Surely you understand why people would judge that decision as dickish then right? You understand that if everyone had the same mentality it’d be chaos? That it’s basically a “well, I got mine!” attitude?
Any of these things? X
No? I didn’t think so. Ah well.
If you live off the grid and support yourself completely then more power to you. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case though and you can’t simply decide to not pay tax because you disagree with SOME decisions the government makes. I’m not even from the US but I don’t like many decisions my government makes. I still pay tax though because it’s going to plenty of things I use and letting others pay my share is dickish behaviour. Me not agreeing with the military strategy or distribution of funds to healthcare is a separate issue and if you want to campaign to change that (or similar) that’s exactly what you should do (and again, more power to you).
Only fools and children will change their actions based on what losers on the internet may think of them.
I agree. I don’t expect to change your behaviour, just felt like pointing out the shitty behaviour of letting others pay for the stuff you use when you should be paying for it too.
I know a small amount about you, that small amount consists of shitty behaviour. That’s about it :) x
Probably nothing at all, potentially going to jail if you are caught evading tax, but that’s a few steps away I’m sure.
Just the knowledge that you’re taking from society without giving to society. If you hate your government so much that you’re prepared to commit tax fraud then I assume that you’ve done everything possible to leave, right? Which countries have you tried emigrating to out of interest?
You just stink of entitlement, that’s all :) x
What a scummy thing to do, most call it fraud.
I assume in that time you won’t be using roads or any public infrastructure then?
So you’re either a child, are supported by somebody else, or committing fraud.
Whatever the answer is, I doubt many will care about your opinion.
Yeah and that’s the exact outlook that I think is dumb. It might be true if they were trying to make the world aware of some very serious but largely unknown issue, but that’s not what’s happening here at all.
Nobody learns anything, FEWER people will sympathise with you, and you disrupt people’s lives for exactly fuck all.
Ironically, people on your side seem to specifically NOT know how protests work. Pissing off the masses does not bring people to your cause.
I’m also sympathetic to the cause and do a lot to improve my carbon footprint, but I’m the bad guy here because I believe that simply pissing off others will not reduce the worlds reliance on oil.
What has actually been achieved with these protests? Do people exist who didn’t know oil was bad until they saw someone holding up traffic or chaining themselves to a football goal? It seems like disruption for disruptions sake to me.
Is it possible there’s something between those two options that could work more effectively and piss fewer people off…?
I’m amazed at how few people realise this. I don’t agree with jailing this guy but people seem to think that as long as a protest gets noticed by people it MUST be effective.
Arguing with anger makes people who are already on your side agree with you, arguing with calm and logic might actually change a few minds though.
Just Stop Oil are the former and appears to me to be doing nothing to help the effort, do they think that people believe oil is good for the planet and that they’re actually making others aware of the environmental impact? Nobody is learning anything but plenty of people are getting pissed off with the cause because it’s unnecessarily disruptive and furthers nothing.
Edit: you guys proved the point phenomenally. There’s the people already on their side agreeing, meanwhile at least 2 commenters who are anti oil are painted like we coat penguins in it for fun in our free time. Why do so many suggest it’s either JSO or ineffective sanctioned protests? Could there not be something in between? What would be so wrong with protesting directly to MPs by the houses of Parliament? You could chain yourself to whatever if you need to make a strong point, throw oil/paint/whatever at 10 downing street, do something that the decision makers will actually notice and have people talking about you favourably. Most conversations about JSO are one side saying they’re fucking morons, and the other side naively echoing this chamber like that has any chance at changing anyone’s mind.
Ah well, lemmy seems even less flexible than reddit did with its views, so I shouldn’t be surprised. There is no room for nuance here.
Pitch it well and I may do, crowd funding isn’t a bad thing imo.
If you were pitching a sequel to an already successfully game with a studio attached and funding secured then no, I would not.
I will never install Linux because I’ll never trust that it’ll be easier to use than windows, and that’s all I want.
I can’t count the number of people that have told me I should be on Linux and that if I use Mint it’ll be a piece of perfect cake, despite me also seeing comments like this on a pretty regular basis.
Why is it that so much of the community REFUSES to acknowledge any shortcomings? Almost like it’s their child and you’re personally attacking their parenting by suggesting its not flawlessly simple.
If you haven’t played stray yet then you should. It’s still not particularly cheap for a game that’ll take you 5hrs to beat but it’s brilliant.
Having lots of empty planets is realistic to be fair, but realism is unfortunately boring a lot of the time.
Personally I’m a big fan of the game but I’ve been pining for a Bethesda game for a long time and I will always enjoy a fetch quest where I have to kill bandits. I totally understand the criticism (although I do think it’s slightly blown out of proportion because it’s Bethesda).
Overall, the game is good. It’s not great (yet, anyway) but I’m 30ish hours in and I feel like I’m 10hrs in. The quest line I focused on after getting my bearings seems to be one of the better ones and while I prefer exploring in a skyrim/fallout way I have had plenty of fun just dropping by random planets to see what I can find. It’s at least very obvious which planets are boring before you even land on them. Ultimately in real life I think we can be pretty confident that the vast majority of planets and solar systems would be boring as fuck. Starfield needs some aspect of realism so having one or 2 planets or moons/stations per system that are actually worth visiting is a good call in my opinion.
Mine are less than the minimum and I was surprised it ran ok for me. First time I installed it I didn’t install on an SSD which was entirely unplayable but once I’d freed up the space it was fine.
It’s lemmy, I think there was around an 80% chance anyway…
I remember people bitching about skyrim in 2011 too.
Internets’s gonna Internet.
Hating Bethesda is cool at the moment so people only discuss the negatives of starfield and not the positives.
Having said that I’m only 8hrs in so my opinion isn’t worth shit really. But I’m enjoying it so far having met constellation and then just fucked off on my own for a bit to explore
My pc has lasted 14 years (and I expect another 40) and been capable of playing every game in that time because I’ve been able to upgrade it without dropping thousands at once.
Apple products are good for sure, but they don’t let the consumer choose very much. Sometimes that’s good (I always advocated apple products for my grandparents) but more often than not it’s just annoying.
I buy a new android phone every 3ish years and give my old one to my mum, she’s never had one break yet so all mine have had at least 5-6 years life before she upgrades to my latest old one (and possibly it still has years left). I don’t buy the idea that Apple phones last longer than Android at all.
Even in petrol cars automatic transmissions are more common than manual for new cars now. Automatic has just become better and better, and there’s just very little reason to have a manual these days.