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uralsolo ,

How many countries has China invaded or bombed from afar in the last forty years? How do China’s loan conditions compare to those of the World Bank and IMF? The notion that they’re “colonizing” anyone is completely daffy - they have long-running border disputes with some of their neighbors and a long-running leadership dispute with what remains of the previous government of China, those are completely different types of conflict.

As for Russia and Israel, the difference is that the people in the Donbas who seceded from Ukraine back in 2014 weren’t placed there to displace Ukrainians as a Russian colonial project. They’re the same people who lived in Donbas going back to the USSR’s dissolution, and they had a series of legitimate grievances when the rest of Ukraine elected a government that was actively hostile to them.

uralsolo ,

Russia is not an altruistic actor here

Always worth bearing in mind. The reason Crimea got taken over in 2014 and Donbas didn’t is pretty clearly because of its relatively higher strategic importance - it took a lot of provocation from NATO and Azov for Putin to change his mind about that calculation, I’ll never forget how bloodthirsty the media was especially in the month leading up to the invasion.

uralsolo ,

Broke: Giving someone a pet as a gift.

Woke: Making someone your pet as a gift.

uralsolo ,

2 years is still insanely short to me. I had a Nexus 6p from 2016-2020, and a Pixel 5 from 2020-present, and frankly the 6p was still pretty fast and satisfying to use when I traded it in so I can’t imagine wtf anyone needs to upgrade more frequently than that.

uralsolo ,

That was mostly by accident. IMO America’s actions in and around WW2 are better understood as the result of two expanding empires bumping into one another (America and Japan)

uralsolo ,

I don’t remember which Surface I have, but power issues are the biggest bugbear that have followed me with it the entire time I’ve had it. Firstly chargers for the thing are really fucking sketchy - if it’s not in basically perfect, out-of-the-box condition it simply refuses to connect. And even if the little indicator light turns on that doesn’t mean that the bios “sees” it, which is pretty annoying.

Lately it’s been doing this thing where when I try to wake it up from sleep it takes about a full minute to turn the screen on. This wasn’t an issue until like a week ago, I’ve tried updating everything, reverting back to windows/stock settings - nothing.

Nowadays my surface is just a second screen on my desk that I use to run Stremio, because it just can’t handle anything else - and this is after me being pretty positive on it for most of the time I’ve had it. I guess I’ve had it for a few years, but damn if it wasn’t such a compact design I could probably swap out the power supply or something.

uralsolo , (edited )

I last updated my uBlock yesterday and I haven’t seen a popup since, I might be lucky or maybe Google has backed off for now.

edit: nevermind just got another one

uralsolo ,

Sponsorblock is unfortunately just as mandatory as uBlock these days. That said I won’t critique video creators for doing what they need to do to get paid, my critique is leveled squarely at the system itself for making their only recourse for payment “produce propaganda for capitalists”.

uralsolo ,

Date, Fig, Peach, and Cherry are my picks.

uralsolo ,

The ending of the communism vision quest might be my favorite moment in any game ever.

Seriously you should play it for yourself if you haven't.That brief moment when all of the meloncholy of DE goes away, and a few people in a room manage to do something impossible together for a few seconds just by believing they can do it is such a beautiful way to end that subplot and injects so much hope into the Elysium universe that it’s unreal. You CAN save the city. You CAN stop the expansion of The Pale. You CAN bring about The Return. All you have to do is get fucking organized!

uralsolo ,

The creator of Missile Command allegedly had this very same revelation while creating it, and suffered nightmares about nuclear annihilation. I like how the game just gets harder and harder, meaning that no matter how good you are at it, once the bombs start dropping then eventually every city will be destroyed anyway.

uralsolo ,

That final boss fight song still gets me pumped up like nothing else. There’s a reason UT’s fanbase got so huge, and it’s not because the game is mid.

uralsolo ,

Perhaps the ethnic cleansing that started in 1948 had something to do with it.

uralsolo ,

Motorcycle. If I’m going to be forced to drive to and from work, I might as well enjoy it.

uralsolo ,

I don’t bother with a two piece rain suit, I just throw a bright yellow poncho on over my usual jacket and secure it around my waist. My pants are a lost cause though.

uralsolo ,

I have to think Bernie is smart enough to understand this, but American politics requires countless of these sorts of genuflections from those who want to be taken “seriously” by it. Can’t talk about the Cubann blockade without being all “of course their highly popular democratically elected government is evil, but”, etc etc.

uralsolo ,

It’s also funny because he also denounced Hamas’ attack even though resisting a military occupation/blockade is allowed by international law.

uralsolo ,

I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they’re installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

uralsolo ,

Do the cutscenes in any given MMORPG count? It’s a similar amount of text to a book, but nobody fukken reads that shit.

uralsolo ,

The maintenance manual for your vehicle.

uralsolo ,

Twist: a red shirt is watching the video trying to use it as a tutorial, and can’t replicate lockpickinglawyer’s results.

uralsolo ,

Crackle is owned by Sony and ad-supported, I assume that the bot just saw the word “free” all over the website and assumed that made it "relatede enough to piracy to place on the list.

uralsolo ,

The Ultima series, especially U4, 5, and 6. To this day they are some of the best stories told in gaming history, but their appeal is limited by the fact that they came out in the DOS era - remake them with Baldur’s Gate 3 levels of production value and some QOL updates but otherwise don’t change a thing and they would contend for the best RPGs of all time.

uralsolo ,

Neither North Korea nor Qatar are fascist. The former is communist and the latter is an absolute monarchy.

