That’s a good point. I wonder if there’s a way to combine the throw-wallet duress pin with the delete-everything duress pin.

Like, enter the duress pin, get the fake profile AND start a timer: if the real pin isn’t entered within 1 hr (or whatever timeframe the user set it to), then it factory resets.

Best of both worlds.

IIRC one of the mobile operating systems has a duress pin that instead of deleting all your shit, it just opens up basically a different user profile. So you can throw a few random apps and photos etc until it looks convincing, and just have that on standby. Put in your normal pin and you get the profile you actually use.

Cop demands to see your phone, and it’s just a “sure - it’s 4022” and they get to scroll through some uninteresting bs.

Go home and put the real pin in and it’s back to normal - nothing’s deleted.

It’s kinda like carrying a throw-wallet with a few bucks and expired credit cards… get mugged, hand em that, and be on your way with your real wallet in another pocket.

The heck are you lot doing?!

We tried to fix it by voting in a bunch of Nazis, but then that didn’t work, so we voted in some more Nazis and that didn’t work either, and now we’re not sure what else to try.

We getting into strawman shit, or are you just not paying attention? The suicidal shit came before the military, not because of it. I’ve got plenty of real faults if you want to make a dig at any of them - no need to make shit up.

You’re missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I’m stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. …but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone’s too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I’m a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can’t control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won’t change anything outside of severely reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

I left “I’m a fucking idiot” in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn’t have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster… which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

Veteran here. It’s more like: “I’m a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice.”

Plan B was to kill myself, so I don’t feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.

You’d be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it’d be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.

Yeah when one of those fuckers is driving behind me, I’ll just decelerate a mph every couple of seconds. Doesn’t usually take more than about 5 until they get annoyed enough to actually pass.

sigh

Might as well watch another movie.

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…as though any of us could afford to go to the cinema once, let alone a second time just for shits and giggles.

Aw fuck. I didn’t anticipate this leading to actual responsibility.

Well, what’s done is done: I’ll fill this role to the best of my ability.

OH C’MON MAN!

…Drax = protein, nebula = minerals, groot = fiber.

That’s the point - the christian god is presented as all powerful, all knowing, and all good. The existence of evil in our universe shows that to be a lie.

Did god not have the power to give us free will without also giving us evil?

• Had the power but opted not to: god is himself some part evil

• Didn’t have the power, did the best he could with the tools he had: god is not omnipotent.

Pick one.

While I enjoy emulation, it is kinda OT for this list.

Kinda, but only kinda. I wouldn’t put any how-to guides or anything here, but letting folks know that it’s an option is worth posting.

Also, is it me or the two links in your comment are broken? It seems like they both miss an “h” in “https”.

Weird. They both worked for me; I changed them to the ! links - see if that works any better. …actually iirc that makes it better for mobile users anyway.

This only kinda meets the criteria since emulators are available on the play store, though roms will have to be sourced elsewhere, but… 100% roms and emulators. The N64 content and earlier emulate really well on a smartphone, especially when paired with a bluetooth controller.

IIRC ever version (different language releases, etc) of every game for Nintendo consoles from when they first became a company through all of the N64 content is a grand total of like 20bg: each individual game is tiny, so you can easily fit all your favorites on your phone.

I’m not sure what the latest and greatest emulators are today, but when I dabbled into this stuff last time, there were free, no bullshit options.

Quick search reveals a couple communities for it here on Lemmy:

!emulation@lemmy.ml

!emulationonandroid@lemmy.ml

I’d hit the side bars of those communities and go from there.

Note: downloading roms you don’t own the license to is piracy; and even if you do own the license, your ISP won’t know that, so I’d recommend practicing some basic internet safety like using a VPN. Also, ad blockers are an ABSOLUTE MUST on any website that provides or directs you to roms, otherwise you’ll have like 20 links on your page that all say “Download!” that will lead you to some flavor of shitware.

But yeah, if you want games without all the modern bullshit in them like ads and lootcrate gambling, etc, then what better option than games that were made before all that cancer existed?!

Quick! Someone crosspost this to !memes@lemmy.world

The trick is to not remove them.

What they’re incapable of is recognizing that ‘the badies’ (Nazis) is something they should avoid.

The problem isn’t that they don’t know they’re evil, it’s that they fucking love it.

Naw our brains do that shit all the time - you don’t hear someone quite right, and instead of recognizing that you didn’t get the info, your noggin just fills in the blanks on its own. She very well may have clearly heard “Let’s go Brandon!”

Perception is reality.

Maybe he just had a weird fetish?