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- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 4 days ago:
Thank you.
Specifically it looks like its The Butterfly Effect with Jon Robson, and audio book series.
It’s available on audible it looks like.
Again, thanks!
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I can’t trust you. Your community you founded is some strange travel blog that gives off marketing vibes. If you try to sell me something, I immediately am suspicious. Sorry, blocking you now.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
Look, I wish I had your viewpoint, but truth be told I have no plan of leaving my homeland. Imperialist fascsism comes for us all eventually, and that’s kind of my point. You, me, all of us, actually have got nowhere to run. You either fight or succumb. But my take on life is that I live solely to spite my enemies, not because I believe I can beat them, but because I refuse to make victory easy for them. Perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps we can win this fight and solve the climate crisis, but I’ll not get my hopes up. Only spite remains that stirs me from my bed in the morning now.
In this way, my enemies control me, they define me. I am nothing without them now. Such is the horror of imperialist fascism, they do not relent, they are never satiated, and they do not ignore any corner of the world. And so it consumes me.
Eventually the world’s problems end up at your doorstep, whether you had a hand in creating them or not. I just refuse to look away.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
Sure. I’m not trying to say the US and Russia are equivalent in the volume nor nature of how they implement imperialist and domestic violence (though there are increasingly more similarities as of late). But I perceive the US as a crazed madman with as many arms as Shiva and has amassed more weapons than anyone else, with a gun pointed at the head of everyone in every direction, including at it’s own head. I also view other imperialist nations as having a similar psychosis going on, just with a few less arms and very different origin stories as to how they got there.
I’m just saying telling everybody it’s solely up to the nation to clean up its own mess is, while correct, way too simplistic. I admittedly don’t know how we solve it though, and I’m cynical enough to believe most of us don’t have an answer, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have a strong enough consensus and momentum to pull it off. Hence why I believe nothing will be done.
We, the citizens in these imperialist nations are both slaves and skavemasters, with guns pointed to our heads, by both nation states and corporations, they don’t just control whether we live or die, they hold our hearts in their hands, ready to squeeze out our humanity and empathy at their discretion until we look in the mirror and mistake the monsters we have become as the best humanity has to offer.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
And when your neighbor starts defecating in your house and also all your other neighbors houses and also onto their own wife and children in plain view of everyone else, daring them to do something all while their armies and aircraft carriers point in every direction including at themselves?
I think the answer is still you do nothing. But man would I like to be wrong on this one.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 6 days ago:
Super interesting. If you can find that episode, I’d love to give it a listen.
- Comment on how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t worry about this too much. He’ll stop bothering you if you seem uninteresting enough, so just give him minimal uninteresting answers. If he continues to bug you, that could potentially constitute workplace harrassment. If it gets to that point, warn him once. If he still persists after that, talk to your superior. Simple.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 weeks ago:
Nice.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard this response to my argument more times than I care to mention.
Let’s be clear, I don’t want to give off the impression I’m not open to people changing for the better. If you can end bigotry through discussion instead of arguments or worse yet, violence, then obviously that is preferable.
The issue is that for every honest misinformed person I’ve encountered who is open to listening to differing points of view, I’ve easily encountered 10 right wing grifters who are in bad faith trying to distract from the main problem with whataboutisms and other tactics, with the end goal of dehumanizing and ostracizing groups that they perceive as the other, i.e. minorities.
These people are in their adult years, likely grew up in households where they themselves were bullied, harassed, made fun of, and dehumanized. They then went to school where sadly they were likely to have experiences that further eroded their emotional intelligence and ability to connect with anybody who had differing views from them. They then grew up and sought out others who had suffered similar experiences and come to similar misguided conclusions, either online or IRL. These are people who grew up being told that apologizing was a sign of weakness, to never ever admit that they were or ever will be wrong, and to only play at having empathy in order to have a seat at the discussion table where they could then present their ideas as “just asking questions.” When in fact they are trying to sow discord and form a pipeline into their hateful ideology for others who are emotionally vulnerable and open to ideas as to why life didn’t play out for them like they thought it would.
If they lack critical thinking skills and a strong community support structure, these emotionally vulnerable people end up spewing hateful ideology within a few months and it breaks my heart, because usually there’s no coming back for them. They can’t be argued or reasoned with. It’s as if an empathetic child who just needed community died due to abandonment, and some ghoul due to demonic corruption is left in their place.
Its not that I don’t want to believe that people can change for the better. I’ve seen it in myself and others, I know it is real.
But I’ve also been in enough online, and in some cases, offline, spaces to know a bigot when I see one. I can sniff a disingenuous asshole just trying to “ask questions” from a mile away and it always ends up with a bunch of 4chan transphobes either openly or behind closed doors making fun of a minority and in some of the worst cases, planning violence.
My tolerance for even the smallest inkling of hate speech is zero. I’m just done giving these people enough rope to hang people I care about with.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 3 weeks ago:
Fair Warning: Long rant ahead.
Great article, and it gets to the heart of something I’ve felt is becoming more and more prominent in the Linux and Open Source Community, and really any community. And it’s something we simply can’t ignore.
That is that you can’t separate politics from life. It’s everywhere. The author points out that Framework’s mission is to encourage right to repair and responsible consumption by discouraging planned obsolescence.
While right to repair might be popular in both left and right wing circles, that is only because both sides want control over their devices and to distance themselves from Big Tech. But their views on regulation with regards to the environment and social equity/inclusion are as far apart as the general right left paradigm is as a whole.
