certainly, but I live in the US, so that’s automatically socialism and you’re automatically commie scum for suggesting it.

sorry, thems the rules

Oh I know they’re bullshit.

Still would’ve been left with a crippling amount of debt for something I had no control over if not for insurance, no matter what the actual number would’ve been.

I spent six weeks in the hospital in the US, and my bill (before insurance) was over $400k.

Two can play at that game: you can always see your nose. Always. Your brain just ignores it, but now you can’t.

:^)

ahh, I never saw that one advertised myself, lucky me. The only Chromium fork with heavy sponsorship and clown-show-antics surrounding it I could think of was Brave.

Yeah I’ve heard all of that jazz, it was the stuff I quoted I’d not heard about.

that they heavily recommended a Chromium fork that turns out was maintained by a prepubescent boy hiding furry porn in the builds.

you know, I’ve heard a lot of shit about Brave, but I must’ve missed that one – or is this another, different, heavily sponsored Chromium fork?

I can’t believe we’ve done this, either.

while I appreciate your effort, I do in fact remember a time when I was more naive and positive (~5+ years ago), and I also remember people being just as awful to me and to each other at that time, too; the only real difference being that I was frequently awful right back – I just haven’t got the energy for that anymore. If your point is that my attitude colors or affects my reality, that doesn’t really hold water for me. the world around me hasn’t changed that drastically in that time (if anything it’s gotten slightly worse), I’ve just become more perceptive of it. And while sticking my head in the sand and pretending the world is a fine place full of fine people does sound like a wonderful delusion to entertain, it is just that. A delusion. While there are certainly some fine people in it, the vast majority of people are anywhere from unaware or indifferent, to actively making the world a worse place.

if the vast majority of your interactions with other people are neutral or positive, absent of transaction or cruelty, I’m very happy for you. genuinely. Unfortunately your personal experience, however, doesn’t invalidate mine; nor does it invalidate the mountains of human awfulness throughout history and up into the present day that I could list off to prove my point – keyword being ‘could’, here, as I’m not very interested in arguing, or in pissing on the parade you’re apparently having. If nobody’s pissed on yours, yet, why would I want to be the one to do so? so go, be happy, dismiss what I say as “cynical doomer shit” while you still have that fleeting luxury.

wait til you figure out that all of human history is one giant cycle of people being incredibly cruel to other people for incredibly tenuous reasons and realize this cycle will, presumably, never end; and thus every interaction you have with other people is if not driven by transaction (what can you do for them), likely to be driven by cruelty.

sweet dreams, it doesn’t get better.

that’s when you send the new offer of a whopping $21.37 and add “I’ll even throw in half a jimmy johns sammich if you accept in the next 30 minutes”

God is dead and we killed him

Ah, what a marvelous idea, we should look to the present!

[reads the news]

… Hm. I think I may have noticed a problem with this theory.

This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?

She wouldn’t have even had time to get to wish 2 and 3. “All water” includes the water in her body. Turning all of it into milk would probably kill you.

fair enough, goes to show the gaps in my knowledge – but after seeing one guy desperately trying to crawl away with his legs blown off before being blown up by a second drone, I decided that was all the Ukraine footage I needed to see.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but: has anyone in Ukraine actually tried a shotgun?

I generally try to avoid watching anything that’ll scar my psyche, but, as far as I’m aware soldiers in the field don’t usually carry shotguns, but rifles, in the anticipation of dealing with enemies wearing body armor/at some distance. And hitting a moving drone with a rifle, yes absolutely that’d be a bitch – one projectile is not enough, especially for an erratic moving target.

Police (and I’m assuming ICE as well), generally dealing with people not equipped with body armor, tend to keep shotguns handy for a multitude of reasons (breaching doors, not overpenetrating through walls, etc), and skeet shooting is already a thing (though admittedly it would still be harder if the drone was moving erratically).

All this is to say: I don’t know anything for a fact, because I’ve tried to avoid watching anything that’ll scar me, but has anyone in Ukraine on either side had access to a shotgun or two before getting turned into gibs? because I can absolutely believe that soldiers with rifles would fail to shoot a drone, but I wouldn’t be so quick to discount a couple people with shotguns unless that’s already a solution the Russians tried before the cope cages. Especially in the context of just filming them, your drone probably isn’t moving very fast or flying very high if you’re trying to get a good shot.

That sounds like a fine way to have your (presumably expensive) drone carrying your (presumably also expensive) camera hit with buckshot.

I’m not saying don’t try anyways. But there’s a good chance the gestapo just starts blastin’.

And that any evidence of the zombie eating brains is simply Western propaganda.