zqps

@zqps@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes total sense due to the square-cube law (and cell sizes I suppose).

  Have you considered relatively thicker sticks, like a log on a slower-burning fire? That should mitigate it a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We just all set it to yellow the entire time so people don’t think they can call out of the blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Colonialism only took on modern forms. It’s always been might makes right.

  Now with some countries slowly rising from its shadows, a lot of people in the west are pissing their pants that the tables might turn. Even if we’re a very long stretch away from that, and climate change is ironically affecting us less than the so-called global south.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No one implied they shouldn’t be allowed to. People just have opinions on what works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A national self-perception steeped in exceptionalism has them thinking it must be envy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire political spectrum has moved considerably right, with “Fortress Europe” talk and blatant admissions that human rights aren’t something we should care about.

  There is no hard divide between conservatives and the far right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also moving the overton window.

  It only took a few years for our “alt right” to replace the suits talking conservative economics with demagogues spewing racial purity on national television. Self-radicalization is built into the far right mindset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US economy is directly tied to imperialism and massive exploitation of other nations. And we both know that’s not gonna change under any Democratic leadership.

  You can’t just go back to the way things were because it worked for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cope, at least in part, to point out that the open advance of fascism in the US is several years ahead of the rest of the Western world, and that this was possible under an absolute dumbfuck embarrassment like Trump. And I get why people need to cope right now.

  It’s also not wrong to point out that this was enabled by the US exceptionalist mindset and particular flavor of nationalism that we’ve all been exposed to.

  This reads as a diss against all people in the US, but it’s not. I strongly empathize with and am in solidarity with those suffering under it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good for him.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That used to be broadly my view, until I watched Dan Olson’s In Search of A Flat Earth, in which he explores the worldview in which this “opinion” persists and why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading a good review I tested it with my horror-loving gf, but we found it kind of mid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, sponsored emojis!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.

  Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. There was a statistic about Steam a while ago showing that the percentage of recent releases by playtime was steadily declining. People have their classics, they outgrow competitive games, they don’t want to upgrade their PCs as much with current prices. This was masked for a time by overall steady growth in the gaming sector, but this is slowing down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bethesda just lost their spark. It’s all live-service pseudo shooters now in an outdated engine that bothered no one when they made good RPGs, but is woefully behind for shooter action as primary gameplay loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. I built my rig when it was just barely affordable and plan to maintain it for many years. It works just fine for the titles I play.

  I mainly feel for the enthusiasts and the community and economy they built. Most people aren’t interested in tech they can never hope to reasonably afford. Gone are the times of a new rig every 3-4 years. Gone is the excitement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😅😅😅⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.

  That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😅😅😅⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah basically the term Liberal in this context is the conservative propaganda team that describes everyone they loathe. What it doesn’t describe is any specific agenda or worldview because they utterly lack political education and are highly suspicious of anyone that does.

  There are of course white progressives with good politics who truly care for civil rights, in particular those of minorities when their rights are being threatened. This is not the kind of person Malcolm X is talking about. Unfortunately there’s no real political representation for that. The only effort put forward by the Democratic party is saying: “At least we’re not as bad as the Republicans, so shut up and vote for us or we’ll reconsider that position.” Those are the liberals he’s rightfully calling out in that quote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Studying and fixing something at home I can see, those you typically move around as needed. The other are prior commitments that you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Although rude, I appreciate when people tell me outright I’m not a priority for them. So I can adjust my own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re German, use nuudel.digitalcourage.de instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I mean that makes sense, your friends respect prior commitments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new and improved privacy stack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they’re spending just wayyyyy too much on advertising for my taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always found that ineffective and also somewhat childish. I just count the seconds, that way I’m usually off only 2-3 per minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we’ll see. Their internal rhetoric in regards to Taiwan, as well as their expansionism and unprompted hostilities towards other nations in the region do not inspire me with confidence.

  There is a pervasive form of Chinese nationalism and exceptionalism, married with Han Chinese supremacy, woven into their national myth that’s much less blatant and loud than what we’re used to from the US, but it’s there nevertheless and it serves the same purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have been saying that about Russia for many years until it happened.

  Unlike Trump, most leaders aren’t rushing into things. They wait until conditions are favourable, and there are an incredible number of conditions to take into account for operations like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you supposed to pronounce "Macklemore"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have the full picture on his recent output, but he has been refreshingly, unapologetically direct about his support for Palestine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you deal with outdated CAs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse. He believed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clues by Sam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “below” means the entire column below, i.e. Xavi and Tom.