To be blunt, you simply cannot have normal people work under the same tent as crypto fascists, transphobes, and general right wing grifters, no matter how significant their individual contributions might be.
I personally am tired of these sorts of controversies being brushed under the rug by tech influencers like BashBunni and Brodie Robertson who in their coverage of Omarchy did not broach this topic even just to say that there is a controversy at all. It’s cowardice at best, and right wing apologism at worst.
Yes, there are particularly brilliant software engineers that are also assholes. And yeah, without those assholes, we wouldn’t have the technologies we have today. The mistake is thinking that they are brilliant because they are assholes. Another mistake is thinking that holding onto one productive asshole is better than hanging onto the good will and contributions of many normal people that still provide worthwhile contributions.
To be very frank, fuck that. I refuse to believe in the false dichotomy that in order to create good software we have to put up with bigots. If anything, their attitudes end up holding themselves and their colleagues back. We shouldn’t be asking ourselves, “How much less productive would that person have been if they had wasted time/energy on being socially conscious and empathetic.” And instead have asked “How much more productive and better off we all would have been had they been a more empathetic and compassionate person.” Because we’re all worse off when a colleague is being a bigot, and it’s in all of our interests to call it out when we see it.
- Comment on I Hope that Fantasy Gives us Strength – Metaphor ReFantazio Review & Analysis 2 months ago:
Interesting old school blog site.
Anyways, I didn’t play this game but one of my favorite Video Essayists talked at length about this game with quite a bit of praise. Perhaps you might like it, perhaps not. You can find it on YouTube, here.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 2 months ago:
As well as it was wrapped up all things considered, I really wish they had gotten another season or three. The show was just that good. The acting, writing, art style, all top notch. This award is more than well deserved.
I’ll be looking into this graphic novel. Thanks for the post!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The easiest thing to do is make friends with plenty of people IRL through a shared hobby or interest. Those that are interested in being FWB will make themselves apparent over time. Just be honest and when appropriate, let people know you’re DTF, but not looking for anything more than sex right now.
There aren’t many people not looking for long term monogomous committed relationships. There might even be none in your area depending on your age and other factors. But that’s the best advice I can give on the matter.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 3 months ago:
Tell you what, Mark, you finally let your daughters make Facebook accounts, and I’ll put on your glasses to chat with them on Facebook and I’ll tell them all about their precious Daddy and his many deeds.
- Comment on Meta to announce $15bn investment in bid to achieve computerised ‘superintelligence’ 4 months ago:
Perhaps the not actually AGI we create will be able to tell us how to solve the Climate Crisis we exacerbated by attempting to create AGI.
I am not calling for the deaths of all Tech Billionaires, but I wonder what I am calling for then.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 6 months ago:
Might I interest you in a podcast?
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 7 months ago:
Yeah, had to go look at another article on this, but indeed it works by blocking the absorption of Vitamin A. That… doesn’t sound good.
- Comment on Wikipedia not rendering math formulas? 7 months ago:
The server sending over the plugin that can read MathML code is possibly down. Perhaps try again later?
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 8 months ago:
Gym, Meditate, Therapy, Volunteer, Meetup, Hobbies. Any combination of these, at least 2.
Accumulating money doesn’t count as character building nor living. Spend it wisely, but do spend it. Wisely is subjective, but see above for what I think that means. Good luck.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 9 months ago:
And then the US said to Germany, “We too, can do Auschwitz.”
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 9 months ago:
The demon from the horror movie, Smile (and the sequel Smile 2).
- Comment on Could Trump's "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation" order defund vasectomies? 9 months ago:
Fuck Donald Trump and MAGA. I want a vasectomy and will get one when I choose to. My body, my choice. ✊
- Comment on Trump to tariff chips made in Taiwan, targeting TSMC 9 months ago:
Morons…so many morons in power…dear fucking god.
- Comment on So the flurry of flying embers that were blowing around in California, is that commonly how fire spreads? 9 months ago:
UCLA Climate scientist, Daniel Swain talks about this exact topic during his recent interview with Adam Conniver on his podcast, Factually.
Go to timestamp 17:45 for and you’ll hear Swain talk specifically about how this was a unique firestorm.
Earlier in the interview (around the 12:00 minute mark) Swain points out that it has to do with the increasingly longer periods in between wet and dry periods that are occurring that contributed so heavily to the conditions for a fire of this magnitude becoming more likely to occur, especially when particularly strong Santa Ana Winds occurring this year.
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- Comment on Interview: Mike McMahan On Refining The Finale Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ And Planning A Push To Bring It Back 10 months ago:
You could tell some plot points in the final episode were very rushed, like Rutherford’s arc. I don’t think this was the ending the writers planned or wanted, and the show is so good, it deserves to have the ending the writers can be satisfied with.
That said, it was as good an ending one could expect given the circumstances, and I really hope we get at least two more seasons and a movie!
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- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 11 months ago:
Lol, back when I worked at Starbucks, I joked that one day this exact thing would happen. That the education industrial complex would require a bachelor’s degree for all jobs, as it would ensure debt and desperation in the vast majority of people who solely wish to survive.
I also claimed back then that we would all live to see the disastrous effects of climate change. No joke, people back then shook their heads and thought me nuts.
My next prediction: the majority of people who are parents today will wish they never made the decision to have kids in the next 20 years. Good luck everybody.
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