Ooh, I’m well-known. Shame it’s for something made-up. I’ve long been an absolute crank about ranked voting and breaking the two-party system.

I have not seen any alleged third party fall so consistently to one side, as libertarians backing republicans. You can glibly denounce ‘both sides,’ but so does one side, and it’s the side y’all routinely vote for. Pretending the outright fascists are only as bad as the ineffectual liberals is standard rhetoric for those fascists. I have no love for the democratic party, but they’re a thousand times better than the bastards currently snatching people off the street. Your beef with people who want cheaper healthcare needs to be fundamentally distinct from your beef with people openly drooling about rounding up sixty million Americans.

Observable reality is not a matter of opinion. On some subjects, you can speak your mind, and be wrong. Claiming any great bulk of self-professed libertarians are-too distinct from and unaligned with generic conservatives is observably wrong. You know who else claims that? Conservatives. The ones who aren’t fully in the cult act like there’s some silent mass of real conservatives, like however we pretend they were thirty years ago, and they’re gonna ride over the hill and put all this extremism behind us. But no. It’s just the extremism, and a facade.

The facade for this group is a lot of high-minded academic language to say, let rich people wield unchecked power. Pleasant-sounding excuses to eliminate societal guardrails against discrimination, poverty, hunger, and child laborers who can’t count to ten.

Actual pragmatic property-fetishism would still acknowledge the diminishing marginal utility of money and tax the hell out of rich people. A handful of guys being able to shape an entire country is antithetical to any visions of decentralized order. Everyone does better when that excess is spent on infrastructure.

Actual economy-uber-alles thinking would demand a high minimum wage, so people can buy things. If a business can’t afford to pay a comfortable living wage, they fail, oh well.

Actual individualist fixation would expect amazing schools for everyone, so no brilliant budding minds are doomed to obscurity. Do you want meritocracy, or do you want to measure how rich some kid’s parents were? Some beat the odds, but most don’t, because that’s what odds are.

A society arranged on your stated ideals would look nothing like what you advocate. What you advocate looks an awful lot like what republicans advocated, before they went mask-off. A gun in every fridge and private school and deregulated everything and tax cuts tax cuts tax cuts. These are just demands from hierarchy, to increase hierarchy.

Complex x86 software on ARM is easily the most exciting part of this announcement.

Inside-out was the right answer ever since SulonQ, nine years ago.

Libertarianism does not exist.

It’s a stalking horse for generic conservatism, where ingroup good and outgroup bad. Then you shuffle cards to form argument-shaped sentences following the word “because.” If they differ from yesterday’s sentences, eh, who cares.

‘Do a whole bunch of shit at once’ seems unreliable. But you can image-to-image from parts of a whole render, and get specific pieces to come out better, and then fit back into the big picture.

The two elements of useful generation seem to be filtering and editing. Say you’re doing a comic page. You want a particular expression in one panel? Yeah, you’ll have to try several times, maybe doodle over a near miss and refine. You want a particular layout? Well then do panels individually and lay them out; talking the model into a specific pattern is harder and worse.

Youtube’s YTMND era.

“The goal is not to remove anything from the market, but rather to receive appropriate compensation.”

Right, they’ll just license all songs ever.

Or they’ll give you a euro each time you hit F5 on “how does Hey Jude go.”

This is kinda stupid.

Do they get money when lyrics appear below links in a Google search? And if so - why?

High aspect ratio for loitering.

There’s a ‘but the bad things’ buried in the middle, desperately wanting a line break.

I did the same thing initially and tried re-reading it as sass. Especially if “TF2 neglect” was considered positive.

Maybe there isn’t one.

This is what I’m talking about: people think monopoly = bad, so if I say Valve has a monopoly, I must want them burned to the ground. Nah. They’re mostly fine. Having only one good option is precarious, but it is still a good option. For now.

But they’re still a monopoly. We should say so, because it’s true, and important. It shapes the entire PC gaming market.

The tactical I-beam is definitely a choice.

Elvis might make the cut.

Fuck off calling it a mistake, AP. They did it on purpose and they’re trying to do it again.

“Use the torrents, damn!”

Oregon and Vermont, yeah, that tracks.

Colorado and New Mexico: “In this weather? It’s your funeral.”

South Park has been political for a quarter century running. Libertarian dipshits don’t know what the word means. Nothing they do is politics, because they’re the default. Like how they don’t have an accent, or an ethnicity. Those are ways other people are being different at them.

None of that is what defines a monopoly.

There’s only one store that matters. They have unthreatened supermajority marketshare. Customers go there by default - sometimes exclusively. Developers can sell there, or they’re basically fucked.

What you’re concerned about are anti-competitive practices. But some businesses don’t need those, to lack any relevant competition. It can just happen. They didn’t do anything wrong. They’re still monopolies.

I’ve gotta be one of six people on Earth who learned about it from Clerks: The Animated series.

Your king!

Alan Wake 2 didn’t make its money back for a year despite being a huge game on the second-biggest service.

Steam doesn’t care about other stores because other stores do not matter. They can let other stores sell Steam keys, and it still doesn’t threaten their untouchable market share.