The American oil and gas industry is heavily subsidize by the government. So we get an artificially lower price of gas and oil then most places in the world. However our pool companies will still export and use the market price to increase gas prices. The entire system is rigged to keep us addicted to oil. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-government-rigs-the-market-in-favor-of-fossil-fuels/

Anyone that says we can't switch to other modes of energy, we absolutely could. It just requires us to put the same amount of subsidies we already give oil and gas to other industries instead, but that would hurt shareholders of oil companies! We care very much about those shareholders.

The recent remake is great too.

I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there's a bunch to be said that if you've developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don't always agree that if you've lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.

Okay I just finished playing over an hour, I have to fully disagree with it being closer to BF. If you like Squad you'll like this, but there's no dedicated kit like BF or Squad. You have inventory management like Arma, and you have to pack your magazines. You can specialize however you want to your play style. The maps are absolutely massive. The vehicles have a lot of weight to them and overall the pacing is close to Squad and Arma. The first match from start to finish took about an hour and 40 minutes.

Obviously a lot of these games have some of that BF spirit but this game is much slower in pacing.

Edit: also I'm playing this on Arch, and the game ran flawlessly, with proton 11.

That's marketing making you see that, but yeah Squad did spawn of BF, but it's not as fast paced as battlefield. I watched an hour stream yesterday, it's got the really slow bits of Squad in its DNA.

I got an invite for the closed beta that starts today. I'll report back on which it's closer to.

I would say it's closer to Squad with a managed economy system on top of it. BF has no economy management. Or FoB building, or logistics trucks running resources to build FoBs.

She's switched to doing almost everything entirely on patreon.

She got called out for doing blackface around summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd and she put an apology video out saying she's going to take accountability by going on an indefinite hiatus. She's followed through with that, the apology seemed sincere.

I'm glad I wasn't alone in singing exactly this in my head.

It's the plot of utopia.

Mennonites wild be the closest but that entirely depends on the community.

Currently on Arch with hyprland, but I'm considering switching to Bazzite or SteamOS. My understanding is SteamOS doesn't support multiple monitor setups well. So that's what gives me pause on trying that.

But end of the day if what you have is working, there's not much reason to switch to one unless you're curious to poke around.