NutWrench

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[–] NutWrench 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don't. Through ~~bribes~~ "contributions" they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also "modify" pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment.

[–] NutWrench 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's one thing for ME to have a perspective and quite another for a news company owned by billionaires and seen by millions of people to have a perspective.

[–] NutWrench 13 points 2 weeks ago

So is Donald Trump "presidential" yet? Trump will never get a bigger or better venue than Madison Square Garden between now and the election and THIS is the stupid shit he is going with.

[–] NutWrench 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.

[–] NutWrench 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's called "sane-washing" where our "liberal news media" (you know, the one that's owned by six corporations) covers up Donald Trump's fuck-ups or re-writes them as subtle genius.

Meanwhile Harris has to not make a single mistake, no matter how small.

[–] NutWrench 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're using Steam, they use a native Linux client and a custom Proton that has all the settings and presets for their game library.

Everything I bought on Steam works for me under Linux Mint. And almost all my older games, like "Deus Ex" or "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" I can run directly under Wine with the default settings.

[–] NutWrench 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, you should care about it because that's how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

[–] NutWrench 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the "real" one by the number of subscribers it has.

[–] NutWrench 9 points 2 weeks ago

Also, make sure you own at least one media giant. Then, you can use it to spread agit-prop about how our society shouldn't do anything that inconveniences rich a$$holes.

[–] NutWrench 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

At this rate, we're going to have our first trillionaire by the end of the decade. How much is enough? How big does that pile of money need to be?

[–] NutWrench 70 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The guy is literally too stupid to stop hitting himself in the nuts. And then he blames the "deep state" for making him hit himself in the nuts.

[–] NutWrench 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's life in Goober Nation.

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