[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

I presume the point that you only need one methane source connection for two appliances that use it heavily.

So, an appliance for low-drag homesteads.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.

It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I posted a post-deep-dive take on what gave Trump the presidency here, but I will say that misogyny did did no small amount of heavy lifting.

What we need to figure out before the GOP finds its next cult leader is how to neutralize the massive far-right propaganda machine that is churning out false information and disinforming the public.

We've decided before that ethically we can't trust human beings to make sound decisions in some conditions. Gambling, for example. Sometimes humans get addicted to just giving the house their money when it's coached in a probability game. But then we've just invented loopholes (and lootboxes) to circumvent regulation. So I don't know how we're going to deprogram massive viewerships of media that promotes hate, including misogyny.

If we fail then the ~~ice zombie army~~ climate crisis (and running out of water for agriculture) is going to drive us to extinction.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Some of us have had Cascadia dreams. The problem is that Canada has its own issues and is on the same oozing, shambling drift towards fascist autocracy.

But yeah, the problem is that the US is a big pastiche of purple, and we can't even tell how much of the red side is pressured by peer pressure and the colossal far-right-wing propaganda machine that features the most popular media offerings in the nation. Huge swaths of people are literally being mind controlled, and no-one is addressing this. (On a related note, we keep allowing more loopholes to allow gambling outside Nevada and Georgia, not to mention have failed to criminalize lootboxes)

The US isn't even trying to be democratic and hasn't for decades, which is how seventy seven million people, many of them low-information voters, voted for the guy who campaigned on a fascist autocratic coup d'etat.

That is to say once we finally unseat President Donald J. Trump, we should get ready for a Pete Townshend scream:

Meet the new boss!
Same as the old boss!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The Heritage Foundation is a society of monarchists. It's supported by oligarchs who want to be king to push the world towards that agenda, and such oligarchs routinely infuse it with capital.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.

To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I've come to assume We're in danger from the state is the theme of this year's pride.

Bring a brick.

[-] [email protected] 140 points 2 months ago

We're pretty sure it's the Monsanto pesticide and anyone who suggests it is hit with a litigation threat. Curiously, as we're speed-breeding domesticated bees the wild bees are dying out faster, so as the bee population dwindles it also becomes more domesticated and less wild. I know that's a bad thing, but I am fuzzy on the why details.

I'm a brown thumb, and plants wilt as my shadow falls on them, but if you're a green-thumb, plant pollinators, which will help the bees.

Also plant milkweed for the monarchs.

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Does a TOS on a suicide prevention line feel a bit coercive to anyone else?

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Release candidate with feedback considered. Release candidate provided no critical problems.

Use! Spread! Teach the world!

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Text:

Musk's salute at Trump's Inauguration (sic) doesn't make him a Nazi

Musk's $250 Million donation to an autocratic usurper Makes (sic) him a Nazi-producing industrialist

Musk is to Nazis what the Hostess board of directors is to Twinkies


Sorry about the additional caps. I may also darken the background for legibility.

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February 2017. Similar sentiments.

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Another one of my old-man memes.

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EARLY TRAINING
🫳: Sit!
🐶: <hesitates, then sits>
🫳: Good dog!
🐶:

🫳: Sit!
🐶:
🫳: Good dog!
🐶:

LATE TRAINING
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳: Maybe you've had enough treats for now?
🐱: I, too, would like a treat, presented in the usual manner.
🫳: DAMMIT!

Pet tax in the comments

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An early meme that did not pass muster when I showed it to family, but it makes me giggle.

I may just be an esoteric nerd.

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Art by Erik Carnell one of the LGBT+ artists who was featured in Target during Pride and then removed thanks to white Christian nationalist pressure.

So here we are, and yeah, we need you all.

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A semicolon after "youth" will help keep it clear.

[-] [email protected] 142 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In the aughts, once the US torture programs started getting public attention around 2003, I did my obsessive thing on the German Reich and the Holocaust.

During Operation Barbarossa, the SS was experimenting with eradication methods. The most common was the pogrom, endorsing the locals to massacre the undesirables. When they weren't undesirable enough or it was the whole village, the einsatzgruppen (death squads) had to come do it, usually forcing them to dig a mass grave and then executing them along the side.

It was messy and brutal and gross, and there was high turnover among the death squads (the US has a similar problem with its combat drone operators). And this was a major problem.

The SS experimented with other ideas, including deathwagons that would pipe the vehicle's exhaust into an enclosed chamber to kill dozens at a time, but even that was too harsh and too slow.

This is how the prototype genocide machine was made at Auschwitz. The program was contrived so no one who interacted with the live prisoners also interacted with the dead corpses. The guy who pushed the execute button was two persons removed in the chain of command from the guy who signed off on the execution order, and none of those people had to face the prisoners or the outcome. The point specifically was to make the process of massacre less stressful for the people involved.

[-] [email protected] 198 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Isn't this action (removal of the git repo) essentially an admission that:

  • Unity is doing something shady;
  • Unity knows it's doing something shady;
  • Unity knows when the public sees what they're doing what they're doing, it'll be recognized as totally something shady?
[-] [email protected] 208 points 2 years ago

My (unpopular?) solution is to make sure the rest of society isn't so desperate for food that they're willing to rob a robot.

In an unrelated suggestion, if youre in a grocery store and see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

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