They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.

“They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels.”

“The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren’t allowed to love.”

I have advanced degrees in climatology and geographic modeling, so I feel like I’m allowed to say that yes, anthropogenic climate change is a well-researched and understood process AND that you don’t know shit about what expertise other people in this thread have.

Just because your opinion is uneducated doesn’t mean mine is.

Are they being sold to Russia directly, or is Russia buying them through an intermediary to skirt around sanctions.

Essentially nation-level straw purchasing.

How the fuck did they let motherfucking Zoom take over. The video-call equivalent of “Googling” something was to “Skype.” When Covid hit, Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly.

My sister is super high ranking at Microsoft, and when she calls the family, she uses Zoom.

My biggest complaint is that you can’t save chat logs.

I work in government, and we do a LOT of stuff on Teams, and I’m just waiting for us to get sued because we can’t turn over Teams chat logs in Open Records requests.

You take my clicky discrete keypresses and I’ll cut you.

The newer Doom games play well on a controller because precision movement matters more than precision aiming, so even on PC I play with a controller.

Having an analog stick instead of WSAD makes the movement much more fluid, and a double-barreled shotgun, rocket launcher, or chainsaw don’t exactly require pixel-perfect aiming.

Yeah, but they’re really hard to use while kicked back on the couch relaxing.

And honestly, I no longer enjoy games that require that level of precision and speed. I play games to relax and decompress after a lot of work, and if the game is complex or difficult enough that a cintroller can’t handle it, I’m probably gonna opt for something simpler anyway.

Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.

You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?

In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.

Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.

I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She’d come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn’t heard about the flying machine being invented.

I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.

Tolerance is a social contract. Those who deny it to others aren’t protected by it.

It took about a year for it to get near-full compatibility with old games since it was emulated on the 360.

Well, he’s also like 4 heartbeats from death. Might as well go out with a bang.

I’ll gladly lose money and comfort for a few years to protect the people I love from what Trump and his minions will to do.

Every day they’re in power is a threat.

Down economies are the number one predictor of whether a political party will be voted out.

360 was absolutely backwards compatible with the OG Xbox.

We should give them enough gear to substantially weaken our own military.

The Dems need to learn to play dirty. Biden needs to de-fang his own office as much as possible in the next 2 months. And as official acts, he can do it with the Court’s blessing.

Stop taking the high road and burn the fucking White House down before Trump can take it back.

While they’ve shut down online services for some of the older consoles, the backwards compatibility of the Xbox has always been excellent. I was playing Crimson Skies for the OG Xbox on my Series S a few weeks ago.