I installed the 16-member party Mod and took all the origin characters (except urge) around for a while. Combat became a chore. Probably the biggest grievance is they’d block each other’s movement, but it just took REALLY long to do combat with them all present.
So you think we should negotiate with terrorists? Give them something to make them stop what they’re doing today, and they definitely won’t commit more terrorism later in the hope of getting more things later.
I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
I’ve run Minecraft: Bedrock on Linux/amd64 using a wrapper that repackaged the android distro. I was able to log in to my MS account and play on servers requiring the online authentication crap.
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa is looking back on a democratic but deeply divided society. Political divisions have fueled a growing disappointment with Nelson Mandela’s liberation party, the ANC....
the government Has a report that shows Whites make up a greater percentage of the homeless population (10%) than general population (8%)
And yet, the suburbs outlying, for example, Cape town, are largely populated by white people who would be considered working/middle class by European standards.
The generation of black leaders that are coming up now are the first generation that had even the remotest shot at a real education and such, so I would expect to see the balance tip significantly further in the coming two decades.
What I do see - independent of skin color - in South Africa is massive separation of economic classes. The minimum wage is something like usd2/hr, maybe worse - but cars cost the same as in the western world, and home prices are largely similar as well.
There is almost no hope for someone born into poverty to ever be able to own their own car, as they can’t afford to stop scraping for food from the moment they are old enough to walk.
That doesn’t change based on skin color.
Last year in Cape Town I had the pleasure and privilege of working with a lovely and skilled gentleman. He was born into near-poverty and managed to get himself into a reasonably decent I.T. job. He told me that legally he is ‘coloured’ but he grew up in a ‘black’ area. (Visually he looks very similar in skin tone to Wesley Snipes) He said the first thing he did when he got his first I.T. job was move to a ‘white’ neighborhood which “was pretty much all coloureds anyway” - I asked him to explain this to me, and long story short, he said that it wasn’t about skin tone, but the level of violence and risk to property. He then showed me his stab wounds which he alleges he got “just for walking in a black neighborhood.”
So there is definitely a perception among the population that race is connected to status/economic advantage/etc. - but it doesn’t necessarily represent today’s reality.
I stayed in a reasonably upscale hotel during that stay, and based on hotel breakfast attendance, I have no doubt that the race makeup of hotel guests was representative of the race makeup of the general population.
There’s no doubt in my mind that historically, white South Africans held all the cards, but for people born after the 80’s that doesn’t seem to be the case any more. The next couple of generations will see that flip completely, I think, but the wealth gap is so severe that the ‘walking-dead-poor’ class will continue for generations to come.
All of this to say that disadvantaging Whites today because they were winning during apartheid isn’t helping anyone except those at the top of the economic ladder.
Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile....
Neil rule
I learned it from watching you, okay?! (lemmy.world)
What is your BG3 unpopular opinion?
What is PID 0? (blog.dave.tf)
He didn't know either. (lemmy.world)
Israeli military rescues four hostages alive from Gaza, including Noa Argamani (www.nbcnews.com)
My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux
I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
That feeling when even Elon Musk thinks you're insufferable (lemmy.world)
30 years on, South Africa's dream of unity lies shattered (www.dw.com)
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa is looking back on a democratic but deeply divided society. Political divisions have fueled a growing disappointment with Nelson Mandela’s liberation party, the ANC....
Got tracked down for my school reunion
Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile....