I’m putting my face in the hole and being like "the whole world is about me. Also Japan is just red earth.

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Outer Wilds taught me that it’s actually quite easy to fly into the sun.

the blow back led to laws that are still on the book today.

Effectively, those laws were already in place. If the first time a tactic is used against powerful people, it is outlawed, it was never actually allowed. The laws getting passed at least shows people how the law is being used to benefit the rich and powerful. The previous unspoken rule gave the people in power plausible deniability. I’m not some huge fan of Just Stop Oil but the edges of the laws should always be probed by activists, imo.

Anthony Fantano, a popular music critic on YouTube.

Dead for sure

My goal is to generally enhance my security. With the US becoming more of a police state than it already was, I don’t need my music folder to be a freely accessible reason to slap me with charges for nothing. If I ever do something that might be deemed not-government-friendly, I don’t want to suddenly have to worry about how my files are stored. I’d rather have that baked in for a greater sense of freedom.

Thanks for all the info. The reason I didn’t want to do a clean install wasnt because I didn’t want to back things up. I just knew I would forget game saves or have program settings revert to default or whatever and spend the next couple weeks slowly running into small issues with my setup.

I shouldn’t engage but I can’t resist. The difference is thats what mods are for. They ban problematic users and there’s modlogs for transparency. There are power-tripping mods that are trigger happy with the ban, but it is up to them to do that.

Tesseract is an app which claims to access the fediverse. It doesn’t tell you what’s being censored or even that things are being censored. It presents them as technical issues. It’s not an apples to apples comparison.

I also don’t like cilantro…so I don’t add it to mine.

I really wanna make some pico de gallo though…

There’s a virus going around that is thought to be spread from raw vegetables like lettuce. You could just eat cooked veggies though.

I used to work in manufacturing in the auto industry. Everything is already metric in the US. People working on US made cars have the privilege of losing a 10mm socket just like the rest of the world.

Article 5 doesn’t apply to a member attacking another member. If it did, Greece and Turkey wouldve made the other members more nervous long before now.

Even if it wasn’t enough, they could just ask Denmark nicely and probably they could just get more.

Except for the one successful one. We just celebrated its birthday actually.

I hardly know her!

For a lot of people, you’re right. For a lot of other people, the alternative they’re looking for is fascism. Not explicitly-normal people don’t consider themselves fascist. But they know America is no longer working for them and the fascists are telling them who to blame and presenting a bold vision for the future. For the same reason the fascists can’t publicly call themselves fascists, the communists and socialists should be careful who they use that label with. Many still think any socialism will mean they pay more in taxes. If you present them with socialism, you will have to dispell a bunch of myths before you get to what you actually think should be done. You’ll be on the back foot. Once they warm up to the ideas you propose, pull back the curtain and say what you’ve been talking about. Know your audience, I guess is what I’m saying.

The optics isn’t for people who are already saying they like socialism. It’s for the people who recognize the Democrats aren’t meeting the moment but still think socialism is when taxes.

Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.