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Marjorie Taylor Greene - former(recently) GA House rep

First Magic: The Gathering, and now this. Have Republicans no shame?

There is something a bit ironic about taking shots at AI while using unlicensed artwork made by others.

To me, the killer app of VR is the moment when your brain clicks over from ‘I see this room in my headset’ to ‘I’m standing in a room’, this is often called Presence.

There are a lot of things in the way of that: low resolution displays, low frame rate due to the large total resolution and poor/delayed tracking, lens type/orientation creating first and second order reflections etc. All of these are slowly improving and the solutions are becoming cheaper.

And you’re right that the software needs to catch up, that’s the chicken and egg problem. Nobody wants to develop games for VR because there is no customer base and nobody wants to spend a ton of money on VR when there are few games worth playing.

Flight sims. I’m not really a super-hardcore flight simmer. But, sure, for WW2 flight sims or something like Elite: Dangerous, it’s probably nice.

The other good thing about them is that if you’re sitting in a chair then you’re getting a lot of tactile feedback that matches your in-game perspective.

I am not a super-hardcore flight simmer but VTOL VR is probably the VR game that I have the most hours in. It’s a one man project but he does a great job of creating in-sim controls for the aircraft. You don’t (can’t?) use anything but the VR controls, grab a flight stick, press a button, tap a screen, etc. It has enough depth to the planes and systems that it feels real-ish, without requiring a multi-week training course (DCS A-10C, smh).

Another title focusing on in-sim controls is Iron Rebellion. Same idea, you’re sitting in a cockpit, a mech this time, and there are variety of in-sim controls and gauges in place of UI and hardware controls.

There are some enjoyable games, but you’re right that the price:good game ratio isn’t great, but the tech keeps getting better and the library of games is slowly growing. I think we’ll eventually reach a tipping point where all it takes is one good VR-exclusive game to drive people to the platform.

Did I hit a nerve, princess?

It sounds like you opposed that plan not 6 comments ago:

if your suggestion is to vote yourself out of it, then kindly fuck off

Oh ok, so how do we ‘get rid’ of them?

If you get so triggered when people point out that you’re wrong, maybe you should spend more time reading a book and less time trying to be insulting.

Your comments read like you’re an angsty teenager who is incapable of having a conversation like an adult.

Ok, done.

Trump is still in office.

Next step?

Not really. For the purposes of this conversation that doesn’t matter at all.

It does, because the statement that people are taking issue with:

Smart glasses and hidden cameras are two different products.

Is objectively correct and that was the only point they were trying to make. They were not claiming that it makes filming okay or that hidden cameras are not a problem.

The people are not responding to the actual words written by the person, they’re replying the the subtext that they feel was implied.

While the National Guard is prohibited from performing law enforcement on behalf of the President under the Posse Comitatus Act, the governor of the state they’re operating in can deputies them.for law enforcement.

Yes.

He doesn’t need to wage war on ICE. He just needs them to be chaparroned by armed Nation Guard troops anywhere they go, and have them arrest ICE goons when they violate the law. If ICE gets proper judicial warrants and executes them lawfully, then there shouldn’t be any problems.

That isn’t what the person that I replied to was suggesting, nor what I was replying to.

If the Governor decided to “Order them by threat of force” to leave MN then he was be operating outside of his authority and would be ignored. If he attempted to use force against federal forces in an attempt to make them leave then he would be in armed rebellion against the US and would be arrested.

The only thing protecting him, the protestors, etc, is that they have not give Trump a reason to fabricate an excuse to use the Insurrection act that would survive a Federal court issuing a TRO. The protests have been peaceful (outside of a few ICE agents rioting with tear gas and less lethal munitions) and the public statements by officials have been measured so as to not allow them the slightest excuse that would stand up in court. The Trump admin’s only move here is to try to make inflammatory statements.

They don’t have any more ICE agents (and recruitment is drying up) that is why this is happening only in one place, this is everything they can muster. So they’re putting everything into one place to both punish MN people for voting against him and to create a violent reality TV show that keeps everyone tuned in instead of talking about the Epstein files, or Trump’s billion dollar profits from corruption, or the exploding cost of food, or the shitty foreign policy disaster that he’s created.

The protests and the terrible PR skills of the administration are showing effect. Go look at any reputable polling, Trump has always been unpopular outside of his base but now he is starting to lose support among his actual base. Right now, people are sickened by the attack and the government’s response blaming him owning a gun. 2nd Amendment supporters have typically been Trump supporters but they have broken with him because of the administration’s framing of ‘he had a gun and therefore deserved to die’. Even the NRA tweeted out against this framing.

Trump is tapped out, he’s hired every white supremacist and opportunist and only has a few thousand people to muster that will do the violence that he wants and even that is backfiring on him. He has been unable to fabricate other distractions (Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, etc) and has been incompetent in handling emerging events leading to even more backlash.

