I've noticed many Americans also talk about those 'unalienable rights' like it's some law of nature. They're not unalienable. Having rights is not a given. Ask many groups of people throughout history. You only have rights as long as others respect them. Where are your unalienable rights when you're grabbed off the street in a black van and taken somewhere without anyone knowing? When your fellow citizens / your government decides you shouldn't have them anymore? If rights were unalienable, why are they dependent on borders?

Sometimes I think people feel too safe. Otherwise they wouldn't accept others losing their rights so easily. They still think they won't/can't lose their own.

But I just don't get it. How is standing a customer service? It doesn't add anything except suffering to the cashier.

Ah, yes, BG3. I've spent way too many hours on that game already, figured I should replay some other games. Still probably will go back to it though, it's just so good. Hadn't heard of Beyond All Reason, but it does look interesting. I see it's pvp RTS, yes? Pvp is not my thing, but a solo campaign would be nice.

And that video, yeah, I certainly understand that people want to know these things, different outcomes and dialogue, because I do too, it's the reason I love RPG's so much, but you see that's the thing: I do it myself. I already played the Witcher multiple times and did everything in different orders. I've played Mass Effect more times than I care to admit and make different choices each time. Doing missions in different orders, or not doing certain missions at all. Letting different people die, making different companions loyal, different romances, paragon/renegade decisions, etc. Same goes for BG3 and Dragon Age and Divinity:OS/2, etc. Any game I enjoy enough to replay, I'll replay in different ways and it's so awesome to play a game for the umpteenth time and still find things you haven't seen before. So I'd prefer no spoilers. I'll cheat sometimes and just try something out of curiosity, then afterwards I reload. Or I change plot flags. Ha, but most people probably don't want to spend the time on it and videos are a lot less time-consuming.

Other grocery stores don't let their cashiers sit? Wtf? Standing still for 8+ hours sounds like hell? Why would you force someone to do that?

I've never been to a grocery store where cashiers were forced to stand and I've lived in 4 different countries in the past decade. This is an American thing, yes? But why?

Hmm, well, I recently finished a playthrough of Mass Effect, N7 day every year, hm? Before that it was Dragon Age, mostly due to the release of Veilguard. Sadly that game is apparently so terrible that I'll probably never play it. Some of my friends already regret buying it and sent me clips of the atrocious dialogue. At the very least it'll have to be 80% off if I ever try it, lol.

Been replaying a lot, The Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, Divinity:OS2. Early this year I did a Fallout 4 playthrough with all chapters of Sim Settlement 2 installed. Lucky too, that I got to play the entire story before the update hit and ruined my game. I don't think even half of my mods work anymore, so thanks, Bethesda, for Skyrimming Fallout 4.

Really I'm just waiting for KCD to release, somewhere in February next year, so I'll probably be replaying KCD. Also on a rewatch of The Wire at the moment and almost done reading the Culture series by Banks.

Guess I just love stories.

Anything good you've played recently? Or watched being played? ;)

This is because we can be of two minds about these things. You can have a personal response to heinous acts, but still think the government ought to be better.

If some guy murders the murderer of their kid, I can absolutely 100% understand why, and I could even admit that I might do the same in their position. But I still think that as a society we should not lower ourselves to this standard and I will always be against the death penalty (especially because the system will never be perfect and I will never think it's worth killing even one innocent person by accident).

It's why vigilante justice is so easily understood, but it's still something we, as a society, shouldn't accept.

Emotional reactions can cloud our minds to these things. But I absolutely agree with you. This is horrendous and barbarous. I can still somewhat understand the "he deserves it for what he did"-response, but I'm absolutely against this on a deeper level.

And even if the girl was trans, she still shouldn't be bullying kids online. Jesus fuck, these people are so disgustingly pathetic.

Jesus, what a nightmare story. That entire article is filled with horror. She must have felt so terrified and alone.

"After Caswell delivered her baby alone and lost consciousness, staff still refused to render aid and instead took photos of her baby without her consent, her lawyers allege. When she returned to the jail from the hospital, staff denied her access to her prescribed breast pump and ibuprofen."

Wtf is wrong with people? It's so fucking petty and mean. I'm gonna assume that none of the staff will actually face any consequences..?

How would this even work? How are they going to stop brigading, bots, low effort spam crap for upvotes, massive reposting, etc? How will this actually increase quality of content?

Also: this would mean giving reddit your actual information, right? How else are they going to pay you? Or are they going to try using crypto and nfts?

It sounds like a terrible idea to me, tbh. Maybe they should start with paid moderators to deal with all the extra spam, crossposting, brigading and bots that will result from this move.

r/interestingasfuck still doesn't have moderators. It's been closed for 18 days now.

The most annoying thing is that the "Trending Communities" section is filled with spam right now.

I think this does show an ~~inherent~~ current flaw with Lemmy. We need a way to report users through their profile. So far we can only report users when they comment, but this guy isn't commenting anywhere so there's no report button. Unless I'm missing something. :p

Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was 'Nah, not even spez would do this' but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.

I've never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can't believe there are people still taking reddit's side on this, it's crazy.