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    Are people in your state or country getting tired of the government finally?

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  • I have friends who've been to Russia, and I'm also European and not American so this is way closer to home than you'd like to imagine. I understand that there are plenty of Russians who don't want this, my friends who went there met many great people. But their country is at this moment at war with a sovereign nation for no other reason than imperialism. Ukraine didn't choose this war, but got invaded anyway. Many innocent people have to die because of the actions of Putin and his regime. When I say Russia I mean their government, and the actions of their country as a whole. They're taking land that doesn't belong ot them and causing a lot of unnecessary death and destruction in the process. Should the western nations just let Ukraine fall? Let their people be subjected to a total autocracy instead of the flawed but functional democracy that they were living under?

  • how do you manage to go through and play a game?

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  • I have this with lots of other things currently. Whenever I cannot do one of my hobbies, I will fantasize about them and come up with all kinds of ideas of what to do, but when the time comes to do them I just cannot get going and sometimes even get stressed. My brain would rather just stare at YouTube videos all day. I believe it's our dopamine systems being completely fried due to all the easily accessible instant gratification online.

    I recently read a book again for the first time in years, Dune, and I was struggling so hard in the beginning. My brain just wanted to scroll. I enjoyed the book, but nevertheless my brain wanted instant gratification and I had to resist the urge to grab my phone while reading the book. Luckily this subsided after getting a bit further.

    I don't often have this for games yet luckily. I'm currently absorbed in Hades II and no amount of brain rot can get me out of it. But it's one of the last sacred places, and even gaming sometimes suffers this fate. There are so many gun things to do that it's just overwhelming, whenever you do something your brain always has something else it wants to do more. Not because it actually wants it, but just because it likes the idea of it. As a kid I didn't have all this stuff, and didn't experience all these things, so everything I did felt special.

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  • I can never understand why you tankies are so insistent on seeing Russia as a good guy (or at least neutral). It's an autocratic far-right regime with a silly desire for invading their neighbours. If the west is so bad for doing so everywhere then why not Russia? They're not the soviet union anymore, they're anything but communist. They're everything the left should hate: imperialist, anti-"woke", an oligarchy. I get why y'all like China because at least they pretend to be communist, but Russia?

  • Why?

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  • Because windows has become spyware and enough shit works to be worth the hassle. Don't get me wrong, it's still a constant struggle. I have many hobbies, and for some of them it's really annoying to be on Linux. Programming is awesome on Linux, gaming is for the most part fine, music production gets a lot more iffy and some of the photography stuff isn't really cooperating. But I'll just have to endure it, I'm almost one year in and for the most part everything works in some way or another. I only start Windows once in a few months now.

  • Went hiking with the pancake lens

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  • Yeah I've noticed that some people don't really get these kind of things, which is fine. To me it's kinda nostalgic, and the imperfection of the lens also adds a certain character to the image. For the same reason I also like film photography and old digital camera's. It removes the pressure to be perfect and adds a certain nostalgic character to the shots. Photography isn't necessarily just a tool to capture what's in front of you perfectly, but rather an art to capture images with a certain vibe. Limitation breeds creativity.

    But yeah I guess everyone has their own preferences, it's totally subjective on the end.

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  • Preparing to defend against Russian expansionism isn't the same as begging to be next in line to fight Russia. It's clear that Russia will just keep bullying the west (or basically anyone around them). If you can't rely on what they say, you have to speak their language and be prepared for war. Not to attack them, but to defend yourself and other sovereign nations around them.

  • Went hiking with the pancake lens

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  • The whole fun of this lens is that it shoots blurry shots like a disposable camera.

  • Come on this journey with me as a fail to properly meeter my camera [NONS SL660, NONS 50mm f/1.8, Instax Square 800 ISO]

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  • Those are some neat pictures tho. Very contrasty but definitely a vibe

  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • Strongly disagree here. It might not be possible to change them, but that's never for sure. OP should not let them say hateful shit just to keep the peace, and should instead keep countering it with facts even if it doesn't help. Don't make them feel like hatred should just be accepted. If they stop, maybe stop bringing it up as well.

