we agree more voting is better.

this scheme has no incentive to actually vote. It would likely help many people in voting, but a lot would just go fishing or stay home to play games. I’m not saying make it a crime to not vote.

tax incentives to vote sounds like a giveaway to tax-prep companies and tax-software companies, none of whom should exist at all.

and all of this when the whole voting structure is fucked – first-past-the-post is when one candidate gets more than another, even if they get a small minority of votes.

I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I’m in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.

I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.

I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn’t have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.

Anyways I’ll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.

Yes, as you implied, some have in their mind as realpolitik that refugee crises create opportunities for fascism, and that’s cool. It’s just practical politics to fuel climate change and war.

“we may not know how much money we can make by developing a certain game, but we can get a feeling as to what kind of game will make users happy. That’s why we test games even in the middle of development and collect feedback.”

That sounds a lot like using data collection to design games. And hey, it’s hard to create art. Art can fail even at its best.

Spindly legs!

What happens when you bring a cat her toy?

She sighs, exasperated, and says, “I wanted you to open all the cabinet doors you fucking moron”

Yay?

Your creds could be diminished based on which usenet forums you frequented. I had a little while in my 90s youth obsessed with researching marihuana, libertarian ideals, and discrediting Scientology in the alt.scientology groups. Not great, kind of normal for usenet, but there were much darker places to inhabit there. Worst of all was posting from my university account with my real name.

Cycling, role playing games, hiking groups, theater, local, community, local community theater, fascism, beating up people I don’t like

Looks cool man but as an extreme introvert, I worry about the false dichotomy of intro/extro. I’m fucked up and isolated because that’s what I want. I’m also decent at interpersonal relations, but it hurts my brain to do sales. Because I don’t want you to buy the thing I am trying to sell you.

Even librarians love snacks

Just to bring it back to earth, thermobaric memetic munitions have been deployed since before the stone age. You set the opposing village on fire, and then steal their memes. Might have that backwards.

I worked with a super nice weird guy. He was always bringing in his 3d printed warhammer sets to the shop. Respect. One day he was talking about his sword. I was like, did you buy the sword in a mall? And he said yes, he bought it in a mall. I should have let it go. Anyways I am not friends with that guy.

I think you are saying the cartoons are not accurate representations to begin with? I am from the US but not too familiar with the cartoons. I barely watched the original Mermaid when it came out on VHS because I was watching my younger cousins. the other ones I thought were Marvel characters. which also I don’t know.

The circumstances of this photo are obviously bizarre and uncomfortable, and fuck fascism and fuck war, but smoking hot is smoking hot.

Vise grip hasn’t been oiled since my dad told me to do it thirty years ago. Ah! All those metrics are starving!

While this is technically correct, it still doesn’t matter. I have built my own high end PCs in the past and it is a huge waste. I’m not even sold on the steam deck yet - I do all my non- critical stuff like lemmy on this 10 year old shit tablet running Android 7

Anybody who liked toy trucks would love that weird thing in the op.

Cops going around and asking about purple rocks would cause a tiny stir. A kid would be aware of that and entertained. This is pre- internet and It’s Soviet culture. I’m not supporting the Soviets, but people talked to each other, which is generically quite positive.