Resonosity

Replying to your original points:

Because you can buy a consol3, plig it into the back of your TV, and be confident that it will work.

The Steam Deck has a dock that you can plug it into and have it hooked up to your TV via HDMI just like a normal console. Plus, any Bluetooth controller syncs with the SD, which makes plug and play even easier.

You don't have to worry about system requirements, storefronts, launchers, driver updates fucking you up, etc.

No real issue here on the SD either. The main storefront is Steam. You wouldn't be inclined to purchase PlayStation games from an Xbox or Xbox games from a PlayStation. Pretty sure that's not even possible unless you do some bootlegging. Drivers aren't really an issue either.

Power Cable, HDMI cable, and connect to wifi - that's it.

Same as the Steam Deck - with a dock. Although it does have a USB-C port so you might be able to do this without a dock by using a USB-C to HDMI or DP cable. The dock is probably the best way to go though as this is also how the Switch is marketed to be played while not on the go.

I've been PC gaming since the mid-80s, and even I sometimes just want to sit on the couch, push the Xbox button on my controller, and get going. Is it lazy? Yes. But I work 2 jobs and get to be lazy when I get home.

Welcome to the Steam Deck where the only time you don't have to be lazy is buying the "console"/dock, buying your games, setting shit up, and gaming on. None of the your issues here really affect the SD. I just highly recommend you try it, especially after doing PC gaming for years. Opened me up to all of those games I can't find on the Xbox store, being an Xbox native myself, while not needed to pay for Xbox Live. Such a great choice looking back

Sadly we would have embraced fascism whether voters elected Trump or Harris/Biden, as we've seen with the sentiment towards Palestinians.

With the former, it's fascism. With the latter, it's fascism-lite.

Ultimately, we're going to reach a chilling point that will probably demand a WWIII. When that comes has probably now been accelerated due to Trump winning.

Sanders was our key to fighting fascism. Sadly Obama, Clinton, and Biden all kneecapped him in favor of billionaires and the status quo while claiming no responsibility for the seeds they sewed.

One rebuttal: Steam Deck.

TOPXI

I did

It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted

Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan

Yes

This is one of the reasons why the US federal government wants to ban TikTok, a highly unpopular among the US general public. TikTok isn't moderated in ways that suit US ideologies and propaganda, which means more leftist content leaks through to the masses.

Probably that orca that killed their trainer at SeaWorld in the US a few decades (?) ago

As moral agents that understand the impacts of letting species go extinct due to human activity ruining native habitats and transplanting invasive species, we need to weigh the odds of reducing their freedom for the sake of conserving the population. Think how the California Condor was revived after being declared extinct in the wild in the late 1980s.

What ends up happening with zoos however is that capitalism sinks it's claws in and influences these zoos to prefer profit over the well being of the animals, even going so far as to ignore scientist/veterinarian advice in favor of their trainers.

So long as it remains profitable to restrict the freedoms of animals (and humans), it will happen. At least until we do something about capitalism

This is why vegans think that people shouldn't get pets.