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Without exaggeration I have had to download a zipped tar, that contained a rar split into ~100 parts, which contained an iso which contained a custom installer that extracted the compressed game files.

Seems to be overkill.

With an unpacked release I can pick and choose what to download, if it’s on a newer patch level I can just point it at an existing folder and it will just download the difference. And of course I don’t have to jump through the stupid installation hoops.

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Look at 4chan to see how that works out. Almost no moderation there and it turned into a right wing bastion. Pretty far from anarchy, if you ask me.

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Pics or it didn’t happen!

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Thanks, now I’m hungry for a giant-ass pizza.

Not to be confused with a giant ass-pizza.

But that would be interesting as well.

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I love how this is so much more triggering than just the text implies. 4:3 screen, christmas lights that would kill every ounce of contrast in the picture, one wrong move and the pizza gets either wool stuck on it or it falls to the ground. Not to mention that it’s too far away to actually eat.

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This is not, the greatest country in the world. This is just a tribute.

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My approach to human diet is to only eat organic free range humans. They might be more expensive to aquire but I’ve never tasted any better.

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Well, technically Cliegg bought 3PO when he bought Shmi. So in a roundabout way the funds of Owen’s family went twice to acquiring 3PO.

Three times if you factor in the costs of however Anakin acquired the parts.

And then Owen’s moody half-brother and his rich girlfriend just stole the droid.

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I feel like it’s kind of the same in other meme communities like 9gag and reddit. Reposts upon reposts upon reposts, with the occasional funny new thing.

Topical meme communities are sometimes a bit better with this.

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Not on cheeseburgers. At least not at McDonald’s in Germany.

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To be fair, in-context Ranma usually evokes similar interpretations.

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You really really need some history lessons.

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Not to nitpick but did you just say china and russia are bad because they make people suffer, then say never to deal in absolutes?

Absolutes in the sense of “they’re communist, they can’t be bad”. Ends don’t justify the means. America isn’t good because it’s “free” and “capitalist”. Russia isn’t good because it’s “strong” and “communist”.

People are assholes. Especially when they get the power to be assholes. A dogmatic easy system alone will not prevent that. This is a hard problem going all throughout human history.

You should read Animal Farm. It tackles the topic quite well.

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It’s not a children’s novel. And something doesn’t have to be “for adults” to be insightful.

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I will try to make it easy to understand:

  • Having social security for everyone: good
  • Making people suffer or die: bad

The Soviet Union and later Russia and China excel at the making people suffer part. But tankies seem to ignore or flat out deny that.

The USA isn’t much better. See their prison system or healthcare.

I think the most successful countries are Norway and Iceland. But they have a free market so they might be called capitalist. But it’s heavily regulated and they have very good social security services. But that might be called socialist or communist. In Germany we call it social market economy.

I hold it like Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Look beyond labels and see what is actually working the best for everyone.

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I know it’s a joke and all that. But do people really not get the line? I mean, sometimes it’s hard to grasp the lyrics of rap songs, especially when they’re rapping so fast and using obscure metaphors and references. But this one is delivered quite calmly and could be taken quite literally.

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Padmé losing more and more of her clothes in AotC always reminds me of Sigourney Weaver going through the same in Galaxy Quest. I’m convinced GL was subtly referencing that.

Banks in Hong Kong can print their own money. There are 8 different designs in circulation. (lemmy.world)

Before someone asks why there isn’t insane inflation from banks printing an infinite amount of money for themselves, the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the US dollar. In order to be allowed to print HKD, banks must have an equivalent amount of USD on deposit.

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  1. ???
  2. Open bank in Hong Kong.
  3. Print money.
  4. Profit!
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That’s due to Special Relativity. Of course, some people are relatively more special.

Remote Moderator actions still do not seem to work after upgrading to 0.18.5

I was made moderator of the /c/TrueAnon on the lemmy.ml instance a while ago, and none of my actions have ever federated to lemmy.ml, so I gave up. Thought I’d try again after this upgrade and still no dice. The response I’m getting back from the API when I try to add my lemmy.ml account to moderator status is...

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I found an easy workaround. Just be a. mod for a community without any traffic.

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Ask someone with CFS/ME. This should have been common knowledge for about half a century or so.

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Yeah, you’re right. It isn’t really NSFW. But in some super stuck up cultures this is considered offensive.

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Isn’t Yahoo using Bing in the background?

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