Arkham

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[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

If he dies in office, we get President Vance, which could be a worse prospect for democracy than Trump.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Musk: violates a federal law by giving away a cool million every day until election day

Feds: "let's fine that guy $10,000, that seems like a pretty serious amount for a fine"

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

I've heard figures as high as 390 million. I'm pretty sure there are more guns than people in the US.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Steam Controller is a flawed masterpiece that I wish we had gotten another iteration of.

Also, speaking of the 8bitdo Pro 2 line, the wired Xbox version of the Pro 2 is pretty great. It's similar to the regular Pro 2, but it has analog triggers, uses Xinput, and has Xbox coloring and branding. It's like they took the best parts of Xbox, SNES, and Playstation controllers and mushed them all together.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks, I hadn't heard about this until now and was able to grab a copy.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 18 points 8 months ago

“The Democrats are using their power to push an alarmist and false narrative that there is a problem accessing contraception,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee.

If he really meant this, there'd be no problem passing a bill to protect contraception access. If there's already no problem getting it, and you're not intending to prevent people from getting it, a bill protecting access is at worst window dressing and harms no one.

I can only conclude they are intending to find further ways to prevent people from getting contraception, and don't want this bill to get in their way.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

A lot of his base admires precisely those qualities you mentioned. They dig the idea of someone who appeals to their shared prejudices and wields power capriciously and cruelly. Either because they think he will wield that power on their behalf, or because they wish they could wield that kind of power themselves and are enjoying it vicariously by watching him do it.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, as someone who only ever drinks decaf, I'm all for something that tastes like coffee but has zero caffeine!

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gas I do not use so I do not care.

I don't own a car and don't use gas either. But my food, clothes, toiletries, mail, and lots of other things I need all probably required gas in order to get to me. If you live in a city, especially a US city, chances are high that you rely on gasoline a great deal just to get food, even if it's only indirectly.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

There are way more evangelicals supporting Israel than there are Israeli-Americans, so I'd say mainly evangelicals. And that difference only gets bigger if you start including other conservative Christian groups.

[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was surprised to see "formerly DuPont" on the gofundme. Turns out International Flavors & Fragrances merged with DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences back in 2021. Go figure.

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