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vonbaronhans

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  • God's Property

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  • The superscripts are almost certainly references to translators' footnotes.

    The random italicization I'm less sure about, but it seems to primarily be on words that may not have a direct Hebrew counterpart?

  • Is this common in the rpg space?

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  • Best advice I can think of is to hit up your local hobby shop, or a Renaissance fair, if you have one nearby. Those places are chock full of ttrpg nerds.

    If you wore a sign or badge that says something like, "looking for D&D group," I bet you'd get asked by at least a few folks. Especially if you're already being nice and friendly and joining in the other activities there!

    That said, playing online is not as bad as you'd think. I've played with a group fully online for over a decade now (shout-out to Foundry VTT).

    I wish you luck in your ventures!

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    [Digital Circus] Ep 7: Beach Episode

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  • Aaaaa yeeeeaaaahhh

  • Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month

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  • If I'm not mistaken (and I might be) the immutability can actually be toggled off for power users.

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • Socialism has several different lineages. All of which used different strategies for accomplishing socialism (workers own the means of production) and maybe eventually communism (stateless, moneyless, classless society). (I often use "socialism" interchangeably as both the movement for and the desired end state, which I think Marx used to do, too, iirc).

    The Marxist-Leninist/Maoist version is what most folks are familiar with - create a "vanguard party", leverage that political power to take over the government in a workers' revolution, and then use the power of the state to accomplish socialism and eventually transition to communism. That strategy was how we got the USSR and Communist China, loosely speaking. How much that strategy actually fulfilled the promises of socialism/communism is up for debate.

    But there were other socialist movements in other areas of the world. The European version tends to be either democratic socialism (use standard political power to ease a transition to socialism, sans revolution) or social democracy (use government to implement the desired economic egalitarianism without the precise goal of the workers owning the means of production). (I hope I got those right, I often get them mixed up.)

    I would agree with you that no European state has reached the end state of socialism or communism, as they're still pretty dang capitalist, but a good number of EU states are a lot closer to the promises of socialism than the rest of the world, as far as I understand things.

  • Meet James Coulter: The Billionaire Private Equity Guy Who Gets Rich by Making People Unemployed

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  • I didn't clock it as AI, but looking back I can see it as a distinct possibility. It does read like yet another explainer on how vulture capital works (assuming I'm using the right term there but not entirely sure).

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    We have one at home

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  • I just watched the Rerez video essay about the Ouya debacle earlier today. I followed Ouya news for a bit when the hype was strong, and I knew it fell off hard. But man, I didn't realize just how bad it was.

  • Steam Controller

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  • Probably?

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    Do you follow YouTubers that are part of the "Bread tube" ring? Why/why not?

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  • An important thing to note is that "Breadtube" is an exonym. That is, no supposed "member" of Breadtube joined or formed a group with that label - it's just a label that some leftists put on a few video essayists who are/were either socialists or were perceived to be close enough.

    Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, and HBomberguy were some bigger examples of this "group". All of them can be critiqued for different reasons, but I will usually give them a watch when they put out something. I usually learn something of value, IMHO.

  • Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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  • Ah yep that'd do it.

  • Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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  • #notallburgers?

    Why burgers?

  • Think my egg cracked and I'm terrified.

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  • That is nice. Even a small support system is something to cherish. I wish you the best of everything!

  • Think my egg cracked and I'm terrified.

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  • Yeah. That's scary. I hope your wife is supportive, at least?

  • Why are children always portrayed as the epitome of "innocence", when a lot of kids are evil af and bully their peers, and name-calling runs rampant in schools?

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  • Lashing out with violence is definitely ingrained in most people as part of the fight/flight/freeze response, which then gets shaped by experience, etc.

    "Beating the shit out of people for fun" is waaaaay further down the line in terms of behavioral development, personal experience, and cultural influence, for sure.

  • Why are children always portrayed as the epitome of "innocence", when a lot of kids are evil af and bully their peers, and name-calling runs rampant in schools?

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  • There are some ingrained behaviors, instincts, emotional reactions, etc. While we're not fully blank slates, there is definitely a lot of room for influence to shape children into different sorts of adults.

  • Moderately ethical printer recommendation?

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  • Mine does, yeah. Normally I wouldn't put it on the network, but I've just not had a decent place where I could plug it into my PC.

    It could just be my model is old enough they don't bother trying to gimp it remotely? Who knows.

  • Moderately ethical printer recommendation?

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  • I've been using a black and white toner Brother printer I got in 2013 and it's still chugging along. My 3rd party toner cartridges also work well. Sucks your color ones aren't though.

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • Feel like I'm in between.

    I usually wear simple, single color Tshirts, a light jacket, and one of a small stock of pants.

    In a sense I dress just for me - easy and simple means I don't have to spend time choosing, which I do like. A light jacket let's me easily get warmer or cooler without having to completely change.

    In another, I dress for others - I don't wear graphic tees very much since high school because I don't want anyone judging me for what I like, or misunderstanding and prejudging me. With plain tees, I just don't have to deal with that particular social anxiety.

  • Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

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  • A lot of us thought this would happen if Trump won again. I don't think any of us thought it would get this bad this quickly, but definitely within his 2nd term.

    Just to be clear, when I say I blame Democrats, I mean I blame the Democratic party, the Democrat leaders (Pelosi, Schumer, etc), and their apparatus. I can see how you thought I was blaming voters, but I assure you that's not what I meant.

    And yes, I agree. The GOP are officially fascists by virtually any definition of the term.