Eh, idk. There’s at least a handful of notable Nazi militia group bust-ups in America’s history. Like yeah, it was built by slavers, but there’s different kinds of bad, and pro big state fascism is actually very very far removed from the ideals of the people that founded this country.

Yeah, but they hunt down and destroy militia groups when we try to do that.

At least any of the ones that aren’t Nazis. In the past they hunted those down too, but we let the foxes into the hen house so now they get to stay.

Yeah absolutely agree. I always but hydroflask bottles, but never through hydroflask. The exact same bottles and exact same lids are sold under a rolling list of random Chinese companies like this. Usually these companies do have real names, they’re just super Chinese and not worth properly localizing.

Hell, I recently got a new fancy video monopod. The official US name brand that sells it is harlowe. It sells for about a grand

I bought this exact same model from “yc onion” with a nonsensical name the “pineta pro” (said “pine-tah”) for less than half that.

I literally brought mine into a store after realizing how similar they are and compared them side by side. Even the stamp and sticker placement is identical. Like they clearly come from the exact same factory just with a different color and a different name printed into the same box on the side.

Why the fuck would anyone pay the 60% price hike just to have a known US company sell it to you? The really shitty thing is that I’m not sure how b and h is allowed to sell it. When I talked to my local camera store they said that they weren’t allowed to sell it because they were a brand partner to the US brand and couldn’t sell non us products without getting fined or dropped by their suppliers. Maybe b and h is just big enough to not have to care anymore, but that’s just going to be one more nail in the already dying camera store market.

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I got the sixty percent from the op. It says quite plainly that total digital sales are near 30%

And yet physical discs make up over 60% of game sales.

Just because they’ve enshitified new more profitable revenue streams outside of game sales doesn’t mean they’re not shitty for dumping the core competency that brought them customers in the first place. If physical game sales were less than 3% of their profit then they aren’t a game company and are already lost.

If all this data is leading somewhere it’s towards more live service microtransaction slop anyway. If the 60%+ physical of sales that all of their massively popular single player games are that small a percentage of their profit and “digital sales and add on content” is that large or means that are mostly a microtransaction company already.

Honestly… At least when they auto complete the title for you and it doesn’t show up you can be confident they don’t have it. Otherwise you’d probably wonder if they were hiding it in favor of their own content or you just didn’t spell sicario or aniara correctly.

I guess I prefer this behavior over it pretending it doesn’t know what you’re talking about. That said, I haven’t used Netflix in years…

While continuing to thrust harder.

I mean, with it they’ve managed to build a walled garden that includes the majority of every phone in the world.

We can probably assume trillions.

100% it’s all in the emphasis. It’s subtle, but just different enough that you can tell if someone is from the area based on their pronunciation.

Oh God,I had an ex from Georgia that would hit me with these. Let’s go with “verse-ay-lees”.

But you forgot, we also have to mispronounce it then get mad if you don’t mispronounce it the right way.

-someone that was born in New berlin, not “new berLIN”, But “new BURlin”.

Look, if someone told me this was good I don’t have the hubris to tell them they’re wrong without trying it.

This takes so little effort it’s almost worth trying on a whim when making banana bread or something.

If this is as horrible as the other reviews imply I’m gonna be a little mad because I’ll feel like they trolled me. I will leave a review to express this.

So I get it. I understand them.

sure, it won’t help them recruit, but it will help them hold their existing members. when they have evidence of the “persecution” they face it makes it easier for them to discredit the negative info online.

i know for certain that this is at least the Mormon playbook.

oh i mean i already have one. it was like $30. from Logitech.

don’t need anything fancy for navigating from the couch. for games i have a nice third party controller with hall effect sticks and decent features, which cost less than a regular xbox controller. the flydigi vader 4 pro.

the only world where this steam controller makes ANY sense is one where people just don’t know how good this party controllers have gotten.

damn, I just use a wireless keyboard with a trackpad and media keys.

one says everyone the other says no one.

at that point I’d base my answer on the breed. golden retreiver or chihuahua? but i am very racist against chihuahuas…

I’m always a big fan of a strong backlight on furry animals like this. try to catch them at golden hour with the sun mostly behind them. you’ll either need a bit of fill light or to bring the shadows up a touch in post for it to really pop in that situation. if the dog is patient you can literally just use a piece of foamcore board to bounce the sunset back into their face. in this photo i even had the sun flairing into the lens a little. it helped that i was shooting up a hill. made it easier to line up the sun, but i was still laying on the ground to get this.

as I mentioned in the post you’ll want to open that aperture to get a nice dreamy shallow look like this. you also want to get as close to the subject as you can while maintaining a good frame (fill the frame) and make sure the background is far away. an open field works great for something like this. you should also always try to be at your subject’s eye level as a general rule of thumb. yes, being higher or lower can work, but there needs to be intent behind doing it.

shooting very large dogs like that will make it much harder to get a photo like this one. the 45 1.8 will seperate the subject well, but it won’t blow it out into a dreamy blur like this when aimed at moose dogs. you’d need something longer like a 135 1.8 or an 85 1.2. that said, you can still make a very nice looking portrait, it just won’t quite look like this.

you also don’t want it to be overly sharp. sharpness tends to make the fur look less soft and cute. if it’s like a doberman doing a nobleman pose then you probably want a sharp look, but if it’s a cute little puppy like this one i tend to remove sharpness in post or shoot on vintage glass.

it’s not cheating to use treats to pose them. it’s not unreasonable to take a nice picture of the owner holding them. if all else fails, just chase them around at their eye level on burst mode. try to catch the sun lighting then up nicely from behind.

In theory, if we’re growing beyond Linux nerds and harcore communists, this should be one of the biggest and most general communities as well as one of the most likely to see slop get upvoted.

ai kittens and puppies make up like 30% of Facebook traffic on their own at this point. if we’re worried about ai slop taking over THIS is the community to watch.

hmm, while I’m doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn’t occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.