Unfortunately shifting blame to reporting is not correct. In a democracy the people have a duty to inform themselves, unfortunately people choose to rather inform themselves with, how you put it “feeds”. They think because they are hearing the same thing over and over, due to being in an echo chamber, they are informed, nope you just reinforced your biases. But the people have sold their duty to these influencers to do their informing for them in an easily digestible manner that makes them feel safe and reinforced their beliefs.

And also know this is off topic, I am a big believer in libertarianism, in a classical sense, not the US way. And I am curious to see how Milei does, and I also open myself up that I could be wrong with his libertarian ways, I believe the proof is unfortunately in the pudding at the end of the day, did it achieve success or not. Disappointed in the scandals so far but I hope Argentina one day achieves the success it truly deserves, maybe this way or maybe another economic model.

But I find Argentina interesting as a case study for my beliefs, like I said will change if I see Argentina fails.

I think aid from the US was the last thing on their mind. Never have I ever voted for a party because what US, EU, China or any other foreign power threatened.

These midterm elections are usually an indication of how the general population feels the current administration is doing, think of the blue wave during Trump’s first midterm.

Is there any indication that wide spread voter suppression or fraud was happening, not just anecdotal but like verifiable like what happened in Venezuela last year. If not I would say whether you like it or not, that is the crux of democracy, the masses have decided

In South Africa, it is illegal to open carry, unless you are a police officer or security guard. So citizens are required to conceal carry. Yet in the rural areas where I am from, most of the firearm carrying people prefer to open carry, they feel it is a deterrent and easier to reach.

It’s really weird how everyone in America, what I assume we are referring to, wants to conceal carry because the government does not want you to, and here in SA we want to do the opposite because of what the government wants.

PS this is my opinion from personal experience, maybe a lot more are carrying but I do not see them.

Clearly a joke to upset certain people

A nice hearty soup. Can basically travel the world because it can feed you and hydrate you when you cannot find water or sustenance. And I think it is healthy enough to not kill you if you survived on it for the last 3 months, might be wrong.

But most importantly it will not take away your pleasure of better food, such as pizza, which after three months only eating pizza, you will be tired of it for the rest of you life

Vices are a natural part of being human. But vices can easily become difficult to manage in a healthy manner. But it sounds like you are lonely and your religion and the service from adult workers is trying to fill the void. I get it, life is hard and tough and very lonely.

Why not try to take it easy on yourself. We are all fallible, but we should strive to better ourselves, look it seems that is exactly what you are trying and wanting. This might seem stupid but I started jogging last year. I fucking sucked, but someone told me try moving half an hour a day 2-3 times a week and in a year you would have succeeded in something to further build upon. So I jogged a block and basically died, but almost a year later it changed my life, I joined a jogging group at work, made new friends and running partners, and comradeship. I am not a jogger, still doing a 5km at 57 minutes yesterday, a parkrun with friends. But my point is not to start jogging, but maybe find a hobby or activity that allows you to interact with people, no matter how stupid, and if it is something to be active then there may be a double benefit.

This will not solve your issues or vices, but I learned little by little it becomes a lot, and maybe working on yourself physically or socially, even if you are a fish out of water, will yield results in different ways. It sounds like you are working on yourself spiritually, I hope since you started you have seen a difference. But changing yourself will require work, that is what makes it so satisfactory because you worked for this change, but there isn’t a quick fix or and shortcut, but the answer is easy, small efforts everyday, results in big hard worked changes after a while.

Good luck on your journey, I hope you are able to deal with your vices and issues in a healthy but productive way.

Imagine the guy that had to go down the slide in front of their glorious leader, like think even in front of your own president you had to take a waterslide, have them take a picture to share to the world

Look I know I am kicking a hornet’s nest here. First of all I am a Linux supporter, I have used the green Ubuntu since 2012, and I have been gaming on it since 2022.

But I am really curious about how the new ally 2 with the Xbox tweaked version of win 11 is going to turn out. Not that I would use it, if I get a handheld it will probably run Bazzite. But since Bazzite is basically a purpose built Linux OS for handhelds, I think the best comparison would be the Xbox team’s purpose built Windows 11 for handhelds.

