Eh, GOG is doing alright. I switched almost completely. If there is a GOG version, I buy it even if it is more expensive - which it very often isn’t or just very slightly. And I’m saying this as someone who is playing all of this on a SteamDeck.

Damn I thought that’s Zuckerberg again for a sec.

I don’t think this will ever happen, but it would be effing awesome. We love Canada either way.

I mean it can be a valid strategy to gain ‘market share’ in the world. China does this successfully. This is good for big exporting companies and sucks for the population regarding buying imported goods.

Because China basically produces everything, the Chinese can simply buy domestic products to offset the negative effect.

But yeah for a country like the USA, which doesn’t produce nearly as much this will just suck. Imported goods will be more expensive (even more so with the genius tariffs) without the option to buy domestic goods because there simply are none.

Sorry, you are not making any sense to my little European brain.

You can see how the current US government is doing whatever the fuck they want, right? You can see that for Trump the constitution means absolutely nothing except when it benefits him or his narrative, right? How the POTUS controlling the SCOTUS leads to a situation where there are no consequences for them?

You can see that your interpretation of free speech is being abused constantly and benefits those who have money and spread misinformation and hate, right?

I have no idea what western, civilized countries you are talking about where you apparently are not allowed to protest - you can’t possibly think this is a worse situation than what you have in the US.

And mind you there are tons of pro Palestine protests in countries I have on my radar. The only thing that’s not allowed is glorifying the attack of the Hamas on Jewish people.

But yes, I am not saying there is no way to abuse this. Given a government which is shitty enough and courts which are not independent, obviously it can be abused.

But in no shape or form is it worse than the free speech interpretation in the US, where defamation, hate and lies are literally constantly spread by those with enough power and reach.

This 100% enabled Trump and the disgrace you call ‘political debate’ over there - which is nothing but political mudslinging non stop.

So yes, I think the small chance of hate speech exceptions being abused is absolutely worth the upsides.

Your freedom ends where the freedom of others begins.

This is pure and obvious defamation and is illegal in many civilized countries. That’s how it has to be.

Only in the US people are so obsessed with ‘free speech’ that they actively protect hate speech.

Without this delusional interpretation of ‘free speech’, what Trump is doing most of the time wouldn’t be acceptable or possible.

Of course it is too late when you already have a fascist, authoritarian government.

But to such a government it doesn’t matter anyway. They will do whatever the fuck they want. They will introduce new laws if they feel like it. Putin had no problem to introduce a law which effectively lands you in jail for calling the war in Ukraine a war.

So I don’t buy the implication that even hate speech has to be protected as free speech because the government could abuse it. The real world shows us very clearly that such governments do whatever they like, so that’s just propaganda and wishful thinking at best.

Is that your ‘freedom of speech’, America?

This right there should land you in jail.

I’ve never noticed until now that Zuckerberg looks like a giraffe.

No, it’s the UK where children can go to school as young as 4 years old. So this is way less alarming than it sounds to people from other countries, where indeed children are already 6 when they go to school.

They only have a problem with the ‘walking around armed might provoke law enforcement to shoot you, so don’t do it’ narrative.

They don’t like telling people not to carry guns. That’s all.

Erm, you can soil yourself in panic and excuse yourself to the bathroom. Works every single time.

Only during COVID…

For me it is ‘someoe using Excel (at all)’.

Seeing people bragging about cool ‘apps’ and ‘databases’ they created in their department only to find out it is Excel. Oh the pain…

Is there a Lemmy version of r/woosh?

Haha, okay but that’s more like Darth Vader.

Maybe we won’t, cancelling midterms is Trumps new favorite topic.

The syntax is a little weird IMHO. I can’t help but read it as ‘NOT code_review@programming.dev’ …

It is shaping up very nicely! One more nitpick: cloud that button say something like ‘Join Lemmy (instance name)’?

So that any fool understands what it does. Join instance name has the potential to confuse some people, because they don’t know what joining instance name means - especially if some instance is chosen which name is more on the cryptic site.

But anyway, very nice!

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It’s a hamster.