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I also know how to make a very basic boom boom nsa word (as does anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry) but again I probably don't have a lot of time

Maybe just go for some armor piercing rounds that can punch through concrete, but going by the movie they couldn't really use bullets at all.

I guess I'll just be thankful that backwards time travel isn't possible. That would violate the laws of physics pretty hard.

Probably come up with some device to burn it in thermite

Not that I would have enough time to make it, so I'd probably just buy a ton of thermite and set up some trap.

Never flown on a plane. The 8 hour drives are part of the experience for me.

I am cursed with a Netflix subscription to an account I forgot about.

No seriously, I just lose $16 every month and I have no idea what to do. I don't even have the e-mail. I don't know what it is. I just donate to Netflix shareholders.

Hey America, go spend $50 on an attachment. You even save on tp. Not much else to say other than I'm never going back.

Ok. Does it matter if it was written earlier or later? Anything written by Lucas is the star wars universe as far as I'm concerned.

Also is PO arguing that the empire wasn't racist? That's definitely not true.

Zareth posted...

Again, none of that is from the original trilogy.

Sure it did. The empire didn't employ non-humans. This was established all along anyway, whether it was on screen or not. George didn't come up with this just for the prequels.

Zareth posted...

None of this is shown in the original trilogy at all.
Well the one guy does refer to bounty hunters as "scum" but then again there are just as many humans and robots as there are aliens in that scene.

Palpatine only cared about power, but used racism (speciesism) as a means to do that.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Speciesism

Although the Galactic Emperor Palpatine was not himself speciesist, he nonetheless encouraged it in the Empire due to viewing it as facilitating his control over the galaxy.[6] It was thanks to speciesism that Palpatine appealed to Wilhuff Tarkin early in his career, given Tarkin's Humanocentrism tendencies.[7]

Not knowing much about star wars lore, it was because the empire was a generic imperialist dictatorship that was just interested in conquering and ethnic cleansing, as they viewed non-human races as inferior and often enslaved them. Sometimes it was in reference to Nazi Germany, sometimes it was in reference to American imperialism.

The rebels were pro-democracy. The Jedi were basically liberals who were complacent and helped push Anakin to the dark side with their rules.

You can sum it all up by looking at Papatine, who at the end of the day had no real ideology or goals beyond more power.

For me it was because I wasn't playing the right games, was getting tired of a series that was stagnating.

I found indie games and rarely ever play anything else now. Satisfactory, SYNTHETIC, Risk of Rain 2, hades, Valheim, interesting and random games that have a 98% on Steam make me feel like a kid again.

I've heard Ukrainians are often shocked to hear Russian propaganda translated directly to English

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

This has taken a turn that I dont think anyone predicted.

Now there might be a civil war? What the hell?

It was floated a lot that this might happen since the war is just a total failure and is destroying russia

MCU? No thank you, I like watching real movies

I jump between hating myself and being a narcissist regularly.

Jen0125 posted...

What was the topic even about?

I was going to just let this dye, but it was schmen's wife's face covered in semen.

I didn't save the picture.

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Nevermind, we're still going on with this confusing bs

I mean, the devs super special extra genius design that I cannot comprehend

captpackrat posted...

That would be Lemmy.

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It's actually decent?

Kick is incredibly sketchy.

shadowsword87 posted...

Oh, oh honey, you're still stuck in cryptro bro land, it's ok, you don't need to have decentralized servers for it to be open source.
Just put it on github like everyone else.

Excuse me for the wall of text. I'm very tired and my lid is gone.

I'm an actual IT guy, not a useless tech startup idea guy. This whole crypto thing? It was not our fault. I have never met another programmer that accepts crypto as anything but a bad joke, and yet we get all the blame for the greatest scam in history. This is why I will never forgive the real tech bros that used us as their meat shields. The ones that are genuinely extremely low IQ libertarians, absolutely zero talent past their lizard brain impressively being able to click on a 3D head faster than other people, that got rich off crypto, and hired real IT guys to glue together their disgusting mess in hopes of turning their blind luck into more money.

Open source is good, and decentralization is good. But blockchains are not decentralized, and are only good for ponzi schemes, what they were specifically designed for from day one. Yes, Bitcoin's genius creator, the one who was smart enough to create the perfect ponzi scheme and become the richest man in history on accident.

Anyway, what you do is host the HTML site normally. You decentralize the storage so that everything helps host the media. It will be a browser extension, that will open a QUIC connection to other clients, and stream the videos wherever they need to go. There will have to be a fair bit of redundancy, a lot of redundancy, to ensure files don't go missing. If that's not plausible, I'll just go with a Desktop application. If a video isn't loading, or the site's loading slow, I'll show a prompt to the user that they can help host their own subscriptions by running the desktop client. There will be enough volunteers this way to run the whole thing.