I still believe Microsoft will take the loss even with the tweaked version, but just like how we will cry if they put for example Hannah Montana Linux and Microsoft beats it somehow in certain examples with their new Xbox win 11 mobile.

Can we start a thread with like blocking words, but yes blocking makes Lemmy the best

Yeah the Melania strategy doesn’t always work, probably gonna beat Carter’s record

Fuck now I gotta run from the law as well

Us joggers using min/km

I cannot speak for this area of science, but in my field China’s research papers, for example rock mass failure response to complex stress states, are like a god send, really quality work. This is my opinion in my field but if I had to extrapolate… Remember the Soviets with all their propaganda had amazing scientists

What do you mean? What distro are you using? And what card are you using?

Wait isn’t it that they changed from three unlocks a year to only one device per Mi account a year. As far as I know you can still unlock one single device a year

Won’t the death of honey bees be a good thing in the US, apart from no more honey. Aren’t they invasive and really outcompeted native bee species

You cannot just say this is a ROCK! What type of rock, is it igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock, then what rock is it, is it granite or norite. And what is the damn mineralogy, are there any feldspars or over identifiers

Any gun you buy the most important thing is AMMO. This allows you to train which will be more important than any mod. I would say get quality but relatively cost effective ammo to get started on, 200 rounds is plenty for a first training day. Focus on your grip, there are plenty of different styles, you trigger pull, probably the hardest initially getting effective consistent technique, and sight picture. This will take time to master but this is your foundation. Once you get consistent try one day with different types of ammunition. Don’t buy the best and most expensive, unless you are able to consistently afford that ammo every time you go practice, since you should preferably train on the ammo you wish to carry, doesn’t help you train on cheap 124gr fmj ammo, yet carry a +p+ 148gr hp ammo and expect yourself to be consistent in an emergency. So lots of ammo to train and get consistent.

If you are looking at mods, just know you are changing the weapon, so reliability might/will be affected. But I like my mods but I only decided on them after a while. The initial mods I got when I first bought my first firearm lie uninstalled now in my safe since I realised how detrimental they initially were. But I do now have mods. So if I can give my mods I installed and currently carry on my 43x is the following: Flat Apex trigger, just love how much better I can feel my breaks. Ghost connector, like I said love how I can feel my breaks. I did a polish job on my internals, be careful not to have heat from polishing because they may warp or mess with your metal temper.

What I still wish to do is put better sights or a red dot, but for now I feel I am still very effective with the standard Glock sights, even if there are better sights available.

My biggest advice is actually, get ammo and a great holster. After that maybe a sights/red dot. After that you can go as much as you are willing to go. Flashlights increase usage during low light situations, the list is almost endless. You need to ask what you want to use the firearm for and get it ready for that.

I like to use the motorcycle example. Most people buy an 1000cc+ adventure bike with all the bells and whistles, side and top boxes, metal frame protectors, aftermarket performance shocks, led lights galore, GPS tracker, heated seats and grips… Yet they do not have the riding experience. Also they are 99% of the time going to drive to work 20-30kms away from home on a beautiful road during daylight.

They would have been better buying simple 400cc motorcycle for travelling on road, get used to the motorcycle and then decide what they use 95% of the time. Yes all the previous add-ons would come handy in that 1 time it may come up, but are you always using it? After a while they trade in the small motorcycle, upgrade to a 800cc commuter with only a top box to store their helmet and heated grips for their hands during winter.

Same with a gun. Sorry for the ramble and remember a gun is a huge responsibility, and the 4 rules of gun safety.

It is called equity equivalents, this is where you don’t give away equity but basically still pay as if you are, hence I admit royalties are maybe not the right word but for my it is similar. Unlike other international tech companies like Google or Microsoft in our country that pays equity equivalents, the telecommunications requirements are equity or slice of your business.

I admit it is not royalties, it’s called something else not sure what, word that came to my mind. But basically an equivalent of paying similar money but without giving away equity or ownership.