Sure wish Americans would do something about this so the rest of the world doesn’t have to suffer.

It’s not the OS doing it, it’s the game itself adding the ads to pause screens, loading screens, etc.

But they don’t correct them often, especially if it’s a longer post that has some nuance to it. People here don’t like nuance. I’m not sure people anywhere do anymore. That would involve reading and understanding others that you actively disagree with.

Yes, motor vehicle testing requirements should be a lot stricter as well.

And public transit should be better.

But neither of those observations has anything at all to do with the massively increased injuries and zero liabilities from kids on these things.

You mean kids that don’t and can’t understand how to drive a motor vehicle shouldn’t be driving motor vehicles? Weird.

And there’s no safety equipment required?

There’s been a bunch of property damage around here by kids just crashing into things. I have witnessed kids firsthand ignoring their surroundings and having conversations and just smashing to parked cars. These things need some kind of legislation passed on them ASAP.

Thought I was pretty clear by stating it in nearly every post. I’m not talking about babies other than to say they shouldn’t have it done unless they have a very specific medical condition.

And yeah, I’m totally pro-education.

Absolutely. There are some truly weird attitudes that are deeply unscientific about this stuff. Even my wife didn’t understand it when we first discussed it. We don’t have any sons, but even if we did I wouldn’t have had them circumcised unless they had a medical issue that required it. And yes that is true even though I am circumcised. No, I don’t care about making any dicks look like mine. That’s fucking weird.

It is completely unnecessary because I live in a place with readily available contraception, low rates of STIs, and other factors.

Am I mad that I was circumcised? No. Am I proud? No. It just is. I don’t understand attitudes about it. Everything is a small trade-off in life. I appreciate the plusses that I gained from it, and don’t really know or care about the minuses because they were never a part of my life.

I have had compliments on it explicitly because I was circumcised and women expressed relief about it. I’ve also been told it looks nicer just hanging there. One lady I used to date would complain about her ex incessantly because he wasn’t exactly the cleanest dude, and when combined with his lack of circumcision, he was kind of gross and you can use your imagination as to what that entailed.

On the other side, my best friend in high school had his circumcision fucked up and every time he got an erection, it hurt because it was done incorrectly and caused one side to “pull” wrong.

I’ve also had a septoplasty later in life so I could breathe better. This argument that you see above would be like going online and telling people that there is a medical use for it, but they come back and start screaming at you in freaked out panicked tones and assume you’re meaning it’s for everyone. It isn’t, but to deny that there is a medical use is actively wrong and harmful.

Well it doesn’t need to be removed for most people obviously, but to say it never needs to be removed for anyone is patently false. Same thing with other body parts like adenoids, wisdom teeth, and the gallbladder. It’s not like they have no purpose, but taking them out can fix or avoid medical issues. Reading the medical papers, it seems it is removed because it is the first thing to rip during sexual intercourse, and as we all know from grade school, exchanging blood is one of the fastest way to get STIs or other diseases.

Obviously it is also the best way to cure phimosis which is something my uncle had repaired this way when he was 20 something.

And again, this is probably extremely unnecessary in most areas of the world.

I have never defended, nor said a single positive thing about clitoral removal. Don’t mix up circumcision with it please. They are not the same. I have yet to see a justification for removing anyone’s clitoris that isn’t some crazy religious bullshit that has no basis in scientific fact at all.

“Hey, I just checked in about five min…” and that was the end of the video.

His cause of death had to be written in Grawlix.

That study is from 2022. Some of the ones linked on Wikipedia are the same age, very slightly older, or even newer. These aren’t studies from the '70s using outdated methodologies or something. It doesn’t nullify the science. They’re both seemingly saying somewhat opposite things but that doesn’t mean that one is outwardly completely wrong, it means at best the science is still out and at worst it depends on specifics of the situation.

And yeah, it would be great if they would provide full health care for everyone, but for people in war torn parts of Africa it’s not really an option because the governments aren’t stable or don’t care. I also wish proper contraception was available everywhere for free, but it isn’t. And even if it were, you can’t tell me that you believe that every person would use it 100% of the time.

So again, every time I see this it’s simply people who don’t like circumcision getting mad that there may, in fact, be a functional use for it somewhere and it’s not just people trying to get their kids dick to look like their dick. That’s such a weird and disturbing dodge.

Oh definitely! Except condoms are not really readily available in a lot of places (for example, parts of Africa) which is where it happens frequently and is a permanent boost. A 30% reduction in transmission is significant.

You don’t have to like it, but I’m factually correct and the science backs me up. See Wikipedia for a primer.

I’m confused… How does regular bathing reduce the spread of HIV and other STIs? How does it remove phimosis?

I’m definitely not saying that the procedure is the right thing to do for infants, but factually there absolutely are medical uses and upsides for some people.

Edit: Downvotes don’t make me incorrect. Use your words. Talk with me like a person. I’m open to being wrong.

At present, the game feels like an abandoned Early Access beta since patches have stopped for over a year and the game is in a shameful state. It runs poorly, is riddled with bugs both old and new, and nothing whatsoever is being done about it. This isn’t a remaster, it’s an unoptimizecd graphics mod at absolute most and wants full price. Stay far away, even if you loved the original unless Microsoft / Bethessda gets off their butts and actually finish the game.

Josh from GMM says “Hi.”

Heh, it’s probably on me. I was just test driving it. I have no doubt I could have figured it out if I had spent more time.

It was just the HDMI audio from a standard Intel 14th gen processor. Didn’t feel it was anything too out of the ordinary, but have tried about 6 releases over 3 distros and not a one has worked.

Well, if you’re looking for an actual answer… I couldn’t get audio working on Linux on my laptop. I had to switch back in order to watch movies.

Oh I obviously understand that there are multiple (if not dozens of) maps, but how many times are you expected to play those maps over and over again? Without plot progression, I just don’t find it interesting.

I don’t play multiplayer games anymore.

First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.

Second off, I’m in my 40s and my reaction time isn’t what it was when I used to play UT or Quake. You can’t improve an aged reaction time nearly as easily, yes, because it’s gotten slightly worse with age, but also because you become less willing and / or able to dedicate the sheer volume of time that you would need to to improve. Getting repeatedly stomped isn’t fun, and quite simply, I’ve got better and more important things to do.

Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery, storylines, and varied experiences. Doing the same thing over and over again is just boring.

Fourth off, player communities in some games are aggressively dogshit and I really don’t want to interact with them at all.

Economist here. This is pretty much the anti-intellectualism that everyone here is talking about and this is the opinion I’ve seen constantly on Lemmy.

Most people have no idea what it is that I do and think it’s something to do with making billionaires more money. It isn’t and it never has been and it hasn’t been for anyone that I’ve kept in contact with from any of my classes.

You don’t have to be involved in financial matters to be an economist either. We’re more involved in finding out root causes and impacts in certain fields.