We use that same backend to host different front ends. Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook clones. Best part? You are not the customer, you are not the product. You are the host of the site. No ads, no tracking. It's how we solve everything.

We set up subscriptions and donations. 100% of the money goes to the content creator. It's a non-profit.

We do streaming as well. These things are not as hard to set up as you would think. Just make sure you have the bandwidth, that's it.

Mastadon tried this, but the user interface is so abhorrent that it died despite everything going its way, and being put in a position to take off. (Open source developers are heavily brain-damaged when it comes to user interface, and painstakingly patronizing in disregarding anyone without the high intellect to use their awful UIs.)

This is also something d-live promised to do before it became the "conservative free stop woke media platform", and still does, but it literally just runs on a private server without decentralizing anything, because, well, it was a crypto project, and all blockchain ceos are degenerate, worthless trash who deserve to die. It also literally just didn't load the video half the time.

Who wants to make open source reddit with me?

Mainly the decentralized media servers that we'll have to develop. The website won't be too hard.

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Ok, how exactly did he quit then?

Vsauce's theory on why conspiracy nuts are everywhere is pretty good, it's that we watch a ton of movies and stories, and in movies there's always a greater reason for every detail, and then in real life... there's just not. I don't think that's true tbh. People have been making things up since forever. We just have that kind of imagination.

On why there are people so averse to accepting the right answer... idk, their brain is made of soup. Honestly I think religion and cults break people's reasoning capacity in general.

A mod told him he was the worst poster on the site and he got upset and quit

Ok you clearly don't know how this works and are trying to be smart about it

That's not comparable because she's not crucial to their business plan

I don't like any of those games.

MGS3

*sees positive topic with positivity in it*

I liked duckbear.

agesboy posted...

the point of a strike is be disruptive to bring attention to a matter most people aren't thinking about, in order to bring about X

it's not even genuinely that disruptive if you know that putting "cache:" before a reddit link will bring up the information you want to find anyways

I'm going to not give you any apples until you clean your room. Up until 1 hour from now. Then you can have all the apples you want and you don't have to clean your room. I won't do this again in the future.

Will you clean your room?

I need to take my allergy medicine, I'm allergic to winning any advocacy movements. That felt really mean. I'm sorry. Oh, you're just removing the ability for mods to do strikes, oh, ok.

I'm gonna tell you all what though, the only way you're all going to deal with the shitty capitalist aspects of all your favorite companies is to invest in some distributed social media frameworks. The ones that exist kind of suck though, so I'll admit this one's on me and the rest of the programmers to fix.

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I'm saying they should have not announced ahead of time that it would be over in 2 days, making it a less disruptive/threatening strike

The point of a strike is that it's supposed to go on until X happens

They could make it a regular thing, like "we'll strike half the days of the week until x happens", but 2 days is a derp move tbh

It doesn't help that a lot of them openly announced that they would only protest for 2 days, in a big brain move completely defeating the purpose

Careful you don't fall into jobt.

Trump likes negative attention so much he tries to sue people for doing it

No seriously, me acknowledging his obvious relevance is not helping him, I want to keep tabs on him so I know what to expect from his still massive support from nearly everyone around me irl

I'm done with this nonsense argument

Like I said before, they pretty much live in their own isolated echo chambers anyway, if we were all forced to be in the same room there would probably be far less trump supporters

I don't usually bother anymore. The bloat isn't as bad as it used to be.

Back when you had 500mb of ram and 70% of it was taken up by unused Samsung apps it was better, but these days I don't even change the wallpaper.

I used a bathroom selfie and it worked out fine. The humble bathroom selfie.

+20 points if you have a photo of you out of the house, or camping, at a bar, or with friends. Multiple photos in different places. This is evidence that you're not a total shut-in. In your bio put things that you legitimately want out of a relationship. Men are scary and they want re-assurance that you're mentally stable so they don't get murdered. If you're not mentally stable than work on that. Try different dating apps. If you don't get a match in a week, you won't get a match in a year.

After all that, treat women with respect like you would anyone else. Just be positive, just be nice.

Entity13 posted...

Right, sure, but here is the thing about the level of narcissism he has, is that he needs the attention and praise from other people. Sun and I are saying the media shouldn't have fed his need back in 2015, but now that we're here, we should cordon him off from receiving any media or follower attention while justice is at last served. Let him serve his time in obscurity. The Cult of 45 will kick and scream until they either fall apart altogether or find a new figurehead.

During that time, the other 66-70% of us can move tf on.

