skulblaka @ skulblaka @sh.itjust.works

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It is clear that your parents are concerned for your safety and well being and I don't think that is an unreasonable position to have. Nobody wants to learn that their child was arrested or killed at a protest.

However. Great change does not come from folks staying safe and quiet at home.

I think many parents are struggling with this right now. On one hand it is our duty as citizens to do something about the world around us and not sit in complacency. On the other hand that's extremely dangerous to do in the current environment. I doubly respect this concern coming from Chinese folks who may have experience with having their speech suppressed in the past.

I support you being out in the streets and making a big noise with the rest of us. But I am not your family. If you were to die, or be taken prisoner, at a protest I would never know your name, only that you were my brother who gave his life for our cause. You would have my unending respect but in the end what I think of you shouldn't matter for you and yours.

Protesting is dangerous. More so now than ever before. Things worth doing are never easy but this, especially, is something that has a serious chance of ending or ruining your life. Make your peace with that, or avoid it if you can't. The world needs dissenters right now, but it needs ones that are well seated in their confidence.

At the end of the day though, no matter what happens, I can't be mad at anyone for prioritizing their personal safety. A revolution will require sacrifice but that isn't something that can be asked of someone. It is given freely or not at all. Your parents are asking you not to make a sacrifice.

This doesn't surprise me somehow, but... context?

I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.

Oh man, this brings me back. I remember passing notes in middle school in bootleg Elian script - I'm in my 30s now.

It's by far my favorite cipher because it's easy to read, it's easy to modify if someone else learns to read it, and you get a ton of artistic license with the way your letters look so long as they adhere to the basic framework. Really well formed Elian is unrecognizable as script to someone who isn't looking for it.

Thanks for this, subscribed!

I'm not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

I haven't heard this idea before and I really like it. You want to have your product manufactured by minimum wage workers in Cambodia? Sure, go ahead. But you'll be paying them the minimum wage from your business' home country, not theirs, and then paying shipping afterward to move your items to the sale location so it doesn't actually benefit the business to abuse sweatshop labor rates.

They can't, that's part of why the stock market is in free fall.

Evolving from Magikarp makes him objectively the coolest dragon. Started from the bottom now we're here.

The lack of actual Dragon typing does sting, though.

Those power plants legally don't exist.

Interestingly, only Tate is trying to say "that never happened" - his lawyers are instead opting to say that it happened too long ago to be prosecuted.

beeeeee, beeee bee bee beeeeeeeeeee

FOOMP

Alright, I don't have another one of those, so uh, about that long rest?

The way I heard it (I didn't watch the stream) was that he logged in and toasted like three hardcore characters (you know, because he's so hardcore) then rolled up something new, died to the tutorial, and left.

Dying is in fact a problem when all your characters are hardcore characters. That's why the only people who play hardcore are masochists and whoever Elon has on the payroll to be a masochist for him.

Oh just like talking to actual tech support then

I've had middling results using "Lemmy Fediverse" in search strings instead of just "Lemmy". You still get a lot of Motorhead though.

That one fact might be what pushes me over to actually wanting to play Jedi Survivor, I played but didn't finish the first one and thought it was neat but it didn't really hook me.

I'm a sucker for a good sword-and-gun stance though.

I figured that shit out when I was 12 and there were way less learning resources about it on the internet then. Fuck 'em. Someone who never has to solve their own problems without handholding is someone who will never learn to solve problems, period. IPad kids are scared of error messages and that's their problem. They've never had to troubleshoot anything before.

Though I can't blame the kids entirely. Most error messages in the modern era absolutely suck nuts. Half of them nowadays (at least on the client side) are just

"oopsie, there's been a widdle fucky wucky, sooorrrrryyyyy 💖"

With zero actionable info in it. Not even a distinction of You/We/Your ISP Has Fucked Something Up. I guess they figured (correctly) that the end user wasn't going to read it anyway so why bother, but this drives me nuts when I see it.

Generally speaking, to shut the player up about it

Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven't had problems afterward

That and he has some charisma when speaking

He has zero charisma and I think that actually works in his favor because it reflects his followers. They see themselves in him.

That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.