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- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 day ago:
Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive so why bother anyway.
On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.
Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 day ago:
I’d say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.
Honestly I’d say there’s a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 day ago:
I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 3 days ago:
Yeah. I’m the nerdiest person I know—I’m not gonna try to convince people to use something I struggle to understand myself. Signal is good because it does not feel like a compromise, and the advantages are easy to explain. Matrix I wouldn’t even know how to sign up for myself, as much as I would love to see the entire internet run on decentralized technology.
I am sure it’s not so difficult and that I could find a good instance and figure it out if I sank some time into it, but that’s really not the point here. The point is that me doing that would be worthless as I still couldn’t convince anyone else to join, and nobody I am interested in talking to is currently on there. (In other words: this post is not me asking for help to sign up for Matrix)
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 days ago:
That’s brilliant. Australian culture is criminally underappreciated in Europe.
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 days ago:
I don’t believe he did?
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 days ago:
Just a victim of globalization I guess. Was introduced to it by a guy who did farmwork in Australia for a while.
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 days ago:
What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that’s a sentence I can’t use any more.
- Comment on Cynical and pessimistic people. 🫤 2 weeks ago:
Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.
I guess a lot of people people don’t have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.
For whoever can afford freedom there’s plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 2 weeks ago:
I have tried to buy good laptops in the past (ThinkPads) and have been profoundly disappointed, part of the appeal of the Framework for me was that I could choose myself exactly what I wanted from my laptop. And I really couldn’t be happier with the hardware - build quality and everything is really great, and a completely different league from machines I have wasted money on in the past even though I tried my best to do my research.
It’s possible I should have tried System76 or Tuxedo, but I am really very happy with my Framework. Don’t think it makes sense to say it’s worse than the competition. But of course, a small company + repairability is reflected in the price.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 2 weeks ago:
For fucks sake. A big tent is nice and all, but I am not entering any tent that has fucking fascists in it.
Very happy with my Framework 13. I hope I can keep recommending it to people without feeling it’s at odds with my values.
- Comment on Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related? 2 weeks ago:
I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a wiring interface - there is more writing than coding involved.
I’m sure there’s some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I’m not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I’ve found that fits my needs in a good way.
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 2 weeks ago:
First mover problem. You can be both places, whenever you promote your content you can link to both places. That way if Instagram ever breaks for good you are not left with nothing.
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about.
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 weeks ago:
… /etc/X11/xorg.conf…
- Comment on Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. 4 weeks ago:
Democracy is in crisis. Eating the rich is the only answer.
They are so fucking close to getting it.
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 5 weeks ago:
This is not a tech critic, it’s a culture critic.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 5 weeks ago:
Did you read the piece?
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 1 month ago:
And it’s not even “Charlie Kirk comments”, it’s “guy who shot Charlie Kirk comments”.
He’s not taken off the air for “Charlie Kirk comments”, he’s taken off the air for not licking enough fascist ass. But of course the poor NYT reporter cannot write that, or they’d suffer the same fate.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 month ago:
Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But at least he's self aware! That places him in an intellectual capacity at least somewhere between a giant panda and a house mouse. Not bad for a troll.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
respect, kindness and have principles that I apply uniformly
Not actions that he applies uniformly. Obviously you meet people with different actions. But you can remain constant in principles.
Its possible to respect both your mother and your partner, yet only have sex with one of them. Weirdo.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Of course, I wouldn't expect the UK government to produce information in French. However there is a traditional way of doing things: You fly a yellow flag, and you report to a port of entry upon arrival.
If this is changed without being very publisized, it is really stupid not to at least have a transition period where people can still register their entry into the country after their arrival, until the new rules are well established and the website that is supposed to be serving them is out of beta testing.
If you want to sail from the UK to France, you just raise the appropriate flags, and then you announce your arrival when you get there. Ask in the harbour and they'll let you know where to go. So you wouldn't have to navigate their legal system, you just need to know how to use flags.
That said, I had no problem being in the UK illegally, so no real complaints from my part. It just seems like an attempt at tightening control of the borders that ended up having the exact opposite effect.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, but it needs to be announced somehow. We all filled in ETAs, because this is something people have heard about. It would make sense to inform of something like this at the end of the ETA registration. Instead, the fact that I had a travel authorization lead me to believe that I was, in fact, authorized to travel to the UK.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, I suspect I have a neat little collection of views that would be considered extreme by certain layers of English society. Feels weird having to lie about agreeing with UK politics in order to enter the country as a tourist.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I got what you meant - it's a word that takes on a billion different meanings. I just find it to be important to push back against the strawman whenever I see it, as I'm not gonna let a bunch of dumb kids raised by a social media algorithm ruin feminism for me. Get off my lawn etc.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
All good - the UK is a fascinating mix between the best and the worst. I guess that's almost part of the charm at this point.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, in order to find the site again for the purpose of this post I had to switch search engines as well.
Also doesn't make it easier that a minority of the crew spoke good English. Most are only comfortable in French. I imagine most Brits would struggle if they had to dig up obscure government websites in French that they had no idea even existed.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I'm pretty sure it's because I mention that I support Palestine Action, which although it's not a central point in the post is a pretty hot political potato in the UK at the moment. Fair enough. :)