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Remember that they’re only “required” if there’s someone there to punish them for not doing it; if nobody who knows about the footage would ever let slip that it exists, then there’s no repercussions at all for not using it. The justice system works on the expectation that someone will find out, but it’s been corrupted to the point where that rarely happens, and those within it understand and exploit that fact. We were lucky to hear about this case. I’d be surprised if it isn’t among many others we’ll never hear about.

Yeah, I always purposefully wait to do my projects at work until the last second. If you don’t have time to do anything else, you don’t think about doing anything else. Plus it helps when someone forgets about a project and sends it over to me with way too little time left, but I get it done anyway since that’s the amount of time I’d have allotted myself regardless. I always clock a bunch of overtime and make sure to talk it up like it was a huge undertaking when that happens, though, so they don’t think they can just give me more work all the time.

The only reason they ever didn’t ignore people getting angry about things was because when people used to get angry they also got shooty.

Yeah, I keep seeing people say “The powerful have realized they can just do anything!” but what they fail to realize is that the powerful have known they can do anything since before recorded history, they just had to balance that against the violent reaction the people would have if they pushed too hard. The thing that actually changed in recent decades is that we stopped being willing to get violent when the powerful start pushing us around.

Yeah, the wide open world with free flying and fireball breath has me concerned. Spyro is more of a puzzle game, where you have to figure out how best to use your limited abilities as a young dragon to navigate a level designed with that gameplay in mind. This looks more like an open-ended adventure game. Hopefully they were just showing off a particularly large level at a time when he happened to have some temporary powerups enabled.

Winner of the “most penis euphemisms in one name” award.

Internet is information. Information can easily be sent long distances through wires, so we use wires to cross the ocean, but information can still be sent shorter distances wirelessly through electromagnetic waves, so on land we build a bunch of towers and install routers in our homes to let us access that information wirelessly wherever we are.

It seems like a lot of them honestly think that if a liar says something, it must be a lie. They realized that our government lies, and immediately flipped everything they thought they knew to the opposite of what they thought it was.

“The US, which suppresses its own citizens, said that Russia, China, and North Korea suppress their own citizens? That must mean they’re awesome! Ignore personal accounts from people who live or escaped from there, if the US says it’s bad, it must be good, no question!”

Like, yeah, both sides are bad. Suppressing your citizens is bad. We need to be rising up as citizens across the world to take the power back from all dictatorial governments everywhere, not arguing about which one is the worst as if that makes the others better.

You’re right, but why would that matter to the police? Just because someone says they care about something doesn’t mean they do. When a person or group shows you what they truly stand for, you should ignore their words that say otherwise.

I know this is a shitpost, but I’ve seen people legitimately give this argument like it’s a gotcha. It’s like, okay? So if we get rid of the corrupt billionaires running the corrupt government, then the other corrupt billionaires will use their vast wealth to seize power for the billionaires again, so the problem is indeed the corrupt billionaires - we need to get rid of them all. It’s like taking antibiotics - you can’t stop when you start feeling better, you can only stop when you’ve gotten rid of the whole infection, or it’ll just come back stronger.

More like there are a few lucky people who think it’s their right to fuck around, and that it’s the duty of everyone else to find out.

We as a society just accept everything. It’s what we were trained to do. We get mad and make posts like this one, then go back to our daily lives, having changed little to nothing about our behavior or the behavior of others. It’s not necessarily our fault - it’s difficult for one person to make a real change, but that’s just the reality of our society.

I learned my lesson, and from day 1 at my current job I held myself back. If I could do something in an hour, I took 3, and if I found a new way of doing things that speeds things up, I kept it to myself. For the first time in my life, I’ve managed to keep a normal workload and not get burned out with an ever-moving goalpost every time I exceed my manager’s expectations. I thought it might put a target on my back when it came to layoffs, but at least for now it seems that my manager appreciates that he knows exactly how much work I can do in a week, and I get good yearly reviews and fair raises.

A kid in my neighborhood when I was growing up would always say the Devil did it to turn you away from God, but never explained how the Devil has that sort of power in the first place.

Yeah, the world doesn’t run on “if everybody just did x” as much as we’d like it to. People don’t do what they need to do in order for resources to be fairly distributed, and people don’t do what they need to do to change that. What we can do only matters when we’re already organized enough to do it. For now it’s just a reminder that all isn’t quite lost, but people seem to use it as an indicator that all is well instead.

Yeah, I generally assume all wealthy are as corrupt as this, slipping the right people the right amount of money so that they never have to actually pay for their crimes. Trump just does it out in the open because he’s not just your normal corrupt politician, he’s a showboating corrupt politician.

This was objectively a bad decision, but regardless, none of us would be here talking about this streamer if it hadn’t happened. Most won’t donate, but the more people that see it, the more likely it is that someone will donate.

We’ll just have the leaving late-night crowd play against the arriving day drinkers crowd.

We’d still need librarians to do the work at the physical libraries, and they’re always going to be the better people to ask. They’re not just people who like books; there is a lot of studying and training to be a librarian - I know 2, and they’re both among the smartest people I know, and definitely the most well-read. I’d go to them for a book-related question before I do anything else.

It’s not as convenient as just typing something up online, but that’s kinda the point. Unchecked pursual of convenience is what got us here - do the tried and true thing that takes a bit more effort, and you’ll be surprised at how much better it works than the convenient option.