Yeah this is wrong at least when it comes to the military UCMJ allows you to disregard an unlawful order. Nuremberg confirmed that i was just following orders doesn’t fly at least in the military. Immunity doesn’t make it legal it just makes the person uncountable and shows how broken the system is.

I don’t think what’s talked about enough is kids having the talk with their parents about not being able to take care of them when they get old because you can’t afford to take of yourself and didn’t save anything for retirement. So you hope SSN will be enough for them. I know my mother always asked me if I would take care of her when she got old.

She would say that’s why she had kids. But I had to sit her down and run the math and I said it’s not about if I have the will or not it’s is it possible and the math just doesn’t workout and I have an okay job. I can only imagine what people lower down on the ladder are going through.

There are a lot of boomers that about to get a horrible wake up call and a lot of heartbreak watching our parents suffer at hands of their own making.

They will be drowning and some kids are going to jump in and get pulled under when trying to rescue them and the ones who know they don’t have to proper equipment. Stay out of the water and mourn the loss.

Yeah they had to call back to Trip’s death since we have such great memories of when that happened.

I’m really glad you got to experience that memories like that need to be cherished. Do you remember much cheating on your sever? Cause all i hear about is servers being a haven for cheaters but I don’t remember that many.

Yeah it was not cheap I remember playing C&C on TEN. It’s crazy to think it started with a sub model then everyone went free drove them out of business. Then the consoles made it sub again.

Also to add to this is if windows users understood what kernel level anti-cheat does most people wouldn’t want it on windows ether.

The tick was to find your sever. With Quake 2 and Team Fortress Classic. You would find a server that meshed with the community that fit you and you would go to that server. You got to know the players that would come back over and over. It was a micro community in the larger community of the game. You became a regular sometimes were even giving mod rights very much like a lemmy community. Yeah there were asshats just like there is on here but you just don’t engage with them.

Hell back when quake 2 was in heat.net we would just hang out and chat in the lobby. When playing mechwarrior 2 they had clan websites and we would battle other clans in brackets. I started in that clan by just random showing up in that lobby and someone was nice and taught me how to account for lag when targeting other mechs.

It takes a little more work to find or create your community but once you do it’s so much better than the company directed dull experience. Stuff like surf servers in counterstrike or bombing run basketball servers in unreal tournament would not exist without player controlled dedicated servers.

Also scale didn’t mater since it was decentralized like lemmy is. The company didn’t have that much control of what players did with their severs. That’s what this is what this is all about control. They want to make sure you see what they want you to see to buy that cosmetic to feel fomo. To play how they want you to play. So emergent gameplay almost never happens anymore.

Yeah you can do most of that server side but they don’t want to pay for it. Why pay when your players let you coop their machine for free or even better yet pay you for the privilege. Also player run dedicated servers would fix all of this. Don’t like the cheaters movement servers. Own the server ban them. We had this working just fine in the 90s.

Yes they do and the answer is old people being taken advantage of

Louise Fletcher was a kindly grandmother to anyone . The best ways to find nice people in Hollywood is look for the best villains.

The other problem is people make money off of creating conflict that drives engagement. Someone sees something different and first thinks i can juice this for engagement and content. So something turns from you know what that’s not really for me turns into their killing your boys tune in to my channel to find out why.

I kind of hope for Nuclear Armageddon that’s something the planet can recover from climate on the other hand it’s done. But honestly it it maybe to late for it to make a difference.

That’s still local storage if you are the one that owns the hard drives

Cloud storage will only last till they get a monopoly then when they start charging through the nose when they start the Enshittification phase . The scramble for local storage will begin but by that time they will outlaw it or some other bullshit

My grandmother told me England was not part of the European continent. I got an answer wrong on a test because of that. She refused admit she was wrong even after I showed her in my text book.

Im Glad im not the only one that fell into the void outside of time.

The interesting thing if I remember correctly is Linus whole thing was for priority software to be apart of the ecosystem. Really the low level stuff would be open and shared and any apps like user level software would be priority. There would be open source and freeware versions like on other operating systems but the foundation software would be supported by the app makers up the stack. It’s a good idea but profit at all cost companies with short term thinking always fuck it up.

I think that’s called a mac

Yeah I don’t think i can call it brain rot but I will also say i don’t get it and that’s okay. But I will say there is something about it that reaks of addiction. The way you don’t pick the content the content picks you. Like with YouTube proper or Netflix you pick the content then it starts playing.

Where with TikTok and Reels and Shorts, it’s just scrolling the media is just blaring at you. Your mind has to do the extra work to filter out the messages. It’s like cat video , kids dancing, buy this garbage , puppy video. That’s the only part that bothers me.

But as for the dances and challenges that style of content is the online equivalent of friends standing around in a circle showing off. Add a touch of narcissism that’s encouraged by the platforms and it starts to make sense to me. But what makes it gross is in that group of friends someone is secretly paid by InsertBrand to make that brand look cool.

Parasocial relationships are the real problem. With a TV show or movie it’s there to entertain there is an understanding they don’t know me. They are not my friends.

Whats sad to me is you have lots of kids and young adults that are basically in the same relationship dynamic as a CamGirl and her viewers minus the sex.

The kids are in a headspace of if I just buy what they like they will like me. If I give them money they will acknowledge me.

I fear because they are in that cycle they won’t be pushed to make friends. As making friends is hard and takes some work to maintain them. When you can get the dopamine hit you need for your loneliness and further isolate yourself with your tik tok friends.

To add to this the heat being radiated is more dangerous than the EM coming off the laptop. If that gives you the idea of how not dangerous EMs fields are in normal devices.