What a dishonest argument.

There’s a world of difference from someone barely getting by, living paycheck to paycheck, versus a middle class worker well into their career, able to afford minor luxuries and still squirrel away money for savings and retirement.

I am middle class. I am 20 years into my career. I make comparatively good money.

But due to not prioritizing buying property, I’ve pretty much missed my window. I can qualify for a mortgage, have the 20% down-payment, but the monthly payment would pretty much wipe me out, costing around $3k more per month than renting.

If I were at this point in my career 20 years ago, I could have easily afforded a house comfortably.

That is what we’re talking about when we talk about the housing crisis for specifically the middle class.

Bruh. You just fetishized a 10 year old kid because she’s a female Japanese minor.

You need to step away from your weird anime/hentai loop and step into society.

Go outside.

We also have to whine about everything. Great job at keeping your end of the online discourse contract.

Just for comparsion, that would be like surrendering Alaska, Texas, and California if we needed to surrender 30% of our territory “for peace”

“I’ve already been excommunicated from another kingdom hall in (insert town from 2hr+ away)”

Well, there’s the trick. I don’t think I could say those words without breaking. I’d be demanding a shrubbery before I could stop myself.

I used to have a problem with jehovas witnesses waking me up regularly because I kept a night schedule. Like, every week or two, I’d be woken up in the middle of my sleep cycle by them.

Politely informed them I was solidly not religious, nor did I have any interest in religion at all.

They came back.

Asked them to remove me from their circuit.

They came back.

Started getting mildly rude, cutting them off and asking them to not knock on my door again.

They came back.

I answered the door in nothing but boxers and told them I don’t care about their zombie Jesus.

Sweet uninterrupted sleep from then on.

Or a tasty mushroom

So you’re upset that this little bot is correctly configured to ignore a link aggregate site because the bot doesn’t yet have nested links implemented?

I guess b better argument is, why have the bot post a comment at all. Or maybe it’s the Media Bias api that’s just giving back a negative and the bot doesn’t know it’s due to the source being a link aggregate.

I mean, Ukraine does not have the ability to hold anything or do a sustained push. It would be foolish to try.

Going in, destroying supplies and infrastructure, and then leaving is the smart move unless there are good choke points to hold.

Have you not received your new talking points yet? Harris is not a zionist afaik.

It’s not a given. Lemmy is under a constant barrage of comments only attacking Biden and the Dems for supporting Isreal and therefore genocide. The blame is only put on Biden and the Dems.

Keeping perspective of how much worse the Republicans are in this specific regard if extremely imperious during this election. Being critical of the Dems is fine, but keeping the real context is vital.

The objective of these users who only criticize the Dems is clear. Stop falling for it.

“The cyberattack was aimed at destroying internal information of companies that serve Russian public sector clients involved in the war against Ukraine,”

How do high-school pranks do that? It’s just mildly embarrassing / annoying.

I take Magnesium Citrate because I get frequent foot cramps, and it helps reduce them a little. Foot cramps aren’t life threatening besides i guess the small increase in risk when it occasionally happens while driving.

But they’re certainly annoying.

Ohh look. It’s the guy that turns every news/politics article into a “both sides” argument to try to specifically disenfranchise left voters, and is mysteriously silent in all those articles quoting Trump saying he’ll enable both Russia and Isreal in their genocides.

Don’t fall for his crap. He’s only here to point fingers at Dems, never Republicans.

He’s here to help Trump get elected.

He is either part of the Russian / Isreali propaganda he’s trying to frame as bad here, or a useful idiot that has bought into said propaganda.

Yeah. That’s their intent. But they really don’t know for sure that their stunt won’t have some completely unexpected effect. Some slow reaction with that specific kind of stone that only matters if the powder gets deep into some cracks for 200 years or whatever. Or attracts stone eating bacteria of some sort.

The point is that they dont know what they dont know. Every time they pull one of these stunts, they are introducing the risk of irrevocable damage to historically significant objects that should be left to future generations.

Stop fucking around with human history. Stone Henge is a world wonder.

I don’t see any problem with modders charging for their mods. They are doing work, and deserve to be compensated.

If they’re creating additional deep content, I can see that being worth paying. If it’s just some skins or configuration edits like wonky gravity, that would not be worth money to me. But I think it’s a good thing to be able to add micro transactions for.

Take the original DOTA for example. A warcraft 3 custom map. It eventually dominated the custom game lobby, at least 3:1. I would have no problem with the creator(s) making money off their creation that contributed a ton of replayability the game.

When it comes down to it, it should be the modder’s choice on if they want to charge for their work, and the consumers choice if they want to pay for it.

Also why I didn’t have problems with microtransactions for skins, particularly when it was community driven like DOTA 2. Artists can make money creating non-game altering content, and fans get to personalize their characters.

Yes, except these women were denied the responsibility because they are women in an Islamic controlled society. But the community was convinced to allow it.

The tendency to make Perfect the enemy of Good.

It’s a tired theme here on Lemmy, particularly WRT Gaza, and particularly in criticism of Biden’s policy towards Isreal.

And your proof that using that leverage will achieve the desired result in a 2 month time frame is…?