yeah, the way I look at it: VR has happened. The vive/index generation of pc grunt behind vr gaming made it worth it. Quest 2/3 are great headsets too - buuuuuuuttt…

as can be pointed out for so many things, Meta has ruined it for everyone by pouring in billions to make… diddly squat, then retreating to AI and throwing their hands up because their thrashing and flailing never made a multibillion profit.

slow and steady - that’s how new tech advances. not whatever the hell meta did. god, damn, did they waste geometric shittons of funding

that is some quality shitposting.

bro light that shit and change your perspective

bro that is sister wife starter kit.

well, yeah, but also…

it’s always about picking who gets to be violent, when, isn’t it? I have no doubt, emissaries or not, defiant Khwarizmis were gonna get treated violently by the mongols either way. It’s usually a part of the horde overrunning your nation, the pesky men on horses filling your families with arrows bit - which, yeah, is actually really violent, and the burning down of your house, and the rape of your livestock etc., etc., etc.,

perhaps the Khwarizmi didn’t think they’d win the fight, but they could at least take out the assholes who brought the message.

thermopylae/300 vibes to typing this out… but I don’t recall the ‘kicks emissary into pit’ part being historic…

I kinda suspect that straight guys just have very little sense of what actually makes a guy look hot.

ngl, until I read that part, I wondered if Pete Davidson had two alts on lemmy.

All that they’re great at is detouring, distancing, playing down, doubling-tripling down, disassociating, strawmen and more illogical fallacies.

it’s all they have, facts have an overwhelming liberal bias; science and research keep making them look like fools for their decisions and lifestyles; they’re going to try to repeal the 19th amendment because they’re tired of losing the votes from half the population.

never do they try to fix their problems, address the needs of their base, it’s always doubling down on hating some portion of the population that must be to blame, see POC, transfolk, the dark scourge of ANTIFA etc

normally I’d agree, but they really shot themselves in the face this time - conservatives have been bleating about them files for so long they can’t let go now. and I suspect there’s lots of other revealing shit:

IE: Goldman Sachs and others flagging transactions from Epstein (nearly a billion!) as potential fraud but processing them anyway, for years.

And now that thousands of FBI agents had to comb through that shit, i wouldn’t be surprised if there are further leaks of unredacted materials, pics, video etc.

tis a banger.

I also like Chicken on a raft.

I think I’ve overcome my insecurities suddenly. if this is the alternative, conservative levels of confidence it is!

everything is projection with these anti-intellectual shitbags. they don’t understand how ANYTHING fucking works, beyond the grift, and therefore NO ONE could possibly know.

dear god hard drive disks alone… so fucking dumb.

it’ll take decades to clear out all the bugs, literal and electronic.

AI’s gonna ruin country music. Watch, their trucks are gonna run away, they’ll catch their dog cheating and their wives are all broke down.

DOWN BY THE RIVER

I’m sorry but if you’re going to respond we need to know is the differential large or ?

2012 Google is still available

…? I’ve heard of kagi…

we need a campaign for ‘Google Classic’ - no ai, roll back enshittification, bring back don’t be evil…

no doubt.

sounds dry lol

protip: leave the people in your will with a map to find your treasures in the horde.

because oh holy fuck is it hard making sense of what’s in those stacks when they have to move on to other housing or die.