roux [he/him, they/them]

You’re laughing? The fascist girlboss genocider might loose against the old white fascist dementia genocider and you’re laughing?

I have a 3d printed fidget slider and a custom-made worry stone I almost never leave the house with.

Candy

I drink trash wine and love carbs anyway so I’m going with Jesus.

I settled on Cinnamon after jumping around a bit. I do still like Gnome though even if both are fairly bulky DEs.

Well, that was a lie.

That second Lenin quote is fire lol.

Lock screen and sleep. My gaming/programming computer is also our media server so it is basically always on.

All my homies hate Trotsky.

A dik-dik. It’s a species of deer that is slightly larger than a house cat or maybe a medium size dog. It was super adorable but a bit uncanny feeling lol.

As long as you that’s all that matters. The bureaucracy is just necessary fluff.

At this point it’s painfully obvious that it’s a lot of bots seeding the comments and then libs regurgitating all the same talking points. Reddit has basically become this sort of entity where you just need a few bots to get the ball rolling and then everyone falls into line. Which is hilariously on display when you see everyone calling every other subreddit an echo chamber, or when you see how common certain phrases show up on reddit. “unhinged”, “mental gymnastics”, and other rhetoric that tried to dehumanize the other party/group/individual basically in any exchange. I recently noticed this since Hexbear and Lemmygrad has it’s own lingo of sorts and it doesn’t fall in line with reddit’s lol.

Point is, the image that you get of the political mood in society if you just look at online social media is deliberately and heavily manipulated.

I still need to read Manufactured Consent, but this became glaringly obvious to me after reading Inventing Reality. I think this is what sets ours Lemmy instances apart from other social media in a lot of ways. It cracked me up earlier today on a reddit post about how it turns out China is basically taking over in the technological innovation department since the US is too busy feeding the war machine, and it was just comment after comment saying how China stole everything and don’t care about patent laws(lol…). It was just like 400 of the same fucking comment man, and like one guy saying he moved to China last year and it’s a lot nicer than the States. This post coming the same week as the US churning out 25 new laws aimed against China and shoving something like $30 billion into the anti-China propaganda machine. Not suspicious…

The always has been comments here kind of ring true. Back when I was a SocDem and then DemSoc, I barely noticed how bad the rhetoric was because I was also on the “we need to get Sanders Clinton to win to beat Fascism!” bandwagon. But after I wet further down the leftist pipeline, I started to notice that what all that rhetoric really was was just keeping the status quo but hoping for a few concessions like better education and healthcare. Basically we’ve moved a lot further left and they haven’t.

Another thing is that I noticed, from last election, and I know it was there since the dawn of social media, was how much harder the Democrat and Capitalist apologia propaganda is during the election seasons. This last month has been so fucking annoying. As soon as Tim Walz was pegged as the VP pick, reddit became a fucking hotbed of posting about how good he was as MN governor, and how full the Harris/Walz campaign rallies are, or how Walz is “just a normal guy” compared to Vance or whatever. Don’t get me wrong, Vance is a fucking creepy dweeb.

I’m rambling. Basically we’ve moved further left and this is mostly just the facade of western politics crumbling.

I can link directly later if you need it but look for the Hexbear movie comm. They have a daily stickied post of 2 movies or some shows each night that they watch. It’s a wide variety of stuff too.

They have a video share type site called hextube that you just join from the link in the sticky. They host the movie and you can watch and chat.

I hope things get better for you. Also Hexbear has mutual aid comm that you can get and ask for help with no strings attached.

I’ve known about it for longer but just started using KDE Connect over the last year or so.

It’s got some bugs, at least for me. Like sometimes my phone won’t connect to my computer or like the SMS feature takes forever to load, but having something akin to Pushbullet but free from endhitification has been really great.

Try not eating taco bell.

But on the real, anything with a chalupa shell(deep fried gordita/flatbread) just elevates stuff there. Neither their gordita or chalupa are traditional in any sense of the word but fried bread is so good imo.

If you can get their potatoes when they are absolutely fresh, they are fire but if they’ve been sitting for any amount of time, the just taste like breaded cardboard.

Pre-Japanese settler colonial generational punishment hits different.

(I hope this joke makes sense lol, my current knowledge of the history of the Korean peninsula is pretty limited to the expose bits from Blowback and what I’ve had to correct from what we are taught is the States.)

3? I meant 7 generations. Yeah definitely 8 generations. Pure suffering at the torture farm.

Yeah well if the reverse happened as you title suggested, his nothingburger of an incident would have resulted in him going to prison for 3 lifetimes, but not before he had to watch personally kill his whole family and the next 3 generations would also have the same fate so checkmate, tankie

My friend told me about Bitcoin when it was about $8 per coin. I was young and making some extra cash from working and not really buying too much stuff so I could have easily tossed down $100 on some crypto and let it ride.

The very next time I even bothered paying attention to crypto was when Bitcoin shot up to 78k from like 60k.

So yeah, I feel this lol.