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Yeah gaming on linux has gotten loads better - but it's still definitely not quite there as a main gaming platform. Which is frustrating, because I vastly prefer linux as a desktop experience (and obviously for software development), but I just can't ditch my windows PC for gaming yet.

Hopefully someday soon

You basically get them through Steam - 2 hours is generally enough to figure out if a game is a total ripoff or not

Yeah even showing incredulity will keep the other person engaged, just be as boring a conversation partner as possible during the subject, try at every opportunity to change the subject, and eventually they'll either get the hint, or just start bugging someone whose more fun to talk about it with

Honestly this is a big problem with being able to criticize Isreal in good faith - it's all too easy to be taken as an antisemite.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure loads of antisemites are out there pretending to be concerned about Gaza while actually just using it as an excuse to hate jews - but the OP is describing very real issues - like the thing with Havard just last week where companies were rescinding job offers based on who supported Gaza and condemned Isreal

The sequel is literally "the exact same movie as the first one, but this time with water (and bonus animal cruelty)"

I actually enjoyed the first one, but the second movie added nothing of value and cheapened everything that happened in the first one (in that literally no one gives a shit about unobtanium anymore)

Edit: Curious as to what the downvoters are taking issue with about my comment. Nothing wrong with liking the movie, but you have to admit the plot was basically identical to the first one, just with new characters and a different setting

And incidentally, the rampant speculation around them has rendered them mostly worthless as a currency due to the high fluctuations in price

Read the article - that's really not the case anymore. My wife is a baker, and she makes Vegan deserts all the time, I can tell you first hand that when done well, Vegan deserts are every bit as delicious as "normal" ones

I'm not sure "evolution" is on the table for humanity any longer. For one thing, evolutionary pressures don't really exist for humanity, outside of the most undeveloped areas.

Not making it to "breeding age" (feels weird to say that in the context of humans) doesn't really have anything to do with fitness any longer, more just luck.

Add in the fact that we basically already have the ability to manipulate human genes - and I think it's far more likely that we'll just start tinkering with our genetic code deliberately, as opposed to what we think of as evolution

Yeah, we need to get over the fantasy that any facts that come out of these investigations will sway anyone about trump.

The fact is that anyone intelligent who supports him already knows he's a crook, and just doesn't care, because his policies benefit them (for now), and the rest will just swallow whatever blatant lie trump feeds them

Framing by the justice system happens all the time. Adult DNA doesn't get there by accident, but DNA results can get falsified on purpose.

I get that you really want to torture people while feeling morally justified, but consider the fact that torturing convicted criminals doesn't actually help anyone, including the victim, and that you will inevitably wind up torturing an innocent person. Period.

Like I said, lock 'em up where they can't hurt anyone - but torturing them doesn't do anything except make sadists happy, and I don't think that's what we should be optimizing for in a first world justice system.

That makes me think that for you it’s about something more than public safety.

Yeah, it's been clear from your very first comment that you feel this way lol - you're welcome to disagree with me, but I've already laid out my thoughts on the matter multiple times. Unless you have anything new to add, instead of just repeating the same fallacies about the data being "worthless", then I don't see any value in continuing to talk in circles

you should also err on the side of “not maiming those people” because the chances are some of them are innocent.

This was more or less my point, though frankly I don't know that I totally agree that a false negative is "far worse". Getting a false conviction as a child sexual offender is practically a death sentence in prison, and even if it's not, it's certainly enough to ruin that persons life forever. We're talking about an actual human here. I'm really not sure what it is about children that make people so perfectly OK with throwing away the lives of scores of adults just to keep one child from harm.

Mind you, I'm not advocating that we should let all offenders go free for the sake of keeping any innocents out of prison, but personally I'd rather let several guilty men go free for a crime than see one innocent person have their lives ruined purely due to the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and the incompetence of our justice system. Though I recognize that that's no doubt a controversial opinion. Especially as no one ever believes that they themselves will be falsely convicted of something.