People framing this like this is our last chance and only violence or armed rebellion will save us are outside agitators or the useful idiots that they control. This framing is based on the ICE circus in MN and social media propaganda, not reality.

In reality, Trump is out of troops, out of support, dying in the polls (and possibly IRL) and is running out of allies, like MTG, as more Rs smell the blood in the water and jump ship. Every major public case in the courts have gone against him, he’s lost the VAST majority of other cases (source: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration), his tariffs have pissed off the entire world and their response is targeted at his rich supporters (i.e. Jack Daniels distillery boycott).

The only thing that he can hope for is to find an excuse to invoke the Insurrection act so that it won’t be immediately blocked by a Federal Judge. Everyone that is here pushing for violence is trying to create the only out that Trump has left.

Trump isn’t all powerful, he’s playing the media game and has an army of bots from the various dictators around the world who want to see the US fail.

You’re right, I’m an idiot. Voting doesn’t work.

Tell us the plan, then, what should we do?

Don’t be a coward lay out the violence that you want to see us do to one another.

I guarantee you that if this devolves into violence and the fascists are able to use that to skip elections then you will be part of the 51st state, dead in an air strike or hunted down and killed while being labeled a ‘terrorist’ on the news based on your social media posts.

If you think that judges will make a difference then I can only tell you to get your head out of your ass, Maga politicians and organizations have been ignoring one court order after another, or get the supreme court to just say it’s fine.

This is just nonsense and not based in reality.

Here is the list of every single case involving the Trump administration: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration/tracking-trump-administration-litigation The vast majority of cases are losses and denied on appeal.

Are there still troops in California after the judge ordered them out? Is Kilmar Garcia still in CECOT after a judge ordered him returned? Has Mahmoud Khalil been deported despite a court order?

No, because the court orders are being followed. Yes, the US Justice Department lawyers do everything they can to avoid following them but they cannot tell a Judge no and the Judge is overseeing the case until their orders are followed.

You’re not arguing based on reality, you’re arguing based on social media optics.

I don’t know what it’ll take to fix this, but asking kindly will not suffice, that much is clear

“I’m not recommending violence, but nothing else will work”

Having an Impeachment trial, and blocking funding for DHS isn’t ‘asking nicely’ these are the powers that check the Executive branch in the US system of government.

If you don’t believe in that system of government then you’re no better than the alt-right fascists and are allied with enemies of the US.

I exclusively use Linux and have several family members who have Linux laptops.

I don’t think it is impossible, but they require someone in their life that can handle the issues.

They’re going to have a much harder time finding support for a Linux machine than a Windows machine.

No, it isn’t useful to browse.

I use it for grabbing low quality music and ‘subscribing’ to various channels (checks and downloads new videos every 10m) in order to avoid having to give the algorithm my eyeballs.

If you just want to scroll, something like FreeTube would do what you want. It blocks ads and has sponsorblock built-in. You can subscribe to videos via the app (which is all stored locally, not in any account, you don’t have to log-in.)

Non-power users would have no operating system, no Windows 11 support and grandma isn’t going to learn Linux

Citizens are also constitutionally entitled to refuse entry to government agents who don’t have a warrant signed by a judge. ICE is blatantly ignoring that fact with the full blessing of the federal government.

In that exact same memo, it is noted that they cannot force entry when serving warrants in a certain district.

They cannot do that because a Judge has ordered them to not do that.

Laws are not being followed.

That is true and that is the fault of the Legislative branch which has standing to bring the issue to court. They have chosen not to do that because Rs are still backing Trump.

When a case gets in front of the Judicial branch, which is still mostly functioning unlike the Legislative branch, courts have ruled against Trump in almost every single case and those same Judges have been effective at having their orders followed.

The Judicial branch is why there are no National Guard members in California, this is why Abrego Garcia is back in the US, it is why the AG for SDNY was removed from her position, it is why Mahmoud Khali is not deported.

The Judicial branch has just as much authority and power as the Executive or Legislative but it doesn’t have standing to sue the government independently and can only work through cases brought to it. The Republican-led Legislative branch is choosing to not file the cases that could meaningfully restrict the administration.

It is not within the authority of the Governor of the state to use force against federal agents.

These people pushing violence really seem to be happy with just throwing away everything about the country that we’re trying to save. These people are in lock step with the MAGA bots on the issue:

• Rules (only when I want them),
• Violence (excusable if the target is right),
• Democracy (They’re trying to steal it so lets throw it in the garbage before they can).

Don’t confuse a lot of upvotes with a popular opinion, it is trivial to make vote boosting bots on Lemmy.

If you are in the US, these people pushing this violent rhetoric are not on your side and are trying to push us into the same chaos as the MAGA forces.