notaviking

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[–] notaviking 2 points 2 weeks ago

But pure speculation

[–] notaviking 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like a guide here for how to include steam branding, but "Powered by SteamOS" branding might be referring to Valve letting third parties, maybe Asus Ally for example, come preinstalled with SteamOS instead of Windows.

[–] notaviking -3 points 2 weeks ago

No! Who will control the Congo then...

[–] notaviking 3 points 1 month ago

Like the easiest choice ever, I keep burning my fingers everywhere else yet Mint is the one I always come back to

[–] notaviking 8 points 1 month ago

The one kid smashed a kid's face into a toilet till it broke, toilet and kid's face, and news crew came filming where we found out almost all our classes are made out of asbestos, late 2000s

[–] notaviking 12 points 1 month ago

So disappointed that no meteorologist said: "a meteor probably".

[–] notaviking 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah I feel like an outlier in this post. I was engaged and dreamt big, like 2-5 kids, 2-4 dogs. So I bought a big house, which I am very fortunate to afford because I live in a rural mining area. So sitting with a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom, 2 living area, outside area by the pool, we call it a lapa, large kitchen with two separate washing areas, triple garage + area for additional 4 vehicles. The problem was she got knocked up by someone else unfortunately 6 months later, so I have a big ass house now. So I basically opened it up for people in need, this week I will have 4-5 people living with me, an abused mother with her mother to support her during the trail, hectic what some men are capable of, next week it will be about two, basically a long-term room mate, she started out as a temp but really helps in the household looking after my dogs, so it is a win win for me, and another guy that got fired and just needs a couch for a couple of days.

Also 4 dogs, 3 adopted and one was my own.

But god I miss my small 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom flat. Sounds weird but that is all I needed except a garage which it did not have, I love working and maintaining my vehicles myself.

But I am keeping my house since property prices went crazy this last year-ish, it is now cheaper paying my bond than renting a 1 bedroom flat plus nowhere for my furry dogs. Plus if I do get my family one day, they will have an awesome house

[–] notaviking 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Geez imagine if the lowest temperature your country ever recorded was 18.1°C

[–] notaviking 0 points 1 month ago

Cannot believe iPhone does not have the sugon feature

[–] notaviking 1 points 1 month ago

They were, give it till January and they will be fine

[–] notaviking 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok it is your choice fully, and is in my opinion a good choice, but as a non American I thought of this funny hypothetical question.

So even during the first civil war you were against the Republican party?

[–] notaviking 1 points 1 month ago

Well I was not even focused on the USA in my reasoning of why in Mexico it is a bad thing to extend the democratic process to the election judicial branch of government or generally every decision to the public.

The USA has issues in their democratic elections, gerrymandering in certain states being one, the electoral college giving most or all the electoral votes to the winner and not a portion in relation to votes, propaganda being openly discussed on "entertainment" news channels. Then there is even lobbying that is allowed, politicians being able to buy and sell stock based on insider information, paid speaking events.

And the ruling by elites will in any system be an issue, even oppression by the majority can be an issue, that is usually why you have a good constitution, that lays the foundation of how government should work, the different spheres and how it should protect the most vulnerable in society. It has mechanisms to protect against an interest group gaining power to basically twist the system to their will and finally the last resort is the democratic vote of the people to ensure accountability.

After these mechanisms have failed there is no pretty answer on how to easily get back to a fair system. In my country South Africa, where we had a system that disenfranchised the majority of the population, I am glad that we had a bloodless coup d'etat and now we have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, but even that wasn't enough again from a connected small majority from almost ruling the country. Luckily in our last election, in the first time in 30 years the ruling party lost their majority and now we have a 10+ party coalition ruling majority government, and in my opinion things are going good, but we know how fragile our democracy is and try to be as engaged as citizens can be.

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