    I'm not from the US, and I've had to counter the dumb Facebook brainrot that got to my parents quite a few times. It's insane to see how gullible they've become, so it is important to keep challenging them. Recently I was hit with some nonsense about the moon landing being faked. Even some simple statements like "we still have those computers and programs, anyone could've checked whether those could viably land something on the moon" and "so many people would've had to remain silent for such a thing to be successful" was enough to counter the nonsense. But I just keep wondering how they keep falling for it. It's important to keep fighting (with words). Any seed of doubt may break their indoctrination, even if it's not immediately

  • Come on this journey with me as a fail to properly meeter my camera [NONS SL660, NONS 50mm f/1.8, Instax Square 800 ISO]

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  • That's a cool device. Honestly I'm kinda the other way around. I have plenty of film cameras now and also some digital ones, but no instant film. From what I've seen it's often quite sensitive to over- or underexposure. Also, instant film cameras are often quite bulky looking. It's the kinda thing I'd like to take to a party or festival, but compared to a digital or film point-and-shoot it's often much larger and heavier.

  • Aurora Borealis

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  • Wowie. I only once saw a very faint one. Hope to experience this at some point. But here in the Netherlands it's not very common unfortunately

  • Step 1: Label the danger clearly

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  • Not sure if it's regional, but I despise wasps with a passion. I don't harass them, bit they sure as fuck harass me. The try to fly into my face, my food, my clothes, etc. and then when they inevitably get stuck or upset, they start stinging. I've been stung multiple times by wasps and it hurts like hell and is always their fault. Bees are chill, European Hornets are okay (because they tend to just ignore you), but those yellow and black wasps can rot in a special super hell.

  • Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun

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  • Nothing, too busy playing Hades II. Death to Chronos!

  • It's official: EA is going private.

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  • As a big Star Wars fan this hurts though. The Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor games where my favorite Star Wars content after Andor since Disney took over. I was looking forward to the last game in the trilogy. But I don't want these people to get any money and I'm also afraid that the project will be affected anyways :/

  • Me_irl

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  • Most companies have too many managers, but my brain could honestly use a few. At work I'm always impressed with how the management people hear all the ramblings of my brain going vroooooooooom and then somehow manage to instantly plan it in an organized manner and clear the chaos. If one of them could, like, be in my brain and do that for the rest of my life it'd be great.

  • Thinkpad meme

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  • They often are :3

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • Being able to go basically anywhere by bike, foot, or public transport. And just our bike infrastructure in general. I honestly don't know how I could live in most other countries because it seems like basically everything happens by car or foot. Being able to bike anywhere is so much nicer and gives a lot of freedom from an early age.

    Strangely we Dutch people also seem to be quite alone in our view that helmets on normal bikes are not really necessary. They make bikes more prevalent imo, because you don't have to drag a helmet along everywhere. You just park you bike and the only thing you have with you because of it is a key, no special clothes, helmets, etc. I think that's also possible because of our bicycle infrastructure and culture.

    Kids learn to bike from a young age, in traffic. You see very young kids just cycle on their smol little bike with a parent on the outside sort of shielding them from traffic. Safely on bike roads, but also just on shared roads with cars. In general kids are quite free to just play outside. I live close to a school and I see plenty of kids all across the neighborhood, just playing without parental supervision. It's what we did back in the day too, without mobile phones or anything. We'd usually be home on time for dinner or our parents would find us somewhere in the neighborhood and tell us it was time to get home.

  • 16mm lens vs 1000mm lens, same object

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  • Looks like there's a ton of upscaling going on. It's the phone generating what's probably there based on the little information it gets rather than an image of what's actually there. It can be impressive, but there will also be many cases where it looks like an AI-generated image because for the most part it is.

  • accidental gay sex rule

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  • You can't avoid that mission in clouds afaik. As an asexual person it also stressed me out a bit, but in the end nothing happened.

  • accidental gay sex rule

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  • (Mild spoilers) That scene isn't sexual tho, at least not with Fem V and the female option, Skye. As an asexual person who would rather not watch sex scènes, I was so ready to bail on that mission the moment things got spicy. But I ended up running through the entire conversation tree without having anything spicy happen. Rather, it turned into a sort of therapy session for V and honestly a quite emotional moment in the game.

    It's funny though to imagine that whole mission with a homophobic dude and having to do the same thing with the guy, Angel. Must be prime content to watch the homophobe be stressed beyond belief for what's to come.