survirtual

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the outside looking in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another life among many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t do that because of accessibility reasons. If they did that, a disabled person has grounds to sue them for proper aria hints & controls.

  It doesn’t matter what kind of content it is, either. It must be made accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only kind of true.

  If they did implement all those measures, all you do is launch a puppet browser rendered off screen and scrape the content you want. This could work for any site and it is impossible for anyone to detect.

  For ads, as a nuclear option, you can detect when they occur and black the stream out.

  I would personally do this if left with no other option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the outside looking in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I traveled to every state in the US save Alaska, multiple times. I lived in the forests and public lands, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing civilization.

  America, the land, is a beautiful and majestic place. It is full of magic and incredible, ancient power.

  America, the people occupying the land, is a lie. Most of it is dusty, decrepit, and feels awful. The cities are the epicenter of this horrible feeling.

  Some parts of some cities feels pretty good. Large dog parks, for instance, are almost universally good feeling. From New Mexico to Oregon, to Florida and to Pennsylvania, the Dog Parks were where I went to grab some good vibes in larger places. But besides that, I always had a timer before the cities got too awful feeling before I had to retreat back into the public lands.

  My recommendation to you is this: connect with those lands. They were there before you and will remain after. They are a gift nearly no American properly taps in to, and it shows. That is where the spirit lives. You have an incredible treasure all around you, connect with it, it is waiting for you. The good times have just begun if you learn to connect with it.

  Don’t give in to the manufactured fear. The world is much bigger than this, and the universe is so much larger than it, it becomes a joke. You are part of that larger universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting take.

  Let’s confine the statement to the bounds of a materialist’s reality for a moment and see how it holds up.

  A child somewhere in the world just had their arms blown off withnessing their mother and father evaporating before their eyes. In the mind of this child, is it in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life

  A woman somewhere just discovered their partner has been cheating on them with just about everything that moves, and they have HIV. She has always been loyal for all the many years they’ve been together. In the mind of this woman, is she in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life

  A soldier somewhere just fired on a little kid they mistook for an enemy. They go to sleep that night haunted by what they’ve done, finally realizing they are the bad guys and everything they are is a lie. They’ve done unspeakable horrors to so many innocent people, and it is all rising to awareness. Is this solder’s mind in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life

  Heaven and hell are manifested here in Earth within the hearts of all beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buddhism has a more Christian example of Christ-like behavior concerning a “living being Satan”. That is to say, if “living being Jesus” was real, he would be a Bodhisattva, perhaps akin to Kṣitigarbha.

  In the story, Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha vowed:

  “Until the hells are empty, I will not become a Buddha.

  Only when all sentient beings are saved will I attain enlightenment.”

  It is a vow to never abandon any being regardless of their state.

  I like that idea. Boundless love and compassion doesn’t stop at the bounds of some hell. It is boundless. It has boundless time, so it will spend an eternity reaching out to even cyclic hells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The straw you use does nothing but make you feel better, which I would argue is harmful. You shouldn’t feel better for doing nothing when such large problems exist.

  Your use of the right straw is akin to you killing a single invasive ant in a rain forest, and saying you did your part to remove the invasive colony. You then spend every opportunity talking about how you killed that single ant, all while the ants have already multiplied and utterly nullified your non-effort contribution.

  Shipping barges, data centers, gas and coal burning are all many orders of magnitudes greater problems than what straw you use. In addition, these are all growing in use. Talk about that. Put your attention and action towards that. Not even meat consumption compares to it, yet most talking is about how we should all suffer and do our part, with no talk about solving the real and growing problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I stopped playing after I finished 2. Everything after felt wrong, and I always felt the game was a trilogy. 3 just never really showed up.

  Not sure how the game was so popular after they betrayed the original spirit, but I can only guess seeing things like this is difficult for people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I shit just fine in CO with holes. Year after year I even watched some of my shit spots grow beautiful flowers.

  You don’t own Colorado and it was there long before you. It will be there long after you. Remote forests handle our shit just fine. Dig deep enough and away from the trail or water, near some plants, and they will gobble it up no problem. The number of human hikers in remote places is minuscule.

  A bit wild to demand people shit in synthetic plastic bags they have to purchase and dump them in a landfill. “Leave no trace – except the giant plastic waste sites scarring the landscape everywhere”

  Now if you’re talking park trails and other heavily populated places? That’s different. It also isn’t “Colorado” it is a specific sub-specification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I want to play at max settings? That adds very little to the gameplay for me.

  I can play any game tweaking settings, and I can render at 720p + upscale if a game is demanding. This makes nearly any game enjoyable.

  High settings are irrelevant, but if you want high settings, any AMD card from the past 2 years will more than deliver max performance for anything you throw at it.

  For a handheld, portable device that costs under $500, I am okay reducing graphics quality for portability and gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is nonsense and, frankly, sounds like guerrilla marketing for nvidia.

  All things considered, I can play any game I want on the steam deck, which has an old SoC by today’s standards. A newer AMD gpu can run anything at max settings on a linux machine.

  So again, either you are grossly misinformed or working for nvidia to sew gentle doubt. Either way, stop it.