[-] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago

Just because you have always done it and it doesn't affect you, personally. Doesn't mean it doesn't have consequences or it is ok. Flushing toilet paper is a logistical and maintenance nightmare, and it is costing you and your neighbors exorbitant amounts of money on otherwise unnecessary extra processing.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago

Setting a boundary is not an offense on others, nor is it judgement. Only entitled people feel attacked by other people protecting themselves. Being understanding and kind doesn't mean being a doormat. Just because a boundary upsets you doesn't mean it is ok to trespass it.

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

I assure you we could watch anyone and judge them for their inadequacies and shortcomings.

Why would you want to do that? that sounds mean and cruel.

Just because everything is fucked and shit right now doesn't mean we have to add to the pile or jump into the pit. When I feel cranky I don't attack my friends, but instead I share with them that I'm feeling cranky and they usually help me by extending patience and understanding. It's not judgement on my part to extend the same courtesy. Tell me when you are off, so I can help you. But being hungry doesn't include a pass for becoming an asshole to everyone around you, that's unacceptable.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Being a bit cranky or irritable is OK. It's not OK to hurt others just because you are irritable. Y'all need socio-emotional learning.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I also tried tailscale in a docker container as a subnet handler and realized I was out of my depth. Net engineering is abstract and hard. There's a reason there are pros making bank just doing that for big corps.

Followed a way simpler setup. Now tailscale runs on the server bare metal and podman handles the routing automatically. I just use the magicDNS address given by tailscale and everything just works as intended. All my services are available, and apps run no issue, no matter where I am as long as I'm connected to tailscale. I will make the setup more complex as I learn more and acquire the need for more features. But so far this has met all my expectations.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

First time? Paradox games are the definition of learned helplessness. This game will be a dlc shitfest in time, just like all of their other scammy games. They just learned to not announce it ahead of time with this IP.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Kind reminder that "think tank" just means that a bunch of rich fucks paid a group of allegedly prestigious experts to spout their agenda in an authoritative voice on mass media. And to write "science" papers that agrees with the propaganda.

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

Friend, have you paid attention to where we are at right now?

Homeless Funding Was Limited to Groups Aligned With Trump Policies, Suit Says

A federal lawsuit filed on Thursday in Rhode Island by two organizations that support the homeless claims that, with $75 million in homelessness grants about to expire, the Department of Housing and Urban Development illegally coerced applicants into embracing President Trump’s positions on immigration enforcement, transgender rights and other charged issues.

They literally tried to buy homeless care.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Excuse my exasperation. The comment I replied to was exactly saying those arguments and I was addressing those arguments alone. I never said modern technologies don't have an impact and your interjection with the topic implied you agreed that tech caused a fundamental generational change that validated the idea of "kids these days". If you gave a smartphone with social media to a sentinelese child, they would probably develop behavioural issues as well. But that doesn't mean this change would be universal to their entire cohort of children or that he was magically a new kind of child fundamentally different from the previous generation. To claim that "kids these days scream more" is precisely the kind of ignorant generalization I'm referring to, and it is born out of generational bigotry. It's not a new phenomenon, it's well historically documented. It's the source of the generational rift that has plagued every generation from boomers to millennials, to gen z, etc. Kids today are under new and unique circumstances, just like every kid from every generation has always been.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For a long time he was told by everyone in public and in private that he was awesome and perfect, and the greatest game developer, which made him a ton of money and very famous. Now his latest game is failing and his overinflated ego is panicking.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Some youtubers have done analysis on this. Unfortunately it has a huge impact on views. Arrows, circles, distorted faces, etc. All the clickbaity tropes, they don't just work, they work disproportionately well, and they work on you even if you hate them and are aware of them. It can sometimes be up to double the viewership and thus revenue of a video during the first 72 hours. The impact is so hard that it has grown into a special skill on its own do craft these shitty promotional material.

Many channels use the clickbait titles and thumbnails during the first 48 hours, then switch to a more sane and on-brand title and thumb. Because if they did away with the clickbait altogether, they would lose all revenue soon after.

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The company changed names and was sold in a stock restructuring. They took the money from community backers, refuse to deliver the books to them. Now they claim they have no responsibility to pay author's royalties for books already sold, they also don't have money to deliver or ship books. Half the people who work there quit. It's 238 authors who are collectively owed more than £650,000.

Link is one YouTuber's account of the situation from the POV of an author.

Here's a news article about the situation: “If I wasn’t so f*cking angry, I’d laugh”: Boundless delays author payments

And another: After Unbound’s Collapse, Boundless Faces Uphill Battle to Rebuild Trust

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“Johanne Sacreblu”, Mexican artists react to Emilia Pérez with a parody criticizing the film's misrepresentation of Mexican, and Queer culture. It raised 43,000 Mexican pesos ($2,100 USD) on GoFundMe. It is now fully available for free on YouTube.

https://www.tomatazos.com/sin-categoria/johanne-sacreblu-la-parodia-mexicana-que-responde-a-emilia-perez-expone-con-humor-los-cliches-franceses/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18188737

Venezuelans are ready to throw off the dictatorship. Will the international community support us?

By Maria Corina Machado

I am writing this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen from the dictatorship led by Nicolás Maduro.

Mr. Maduro didn’t win the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday. He lost in a landslide to Edmundo González, 67% to 30%. I know this to be true because I can prove it. I have receipts obtained directly from more than 80% of the nation’s polling stations.

We knew that Mr. Maduro’s government was going to cheat. We have known for years what tricks the regime uses, and we are well aware that the National Electoral Council is entirely under its control. It was unthinkable that Mr. Maduro would concede defeat.

We Venezuelans have done our duty. We have voted out Mr. Maduro. Now it is up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate a demonstrably illegitimate government. The repression must stop immediately, so that an urgent agreement can take place to facilitate the transition to democracy. I call on those who reject authoritarianism and support democracy to join the Venezuelan people in our noble cause. We won’t rest until we are free.

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Courtesy of @RaoulDook.

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Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

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I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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