EA gets a pass because they didn’t try to sue my community. This was pre OWI, they weren’t even a “studio”, just a bunch of modders trying to force their will on a community over assets they didn’t hold IP rights to. They didn’t have a leg to stand on, but nonethelss they tried and it cost people effort and money to verify this. I’m sure you can understand not wanting to support gamers suing other gamers.

It would have been 3 years ago or so at least for the game.

And my reasons are valid enough. The PR team threatened lawsuits against multiple modding communities back in the day. I have no reason to support people like that.

I played Squad briefly. It’s one of the few games I ever asked Steam for a refund. Slow, clunky, physics were almost non-existent, poor sound…it was like playing a half-finished BF3 mod. Plus I gave a personal bone to pick with the creators, IIRC they’re the Project Reality modders ftom BF. No desire to support them.

That‘d be great if it‘s got good gameplay. I‘d like to move away from EA‘s Battlefield. I‘ve tried a few other games but they don‘t quite cut it.

Well, that and the very typical reddit crowd that upvotes stuff like that.

The problems causing drug abuse reflects on the speaker’s treatment of people and the people close to them, it makes them responsible for the fallout of their actions or lack of action.

Blaming the user absolves themselves of any responsibility.

You can apply that to pretty much any social ills, like poverty, homelessness, etc.

IOW, the person blaming the user: may have abused the user in some way as a kid, voted to end substance abuse education in schools, voted to end afterschool programs that might’ve kept kids away from abusive situations or drugs in the house, voted to limit or end food programs that would have allowed people to not become completely destitute and take to drugs for escape, and so on.

You can try

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Yes. I have regularly been using DDG, but would wind up using google sometimes anyway. Now I’m actively forced to use other engines because google is now a monetized results server and will return zero or no relevant results in favor or sponsored or monetized results.

Yes, however the ship itself will need maintenance and operators, and can be flagged in whatever country of convenience that offers the best ability to pay the least. No property taxes, far fewer environmental rules, free water, etc.

And less tax and worker protection laws in international waters.

Thank god the tornado destroyed my neighbor’s house and not mine.

Thank god those kids in poor countries are starving and not me.

Thank god for killing kids with cancer.

They never attribute to god the things that a god could prevent, or in fact deliberately willed to happen, but they’re sure happy to strip someone of their accomplishments and effort by attributing them to god’s will.

Of course the military is using it as a spy plane to shoot at “drug boats”.

JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time.

Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

Instant read digital thermometer.

Game changing.

No more over-cooked meats and ending up with tough chicken and rubbery fish. No guesswork if something has reached safe internal temperature. A must have in the kitchen.

Slick for ebay parts. The 3d printed extras are sharp.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks. I’ll check it out.

Server to run myself.

Someone did a brief writeup on Swartz and Reddit on reddit. Pretty sure it’s been deleted, I saved it and it’s gone. It went against the hivemind take on Swartz as some sort of noble freedom fighter and offered evidence that he was naive, out of touch, didn’t have as much to do with Reddit as everyone thinks, and he was obviously troubled.

I have to take anything painting him as some kind of hero with a grain of salt.

IMO /all was overrated in the first place. It was overwhelmed with memes, more niche meme content, and whatever the shallow hivemind decided to upvote like fake TIFU or relationship_advice posts.

Best way to find good r/ back in the day was via mentions in subs you already followed.