https://rightsafrica.com/2024/03/30/what-does-senegals-new-president-have-in-store-for-lgbtq-people/

He’s not going to turn Senegal into a liberal paradise; his party and policies sound to be more of the same homophobia. But it seems like he will actually try to end the corruption and put the country on the track to independence rather than looting it like Sall. Secularity is a cornerstone of the party, which is an important first step. Here’s hoping Senegal is on its way up!

Your taste in games is good, friend! As long as you have fun with what you play, how could it be otherwise?

Shit, you’re right. The only recourse here is a suit against FedEx I think, from anyone who’s had money stolen, and it would have to be based in how they present themselves as a mail carrier such that the average consumer thinks their mail is protected when it’s not. Risky.

Edit: the following only applies to USPS, so it’s probably a good idea to only use USPS for mail.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1708

Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains, or attempts so to obtain, from or out of any mail, post office, or station thereof, letter box, mail receptacle, or any mail route or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or abstracts or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or secretes, embezzles, or destroys any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or

Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or

Whoever buys, receives, or conceals, or unlawfully has in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the same to have been stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

A cop who commits a crime is a criminal. A cop who commits a felony crime is a felon. Arrest them.

Not really, since it’s now public knowledge that the entirety of Trump-positive media is bankrolled by the Kremlin.

One is a Russian asset intent on destroying America from within; the other is Kamala Harris. Your eyes must be getting real bad to not see that.

I think the delivery might be the problem more than the message, based on this anyway. But you’re not really wrong. Food, clothing, shelter - these are all things you have to obtain, or die. Not so much the case with concert tickets or video games.

Also, that avidamoeba person you replied to wasn’t saying concert tickets are a fundamental right, they’re saying that prices would go up even if people stop buying, because it’s a monopoly and monopolies usually require a government to break up.

Then the company is right and those tickets are worth the extra money they’re charging 🤷‍♀️ What’s your point here?

It’s not a boycott. Boycotts don’t work because they appeal to and are based in emotion. I’m appealing to your wallet. If you can’t afford concert tickets, don’t buy them. Don’t go without something you need to make it work, don’t use credit. Just don’t buy, like you don’t buy a new car every few years or how you don’t buy a gold-plated snickerdoodle or whatever.

Otherwise, the company is right and people will pay a lot more for the product, so they’d think themselves crazy not to raise the price.

There’s is a simple solution to this: stop buying concert tickets. I know, I know - who wouldn’t want to get together with thousands of other people in a tiny space and listen to the same music together, feel the same beats, breathe the same air, share the same pathogens… Sounds great.

But this is how price exploration works (which in a monopoly looks a lot like price gouging). You have a product and want to make more money, so you double (often less, this is a simplification) your prices thinking if it’s too much people will stop buying and you’ll have a sale or drop prices back to what they were. But people keep buying your product, so of course you’re going to keep the price the same even if you get a couple of dirty looks. So after a bit you reason if people are willing to pay 2x for it, maybe they’ll pay 2.5x or 3x, so you try it, and it works… Rinse and repeat.

The only way to break the cycle is legislation (not likely, but more consumer protections would of course be welcome) or to stop buying.

There are alarm clocks that have a lamp built in, and instead of a loud alarm they play things like birdsong and rushing water at increasing volumes while brightening up the lamp to simulate dawn. I much prefer that to a nuclear launch siren, when I have to use an alarm. I don’t like to post shopping links because I’m not an ad machine, but if you search around for “gentle wakeup alarm light” you’ll definitely find some.

it is a somewhat strange indictment that my warning about deepfakes and doctored videos would in itself constitute Russian disinformation.

Has anyone told him he can preface sharing things like this with a joke or snarky comment, to make it clear the information is good but from a shit source? “Even a total asshole of a broken clock can be right twice a day” or something might be sufficient.

Right, so you’ve got all this experience and knowledge and all you want to do is complain that people get it wrong, you don’t want to do anything to change that by say educating someone who’s engaging in good faith. Consider my mistake noted, I’m no longer interested in anything you have to say about anything. You’re not old, you’re horrifically rude and unnecessarily aggressive. Good day.

Yeah. That’s why it’s true every year 😉

I didn’t assume anything, bud, I asked you two questions. The reason I wanted to know if you’re familiar with QFT is because the analogy of song makes sense to me, in the context of QFT, and one reason to dismiss the analogy is if you don’t know anything about QFT and think someone’s just spouting hippy-dippy bullshit. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t that.

It’s too bad you don’t like the song analogy. Maybe we’ll find something on an even smaller scale shaped like dicks and then it’ll be Quantum Dick Theory, and if someone comes up with poetic language to describe the universe in dicks that’ll be popular too. That seems unlikely because of maths I don’t understand, but whatever 🤷‍♀️

But, you don’t like it because it stops making sense to you at some point. Cool. Am I allowed to ask what that point is and why it doesn’t make sense past it, or do you just wanna tell me to go jerk off again?

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Alright, I’ll bite. Why did that make you lose interest? Do you think it’s not right, and are you familiar with Quantum Field Theory?

The trouble with this stuff is that every year you studied it they told you that what you learned last year was a complete simplification and not really representative of what really happens!

The real trouble is that every single year they tell you that, it’s true!

My face is midway between 😱 and ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ right now. That sounds difficult. Have you found anything that helps? Do you just sleep like crap every night?

For what?