davel , 1 month ago to technology in Edward Snowden Echoes Richard Stallman's Warnings On Proprietary Software After User Says 'Adobe Can Not Be Trusted'

The Dude abodes.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in New polling shows most Americans and Europeans want the Ukraine war to come to an end.

You never know what you’re gonna get from the “no tankie shit” instance.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in New polling shows most Americans and Europeans want the Ukraine war to come to an end.

first-time

Its own government, in 2014, with the help of the US.

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
• CouterPunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in Are you a 'tankie'

If there is to be a shift from the quantitative to the qualitative, then I think that—whatever of the proximate cause that breaks the camel’s back—this US election will be the ultimate cause.

davel , 1 month ago to technology in Edward Snowden Echoes Richard Stallman's Warnings On Proprietary Software After User Says 'Adobe Can Not Be Trusted'

It’s still very challenging to get a blobless Linux running on open hardware & firmware as a daily driver.

davel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to asklemmy in Are you a 'tankie'

why everyone’s talking about them like they’re at all a priority?

Because the red scares and the cold war[1][2] never actually ended, and our government, think tanks, and corporate media still feed us a constant drip of spooky stories.

china under the bedUS scaredspecter

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in Are you a 'tankie'

order-of-lenin

davel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to technology in Y Combinator CEO boosts ‘Soros’ conspiracy theory

I’d never heard of Slate Star Codex, but I am familiar with the cult of LessWrong.

In 2013, a significant portion of the rationalist community shifted focus to Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codex.

Now he’s moved to Substack as Astral Codex Ten. He’s started his own psychiatric practice as well, however, “Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new patients, and we’re not expecting this to change in the medium-term future.”

davel , 1 month ago to gaming in More than 100,000 people are currently playing a Steam game where you click a banana

This shit is bananas
B-🍌-N-🍌-N-🍌-S

davel , 1 month ago to memes in STOP CENSORORING ME TANKIES

Look upon our Self-crits, ye Mighty, and despair 😆

davel , 1 month ago to memes in The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: 1940 vs 2023

Everyone knows it means. Where’s your evidence of such a historical rewriting from a The Office meme?

davel , 1 month ago to memes in The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: 1940 vs 2023

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Really? Can we please stomp the Nazis, at least here?

Yes, Nazis and other fascists, especially ones who commit genocide, and especially when it doesn’t require a time machine because it’s happening as we speak.

davel , 1 month ago to memes in The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: 1940 vs 2023

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Historical Revisionism

These historically accurate pictures[1][2] are fake news!

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in Are you a 'tankie'

That’s a lot of mod interventions for a one month old account. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0c6e9517-fc60-44ae-94cd-fedbef4b33f8.jpeg You’re what I might call “high maintenance.”

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in Are you a 'tankie'

Tankie is a floating signifier, a pejorative, a thought-terminating cliché, a rhetorical cudgel.

The only reason why you would deny it or hide it is if you have an agenda.

Or because it’s a thought-terminating pejorative. And in any case, just as it is impossible to be unbiased, it is impossible to be agendaless. By implying that I have some secret agenda, you’re doubling down on McCarthyism.