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Thanks for taking action! That's a pretty crazy number of accounts to set up for what appears like promoting a few bland articles from a bland AI-generated website.

It was just a random site with some news articles. Nothing objectionable content-wise really. Only the remarkable number of upvotes in a very short time for two posts going to the same random site stood out to me.

Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.

Shadows off: Smooth

Shadows on: Unplayable

Yeah I should've written it as "It is not like that for me". Though this is the first time I've heard someone who meditates compare it to doing drugs.

Well everyone is different. I practiced Zazen and nobody ever told me of experiencing a high or altered awareness. That's only my experience though and I'm not trying to discount yours :)

Meditation doesn’t get you high?

No it's a a fairly sober experience.

Drugs don’t alter your awareness?

Well I guess they can. I have no firsthand experience with psychedelics etc. but it doesn't sound like the same kind of experience.

No, meditation is not like drugs. If anything it's like exercise for a very particular part of your mind. It can train the mind to be calm, patient, observant and focused. I practiced for many years. In my experience it does not in and of itself bring any sort of feelings of happiness.

“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state,” Habba added.

"Rules for thee, not for mee!"

Americans mostly don't even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It's going to be comically unpopular.

KDE has almost perfect fractional scaling, that was the real chadfeature for me.

~$10/mo currently but since I recently switched to Linux, and it's working very well for me, I feel like upping it a little.

I've long considered donating to Mozilla since Firefox is by far my most used open source software. But they don't seem to lack money. So, huh.

Yeah, same. Previous years it was cars driving around with flags, posters for events, etc. This year I saw absolutely nothing. Feels a bit glum tbh.

I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I'm sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.

And it was easy to say from the beginning that supporting Putin, an authoritarian old school imperialist land-grabbing mass-murdering and human-rights violating dictator was morally repulsive. Yet here we are.

The genocide of Gazan civilians is indeed horrible, just like the genocide of Ukrainian civilians. Both make me feel sick. However, only one of these observations is allowed to be uttered on tankie instances. And no, I don't see the same amount of an intense echo chamber across the entire .world instance.

Not while the devs run a pro-genocide echo chamber. Tankie punks fuck off.

Yeah this is a great writeup. First time I noticed it. I'd follow your blog on RSS for sure.

I believe administrations like FDR or JFK would’ve tolerated none of this shit. Biden looked weak as hell. I like the guy and I support the democrats but you can’t take the high road indefinitely. I take your point though and I’m not happy about it either. But I would’ve preferred a bad boy Democrat administration over whatever the fuck this is…

You’re right of course. On the other hand this policy of strictly following established laws and precedents is in part what got us into this mess. Democrats could’ve been ruthless but they were meek. And now they have become almost entirely sidelined.