ProdigalFrog
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- Submitted 4 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
She also made a video extolling the virtues of capitalism and how science wouldn’t have progressed without it, but then oddly went on to make videos about why she had to leave academia because of profit motive forcing her to research things that didn’t matter but got grant funding to keep her alive, without making the connection that the profit motive that destroyed her dream is due to capitalism, and then removed comments from her videos that point this out.
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Comment on We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism" 2 weeks ago:
This video makes the case that authoritarianism is good, based on Engel’s paper ‘On Authority’ and is made from a distinctly Marxist-Leninist perspective.
For a well articulated Anarchist rebuttal to this very video, check out Anark’s ‘Authoritarianism is bad actually: a response to Second Thought’
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 2 weeks ago:
Where Eagles Dare The Professionals Indiana Jones Trilogy The Great Escape Three Days of The Condor The Sting Thief
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 2 weeks ago:
That’s already hours in, and it was only getting more ridiculous. I had a looksee at Yatzhee’s old review of it, and he confirmed my feelings on it, and said it got even worse later. I may watch a let’s play of it at some point, but I just wasn’t having fun, so I’m unlikely to pick it up again, honestly.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 2 weeks ago:
I just tried new colossus yesterday, actually, and I was surprised how big of a dive the writing took compared to the first game, I had to stop when the resistance guy bursts out of bathroom during that really forced emotional scene in the sub.
I loved the first game and the old blood dlc, so was a bit of a bummer :(
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 2 weeks ago:
Bananas Screen Sharing may one day be able to replicate that functionality, though at the moment it does not pass-through audio (The dev mentioned they hadn’t implemented that because it’s difficult to implement on Mac OS, but seems to be viable for Windows/Linux).
- Comment on need retro game recommendations 3 weeks ago:
SNES:
Sunset Riders and Wild Guns are fun little western shooters.
Genesis:
Rock’n’roll Racing is a fantastic racer.
GBA:
The Wario games are pretty superb for quick sessions
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Oiligarchy: Play as an Oil Oligarch that puts profit above all else, fund coups in other countries, assassinate protestors, and fund political parties to ensure they remain under your boot 3 weeks ago:
In case it’s not obvious, this is an educational game to teach how the oil industry is able to control our governments and destroy the planet.
- Oiligarchy: Play as an Oil Oligarch that puts profit above all else, fund coups in other countries, assassinate protestors, and fund political parties to ensure they remain under your bootwww.crazygames.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A.i. garbage.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Common Sense Self Defence (1977) - an instructional film about women's self-defense created by Mary Conrad, and featuring Gene Rayburn of Match Gamearchive.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 1 month ago:
There’s a community for these now over at !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 month ago:
I believe the Australian is Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox news and The Daily Mail
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 1 month ago:
Also new for me. Looks interesting though.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 1 month ago:
Another reason to add to the pile in favor of citizen controlled media like the fediverse.
- The Story of Nicholas Winton, the man who saved hundreds of children in WWII (short version)www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on [James Lee (Animation)] How I Broke up with Adobe 1 month ago:
This is such an excellent video, really pumps you up to actually switch 😄
- Comment on Project MINI RACK - a 10" Homelab Revolution! 1 month ago:
Awesome! There’s also a sweet browser add-on called libredirect that integrates really nicely that’ll automatically open YouTube links in freetube :D
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
An excerpt from “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45”, an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn’t rise up:
Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Dude.
This is the same guy who, just a couple weeks ago, publically endorsed the AfD (the far right nazi party in germany), saying “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
For context, this AfD (That is a real ad by them). Look familar?
Surely you must see these aren’t just a series of unfortunate coincedences?
- Comment on Project MINI RACK - a 10" Homelab Revolution! 2 months ago:
For more of a focus on affordable used mini PC homelabs, I’d recommend Hardware Haven’s content instead.
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- Comment on Darn it 2 months ago:
Soda Fountains from that time period are not strictly describing the device that dispenses the soda itself, it refers to the entire establishment. A soda fountain was like a Starbucks if it was entirely dedicated soda. There were Soda Fountain manuals teaching how to combine different essential oils and herbs to form hundreds of unique and interesting flavors, making it an interesting craft in itself. What we have now, where the machines just dispense a few select flavors that have the most market appeal is a pathetic shadow of what soda could be.
Boomer nostalgia aside, soda fountains were genuinely badass and it’s a shame they disappeared except for a handful of specialty shops.
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 15 comments
