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SimplyTadpole

@ SimplyTadpole @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi! You can call me Tadpole. I enjoy maps/geography, sci-fi and speculative fiction, classic and sports cars and motorsports, and retro and retrofuturistic technology from the 70s-90s. Also a racing, role-playing, indie and retro video game connossieur.

I am a certified lurker.

  • 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets

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  • "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

  • The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.

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  • I feel like I'm the only one here who actually likes it when games I loved when I was younger become old/retro. I see it as a badge of honour, like them getting to enter the hall of fame.

    Super Mario World isn't a bad game just because it's old, it's just as great now as it was in the 90s. Same with Sunshine. And it makes me happy knowing I grew up with these games - no amount of aging or growing old could take that away from me.

  • Elon Musk says it’s trans people’s fault that cis people are burning Tesla cars

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  • Please tell me where this is from 🥺

  • Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana

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  • This feels too good to be true.

  • The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?

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  • Happy birthday!

  • The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?

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  • Cars, NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (and Underground 2), Test Drive Unlimited, and The Simpsons Game (and Hit & Run). Mostly racing games lol.

  • USA President term limits

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  • Now I'm curious: if Person A serves two full terms as US president, then Person B (from the same party) runs and chooses A as their vice-president, and then steps down, what would happen? Would A be unable to be picked as B's Vice President in first place, or would A simply be legally unable to be sworn in as President after B stepped down and the Speaker of the House gets the position instead?

  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election

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  • meanwhile im already seeing "moderate" "pundits" saying the reason Harris lost is because she was too woke and Democrats need to move further right 🙃

  • We did it, guys!

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  • Palestine is freed... from existing.

  • We did it, guys!

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  • If there is any light ahead, I think it’s that this L forces the Democratic Party to lean back left with their campaign promises, and whatever power they have left to affect policy.

  • Where to go from here?

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  • I'm not American or European, but my country likes to follow whatever America does and our far-right has in the past tried to get their help to stage a coup, so I'm worried about this as well - they couldn't get Biden's support, but they are buddies with Trump and he is more than happy to assist. I'm pretty sure my country is going to follow the US and throw itself off a cliff in two years, and I really hope I have an emergency escape hatch come 2026-2027...

  • Despite everything, if you're in the US, you should still vote

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  • Pictured: Newly-unveiled biologically-engineered troops of the National Guard enforcing the new State Ideology of Obamunism in Mar-a-Lago (2009, colorized)

  • Disability Rule

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  • To be fair, Stirner was a pretty cool dude, so I get why :p

  • Pretty Easy Choice

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  • I mostly lurk and prefer to not get involved in politics, but GOOD GOD I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY. It's so exhausting.

    What sucks is that voting isn't swearing a blood oath that turns you into a slave of neoliberalism and prevents you from doing direct action: you can do both. Voting isn't going to save Palestinians (and it's a bitter pill to swallow, I know), but it's going to save lots of other vulnerable minorities (who never really asked to be born in the imperial core!), and still provide breathing room for direct action that can help Palestine.

    Like... even if you don't care about the safety of trans people, pragmatically speaking it's immensely easier to organize as leftists in a neoliberal regime than it is in a fascist regime. Just look at what happened to the KPD when they proclaimed "first Hitler, then it's our turn". (Yes, the SPD backstabbed them during Weimar - RIP Rosa Luxemburg - but that pales to the Nazis basically rounding them all up and sending them to the gas chambers!) I don't want history to repeat. Please don't let it repeat.

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  • This is currently me with modded Kerbal Space Program and Cities: Skylines lol

  • Happy 12 million!

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  • I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

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  • I don't know how or why, but I get absolutely atrocious stuttering while playing games on X11 that simply doesn't occur with Wayland, so X is just not an option for me.

  • French President Emmanuel Macron announces new right-wing government

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  • It's moreso that they think "by the time shit hits the fan, I'll be long dead anyway, so I don't see why I should care". Ergo, pure, distilled lack of empathy, a "fuck you, I got mine" aimed at the future of every living being in our planet.

  • An old comic still relevant

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    micrulesoft

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    Nokia rule

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    Cassette Rules

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    Sorrule

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    I hate April Rules

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    catgirl rule

  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    this image is from 1993

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    SimplyTadpole @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Has anyone managed to use 80_PA on Linux?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    And Gentoo as well, but shush