Can’t recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn’t even ship the hardware they advertised.

Anyway, point was it’s already being tested in the wild…

Ah, that does make sense

Oh, yes, I’m being horribly pedantic due to quite obviously being triggered, so I don’t argue the related points you are making. Not at all.

Uh…

Yes. Lol

It’s not that I disagree with you. I do think I get where you’re coming from.

I specifically have a problem with those looks being prioritized. I mean, think about it if they’re worried more about the appearance than they are about the sound quality, that hubris has become straight up pride. But I’m not talking like the positive connotation. I’m talking pride as in the sin from the Bible.

Uh, no. Maybe check the definition of a word before you accuse people of using it wrong?

Besides, there is literally no benefit to this kind of approach. The most popular use of a word is the definition of the word, not the other way around. And yes, this means it will change over time. So even if motor didn’t literally refer to a certain type of engine, the definition of the word motorcycle is not dependent on the definition of the word motor. Even if there was a contradiction between the definition of the two words that’s literally irrelevant. There’s no point getting all annoyed about it, that’s just how language works. But you will not help anything by trying to force people to change how they’re using a word. It’ll just cause confusion and make communication even less clear.

Honestly, for me things like this are not mildly interesting, but infuriating. I don’t care how pretty it is, it’s not gonna sound better because of aesthetics. Hell, although I’m not sure on this case, musical instruments crafted to look pretty will often sound worse. And I don’t support savaging nature just to find shit to make fancy ass things for pedophile sociopaths that dedicate their lives to making things worse for everyone else.

Oh, I don’t mean it that way. People that use their fear and insecurities to justify hated can fuck right off to the deepest layers of hell!

My first thought was, “oh fuck, Trump is gonna murder them”.

I really hope not, but I have no faith in my government anymore, so…

I should pay attention to usernames a bit more, lol.

I can tell you why you haven’t, though, cause it’s the same reason from our other thread: compassion.

But, I feel pretty safe saying we’re in agreement!

ICE may have already killed thousands last year.

ICE has quite likely already killed thousands last year, you mean. God it fucking sucks just typing that…

Your technique is irrelevant. That you had the compassion to stick with it is what matters.

I’m not trying to be an ass. Really. But to think that you have a universal technique to deprogram anyone is dangerously naive.

Eh, no.

There is only one thing that gives any chance - compassion. And that’s got a snowball’s chances in surviving hell. But there is nothing else but compassion that’ll give you any chance at all.

Yup. That young woman who had a seizure, was (supposedly) taken to hospital, then hasn’t been heard from since got to me. All of it is tragic and horrible, but of the recent cases, that one stands out for me, cause you just know she’s dead. And they won’t even fucking give the family any closure.

Oh, well, the fact that we saw it all as “not our problem” until then kinda makes us opportunistic assholes, though. Especially since we exploited the hell out of the post war circumstances. Shit, original concept for the UN gave us the only veto. But we had to bribe the reluctant countries with something.

Oh, don’t forget that the horrible evil enemy everyone was fighting took a LOT of inspiration in the mechanics of how to be so evil directly from American politics.

So, helping end the war? Yeah, that’s generally a pretty cool thing. Everything else? Ummm, yuck.

The myth we were all taught about the nobility of our country was never true. For fucks sake, the founding of our country was upon the genocide of the native population.

No, we’ve never been great. Sorry.

The root is fear. Convince people to be afraid of something, they will let you completely reprogram their mind. Fuck, they’ll even beg you to do so…

Oh, the real problem is slavery is still legal if you’re incarcerated. But, I don’t disagree with you, either.

Child support used to take a full half of my income. So, I can believe it.

Day I got the letter saying I had fully repaid that shit?Fucking brought me to tears.

Well, with how many were killed “accidentally” during the removal of homeless encampments in the past couple years, we’re kinda at that point aren’t we?

Fuck…

Your comment kinda sounds like an accusation. If they don’t jack up the price, it’s not profiteering. Hell, even if they sell at the price they paid, it still doesn’t meet the definition.

But, I agree with the sentiment. Scalpers should be drawn and quartered, at minimum!