Unless you’re saying FIFA is fascist which might be true idk.

uralsolo ,

Mine did, granted I went to a pretty nice school and was in “Honors” English and Social Studies (which meant that you did the normal English homework during summer, did a grade higher during the school year, and then did college level in junior/senior year). Pretty much every one of my teachers forced us to cite an actual book from an actual library every time we wrote an essay.

uralsolo ,

I love my Krait! I had a bigger ship for a while but something about the medium-class just feels right in E:D. I did a lot of low-temperature diamond mining back in the day, but I loved how I could load out for bounty hunting or cargo runs or whatever else I felt like doing.

uralsolo ,

I think social structures can be thought of in terms of consciousness, and whether or not they are a “higher” level of human consciousness is mostly a question of your definition of what that means.

From our perspective we are all making individual decisions, but that’s similar to how a given cell is just managing its own individual chemical reactions. What initially made humanity unique in the animal kingdom was how complex our social animal is able to be - human clans were more complex than other mammals’ packs in the same way that a vertebrate is more complex than an invertebrate. Our social animal is the one that reached the tipping point of adding technology into the mix, which allowed us to add phenomenally more complexity that what evolution on its own is able to create.

In the modern day, in the western world, people principally think of themselves as individual subjects, and as Marxists we recognize that this is one of the most critical self-defense mechanisms of liberalism, since it prevents class consciousness (and allows false consciousness to form). This is akin to how our cells are programmed by dna not to become cancerous - and when this mechanism fails and a cancer/revolutionary group forms the white blood cells/police usually stamp it out to protect the organism/capitalist society.

The big difference between society and an organism when viewed through this lense is that when an organism dies its cells all die too, but when society “dies” all the people who were part of it will naturally form a new one atop the corpse of the old. Imagine if when you died your cells all hit a reset button and your corpse formed into a new person - that might disqualify society from being thought of as a consciousness, or perhaps it’s evidence that “consciousness” is independent of life and death.

uralsolo ,

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.

uralsolo ,

Me but with Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

uralsolo ,

I carried a lighter for a while. It worked fine when I put it in my pocket, but the first time I whipped it out for someone it didn’t work at all. They say that that happens to lots of guys but I haven’t carried a lighter since that day.

uralsolo ,

You don’t. It’s probably got grounds or something settled into the bottom and the cup is shaped like that on purpose to prevent you from drinking them.

uralsolo ,

Defining moment of a generation, in the way that 9/11 was for the one before it. I don’t even think we’ll really understand the impact for another couple decades - and just like with other major events the ruling class will learn the wrong lesson entirely from it, probably something like “we should never lock down for any disease ever”.

uralsolo ,

I can’t pin it down to just one, but holy shit school shootings and the way we’ve responded to them completely broke whatever part of me thought that our society was still capable of doing things. They keep upping the ante with how horrifying they are too - the high water mark currently is Uvalde, and I think that the next one that shocks the nation will involve the cops (or a “good guy with a gun”) gunning down multiple kids or parents while trying to “help” and our collective response will still be to do nothing.

uralsolo ,

I mean they could, but they won’t.

uralsolo ,

Damn you’re right that was awesome.

uralsolo ,

Me at home: I’ll have some hot wings as a meal.

Me at restaurants: I’ll have some hot wings as an appetizer, and a burger for the meal.

uralsolo ,

idk why you wouldn’t unless you live in a really cold or cloudy place.

uralsolo ,

The alternative is my car which sometimes triggers its alarm even though I’m holding the key.

uralsolo ,

doing something you love

I love cooking for family, but I’ve also cooked for Denny’s and a getting through a meal service is something else entirely. There’s a reason cooks in general are one of the most alcoholic professions, and it’s not because they spend most of their day doing something they love.

uralsolo ,

I’ve used them for about a year, so far no complaints. High speed, high privacy, only a couple things have required me to turn off my vpn to access them.

uralsolo ,

thinking you’ll get to retire

lmao

uralsolo ,

DF is also free and there’s fan made installers to run it on Linux, the Steam version just has an enhanced UI and other features.

Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)

Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off....

uralsolo ,

AFAIK the ruling about serving same sex couples specifically relates to “compelled speech”, which means it definitely doesn’t apply in this context and Amazon is hoping that right wing courts will expand the ruling (they might).

uralsolo ,

cracker

Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...

uralsolo ,

Haven’t paid for a TV show or a movie in a long time - but I also very rarely watch those.

For stuff I do all the time I do end up paying for the convenience of steam/gog/etc.

uralsolo ,

I’m not actually an investment genius, I’m just gambling like the rest of them.

uralsolo ,

AFAIK it’s just something that hasn’t been tested, but that goes for basically all digital “shrinkwrap contracts” from your iTunes EULA to the license on your github repo. Good luck being the first person to test it if you’re not a major corporation, though.

uralsolo ,

This is something I’ve thought was true for a while, but your comment made me go back and look for decent sources and while I found a few articles bemoaning tech in schools I also found a lot of good-looking scientific studies saying that it’s fine or even beneficial, so I deleted my comment.

AFAIK now, the negative outcomes are when it’s home schooling or COVID-era distance learning and the kid is only doing work on an ipad, so the problem isn’t the tech itself it’s the absence of a structured school environment with a teacher.

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