Ghost guns cannot be made entirely from consumer grade 3d printable parts, they require machined components such as firing pins and barrels so that the gun would fire reliably.

If this was about safety, why not police the purchase of said components?

Because it’s not about safety. It’s about making sure that you have less control. And especially so you can’t create or repair the things you own. Because that would be harmful to the capitalists in charge.

Why do you think cars have gotten more and more complex over time and you’re not allowed to repair them?

Trumps sons “run his businesses” according to him, and Epstein learned from Trump as he said.

I mean…is it really a conspiracy?

And then Kushner and Ivanka buy an island out of nowhere to build a resort on?

I mean…like, really?

Sony just killed any reason for me to even consider consoles ever again. What, you’ve got 10 exclusives? Cool.

Xbox’s Project Helix is doing the same.

If I’m digital only it’ll just be PC. At least I have DRM free options.

I already decided this would be the last console generation for me. Why bother anymore? The savings in PS Plus/Xbox Live/Core/Essential to play online alone make it worth it if we’re forced to be digital only. And I don’t have an ad-filled home screen. And I get as many libraries as I want. You can use a plethora of controllers with PC and the same display cables can be used on your TV now. Like, really, what’s the point? Both the PS6 and this thing are going to be $1000+ if they even reach the market.

I was just setting up my homelab 👀 looks like I was just in time to give it a bit before rebuilding lol

That’s why I said physical media done correctly. Because, yes, if the game isn’t on the disc, it won’t work. Or if it forces a day 1 patch to even run because it contains parts of the code. Or the console itself requires the internet for some kind of DRM check. Those aren’t really physical media in my opinion. Or, at best, they’re anti-consumer locks/practices.

Is it perfect? No, the only innovation capitalism has brought us is continually more ways to provide less for a higher price. We’re always having to fight greed unfortunately.

A) what problems are you referring to?

B) DRM free already solves a lot of it for digital titles. Sony, Microsoft, etc are entirely uninterested in that. They wouldn’t be able to pull them from your library if so.

C) Removing physical media completely kills a used market. Dead Space is $20 on disc, $70 on the Sony store. Sony doesn’t want you to think about that though. Sharing becomes nearly impossible. Ironic, considering Sony’s stance for the PS4

The biggest thing is simply this: physical media offers protections from corporate abuse/greed. If digital media wasn’t abused by corporations, we wouldn’t have this issue. Physical media done correctly makes most of those abuses impossible. And, unfortunately, we can’t trust closed source corporations not to abuse us when money can be made. So without a forcing function through legislation, physical media is that forcing function/protection.

Look at EVs. We in the US can’t buy cheaper, better performing EVs because of import taxes and tarrifs up to 100%. Instituted by Biden and raised by Trump btw 🙃

To buy a BYD and import it, if the car costs $30,000 USD, you’ll pay more like $150,000 USD after taxes, tariffs, import duties, licensing, registration fees, and shipping costs. And yes, even ones in Canada will still be subject to those costs trying to cross the border of course 🙃. And no, it’s not a hyperbolic number.

There’s tons of loopholes for capitalists not to pay taxes. But a plebian consumer saving money? You bet that shit is battened down, no loopholes to be found. If you look at it the wrong way you’ll be fined.

You’re not wrong, but they’re more consumer friendly than either Sony or Microsoft. You also have a larger library of titles. You’re also not limited to Steam. GOG at least prides themselves on DRM free games. Probably the closest to digital ownership you’ll get today.

But…but I need the newest Call of Duty: Shoot a Man for the newest guns and skins!

And and I need to play the slots to build my ultimate fifa team again this year to feel cool and then do it again next year!

And I neeeeeed the Fortnite skins. Otherwise my friends will call me default and won’t play with me.

I enjoy gaming on my tv with a controller,

Me too. I know not everybody can do this, but I ran displayport over fiber cables from both my PC and my partner’s into the crawlspace and back up to our TV in the main room.

