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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

How active is your local Lemmy community? Mines is pretty dead but voting for the specifics you call for is still mentioned.

Of course people aren't going to be discussing the specifics of local races in the general politics community. It's entirely disingenuous to argue that's an indicator that nobody cares about local races.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

On top of that, I'd say there's some nuance - nationally, you'll see Democrats reasoning with Republicans, targeting the non-maga conservatives.

However here on Lemmy, there are very few conservatives as well as a disproportionate number of third party folks, so you'll see a lot more discussion centered around third parties.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If it's easier to reason with third party voters than trump voters, it seems like the logical thing to do.

EDIT: also worth pointing out the difference between "attacking" trump voters as individuals, because they have proven themselves to truly be deplorable, and "attacking" third party voting as a decision.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Go do some research before claiming such things. It has been a thing for many many years.

So that's the thing... The bans have also worked this way for that long, which further solidifies the idea that valve prioritizes banning hackers over being forgiving of cheating relatives...

Most people getting VAC bans are the stupid ones trying out free hacks.

Are the ones using free hacks not hackers? Seems like bans on them for hacking makes sense.

You keep asking for my solution, but my solutions are so obvious it would take a stupid person to not think of them. Hey here's one: "investigate the main accounts manually". I thought such ideas would not require a triple digit IQ to be considered obvious.

I'm going to propose that this would probably take an infeasible number of hours when you scale it up to the full customer base for steam, which looks like 132 million monthly active users.. Otherwise, like you said, it's so obvious, what else would prevent them from thinking of it and implementing it?

They already had family sharing where a ban upon the main account could have been contested. You could at least ask them to consider the age or stupidity of the person or family member using your library.

Hmm, I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but it doesn't seem like the case. If a borrower got the main account banned, it was up to the borrower to successfully appeal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Nor do I even have to be the one to come up with a plan.

People that just complain without a better improvement in mind didn't actually care to change anything, because they've haven't shown that there's a reasonable alternative. Those people don't care if there's a practical alternative, they're just upset that it doesn't meet their specific needs. They just want to "speak to the manager" and complain. "It's not my job to fix it! Fix it!". If that's quote captures your stance, just lmk and it will save us both some time.

I actually even already gave a simple plan and you ignored it.

I didn't ignore it, I asked how it would deal with a fundamental enforcement of rules that steam has always done and you've ignored that, lol. Are you here to just complain or do you actually want to see if there's a better way forward? What's a feasible alternative to handle hackers and provide quality of life improvements like family sharing?

Your arguments that hackers are more important than a parent with a kid are selfish and stupid.

I'd argue that hackers are more important to valve because they implemented VAC bans almost 20 years ago. They just now announced a family sharing feature and you're pretending that steam was meant to be designed around the family to start, which is an uphill battle to argue.

And force Valve to ruin it for the rest of us.

First of all, it's already implemented this way. You're the one arguing for an alternative that could increase the number of hackers - if anyone is trying to force valve to ruin it "for the rest of us", it's you, since you're arguing to change the status quo.

Finally, don't want valve to "ruin" it for you? Don't use the brand new opt in feature. You have lost absolutely nothing - nothing has been "ruined".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

A well thought out and conveyed response to the concern about hackers. Valve should implement your plan pronto.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The spicy potato tacos are my sleeper taco bell hit.

I did recently have the Baja blast gelato and it was super disappointing - basically a diluted slushie that's frozen, no gelato/sorbet texture at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The sauce is 10/10

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Childcare is a massive one that needs government funding. You can pay 1.5k per child and given that many places do 1 teacher to 3 infants, the literal max that one teacher can make, if every penny went to the teacher, is 4.5k/month, or 54k/year. This does not include facilities, utilities, administration, taxes etc. we all know in reality the teacher salary is much, much less.

In order to fairly compensate childcare staff, rates in reality need to be much higher. The problem is that severely limits access to childcare, which has a cooling effect on parents advancing their careers, because many will not have a choice between being a stay at home parent or working.

Therefore the government supplementing the costs is a much-needed solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So your proposed solution would let hackers make indefinite new accounts and add them as family. Do you see a problem with that?

If not, I hope you're done talking to me, lol.

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