“Immigration” has never been under threat from any party. Donors on both sides need immigration to continue. The difference is one party generally likes to keep immigrants in exceptionally precarious conditions to coerce them to accept low wages. The other party makes token changes that appear raise the immigrant standard of living to something approximating the lower class with limited efficacy.

I don’t agree with Zizek on everything, but in his ‘debate’ with that lobster Kermit guy he said something to the effect of ‘China is a tragedy because it is a model for the future of governance.’

Yeah I had a similar struggle. I don’t think I’ve been so caught off guard by a visualization.

What many democracies around the world are missing is greater recallability in offices. Citizens need to be able to easily oust people nonviolently.

It’s not even delusions, it’s that for many our simplest means to access food and shelter directly enriches a class that is forced to play the role of humanity’s antagonist just by virtue of existing as a class.

Lots of devices still use batteries that do not recharge.

Capitalism is wired in such a way that productivity literally produces poverty.

Yeah this hypothetical society would have to choose between mopping floors and living in squalor. Hopefully the moppers won’t be coerced under threat of exposure or starvation.

Without fear of unemployment that sort of thing might be stint work vaguely similar to jury duty. In order to partake in the product of society you are expected to spend a year working 20 hours a week as a tech or whatever, if society needs it they will find a way to provide it without capital demanding a return on investment.

One of the last phones designed for a human hand. Hope this comes to a good resolution.

30 fps will never be equal to 60 fps but for the biggest titles Valve has gone the extra mile to seriously even out frametimes which helps significantly with the experience. It’s a difference I’ve noticed when comparing other handhelds as well, when the performance gain is meager on the Deck’s competitors for a given title the variance is also way higher.

The rumor is that the Deck and the Switch use the same supplier for screens. Both the Switch and the Deck’s screens cannot support VRR. The Deck’s OLED also has thinner bezels than the LCD.

I’ve found the same. Using the Switch in bed with awful posture my hands would cramp after about half an hour. Using the Deck in bed with the same awful posture my arms fall asleep after an hour but I’m still going strong.

The adhesive fumes must be harmful but they smell so healthy.

I can only recommend the cheapest Steam Deck, and only if you’re willing to either open it to upgrade the internal storage or rely only on micro SD cards. The Steam Deck gets decent performance on most games but decent is defined as 25-45 fps for 3D games and 60 fps for most sidescrollers.

I mainly use my Steam Deck to stream games from my PC at home to my cubicle at work, I am still astonished that my upload speed on coax is substantial enough for very low latency streaming. I prefer it over my laptop because the Steam Deck takes up less space on my desk docked or with a case that has a kickstand like dbrand’s Killswitch. Still boggles my mind that this OLED version doesn’t have a kickstand either.

Meanwhile Gaben said he fell in love with New Zealand while he was stranded there during the pandemic. Shame he couldn’t confuse the two.

I thought it was Steve Vai sounds.

Every teacher at the private school I work at has a Pandora account apparently.

Yeah it amuses me that someone somewhere must be like ‘gosh they are blocking our ads’ when in reality if they shame me for blocking their egregious ads I usually just go to a different site rather than update my filters.

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