Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe.
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I believe Salvatori also did one of my absolute favorite songs in Halo 2, "Heavy Price Paid", which was another one of the songs that played on the menu. It's a shame it's all mostly accredited to O'Donnell; game music enthusiasts with their heads on straight knew he was a POS back in the mid-00s, too. As far as I can remember he's never been shy about it.
I use Fennec, a fork of Firefox for Android inspired by Librewolf on desktop. Iceraven is a similar thing. The differences seem very minor to me. Fennec is on F-Droid, Iceraven you need to use Obtainium to download. Both of them support uBlock Origin.
You're totally fine. I think that is the correct reading, for the record. Which is why I say that I am glad it was made before COVID, when that reading would have resonated with me, and I can re-contextualize it for the time period it was written. It would not (does not) resonate today. Today, if I were to meet Steban and Ulixes, the representatives of that hope for and resilience of the future present in a war-torn world facing encroaching oblivion, they would tell me that asking their demonstrations to require masking is too alienating to the proletariat, and they won't be doing that, actually. Precious lines about stars going out in the darkness notwithstanding.
In the real world, COVID was the trial run for how, during a genuine Earth-shattering crisis, a global movement in the modern age materializes, and nowhere in the world was able to meet that very important bar*—how can I believe that we will Do Climate Action, another practically Olympian feat and one just as if not more threatening, let alone Do Communism, a relative pipe dream, in this light? I can't. I can't ignore what's happening in front of me every day, and what's happening is the era of blackest reaction, gleefully. Remember how a strain of the flu went extinct in the US when only half the population (a generous estimate, even in the early years) were wearing unfit cloth masks—not even proper respirators! Remember when the viral memes all over social media were about nature healing and returning to us when we stopped it all for just a few months? Everyone said no, to that, after a while. Overwhelmingly, and around the globe. Look at what we accomplished when we were merely half-assing it, and we refuse!
The future is unknown, and nothing is forever. I'll do what I always do: what I can. Fighting is in my blood. I couldn't stop if I wanted to. In spite of that, I do not have hope, and no one will be able to convince me to hope in this world, with the people that made and continue to make this. We aren't totally helpless lemmings at the whims of our overlords, not completely, not everywhere; we're all complicit in this as far as I'm concerned. We've by and large abandoned each other, and especially the most vulnerable among us. It's not just leadership. China's Zero COVID was supremely unpopular, and what eventually led to its retraction. Try asking your next PSL chapter meeting to mask up. They won't. This is what's necessary, and even those without the genocidal, fascistic tendencies of the worst of us won't abide. How could I not loathe this outcome and everyone who perpetuate it?
*That said, credit must be given to the few countries that stuck it out for years despite global pressures. China and I believe Taiwan, too? New Zealand. There were others, as well, but those are the ones that come to mind right away.
It is one of my favorite video games. I think it is a masterpiece. I'm glad it was made before COVID.
You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.
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I exist too.
I was sobbing even before then, during the conversation with the Deserter, which I would later learn is not a common reaction to his dialogue, apparently. For all his other flaws, he was me. I am still him. There may be two wolves inside of me, in fact. They're both gay. I hope this makes sense.
The struggle of the oppressed and marginalized is my struggle. That this person you speak of exists is why I am the way I am. They're everywhere. They're your colleagues, your parents, your comrades. As a pretty smart guy once said, "the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class." Last I checked, Stalin is still dead, and the USSR—the greatest accomplishment of humanity—is gone. We now live in such a rotten time, without a shred of remorse, and without any end in sight. The periodic glimmers of light that peek through the hegemonic forces which shape everyone to be Little Hitlers are not enough to brighten nor warm my cold and hardened heart to them. Maybe someday.
I am morbidly curious as someone who hangs out on the periphery—Hexbear is one of the most active instances that aligns with me, usually—but I don't think I'm able to see it as a non-Hexbear user. I'm not surprised at all.
I have, I'm one of them. I don't like most people; I much prefer the company of animals. Lots of people don't seem to get along with me, and that's not for lack of effort on my part. My particular combination of neurodivergence and medical needs are incompatible with apparently 90% of polite society, and they've shown me again and again they have no desire to accommodate, so they can have it. Some of you are all right, though.
Honestly, I've come around on this in recent years. I love sway (and tiling windows), but I can do everything it does in GNOME/KDE, and I have the bonus of a no-nonsense cohesive system fit for purpose where accessibility isn't a complete joke. It helps that both GNOME & KDE as organizations are very cool, imo.
You're 100% correct. I've been daily driving some flavor of Linux for nearly 20 years, since way, way before it was even half as good as it is now to use on the desktop. I am sympathetic to hospitals, pharmacies, and other institutions where the grip of Windows and other crusty, proprietary systems on the various equipment and processes they require is virtually iron-tight and genuinely the difference between life or death for the patients under care. I have no sympathy for everyday desktop users who complain like this and simply don't want to change. In a lot of ways free software (specifically A/GPL software) is the closest thing we have to genuine Marxist principles in action in our current mode of living, and if someone doesn't want to pick up on that and support it then I can only guess what they'll think about what the rest of the world needs to go through on the way to "fully automated luxury gay space communism"...
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