If anyone is celebrating this, you’re gonna be in for a big surprise sooner or later.

Remake announcement has to be imminent

we had real internet.

frikkin’ LUCKY!

I had to use a neighbor’s computer, and AOL installed itself as a walled garden, so I couldn’t connect with anything outside the application. But for 13 year old me it was all I knew and I -loved- it! Lol

But you didn’t need a new CD each time, iirc.

Did anyone else know people who would say they’d just get a new AOL disc to “add more free hours” even though it very much did not work like that?

It was free, but iirc, you had to sign up for a monthly subscription, and the 700 hours was just your first month free.

I think you hit the nail on the head. It’s being made about hypothetical implications, instead of being taken at face value…

Here’s another one: Are you more of a silly person or a serious person?

There are implications to both, and few would self identify as strictly one or the other, but I can easily see which side I tend to align with without labeling myself a “Serious/Silly Person”

It’s really blowing my mind that this concept isn’t more intuitive. (I’ve had this conversation with a family member who has a view very similar to yours)

I feel like I understand what they said, but maybe I’m not wording my question right.

Imagine that I’m asking whether you like blue more or green more. I’m not asking you what your favorite color is, or what color you’d paint your car, but generally which one of those two colors you tend to see yourself liking more.

I’m not asking anyone to strictly identify with one or the other. It’s a question of where on the spectrum between them you fall.

I am more of a big picture person and my partner is more of a details first person.

“We steal all the data, just not all at once, so it’s okay.”

This is freaking weird… I finally started working on my own TTRPG idea a few hours ago, and now this pops up in my feed…

Cool!

I don’t want this to be true, because people I love say that, but it is.

People will say “But the Democrats are bad, too!” and they aren’t wrong. At least they were “Lawful Evil.” You can deal with that.

This administration is “Chaotic Evil.”

That’ll teach 'em!

He was owed due process per the Constitution.

End of story.

Until we start? We have. It’s not something that happens overnight. You’re saying you’re not my ally until I’m winning, and that’s not the high ground you think it is.

And as far as whining… Look at my post history before you call me a whiner. I have little to no disillusions about my country.

This edgelord internet routine plays right into the authoritarian’s hands. Build bridges, not walls.

It won’t be long before they’re saying “Just trust that he knows what he’s doing. He works in mysterious ways!”

It’s about that, too.

This is exactly how my meth head sister raised my nephew.

Freak out and punish him, assign him chores to “get out of it,” and then let him off the hook when she wanted to fight with her husband. But always kept the threat of punishment looming.

Cool.

I think some of you guys are reading way too much into this.

Trump is having a dick measuring contest while Xi is letting him fuck himself.

We rely on China more than they rely on us. Think about how obsessed we are with low prices. Trade with China brings our average prices on goods way down. China also trades with the rest of the world, and they know they can weather a trade war with the US.

China is the next world leader unless the West can somehow right the ship. WW3 is going to be about who becomes the next Economy and de-facto world leader.

For anyone who needs to hear it: Authoritarian states do not think like people, they think like empires. If you were an empire, would you take advantage of the current climate?

Disclaimer: Both China and the US are authoritarian states, strictly speaking. But the State is not unified under Trump currently, so we’re seeing a combination of thinking like a state and thinking like a person coming from the US, depending on the source.