I want to know who hired that fucking CEO and put him up to purposefully tank Unity.

This can't be anything less than a blatant attempt to destroy a company so who would have a vested interest in destroying Unity? It can't just be for money.

And that's exactly how they intended it. They've been planning a corporate takeover of the internet since 2010, and it has largely succeeded.

The fediverse might be all that's left of the original spirit of the internet.

Yeah, it's the second civil war starting. Expect to see more terrible garbage like this on your feeds as we reach 2024 and beyond.

Or they could just find the vandal with the security cameras they no doubt installed in every single hallway to protect themselves against their own customers should they have to go to court 🤷

Oh wait, I forgot, we're trapped in tyranny.

Ohh, the lockdowns showed me how all of you motherfuckers really are. It was VERY enlightening.

Don't tempt fate by challenging it.

The issue here is buying power is dramatically dropping which is a function of both wages and prices. Raising the minimum wage alone won't fix that; instead, price controls will have to be implemented such that all housing is bought back down to prices that are satisfactory to consumers. That can't happen without federal legislation.

It's supposed to be legal to tease and make fun of cops to their faces per the first amendment, right?

Making pizzas.

3 months, $200 of equipment and expensive ingredients and a day's work per pizza later and I can confirm it is 100% worth it.

It shouldn't. Developers have a moral responsibility to snub Unity now. A lesson must be learned here

That other people would do what is right and protect me from abuse, as a child and as an adult.

That the legal system will protect innocent people, punish the guilty and ensure justice is done.

That other people are higher-thinking and moral.

I am amazed that so many people lack so much self-respect that they're willing to allow themselves to be abused by websites like that

It's not the cause, it's the tactics. Throwing people in jail before they actually do anything is a classic hallmark of tyranny.

Sounds like a plan, Jesse

But it never should have even gotten that far. The people should have revolted and did the election over again.

And forget about having any sort of integrity or explaining to kids why it's important for them to know how to do shit themselves instead of being wholly dependent on corporate proprietary software whose accessibility can and will be manipulated to serve the ruling class on a whim 🤦

Because developers totally saw something like this coming. 🙄

Mollycoddling them is what caused the problem in the first place. They need to be forced to accept responsibility for the choices they made even if it hurts them. Them entrenching themselves out of embarrassment is a moral failing on their part, not ours.

How the fuck is it even possible for a political party to steal an election and we all just roll over and take it because the Supreme Court sided with them?

I thought the system was ours to use as we please, not them.

Media has been using nonviolence as a propaganda tool to quash rebellions and silence dissent in the U.S. for decades.

Think about it: almost every single story you ever see across all media that has the heroes using violence in a positive light, especially revenge content, will always portray that character's actions as a negative even when objectively they are not. They always look to the same playbook of cliched arguments, one-liners, and tropes to do this. They are all oversimplified caricatures of or misrepresentations of nonviolence, violence, and revenge, justice, forgiveness, etc. A lot are just outright lies or ad-homs.

It's even departmental policy in some companies to force writers to write their scripts in such a manner.

The only director I've ever seen rebel against it is Quentin Tarantino and I don't think he has been doing it deliberately.

No it wouldn't, you are helping their agenda by discouraging the left from taking up arms.

I'm sorry but invasions are a justifiable reason to impose a draft.

More activity in the hobby subs.

I wish people would actually use the writing and art ones in particular.

Nah, it's fair. The health care dilemma is why I actually asked in the first place.

I don't understand why it is people don't revolt over it. The government is literally killing people and society itself just expects you to die and no one actually thinks about or appreciates the gravity of the situation.

Not necessarily. A bunch of us could band together and fund a bunch of folks who are good at building shit and just commission them to design and build new tractors that are easily repairable -- preferably electric too -- and then sell them. And this effort could be incorporated as a non-profit, which itself legally can own businesses and those businesses could sell them at a profit, and kill off John Deere's shitty-ass company and any other shitbirds that want to take away consumers' rights to own their own products.

The ads make Youtube unwatchable so if necessary I'll figure out how to sideload Piped onto the house TV, or, failing that, just plug my laptop in and watch shit through Piped.

Welp, guess it's time to uninstall Unity

The system is so fucking broken. 🤦

Because they are part of a cult that has infiltrated government for decades to turn it into a christofascist state and they're at their endgame.

Lemmy is actually terrible software, but the people are mostly Reddit migrants so we're not all idiots thankfully

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Okay, so I have put a LOT of thought into this question, and after reading everyone else's opinions on the matter, I thought I'd share mine. You guys have a lot of good ideas, some of which I didn't think about before. I hope my ideas can inspire similar contemplation.

Okay, here goes:

IN THE NAME OF liberty, truth, justice, cupcakes, porn, and all that is good in this life, We The People of The Motherfucking Galactic Republic hereby establish and ordain this new Constitution, with blackjack and hookers.

Based on the millennia of suffering of ourselves and our ancestors, We The People hereby establish and remind the reader that ALL PEOPLE HAVE BASIC NATURAL RIGHTS that either the government or any organization of people cannot violate, or must enable and adhere to, respectively. We lay out this Constitution to provide a Framework from which the government, organizations and the people can sort out what and how that should be done, and what ways most benefit the people.

We also hereby establish in the name of harmony, justice, truth and goodness that along with RESPECTING AND ENABLING NATURAL RIGHTS, government, organizations and the people must also adhere to certain responsibilities to ensure the best and most positive outcome for the people and to protect the natural rights of everyone involved.

NATURAL RIGHTS

We the People hereby establish this list of Natural Rights we recognize from the start.

We first stress that this list is not exhaustive, and that Natural Rights are not limited to only the contents of the list. As the future plays out, the people will experience situations new to humanity and therefore the Natural Rights of which the people expect the government and organizations to enforce and protect will, by its nature, expand. New amendments to this list shall be done in accordance with the instructions of this here Constitution.

