After seeing a bunch of tankie memes on Lemmy, I’ve become a bit more aware of the popularity of low quality “picture of text” memes that confirm you are correct and others are wrong. It’s fine to have beliefs but saying you have them because you paid attention in school is silly.

Metal Gear Solid 3, Subnautica, Papers Please.

I love the Metal Gear series but the Cold War setting of 3 works so well with the theme of the game. It also features crab battles and the ladder boss.

Subnautica really captures the feeling of being lost in some alien world and slowly making it your new home. The electronic voice assistant manages to send chills up your spine with lines like “oxygen.”

Papers, Please explores complex moral decisions in such a simple way. I wish to live my life more like Jorji.

Reminder that being gay, a woman with opinions, or a slave who wanted freedom, all used to be mental illnesses as well. What is and isn’t a mental illness largely depends on social norms.

Also wasn’t the kia stuff really easy to do and needed like no special tools?

KIA/Hyundai removed immobilizers from their US models because US regulations didn’t require them so they didn’t do it to save money.

Immobilizers check that the ignition was turned by the car’s key. Without it, anything that turned the ignition would start the car. The ignition also isn’t a keyhole. It’s just a rectangular hole. So any object that fit in that hole could start a KIA/Hyundai

Outlaw Country is a musical style and doesn’t actually relate to anything political. It’s a funny pun but not really an example of doublethink. Conservatives who like Rage Against the Machine however…

It could be a few different things. Apparently if a shell process generates an error or warning it can trigger a window to open, display the message, and immediately close. Things like a program using a script to run itself startup and then not deleting that script after being uninstalled can cause it to happen.

What about goats in circular pens? A goat is tied to the fence of a circular pen. How long does the rope need to be so that the goat can reach exactly half of the pen’s area? What sounds like a high school math problem was eventually solved in 2020 via complex analysis.

Here’s the answer:

As a union member, yes.

Unless you’re talking about the exit code of a computer program. Then coming up zero is a good thing.

Lakan? Is that you?

I’m guessing his kids’ favourite teams?

They’re a marching band, I presume?

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Literally unplayable

The rest of the post is a simile and doesn’t matter. It’s like ignoring this sentence you’re reading right now since it doesn’t actually matter and could be removed without changing my point.

As a labourer, I’m not sure I get the point of this post. Is the point that my job is bad? I lift things with a forklift, not my back. I also get paid more than the national average thanks to my union. Sex work can be normalized without putting down labourers.

Musk paid $44 billion in cash for Twitter. Billionaires only have wealth on paper until they want to buy a company, then magically they have the cash.

The leader of the official opposition has no power? During a minority government?

He controls the shadow cabinet, leads discussion during question period, has the right to meet with foreign dignitaries, gets to participate in government committees (and chairs several committees themselves), gets funding for staff and office space.

An independent gets 1 vote and a few minutes to speak during question period.

I clicked your source link and it just sends me to bluesky??

What this means is that the White House still overestimates how much the military is in their pocket

When their enemy is civilians, they only need a few willing soldiers. China ordered several army units to use deadly force against protesters in Tiananmen Square. Several generals denied the order. Whole squads threw their wepons into the river and deserted. The Square was still covered in the blood of thousands. A few loyal soliders in tanks is all that’s needed. The generals and soldiers who denied the order were court maritaled.

I’m not sure why leaders of political parties should be given a free pass. If you can’t win an election because so many people dislike you, maybe you shouldn’t be the leader?

I also doubt in this case that the hyper conservative riding suddenly has a change of heart and votes Liberal or NDP. The only real threats are the independent local candidates. Even then, I doubt they’ll win. Poilievre explained in the debate that an independent doesn’t have much power to do anything, so if they want actual change they should vote for him. Unfortunately, that is pretty accurate.