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LDP, which has governed Japan almost uninterrupted for decades.

I think this actually undersells how unprecedented the LDP not being in power is. The LDP has been the ruling party in Japan since the end of US occupation in 1954, over half a century. The only interruptions being between 1994 and 1995 and between 2009 and 2011.

Japan’s modern poltical history is super interesting and less monolithic than that would make it sound, but it’s a big deal when the LDP isn’t in charge.

If you bring people in based on their personal loyalty, you select against competence. Competent people will tell you when you’re wrong and they’ll tell you things you don’t want to hear.

This is an administration built to be loyal, not competent.

I’m fairly confident that a significant portion of this current rash of bills is the result of parents who said “well, I mean i don’t care what other people do in the privacy of their own home, but if MY kid…” facing that their kid was in fact “…”, and not handling that well (ranging from being passive aggressive to trying to kidnap them to a conversion camp) and being cut out of the life of the kid, and then rather than examine their behavior towards their kid, just assumed it must be some outside actor driving them apart.

It’s not a majority of voters in any given state, but enough older, chronically misinformed, parents who are emotionally struggling with the fact that their kids won’t talk with them anymore, have ginned up a significant enough constituency to swinging state legislators.

State legislators are surprisingly easy to influence, they represent small enough constituencies (varies state to state) and constituents so rarely reach out to them, that talking with them about an issue can significantly alter their views, especially if they’ve never heard about the issue before.

I mean, you can run APKs on desktop Linux, so I don’t see why not. Plenty of emulators, but also other options like WayDroid, a compatibility layer, or Anbox which puts android in to a container and then merges the system services.

It’s so fucking funny to me to see governments unwilling to do anything positive to support their constituents constantly stumbling in to this same kind of law. Like, governments that want more control over their citizens but are completely unwilling to offer them any additional benefits in exchange for that control.

So instead they frame it as “protecting the children” because who’s ever gonna object to that? But nah, it’s about actually being able to enforce other moral panic laws and forcing more information in to the hands of servaliance capitalism.

Lmao without milei trying to do super ultra neoliberalism, they wouldn’t fucking need the cash.

Just one more public funding cut, just one more tax cut, just one more deregulation, just one more batch of foreign investment, then the economy will be fixed guys, we promise. Just let the rich rob society a bit more and everything will get better.

Balatro.

It is a mechanically very dense game. There is a lot of depth and complexity to its gameplay. I get why a lot of people enjoy that. But I just kind of bounce off that, I need something to motivate me to engage with game mechanics. I need a story, or like, some kind of theming that I can project a goal on to. Poker but weird just doesn’t do it for me.

Like I adore paradox games, but I can project a broad world buildy-esq self built narrative and goals on to that, even when the mechanics are as broad as an ocean but as deep as a puddle.

Consider, that, much of the dialog is the internal voices of the main character, and that he does in fact have his head firmly lodged in his own rectum.

I mean, it specifically says snapdragon.

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

… well not that shocked actually.

You’d probably be fine using mint.

Like, if you’re using an Nvidia graphics card you’d want to use mint’s built in driver manger GUI (don’t need to even use the command line) to make sure you have the best driver. If you have AMD graphics (ether iGPU or dedicated GPU) you don’t even have to do that. The main thing that Bazzite does is have the right Nvidia graphics drivers out of the box.

The main difference between the two is the package manager, the thing that downloads programs and makes sure they have all the dependencies they need to run. Bazzite is fedora derived so it uses DNF instead of the Debian derived APT for package management. Frankly the differences between the two are not really material.

Ether way, Lutris will get windows versions of games running as well as steam does, and any game can be added to Lutris regardless of how you got it, if not from one of the major store fronts you just have point Lutris to the files.

… but Apple doesn’t use snapdragon SoCs?