Thrashy @ Thrashy @lemmy.world

Laboratory planner by day, toddler parent by night, enthusiastic everything

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Wouldn't count on it -- ask the Seleucids about the Maccabees some time, if you get the chance.

I appreciate the "explain the movie plot badly" energy of this post.

On the contrary, I think your information bubble is pretty limited if you think that a social-democratic position isn't on the leftward fringe of the Overton window in America, where large parts of the political spectrum believe "the invisible hand" obviates the need for market regulations, and even the most basic and punitive of social safety-net programs get tarred as "communism!" by the mainstream right.

Oh no, they're merely quite radical in the context of US politics, or mainstream leftist in the context of Scandinavian politics! You're right -- they must be shunned and mocked for this, that's a surefire way for a fringe group to win hearts and minds...

I was a longtime Debian/apt diehard but I'm coming down on the same side of late. My homelab runs Proxmox (Debian based) with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS containers for more up-to-date packages, but my attempt to use KDE Neon (Ubuntu-based) for my desktop PC was a disaster. I've switched to Nobara (Fedora-based), and other than having to switch from Wayland back X11 because Wayland on NVidia breaks a bunch of things I need for work it's been relatively smooth sailing.

There's a plant where I live that refurbishes non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. I haven't yet seen any of their engineering staff implicated in the January 6 insurrection, but I figure with the politics I've heard out of that bunch it's only a matter of time.

Nazi racial theory was actually significantly less extreme than Jim Crow-era racist policies in many ways -- i.e. blood quanta vs. "one drop". Ex-Naxi rocket scientists were likely to have had a moderating effect on southern racism.

It's like a suburban tract home developer with a case of brain worms tried to build townhomes based solely on a verbal description he got from space alien visiting Brooklyn for the first time, relayed over a cell phone with one bar of reception.

There is a certain sort of ennui that comes with the realization that the heat death of the universe is inevitable, and no matter what you do, no matter how much you manage to make your mark on the world/solar system/galaxy/universe or how successful and prosperous your descendants may be, it will all eventually be lost to eternal entropic stasis.

For some the optionality of it is less important than the notion that if it's performative, you can be bad at it and therefore make yourself an acceptable target for abuse, and besides that the idea that some roles can be restricted to only those with a certain set of physical characteristics is deeply ingrained in many, be that in terms gender, career, or what have you.

I loved the in-the-moment gameplay and the narrative arc they had going there for a while. Despite myself I'm still invested in some of the characters... but it's one of those games where I really recognized how all-consuming the engagement treadmill I had been on once I stepped away. It's probably a good thing for me that it's in the shitter at the moment, or I could easily get lured back in.

Oh, and the r/DtG mods deleted my highly-upvoted Lightfall "lore/prediction" shitpost that was a massive wall of text winding up to an Attack on Titan pun, so fuck 'em.

I am shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.

ETA: I see the downvotes, and I'm curious as to why? Red Bull in general has always given off strong "toxic work environment" vibes, and every time I've seen Horner give an extended interview where the topics discussed range further afield than the latest race, he's come off very much as the gross uncle type. None of it's enough to condemn the guy on its own, of course... but it's enough for me to see these latest allegations and say "yeah, that seems like it tracks."

That's just American suburbs, honestly. Many if not most subdvisions are designed to be pedestrian-hostile with the specific intent of excluding -- shall we say -- a certain class of person who doesn't have access to a car, and are thrown up wherever a builder managed to snag a contiguous chunk of greenfield site vaguely near a major city rather than being planned and positioned to for convenience to mass transit and amenities.

Heck, I live in a old streetcar suburb, that's basically in the city proper, and while it's only a ten minute walk to the nearest grocery store, I don't walk it because a) it's a fucking Walmart and I'm not giving them any of my money if I can help it and b) it'd require me to walk along two busy stroads, one way while lugging sacks of groceries. I'd prefer not to get mowed down by somebody coming off the highway who's not paying attention at the crosswalk if I can help it.

I presume they're expecting to sprout twenty arms after civilization collapses.

I mean, this but I unironically? Brandishing like this is an illegal threat of deadly force, which can be used to straightforwardly argue self-defense. It's a braindead move on the legislator's part, most likely a pattern of behavior (I've dealt with people who used the threat of their guns to win arguments, and it very much was a regular thing) and he's frankly lucky nobody has called his bluff yet.

One of the more unnerving "benign" interactions I've had with a cop was when the officer standing guard duty at the DMV subjected my wife and I to ten minutes of exposition about his various weapons and the effects they had on people while we waited for the line to move us out of conversation range. It's never been more clear to me that somebody desperately wants an excuse to do violence, to anybody he might be allowed to.

The old Trackmans have very limited inputs relative to modern gaming mice. There are some trackballs with scroll wheels, but they have different ergonomics (you rotate the ball with your thumb rather than your index, middle, and ring fingers) that my buddies aren't fond of.

Given that theirs is a very niche use case, I don't think anybody's gonna make a trackball to suit them that also has a scroll wheel, but I guess if somebody was motivated enough, there's an opportunity for some sort of ESP-based open source hardware.

I have a couple friends that play PC games on old-school Trackman trackballs. The amount of griping when we play a game with something bound by default to the mousewheel is INCREDIBLE.

Vettel and Alonso must have been really applying the peer pressure. "I'm sure you'll be the one to un-Ferrari Ferrari! Don't take heed of our experiences!"

Sainz is a really attractive free agent now, I'd think. He's maybe not got the same raw pace as some of the others at the front of the grid, but he's incredibly tactical. If I was a midfield team looking for somebody who could outperform my chassis I'd be making a spot for him on my 2025 roster right now.