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Tell me if Titans of the New West is all it’s cracked up to be. It’s incompatible with my current mod list so I’ve been regarding it with sour grapes.

Also Nova Arizona? That mod looks incredible and 40% extra worldspace would be litty but looks like most of it is just empty. I don’t really want to fuck with more legion content, but, I mean…

Australia, already infamous for detoothed unions, just signed the death knell for any serious collective action in a legal sense with this one. Unions already cannot strike without express permission and a promise they won’t impact economic livelihood, now they can’t even grow to a certain size and power without the threat of being placed under administration.

Oh, and it was the government party supposedly made of labor unions that did this. Still waking up every day pissed off about this.

a trump victory: i sleep

a marxist analysis of the trump victory: real shit?

so the US couldn’t even come together to vote out their biggest baddie bad guy who will absolutely end the empire

OP’s experience is a bit of a microcosm of it. I have a lot of fun learning my way around Linux, but feel a lot of pressure when I need to do something specific that I’m having trouble with. So I’m having lots of fun running it on my server or my steam deck, stuff I consider a hobby, but a bit uncertain about moving to Linux for a daily driver, where I might have to get work done.

I am running Mint, which I’m understanding is a lot more user-friendly than OP’s distro. And to be honest, 90% of the user experience is the same as on Windows with Mint. I just feel like I need to understand more about Linux, it’s file system, and all of its very technical quirks before my main PC makes the switch.

waow (basedbasedbased)

I can’t do it comrade, at least not straight away. I’ve moved my server and my laptop over to Linux, but my main desktop PC is still running Windows because I still believe my brain is too smooth to daily drive Linux.

millions of dollars spent on PR companies cannot produce a more inspiring statement than this

in my restless dreams, I see that town. ceský krumlov

one of the things I’d do if I struck big with the lottery or some ghoulish investment is spend my time signing up for these sorts of jobs just to quit in the most inopportune way possible

I’m surprised this hasn’t come up before already. I’m generally on the boat of ‘no loli posting’ outright. It’s a messy moralistic debate that I haven’t seen sufficiently settled yet, but most people don’t want to chance across sexualized underage girls/discussions of it and no one wants to get into a debate about it. One side is inevitably called pedophiles for engaging in it and the other side can justifiably become extremely heated.

Most well adjusted communities with cultures you want to spend time in outright ban the discussion. Avoid the mess all together. There’s not many ways to slice ‘sexualizing underage girls’ without pulling up a rotten slice.

My favorite highlights:

The gen 3 starters we dodged a bullet on

Original smol Zigzagoon

skibidi rotom

gen 3 dev map tools! if you’ve ever played around with making a romhack, this is particularly cool to see.

there’s also a creation myth and more lore around humans fucking pokemon which is really cool stuff

One of the best jobs I’ve ever had was a trolley collector. It was a company contracted to work for the chain stores, so I didn’t work for the stores I collected carts for.

I’d show up, do about 45 minutes of exercise hauling the carts around, then I’d sit in my car and play on my phone or read a book. Or, hell, even just leave. I’d have 6 hour shifts but trust me when I say the trolleys don’t need 6 hours of supervision. I’d often get away with one collection in the morning, coming back for a collection in the afternoon, then peace out.

Anyway, best of luck with your new job comrade, I hope the freedom makes the lack of decent pay worthwhile. It definitely did for me.

pan leftism pisses me off. defanged theory, feel-good nonsense that doesn’t equal a legible ideology. Also preys on the dumbed down simplistic single axis of political thought. I don’t know how they expect communists and anarchists to work together, or communists and soc-dems, or communists and anyone other than marxists. Then again, I’m guessing that’s the point - to legitimize every single flare of leftist thought other than the one with actual material history behind it

yeah it’s crazy how the pandemic put a smart device in front of every school aged child, we overhauled our infrastructure radically within a few years to support this. we demonstrated the technology age we’re living in and how adaptable it is

but couple years later and we’re trying to ban them from schools because of the addictive design we imposed upon them via usual capitalistic interests

shit like that makes me so depressed - we’re living in the future. humans of the past could not comprehend what we live with. and we’ve designed it in such a fundamentally anti-human way that it’s more of a danger to our health, physical and mental, than anything else

Powerful design.