[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

How active is your local Lemmy community? Mines is pretty dead but voting for the specifics you call for is still mentioned.

Of course people aren't going to be discussing the specifics of local races in the general politics community. It's entirely disingenuous to argue that's an indicator that nobody cares about local races.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 4 points 22 hours ago

On top of that, I'd say there's some nuance - nationally, you'll see Democrats reasoning with Republicans, targeting the non-maga conservatives.

However here on Lemmy, there are very few conservatives as well as a disproportionate number of third party folks, so you'll see a lot more discussion centered around third parties.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If it's easier to reason with third party voters than trump voters, it seems like the logical thing to do.

EDIT: also worth pointing out the difference between "attacking" trump voters as individuals, because they have proven themselves to truly be deplorable, and "attacking" third party voting as a decision.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 2 days ago

I only see selfishness because you obviously get butthurt over hackers.

You're projecting a lot of the preferences and priorities onto me when I've shown that steam has chosen to operate this way for nearly a decade. It's not what I want - it's what steam wants.

Steams job is to provide people with a good gaming experience, my guess is that hackers ruin that for others so they don't like it and prioritize banning hackers.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Go do some research before claiming such things. It has been a thing for many many years.

So that's the thing... The bans have also worked this way for that long, which further solidifies the idea that valve prioritizes banning hackers over being forgiving of cheating relatives...

Most people getting VAC bans are the stupid ones trying out free hacks.

Are the ones using free hacks not hackers? Seems like bans on them for hacking makes sense.

You keep asking for my solution, but my solutions are so obvious it would take a stupid person to not think of them. Hey here's one: "investigate the main accounts manually". I thought such ideas would not require a triple digit IQ to be considered obvious.

I'm going to propose that this would probably take an infeasible number of hours when you scale it up to the full customer base for steam, which looks like 132 million monthly active users.. Otherwise, like you said, it's so obvious, what else would prevent them from thinking of it and implementing it?

They already had family sharing where a ban upon the main account could have been contested. You could at least ask them to consider the age or stupidity of the person or family member using your library.

Hmm, I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but it doesn't seem like the case. If a borrower got the main account banned, it was up to the borrower to successfully appeal.

EDIT: here's a proposed change that I like. It's better than a blanket "you get 1 excused VAC ban", because with that solution what happens when you have two unruly teenagers? n+1, children, for that matter. However this would still potentially double the amount of hackers, since they could get their first strike for free before truly losing access to the game, so it really falls to how much steam wants to weigh keeping hackers out of games vs allowing folks to share libraries.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 2 days ago

A well thought out and conveyed response to the concern about hackers. Valve should implement your plan pronto.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 24 points 2 days ago

Introduction to physics professors everywhere are salivating.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The spicy potato tacos are my sleeper taco bell hit.

I did recently have the Baja blast gelato and it was super disappointing - basically a diluted slushie that's frozen, no gelato/sorbet texture at all.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 2 days ago

The sauce is 10/10

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 5 points 2 days ago

Childcare is a massive one that needs government funding. You can pay 1.5k per child and given that many places do 1 teacher to 3 infants, the literal max that one teacher can make, if every penny went to the teacher, is 4.5k/month, or 54k/year. This does not include facilities, utilities, administration, taxes etc. we all know in reality the teacher salary is much, much less.

In order to fairly compensate childcare staff, rates in reality need to be much higher. The problem is that severely limits access to childcare, which has a cooling effect on parents advancing their careers, because many will not have a choice between being a stay at home parent or working.

Therefore the government supplementing the costs is a much-needed solution.

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