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I_Has_A_Hat

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  • Perspectives

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  • No, that is not a bright and sunny outlook, no matter how you cut it.

    For those of you cheering on the death of the American Empire and the rise of communism from its ashes... You know you're never going to live to see that day, right? Maybe your children will, more likely your grandchildren if it happens at all. But between now and then, there will be a new Dark Age and it will last for DECADES minimum.

    Get ready for food shortages, water shortages, critical infrastructure like power and Internet going out. Get ready for wars, bloody conflicts, authoritarian crackdowns that make today look like a cordial dinner party.

    Like, you guys get that right? It's not just a switch being flipped. If you want to kill the beast that is the American Empire, it's going to thrash HARD. It's going to cause a LOT of fucking damage during and immediately after its collapse, and it won't be fast. It will be long, slow, and marked with untold amounts of suffering before something, if anything, can be rebuilt.

    Yea, yea, society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they'll never sit under. Just make sure you're ready to struggle for survival for the rest of your life if you really want that shade to exist.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • People got mad at me for pointing out this is the case when people die because they listen to an AI chatbot, but it's true. AI 100% needs more regulation, but introduce any new tool to everyone all at once, and some idiots will use it to remove themselves from the gene pool. If you sent everyone in the world a thin, 2in rod of inert iron, there would be a handful of people who would figure out a way to kill themselves with it.

  • Haven't been to a McDonald's since luigis capture. Never will forget. Never will forgive.

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  • Buddy, if you believe the whole "random McDonalds worker saw him and reported him" story rather than the government has tools at their disposal they aren't telling us about that allow them to track people, then you have a lot more faith in the official narrative than I do.

  • FtM

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  • I'm ok with body shaming as long as the thing being shamed is something that they intentionally did to themselves.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • I don't know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they're being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • That any time someone suggests a workaround, it always involves like 2-3 different obscure apps and plug-ins, and often people will recommend several variations that all do the same thing. All of these apps are also fairly new, with only a single developer or a small team with no proven track record, that are doomed to lose support or stop working at any moment. And yea, most of them are FOSS, but that only means that when they go under, a dozen differently named clones will pop up. All with their own weird flavor of drama.

    "Noooo! You can't use Fweeb, that's just an offshoot of Squootle that was made after the Fweeb developer was kicked off the Squootle team for making some vaguely problematic Slack comments!"

    "Yea, but Squootle is set to stop working within the next 18 months because of the upcoming YouTube 'Screw Our Users' update and the remaining Squootle team members have all fucked off to Hungary to raise free-range alpacas and aren't pushing updates anymore."

    "Oh fuck, man, you're using Squootle? Squootle is just spyware. You want to make sure you're using Squootle Origin. That's a completely different program with different developers"

    Anyways, have you tried QwiDer? It's really the only one you should be using, bro. Anyone not using QwiDer is behind in the times. Just get QwiDer and run it using a PLST script.

  • Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal, before it is too late'

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  • I mean, Puerto Rico is part of the US. That just sounds like federal land being used as federal land.

  • Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal, before it is too late'

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  • I've been thinking in these terms for the past decade and it helps come to terms with so much.

    Russia attacking Ukraine: I used to own this area like 40 turns ago, about time I took it back.

    China: Oh shit, I forgot I had all my city preferences to growth. I need to change those to science and industry.

    US on Israel: Geeze, my city-state (Israel) is really being aggressive for no reason and pulling me into all sorts of conflicts. Buuuut, I really don't want to lose that Religion bonus they give, so I'm going to just keep supporting them.

    US on Venezuela: I need more oil, but don't want to trade people for it, let's look at where the closest tiles with oil resources are that I don't control yet. Wtf, Venezuela has 5 oil tiles?! Oh I'm definitely going to grab those. It might not look good diplomatically, but they'll get over it.

    EU: Uh oh, I think the rest of the world is starting to notice that we've been focusing entirely on science and social research for the past 30 turns and that most of the big players are way ahead of us on Military research.

    Africa as a whole is just that civ that got screwed over by a bunch of different civs early on and the AI has just stopped trying to advance or compete in any meaningful way.

    Canada had a really solid, long-term alliance with the US and never had to worry about anything, but suddenly the US goals changed and they've been making ominous threats and comments about the comparative strength of their two militaries.

