The thing about sycophants is that they don't tend to be very competent. I expect replacing people in crucial positions will be the start of the end for the US as a superpower.

It's Life by You for those that don't want to access the link.

Such a shame, I was excited for the game.

It is obvious that men, with they physically stronger bodies and larger frames, are better than women at chess. It would be unfair to them to compete with eachother, since the male brain is the bigger muscle. /s

In all seriousness, I see absolutely no point in gender divisions in chess of all things.

https://youtu.be/x2KH5AoyeBc?si=tn-LSdI-T2KW7ysu

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I doubt people who would use Meta's instance are the sort of interesting people I'm on Lemmy for.

Afaik it used to be the Saharan Jungle when the world was a few degrees warmer

Epicureanism teaches that you will never have enough money, enough fame, enough influence, so chasing after those will never make you happy. Instead, you should focus on fulfilling your needs and fixing problems in your life, getting enough to eat, enough sleep, surrounding yourself with friends and enjoying the small things in life. When you're unburdened by needs, you reach long-lasting happiness.

So to me, that means earning enough to fulfill your needs is enough, especially if you don't have to worry about losing your job any time soon

The summary for this video hurts my eyes to look at.

Genuinely ignorant, what wrong with Al-Jazeera? Sure, it's biased on some topics, but aren't all news sources?

Who would have thought that relying on fossil fuel from a country invading the middleman between you is a bad idea? I'm shocked!

You are not only working to mentain a functional society, you are also working to constantly grow it (each year more stuff must be made, more money must be earned, more of everything) it and also to create a very big surplus for the rich. We also burn perfectly edible food, ruin perfectly wearable clothing and make electronic devices that intentionally break in a few years to get you to buy another one sooner just to get the 1% more money. If we didn't do all that and they lived normal, non-luxury lives, everyone would have a lot more free time. If everyone worked only 20 hours a week, we'd make enough to sustain our society.

It's so interesting to me how money can have such a different value for different people. I live in the EU yet I make less than 1000€ a month even though prices are at EU levels. This would more than double my income and it would mean I could finally afford new clothes, I wouldn't have to worry about having money for food, bills would be paid on time and I could even save up a meaningful ammount! It would be a literal life-saver.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Don't make it triple A, make it indie or at least from a smaller studio. It will be more of the same slop with nothing innovative if it's AAA :(

Add migraine aura to that list. It sucks.

We'll keep saying that can't happen here right up until it happens

I think many people say stuff like that, and indeed they would for a few months, but after a while people would look for stuff to do, and they tend to turn towards volunteering. That fulfills both daily structure and socialization. Do you think that's something you would eventually do in that case as well?

As other people have said, it doesn't really matter as long as it helps solve climate change. Boo hoo, western corporations didn't get to overcharge for stuff, big deal.

It's 100% happening outside as well though invasive ad placements, restriction of access to pleasant environments and underfunding of public services and property, like parks and such. It just takes much longer

Electronics in Eastern Europe are generally more expensive than Western Europe or the USA since the supply chains are longer. You can find stuff in Germany at 60-80% of what it costs in my country, but your price is outrageous and most likely some sort of scam

"I piss in your mother's death"

Alternatively, "May Stalin fuck you"

And yes, I live in Eastern Europe.

Same. Just have to hold out until the EU makes all messaging apps cross+operable and then I'll be able to talk to everyone again.

Everything that needs to be done for society to maintain itself can be done if everyone works 20 hrs a week. The rest is just to allow some other people luxury lifestyles.

I teach middle school

Same, and it's honestly a little refreshing

In Eastern Europe even the most illiterate citizen of a town/city knows the neighborhoods and where they are in relation to one another, if that's what you're asking.

Join the dark side! We have penguins!

I would legit use it. For-profit dating sites suck

While an amazing option for city commutes, mine is close to 100km daily. I have no idea if it's possible to use an e-bike for that, but it would certainly take up even more of my limited free time to do so.

Good luck turning off the corporate AI's scraping your data from whatever websites you use to profit off of it!

Acne scars.

I've yet to find someone else who finds them attractive. Not as weird as some others around here I think, but I find them really hot for some reason.

Would it be feasible to fork the internet if this comes to pass?

It's not free even with an adblocker allowed. Google still takes my data.

Oh, that's safe. Try being into a more obscure ttrpgs like Mage The Ascension or worse, niche Powered by the Apocalypse games like Legacy.

I can't even talk about them to people already into ttrpgs.

Don't give up! You're close to finishing the tutorial!

Literally the only point of advertising is to manipulate people into buying stuff. I don't need your product, I don't want your product, and I hate it when you shove it in my face exclusively for your own profit.

If I decide I want something, I go looking for it.

Same. I feel like this will just push me offline. I refuse to relinquish control over my system.

Some sites and services won't accept accounts with e-mails outside of the mainstream ones though.

Also it's no proof that any piracy took place. It would be a different thing altogether if they already had evidence and you confessed to it, but as is, not everything said on the internet is true. Here, my "confession"

I broke into Area 51 on September 5th 1997 at 07:43 AM and I took photos of a top secret spy satellite program meant to track UFOs.

The fact I said that in a comment on Lemmy doesn't make it true.

The Average Joe rarely has enough capital to start a promising enterprise and when they do manage to, they get bought up by the very same corporations they were trying to compete against.

We've reached a point where corpos can just buy out the competition and do whatever they please to it.

And it's not even a greed issue, really. The system is kill or be killed, a corporation that doesn't do this sort of shady thing won't make as much money and will be bought out by others that do.

We have to change the rules of the game.

Fută-te-ar Stalin

Pronounced: Foot-uh-tea-are Stalin

Congrats! You can swear in Romanian now!