Yeah a solid half of the military hoped they’d get put in some sort of admin position, never leave the base, get college paid for and never think about it again

Not that the US military is good but soldiers have better training, clearer and better enforced rules of engagement, and generally didn’t sign up to brutalize the people of their own country (just others).

This is true outside of the US too. As a general rule soldiers are much more likely to get pissed off when you tell them to shoot at their fellow citizens than cops are.

Uncommon Soviet L. Germany should’ve never been allowed to reunify, it should’ve been divided further and mostly absorbed into its neighbors.

At the end of WW2 the unification of Germany was still in living memory, and there were two world wars because it. Germany should not be a sovereign state.

Immediately trash all offers for increased limits

Nah you should accept the increase just don’t use it. Keeps your usage percentage low which helps your credit score

tell the swiss guard that they’re doing great and i love them and their pikes and jaunty outfits

(Important)

All the chuds that wear crosses will be excommunicated as demon worshippers

What about cute goth girls though can they continue to wear crosses

canonise Fidel Castro (while going straight to Marx, Lenin or Stalin might be funnier eventually, inflicting otherwordly levels of psychic damage on gusanos has the best immediate payoff)

Ooh ooh this’ll be fun sure let’s go

• Excommunicate Joe Biden, JD Vance, and any other prominent Catholics in positions of power who have even passively supported Israel

• Remind people that charging interest is a sin and will prevent your entry into heaven. You must confess and atone, giving back all interest charged to your victims.

• It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We’re gonna be saying that a lot. If you have wealth, the only way to salvation is to give up all of your wealth. If you give it to the church the church will make sure your needs are met.

• Declare Israel an enemy of… humanity? Christendom? Not exactly sure on what wording would be best for the pope. But either way call on all Christian nations to use military force to end the criminal Israeli occupation of the Holy Land, and all Christians to oppose Israel through boycotts, divestment, and even violent action.

• You know those groups that have been doxxing anti-genocide activists? The Catholic Church will now be doing that for Israelis, and especially IDF members. If you are IDF or former IDF and you are outside of Israel, you should be worried about seeing your face on a billboard outside the local Catholic Church with your name and address and a list of your war crimes. Catholic followers should be encouraged that should they do something violent to these Nazis, God will commend them.

• Unironically we’re doing what another user said, straight marriage is still banned but priests are now allowed to marry other men

• We’re fixing homelessness. Temporarily we can use space in existing churches as shelters, but we will also build lots of housing that is rented at or below cost. This housing will also have communal dining halls with freely provided meals.

• Birth control and abortion are cool and good

• Unmarried sex is also cool and good just use protection

• Being gay or trans is also cool and good

• Some sort of declaration on the rights of children

• Speaking individually to each of the 6 Catholic members of the U.S. Supreme Court and showing them the secret footage of the JFK assassination where you watch his soul go straight to hell after and making sure we’re on the same page. If they’re not, I am willing to stage at least one of them getting angry and making an attempt on my life so the Swiss Guard had to merc them. Probably Alito.

• Declare using generative AI and LLMs a sin

• Make all archives about collaboration with Nazis, the CIA or other similar organizations publicly available

• Excommunicate all members of the church involved in coverups of child abuse

• Speak to Luigi Mangione. Declare him a political prisoner and a hero of the world, calling for his release. If the US still goes all the way to executing him, he will be immediately canonized as a saint.

• I would say cats can go to heaven but Francis already did that one, hell yeah

• Climate change is God’s punishment for capitalism. We must follow the lead of the People’s Republic of China to fully decarbonize the world economy and prevent this destruction of God’s creation. Declare the oil industries sinful, excommunicate anyone who refuses to quit their job for an oil company.

Maybe my confusion about that lies in the fact that I’ve only ever used homebrew for piracy?

Like okay you managed to do all this without using a single line of Nintendo’s code, now I can play this completely illegitimate copy of Mario Kart without breaking Nintendo’s copyright.

The only reason to not use Nintendo’s code is to avoid getting caught, and seeing as this news is only coming out almost 20 years after the Wii when the homebrew scene has mostly moved on anyway means that wasn’t too big of a concern as long as no one say, in charge of the Wii homebrew software throws a temper tantrum about it.

Yeah see that’s where it really loses me, like I’ll be honest I just don’t think plagiarism is that big of a deal. It’s bad sure. But like, it’s not theft, it’s just a dick move. This seems like such an overreaction.

Dear Nancy,

Enclosed you will find a plan to go down in history as a positive figure instead of a feckless ghoul good at nothing but insider trading.

Best,
ClimateStalin

Classic “I wish we lived in the world conservatives think exists”

Marvel Rivals - Started playing with some of my wow guild mates, v fun. I don’t get super into hero shooters but it’s a fun thing to do with friends.

Dredge - Finally got around to pirating it, nice game to play while my spouse and I listen to a podcast

Baldur’s Gate 3 - Slow progress, don’t have that much time I can really sit down with headphones on and focus on something but it’s so good.

Ah okay yes that’s the part I misunderstood, that is fucked. When it’s not costing you anything or limiting you just attribute credit ffs

Imagine if Nancy Pelosi was secretly funding Maoist guerillas in Kentucky

So not even shut down by Nintendo, shut down by someone who went “waaah waaah this is copyright infringement”?

Yeah man you’re making the “Pirate Games” machine of course there’s copyright infringement involved I’m shocked you ever thought there wasn’t

“Program on Wii uses Wii code” no shit? Of course it would. It’s a program on the Wii!

Am I missing something here?

Progressive’s plug-in thing that gives you a discount if you don’t brake too hard strongly encourages running red lights and slowing down to a dangerous degree on rural roads long before your turn, threatening you with increased rates if you don’t do these dangerous things.

Like, these things should be so very incredibly illegal. A device that charges you money for slamming on your brakes is a device that discourages quickly braking when necessary, which is so fucking dangerous.

Patents should be so specific that it’s basically a joke how easy it is to get around them. Like, anything past building the exact same product to the exact specifications listed shouldn’t be patent infringement.

I should be able to build an iPhone 15 but all the components are 5% bigger so they don’t match the patent filing and it’s not infringement. For digital things, unless I straight up stole your code and assets, absolutely not.

Also patents should expire after like, 5 years, 10 at the most. Not just because I hate capitalism. Even using the explicit logic behind why patents exist, longer patent terms are harmful. You allow people to patent things to “encourage innovation” by ensuring people have the right to profit off their inventions. But after a few years that’s done, and longer terms prevent people from building on the work of people that came before.

Because reality is sad and I like media that reflects and comments on reality

And there isn’t even a shortage of lasers! There’s plenty of people getting shot at!

Like holy shit, have subway surfer tiktok videos ruined your brain so much that you can’t listen to a well-paced content-rich conversation? It’s not like it’s a lot of talking where nothing gets said, every conversation is so dense I catch details on a second watch.