It’s the paradox of tolerance again.

They’ll scream and bitch and moan and say we’re ruining society by taking their voting rights away and we’re minimizing and limiting the people who can be allowed to be involved in democracy… and while that’s true, it’s only to keep them from completely dismantling democracy and removing access to be involved in democracy to everyone.

So it’s like… we’ve got to stop giving them credence of that argument: No, if your politics boil down to your in-group being able to do whatever the fuck they want, the out-group getting punished, and a total rejection of science and evidence-based reasoning, you can fuck right off and don’t get a fucking vote because that’s worse than being a fucking felon. You’re some dipshit who wants to tear it all down because it doesn’t cater to your fucking fantasy world inside your head.

We need to stop tolerating it and saying “Nope, if your whole goal is to remove democracy, and this has happened enough times in history for it to be clear what’s happening, you don’t get a vote.”

Democracy never should have meant “my uneducated idiocy is just as valuable as your knowledge and education.” It’s time to put that fucking lie to bed.

And we’ll see that continue. LGBTQ folk will decide they need a gun and you can bet the cops and the chuds will be glad to open fire at protestors because “THEY HAVE A GUN!!!”

Exactly, the presence of a weapon just gives them a reason to pull the “THEY’RE COMIN RIGHT FOR US” bullshit from South Park Season Fucking One.

I’m just so tired I wish fucking anyone would fight for me. I feel like I’m drowning, and realistically I am.

A family that can never once emotionally validate you, instead choosing to make endless excuses as to why I shouldn’t feel the way I do, and wondering why that makes my depression worse and makes me feel like I’m going crazy.

Never had real supports, was always on my own, always underpaid, always forced to be the actual adult in the room even when I was a child, gee I wonder why I came out all fucked up and not amounting to anything?

Related: I was an egg that was crushed under the boot of society.

Slashdot never died, it’s moderation just failed to function at scale and speed it needed to and got flooded with nazi bullshit daily for years, making it largely irrelevant but still active.

Also it’s a techdirt article, which was a Slashdot staple for a long time, so like a callback to that, perhaps.

Real old heads know this is how we talked about FO1 and FO2 in the years until and after FO3 came out, probably right up until New Vegas came out.

30-something year olds who had played in their late teens/early twenties talking wistfully of Shady Sands to The Master, and Arroyo to Frank Horrigan.

Also, the reason New Vegas is still talked about like that because it actually captured the atmosphere of 1 and 2 which 3 failed to do miserably.

God sometimes I genuinely wish Interplay/Black Isle had been allowed to finish Van Buren. Then maybe it wouldn’t have taken until 2023 until proper western RPGs became popular again.

I would die and go to heaven for a Fallout in the style of Baldur’s Gate 3, but its owned by Bethesda who are massive pussies and say “we built this world and we want you to see all of it” so no quest ever means anything because you’re always the hero and can go anywhere and access anything. Unlike our current BG3, which just asks you to replay the game in a different way… exactly like FO1/2.

God fuck you Todd Howard for ruining Fallout.

Oh you mean the guy who notably kept Hitler’s speeches next to his bed sounds a lot like Hitler? Ya don’t say.

To be fair “calculated” and “Trump” don’t exaclty go hand in hand.

His ban of and then saving of Tiktok falls under the most Basic Bitch Strong Men Tactics.

Don’t tell conservatives, if they could read they would be very upset.

Not the same without the Phonk Walk music.

I wish RMS didn’t suck as much as he does.

He gets way too many passes for bad takes simply because of his good takes.

I’m actually surprised he did but I guess Brownshirts gotta come from somewhere.

I genuinely thought he’d leave them twisting in the wind.

They don’t actually believe in anything, so they can actually be made to believe anything.

This trope was actually played up in a handful of Wolfenstein games, most notably Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001.

It’s cuz they’re all fat from mcdonalds

Thanks so much for the detailed clarification.

Oh everyone is fed up but we just elected a guy and government who is sure to make it all way way way worse.

He just helped put the nail in the coffin of the lie that crypto is for anything but scams, don’t worry, it’s gonna get real bad before it gets any better.

Denying science and memory holing it is actually massively beneficial for them.

I’m so medication-I-rely-on-to-stay-alive pilled.

Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.

It’s a workaround, not actual support.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20995262/12487230

I mean honestly with all the impending environmental catastrophes and likely energy crisis I personally feel like the only viable compute future we actually have is low-power high-latency devices.

I’m glad I’m a command line junkie because there’s gonna be a future where I think that’s basically all that is left based on energy available and compute power.