Went there first since I consider myself a leftist. Seen multiple thirstposts for Stalin and the likes: pretty picture with a popular quote. Comments all in the realm of “yes daddy”.

I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, just don’t see a point of swapping it for an equally bad form of repression.

Ya, its a mode! There’s like 25 of those. This game has a lot of content if you love the format.

Blursed doesn’t have difficulty choices iirc. It starts easy with some blessings, and becomes increasingly impossible with a mountain of curses.

I haven’t played since september though, should probably go checkout new patch!

I played hundreds of hours of blursed runs on my phone. My longest is 135 fights :3

Thanks for the link, I’ll def be more critical about it in the future.

I’ll still use it (for now) because as a no-nonsense customizable search engine its by far the best I’ve tried.

Tesla is a meme stock in the disguise of a car company. It being down 30% means little, if anything volatility is good for big market players. Allows them to fleece more people. In a month Trump will announce a big tesla contract and it’ll go back up.

Or so I tell myself because pessimism is easier to live with.

If you pretend for a second this is a HoI4-like historical simulation, it’d be really interesting to see what the american dictatorship is going be like. Are we talking populist murder-happy forever-revolution? Shut-the-fuck-up-or-else secret police state? A digital surveillance state with never seen before levels of control? The suspense!

Alas, we live on this planet. Bummer.

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD ‘HATE’ WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

I’m traumatized by trying to use banking apps on lineage… don’t think I’ll risk it until I get a backup phone

I would love to discuss this with anyone that’s willing. If their government is as awful and fucked up as everyone says why does the average Chinese citizen generally have a better life than the average American in their respective societal totem pole (in cities specifically) ?

Because the social contract of 21st century authoritarian societies is “We give you prosperity, you do politics through gov-approved channels.” Punishment for dissent depends on how insecure the state feels right now.

On the plus side, the government cares about your prosperity. As long as it lasts, elites can divide power among themselves however they like.

On the minus – society doesn’t control its government (power transition happens by committee, not elections) and it can’t force any kind of change when elites are against it. Modern states have so much repression power, they can shut down any activism when they don’t mind bloodstains.

And when prosperity ends, the new contract will be “Do as we say and nobody gets tortured”.

For art to be art you need space to express yourself through individual choices:

• play an original song on a real instrument, and you have the entire artistic spectrum to yourself
• if you make the music for it out of individual pieces, you narrow that range. The sounds are not yours, only their composition and words
• when you record a cover of a rap song over some elses beat, you further narrow it down to your performance only. Its still artistic expression, but to a much less degree than an original song

In a prompt generated image, the image itself is not your expression. The prompt is, but comparing the amount of choices you need to make with a painting over a prompt, its just so… less art?

There’s also “A Half-Built Garden” novel where the whole “git as means of direct democracy” is central to the plot. Is gitpunk a genre?

That’s not a tip, love. That’s a leading question. Making a 100 bait comments an hour is easier than constructing one coherent one, I’d still recommend the latter. More satisfying 😛

Consequences of a social network being authoritarian are limited to the platform and, therefore, not a big deal. Whatever effects it has, leaving is simple. Authoritarian government regulates all public spaces. The consequences are life ending, and leaving (emigrating) is often one of the most difficult journeys a person will take on.

The insults are not required. Whatever creed you think you’re defending, not a good look sweetie.

I mean it is funny, but there’s a chasm between government censorship and whatever xitter is doing.

“It erased pictures of my nana, Im going to sue Gabe Newell!” Windows users 🙄🙄

(I am that user)

The problem imo is deception. I honestly think bots wouldn’t be out of place on facebook if they were all clearly marked as such, and you could filter all generated content with a single toggle.

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Its also popular and easier to google issues for.

M cannot replicate the particle after they read it, so A and B will detect M’s attempt when they compare results.

The same as classical one-way encryption, it only works through authenticated channel tho. It’s not magic, you have to have some kind of pre-existing secret or rely on third-party authentication