But if his detractors stopped paying attention, he would just become... more successful? Media outlets would stop writing about him for anything but fluff pieces because we wouldn't read them. This is just basic politics.

If the criticism is bad and inaccurate then it can bolster a politician, like it did with Bernie with all the hit pieces. Remembering how the ancient jewish man was called sexist and anti-semitic every Tuesday. Really made him feel like the threatening outsider he ran on being.

Entity13 posted...

Re-read what I said, and kindly tell me how any part of what you just said relates to what I have said.

Ok, my reading comprehension is not the best, so I re-read it three times.

I'm not his supporters, it doesn't matter how much I pay attention to him. They can live in their own isolated bubble. As a matter of fact, that's exactly how they do it 99% of the time.

If I ignore him... he goes on unchallenged. A very "go ahead, step on my face and we'll see who the real jerk is" move. The answer was him. He was the real jerk.

Entity13 posted...

No, see, if he was given zero attention back then, it wouldn't even be a political discussion beyond "Hey, remember when that rich asshole tried to run for office and lost?" He wouldn't have even had a cult following as he does now, since that 30-ish percent of Americans wouldn't have a crowning liquid turd to identify with. This isn't ignoring politics and letting things just happen; it's removing a festering growth by starving it.

Trump didn't become president by my complaining. It was his appeal to the dying rust belt that did that.

But that is some true liberal strategy right here.

Entity13 posted...

I'm agreeing with Sun here. The attention should have stopped in late 2015. Time should have been served well before now as well.

Yes let's ignore politics it just wants attention

Dikitain posted...

In the sense that I might favor one brand over another for certain things, sure. That doesn't mean I will blindly follow them.

For example, I have pretty much been exclusively NVidia graphics cards for the last 15 years, but given their current business practices, my next card will likely be an AMD (if I don't get a Steam Deck first).

Unfortunately NVidia has a total hold on the compute graphics market, machine learning, physics, (this may or may not be amd's fault), so I won't ever be buying an amd card despite how much cheaper or more ethical they get.

Plus boycotts just straight up don't work. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pushed by companies to take away from real regulatory solutions.

I don't consciously have loyalty to a brand.

I do buy products because their brands are usually high quality. Like Nintendo and Google. (Usually)

https://youtu.be/HvUXdf5YUrg

Yeah and this is a DOJ prosecution, not a for-show senate hearing. This isn't on the same level as the other incidents.

It's a little more than the usual MSNBC "we got em" headline. They have hard evidence of him committing blatant national security crimes, and the entire state wants his head for it. If he was anyone but the president this stuff could just have him disappeared.

Biden and Pence haven't done anything like this. Accidentally possessing confidential intel is one thing, doing that and trying to cover it up, destroy the evidence, and showing it off to guests is another.

Also, this is the guy that lead a violent attack against the US Capitol. You think the state is just going to go "oh well, what are you going to do? He had plausible deniability, mistakes happen"

Ozmose posted...

Yeah, they got him this time, just like last time, and every other time they claimed to have him. It's kinda stupid that the dems are going after Trump so hard, considering he's probably the only one Biden stands any chance of beating in the next election.

Meatball Ron ain't doin shit

Everyone's favorite psychopath narcissist, you know who.

37 charges. Hard evidence of serious crimes being commited. Two lawyers quit on the spot. He might actually die in jail, this is historic. Trump will go down as a bigger crook than Nixon.

Crazy how hard he literally just projects with all his accusations. The whole "stop the steal" thing.

If only we had an economic model that let you vote on these things instead of living your adult life as someone else's grateful bitch

I don't remember what the old one was.

If the force was a real thing I'd be a sith before the end of the week.

GanglyKhan posted...

stealth doxxing thread O.o

What's anyone going to do with that anyway? We're not celebrities.

I'm in perfectly acceptable shape. Not crazy, but 160 lb. I exercise by being on my feet all day long at my job.

Why? They went to space afterwards just fine using mostly the same technology.

Also you get into the territory of going up against the entire scientific community, which can be a dangerous place to be.

VampireCoyote posted...

Thanks to Yellow I still have working transportation

I met with this community action squad just now they sent this ambulance thing and had me sit in it and tell them everything that has ever happened in my life, gonna meet with them again tomorrow at a church so they can help me navigate getting my food stamps and they are gonna help me find some good work

That's np

But you might have to look into a new car battery if the dead battery is a recurring thing. Roadside assistance can't tell the difference between a dead battery and a -dead- battery, they'll just jump your car and send you on your way. There could be an issue with your alternator, but most likely it's a caput battery, which you can get at the cheapest (used) ~$60