Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
As soon as someone who’s not a member of Epstein & Associates is in charge of the various departments and branches of the government, then maybe someone can do something about it.
For now they’re limited in what they can do, but creating a report and making it public is one thing that is within their power. Faulting them for doing that is kinda strange.
It probably didn’t seem necessary to explicitly legislate it before
Oh fuck off with that. It’s called transparency. If they didn’t release the report then you’d be all like “wHy ArEn’T tHeY rElEaSiNg It?!?!1?1!1!?”
Veterans have been speaking out this whole time. The media probably tries to keep that quiet, and alternative streams of information probably don’t focus much on what vets say, unless they’re specifically vet-focused in which case most people in leftist spaces probably don’t hear about them. But vets have been speaking up all along.
It’s more rare for someone active duty, because not only are they prohibited by the UCMJ from speaking against the President, VP, or SecDef (since they’re in the chain of command), but also it’s prohibited to take part in any political activity in uniform. The reasoning is basically that anyone in uniform is a representative of the military itself, and therefore not supposed to take part in partisan activities or express a political opinion in the capacity of being a service member.
Active duty can go to protests and do all that, but they’re supposed to do so in civilian attire and not bring attention to their military status.
So my thoughts are a lot of servicemembers are opposed to what’s happening, but even if they’re protesting they’re keeping quiet about their military status. Also to avoid bringing attention to themselves, cause if their chain of command finds out they can make their lives hell even without hitting them with the book.
So what this guy is doing is ballsy. He could very easily be stripped of rank, lose his commission, or be sent to the brig. Honestly the latter is most likely because the other two would take an act of congress since he’s an officer, but with this congress I wouldn’t be surprised to see it.
Just like any other zealot, religious or otherwise
Yes, but it’s good that they’re documenting it and releasing it to the public.
Oh, I see. Yeah, it’s kinda stupid that a company would try to replicate that without license.
That being said, taking an item from a game and turning it into a real object that fans can enjoy is kind of a cool thing. It sucks they didn’t go through the proper channels to make it legit though.
Oh, I didn’t realize that Valve already had a product called a companion cube which already looks and functions the same way as this one. That’s the context I was missing.
Yeah, in that light, what dbrand did seems pretty asinine.
What is it, just a case for it? Does it provide any functionality, or is it purely aesthetic?
Honestly if they just called it something else there wouldn’t be an issue, right? Just call it some other type of cube and in the description list the compatible hardware, which is just the steam machine.
Not sure why Valve would care so much, as it’s not like this would take away from their sales. I’m guessing it’s mainly a representation thing. They don’t want to allow a precedent where anyone can use their product’s name in an unofficial capacity, where their company’s reputation might be affected by consumers not realizing there’s no affiliation
Because Biden had a multi-billion dollar smear campaign waged against him from the highest echelons of the corporate media, but trump doesn’t…
Yeah, I don’t think all these big tech companies with their telemetry and adware spyware are following those laws, so why should we?
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse… unless you are the law… then you can be as ignorant of the law as you want!”
That’s bullshit, it completely ignores escalation of force. If drawing the weapon causes your attackers to back down and run away, it worked as intended and no further escalation is needed.
Any laws intended to compel one to fire is stupid beyond measure.
Luanti is basically open-source minecraft
It’s okay, keep acting like a petulant child. There there.
I never said anything about your age or your technical proficiency, so you’re the one fabricating lies if you really wanna suggest that.
As for your emotional state, I asked why you’re being butthurt because you’re being butthurt.
Once again, I didn’t think it was.
Then why are you so butthurt about it?
Then the warning obviously isn’t directed at you, chill out. It’s for everyone who does need to be told that tinkering with the electronics in the controller can break it if they don’t know what they’re doing.
“Welcome to your new linux system. You can delete or modify anything you want in the root directory, but we recommend leaving that to someone who knows what they’re doing.”
It’s not a mixed message.
Taking issue with someone describing a generic term for men of a certain age group as “creepy, misbehaving, often drunk,” and “touches himself too much” is incel adjacent? Or is it noticing the trend where that sort of thing is becoming more common?
Or you could preemptively block me because you know what you said is an undefendable stance and you don’t feel like admitting that?
Yes, we know, the system is flawed. If “transparency” is as worthless as you claim, then so is “faulting the entire system,” which is what you say you’re doing. Not sure how you can apply your logic consistently and come to different conclusions for those two things.
Transparency alone doesn’t fix the issue, no. And no one is claiming it does. But the issue will be much harder to fix without transparency. No transparency makes accountability nearly impossible. And right now, while anyone with an interest in fixing the issue is powerless to do so, transparency is a bare minimum that they can at least try to meet. And that’s what they’re doing.
So no, I don’t think transparency is worthless. It’s necessary. Not sufficient, but necessary no less.
If Ted Bundy controlled all the police in the nation either directly or through influence and loyalty, then congress tracking his crimes and making the reports available to the public would be better than doing nothing about it.