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MossBear ,

People need to have the courage to tank the existing economy and rebuild without the feudalistic tendencies built in. We really ought not to be maintaining the peasant/lord dynamic at this point in history.

MossBear ,

I didn’t realize people stopped…bookmarks are incredibly useful.

Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act (apnews.com)

The fine is by far the largest ever levied under the Clery Act, a law that requires colleges and universities that receive federal funding to collect data on campus crime and notify students of threats. Schools must disseminate an annual security report that includes crime reports and information on efforts to improve campus...

MossBear ,

I’m one unfortunately. It just happened to be during a time in my life when I was intensely religious. It’s my one of my top three all-time regrets. Now I’m not conservative, not religious and I wish any affiliation with that awful school could be scrubbed from existence.

MossBear ,

Explain how I’m the product relative to Linux.

MossBear ,

I’m not a business, so it doesn’t apply to me.

MossBear ,

Please bring back Overwatch 1 the very next day.

MossBear ,

Just a reminder that if you’re using ai to write your book, your book has less worth than your last dump.

MossBear ,

Get him. Crush the fool.

MossBear ,

I love Mastadon. :D

MossBear ,

Sorry, but your healthcare is in another castle.

MossBear ,

Would this be an appropriate place for shocked pikachu?

MossBear ,

To quote Picard, “The line must be drawn here! This far! No further!”

Why do you hate Microsoft?

I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....

MossBear ,

They kneecapped Linux in the early days because they were afraid of what people accepting FOSS as a standard would do to their profits.

MossBear ,

Steamdeck 2 is all I need.

MossBear ,

It’s not all about business models. People make things out of personal interest too.

MossBear ,

If you believe it and keep using Unity for new projects, you’re kind of a sucker.

MossBear ,

10:1 wage ratio should be the law. Less if possible.

MossBear ,

Don’t let your kids grow up to be Unity developers.

Thousands sign up to experience magic mushrooms as Oregon’s novel psilocybin experiment takes off (apnews.com)

Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe....

MossBear ,

I want to try it but I don’t know how to go about getting it.

MossBear ,

Having done cleaning in offices such as these for at least one of the top companies in the world, I fail to see why even this sort of office is all that compelling. Look, a miniature golf statue…

MossBear ,

Unless employee owned companies become the norm and CEO driven companies are seen as outdated relic of feudalism.

MossBear ,

Three years ago after trying Unity for a month I chose to learn Godot instead. I see now how right that decision was. Well done past self. Have a future cookie.

MossBear ,

That’s a good rule. I only accidentally got into open-source, but now that I know what it is and what it’s all about, I am totally sold on it and will almost always choose open-source over proprietary alternatives.

MossBear ,

Leave one out overnight and tell your present self that they can have it in the future if they do x before tomorrow. If you succeed, then you get a cookie. If you fail, eat the cookie anyway. At least you tried.

MossBear ,

In a hose, on a rose, up your nose. Everywhere where life can be is where life goes.

MossBear ,

It’s called Godot, and it’s amazing.

MossBear ,

Why stay at all whether they revert it or not? They’re egregiously incompetent and if they’ve done this sort of thing once, they’re going to do it again. Developers should go where their support will help make something better (Godot) and not stick with the crusty old Unity hag that is constantly pawing at their pockets hoping for the jingle of coins.

MossBear ,

In this case it sounds like they were talking about their next game rather than a current project.

MossBear ,

If Developers were in a relationship with Unity, it’d be the sort where Unity always comes home drunk and is verbally abusive, but they stick around with the belief that Unity will change.

MossBear ,

I didn’t click through and was going based on the headline. My mistake.

MossBear ,

Yeah, you’re right. I was thinking of it in terms of current project -> next project, but I see that’s not what was meant.

MossBear ,

Its music, but the level of skill to make it is low, and therefore of little credit to the one who makes it.

MossBear ,

Somewhere out there is a conservative going “they worked hard for what they have and shouldn’t be punished for their success.”

MossBear ,

Godot.

MossBear ,

It already has. The Godot Developer Fund went up by $4,000 yesterday alone.

MossBear ,

Just a reminder that if Unity developers with pro licenses coming to Godot contribute even a small fraction of what they might have paid for those licenses on Unity, Godot can develop even faster.

MossBear ,

I remember well. It was the ultimate gut punch and marked the turn from a more optimistic and innocent time to the cynical reality we’re still living in. The 90’s were by far not perfect, but for many it was a dream compared to life since 2001.

MossBear OP ,

That makes sense. Thanks!

MossBear ,

I totally agree. Lemmy had an awesome, friendly helpful vibe and the reddit exodus had a noticeably negative affect on the nature of the discourse. It became more nasty, more petulant more quipy, and more angsty. Now that people are here, I’m not at all saying they should leave, but maybe read the room and try to be a part of something better. The internet doesn’t have to be a hostile place.

MossBear ,

I respect older people, but at this age you really have no business being in high levels of government. Go retire and enjoy your life. If you want to, be an advisor to more junior members of congress. This wraithing is absurd.

MossBear ,

For people who roll their eyes when someone mentions Linux and all of the free and open source projects adjacent to it (including Firefox!), this is exactly why many people value those things. We actually can have freedom in computing and it’s worth pushing for. We don’t have to roll over simply accept what Google, Microsoft and Apple want.

MossBear ,

I’m aware, but ultimately they’re still an ad company that uses technology to sell more ads. Any minor aspects of altruism (if it can be called that) can’t wash that away.

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)

On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....

MossBear ,

IBD is a thing.

MossBear ,

I have Crohn’s and have for years. People don’t realize how fucking cruel they are in these situations. It’s like belittling somebody with cognitive difficulties. I absolutely get it, poop is gross, and other people’s especially, but this is the second story like this in two months that I’ve seen and it’s always framed how terrible it is for the “normal” people who have this once in a lifetime bad experience rather than the person who deals with it and has to live with it every god-damned day.

And people should know that society is absolutely not made for people with various forms of IBD. It’s damn near unlivable and made worse by the fact that you can become someone’s joke or headline for a problem that society doesn’t want to accommodate for and is totally fine kicking you when you’re already at a low point. People lost their ever-loving minds when they had to stay in because of COVID. I’ve been living that life for over a decade, because I know that this is how people are.

MossBear ,

You’re the kind of dickhead that gets mad at people in wheelchairs for blocking you aren’t you?

MossBear ,

I meant to respond to this the day you wrote it, but I got a bit distracted. At any rate, I appreciate the sentiments greatly. It is such an impossible situation for those of us who deal with this, but there is a bit of light even in knowing that someone else understands and can relate to the experience. I hope in the near future people like us can live life more fully without the current stigma attached to our conditions.

MossBear ,

I totally get you. It’s a rough and painful way to live. People who don’t deal with it misunderstand what it is to have to experience this every day.

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