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I didn't know they'd hired Stefany Allaire to do their SMD design. I mean, I can't blame them, she's brilliant, if I could have paid her to do this for me I would have.
I suspect WDC is a small outfit. My high school was like 1km from their headquarters and it was basically "large single family house" sized, situated next to a vet's office and a church.
@thomasfuchs Oh, I'm well aware -- but he's also the closest thing to direct competition in the space Sentinel 65X moves in, so I kind of have to know what he's up to in a general sense.
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I wish i had enough time to RE the Alien game on Commodore 64 and recreate it somehow, just with a more intuitive interface. It's such an insane game for the time, ahead of its time in multiple ways.
Like, look how insane this game was: - A random character from the movie would be the infected crew member and birth the alien - A random character would be the android that would try to make your survival fail - You had multiple ways to win: killing the alien (very hard but doable), flushing the alien to space, escaping the nostromo with the shuttle after activating the self-destruct sequence (but you had to bring the cat with you) - Alien could go through vent, so do you - The characters could ignore your orders if they were too stressed
The replayability was absolutely insane for a game from 1984.
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Alan Dershowitz knows who's on the list because he defended Epstein. He's probably using the same list to keep his small plane from crashing when commuting back and forth to immigrant-free Martha's Vineyard.
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…more climate hysteria coming from the climate change pimps and lockdown tyrants… where is the shelter-in-place order? “Governor Newsom urges Californians to take precautions as state endures triple digit heat, smoky conditions.” Apparently 40 million Californians have no idea what to do when summer temperatures hit 100 degrees – at least...
#toldya censorship still on social media, its bullshit lie if they never gave the people real numbers of invaders - go biuld that wall and seal in 100,000,000
one of the problems with being a retrocomputerist is how often I use a 2025 program and think "this program would be just as functional and 10 times as nice to use if you'd written it for windows 95"
So I've been hacking on DOS programs a lot recently and it's really made me realize HOW MUCH CODE they have to spend on basic windowing code! but DOS didn't have a GUI, so every program that needed it had to implement it themselves.
And then later, with Windows providing all that code, they only have to write the application-specific code, saving a lot of development and maintenance work.
Why didn't they just use a picture of a keyboard and you can click the key you'd like to choose? That's what Steam Input does, and it's super intuitive.
I mean, it just doesn't make sense that Trump would promise to expose the Epstein coverup only to later on realize that "oh yeah, I fucked kids on his island too!". What would explain everything is that the big revelation that had him back down had to do with Epstein's Mossad connections.
I guess it is possible that some Jew recently reached out to him saying "you know that big-titty 18 year old you banged a few years ago? Yeah, turns out she was actually 15, so you better Shut It Down goyim!", but I'd still consider that the less likely explanation.
@anonymiss Can't. All my old-ass family is on there. None of them liked BlueSky, and I couldn't get any of them to join me on MeWe, which is the most FB-like alternative there is. Attempting to get them to move from there is like trying to herd cats.
I can definitely have the demo of Enigma Heart (encompassing the first act of the game) done in time for Steam Next Fest. In fact, not only is it doable, it's inevitable.
The full game by November 10th, I'm not so sure about. Doable? Still yes. Inevitable? Eeeeehhhh... little shakier on that.
I might consider early access as a failsafe by that point. Demo: first act. Early access: launch with the first two acts. Each update is the next act of the game. In EA no more than six months.
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Im not surprised my local Food Lion mislabeled the melon. It's not a common variety. Im not mad either. It's a new experience and learning experience. Im enjoying it.
I'mma pitch something to you. We're gonna play pretend, and make believe that I, despite all lack of qualification, have been put in charge of designing Commodore's definitive 21st-Century product, the thing that will blaze a trail forward as the Ultimate does back.
The C64 was great because it was a fully open system. It was all right there, open to the user, you could do whatever you wanted. You could start up in BASIC and poke around, make little changes to memory and get immediate feedback. That part? Keep it.
So let's take a fast RISC-V or ARM chip, and put it into a wedge form factor like the Pi 500, but with a real mechanical keyboard. For software, instead of just punting and using a bog-standard Linux, we put in the work and create a new environment for programming as central to the experience.
It can still be Linux or whatever inside, that's fine. But the user never sees that. Not ever. All they see is "hit power button, READY prompt" or the like.
Give them a hybrid experience like the old Smalltalk OS/environment, where the programming language basically is the OS.
