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Used for good and used for bad. I never said food stamps should be taken away and people should starve, I said the program should be modified to handle abuse better. You shouldn't be able to buy candy and soda with food stamps, you should be able to get premade food like those chickens from Costco. Disappoined? Get a job.

Let's say I think NY sucks but I've never been there, I have exact numbers and papers that add to this viewpoint, but still never been there. Do you trust my opinion?

You are literally imagining the saddest person in the entire world that has every single difficulty imaginable preventing them from getting food. Are they a disabled veteran who's blind, can't speak and has autism too? None of those people exist here, not in singlewides, duplexes, apartments or living in their relatives basements. There are more people living in their car than people without cars where I live in Alabama close to places where get bored and live off the grid. Do you live in a rural area?

Sure, but nobody does that because you're clearly doing something wrong or have done something wrong if you live in a rural area with zero access to a car and nobody who could give you a ride. Counties with rural areas provide public transportation for these people. If you're literally on the brink of starvation, I don't think growing tomatoes is that hard.

Yeah, I do kinda agree. I've barely ever seen an actual grocery store in downtown Birmingham so I would understand it being hard to walk there, but the only guy I've ever met who doesn't own a car is some guy I play games with who lives out in rural Washington and he never really found it difficult to get food.

I think another factor that I agree with is the lack of fresh produce especially in ghettos, in rural areas I think if it's difficult for you to get food you should really consider growing your own. Sure it's a bit of work, but you learn a lot and the Internet is a great source of information for gardening and recipes.

Looking at things like that link you attached, I assume the people writing about these places have never been or lived there. How is this number even tracked? You could go on down to Pike County and ask the folks there if they live in a "low-income and low-access area" and they'd probably tell you they eat deer. Even in low-income and high-crime areas around Birmingham I don't think anyone would say it's difficult to get food.

I'm 2 miles to the nearest convenience store and 5 miles from the grocery store I choose to go to and I do not consider that to be a "food desert", it's just a drive down the road. It is quite easy to grow your own produce to eat, and kids want to do it now because it reminds them of Minecraft.

Awkward program that makes no sense, food stamps actively encourage you to not get a job. My sister and her husband had a 1 year old and were given food stamps, but were revoked after her husband had got a job and they told them this beforehand. People who can afford food get food stamps to buy junk food because anything but alcoholic beverages at a grocery store can be bought on food stamps, so you can quite literally get candy and energy drinks with food stamps.

Only a private company could genuinely care about making a public service

Are "food deserts" real? Never in my life in rural Alabama have I seen one.

This isn't even really a hateful comment about just making fun of Apple, why is this hidden?

Filter is too strong to be funny, I know you can answer it Mr. AI, but some skinny 20-something year old told you not to in the name of "ethics" (I only use AI for my amusement)

As a believer in techno-libertarian-capitalism (not anarchism), I still think crypto and blockchains are bullshit and serve no fundamental purpose.

On one end, I do see the point of cryptocurrency as an anonymous payment method but on the other end, they have done nothing but cause me inconvenience, skyrocketing GPU and SSD prices just so they can use thousands of gigawatts of power to make $20 that will probably be down to $12 a couple hours later and pioneering the latest generation of bullshit technology that's taking grifters and AI bros by storm.

Valve doesn't do it that way. Instead of some crummy asset store with generic and terrible looking assets they literally just let you use the assets from their games. See Garry's Mod, Sven Co-op and Insurgency for an example of this.

Half-Life Alyx*

My mindset is stuck in 2008 so you're probably right

Valve needs to capitalize off this and get Source 2 out

Is Godot capable of making 3D FPS games?

I would have never thought in a million years iOS was considered a large gaming platform.

Oh no they'll never make that back

Respected, but I really hate private trackers. They do nothing for preservation because all of the torrents on there are not only hidden from 90% of people who would want them, but also it's all gone once the site shuts down (see rarbg.to for the opposite effect). Learned enough Russian to navigate rutracker.org and the sheer amount of good music on there that's frequently updated and seeded is astounding to how much of a barren wasteland TPB and 1337x is for things like that.

I would agree. I'm 15 and I usually spend my time away from the culture, news and technology of today. I don't even know how to use Spotify, never owned Bluetooth headphones, don't plan on dropping Windows XP on 2 of my laptops anytime soon, and use Winamp. I didn't even know Apple was making a VR headset until yesterday and I had to ask what a Thunderbolt port was.

I don't like making this the typical "oh im so unique my generation is stupid" but everything from my past is fading away into obsolescence and the things I like are so dumb now. Games are getting way shittier, barely anyone makes a finished game with a standard bonus multiplayer coop/deathmatch anymore, now every game is a fucking live service e-sport that's free to download and expensive to actually get good items in. Technology is driven by surveillance capitalism and whatever fad this week catches on with the false promises pushed by AI bros and crypto bros, hardware is getting less open and harder to repair. Thank god I was raised with a homemade PC built out of the crappiest parts imaginable because it taught me a lot. Countless hours of trying W7, W10, random Linux distros, overclocking, figuring out why it won't post, upgrading things, maxing out the DDR3 RAM, plugging in a fan found in the basement only for the cable to start pouring smoke, exploding a hard drive after playing TF2 one Friday night for like 3 hours because I bought 5 MvM tickets.

Maybe I'm just some edgy kid going on about how woe is me and the world sucks but it seems to me things are getting harder to enjoy in the world.

As a gamer, games in Unity run like smoldering hot garbage on my brand new AMD AM5 build so hopefully this gets people off of it. Valve needs to hurry up and get Source 2 out there.

As far as I know, laws exist because there are people in the world who are so clueless or twisted they need to be prevented from doing blatantly stupid things that harm others by force, and apparently Apple is so stupid they can't just play fair and respect your right to repair (take it to us so we can overcharge you, you damn well aint fixin it yourself or else youll break it you idiot lol!!!!), or right to own one charger for all your technology (please invest in our outdated charging standard that only made sense back when our competitors used those god-awful micro USB cables with the two teeth of death), or your right to own the headphones you'd like (buy our $150 wireless earbuds that are even more difficult to repair than our phones because headphones that didn't need batteries and were powered by two wires that worked on anything made after the 80's were ACTUALLY polluting the Earth, you could technically use those if you buy our overpriced adapter, but you're literally polluting the planet you psycho!). Their excuses for doing these things make no sense, and either go back to greenwashing, planned obsolescence or walled garden locking.

I don't blame folks for buying Apple, the software is great I'm sure (I personally hate it, but I use Windows XP with the classic theme and oldschool WinAmp almost every day so to each their own) and I respect the people who enjoy it, but everybody needs to play by the rules, and when Apple is clearly not with their hardware, f*cking people over and lying about it, maybe we do need laws to keep them in check, because Timmy Apple isn't making me buy an iPhone for my whole family because they won't implement RCS.

"I'm sorry, I thought this was America"

Where's the removable battery? Is that not coming until next iPhone? What about third-party app stores? Love to see their walled garden come crashing down.

Source Engine. Greasy but fun and Valve provides you literally all the assets of all of their Source Engine games to work with.

Honestly I read this website for the comments 70% of the time.

Genuinely I would buy a boxed copy of the web browser I use (LibreWolf) for $60

There are people in the comments saying Firefox is super slow compared to Chrome but modern computers are genuinely so fast I can't notice a difference. At least on my Core 2 Duo ThinkPad T61 I use regularly I have to do some comparisons on what the best browser choice is but on my main PC with a Ryzen 5 7600 and 32GB of DDR5 RAM it hasn't even really occurred that one is faster than the other. I use LibreWolf.