Because the chemical execution method isn’t to ensure the swift, painless death of the accused, it’s to soothe the psyche of the executioner

Me too

I do recall that he talked about feeling incredibly alienated after the sale, because people only wanted to talk to him, for his money. He couldn’t make genuine connections. That kind of thing really fucks with you, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it exacerbated existing problems.

But also, like… Look at the Villagers. They deal in commerce, have but noses, and are protected by golems. He was always a shithead. Being a rich shithead only made him worse

I only play mod packs like Reminiscence or Matcha Flavoured. I can’t handle how Vanilla is tall systems that are a mile wide and an inch deep

Yeah, what talents you got?

There are some deep Tankie holes on Lemmy

Deep Tankie Holes are what I’m calling my Lemmy moderator themed porno

That wasn’t what the Nazis took as inspiration, so much as Jim Crow laws, and the extermination of indigenous peoples.

Lebensraum was just Manifest Destiny for Germans.

I feel this, big time. I had a former friend, a cis woman, not long after I came out, offer to help me transition, give me advice, and in her words, “be a big sister”. This is the thing every trans girl wishes they could hear, so I jumped at the offer.

And she helped me with some thing here and there, but very quickly, things started to sour for reasons I struggle to wrap my head around. I was always the one starting conversations. She rarely, if ever, took an active interest in my life or transition, and when I would try and take an interest in her life, the conversation would rarely go anywhere.

When conversions did go somewhere, it was always this tossup as to whether I was going to get that kind, supportive “big sister” relationship she kept insisting we had, or if she’d say something deeply hurtful. And the latter scenario happened frequently enough that it’s really wrecked my self esteem and damaged my ability to open up and form new relationships with other women.

She would also regularly ignore or bowl over my needs and desires, and on occasion would treat me like some sort of dress up doll, whether I’d benefit, or felt comfortable with it, or not.

It took me a long time to finally distance myself from the whole situation, because this was someone I really looked up to and admired at one point, and it was difficult to recognize that there was nothing I could do that was going to make her love me, or treat me like a person.

People removed on the internet way too often, for sure. But I’m very involved in my local organizing scene, and people are always doing something, and a lot of great things have been accomplished in my region, as a result

The use of the phrase massline, the ‘theory’ of Soviet ‘social Imperialism’ and the condemnation of post-mao China are all Maoist things, not trot things.

The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist position on AES sucks, and is undialectical, but I’ll give them more credit than the trots for actually holding and governing territory right now. Which is more than any trot movement has ever done.

too slow and unreliable for general everyday use

There was a guy on Lemmy awhile back who was daily driving TailsOS, as a bit. I wonder how it turned out

For that matter, why aren’t we looking to the Chavismo movement in Venezuela itself to inform our views on this? Why should I care more about what some gringos have to say over actual Venezuelan socialists?

Is heavy metal about uplifting the downtrodden?

Specific metal scenes are absolutely about uplifting the downtrodden, and are ardently leftist. Grindcore, RABM, etc.

But metal is really a vast subgenre. It’s either largely just about the music, like Jazz for sickos. Or it has a more or less evident reactionary component.

So those more left leaning metal scenes are largely responding to reactionary or apolitical tendencies in metal as a whole.

Well, we went from shitposting in niche, independently run, forums, to doing it on corporate platforms that spy on you. So I don’t think that the shitposting itself is necessarily the issue here

“Artificial Intelligence” isn’t even a meaningful phrase anyway! It lumps together multiple technologies, inaccurately describes what they do, and obscures their actual function. We did just fine, calling these things Large Language Models or Machine Learning, for years.

Calling them “AI” is pure vaporware. It’s like when those handleless segways for popular about a decade ago, and people started calling them “hover boards”. Literally not what they are, but it made the companies making them seem more innovative than they actually were

Fuck that, expropriate it without compensation

Pretty sure it’s there as an excuse to cut down on the number of black and brown people

Term limits were absolutely instated because conservatives were afraid of the fact that people made FDR president for life, and the New Deal was too pinko for them.

That said, FDR was not in any way a Socialist. And even if he was, no Socialist should be wanting to emulate a man who put Japanese people in concentration camps.

One is pro-trans

The Democratic Party is rapidly becoming very anti-trans

At least canals, railroads, and highways facilitated travel and commerce.

AI… What? Writes fake articles, and shitty images of anime waifus with huge tits?