I get that.

Personally if it’s single player and I don’t want to support the authors urgently, I can wait.

So for HP I was happy to never buy it, then I saw Epic give it away and i thought… Oh. Well, I guess that works.

Ive played several games on Epic.

I don’t get this attitude for single-player games. If its free… Why the heck not.

Oh right you need people to see your game achievements on Steam?

That’s literally it?

Did people not get over the Achievement Hunter phase a decade ago and just start enjoying games?

Who would own Howarts Legacy on Steam when Epic gave it away free for a whole week…

The NYT haven’t changed. They’ve been aligned with corporate greed and neo-conservative goals and attitudes for at least 40 years. Yes you can find individual articles that don’t, but editorially they always have.

Though they always presented their image as ‘social liberal progressive attitudes’ and ‘fiscal responsibility with social support’, if you look at their actual reporting track record they’ve helped manufacture consent for almost every US war of the last 30+ years, and have consistently sided with the desires of whatever government is currently in power and fiscal conservative attitudes throughout.

Yeah this is the wildest overvaluation I’ve seen in ages. I’ve never heard of them, seems like most people here haven’t.

OpenAI must be getting pretty damned desperate to turn the AI narrative to do this.

Kinda hoping he’ll do it himself after some ketamine-induced psychosis snaps what’s left of his brain.

My guess with his ego, money and insecurity is that he owns a bunch of personal firearms and walks around his home cosplaying with them fully loaded on the regular.

Nah that spider is too cool to enjoy dark web shit.

It’s just taking kids to all the inclusive communities, private torrent sites and free streaming servers.

The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster.

The real question is why you would possibly think it’s a good idea to try.

Downvote for cropping out the artist name.

They’re not getting traffic to their site by us rehosting the image - all they ask is that their image is unedited to highlight credit. It’s not much to ask.

(Edit:

Actually, I see removing watermarks is like part of your ethos of hating people getting credit for their work or something… So I’m just gonna block you. Life’s too short. Byeeee.)

Love seeing Clone High memes in the wild.

Was just reminiscing the theme song a couple days back.

Totally.

I get some people having a brief shower in the morning to ‘wake themselves up’, also.

You’re being pedantic.

There are multiple types of de-banking. One explicitly applie:

“Debanking refers to the practice by financial institutions of declining or limiting financial services to businesses across whole sectors if they are assessed as having a higher money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risk.”

Arguing semantics is kinda pointless when the message is that wealth needs to be distributed far better.

Nobody at Occupy was protesting that just the billionaires need to be taxed much more and the ten-millionaires* should stay just as-is.

*The top 1% in the USA have roughly $12 million USD net assets as of 2025. That is far more than they need to live a very comfortable life with many luxuries.

Actually, for the wealthy it does.

Trump has been very wealthy since birth. The wealthy do not have bank accounts like your average wageslave like me, where their salary gets deposited regularly and they earn interest and make withdrawls - and perhaps have an attached home loan account, etc. We earn interest in high income accounts or term deposits and then pay tax on that earning - like suckers.

The wealthy use an entirely different model that focuses on using debt as its main tool.

Their assets including real estate, share portfolios, stock options and even expensive artwork are ‘good debt’, they perhaps don’t own them fully (they may be mortgaged, loan-backed or options, etc) but they’re assets that continue to grow in value over the medium term. If they sell them or divest them for real cash it becomes income that they must pay tax on. The wealthy hate paying tax. Solution: use the assets as collateral for loans and credit lines. This is how Trump lives like a king while (previously) not having much liquid cash, and also how Elon and most ultrawealthg do it - their entire personal spending is on credit accounts - debt - and by writing as much of it off as businesses expenses (meals, travel, security, etc) it all becomes tax deductable as well.

This is the same reason a lot of business executives request most of their payment packages as stock or options - it reduces their taxable income and builds their real wealth substantially. If they want a property: mortgage against their stock & option collateral. If they need money: bank credit line with their assets as collateral.

So when banks say to a member of the 1% such as Trump “we cannot give you a loan account, your collateral/outstanding loans at other fiancial institutions/criminal associates/track record is too risky for us”, that means he cannot use that bank and must look elsewhere. He is debanked by them for his purposes.

Trump has been debanked since the late 90s by almost all US banks, because when you bankrupt two casinos and frequently spend time with mobsters they considered loans to you “high risk” for some reason.

He’s been getting loans via Europe (mostly Deutschbank… which is also Putin’s bank of choice), and Russia, for 30 years.

That is, until he won the lottery by convincing the stupidest people alive to vote him into the highest seat of power.

So now it’s payback time against all the banks he thinks wronged him.

I love and use LibreOffice, but I do find Calc much harder to work with than Excel. PivotTables, sortable lists with locked headings and sort-buttons, even simply setting print area were all harder for me to get used to and implement on Calc than Excel.

I persist because I like the goal of FOSS, and it’s “good enough” for my usage, I can definitely understand when people show frustrations - especially power users that have worked with MS Office for decades.

If there’s an action, there’s a reaction.

Sort of like how when people outsource all their critical thinking to AI, their ability for critical thinking atrophies?

Thanks, I appreciate the clarification. I misread as Bitwarden.

Vaultwarden sounds like it resolves any concerns had about Bitwarden.

Yeah i totally did. My bad.

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Ah yes, I absolutely did.

My bad.