Heck yeah, Troika rocks my socks
I’ll take this moment to complain about how Tangled (a Disney Rapunzel film, basically) just assumes that pillaging native lands is the moral thing to do.
An old woman is using a magical flower out in the wilderness to retain her youth and health. It’s quite literally the only thing keeping her alive. When the Queen of the kingdom falls ill, soldiers of the kingdom go out and just rip up the flower. The old woman, deprived of her only means to stay alive, rushes to the castle, only to find that the flower’s properties are now stuck inside the Queen’s baby. Reasonably assuming that the selfish-ass King and Queen who just gave her a death sentence were obviously never going to let her use those powers, she takes the baby and raises it in a loving (if very sheltered) environment, using her hair to live instead, again, this is the only way the woman can stay alive.
Somehow, the woman is the bad guy, and the King and Queen who raided the native lands for their own selfish-ass purposes are the good guys. It was perfectly moral to take the flower because old woman didn’t enclose her land or have a fucking deed to say “THIS FLOWER BELONGS TO ME”. The old woman’s native knowledge of the land meant it could keep her (and who knows how many others) alive and healthy on an indefinite basis, while the monarchy just grab it, destroy it, and get a one-time use out of it because the lives of the royal family are more important than everyone else’s!!! Babysnatching isn’t moral, but what choice did the woman have?
Yeah I may be overthinking a kid’s fairy tale in movie form. But FUCK EM. I genuinely think it teaches children that there’s no need to respect the environment or other cultures’ understanding of ownership, nor the concept of public sharing.
What did you let happen to China?!
Communist China is what I like to aim for, but it always takes me way too long to kick out all the reactionaries. Probably because I try to reform my way rather than bloody revolution.
I’ve never fully understood the full impact of what PPP really means - Does this mean China are committing more ‘productivity’ or ‘resource’ to renewables per capita? Or does it just mean that they’re committing more relative to their GDP/quality of life?
Shame, I’ll probably just stop looking at Twitter altogether
Small fluffy mammals of any kind are always fun. Pangolins or Armadillos though would be fun.
River dolphins survive in freshwater happily, your dream is achievable.
Obviously worms in general are needed, but any big group of mainly parasitic ones I could happily delete without a second thought. Ideally let’s also destroy any records of their existence.
Wasps are crucial pollinators, and predators for millions of other poisonous, venomous, deadly bug and animals (including other wasps). Ecosystem surviving the sudden loss of all wasps is questionable.
uBlock on firefox here, no User Agent spoofing, videos load in ~1-2 seconds as normal still. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s used in nicher circumstances though.
Given how quickly everyone I know took to using Chrome on phones despite no adblock being available, I think sadly it won’t have as big an impact as I wish it would.
It’s a fun thing to say, I’m sure. But it honestly upsets me to see others so willingly and happily wish death upon others. I don’t actually wish death on anyone, it’s just a sad and unfortunate necessity because oppressors like Israel and the US make it the only means of self-defence.
Yes, pursuing infinite, endless bloody war is a sound strategy. Compared to say, finding a reasonable compromise that ensures everyone’s security?
Frets on Fire! It was the cool open-source equivalent to Guitar Hero. And you know what - it was pretty hecka cool to wield your keyboard like a guitar.
In my anxious moods, I do sort of prepare myself. I try to think of every possible eventuality, every possible accusation or thought someone may have, every thing I might forget or fumble, and try to imagine what I might do to counteract or resolve it. It’s still often a meaningless task because there are practically infinite possibilities, but in theory there’s a logic and a benefit to it…
That is a cool way to think about it though. I might put more meta-thought into it for the future.
Steam Next Fest
Demos still exist, sure. Just not anywhere to the scale and pervasiveness that they used to. Nor do they come in cereal boxes.
Clearly this works for other people, and that is cool! Not for me though :(
My brain: “If it works out” then I won’t have to worry about it, but while there’s a chance it doesn’t I still need to prepare myself for the worst scenario.
I remember when virtually every single game allowed you to play a ‘Demo’ for free, so you could find out exactly what the gameplay is like in any game before playing it. They often came in my cereal boxes as a kid, or free to pick up at the checkout. I still have a cool CD from the 2000s which has like five big studio name Demos in one.
Now that’s Pepperidge Farm Remembers. Or did I out myself as too old?
This is dang impressive, nice! As someone entirely unappreciative and unaware of Lemmy’s backend, is it likely a tool that other instances could/would make use of? Or is it too faffy to redeploy for other instances?