hydroptic @ hydroptic @sopuli.xyz

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You should stop using the PowerCore 10000 'immediately'

Engadget "journalists" don't know how to use quotes

Edit: it's probably I who doesn't know how to use quotes

(is great (oh (really (like-p lisp you))))

If the data you're handling isn't sensitive in any way (or you can eg. anonymise / pseudonymise it) and you don't have anything else sensitive on the VM, it wouldn't really matter either way – and as @MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, if you're running an executable from some yarrr site you're probably going to get malware

Just run it in a VM?

Doing stupid things because stupid people do stupid things too 👌

Comparing apples to oranges doesn't make any more sense just because someone else does something even dumber.

And yes, that's a real quote.

Zero sympathy for collaborators who get their faces eaten by leopards. I hope they suffer.

People have the memory of fruit flies.

That seems like an unfair characterisation. Unfair to fruit flies, that is.

"According to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, fruit flies have a memory span of just 15-30 seconds."

The fact that the US effectively has two political parties for, what, 340 million or so people (yes yes I know eg. the Greens etc. exist, but they're all such minor players that they might as well not even exist) is just unbelievable. I know it's a more or less guaranteed outcome with first-past-the-post voting, but it's still just crazy that something hasn't been done to fix this – not that either of the two "one party" parties has any interest in fixing it.

I live in Finland, with a population of about 5.6 million people, and we have around 20 active political parties ranging from literal neofascist to communist. 9 of them are currently in Parliament, one of which is a democratic socialist party (and I don't mean social democrat, although they're also in Parliament). Even with all this variety, I feel like we could use more and more diverse political parties. Can't even imagine how the average American feels about their voting choices (at least if that average American isn't a fascist wannabe, they're probably very happy right now)

Yeah exactly – and this isn't just a US problem either, but a global one. Conservatives everywhere seem to have gone off the deep end, while being totally convinced that it's everybody else who's gotten radicalised.

Feels like we need a global civil war. I think we called the previous one where we tried (unsuccessfully) to get rid of fascists "World War II" or something like that. Maybe a sequel to that, then?

But would that be enough, considering how unhinged Republicans have become? Would it just be a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" situation until the wider problem of the radicalisation of the right is somehow dealt with?

What's scary is that it seems like every conservative around the world is fully erect / has soaked their panties taking notes of what the Trump regime is doing, and so many are outright blatantly copying the tactics – and they're working

No kidding. Basically I'm just waiting for news of journalists getting executed by this guy

Yeah the amount of power they've handed to the president is just absolutely fucking bonkers. Like, how did they think that'd be a good idea? For all their crowing about democracy, a lot of them sure do seem like they want anything but a democracy

I am far more worried by the prospect of a Controlled Opposition of Democrats

I've seen lots of Americans saying that they think the Dems are essentially a controlled opposition party like they have in Russia, and it really does kind of seem like that – again, looking in from the outside. Not that there aren't any good Democrats, but that the "party apparatus" is kind of purposefully ineffective

Edit: that wikipedia article is fucking wild. What the hell, USA?

Looking in from the outside, the US 100% does seem like it's thiiiiiis close to being a far right dictatorship.

I see many commentators, both foreign and domestic (to the US), saying that there's no way Republicans will win the next election after this clusterfuck, and I can't help but wonder if it isn't a bit premature to assume that there will be anything resembling fair elections in the US in the future – at least at a federal level or in any red state. What with the Trump regime taking an axe to federal election security etc etc

Life-long voter of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party shocked to have his face eaten by leopards. "I never thought leopards would eat my face", he sobs.

But isn't that still your pride talking?

I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that I doubt the people giving the gift see your son (or you) as a charity case. To your son's best friend it's just about giving his bestie a gift he knows he'll like

If they're actually wealthy and they said this was just chump change for them, and it was a gift, I just don't quite see where the "unhealthy dynamic" is. You sure this isn't just about pride?

If they're fine with it, what's the problem exactly?

Shh, calling genocidal right wing extremists "nazis" makes the genocidal right wing extremists (ie. nazis) angry