased assholery.

Partially it’s because games specifically are a medium where feedback IS taken into account in a material way, with bug fixes and patches and whatnot. Unlike a lot of other mediums, you theoretically could get a game, play it, encounter a bug, write a forum post about it or tweet about it or even directly tweet/email…

Self determination has always been kind of a bullshit principle that has been applied in a highly selective way. For one, self determination has overwhelmingly been reserved for white people, and even then inconsistently.

The vote is as illegal as such a vote would be here. There are still living people who fought in the last Spanish Civil war.

Keep in mind in this story that the gist of the Catalan discontent is that this is a wealthy region that pays more into the Spanish system than in gets back in regional services. That is a classic conservative complaint that this site routinely argues against.

Americans were and are fully capable of electing racist morons without outside assistance. Russian propaganda had little or nothing to do with it. 

Who cares? I mean that honestly. Say Russia ran some Facebook adds to try and convince people to vote for independence. The Government fired rubber bullets and assaulted people for just voting. They threatened sedition charges against newspapers that published poll locations. They mass arrested people sympathetic to…

Ask yourself if this applies:

Agreed. I have a PhD and am looking for a tenure track faculty position. I have worked for for profit education companies during the short time I’ve been graduated, which pays more than being an adjunct. About half of my friends from graduate school do have tenure track jobs. And you know what? They honestly are not…

I’m in the same camp as you. There is definitely something about macOS on a notebook with their deep level of integration. Pretty much all my adult computing life I’ve had a self-built PC with Windows on it and a MacBook of some kind as my portable device. macOS just feels so right on a portable.

Oh come on - she rejected the donation because of who it came from. This adds up to less than $200 worth of children’s books. The monetary component was negligible. The woman couldn’t help politicizing something as simple as an award for a job well done.

This always bothers me with the Trump family. People keep attacking them over absolute nonsense, which is ridiculous because the Trumps have so very many things that really do deserve attacking there’s no reason to go for weak stuff like this.

This was the lead goddamn story on Fox News and other conservative sites while husband Trump is fucking up left and right most especially any leadership in spearheading Puerto Rico. It was red bait for the Foxbots and Trumptards and this librarian did no favors for literacy, charitable giving, or libraries.

Yeah issuing a blanket condemnation of Dr. Seuss and his work because he like the rest of the US got caught up in the anti-Japanese racist hysteria during WWII I think is a bit much, not that that should be overlooked.

Yeah, this seems like the wrong hill to die on.

Dr. Seuss atoned for his youthful mistakes. The messages in his books are overwhelmingly positive, tolerant, inclusive, and open minded. Writing them off as “racist propaganda” because of what he did (wrong) for the war effort is bullshit.

You know these Hawaiians stole the land from someone else, right? They weren’t the first settlers. Tahitian explorers dominated over the Polynesian descendants who were there first. Not to mention the possibility of the Menehune.

There has to be more as defense than just god says no, too. Because god says yes, and because god says no, and because god says this is our land, has contributed some of the greatest iniquities of the past and still contributing to massive wrongs, displacements, and murders in the present too.

No, Cryptocurrencys are a fraud, a shame. They are equated to gold in being a finite resource, untill you make another one. Its a false positive in currency. Many of them are not catching on, but have you seen how many their are? How is this a finite resource if a bunch of shmucks can just ‘invent’ gold.

“That is the future.. That is how we solve the issue of wealth distribution as things become autonomous.”