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- 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 14 hours 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Also new for me. Looks interesting though.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on [James Lee (Animation)] How I Broke up with Adobe 3 weeks ago:
This is such an excellent video, really pumps you up to actually switch 😄
- Comment on Project MINI RACK - a 10" Homelab Revolution! 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 5th 1 month ago:
I went outside of my usual wheelhouse and tried playing some of the Wario games for the gameboy advance. Finished Warioware in one afternoon (very fun short little collection of mini games) and currently on Wario Land 4. It’s a platformer with light puzzle elements, and I’m quite surprised at how much I’ve been enjoying it, as I usually don’t mesh with platformers.
In a way, it reminds me of one if the later Commander Keen games, but with much better level design and variety in gameplay.
It’s a polished and quirky little game, and its handheld roots lend itself to short sessions, which has been all I have time for.
I think I’ll be investigating the earlier entries after I complete it. Certainly recommend it if you have access to a handheld emulator!
- Comment on Federal appeals court strikes down Biden net neutrality rules 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 2 months ago:
A co-op campaign I’d be down for, but I can’t say I’m excited for this. I’m just not feeling the vibe.
- Comment on Mafia: The Old Country - The Initiation Trailer 2 months ago:
As a huge fan of the original, but disappointed with the sequels, I’m cautiously optimistic!
- Comment on The one who's coming was foretold to us has arrived 2 months ago:
Ah, but did ye not pull thyself up by thy bootstraps to attain such magnificent power over thy lessers? Thou hast surely earned thy power by the divine right of business!
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 2 months ago:
Some communities have a lot of homegrown posts that you could share over there, especially text heavy posts, though they can be interspersed between links to elsewhere as well.
as an example, @Blair@slrpnk.net made a ton of really well done informative posts on various communities on my instance, such as this one.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that sounds about right. I only read the first few chapters of the expanse, but I believe the world is still capitalist overall, yes? if so, that would make it more in line with perhaps the end goal of a social democrat, where there’s a super strong welfare and social safety net, but still capital and big businesses. The assumption from Anarchists is achieving that Social Democrat ideal is impossible under capitalism, as it would remove almost all of the leverage corporations have to exploit their workers, leaving little profit left for them, and thus inciting them to revolt, like they almost did during The Business Plot in response yo FDR’s new deal finally giving the working class some room to breathe.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
Yes, and charging below that would be a deviation from the norm.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
Dense community housing would still be optimal for cities and towns, especially if housing was a human right, as it’s much more efficient and uses less resources. They would still exist as cooperative housing, where each tenant owns a share of the complex. Those already exist today quite successfully, they’re just not the norm as it doesn’t generate profit for a landlord or realestate investor.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
The ethical option would be to give the deed to the friends after the mortgage is paid off.
