Not happening.

Games would become Epic exclusive before they give up their KLAC, and that would hurt Steam far more than it would hurt Denuvo. Steam would not make such a poor business decision.

If I were Steam, I’d insert barriers to purchases a Denuvo game. No promotion on the Steam storefront, a warning before purchase, etc.

EDIT: I thought Denuvo was KLAC for a second. Please disregard this entire reply.

Also pineapples are gross.

I’m not really against AI (specifically text-based GenAI), but AI does change the reality of using the internet. I need to be able to promote trustworthy domains in my search results and accumulate such a list over years.

Brave search technically has such a feature, but firstly the owner is a homophobe, and secondly the feature isn’t really as power-user oriented as I’d like.

They’re a luddite, if the site wasn’t down then I’d doubt their credentials.

Get a separate device for work. You shouldn’t be working on your personal computer anyway.

I really need to switch to Kagi, but it’s American so I don’t want to give them money.

And unfortunate timing … then again when hasn’t been with how long Trump’s refused to release the Epstein list.

I stopped reading them after the first 20 or so.

“Voting against the Nazi’s didn’t work for Germans, so let’s just try letting the Nazi’s win from the get-go”

Trump is an exception to the Republican rule, not for his incompetence but for his unpredictability.

And the domestic policy of the Republicans effects the rest of the world too. Climate change is a big one, Trump would never pass the “inflation reduction act” and as much as that bill had flaws it did contribute to renewable energy in the United States. Trump also cut USAID and while that funding probably wouldn’t come back under the Democrats, it is yet another example of how non-Americans were hurt by his actions.

I’d say Trump isn’t much better, but the Gaza Peace Plan is an improvement over the status quo from before. But the parallels between Trump and Hitler are far stronger than between Biden and Hitler, especially on domestic policy.

I’m not faulting people for not voting in 2024, Trump was more of a wildcard than Biden. Voting Biden in guaranteed a continued genocide but nobody knew what Trump would do.

Trump is an exception to the Republican rule, his foreign policy is very idiosyncratic and his domestic policy is more mask-off (metaphorically, not literally). The Republican party behind him is more uniform in their unconditional support for Israel. The Democrat party is fractured on that front and broadly (though not unanimously) united against the most murderous of Trump’s domestic policies.

Maybe abstaining or voting third-party will incite a communist revolution, I don’t know, but right now more people are dying than would under a Democrat senate majority and I don’t see them being able to make things worse in Gaza (and they’re not really ideologically pro-genocide, they just don’t care as long as they have access to Israeli military bases).

It’s possible they would. Maybe they’d want to make sure the government wants them to stay operating at any cost, because if the government fails to do so they’ll have 120,000 unemployed engineers.

Do you honestly believe “the Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same”. Do you not accept that the abortion policy of the Democrats is better, for example?

Collectively, I have never heard any Lemmy Communists acknowledge anything negative about the North Korean state at true. Not even once.

The exact same thing, but faster and with less uncertainty.

Yeah, but maybe give yourself more time to do that by, for example, not electing Hitler.

The oligarchs who own America are not a monolith, nor is congress. The Democrats and Republicans are in reality, slightly different.

After skimming wikipedia, yes. I’m also aware of what would’ve happened if Hitler was elected instead.

I’m not saying that there is no US propaganda against North Korea and other communist countries. Just that when you are able to dismiss everything as US propaganda you end up as far from the truth as when you blindly accept all US propaganda as true.

The reason I changed my pro-Ukraine stance was not because I debated with pro-Russia zealots on Lemmy. It was because I heard from someone who recognizes that Russia is imperfect and the war unjustified, but that Russia’s concerns were legitimate and that America clearly had a hand in causing it. I still support Ukraine’s territorial integrity BTW, just not anything like the total collapse of the Russian state.

Anyway, an acknowledgement that the North Korean state has real issues of their own making would disprove this. That information is so restricted is evidence of that.

Is more engineers necessary better? Especially when it gets to 120,000.