Another option that we used to use that worked fairly well was Moonlight to stream from PCs to our TVs

And as for controllers, there’s a lot of options out there. 8bitdo makes a bunch that work well and I’ve heard of Flydigi and Scuf as well. I have a Gullikit KingKong 2 Pro myself that I use for PC gaming. Played through Elden Ring and the Witcher 3 with it. Hall effect joysticks are pretty cool and avoid stick drift over time and being able to connect it to most devices (switch, xbox, pc) is nice.

If you want to splurge, the Xbox Elite and Dual Sense Edge both work via bluetooth. You can get wireless adapters for all of the above except the Dual Sense. Standard xbox controllers work as well.

Basically, there’s a lot of cool ways to game on your TV with PC lol

You’re absoluetly right, and thank you, I’ll be using that link in my personal life.

As for VPN alternatives, as we know, not many have faced a raid by authorities like Mullvad, which does speak to the fact that they weren’t collecting user data. However, that may be only a matter of time in our increasingly surveiled world -

ProtonVPN - has its own controversies (CEO may be right-wing in supporting Republicans in the US) but has stood up to legal action previously

IVPN

AirVPN

And, while potentially biased, there is a google doc users from reddit made to compare many of the options listed here and more.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ijfqfLrJWLUVBfJZ_YalVpstWsjw-JGzkvMd6u2jqEk/htmlview#gid=231869418

Totally already legal to cross corpses to remove the “fake Swedes.” Sweden is for Swedes after all.

https://www.friatider.se/markus-allard-om-andra-generationens-invandrare-de-ska-ocksa-ut

Örebro Party leader Markus Allard goes to the election on expulsions. He opens to withdraw citizenship and also expel second generation of immigrants – even if they were born in Sweden.
“I’m prepared to cross corpses,” he said.

One suggestion that he has is that citizenship and permanent residence permits can be torn up – with reference to “Sweden is the country of Swedes”.

In a section of Yoshi’s Podcast, Allard develops his view on expulsions and explains that he prepared to “go over corpses” to bring home unwanted immigrants. The host notes that there will be no beautiful sight when, for example, immigrant mothers who have been on maternity leave for 15 years are to be deported together with their children. “It’s not going to be pretty to send these people home,” he said. Markus Allard agrees, but says: I think you can handle that optics. Even the children will need to be deported, he explains.

He further explains that many of the problems relate to second-generation immigrants. They are going out too. Even if they were born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedes. They have not become Swedes. It says Sweden in the passport, but they have not been interested in becoming part of Sweden. There’s a difference. It’s a qualitative difference," Allard said.

Farmers markets and some local shops we have around us.

I get what you’re saying. However, we are dealing with rising actual, full fledged fascism on a world stage. And a common rebuttal from a fascist is that “everything I believe can’t be fascist” or “I’m not suddenly a fascist, what I believed yesterday wasn’t fascist.”

The truth of the matter is that fascism never truly left. The ultra-nationalism became more discreet and diffused with pride for one’s country. It eventually became unquestioning loyalty. See: American exceptionalism. Racial purity and bigotry was shamed on a larger scale, so fascists retreated to quieter spaces, but it never left. Through operation paperclip, America did the opposite and welcomed former Nazis and SS and allowed them to start families and provided them land (more than they did for African Americans, that’s for sure.) So is it any wonder that the Confederacy, which the Nazis admired and learned from, and the Nazis themselves, would lay low and eventually make a resurgence, as they are now?

All that to say, the tenant that I go by is what I said. If we have a disagreement, as another person said, about baking a cake, does that make someone a fascist? No, not unless that cake somehow is promoting some form of intolerance/harm/dehumanization of human life and identity (i.e. a Swastika cake probably won’t go over too well with the public, and you’d lose my business for sure.)

