As long as you that’s all that matters. The bureaucracy is just necessary fluff.

At this point it’s painfully obvious that it’s a lot of bots seeding the comments and then libs regurgitating all the same talking points. Reddit has basically become this sort of entity where you just need a few bots to get the ball rolling and then everyone falls into line. Which is hilariously on display when you see everyone calling every other subreddit an echo chamber, or when you see how common certain phrases show up on reddit. “unhinged”, “mental gymnastics”, and other rhetoric that tried to dehumanize the other party/group/individual basically in any exchange. I recently noticed this since Hexbear and Lemmygrad has it’s own lingo of sorts and it doesn’t fall in line with reddit’s lol.

Point is, the image that you get of the political mood in society if you just look at online social media is deliberately and heavily manipulated.

I still need to read Manufacturing Consent, but this became glaringly obvious to me after reading Inventing Reality. I think this is what sets ours Lemmy instances apart from other social media in a lot of ways. It cracked me up earlier today on a reddit post about how it turns out China is basically taking over in the technological innovation department since the US is too busy feeding the war machine, and it was just comment after comment saying how China stole everything and don’t care about patent laws(lol…). It was just like 400 of the same fucking comment man, and like one guy saying he moved to China last year and it’s a lot nicer than the States. This post coming the same week as the US churning out 25 new laws aimed against China and shoving something like $30 billion into the anti-China propaganda machine. Not suspicious…

The always has been comments here kind of ring true. Back when I was a SocDem and then DemSoc, I barely noticed how bad the rhetoric was because I was also on the “we need to get Sanders Clinton to win to beat Fascism!” bandwagon. But after I went further down the leftist pipeline, I started to notice that what all that rhetoric really was was just keeping the status quo but hoping for a few concessions like better education and healthcare. Basically we’ve moved a lot further left and they haven’t.

Another thing is that I noticed, from last election, and I know it was there since the dawn of social media, was how much harder the Democrat and Capitalist apologia propaganda is during the election seasons. This last month has been so fucking annoying. As soon as Tim Walz was pegged as the VP pick, reddit became a fucking hotbed of posting about how good he was as MN governor, and how full the Harris/Walz campaign rallies are, or how Walz is “just a normal guy” compared to Vance or whatever. Don’t get me wrong, Vance is a fucking creepy dweeb.

I’m rambling. Basically we’ve moved further left and this is mostly just the facade of western politics crumbling.

I can link directly later if you need it but look for the Hexbear movie comm. They have a daily stickied post of 2 movies or some shows each night that they watch. It’s a wide variety of stuff too.

They have a video share type site called hextube that you just join from the link in the sticky. They host the movie and you can watch and chat.

I hope things get better for you. Also Hexbear has mutual aid comm that you can get and ask for help with no strings attached.

I’ve known about it for longer but just started using KDE Connect over the last year or so.

It’s got some bugs, at least for me. Like sometimes my phone won’t connect to my computer or like the SMS feature takes forever to load, but having something akin to Pushbullet but free from enshitification has been really great.

Try not eating taco bell.

But on the real, anything with a chalupa shell(deep fried gordita/flatbread) just elevates stuff there. Neither their gordita or chalupa are traditional in any sense of the word but fried bread is so good imo.

If you can get their potatoes when they are absolutely fresh, they are fire but if they’ve been sitting for any amount of time, the just taste like breaded cardboard.

Pre-Japanese settler colonial generational punishment hits different.

(I hope this joke makes sense lol, my current knowledge of the history of the Korean peninsula is pretty limited to the expose bits from Blowback and what I’ve had to correct from what we are taught is the States.)

3? I meant 7 generations. Yeah definitely 8 generations. Pure suffering at the torture farm.

Yeah well if the reverse happened as your title suggested, his nothingburger of an incident would have resulted in him going to prison for 3 lifetimes, but not before he had to watch personally kill his whole family and the next 3 generations would also have the same fate so checkmate, tankie

My friend told me about Bitcoin when it was about $8 per coin. I was young and making some extra cash from working and not really buying too much stuff so I could have easily tossed down $100 on some crypto and let it ride.

The very next time I even bothered paying attention to crypto was when Bitcoin shot up to 78k from like 60k.

So yeah, I feel this lol.

Idk how well this would actually sell but years ago in my early 20s, I came up with the idea for a beer coozie for 40oz bottles.

40s are great if you are poor and want just enough of a buzz but unless you chug them, they get warm halfway through. Which is also why 12oz cans/bottles are probably also more appealing.

Just a big ass coozie to keep your Bud Ice cold in a Sunday afternoon of porch drinking.

I used to use Sublime for notes and then VSCode and those types of text editors work just fine for non code stuff imo. VSCode even has syntax highlighting for Markdown so could be a plus for OP.

Our electric bill shot up after the Texas freeze where Abbott killed a bunch of people due to incompetence and then blamed in on renewables that only make up 15% of Texas power generation. Idk either.

But like the extra cost was put on the people and guess what? It never went back down after the whole fiasco was over. It’s been 4 years now?

The kicker is that we live in the Panhandle and are actually on the national grid.

The only thing I didn’t really like was that the person doing it sites quotes from 3 different versions of the text and does it every quote.

The podcast is pretty top notch otherwise.

Sky Valley makes a pretty solid one.

It can be hit and miss from my experience as well. We have a bar and grill place that has a black bean burger and the fucking patty is 1/2 lb and an inch thick. The burger tastes good but it’s way too much bean and it ends up being a chore to eat. We have a fast food place that has a black bean burger that is pretty thin but you get a lot of veggies on it and it is all pretty balanced. We have a local hipstery joint similar to the meme posted that has amazing food all around but they have a beyond burger and a black bean burger and it’s actually nice to have that option but they also always have like 3 other vegan options.

I can understand that tbh.

One thing I do miss is the larger modding commuinity. Like R2ModManager works on Linux so a lot of Unity-based games have mod support and it all works with Proton basically out of the box. There is a Linux build for the Satisfactory Mod Manager too which I thought was kind of weird lol.

Honestly I couldn’t give less of a shit of most triple A games or esports games not running on Linux because of EAC. I’ll gladly keep throwing money at indy devs that make games that don’t suck.

Thanks from me as well. I’m on a huge philosophy kick and did a dialectics dive on my last big socialist theory reading binge so this seems like a good way to bridge the gap a bit.