The list of people killed in mass shootings this year, alone, has too many characters to fit into a Lemmy comment. Even if you just used first names.

Generally, I agree with this. But not with opioids. They are far more dangerous than most other types of drugs, for a litany of reasons. Even under a doctor’s supervision, there is basically no “responsible” use of these drugs. Most people who become addicted to opiates do so after receiving them from a doctor in the first place.

If even doctors can’t administer these drugs safely, then neither can Joe Schmoe trying to score a hit of fent.

I’m a recreational drug user. Admittedly an addict to some of them. So are many of my friends and family. I’ll dabble in some coke or molly or LSD, but opiates are far, far past the line for me, and should be for any sane user.

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Always have been.

@asunaspersonalasst Are you using a shared connection with any other users, or perhaps a VPN? I’d wager that they found an IP match with another account that was upvoting/downvoting content, as that usually throws up red flags in most moderator tools (though I don’t know what kind of tools LW has in this regard).

Have you played it? Aside from the horrible buggy condition it launched in (most of which is fixed now), it’s still an absolutely fantastic game. The story, the music, the character development, are all spectacular, IMO. Honestly, it’s in the top 5 for me.

Google is really bad at marketing despite being an advertising company.

They’re an ad server, not an ad producer. They don’t make ads of their own, they distribute other’s ads.

Small distinction, but helps to explain why Google is terrible at marketing their products.

I pulled them all from Google Takeout. Most of them are unusable unless I figure out how to convert them to a state that can be read by other platforms, but at least I still have them, for such a day.

Nope, you could still same them via Google Takeout.

Because the TOS stated, from the platform’s launch, that they’d refund all your purchases in the event of a service shutdown. Which they did.

Stadia ended up being a savings account for my PS5, which I bought with my Stadia refunds.

The worst thing about Stadia was the squandered opportunities. Had Google actually put some effort into marketing it, it could have really succeeded. The tech behind it worked amazingly well. I played Destiny 2 on it from launch to the service’s shutdown, and it was a fantastic experience. The latency was nowhere near as bad as people (who often never even tried the platform) would claim, and it was also the best place to play Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, as it was somehow the most stable version of the game. Streaming to YouTube worked very well, and some of the integrated features with YouTube (where viewers could interact with certain games) were also kinda groundbreaking.

But somehow, Google couldn’t be bothered to advertise the product at all. They ran 1 Super Bowl commercial which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to the average viewer, and then basically zero marketing after that. They refused to inform the public about what the product is or how it worked or what stood it apart from its competition, which led to bad-faith reviews and rumors being spread about the platform, ultimately leading to most people who knew about Stadia being wildly misinformed on it.

It’s such a shame. I absolutely loved Stadia. It fit my needs perfectly. None of the other streaming platforms I’ve tried have even come close, even today.

I mean, it probably would have been better than this. Not every game needs to release on all platforms. NeverRealm made a stupid decision trying to release on Switch at the same time as other consoles, especially when the Switch already has a foot in the grave as it is.

If they’d have waited for the new hardware, sure some fans might’ve been a little upset, but it’s not like there’s a whole lot of crossover between MK fans and players who only own a Switch in the first place. Half of the MK games never got released on a Nintendo platform at all, and several that did didn’t release simultaneously with other platforms, and were also heavily modified ports.

They could’ve waited a year or two, and not left such a bad taste in players’ mouths. I’m sure most people would’ve rather waited.

Elon deliberately acted against a US ally and his actions directly led to the deaths of innocent civilians. He ought to have his citizenship revoked and be tried for treason.

Thank you for your service. o7

She definitely nailed something in that theater.

I feel sorry for them the discord they feel in their identity, but beyond that I really don’t give a shit

I feel sorry for the trans people in your life. They deserve better.

Oh lawdy, we’ve got an enlightened centrist on our hands, don’t we?

Not how it works. Clearly you’ve never actually met a trans person and actually had a conversation with them and tried to understand their life, have you?

You know gender and sex aren’t the same thing, right?

Who am I kidding, of course you know. You just don’t care about the difference, because reality is meaningless to you.

they are chosen by “I identify as…”

So you acknowledge that there are deterministic sets of conditions after all. Great, we’re making progress!

Also:

based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system

It’s not random choice or personal whim. There is a reason and a system. Again, just because you lack the understanding does not mean the rest of the world is as riddled with brain worms as you are.

Here’s the thing: They are chosen by a deterministic set of conditions. Just because you don’t understand what those conditions are does not make the terms arbitrary.

Also, that’s not what “arbitrary” means, either. For somebody who seems to be so uptight about the definitions of words, you sure do invent a lot of your own definitions.