I do remember earlier moral panics about violent video games and music lyrics, but the suggestion that people trying to police political correctness in games was the same kind of threat seemed absurd to me.
On the other hand, the first Witcher game from 2007 has cards the player collects as achievements for having sex with female NPCs, and that doesn’t seem like something a major title in 2026 would do unless it was actively trying to be provocative.
I remember this starting and just being confused. Somebody made an indie game, some people didn’t like the game, and her ex boyfriend says she slept with a guy who blogged about it? Why does anyone who’s not directly involved with the situation care?
Medical cannabis cards are not prescriptions, and cannabis remains illegal for medical use under federal law in the USA.
There have been attempts to interpret this as meaning that someone with a medical cannabis card may not legally own a firearm, but when the question has gone to court recently, judges have usually disagreed,
I imagine that would be a career-limiting decision for a military pilot.
If he instead acts “professionally”, which means putting up with her bullshit for the rest of the day, then he has a decent chance of getting quickly reassigned to a role where he doesn’t have to deal with her again.
Perhaps not, but that’s the charge the grand jury failed to indict on. Assuming it was unintentional, it involved two layers of criminal recklessness: allowing the gun to point at a person, and touching the trigger without intent to shoot.
I learned to shoot before I learned to ride a bike, and I think almost everyone who unintentionally discharges a firearm into another person should be criminally charged.
It’s a weapon designed to kill things. Treat it like one.
An average man drinking a whole bottle of wine in 3 hours is at about the 0.8% BAC limit for driving in the USA. Handling firearms is also a hazardous activity requiring good judgment, situational awareness, and coordination.
The best thing about Pixels for me is the no-fuss bootloader unlock, but an unlocked bootloader is already a prerequisite for running LineageOS.
With Magisk and Play Integrity Fix, mostly yes. As it comes. mostly no.
In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.
In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don’t share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.
This is a forum.
Forums and blogs could be classed as social media, but they predate widespread use of the term, and are fundamentally different from the corporate social platforms.
It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.
What is wrong with people.
Several studies have found that women prefer men their own age or slightly older, and men prefer women in their early 20s regardless of their own age. It’s not hard to explain that with evolutionary biology, as that’s when women are most likely to successfully bear children.
Of course evolutionary biology can explain behaviors like rape and dueling, which are serious crimes in modern societies.
Your “very young” might mean younger than early 20s though, and we do have a crime for that most places if the number gets low enough.
I would be surprised if the problem is localized to just one country.
The thing that bothers me is that in 2024, polling found a majority of Americans favored Trump on immigration and trusted him more than Harris to do a good job on the issue.
When I guessed what Trump was going to do about immigration, it looked a whole lot like what he’s actually doing. It wasn’t especially hard to guess because he said what he intended to do. While that’s not a guarantee with a habitual liar, he did have a record of attempting to keep campaign promises.
What the hell were people who trusted him on immigration in 2024 and don’t like what he’s doing in 2026 expecting?
I’ve used several iterations of Gnome, several iterations of KDE, Mate, Cinnamon, Hyprland, XFCE, LXDE, Fluxbox, and several other things I can’t be bothered to remember. I can be productive on any of them given some time to set them up.
I do have preferences though, and I like KDE on a laptop/desktop and Gnome on a tablet. I just wish Gnome would do something about its horrid onscreen keyboard.
As the Star Tribune noted, “[h]omicide is defined as a death that occurs at the hands of another person” — as opposed to death by natural causes or suicide, for example — “and does not necessarily mean the person died from a criminal act.”
I don’t think this was ever in question, even by the most rabid fascists who celebrated it.
Are you saying I should never talk about how things could work better? Fuck that.
This would be much better if it could be triggered by touching the fingerprint sensor with a specific finger. I’m disappointed that isn’t a feature yet.
If it’s obvious and slow, which it is, someone might be able to physically intervene to stop you.
I was surprised to learn that many young men were that sexist. If anything, I figured gamer men would be glad to have more women around because it would increase their chances of getting laid.