I made the mistake of getting an S25 recently when I moved off iPhones for the first time in years. I love the look of Samsung hardware and I had one of their phones way back but I hadn’t kept up to date enough on Android to know that flashing custom ROMs is practically dead which wrecked my plans.
Now I’m just waiting for this thing to be paid off and I’ll get a Pixel (or preferably a Moto if possible by then) to install Graphnee on
I mean, the definition of a “country” doesn’t really have a minimum or maximum level of corruption needed to be called one or anything like that so that’s a bit silly.
Unless you mean the US as the country we knew is gone which would make more sense but even then, a lot of people would argue that this is what the US has always been like but that it’s just now more emboldened
Yeah 100%. Their response to the event is pretty much where all of my feelings come from on the subject. They explicitly state they knew they were releasing literal nazi iconography and then explicitly chose to put it out where it wouldn’t get them in legal trouble.
Not only that but IIRC they actually changed the original game dev’s marketing material to use the symbols without the devs even knowing.
It’s all pretty fucking damning and it makes me incredibly sad
Yeah I’m still pretty concerned about that whole event but it seems like everyone has just forgotten about it.
I could have forgiven the initial email as a rogue nazi intern but their official response being “we made sure not to send it to Germans and its on you all for seeing nazi symbols as nazi symbols” is pretty fucking problematic. Also before anyone defends them as just being pagan symbols, the ones they chose to use were both modern creations by nazi germany
For anyone who’s not up to date: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/
Friedrich Merz (Germany) 🤝 Doug Ford (Ontario, Canada) it seems 🫠
I have literally never heard of Portlandia before, no need to post saying no need to post
They also hide tax money by operating as a “charity” IIRC
edit: they’re operated as a non profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_Foundation
I can’t express how much I’d rather give my money to China over any American shit. Like:
Canada/Local > most of the world > China > […]x100 > USA/Israel
I mean, it was obviously a mistake but fair to judge even if it’s on a completely different scale to half your country eagerly electing a modern day pedophilic fascist a SECOND time who has proceeded to fuck over most of the world and repeatedly threatened to annex my country.
You could have mentioned Canada’s treatment of indigenous peoples and the residential schools that went on as late as the 1990s which would have also been a fair thing to judge (I judge it too) but I’m still going to judge the USA harshly for enthusiastically electing a shit starting demented pedo nazi
Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished
We’re not […]
Nah you guys definitely are being judged
Productive? Yes. Healthy? No. I’m trying to move my custom built server into a used 3U enterprise 16x HDD slot server chassis and I’ve only almost caused a fire twice
That’s kind of me because as someone who knows computers well and knows how computer repair places are, I can assume mechanics are the same. I usually plan to do my own repairs but I hate cars, am lazy, and rarely drive mine so I usually go way too long before just taking it in far later than I should have
edit: my car is 700km past when it should have had an oil change and the muffler is loose and bouncing around right now for example :)
Oh, nice glad it’s working! ps fuck you
You might enjoy the movie Troll 2
Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have
I get where you’re coming from but it’s more about the moderation of this community I think rather than the personal flavour preferences of shitposts.
Like American-centric shitposting, fine, we’re all used to that unfortunately, but straight up US political news is definitely not relevant here and should be removed. Since that doesn’t happen, the community takes to basically wrecking the place for a bit to remind everyone what our goal here is (shit posts and memes). US politics may be shit but there’s a million other places to post that stuff
I do find it annoying but it’s also a bit of a protest against this community getting overrun by Americans ranting about American politics which is also really annoying
I didn’t even like flying into Ronald Reagan international the last time I was forced to go to the US
That’s how you end up in a big Rideau Street McDonald’s brawl while holding a raccoon at 2am on a Sunday morning in the Byward Market in Ottawa, Ontario Canada
I’ve always been a little confused by that meme since it’s never been an issue at Canadian Taco Bells