I think the ProtonVPN vs Mullvad recent issues are good to look at. Did the Proton CEO say some dumb stuff about Republican antitrusts? Yes. Did ProtonVPN provide an affiliate link to a French far right influencer? Yes. Do these actions make them fascist or fascist supporting? Probably not, that’s a bit of a stretch. The company also revoked the affiliate link and put out a statement that they do not share those individuals views. But we should still, and rightfully so, call them out and hold it to them that these are issues. They’re certainly warnings at minimum. And a CEO can be removed.

Mullvad’s founder has a lot more sway on the company’s path than a french youtuber. Mullvad’s founder isn’t just donating a small donation to the republican party either. He’s, essentially, funding an entire fringe alt right party on his own, one that is in support of ethnic cleansing. That means there is a very high likelihood that the founder shares these beliefs, and even if he doesn’t, by funding a party so aggressively, it provides them with an outsized voice amongst legislation and can lead to direct harm all by using money that you or I gave to them for a product where there are several other choices available to us. Does that make someone fascist, or at least aligned with fascism? Well, supporting a party that believes in ultra-nationalism with social and racial hierarchy/purity…I mean…I can’t honestly say it doesn’t.

So, is ProtonVPN fascist? No Is ProtonVPNs CEO a fascist? I doubt it Is MullvadVPN fascist? No, not yet at least Is Mullvad’s founder a fascist? I’m leaning towards yes Is the Örebro party fascist? Yes. By definition.

That’s a terrible example. No one, individual or government, is forcing anyone to do anything of the sort.

It is entirely within the right of the business owner to decline a request to bake a cake they don’t want to bake.

Can there be social repercussions for said action? Of course. Do people have the autonomy to decide not to give a business their money for whatever reason? Absolutely.

I wouldn’t give them my money because, I’m sorry, if your “religion” is based on oppression and denial of other humans their basic rights, then no, I won’t support you. Fuck off.

(Ironic as I know this incident and it’s based on Christian religiosity, which following the actual teachings of Jesus would welcome the stranger, the wanderer, the sick, and the hungry. Regardless of whether they believe or not, they are all God’s children. Given that Lucifer has no power of creation, only trickery, and God created all of his children, would that not imply Chrisitians should be accepting of Gods children in all their myriad forms, and to hate another is to fall for the trickery of Satan? That’s not religion, that’s just rationalizing bigotry. So double fuck off.)

“I like this burger made by fascists. I’m going to keep eating this burger, I don’t care where it came from or where my money buying the burger goes to.”

So many comments here sound like this, geez. Same people saying “we can be friends, can’t we, even if our politics differ?” Morality and respecting humans isn’t politics. And no. We can’t.

Also, yes, enforcing racial and national purity (remigration) is, in fact, fascist ideology. Get over it. It’s not extreme, it’s calling a spade a spade. https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847

Never heard of the tolerance paradox have you?

The way to resolve the tolerance paradox is to not tolerate intolerance.

“Donating money to” and “bankrolling the entire party, 10x-ing their entire funding in 2024 alone” are different things.

There are SO many people here who would happily dine with actual fascists just because they “make a good product.” Completely ignoring what their funds that support them go to and lead to direct harm.

And if you think I’m hyperbolic, please, tell me how this is an incorrect line of thinking: https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847

Yeah, I’m not trying to go against you either, sorry if it sounded like that.

Overall, globally, the averages are going up.

The only thing predictable is how unpredictable weather patterns will be going forward. 🙃

Jetsreams in the atmosphere and ocean currents are breaking down. While they would usually carry cold fronts/warm fronts predictably, these pockets of extreme temps are now acting more erratically. Like yoi said, we had extreme cold and winter storms last year which resulted in mild summers for some. Now there are massive pockets of heat across the Atlantic, causing extremely hot summers right now for the east coast of the US as well as the EU.

We’re at the point now that without some agressive carbon capture, we will experience climate collapse. Zero emissions is no longer enough.

But we gotta burn that oil, gotta make more money now!