millie @ millie @beehaw.org

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It's also being perpetrated by those that hold power in the status quo of the world stage, rather than a response to policy. While it was a civilian target, it was at least a civilian target in an actively militarily aggressive country pushing an agenda in the region. Palestine may have guerillas engaged in attacks, but as a country they're being held down and stomped on rather than out there being an international bully.

It's worse than 9/11, even if you don't compare the numbers.

It's like if Germany started the Holocaust openly and the world was just like okay whatever. Except there aren't any big Western powers to come to the rescue anymore, because they're footing the bill and literally providing the gas.

We mustn't dwell. No, not today! Not on Rex Manning day!

If you think Ukraine won't muster a guerilla resistance fierce enough to make France blush you haven't been paying attention.

Is this why Windows has started opening all my chromium apps in edge? They fuck up constantly and it's really making me want to ditch windows.

If I understood Jack audio as well as I understand Voicemeeter, and if I could get my damn push to talk button working properly in Solaar I'd be done by now.

If anyone has a solution to the edge thing please help.

It is really disturbing to see people falling all over themselves trying to make this shit out to be just a normal war.

We're literally too busy doing damage control. This is just the 'but why don't you tolerate intolerance' argument. I'm sure there are people struggling with this stuff who manage to avoid hurting and manipulating the people around them, and that's great for them.

But we also live in a world rife with abuse and exploitation, and we won't get past it by just ignoring manipulation. We've got all these other people who've been victimized, so we kind of need to focus on them with this particular pattern.

You can't just will someone else to stop abusing others and face their own shit, and frankly it's incredibly hard to tell the difference between an abuser in the calm part of their cycle and someone who's stopped repeating it.

For me the litmus test there is honesty. I've given people I've known were manipulative another chance, but if they show that their interactions are still based in fundamental dishonesty, what am I supposed to do with that? Sacrifice myself endlessly in the hopes that they decide to stop treating me like a punching bag?

I think not. I think I'll be out here keeping an eye out for dishonesty at the root of people's interactions with others and run like hell when I find it so I don't waste another second of my life being controlled and tormented.

Honestly, if I could get Kagi to slurp up all my Google data and use it without any extra clicks, I'd probably switch. I don't like having it sold to third parties, but it saves a ton of time when used for the actual reason they ought to have it in the first place.

I also don't imagine that stopping using google would have a tremendous effect on the amount of data gathered on me at this point. Like, I've taken my personal projects off of google so they won't scrape the data, but half the internet is gathering metadata. It's not going to stop all the sites I visit from gathering it all together. Admittedly, uBlock might in cases where tracking is built into ads.

But like, weighing it against making my ability to move through the world more functional, my spite for Google's information vacuum isn't so great that I can't just like, use the thing anyway. There's no ethical consumption under capitalism, and I'm not really sure there's such a thing as a moral or ethical human society. There's already a lot of other shit I'm forced to tolerate out of necessity just to be a human being, and while I don't love something else being added to the pile, at least it's not like tortured animals or intentionally bombing children.

To be clear, I would love an alternative and have actively sought one. Within the past 6 months I've tried both DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I stopped using both out of frustration with the need to constantly specify my location.

It seems like they're not just profiting on children, they're setting up a system in which work is exchanged for a roblox company scrip and then charging them that same scrip to advertise their game. They also take a cut. So if a game gets a little traction but doesn't immediately blow up, there's a built in incentive to put the money right back into roblox.

Shady. Is it not enough to brush uncomfortably close to child labor laws with an army of child modders creating your value? You really have to turn around and loop them into an exploitative model where you get paid like 3 times before they see a cent? And even then they hold their money hostage until the kid manages to save $1000 rather than spending it on ads and more roblox stuff, that or they need a premium subscription so roblox gets paid 4 times.

Like, it's illegal to have child labor so therefore it's a foregone conclusion that whatever you're doing won't be child labor, so you might as well do some crazy shit that an employer could never get away with?

Honestly tracks with modern-day capitalism.

That said, like, it would have been cool to learn lua scripting when I was 12. Maybe if it weren't for the obsession with constant growth we could have the nice thing without the shitty thing that supports it.

Can we eventually learn this lesson please and move on as a species? It's literally the problem in every news story.

1. Sounds like an extra step.
2. Damn. If only you knew how to ask politely.

Okay, but it doesn't know where I am. When I type 'dunkin', Google doesn't just know I want hours for a dunkin donuts, it knows which two or three stores I'm probably looking at hours for and it does it without me having to specify.

If I'm looking stuff up on my phone or just want a quick answer, I actually do want the context of all that data on me. I like that when I type the word 'glamour' it knows I'm probably thinking of the bard subclass, and that when I type 'Conan' it knows I probably mean Exiles, not O'Brien. I mean like, I know it doesn't know these things, but it fills in that gap much faster.

I do like the way their search is layed out for doing something more complex, though. It really is a better designed search engine, but I feel like a search engine is the one place I want data collection of some kind, literally because it benefits me.

Ohhh, thaaaaaat's what that was!

Yeah, that makes sense!I've typically found that most of the opportunities I run into that have some promise are through connections more often than directly applying somewhere. Whether that be for housing, jobs, or whatever.

That or like local places that want local hires; but the bigger the job pool the iffier.

Funny how we seem to be learning across the board, in every sector, that the thing we've all been sold on being a measure of positive economic activity is actually incredibly toxic to ever being able to have anything nice.

Also, like, with every game with private servers, the private servers are pretty much universally better than the public ones. Someone close to the server has to care enough to put the thing up, which goes a long way past some company opening a few hundred for money.

Ahh, okay. I think I missed or inserted a negative!

Are you arguing that it's easier to find a job now than it was 15 years ago? Because I sure do read a lot about endless series of interviews that go nowhere and job offerings being posted that aren't even intended to be filled just to seem like a company is 'growing'.

If it were actually the mid 2000s, I'd be okay for an insane amount of time with just Flash and Audacity. Today, probably the first Baldur's Gate.

Oo or an snes emulator with Shadowrun.

That doesn't really fit with the extremely popular model of having a bunch of people scrambling for hours and never getting more than 30.

Oh god, don't start wearing more fur. I can barely breath around other humans as it is with all the shit y'all have on.

The problem you're having is that you're addicted to being a consumer. The fediverse doesn't hand consumers a golden key to have everything they want for free at no effort. It hands creators and organizers the tools to do what they want.

You were never the target audience for federation if you can't be bothered to set up your own instance.