Huh. Now that you mention it, all the linux-focused manufacturers seem to be using Nvidia for dedicated graphics. That is so weird.

Not gonna lie, it looks cool as hell. But if I get a handheld it'll be a Steamdeck. I might be more tempted if it was Linux based, though.

Then go get it! It's still running strong, so why not?

Oh dear god it's hideous, at least on mobile. Yuck.

Which lazy bastards?

Under the policies of the lesser evil, billions will die as you say.

Under the policies and rhetoric of the greater evil, a woman just got brutally murdered in California for the crime of hanging a fucking flag outside her shop.

My point, as I have been trying in vain to make this whole time (but apparently don't have the writing ability to convey) is that if you're fucked no matter what you do, then do the thing that hurts your friends less.

If you have some other course of action that can lead to actual change, then tell me. If you have some other course of action that will help my trans friends today, then tell me. Because billions dying over the next century doesn't mean much to people who get shot, stabbed, or beaten to death today.

I want to believe there's a better way, though, so explain it to me.

Okay. But if the people you vote for can only muster 3% of the vote, how does that help?

I get it in local elections, up to and including State legislature, gubernatorial races, and maybe Congress if they can get a good campaign going. That all makes sense because even if they don't win they get enough attention to attract local media and push discussion among others.

But Senators? The President? Ross Perot was an extreme outlier. The last time a 3rd party presidential candidate got more than 50 electoral votes was 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt ran as a Progressive. In the last century, the highest total electoral votes for a 3rd part went to George Wallace in 1968 running as an American Independent. He got 46 out of 538. Rounding up, that's 9%.

Now, without looking him up, tell me one issue George Wallace ran on in 1968.

So I'm asking: how does it help. If it helps, I'll try. But from where I'm sitting, it's all hopeless. I don't want to feel this way. So please, for the love of sanity, convince me.

So your answer is essentially don't vote, or be really rude with your ballot in protest.

Okay. I can do that.

How does that help? What does it accomplish?

Almost Daily. It's a manifestation of my persistent melancholic depression. At some point, at least once almost every day, I'll spend some time more or less paralyzed thinking about strangelets or meteor strikes or other shit that can wipe out the world and there's nothing we can do about it. I'll then go looking for more reasons to just not bother living if I can get off the couch.

Dude, based on that Article, Germans had the same reaction I did. The difference is that I don't care as much, because my own country is slowly descending into fascism, while you guys (I'm assuming you're German) seem to have a lock on it.

I don't have to be afraid of Germany because (almost) everyone there was horrified and reacted with disgust. Your representatives and political thinkers seem to think that this guy is an asshole, and because of German history, Germany has a responsibility to stand up and say "Fuck You" to guys like this, especially when they're German.

I don't have to worry about Germany because Germany hasn't forgotten what happens when fascism infects a country. My country, on the other hand, has apparently forgotten, and the whole fucking world should be terrified.

It can never happen here is the attitude that lets it happen. That applies whether it's happened before or not. I know Germany is very different from what is was in the 1930s. I fucking lived there in the 90s. I'm not worried about Germany. It's still a bad look.

I feel so seen...

I really wanted to like it... but after about 30 minutes I sent it in for a refund. I wouldn't call it garbage, but man, it is rough.