In fact handegg players are more likely to suffer serious injuries because of it AFAIK. Particularly brain damage.

It’s more that the actual leftist party will take votes away from the liberals, but not the full-on nazi party. Meaning that you’d end up with something like 15% new leftist party that nobody dares vote for because it’s new, 40% dems, 45% repugnants and now the 45% is enough for them to win, whereas previously maybe it would’ve been 55% dems.

In fact, to win an election under that system, it would be beneficial to start an even more right-wing party, because that would take votes away from the GOP. But at the end of the day, it takes a couple of election cycles for 2 dominant parties to emerge and the most extremist ones are typically the ones to lose as people unite under the more centrist banners. That’s how you get republican and republican lite, where really a lot of people would prefer a socialist party and a lot of other people would prefer a national-socialistic workers party. They have to meet in the middle and get two parties that are somewhere between the two polar opposites.

They also get better parts prices than consumers if they buy bulk.

Lol prebuilts were actually cheaper when GPU prices skyrocketed and it may happen again thanks to RAM prices

My trauma all happened after the API change that prompted the move to Lemmy. If yours happened before that, maybe we have the same ex lol

You don’t get 3 or more major parties in a fptp system though. The system itself is only capable of supporting two parties at most.

The voting system needs to first be changed on a state level in every state ideally, or at least most of them, so people need to start putting a lot more effort into state elections.

Sounds like you were born in the wrong country then. Here they usually work no more than 40h a week and have decent salaries.

Syfy is where they originally aired too IIRC

I knew it would be represented!

But in top down 2D games you also use X and Y but now neither is up

Oh yeah, we walked around Manhattan and it was great. Nighttime was a lot fewer people than I would’ve thought for “the city that never sleeps”, but then we randomly stumbled upon some guys freestyle rapping near Union Square (if I recall correctly), found a super weird grocery store that sold us alcohol at like 11 PM (in my country it’s only legal to sell till 10 PM, after that only bars can serve and they can only serve open containers) (alcohol at 11 PM wasn’t the reason it was weird, it was just… very different from everything else I’d seen, including in the US, interesting vibe lol - if I remember correctly, they had tables outside where we consumed said beer, so it was kind of a bar AND a grocery store? But I may be remembering wrong here)

Brooklyn was also pretty nice to walk around. The buildings were much prettier, and we also found random places to visit. Somewhere in Williamsburg there was literally like a mini music festival vibe place in an alleyway. Like multiple tents to buy drinks and at least one stage. No noticeable signs pointing to it IIRC, just a person who sold us a ticket at the entrance of the alleyway.

Didn’t take much transit. Just the subway from our hotel near the airport to Manhattan or Brooklyn and then back at night. It worked fine, though wait times between trains were a bit longer than I’d expected for such a big city.

I’ll take a look. Arr!

Hey, that’s actually pretty interesting, thank you!

Agreed on her not being responsible for the sins of her grandfather, but it’s kinda fucked up that her grandfather was allowed to keep ruling after WWII, rather than being replaced by a family member or something.

That’s completely valid. I’ve done plenty of trauma dumping here on Lemmy. 99% of it about my ex wife and the shit she’s put me through (massive debt, constant manipulation, threats of suicide, making me feel guilty for literally everything wrong with the world, etc).

Sometimes you want to vent to someone, and you don’t want it to be anyone you know. Plus therapy can be expensive (even in my country despite having socialized healthcare, because all the therapists that work with the socialized healthcare system are booked until the next quarter after the end of the universe usually)

He was eating dinner with me in Estonia the evening that CEO died. He only flew back to the US after that.

I think OP has some trauma and just wants to vent.

I must say, in official matters it used to be common to put the last name first here in Estonia. Nowadays it’s less common, usually first name comes first. Are we “family first” or “individual first”? Idk, I think we’re kinda individualistic, but most people do still value family quite a lot.

I have no idea tbh, I just offered a hypothesis, but I haven’t dug that deep into the language lore of Doctor Who.

I would hope they do, unless there’s some work thing that takes them out of the city into bumfuck nowhere - which I can’t imagine what that is.

Prefacing my comment with, as always, “I’m a car guy”, I’ll say this: Cities are not the place for cars, and NYC is fucking amazing for being carless, at least when I visited. It could of course be even way better, and as I understand, that’s what Mamdani’s trying to do.

We have better cities for public transit and walking here in Europe, but in terms of North America, I think NYC is one of the best.

Mmm, yes, destroy people’s tires so they have to buy new ones (at least a pair with 2WD cars, or an entire set if you destroy just one tire on a proper AWD/4WD car). Surely more tires being dumped in landfills and more new tires being manufactured is good for the planet