This seems like a no-brainer to me... though it probably isn't. Obviously you have a constitutional right to sleep, wherever you can make space for yourself. If these cities and downs don't want people sleeping outside, they need to provide indoor space for people who haven't actually committed crimes. We treat our criminals better than we treat our homeless.

All they have to do is, instead of calling it a "law", call it "militia regulation" instead. "Militia" is the entire arms bearing populace; if you own a gun, you are, by definition, part of the Militia. And the 2nd amendment doesn't merely say "everyone has a gun"; it does so in context of maintaining a "well regulated militia". All the right to "keep and bear arms" does is prevent them from requiring we store our arms in a central armory (which was one of the controversies over the matter in England when the right was in development).

I would say we also have a right to own a car. That doesn't prevent them from requiring we maintain the capacity to bear responsibility if we should accidentally exercise that right improperly.

Because I played Dragon Quest and Zelda, I developed an unfortunate predilection for walking into strangers houses and smashing pots and vases and stuff. Took years of therapy to break that habit. :(

I still can't even look at a barrel.

No, see, it won't, because of a vast left-wing conspiracy to persecute Donald Trump while letting Joe Biden (and Hillary Clinton) get away with everything. They used evil Satan magic to somehow make a conspiracy of millions work.

Humor involves the kind of mental agility that the right-wing mind is specifically incapable of... as in, that's what makes them right-wing. Practically the defining characteristic of the right-wing is extreme discomfort with anything that deviates from "normal".

"Evidence against Biden". Just a bunch of lines. :p

At first I was like, "Man, the Onion has gone downhill. These stories are supposed to sound both ridiculous and credible, not just ridiculous." Then I remembered that George Santos is a drag queen.

You don't need the biggest map ever to make a good game. You do, however, need the biggest map ever to make a good Elder Scrolls game. People referring to BG3 don't really understand the essence of the Elder Scrolls, a vision the series has pursued all the way back to Arena.

If people really want to save the bees, they need to replace lawns with fields of wildflowers.

I'm honestly not sure if I mean that as a compliment or not. They're exactly what it says on the tin, but you can't deny they're an effective bunch.

Bots are cheap, and Lemmy is growing. It would be foolish for them not to get in on this early.

You are right, of course, that leftism != liberalism. But just saying that doesn't count as an argument. I haven't yet seen what Menachem is complaining about, but I will be paying attention.

EDIT: On further read, you guys kind of feel at the very least like the left-wing equivalent of somethingawful.com.

The industry can't learn this lesson from their customers, because they didn't get the bad idea from their market. It's a society-wide trend, a symptom of a whole economy under the control of a narrow coproate elite that knows little to nothing about the industries they control or the products they produce. They contribute nothing to the productive process. They only work to streamline the parasitism that infests our society.

I have experienced this on the production end, as well. I used to work in pest control. For a brief period of my career, I was lucky enough to work for a midsized regional company, grown from a small family business, that was focused on solving actual customer problems. We did tons of one shot work. We did do quarterly and bimonthly service, but there was no particular pressure to subscribe, or to cajole customers who wanted to cancel service (because we'd successfully dealt with the problem) into continuing service.

Then the elderly couple that owned the company sold us to a global megaconglomerate (one of the "Big Three"). Over the course of a year, our focus changed. "Recurring revenue" was now the watchword, which is a tough fit in an inherently seasonal industry. And the reason they do this, in pest control, in game development, in every industry that can potentially produce any kind of surplus wealth, is because the owners ("investors") neither know nor care about any of the details of the industries they control. All they want is regular and ever-increasing revenues, in exchange for nothing at all. You can't even say it's in exchange for access to their savings, because though there is a little actual savings in the system, that's chump change compared to the ever growing wealthy elite that controls our society and devours our productivity.