Lots of propaganda.

Two decades of heroic effort had ended in shame.

Heroic my ass, it was bullshit from day one and the whole world knew it.

If American officials had known then what they know now, many of them—including me—would have argued more strongly for an earlier withdrawal.

They wouldn’t. They knew Iraq didn’t have WMDs but invaded nonetheless. They knew Iran could block the Hormuz Strait but attacked nonetheless.

Americans occasionally acknowledge the noble sacrifices that thousands of U.S. service members made in the conflict.

Noble my ass.

The United States had other ambitions in Afghanistan, as well, including a nation-building mission that aimed to establish a sustainable democracy.

Bull-fucking-shit. A puppet regime is not a “sustainable democracy”

[Kyle Carpenter] summed up his feelings about his service on behalf of Americans: “You are worth protecting, you are worth fighting for, you are worth time in a hospital bed and deep scars on my body.”

The best soldiers are the ones that really believe the shit their superiors feed them, be like him, citizen!

The cruelty of the policies is thrown into relief by the major strides in rights and opportunities that Afghan women in some parts of the country made in the decades that the Taliban were out of power.

This was the only good thing to come out of the invasion, too bad it was just a glimpse of a better life for those women.

Simply put, one reason the Americans did not leave Afghanistan earlier is that the U.S. military fights to win.

[citation needed]

It is deeply unsettling that thousands of service members who fought, were wounded, or lost friends in the war now see it as an unworthy endeavor.

Reality crashing down on them isn’t “unsettling”

Americans must not forget those changes of heart. They must remember what it feels like to look back at a war they once embraced and think, “If only I had known then what I know now.”

I bet most of those didn’t change because of hindsight, but rather grew tired of it altogether.

the girls rarely ever bully boys

maybe not straight up to boys’ faces, but you can bet your ass some girls will bully or instigate bullying

Why commit him to plastic crack? Why not normal crack?

For many, it’s the equivalent of dealing with smokers in the 70s and 80s, you cannot escape football and the world cup. In a neighborhood I used to live (Brazil), half my neighbors would play up really fucking loud music, the kind that shakes your windows, as commemoration after a world cup victory

Nothing new in human behavior. The Nika Riots is one of the deadliest to have happened in Constantinople because of a chariot race.

Looks like an ad for new skibidi toilet

A king for a day, all my problems went away

The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

the season 5 episode “The Inner Light” finds Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) being forced to live out an entirely different life — one in which he is married to a kind woman named Eline (Margot Rose) and is ultimately happy with.

Saved y’all a click

I remember when it was a UT3 mod

As a separate comment: Iji

Freeware game and an awesome gem. Great soundtrack, too

Elder Scrolls Skyrim, really niche indie game. Just kidding!

Nikoderiko - really fun platformer that’s kind of a mix of Donkey Kong and Crash. Currently on sale on gog (linked) and steam

I saw that Yellow Taxi some time ago and loved the retro 3D aesthethics

Is that the pizzacake girl in the crystal ball?

How I feel knowing that, just by virtue of having a STEM bachelors and a bunch of cloud certs, I am way ahead of my competition in getting laid off and denied jobs for being “overqualified”

FTFY

Took me a while to see the rope.

The v2 launcher will supposedly open up 5x faster on average upon cold boots, while restoring it from the system tray will be 6.5x faster on average. That’s a huge improvement, but keep in mind that Epic got these numbers from a ridiculous test bench comprised of a 32-core AMD Threadripper, an RTX A6000, and 128GB of RAM. Not exactly consumer-grade hardware, especially during these times.

So, we can expect, at best, 1.2x faster reponse. I bet it will still be a piece of shit unreal app that’s little more than yet another electron

So, just like Pokemon Go?

I loved the Mass Effect 3 fan explanation of the ending, tying together why Shepard saw the kid while fleeing Earth in the beginning, then again at the Catalyst while heavily wounded. Of the 3 choices, the red (destroying all the mass relays and the reapers) was the only one where he stopped limping to stand up again.

In Deus Ex Human Revolution, it’s pretty easy to forget the opening cutscene by the time you’re doing shit in China and get told to go to a clinic to fix your implants, in order to stop glitching. Said cutscene shows a bunch of shadowy figures planning how to control everyone with implants.

N is a Z sideways. Check-fucking-mate, Noroark