TheDrink [he/him]

Japan and South Korea are on another level of monopolization and consolidation. Sony has been making these moves for a while and seems set to position itself as the corporate overlord for nearly all of Japan.

Damn, just after it gets added to the BDS list.

holy shit. So a big part of the ceasefire deal is for the Lebanese Army to move into southern Lebanon and take over from Hezbollah - is Israel’s goal to get the Lebanese Army to move into range of their artillery so that they can shoot them and escalate the war further?

THE INK ISN’T EVEN DRY

In America it’s not just fear either, it’s a healthy dose of hate and resentment. Whenever kids or especially teenagers decide to spend time somewhere they’re treated like an invasive species and driven out.

The Minecraft AI frame predictor

What the AI dudebro set doesn’t seem to understand though is that this is only able to exist because Minecraft exists. A genuine spark of human imagination and ingenuity made one of the most enduring and recognizable imaginary environments ever, and you can get a computer to kinda sorta create a dreamlike facsimile of it with artificial generation.

In the Soviet Union the Great Purge lasted less than a year, but we’ve been doing the equivalent for like forty.

I wish America would build an Arcology!

monkey’s paw curls

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch

I’ve been using the canary branch exclusively for about a year because of audio issues on the main one, I would genuinely be ecstatic if they finally ported over the fix because for some reason the canary branch refuses to auto upgrade and I have to do it manually every time.

On the one hand, everything I’ve read about how Cuba is organized internally makes me incredibly optimistic about the resiliency of their socialist politics. I think it’s possible that Cuba might see some kind of sweeping reform movement at some point, but it will be more in the realm of China or Vietnam’s reforms where the communists yield to some social democratic policies in order to try and curry favor with the US but retain political power rather than a full on color revolution.

(edit: in fact a certain number of reforms like that have already happened throughout Cuba’s modern history)

On the other, people in 1988 thought that the USSR would last a hundred more years.

Took me a couple sittings to get through it, but I found the 50+ year old man posting about the video game release like he was a war correspondent and an invasion was happening around him extremely funny.

What sucks is that we know from the IDF that this shit will be adopted as a means of approving targets (because it will approve every single suggested target).

Debiaaaaan. I used Arch at first but it changed too much and broke things too frequently for my liking. With Debian I don’t really care about whatever I’m missing out on but it’s stable as hell which means it does exactly what I expect it to do, every time.

boutta VPN to China and get a Chinese phone number so I can use their superior websites.

We literally impeached him for threatening to not send weapons there for the civil war that ended up exploding into the full scale invasion.

Ah yes, the impeachment that accomplished so much and is extremely relevant.

I don’t care what Trump said or would have preferred, under his administration our government continued to fuel and escalate tensions in the region when we should have been pushing Ukraine to implement Minsk II and end the civil war. Maybe you could classify it as a mistake on his part instead of malice that he didn’t stop the arms shipments even though he really wanted to, but people are still liable for mistakes.

you know we genocided an entire continent of people, right? And continue to?

I literally cited an episode from that genocide as my reasoning for Jackson being the worst president.

wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy

The Soviets wanted deescalation after WW2, and supported self determination for liberated countries including Korea, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. Whatever you think of communism, the American policy of “containment” is directly and indisputably responsible for the suppression of democracy in dozens of countries and wars which killed tens of millions of people all because some of those people would have elected communist and socialist leaders we didn’t like.

WHAT

Andrew Jackson and it’s not even close. Not to downplay the horrible crimes committed by many of our other presidents but I don’t think anything rises to the level of the Trail of Tears.

Remove Jackson from the running and it’s a more interesting conversation, however thinking about it reveals just how interconnected all of this stuff is. While the current genocide is occurring under Biden, we can’t forget that the conditions that lead to Oct 7 were created under Trump. For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

I think the worst in my lifetime by a mile is Dubya, but while his wars were massive and consequential we can’t forget that George Senior also killed scores of people in Iraq, and Clinton carried out the sanctions regime that killed scores more. Clinton was also the one who broke Labor’s influence within the Democratic Party - but it was Obama who was swept into power on the promise of a working class revolution only to smother it in its crib.

But yeah my top two are Jackson and Dubya but beyond that I’m not sure there are a lot of crimes in the history of America’s presidency.

lmao pay money to have your kid get fast food training? what level of hellscape is that?

Blitzball is a major aspect of FFXs story, but in FFIX stealing is just an option on a menu. I guess I agree that it’s not a good mechanic but I disagree with the weight you put on it.