  • We got any spelunking enthusiasts out there?

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  • Some of the jokes will go over your head, some of the cameos will be meaningless, but overall I think the show stands on its own pretty well.

  • What is a cold hard truth people have to accept in life?

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  • Karma does not exist. The most horrible people imaginable will get away with doing the most horrible things possible. They will never get "what's coming to them" because nothing is "coming to them". These awful people are also not secretly miserable all the time, that is a pathetic lie people tell themselves to feel better about watching awful people get everything they ever wanted.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • Have you tried Squootle? Just use Squootle with a pLib plugin, bro. All you have to do is load the community block list made by asianasspounder72 into your Squootle's cld/000x24b3/v folder and update the file in notepad to edit line 124 to call pLib v2.4 instead of v1.6. Make sure you're using the beta release of pLib, but not the latest one.

    Why aren't you using Squootle?

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • I hope you never use JavaScript then. Eich created that too.

  • Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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  • A lot of people don't seem to remember Alex Jones getting banned from YouTube in 2018. While rightwing, ultra-MAGA's were already a thing, they were relatively small compared today. Alex Jones was the first high profile ban from social media and it was like tossing gasoline onto a small bush fire.

    You have to remember that Trump did not win the first time because he had an army of fanatics. A lot of other factors were at play; from people still upset about the DNC's snubbing of Bernie, to people who weren't fully paying attention (remember, politics used to be boring), to people who voted for Trump simply "for the lols" (don't discount this last group, any historical account that doesn't factor in how important internet memes were to getting that man elected is being willfully ignorant) . Die-hard MAGA's were relatively rare, and usually a source of ridicule.

    Until their spokespeople started getting banned from places. It seems so small by today's standards. People get banned and deplatformed all the time. But Alex Jones was the first real incident, and people saw it as a massive attack on free speech. To his relatively small number of followers, the man had his free speech rights violated by the left-wing news cabal for daring to speak the TRUTH™. Suddenly, all their bullshit was justified.

    I've always been pretty far-left but I got a deep chill when that happened. I remember remarking to my friends that banning political speech, no matter how full of shit, would only cause problems in the long run, and so it has. Precedent was broken, and the right took it as a declaration of war. I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him. He deserved it, but they opened a door that couldn't be shut again; and following this was a couple years of high-profile bans of rightwing figureheads and safe-spaces, all cumulating to the shut down of /r/theDonald in 2020. And the infection, which had been contained to a few small corners of the internet, suddenly exploded.

  • Changed my life

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  • Just put a tea bag in a cup of water and microwave it.

  • What do we call the career bureaucrats who remained working in Nazi Germany?

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  • Except it was. It absolutely was. It worked for over 99% of Nazi's who got off with absolutely zero consequences and continued to live their lives without even really being ostracized from their communities until they died from old age. Only a few high level commanders were ever punished. Pretty much none of the jackboot soldiers faced any charges.

    "Never Forget"? What a fucking joke. People already "forgot" the truth of what happened in favor of a pretty lie that terrible people always face justice.

  • Park Service says passes are void if Trump's photo is covered : NPR

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  • You also don't need a parks pass to visit the national parks... It's not even all that economical.

  • Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything

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  • What didn't you like about Andor? And if your answer is "I didn't see it", then why do you already have an opinion on it?

  • Park Service says passes are void if Trump's photo is covered : NPR

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  • Sounds like a great way for the parks department to lose even more funding.

  • Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized

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  • I support unions, but at this point I'd be terrified to join a new one. Especially when you're somewhere owned by a large company or private equity firm. There are just no protections for unions anymore, and these days large companies would rather just close down entire departments than give employees basic rights.

    I get that the fear and intimidation are the point, but that really doesn't help. Having a gun pointed in your face is also a form of fear and intimidation, but knowing that doesn't make it any less dangerous when it happens to you.

    I just don't know what to do anymore, every single thing feels like a losing option while the world just continues to get worse and worse. I've scrimped and saved for years to have some sort of nest egg, and its barely more than what more successful people casually spend in a week. I don't see a way out of this mess.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Why isn't steam from power plants harnessed, condensed, and used to power gravity fed water turbines?

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    Vampires are evil because they're incapable of self-reflection.