Yeah they are. They’re a theocracy, yes, but the theocracy made a point to maintain the scientific and engineering capacity they had prior. They’ve got women with barely any freedoms with PhDs and jobs using them. If you can’t understand that you can’t really assess their capabilities. What they lack is allies, water, and freedoms

Everyone who’s given metric a real chance does

They’re more competitive orthorexics who work out then starve themselves. I used to DM for a body builder and every once in a while he’d be out of it in the game because he had a competition coming up and was doing a last minute cut.

It’s power lifters and strength competition people who eat constantly because they care more about the numbers on their plates than body fat %

That’s a fair stance, though i will say living an active lifestyle feels great. I sleep better and I feel better. A gym is the right way to do that for some people, but there are other ways to get in shape. Body weight exercises do so much more than most think.

“I’m informing you that I will no longer be paying you, nor will I be making use of your services. Please fuck off”

Honestly I’m amazed at the gall

My only issue with batocera is that GameCube was broken out of the box and I haven’t had the time to figure out how to fix it

Fair enough. It was actually for my batocera, so maybe. My desktop is nobara, so things should be similar to bazzite

Ok so no worse than Xbox controllers (and actually probably better if I learn to use wine). Good to know. I should’ve asked on here when I was looking

The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I’m probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.

And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo’s pro 2 controllers, but it didn’t support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn’t.

Still not going back

No, I’ve got nobara on my gaming rig, batocera on my wife’s retro console that’s just turned into a kodi device, and proxmox on my server

I was under the impression that he declared war on brown people with no fucking plan whatsoever because he’s racist, under the false impression that being at war means he can stay in office no matter what (despite his entire life being filled with counterexamples), and him trying to distract from his close ties with and probable crimes as a child rapist.

I actually don’t know how it could be worse

Yep, I’m in manufacturing and we want to know and to make it right

Try a live boot of nobara to see if it works for you

10 hours of that is fucking nuts. Also claiming that as dating advice is fucking hilarious.

Ohio functioned remotely ok not that long ago

I’m an industrial engineer who was hanging out on lemmy and my IT guy was talking about his piracy server, and well I thought that a legitimately aquired media server might be nice, and that home assistant thing sounded cool so he gave me the form to get two used desktops for free from the company. And well now I’m still fucking around with them every once in a while in anticipation for when my space will warrant actually using them full time.

It also helps that my local bdsm community had had self hosters who talked about it for years.

I’m gonna be real here, most of that’s great, but I ain’t learning Japanese to visit Japan, I’m just going to use a translator app and apologize

Yeah but in the suburbs of Buffalo and Albany? Or in the New York portion of the Appalachians or whatever their other mountains are called? New York is a geographically large state by northeast standards

That’s the thing, some conspiracy theories are going to be true, most aren’t, and some will bear a passing resemblance to the truth.

The main tool at our disposal here is skepticism. Are the claims being made plausible? Are the motivations realistic? Is there evidence from reputable sources? Am I approaching this with a critical mindset? Am I focused on the explicit claims, or am I allowing people to “yes and” this? Am I letting my emotions or preconceived biases and prejudices cloud my judgment?

Exactly, also people tend to tolerate what their peers consider normal. We’re basically always checking reality off of how those in our circle react to things. This means that if your circle assumes old men always want to sleep with 18-20 year old women, and they do so regularly, then if suddenly a 17 year old girl shows up in the mix and nobody reacts it can be easily rationalized. And from there you can slip to a lot of 16 year olds. And while new people may not be comfortable with it, they likely have financial incentives not to walk away or cause a scene, because he wasn’t just a pimp, he was also a matchmaker, then in that case the rationalization engine that is the human brain can go to town.