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2013 was just before the start of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation of a part of Ukraine. Things were very different.

Also, it was before massive social media, Trump and the woke thing, so USA resembled a sane place.

In practice, what would stop me from taking the money and not doing what they want? Assassination risk?

Take 1000 million in bribes and distribute it to poor people, lol.

I stood my ground against the asshole second founder of the company. Not only was he a horrible person, but he also made bad decisions that could not be criticized.

Oh my no.

Other than Russia’s actions, things have been becoming better. Even though that war makes lots of things worse, it has done much to get the world make larger steps towards getting rid of fossil fuels.

I’m generally optimistic. The economic curves go up and down, but the overall trend is up.

I have managed to stay off the hype train quite a bit, so honest question: Is the game good? I’ve possibly perhaps all the 80s and 90s AD&D crpgs, and both Baldur’s Gates, and I mostly liked them.

I haven’t heard of any such exemptions, but I guess it will be really tested only if we have to go to war. It has been almost 80 years since the last time.

I fully think that every euro spent on defense is a horrible waste of resources in global sense, but it’s necessary to prevent every place on this planet being ruled by who are essentially barbarians.

It’s not ridiculous when the most probable enemy has a significantly worse governance.

In Finland, (male) children of the elite serve in the conacription army just like everyone else. But of course if that doesn’t apply, it’s not great.

I don’t claim to know what is causing this, but definitely we’re quite a lot beyond what used to be normal statistics.

Nearly everyone who is currently claiming that they are non-binary are actually not.

I might tell them just as I might tell them I used google to find out something. Doesn’t really pop up in conversation that often, but I wouldn’t hide the fact. It’s just almost totally irrelevant.

My personal experience with KDE has been utterly negative, and I’ve been trying it at times since version 2. Most recently, I had pretty bad time with KDE’s multimonitor capabilities.

Gnome works fine when its primary task is to handle monitors and start Steam :)

I’ve had varying luck with the standard distros, but when I found Nobara, somehow all my gaming problems went away. And now everything just works, actually better than on Windows. I don’t have the time or energy to find out what they’re doing better for my particular case, but apparently something.

(avoid KDE)

I think a declaration that corporations should be making money primarily is a good one. But it must be coupled with legislation that gives them guardrails and promotes competition. Without these things the economy doesn’t function as it should.

Unfortunately, that latter part is full of disagreements.

I hope they’ll do Deck 2 some day. My current laptop is still so much stronger than the current Deck that there’s no point of going there even though I’m quite interested.

Of course it does. There’s nothing about Lemmy that would prevent that.

“The enemies of my enemies are my friends” - sort of thinking perhaps.