Who’s more poor than the moon, though? It not just doesn’t have any money, it’s not even ALLOWED to own money!

Why doesn’t @YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world just MARRY screenshots if they like them so much?

That would be…

Yes, just like the legal term for a predatory debt spiral disguised as a short term loan used to be “payday loan” (now called something else to avoid regulation imposed on the previous euphemism).

The more innocent-sounding but deceptive term that a predatory industry prefers doesn’t become correct just because they successfully bribe politicians to make it become/remain the official one.

Fair enough heh. You have yourself a nice day 🙂

Yes, it was. Now leave me alone before you start your nonsense on me again.

Not really, no. Read my subsequent response to their poorly thought out reply for more information.

It’s going to affect immunocompromised people every day of the year regardless, whether it’s supposed to or not.

Infectious disease doesn’t take a break because the cops “need” to identify “troublemakers” with their Orwellian spying on blameless people.

Besides, making it unsafe for everyone who ever participates in a protest to be around anyone who’s immunocompromised is a whole new level of oppression!

At least that one seems to be targeted at protests

You’re celebrating that, rather than accidentally targeting immunocompromised people, it deliberately targets people exercising their constitutional right to dissent?

Btw, like with abortion, any exemptions a GOP ban has will just be a fig leaf for the complicit media that’s not going to be in effect in the vast majority of cases.

Great job, dude!

I’m not gonna hold you to the impossibly high standards of the original vocals of the great Elton John, but that being said, great cover! Gave me literal goosebumps! ❤️

Gambling, not gaming. Games are things you play for enjoyment, not things that you pour money into with the (almost always disappointed) hope that more money will come back to you.

Examples of games:

• Fallout New Vegas
• Settlers of Catan
• Twister
• Truth or Dare

NOT games:

• Roulette

• Blackjack

• Slot machines (whether physical or virtual)

• Predatory capitalism

Hybrids and edge cases:

• Any game with loot boxes and similar bullshit

• Poker, though it’s more akin to sports gambling than enjoyment with gambling.

• online dating

For a certain definition of “fine”.

You’re right though: even though he’s already sweating bullets from whatever he’s on, he’s clearly nowhere near as unconformable as when he’s reminded that the pitchforks are coming…

you’re supposed to make an argument, and try to change things that way

He says, fully aware that all the arguments have been made for decades if not centuries only to be met with “no. We don’t wanna and you can’t make us” from those who hold the reins of “legitimate” power.

Like every other despot before him, he wants his victims to keep flailing ineffectually so that nothing changes.

Oh yeah! I remember that too, now that you mentioned it! That frog was hella polite-looking! As is his capy successor 😁

The irony of misgendering a nonbinary person while asking whether it’s true that they’re considered harmful by non-cis people.

Seems that they only counted slaves from the South. I bet that including New England slave owners would take it from “many” to “most”, if not even “almost all”.

While not on an industrial scale like in the South, there was still a lot of slavery in the original colonies and their successor states, which played a big part in enabling generational wealth for any family rich enough to buy a slave at the time.

that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

And don’t roflcopter unless you have a permit. And a time machine.

we have no intelligence or observations (…) we don’t know. We have not been able to locate or identify

They have no clue by their own admission.

To claim that what amounts to a literal UFO might belong to a hostile actor just because you don’t know that it doesn’t is irresponsible at best, scaremongering jingoism at worst.

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