Mnemnosyne

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[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I might have been on epic's side if they had delivered a storefront/launcher at least as good as Steam, then found they still weren't able to compete and only then decided to try the exclusivity crap.

They did not. They have a launcher/store that is far worse than Steam or even GOG (which is an accomplishment; GOG's isn't all that good and yet they manage to be worse by a large margin), and they didn't even attempt to provide a better product/service. Instead they just started throwing money in order to secure exclusivity.

It shows all they want is to muscle into the market, not provide anything better for people.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We just need a general rule: no company may offer more in compensation to any person than one hundred times the value the company paid in compensation to its lowest paid worker.

Add in words and details to make sure there aren't any loopholes, of course, and the problem will be largely solved across the board.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 19 points 1 month ago

The time to do this would've been immediately after it was discovered that Trump took classified documents and had them in his home during visits from foreign agents.

The Republicans would've howled about it, but I think it could have been done, at that moment. Like, have the first news about it not be talking about the documents, but simply that former President Trump has been detained and will not be allowed to communicate with anyone but his legal representation, because of suspicion of potential coded communication to enemy agents.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 1 points 1 month ago

It'd be hilarious if one of the people negotiating one of those military contracts went "well, apparently your company can't even handle scaling up a video game made by your own company, so we no longer have the confidence to rely on your product. We might offer a chance at the contract again in ten years, if no other incidents shake our confidence again."

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any email you can use that doesn't have this issue?

Really, the problem is with all the places you make accounts. Now that I think about it, all of them should allow you to add a second email address to use, just in case you lose access to the first.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, if he hasn't spoken to her in ten years and has gone to such lengths to avoid listening to her, why didn't he get a divorce himself?

Seems to me there is something deeply wrong with a man who won't just face and confront the problem head on.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 6 points 1 month ago

Nice attempt at using the curse, but I see another possibility:

She dies that night anyway. Comes back undead. Is killed at the appropriate time for the necklace curse. Curse fulfilled.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 21 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Ummm....yes! Of course I would make that compromise! If I have a choice between they both die or one dies, of course I'm taking the choice where one lives!

What wouldn't I be willing to compromise on? Nothing. If I have a choice between bad and worse, I'm taking bad, what kind of lunatic would intentionally choose worse?

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne -1 points 1 month ago

I really hope the media loses these hard, honestly. At this point I don't even mind if Trump benefits some, I just want to see the media that sanewashed Trump and pretended there was anything reasonable about him returning as a presidential candidate get what they deserve.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At the end of Obama's term wouldn't have made any difference because by then McConnell was committed to holding the seat open for the next Republican.

But people called for her to resign back during the middle of Obama's presidency, when the Democrats controlled the Senate, and her hubristic old ass decided to fuck everyone else by hanging onto power and prestige and trying to be even more historically important.

Woman had a bigger ego than Trump and Musk, and I really hope that historical opinion of her fucking remembers that.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Upside is the cult of personality is attached to Trump, and no one else has been able to pull it off him. Trump is only effective because somehow, for some insane reason, he, personally, has a lot of devoted followers.

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