Apple will tie themselves in knots to make it impossible to repair your tech 3rd party, and maybe even refusing to fix it if it WAS repaired 3rd party before, but I’ve never heard of them also requiring that it be destroyed and your personal information given over.
It’s honestly impressive to find out that someone is WORSE than Apple when it comes to repairing and customer rights.
The problem is that you assume they believed his screeching of unfair treatment because he was being treated unfairly. You assume that now that he’s once again gotten beneficially special treatment, his cries about how unfair those in power are being to him won’t land anymore. For most of his base, though, that just won’t be the case. At this point it’s very easy for him to just lie to his base, and they’ll eat it up.
“The crooked Biden Crime Family Injustice department is still demanding I pay $175 Million, or else I don’t get to have my fair rights, it’s a scam, it’s blackmail, and it’s unfair, and I won’t pay it on principal. I could pay it, I could pay the bigger one, but I won’t do it because what they’re doing to me is wrong.”
Sure, anyone with half a brain can fact check that and tear it to pieces, but Trump’s base don’t WANT to fact check him, so they won’t. And even when someone does, it’s still easy for him to justify it to his base.
“They reduced the bond because they knew they were wrong, they knew what they were doing wasn’t right, but they were trying to save face so they couldn’t get rid of it entirely, so they tried to be just a little less unfair instead of doing the right thing. See even people who hate me and are out to get me know I’m right.”
Again, utter bullshit that absolutely does not stand up under scrutiny, but the only people who are actually scrutinizing his statements are the people who wouldn’t vote for him, or donate to him, anyway.
Don’t forget that he murdered people at a BLM protest, so Cons also think he’s a hero.
Pissbaby Kyle much prefers it when he can shoot the people he provokes, but when he has to use his words he proves once again he’s nothing but a pissbaby snowflake, melting under scrutiny.
It’s not a question of whether or not they notice, it’s a question of whether or not they care. They don’t vote for him because of his policies, they vote for him because he wants to hurt the people they don’t like. They vote for him because “The Left” doesn’t want him. He literally says his first day in office would be his Dictator Day and they ate it up.
The irony of literally anyone (eligible) not voting for Biden specifically because of his handling of the Gaza situation, and thereby doing their part to help Donald “Gotta Finish the Problem” Trump win, makes my bones hurt. I hate this timeline and I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Honestly nationalizing it would be a bad idea. Once it’s government owned, then the 1st amendment would actually apply and banning people, including the more openly Nazi accounts than you can imagine, would probably be illegal. It would be overrun with even more heinous filth than it houses now.
It really is best for everyone that Twitter dies, and good news! Under Musk’s incredible zero-win leadership, it looks pretty inevitable!
Pathfinder 1e is basically D&D 3.75. Everything from 3.5 is fully compatible with Pathfinder 1e, and Pathfinder fixed and improved some shortcomings in 3.5.
I mean, 3D printing itself was just a gimmick, some niche little curiosity that didn’t have any practical use. Things improve, new use cases emerge, times change.
For anyone who stopped reading at the headline, it’s because the material they were using didn’t reach the strength requirements of the project (5,000 psi), despite what previous tests had suggested (6,000 to 8,000 psi). With revisions to the material used, they intend to begin working on the second planned house in the spring.
Perhaps I should have clarified that for the sake of discussion I was taking OP’s comment at face value, but the essentials are the same either way. Whether it’s a chain-wide declaration that napkins are done, a single store doing away with them, or just a sufficiently casual attitude to restocking them that allowed them to run out in the first place, the math in the end is all the same. They can and will let their service get a little shittier, because they know they’ll save more money than they lose.
I think it’s less that we’re expected to sympathize, and more just that they’ve realized enough people will tolerate it. With OP’s example, Taco Bell has clearly decided that whatever business they may lose due to people deciding to not go to Taco Bell anymore because of the lack of napkins will be less than whatever they save by not stocking napkins anymore.
And they’re right.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shitty thing to do, but between people in general not realizing that this place doesn’t even have napkins anymore, and people deciding they still want semi-delicious garbage tacos anyway, they’re really not going to see a big dip in revenue. They’ve simply realized that they really can just make their presented experience a little shittier just to save some money.
As a DM I would explicitly make the Concentration DC vs Vicious Mockery higher than normal.
The difference lies in how we got here. One means finding a new community, assessing it, and integrating into it. It means seeing the new community as distinctly not Reddit. The other is effectively a “Come as you are” invitation that will just directly import reddit’s culture, after which it will be effectively too late to trim less desirable behaviors.
If you just funnel reddit users onto Lemmy, you’re just going to get a shittier version of Reddit. You’ll be selecting for people who are tired of, can’t use, or rejected from reddit, but didn’t make the move on their own. That will result in growth, but at the cost of quality. Specifically reaching out to reddit users sends the message that you just want to be reddit for people who can’t or won’t use reddit anymore.
Expansion should come naturally. As Lemmy grows and improves, new users will naturally gravitate over, but because it wasn’t some sudden influx of reddit users they’ll be less inclined to just bring Reddit’s culture with them.
Thanks, I hate it.
And if you can hit 8 creatures with a single fireball, then everyone involved is getting exactly what they deserve.
Now see what a wizard has to do to do all that to a single target.
Doesn’t he reveal it in literally the first conversation with him? Or do you have to actually talk to him a second time to get that detail? That’s hardly a spoiler.
The technical reasons including but not limited to “Nintendo told us to go fuck ourselves.”