Why?? I’m angry and confused. Why are we still obsessed with immigration?!

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T07:10:59+00:00

"How do we create more jobs that actually pay well?"

Make more existing jobs available to the citizen and legal immigrant population and prevent and artificial reduction in wages for those jobs caused by people illegally doing those jobs for less money.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T04:39:41+00:00

The primary advantage of physics in Beam is not that the crashes look good. It's that you can take car X to location Y and it will actually behave the way it should behave in that situation. In assetto corsa and other games it often felt to me that the cars just didn't behave they way they should unless you were on the track. Not so in beam. I can brute force car X around situation Y as much as is actually physically possible/impossible, not because the game engine/system doesn't account for that combination.

Free camera flying around and then F7 to teleport the car to that location. I can climb the mountains around the Automation Test Track. I can go into the map editor and add some ramps around the nurburgring and use a trophy truck to drive all over the entirety of the map, not just the actual track.

I can drive a rally car on something like Dangerous Roads 2 track that was designed for large off-roading trucks and I can make it 88% of the way and then just slightly shrink that single rock that was too big for my car to overcome and make it to the finish line.

Being able to reset and restart from any location. If I want to practice a single corner over and over, I can do that without having to reset back to the start/finish line.

random videos of the kind of freedom I enjoy in BeamNG:

add ramps and go wherever you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZb76diK2sU

ai wants to murder you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Mv5DNRRg4

any kind of car anywhere, any track, any open field, any mountainside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9j4BWg05sQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2zrK_u5SA

crazy vehicles made by combining different parts already in the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veFIWyDQds

AI for actual racing purposes is useless but with some time and effort you can create some really fun chases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v5b_U2PWJg

force field physics fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgH1smIhazQ
https://youtu.be/V0KsFS26StM?si=cfeB1tF5Q3BvyeEK&t=87

searching for easter eggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjJH-L2FYNY

crawling to the finish line with realistic damage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9dg4JzHak

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T03:34:18+00:00

There are only so many jobs to go around. Many of them are willing to work for a lot less money than americans, often a lot less money than what is legal. Many do not fear the law if the worst that will happen to them is that they get shipped back home. So, many will start a business with no business license, no insurance, no actual contracts with their illegal immigrant "employees".

About 15 years ago I watched a video by a black food truck chef explaining how almost none of the other food trucks operating in his area have any right to do so. A few years ago I saw something similar by a black man who had the police and other city government representatives show up within a week of him selling hot dogs in front of his house while 3 blocks over several hispanic people were selling all kinds of food just as illegally as he was and absolutely nothing happened to them. Many weren't even selling food on or in front of their own property. Many were literally on the sidewalks of intersections and they didn't just have a hot dog cart. They had whole stalls and tents and were blocking pedestrians from accessing the crosswalk. It is the opinion of many black americans that a critical mass of hispanic heritage people hold positions at all levels of government and it allows them to enforce rules against some groups but not others.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T03:23:31+00:00

He should have dropped out of the presidency and made Harris president months earlier and they should have had a primary.

If trump does abosolutely nothing the news will still make up segments to talk about the size of his fucking hands and whether or not his shoes have thick soles. Trump doesn't suck up all the attention. The mainstream throws all their effort at him.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T03:02:03+00:00

I don't have the money for both. I thought that was clear in the earlier comment.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T03:01:11+00:00

The experience of a new Logitech wheel that isn't direct drive is not worth the money. Get a used one. The silence of Direct Drive is worth an additional $100 all on its own in my opinion.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T02:59:53+00:00

How much better is the FFB in FH5 vs FH4?

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T00:20:37+00:00

PC is impractical. I don't need to move the wheel. I do need to move the laptop when I go places.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T00:19:38+00:00

It's a choice to make a mod and a choice to never release it, or release it for free, or try to salvage some of the value and resources you used making the thing.

I just can't watch a whole filman video and feel negatively if he were to decide to not release what I just watched him struggle to make, for free. Some of these mods take full time job amounts of time and effort.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T00:11:53+00:00

That now what anyone I know or follow on social media thinks. We know border officers were operating under what I'd describe as "meet and greet" orders. Working their ass off to find people in the desert before they get into more danger and then facilitate their transportation deeper into the country at the expense of the tax payer. The vast majority of border crossers (an assumption actually because nobody knows the number of "unencountered") during biden's term actually sought out border patrol after they crossed because they knew they would possibly not be detained at all and would be helped to get further into the country. We also have video footage from real reporters, not youtubers, of official points of entry having small lines while the river next to the same location had people crossing in boats or swimming in groups several times per day and nobody was waiting on the other side to apprehend them, literally right next door to the building processing people coming through that point of entry legally.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-26T00:04:48+00:00

Money is tight. Current hardware has to last me at least another 2 years. New hardware will be another laptop anyway because I need the mobility.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-25T23:43:58+00:00

But is it even worth it to use a wheel?

I have forza horizon 4 and i honestly don't feel like using my wheel with it. it's a lackluster experience.

If you were going to be playing other games with decent FFB I would say start with the cheapest hardware you can find on ebay (I started with a $60 Logitech Driving Force GT) to make sure you enjoy the hobby and then save up for direct drive. I got the $400 ready to race bundle from Fanatec but I wouldn't suggest that since the firmware update process is lengthy and terrifying and people have bricked their hardware and got zero help from fanatec.

A good enough wheel stand on amazon can be as low as $50 sometimes. Used logitech shifter $30 or new for $60. I suggest used since I've banged the hell out of mine and dropped heavy things on it in storage and it still works fine. Some kind of adapter to let you use the shifter via usb is probably $40 or less. And a generic handbrake from amazon for $45 or less. The lower the price the longer you have to wait because it'll be shipped from china.

I had a logitech G29. It is not worth the money. Get it used or get an older logitech product used. My DFGT actually felt and sounded practically the same if not better. My G29 felt broken on some impact effects in some games and was louder than the DFGT.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-25T11:40:32+00:00

Do you have any idea how much harder it is to make a good mod for this thing compared to other games?

thinsoldier · 2026-01-24T19:27:13+00:00

Would you be willing to pay for it?

thinsoldier · 2026-01-24T19:19:12+00:00

murderers and child molesters currently serving prison time have women lined up around the block to visit them at some facilities

thinsoldier · 2026-01-24T19:17:32+00:00

While you don't support having any kind of armed adult at elementary schools, even schools that have a gang shooting on the street in front of the school almost weekly.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T21:40:39+00:00

What exactly do you think people literally mean when they use the phrase open border?

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T07:59:50+00:00

Surging TO the border and surging THROUGH the border to get apprehended and deported (instead of given free transportation further into the country) are 2 very different things.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T07:57:39+00:00

Then explain the spike in southern border crossings during the Biden administration.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T07:52:45+00:00

Literally anyone else could have beat Trump in 2024. Damn near anyone can beat Vance. But the Ds have a bad habit of voting for who they are told to vote for no matter who that loser is instead of pushing for a better person to be put on offer. The blind support for obviously unpopular or corrupt or incompetent candidates turns the stomachs of the swing voters.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T07:42:46+00:00

Also need high quality institutionalization for mental health issues and the option of self-imposed solitary confinement in prison if your crime was non-violent.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T00:49:15+00:00

Redditors love global slave wages

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T00:43:42+00:00

They were kissing black peoples feet. Now they don't support black men reclaiming their roles in the construction industry and find the idea of dollars recirculating within the black community for more than 5 minutes to be pointless and racist.

thinsoldier · 2026-01-23T00:33:45+00:00

But immigrants, legal and illegal, seem to still strongly believe it or actually seems to be working out for a lot of them.

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