This has nothing to do with the point I’m making. You are really going out of your way to drag racism and slavery into this argument. There must be a language barrier or something.

It’s not necessarily a waste of tax payer money for a country as small as Switzerland. Switzerland is about twice as large as New Jersey, the 4th smallest US state. It makes sense for them to provide high bandwidth to everyone since their banks and data centers are in the same physical area as their living districts.

In the final fantasy and Pokemon games I played when I was younger -and more recently Expedition 33-there wasn’t any movement. My team was standing static on the left and the enemy team was on the right. BG3 is the first turn based game I played where I can strategically move around a 3D environment.

I’m writing under the assumption that my statement is being read by people in Europe and the United States. If you think the lower class in these countries are the slaves in your metaphor, you should really look into how high their standard of living is relative to the global norm.

On the bright side, we have apartments full of advanced electronics and consumer products. Back then they had houses with thin walls, a library, and a record player. In order to have a bearable existence, I don’t need as much space as they did.

From their perspective, I’m living in some sort of sci-fi fantasy reality. A millionaire would have traded his mansion to have what I take for granted. They’d empty their bank accounts for an Xbox and an iPhone.

…I’m pretty sure alot of the victims became perpetrators by helping Epstein recruit new victims. If you look into their testimony, they conveniently don’t provide evidence about acts that occured after their 18th birthdays.

Since a diet high in sugar does kill human cells and cancer cells are human cells, soda does in fact kill cancer.

I’m not necessarily against this. Right now, social media companies can knowingly target children with sophisticated conditioning techniques that can and will steer their cognitive development. Although they know for a fact that they are manipulating children, they hide behind plausible deniability.

I don’t like age verification, but I don’t see an alternative. Between the robots and the advanced manipulation techniques, something has to give.

I don’t know, man. I’m a Democrat because I support policies like marijuana legalization and free healthcare. The conflict in Iran is pretty low on my agenda. I wouldn’t feel particularly betrayed if he was my elected official.

I never understood bipartisanship. My opinions and beliefs span the entire political spectrum. It feels like people think that anything supported by Republicans must be anti-Democrat.

I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time right now. I’m not particularly a fan of turn-based games, but I’m digging there interpretation of the genre. I like how each character has a limited amount of movement per turn and the ability to navigate through the entire environment. I’m surprised more developers don’t use a similar model.

…I don’t know about the rich people, but our poor people tend to want to stay. There has to be a reason for that, but I couldn’t tell you what it is.

I’m pretty sure their purpose is to stall the public until the Republicans can win an election. If a wealthy person just happened to be born in a Democrat state, then that is the ticket they run on. I’d love to find out how many of them have family and friends that are all conservative.

This is why this sort of useless regulation is genius. No one is going to sign a petition to protect step-porn. Since it would permanently exist in a public archive, our great, great, great grandchildren would think we were freaks. “We don’t know much about great uncle Johnathan, but he liked watching step-siblings fuck.”

Lead is much easier to purify than lithium.

If Lemmy is indicative of the left political spectrum, we can conclude that projection is common among humans in general.

…which is strange considering how many people risk their lives trying to get here. If America was as bad as it seems, you’d think there would be more illegal immigration in the opposite direction.

I find it reassuring that the government is at least acting like they can’t identify this user without Reddit’s consent. I wonder why this charade is necessary; are they trying to set a legal precedent?

Aside from the hole in my tooth, I’m fine. I’m speaking as someone who is currently making the transition from a negligent dentist. Since losing a tooth is a cosmetic issue, failing to identify a problem that can be clearly seen on an x-ray for over a year doesn’t meet the standard of harm necessary for consequences. The selective failure of recent filling might have happened regardless.

…at this point, I’d have been less upset if this dude groped me. I’d let Satan work on me if he was a competent dentist.

I think most Americans are apathetic about issues that don’t effect our lifestyles. We don’t necessarily like the actions of our country as a whole, but we limit our outrage to the internet and the ballot box.

Personally, I’d let my dentist grope me if he had a high enough success rate. I did some research a while ago, and a dentist whose work consistently fails will probably never lose his license. The patient won’t be able to successfully sue them and there probably won’t be an investigation. It’s a “buyer beware” scenario.