…but what we really need in the USA right now is actually a big screen revival of Life of Brian.

Much more relevant to the times.

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This is the other end of the endless bullshit from the Trump administration

Flooding the Zone with Bullshit isn’t just beneficial for the Trump administration. The open displays of corruption and non-stop media coverage give other oppressive governments cover to do things like this.

1. Coverage of stories like this is getting lost in the frantic coverage of every single bullshit thing Trump does every single day.

2. The extreme level of corruption on display in the USA means small antisocial decisions by oppressive governments will be viewed less negatively, because they’re now being compared to the USA and the Trump administration. “Well, our government sucks, but at least they’re not as bad as the Americans!”

You think Discord is bad and enshittified now? Just fucking wait.

People need to get on Matrix or XMPP like fucking yesterday.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon

Trump’s Social Media Site Quietly Admits It’s Based on Mastodon

Mastodon had originally threatened to sue Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ site for allegedly violating its open-source license.

I mean, yeah, but it’s where they would actually find conservatives…

OP should try Truth Social, I hear it’s technically a Mastodon fork…

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We’re classy horny weirdos.

There’s also good guides to adding all the quality of life mods available for Nier Automata onto the Linux version.

People make jokes about the oversexualization of 2B…

But Nier Automata is truly the most humanist and deeply thoughtful game I have ever played.

Further, it has almost pitch perfect ludonarrative harmony and I have deep respect for Yoko Taro eschewing the three act arc of plays and films, recognizing that video games are a different medium and must define their own narrative rules that fit the medium.

Can we hear it for good gameplay, top tier writing, and flipping basically every anime trope on its head?

I mean, any FOSS project from anywhere could be being used by a fascist government or corporation, to be fair. That’s literally one of the very serious and real downsides of FOSS. It’s able to be used for good or ill.

I mean, it can easily be argued that the US corporate technology class has benefited far more from FOSS than end-users worldwide.

Amazon’s EC2 especially:

Initially, EC2 used Xen virtualization exclusively. However, on November 6, 2017, Amazon announced the new C5 family of instances that were based on a custom architecture around the KVM hypervisor, called Nitro.

Amazon leveraged FOSS to create their own successful closed-source offshoot. AWS pretty much runs the web. Amazon… is not a good company.

That being said, the US has chosen to be isolationist, whether all of its citizens agree with it or not. Having less of a presence on the international stage, including in the FOSS world, is simply a consequence of isolationism. So boycotting US FOSS is likely to happen in some ways on purpose, and in some ways just from diminished international respect and involvement.

It’s complicated and depends on the place.

In countries without money or great infrastructure, often the police have just as little training and education as the US and often give in to corruption in similar ways.

In other, more wealthy countries, the police often have far more training and may generally be less corrupt and abusive because of the extensive training, but that does not mean that they are perfect nor fall prey to being controlling simply because they’ve been state sanctioned to be able to control.

It is to be noted that the US literally goes out of its way to choose candidates that are more likely to respond violently than not, including giving them personality tests that seek out that behavior during the initial screening process.

Look man, I’m not the one hiding behind “You didn’t understand my joke on the internet through text which I was clearly being sarcastic, although, you would have no way of knowing that since it’s the internet, and sarcasm can be easily misunderstood, so ergo I am clever because you didn’t understand sarcasm… through text…” Like maybe if at any point you were willing to recognize that as an aspect of internet relations, it would be, but like I said, you’re just busy being a smug asshole for no reason other than “ha ha, I was sarcastic and they didn’t get it even though lots of people are actually serious about such thoughts.” You can’t get any more inane than shitting on people for that. It’s the internet, it’s text, you know this, yet still want to be a smarmy smug asshole who thinks you’re clever simply because you weren’t clear. That’s not clever, that’s just being an asshole to people engaging with the content as it was posted. “Ha ha I am so smart for being sarcastic and them not getting it in a textual medium where sarcasm is deeply hard to read” is the actual fucking cringe here, dude.

You’re not clever, you’re just an asshole. ¯\ _ (ツ) _ /¯

I’d rather not get a weak joke than be insufferable.

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Blahaj and dbzer0 are my favorite instances.

Been listening to a lot of Fenne Lily, who has a really calming voice and presence.

I found her through an eevee track that remixed a Lil Bo Weep version of Fenne Lily’s Top to Toe.