You can’t just kill them. You need to deal with the forces that enabled them. But getting rid of them would be a good start.

I kind of remember that thing. Dark Souls original PC port used it for some reason.

I guess implicit in my “would have been reasonable” was a “and if Microsoft could make competent software”

But I think they’re basically a walking corpse full of Business Idiot parasites, and maybe were back then, too.

If they had done “Xbox games on PC” 20-25 years ago I would have found that reasonable. Microsoft can fuck off.

Conservatives are bad people. They value in-group solidarity and personal power more than anything else. Cartoon villains.

Conservatives are fundamentally incapable of good government. They don’t believe in it. They don’t believe in fairness applied to all. They believe in hierarchy. In-groups to protect and out-groups to bind. They don’t have good empathy.

Good. Send them to training. Better than sending people to jail, probably. Can we send people to therapy too?

I don’t know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I’ll share some things I think have helped.

Avoid long sentences. Many people don’t read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

Read back what you wrote out loud.

Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don’t try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.

It seems like their calculations always return high prices. I can’t think of any service that has had the price drop significantly.

People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.

I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They’d say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.

Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.

don’t you have the choice to quit?

Many people can’t comfortably quit their job. Not in the US. Finding a new job is difficult. Finding a new job that doesn’t use Microsoft is even more of a long shot. Most people don’t have the money sitting around to just coast without income for very long.

Edit: wow… So many people hate me because I don’t have to use. Shitty Microsoft products.

I don’t think that’s why you’re being down voted. It’s the “let them eat cake” attitude about people being stuck at shitty jobs, probably

He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

Pc.

• more utility than just games. Code, write, etc.
• a backlog of games going back like 40 years
• will still be usable and with new content for years. A PC today will probably be able to play some hot new indie games in 15 years.
• no subscription fee for online play, generally
• more free games
• many games are cheaper
• broader range of input choices
• emulators and the high seas, if that’s your thing

Sometimes they give some people a few crumbs so they’ll fight other poor people instead of the rich.

Why would they lower costs when they can just not do that?

Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.

Displays of wealth in a world with so many sufferiny disgusts me

I was thinking the other day about how a friend once pointed out someone carrying a handbag that sells for $10,000. I’m like… send that person straight to therapy and community service. That’s so much money on something a $100, tops, bag could do.