Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 days ago:
My Steam account is almost 18 years old and I still have to select DOB when viewing “adult” games…
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
Sure they were! Nothing happening over there had anything to do with the women that were kidnapped, raped, and/or killed in the custody of the Guidance Patrol! Everybody celebrated these as beautiful moments of religious expression!
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
Yup.
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
Yeah, clearly the ones still in Iran absolutely loved him. To the point where they recently went out to the streets to show their support, right?
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
Dedicated his life to spiritual fulfilment.
LOL, good one :D
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
The ideal scenario, now that the greybeard kicked the bucket, is for Iran to fire a ballistic missile straight at Netanyahu’s arse, Krasnov suffering a heart attack, and Vlad just watching his entire country crumble to bits as his economy dies, and his military collapses from lack of manpower.
Not sure about Xi. Maybe a fishing boat accident.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
i think israel should also exist, its absolutely stupid to propose it be removed cause then you have the problem of a bunch of jews having nowhere to go again
And, more importantly, you lose the moral ground on which you get to protest the Palestinian genocide when you’re advocating for Israeli genocide.
(“you” here is “a person”, not you, @AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip)
On the other hand they should be sanctioned and stopped from commiting constant warcrimes and palestinians live their lives in their rightful territory
Absolutely agree. UN forces should secure the borders (as they were originally defined) and consider any settler a terrorist.
The russia situation is a bit different. Theres no real reason for its existance. Its a bunch of russians opressing minorities, they should have their own country if were following the ethnostate idea. At very least european and asian russia should be seperate countries. But yeah thats never happening.
Yup. I kind of hope that their economy crashing will allow the eastern provinces to reach independence, but at the same time I realise that it would be suicide for them. Like, even if they somehow managed to get the money and food to supply and govern themselves, there’s no reality in which China doesn’t immediately swoop in and grab half of Siberia.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Seems like Workrave is also available on Linux. Did you not know that or did you recommend RSIBreak for Linux because you think it’s better?
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
This is somehow controversial, but I firmly believe that all of them, Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Iran, everyone else, deserves an independent nation free of totalitarian dictators or religious fundamentalists.
- Comment on No lowballs, please. I know what I have. 1 week ago:
Just FYI - “bowls” are the things you puke into, “bowels” are the things food never reached and therefore became puke.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 1 week ago:
I am normally used to high fantasy where the worldbuilding makes sense, but harry potter just flows like she thought of what could come next, and that’s it.
Just a quick reminder that she designed Quidditch specifically in a way that would infuriate any person even remotely familiar with how sports games work, because she wanted to “bet back at” a guy who dumped her.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to not have to rely on mass media to know how my reality looked like during the russian occupation, mate.
Also: you pinpointed shit, but don’t let me stop you from patting yourself on the back. :)
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
You need to educate yourself.
MAGA loves licking the russian boot.
Nobody who suffered under USSR would ever say “times were hard but better”.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
where this conspiracy theory is most promoted
What “conspiracy theory” do you mean?
It’s a historical, provable fact that russia invaded the Baltics, Poland, Czechoslovakia and a bunch of other countries in the East, installed puppet governments, and unified everything as “USSR” (with some countries, like Poland, having a bit more independence, and technically wasn’t a part of the USSR).
People in the Baltics are extremely russophobic
“Russophobic”? We’re not afraid of them, we just don’t like them for the hundreds of years of meddling and suffering they’ve caused us. Again, it’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s history.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
Your far-right nationalist great replacement conspiracy theories aren’t factual. (…)
No idea what does that have to do with anything. Please elaborate.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
Most people polled in most eastern Europe post-Soviet countries who lived in socialism (except a few like Poland or Estonia) claim that life was better under socialism
I remember the poll you’re referring to. It was click-bait articles that made it sound like that, the actual research stated nothing like this.
They were basically “did you enjoy your life when you were young” kind of questions. And, to the apparent shock of everybody, when you ask an 70-80 year old that question, they’ll answer “yes”.
The only people who think fondly of the times under russian occupation are the people who were a part of the system.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
I really hope this is a joke, mate…
If not: no, no it wasn’t. Unless by “USSR” you mean “Petersburg, Moscow, and their immediate surroundings”.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is, in fact, the objective truth.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
As with literally everything else, there’s good YA and bad YA.
Check out Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” or “Skyward”. I’d say they’re both the “good YA” kind where danger is real (as much as any danger towards the protagonist before the very end of the book, obviously they won’t get killed off in the first chapter) and the story relatively original. The world-building is excellent, though.
- Comment on Double standards 2 weeks ago:
GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 2 weeks ago:
I read “hoarder” and everything made a lot of sense, but felt wrong.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 weeks ago:
Kids were doing an anti-ICE protest at school. The kid recording had a “I support ICE” sign.
- Comment on We live in the future! 3 weeks ago:
Every teenager shouts “fuck regulations” until they get fucked over by an unregulated market. Case in point: 90% of crypto.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 3 weeks ago:
You start with the most gradual denominator
So, the year. YYYY-MM-dd.
and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident
So, skip the month: dd-MM-YYYY.
There’s no scenario in which MM-dd-YYYY makes more sense. Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Plain bread is a travesty
This isn’t plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Morrowind is practically exactly in the middle between Daggerfall and Oblivion, in terms of mechanics complexity. May elements are “dumbed down”, but many remain as complex (if changed). Oblivion “dumbs down” a couple of extra elements, but nothing as drastic as Skyrim.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 3 weeks ago:
I still cry myself to sleep after the premature death of Windows Mobile, so I use Launcher10, which brings the Tiles back to life.
I started experimenting with a super minimalist Folder Launcher, but it doesn’t seem ready for release yet, a couple of crucial (IMO) features (like default settings, bulk edits, proper apps list) are still missing.
There’s also Fossify Launcher Beta, which is an open source launcher. It’s fairly basic, but gets the job done. A super cool feature of the Fossify apps (since two releases ago) is the option to set your own fonts from a file, so I’m running their Calendar, Phone, Contacts, Calculator, etc., all with the Nothing Phone’s dot font.
- Comment on Still alive? 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an attempt at the “out-conspiracy the conspiracy theory” approach.
You know: when someone says “wow, you believe humans have landed on the Moon??”, you go “lol, you believe in the Moon???”
Here we have: “Epstein was found dead in his cell, he was probably murdered”, being “out-conspiracied” into “lol, no, he faked his death so he can play Fortnite, his account was active a couple of days ago”.
- Comment on Still alive? 4 weeks ago:
They are that arrogant to not think they don’t have to try to make anything believable, the fix is in for them and they don’t think they need us in the reality based community.
Then they wouldn’t try doing anything as convoluted as a faked suicide, they’d do what they did in 2008 - do a fake court case, drop all the most egregious part, give him a great lawyer, send him against shit-tier prosecutors, and sentence him to three years of house arrest to make all the bad things go away.
- Comment on Still alive? 4 weeks ago:
Someone renamed their account to this after the latest release of the files.
But, yeah, people will latch on to the stupidest stuff. Like, the dude ran an underground ring of paedophile brothels for decades generating kompromat for the top-of-the-top most important people on the planet, but it’s his Fortnite account that will unravel the whole thing… Come on, guys…