just a reminder- the 1st amendment is an amendment. When the people running things on behalf of their monied backers want to change things, they can change them and will.

your right to speech is not something an amendment can create or remove.

we already have laws against inciting violence, so there’s that.

but when uncle sam says you are no longer allowed to say “fuck israel and zionism” - remember, you are in the right to to say it.

just so it’s clear - a lot of the constitution, especially the 1st amendment, applies to everyone in the country. citizen or not.

not at that size, no. yes they all have addresses and put their pants on one leg at a time, but they are capitalists before anything else, including the people who voted for them.

which means they are no longer human - they are pieces of shit.

i think you neglect to consider capitalism’s growth (as a mechanic) itself. What you describe is exactly how it is working. What I believe is that this is an evolved economic system, designed from the start to “eat its own dogfood” so to speak.

what does IQ have to do with the price of groceries?

it’s not weird. it’s literally how capitalism works. it feels weird because it actually feels fucking wrong and disgusting but we are propagandized into thinking this is ok.

i’m a sw eng, doing most of my work on a macbook. unless i need to use vendor sw for servos, vfds, cameras.

i used to build pcs. stepped away. now all i have to game with is a legion go. i would love a gaming pc for even just 1080p. but shit’s so expensive. :(

back to factorio i go.

good news is - trebuchets can be built with hand tools.

no hose with me. next time i’ll use the kitchen sink sprayer.

future dlc? that’s not yet done makes what you purchased an unfinished mess. ;)

i am shitting right now. i shit abt 2 times a day. usually between 3 and 5 on the bristol scale. sometimes 6 if i had a bad lunch.

well yeah. china is a world capitalist super power and arguably a better country than the US. Plus there are nothing but business owners with their hands up trumps ass controlling him anyway.

120? For a game that will melt systems? For a game not yet done?

We have got to stop this horseshit. Early access is fine for a small team, solo dev, etc. Especially if it’s early access prices. But this?! Fuck no.

distractions to keep us from a few things.

Saint Trump’s Home for Elderly Badasses

we (team of 15) use salesforce and a promise to include issue numbers in our (svn) commit msgs all on one dev branch so when we cherry pick merge later to qa we can “safely” assume we got it all. 30% of the time it works 10% of the time.

i can’t convince these guys code is not “self documenting” let alone use git or a tool for proper bug reporting.

nope. just standard policy of playing ph music and sitting in a chair watching while i called them step parent names.

or it assumes they advance at the same rate. that’s my entire point.

i’m on methylphenidate extended release. when the afternoon hits i feel … hollow. odd. in my jaw, neck, chest. but i still gotta drive home. :/

so just … rely then on fuel from a system designed to profit for shareholders, instead? kind of like how “you gotta have a green lawn” was a thing which just happened to convince people away from using their land as farms to offset grocery stores.