[-] Florn@hexbear.net 12 points 17 hours ago

"Greedy poors loving my tax dollars is the root of all evil"

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Coincidental. You would have gotten the same result with a pentagram made of a larger number of dimes

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

A cent is definitionally 0.01 units of value

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Back when I worked at McDonald's, I had people get upset when their total was $6.66. It's not even the same number

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Including Bill Gates

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

My Braesar fic!

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Big Map has a perverse incentive to start and name new wars

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago

He dismisses them as "reddit posts"

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

As I'm rewatching it, I'm noticing a lot more that it's not as clear cut as liberalism vs. feudalism, but more like weighing a liberal democracy in decay against a revolutionary liberal autocracy under a Bonaparte figure. The loredump episodes point to a hard-men-soft-men cyclical view of history. It's high-key liberal and low-key fascist.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

I wouldn't call it the best of all time, but I'm in S3 of my second watch and it's certainly better on rewatch. The age of the series is part of its charm - it's made in the 90s and feels like something made in Hollywood in the 50s or 60s about the 1800s. Politically, it's a liberal critique of liberal democracy.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

If you liked Cowboy Bebop, then Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy are both must-watch.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

I saw someone on Discord say "if it was just the Blackwater stuff it would be one thing"

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This kind of game sometimes gives me choice paralysis

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Athena of the power loom, who turns artisans into bugs. Athena, the Queen of Plunder, whose ships carry loot to the Global North. Athena of mass media, who whispers lies into the ears of her victims. Athena, wife of Mammon who feeds him the universe.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Florn@hexbear.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

idk how this works. Which variant is right for me and how do I make it be on my computer?

Update: I have a GeForce graphics card. Is it worth dealing with "some trouble" to have a computer without copilot?

Update: I think I have it working, thanks everyone!

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submitted 3 months ago by Florn@hexbear.net to c/food@hexbear.net

Playing with a new ingredient. No CW because they're both vegan

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In this adaptation of a 1967 short story of the same name, a sixteen year old boy in 1985 forms a psychic connection with a Puritan girl of the same age in 1700. Over the course of 40 minutes, two characters who never appear on screen together share every moment of their lives with each other, giving advice and emotional support, forming an intimate friendship and a little more.

If this had been written today, I would say it was obviously about online friendships, especially the way it can be more vulnerable with people we don't know in real life and the way that those of us stuck in conservative places look up to people who live in places where the grass is greener.

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submitted 8 months ago by Florn@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

Maybe it's a real uptick, maybe they always did and now I'm just noticing it. I apparently look somewhat ambiguous, because I've had people ask if I'm Asian, Lebanese, or Israeli, all unprompted. I'm none of these. I'm quarter Hispanic. I never felt Hispanic growing up, owed in large part to my upbringing by conservative parents. Raised Baptist, never learned Spanish until high school. I can't and don't claim a Hispanic experience.

So what do I do when a white customer calls me 'señor'?

How do I respond when I'm on a first date with a woman and she asks about an immigrant experience I don't have?

When my white mom complains that I look like a cholo, do I treat that as just racism or racism against me, personally?

When I look at my cousins who can reasonably claim to be Hispanic, I feel some anxiety, like I'm missing something.

Just a bunch of weird insecurity. Hell, even the insecurity about it feels white.

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Worse than having teeth. Imagine having two giant teeth, but they're built in there even more firmly so it sucks even worse if something goes wrong, and also they extend like half a foot or more outside your face. And you're supposed to use it to eat? Fucking awful. Look at videos of toucans trying to eat. They've spent their whole lives practicing and it still looks awkward, like they're doing their best not to fuck it up

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