ezmack @ ezmack @lemmy.ml

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Pretty much where I'm at now. Meat is really just a dinner thing and not every night. Got there mostly out of laziness and being broke

I apparently was too stupid to find the thing that teaches you how to craft in thebvery beginning, as well as the first boss, so I ended up wandering around grinding until I killed the second boss first. Idk man those games just aren't for me

No and it's really dubious whether it works at all. In addition to the spurring breeding thing in the article, I've heard you're really just shuffling them onto neighboring territory and making it your neighbors problem

Used to be a handyman now I'm a machinist

Not sure about NY, by me at least the state environmental agency surveys populations and sets bag limits. For example there's an area near me where they're trying to encourage a specific rabbit population by maintaining a habitat so they encourage coyote hunting there. We don't have tournaments like this though, if anything they'll do a special season or allow hunting on a piece of public land they normally wouldn't.

Having said that landowners can do pretty much whatever they want. You're actually more restricted hunting for meat/pelts on your land than you are killing 'nuisance' animals; there's seasons, bag limits, and reporting requirements if you keep the meat/pelt but not if you kill it as a pest

New England

I mean... Lotta squirrels and coyotes by me. Can eat a squirrel but I can't bring myself to hunt coyote. Like even if I save the pelt then what? Not gunna eat it. I'm just leaving skinned dogs everywhere?

Small towns are rough man. People will run as both the dem and republican candidate in my town and you can't vote in town meetings if you aren't a property owner

Yeah I mean to be clear I didn't post it as a full endorsement of the conclusions it just seemed like OP was tugging on the same thread mentally. If nothing else made me want to be more specific than 'brainwashing' and a little more skeptical when that word gets thrown around

You're all a part of the same chicom plot against freedom

You ever read that red sails 'brainwashing isn't real' article? Similar premise, similar conclusion.

Basically guy was spending a lot of time debunking anti China stuff and getting frustrated. Realized really the propaganda isn't very sophisticated, wasn't hard to debunk in most cases. So saying people are fooled is kind of a cop out, underselling their intelligence maybe flattering your own. They're buying in consciously or otherwise because they see the benefit from siding with the propagandist.

Idk was an interesting read for me at least. If you can't get past the writing style these points are more or less where he ends up:

Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”

Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.

Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.

If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

Older I get the more the communists make sense. Always been left but I always leaned towards the anarchist stuff when I was younger. It'd be weird if your politics didn't change at least a little over time, regardless of your leanings, it's a process of trial and error

I knew a lot of chefs that liked them

One time I wrote a desperate email to my English teacher. Let me do some extra credit anything to not take the class again. He corrected all my spelling and grammar mistakes, attached a picture of my attendance record, and told me to go fuck myself

Shit just works. I'm not dicking around looking for drivers and stuff. The way I use a computer I'm not really getting a benefit from linux

Freecad. It's a little rough to use compared to professional cad products I've used but it can really do a lot. In a lot of ways it feels less constrained than some of the stuff I've used too

I'll paraphrase a twitter comment: man I did not give a single fuck about gen x as a millenial, these posts are so weird. Maybe we're just more exposed to each other now because of social media

I think it was mostly location data but yeah https://blogs.gwu.edu/ipdgcsmartpower/2012/12/09/ingress-gathering-data-through-gaming/

There used to be a mobile game that would have you go around and complete tasks to fill out the map (still might be idk). That's pretty much what google did with ingress

He's not going to do any of that