RIGHT #1: THE RIGHT TO HAVE ONE'S PHYSICAL NEEDS MET

The most basic of all Natural Rights is the right to have one's physical needs met by the government and organizations. These rights include, but not limited to:

• The right to steady and fair access to nutritious and delicious food, and clean, safe, drinkable water.

• The right to a safe, clean, pestilence-free, and sturdy domicile that will comfortably meet a person's need for shelter, food, water, electricity and homeostasis.

• The right to access to electricity, including but not limited to power generation for their shelter.

• The right to access and use all publicly available or published information that has ever been created up to this point and in the future.

• The right to access and use communications platforms, including but not limited to mail and any electronic communications systems developed before or since, especially Internet and interplanetary/interstellar communications systems.

• The right to clean, suitably fitting clothing that will meet the wearer's need for protection from the external world and homeostasis.

• The right to clean, safe, fast and efficient transportation, on all scopes as described later in this Constitution.

No organization and no government can receive or require payment for the fulfillment of any of these aspects of the right to have one's needs met.

RIGHT #2: THE RIGHT TO SAFETY

We The People assert that we live in an objective reality with a natural world filled not only with wonders, but with many dangers, and therefore the government and organizations are mandated to protect, enforce and safeguard the very real need the people have to maintain and protect themselves, each other, their communities, nation and species.

These rights include, but not limited to:

• The inalienable right to use lethal or non-lethal force in self-defense and defense of other people in life-threatening situations, whether those situations be immediate, or long-term such as domestic abuse, stalking or harassment.

• The right of all individuals to own weapons.

• The right to access and receive combat training, including in the use of weapons.

• The collective right to own ordnance for all communities.

• The collective right to form militias and militaries, and to give combat training access to all individuals in a community.

• The right to secure one's domicile against all forms of attack, whether foreign or domestic

Weapons are defined as:

• any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, drone or cannon, that can be held and operated by a single individual. Explosive devices equal to or less in power than a stick of TNT are also included.

Ordnance is defined as:

• any vehicle designed for military or combat use, including but not limited to tanks, ships, airplanes, or spaceships; large weapons that require more than one individual to operate; explosive devices more powerful than one stick of TNT; bioweapons; nuclear, relativistic (such as asteroids or missiles deliberately launched toward another) or antimatter weapons. Note that individuals are explicitly ALLOWED to have vehicles NOT designed for combat use as defined here. No government or organization can declare a clearly not combat-designed vehicle as one.

FOR THE safety, protection, provision, and betterment of the people of The Motherfucking Galactic Republic, the government is mandated to have and operate A SPACE PROGRAM, to be given no less than 10% of the federal government's gross earnings (whether they be taxes, direct revenue, however the hypothetical government makes money).

This space program must do, bare minimum:

• Fund the exploration and colonization of the Solar System

• Construct O'Neill cylinders of minimum size 5 miles in diameter and 20 miles long

• Begin and operate mass production of antimatter

• Fund and operate scientific and research projects, including but not limited to construction and maintenance of space telescopes, to study the universe

• Begin and operate mining and resource extraction of all minor planets, asteroids, and comets in the Solar System. All heavenly bodies in the Solar System collectively belong to the people of The Motherfucking Galactic Republic and their contents must be fairly and evenly distributed to the people in accordance with this here Constitution Of Justice And Cookies.

And that's as far as I've got. The Motherfucking Galactic Republic is obviously just a filler name; I don't know if any of these ideas would ever be implemented but they could be used for any new nation, so...

My guy, if his actions don't meet the threshold, no one's will.

Justice absolutely is gamified in this shit society.

How could Unity possibly fuck up any worse than they already have?

Why would anyone be surprised?

That Unity employee could have been put up to make those threats to smear the policy's detractors for all we know.

And this is why we 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

They're not actually in a lot of pain. Their struggles with poverty and drugs aren't fundamentally different than those of the left.

What they actually are is secretly hateful and bigoted, and those beliefs are deeply rooted cultural beliefs for them. Trump just made it socially acceptable for them to be openly hateful like they've wanted to be for so long, and gave them the promises of fulfilling their white nationalist dreams, so they jumped all over his dick.

It's not actually that complicated. I had the misfortune of growing up around their ilk, and have rolled with them for two years because of the lockdowns, so I know the score.

He's misusing the term. What he means is to sound superior, and although I appreciate his spirit -- the Europeans and Canadians speaking up are doing so outside of the context of and therefore against the spirit of the question -- I think it's fine, it's good to have non-Americans with whom to compare responses.

That is the point of the post. There is something very wrong with this country, isn't there?

I don't have insurance because it's too expensive and the thought crossed my mind this morning that something like that could actually happen to me, and if it did, I honestly have no idea what I would do. And then I realize that the society around me would get angry at me and morally condemn me if I did commit a crime to save my own life, and that's when I finally realized that American morality is a fucking sham. It's all designed to convince its subjects to accept being enslaved and murdered to keep the system going, and that's wrong. What good is morality if it only costs you and doesn't benefit you?

We're literally already in one. We've been in a cold civil war for about a decade now (arguably the past few decades), and the war's been growing hotter with every mass shooting and tragedy like this one.

This is how civil wars are fought in the modern age. It's not all fancy suits and muskets. It's large swaths of people with opposing views killing each other over it at every opportunity, like this one.

Why do you think school shootings happen? Or mass shootings in general? The vast majority of them are committed by members of right-wing hate groups and it's part of this civil war they've been waging against the left. The whole point is to eradicate the left or force them to submit to their will.

Only when people stop giving credence to the argument that you don't actually need to read or learn math or science to get a job and pay your bills.