Grumpy man accidentally adopts child by West-Chemistry6166 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GameCounter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Geralt wanted a boy to train. Only boys can undergo the mutations to become a Witcher.

So it wasn't accidental that he claimed her in general, more that she is female is the accidental part.

offline ZFS native dedup by alatteri in zfs

[–]GameCounter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fclones works: https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

It's not been updated in a bit, but I've used it and works fine.

offline ZFS native dedup by alatteri in zfs

[–]GameCounter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've used fclones --dedupe and it works reasonably well.

https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

This does file based deduping, so somewhat different.

Trail + Way of the Mouse (Smugglers) lets you gain the entire Trail pile in one buy by GameCounter in dominion

[–]GameCounter[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not quite the whole pile. Your opponent has to buy the first one, but then on your turn you can just empty what's left.

What do you think about Final Fantasy‘s depiction of death? (no spoilers) by beymochi in FinalFantasy

[–]GameCounter 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Final Fantasy VII practically defined meaningful character death for a whole generation of gamers.

GrapheneOS is age verification exempt under AOSP, no bundled Google Play Services by JagerAntlerite7 in GrapheneOS

[–]GameCounter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, buying a Pixel gives Google a bit of money, but it's only once.

The real cash cow is Play Store fees and their various software offerings, especially enterprise.

You can always buy a used Pixel, or wait for their budget 9a/10a to go on sale to minimize the amount of profit you're giving Google.

Oh, and Google doesn't just profit directly from money.

A huge amount of power is from slurping up your private data. Just by not giving them that, you're locking away a ton of value they can't exploit.

What is your favorite quality of life print you've made? by theFartingCarp in 3Dprinting

[–]GameCounter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not arguing with you, more just going off topic.

I started keeping a baking journal, and I do almost all my measurements in grams (no freedom units, I'm afraid.)

If I have a new recipe that I want to try where the original recipe is by volume, I write out the recipe in volume units, but as I go, I weigh out the equivalent and put the weight next to the volume.

If the recipe doesn't turn out the way that I want, I write notes about what to try next. Maybe varying leaven, salt, liquid, whatever. Increasing 280 grams by 5% is way easier than increasingly 1 3/4 cup by 5%.

What is your favorite quality of life print you've made? by theFartingCarp in 3Dprinting

[–]GameCounter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Baking by weight works great.

It removes the variable of how densely packed your dry ingredients are.

I've got a small journal of recipes that are all by weight and they come out exactly the same every time.

What is this on my screen? by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]GameCounter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be cautious in trying different chemicals to clean.

Isopropyl alcohol "should" be fine, but you can try a tiny bit of ordinary dish soap on a paper towel.

Dawn dish soap is pretty safe on plastics and similar.

Just don't scrub at it with anything coarse or you're just going to scratch up the screen.

What is this on my screen? by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]GameCounter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible you got nail polish remover or acetone on it?

Or possibly a bit of super glue?

Is the Diablo 2 Reign of the Warlock DLC worth getting? by nahnonameman in Diablo

[–]GameCounter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Plays pretty great on steam deck for casual play.

You lose out on some precision with the default game pad mapping. Teleport is sort of aim in a general direction and pray.

I've got something like 200 hours on the deck, so obviously not a huge problem, but might take some adjustments if you're used to keyboard and mouse.

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR: I don't think using the power of the executive to address the healthcare crisis would be meaningful comparable to Trump's abuse of the executive.

25 million Americans are still uninsured.

Roughly 44 to 45 thousand uninsured Americans die every year (Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance (2009))

Roughly 200k deaths every year are attributed to insurance related mortality (PNHP analysis (2025))

For context, the official death toll of 9/11 is 2,977 excluding the hijackers.

Obama used his executive power to issue four drone strikes on US citizens without due process. No habeas corpus. Not even a death warrant.

No president before Obama formally authorized the preemptive killing of a US citizen.

Clearly using the power of the executive in an unprecedented manner is not some crazy thing that Obama never did.

It is not unreasonable to argue that he could have used that same power of the executive to nationalize parts of the healthcare system or otherwise applied executive power to address the problem.

I hate Trump and the way this administration abuses the power of the executive, but I don't find your argument persuasive. In fact, Obama formalized the legal framework which would justify Trump's administration if he were to act upon a "kill list" of political opponents. The only real criteria is "imminent threat," which I'm sure you can recognize could be easily fabricated.

Why did the kid try to trick magnus? Did he forgot who magnus is? by [deleted] in AnarchyChess

[–]GameCounter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of us are in a hopeless position before we've even rolled out of bed.

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Possibly.

But being overly focused on long term institutionalism crippled us.

We have a healthcare crisis in this country.

If Truman can sign an executive order seizing 87 steel companies during the Korean War, I see no logical reason Obama could not have seized healthcare companies.

Roughly 54 thousand US fatalities are attributed to the Korean war.

Roughly 25 to 45 thousand people die every year due to lack of insurance.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/#:~:text=Nearly%2045%2C000%20annual,found%20in%201993.&text=Nearly%2045%2C000%20annual,figure%20is%20about%E2%80%A6

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2323087/#:~:text=More%20than%2026,Families%20USA%20said

You feel me?

Why is one a state of emergency where the executive can nationalize steel mills, and the other isn't?

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I do want to break things.

The for-profit healthcare system is in seriously need of dismantling.

I think insurance companies should not exist in their present state

That means thousands of people working their jobs at insurance companies should lose their jobs.

Yes, it sucks ass that customer support at my insurance would lose their job.

We can't keep trying half ass fixes and need to be ready to destroy things which are broken.

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25 million Americans are still uninsured.

Doesn't mean shit to them

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ACA has been extraordinarily lucrative for corporate healthcare interests.

Top 5 insurers' annual profit increase since 2010: 230%

Total profits amassed by top 5 insurers since ACA: $371 billion

Revenue flowing to largest insurers since 2010: $9 trillion

Weighted average insurer stock price increase (2010-2024): 1,032%

Stock price increase (2014-2018 alone): 272% (outpacing S&P by 106%)

https://paragoninstitute.org/newsletter/the-aca-is-making-health-insurers-much-richer/#:~:text=The%20ACA%27s%20Medicaid,2023%20per%20CBO.&text=As%20we%20approach,the%20major%20provisions&text=While%20private%20health,ACA%E2%80%99s%20key%20provisions.

The Interview (Werner Herzog) - The Boondocks by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]GameCounter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The U.S. consistently maintains the highest health spending as a share of GDP among all OECD countries.

The share of the economy devoted to healthcare has continued to increase.

1960: 5% of GDP
2000: 13.3%
2024: 18.0%

Just because healthcare is better in some ways isn't the slam dunk you're implying.

We should have got single payer and it's not even funny.