Yeah, it’s a pretty deep pit of depression. I suspect most people who consider themselves blackpilled are clinically depressed. Not at all useful. But then again, neither is being judgmental of them.

I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

Easier said than done, unfortunately. They need sound meters to do anything reliably, and then there’s the issue of catching them. Even slow, inefficient bikes tend to be much faster and more maneuverable than patrol cars, so motorcyclists are quite a bit more likely to run. Especially the ones that are already violating noise ordinances.

The reason they don’t want you using your own WiFi access point is probably because dorms are prone to over congestion if everyone sets up their own WiFi network.

If you wanted to fuck with them-and you don’t mind spending money-then you could set up your WiFi and get internet via mobile carrier or starlink, so that you never actually have to agree to their terms. Then when/if someone comes around to bitch at you you can watch them slowly come to the conclusion that they’ve got nothing on you.

Otherwise your options are to follow the rules to the letter and live without vr streaming, or accept that you might get in trouble. Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.

As for connecting multiple devices without paying; there’s probably some creative ways to tunnel all your traffic through a single device to get around that. Could still get you in trouble if you’re caught.

If you’re doing anything that could get you in trouble with the school make sure you save the email in which they told you using your own router is allowed.

TIL Tesla has a factory (factories?) In Germany. My mistake.

Well they’re made here so it stands to reason they’d be a bit cheaper. No clue about the corolla tho

I’d be surprised if it’s even that high. Just going outside would spike your chance of skin cancer.

Others have cited sources about how wrong you are. It’s also just common sense. With the sheer amount of diet soda that the world drinks, it would be fairly obvious by now if aspartame was significantly carcinogenic.

Even the text you quoted (but didn’t cite, not helpful) only says that prolonged exposure may be a risk factor. Quite a leap to then say that “aspartame = cancer”

I believe its mostly soda water and caramel coloring (no duh)

The sweetness is from aspartame, a very common artificial zero-calorie sweetener.

Aside from that it’s gonna be a (trade secret, they’ll never tell us) mixture of artificial and natural flavorings. All virtually zero calorie, and probably in very small amounts.

I mean, maybe but what will you do if they fail to appear before court? I don’t think the undead are super concerned with prison sentences

Well, I was gonna run win10 until its service life ends next year. I guess MS want to speed up the timeline a little.

Arch here I come.

PlayStation what? Did they announce this thing at the last state of play?

I always watch those, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of this…

There’s a lot of information, there’s also a lot of misinformation. Many people don’t trust authorities, sometimes for understandable reasons, so they end up in the fringes.

Also, the Nazis, and even the Confederates, weren’t all that long ago in the grand scheme. A couple generations. Many people learn these tendencies from their family.

Also incels are somewhat different from Nazis/fascists. There’s obviously a lot of overlap. There’s always been men who had trouble with women, but I think being a male virgin after a certain age is enormously more vilified these days than it was in, for instance, the 50s, even among more progressive, left leaning groups. Admittedly, that’s anecdotal so I could be wrong.

And their customers are unhappy with the catastrophic service failure. Cry me a river.

I’ll stop using YouTube altogether before I disable my ad blocker. My time is simply more valuable than whatever video I’m watching.

Open mobile app support

Ad free (depending on the app and instance, but its pretty easy to get Lemmy without ads)

No CEO to make whacky, unpopular decisions without clear purpose or recourse

No shareholders whose priorities will always take precedence over the users

There’s also something to be said for being part of a smaller community

Of course any and all problems can occur in microcosm within a particular instance or community, but it’s trivial to just block that instance/community. As for brigading, bullying, and harassment, Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature, unfortunately.

If we’re lucky it’ll be better than the Halo series. That’s a damn low bar, though.

Because the casting made it clear they aren’t even trying to make a true adaptation is the games, so they aren’t courting any Borderlands fans.

And everyone else is asking why they made this trashy, lame mad Max ripoff.

And it’s not really appropriate for kids, so you can’t even use it to make little Timmy shut up for 2 hours.

And there isn’t a new game coming out (afaik) so no brand synergy.

They haven’t given a single person a single reason to watch it except ‘Kevin Hart is allegedly funny, right?’

Which takes me to think, maybe there are things men need emotionally that women cannot provide, but I couldn’t write a list.

You could probably write entire books and doctoral theses about this right here. In fact I’m sure people have.

I think, fundamentally, men need the same things women need: love, support, a sense of belonging, opportunities for self improvement, on top of all of Maslow’s needs, and more. All things that are often denied to people for various societal and economic reasons. And some men will deny themselves these things because we are lied to about what will make us happy.

More than anything many men feel the need to be in control of all aspects of their life. Control their finances, their property, their spouse. But it’s impossible to be always in control, so there will always be an angst there. Men who have everything they thought they needed to be happy, and still aren’t, may sooner or later look for someone to blame. That makes then vulnerable to divisive rhetoric.

I’ve never been married but I am a man who, frankly, hasn’t ever been very happy in life despite being loved by my family; yes I think a married person can feel very lonely.

For what it’s worth, they’d never have caught him anyway

This is really cool. I do wonder how often “third-party rights or security concerns” will be deemed to apply, though.