If they could take an Xbox One/Series SX controller and add in this order:

• Gyroscope

• Two extra face buttons (for fighting games)

• a rotary dial

• a trackball (both primarily for retro games that use them)

• a touchpad (or even better a touch screen)

• HD Rumble

without making the controller uncomfortable, that would be ideal to me.

Social Studies is civics and history. If you think they should be separate classes, fair enough.

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Back when they were significantly cheaper than competing products, it was “you get what you pay for.”

Now…just go to Wendy’s.

I honestly feel like Lemmy got considerably less vitriolic toward Americans after the election.

I used to think Lemmy was too insignificant for Russian influents, but I’m not sure anymore.

It really does feel like online communities get more relentlessly xenophobic when they have more Europeans. It just seems like a lot of you can’t get by without mentioning where someone’s from. Like, no, someone not seeing the value in retro computing doesn’t say anything about “the intelligence of the average Scot.” And if you can’t tell where they’re from, American by default.

ITT: As per usual, Lemmy thinks living in conditions and condoning them are the same thing

Good. Living in a super power seems to suck period, because super powers care about ideology and power, not people. Do we need “hyper?”

If we could internalize the notion that real patriotism is the drive to create a better tomorrow for the people instead of blind conservative hatred of the unfamiliar we could do so much good.

People are comfortable with using “femcel” more loosely and jokingly than “incel” because women aren’t the Violence Gender™

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Favorite: Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg

Worst: Dominic the Donkey

Leftists often argue for unilateral disarming the minute after they win the revolution because their glorious revolutionary party couldn’t possibly betray the working class in any way.

CSAM is the reason I wouldn’t consider self hosting tbh. I fear it could result in me having hundreds of GBs worth of the stuff without me even noticing.

Nothing like this should ever rely on an external server.

I mean, that’s why BBC, NPR, NHK, etc. exist. And the result is that in a lot of ways it is more reliable than for profit news, but at the same time they’ll never really bite the hand that feeds (aka government, more specifically the Dems in NPR’s case.)

I audibly laughed.

Blackjack and hookers.

I’m young enough to tell you that it’s not just nostalgia. Most new tech now is like “cool but impractical” at best and “I’m worrying about how this will be used to make the world worse” at worst. Nothing to make me think it’s the future.

So many of the people who are most invested in federation are a contradiction in terms; centralized social media is evil and it’s fucked up that it’s the norm, but also anyone who isn’t a cynical, crotchety Gen Xer with a tech degree doesn’t belong on federated social media.