So you get your mouse-based WIMP GUI, but it's all integrated with the debugger and compiler and such, because this is a machine designed and intended to get you, yes you, programming.
What language? Doesn't really matter, but something clean and modern.
Imagine this, but with colourful sprites and tiles and such for games coding. Maybe not Smalltalk as the language, but that's not the point! The point is the immediacy, the interactive, iterative programming, the chance to learn without distractions.
Give it a UI designer like the old NeXT Interface Builder, with a suite of GUI components like an early version of Cocoa. Really push "this machine is for you, this machine is for programming" -- because we already have machines that run current software perfectly, who needs more of that?
Most importantly, give the users an easy way to share what they create with each other. This is something Smalltalk never got right, but something like PICO-8 does perfectly.
This is, fundamentally, a machine about creatingnewthings. It has neither the interest nor ability to be what everyone already has. It's about a new generation of people who are actually interested in computers and what they can do.
Anyone who buys this thing already has a tablet or a phone or a laptop that handles all their conventional stuff. That means you are free to offer them something those devices can't offer, don't want to offer, in fact actively hate: freedom to create.
Anyway. That's what I would do. That's what I would build: a modern machine that takes the best parts of retrocomputing and applies them to current tech.
Squeak is awesome, and for this mythical machine, you'd just need to port the VM, but if that was too heavy, there is also...this, which I think will appeal to the aesthetic you are going for, as well as the horsepower (depending on CPU chosen of course). It's a ground-up implementation of ST-80 from the original bluebook spec, written in C++ and SDL for the graphics:
I love all of this. it’s something I’ve been wanting to design myself — a machine for recursive self-improvement that can be modified casually to the user’s needs.
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This is wretched. Only a chinaman would make me suffer this. Of fucking course the beams get thinner closer to the bottom and we have the Souls physics of all the corners being greased. The yellow peril never ends.
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a lot of the stuff from that era was pretty "racy", whatever that means.
I can't remember the sci-fi show, but they wore skirts/dresses that were very short. Even star trek had some short skirts and legs everywhere. Too bad it was a horror anthology show.
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Am I the only one who prefers the lesser known voice actors ("C-list") in the original #silenthill 2 over the "A-list" actors in the remake? James sounds like a person I haven't heard before in the original. In the remake, he's reasonably depressed but also sounds "generic". #askfedi
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The actual reason the list couldn't be released is that Epstein kept it hidden across the source code of all our favorite games and it would be copyright infringement for the courts to let it out.
Beginning to suspect most people who make Soulslikes don't actually play Souls or else they would stop and think "You know do we REALLY need to do the Human Plinko level? Were those actually any fun in mainline Souls?"
"Rami Abou Jamous écrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Ce fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, a dû quitter en octobre 2023 son appartement de Gaza-ville avec sa femme Sabah, les enfants de celle-ci, et leur fils Walid, trois ans, sous la menace de l'armée israélienne. Réfugiée depuis à Rafah, la famille a dû ensuite se
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Kizaru's march toward the Labophase to take out Vegapunk is interrupted by Nika, the Sun God! Luffy goes Gear 5 for his rematch with the Navy admiral and whack-ass looney toons nonsense ensues, including Luffy somehow eating the literal embodiment of light?
Kizaru swimming up Luffy's eyestalks as solid beams of light, which as a sidenote is what should have happened in Tenet if Christopher Nolan actually cared about science
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Lety Does Reacting to “One Piece” Episode 1127: “Luffy vs. Kizaru! A Fierce Kaleidoscopic Battle”
"Luffy vs. Kizaru! A Fierce Kaleidoscopic Battle" is the 1127th episode of the One Piece anime. After Luffy draws away Kizaru, it allows a group to be formed to both rescue Bonney and regain control of the Mark III Pacifista.
Lety Does Reacting to “One Piece” Episodes 1124 & 1125
Egghead's under attack as Kizaru makes landfall, and we see more of Sentomaru's backstory when he needs to face his uncle. The history of their found family is revealed as Luffy gears up for his fated rematch against the man who wiped out his crew at Sabaody Archipelago.
"A Clash of Two Men's Determination! Kizaru and Sentomaru" is the 1125th episode of the One Piece anime. Kizaru defeats Sentomaru, allowing him to gain control of the Pacifista Mark IIIs to deal with the Sea Beast Weapons.
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👑 Thanks for your service - just a daughter of a Nuclear Marine exposed during Operation Knothole-Upshot who is VERY glad her Dad is not alive to see this spectacular traitorous clown show. If I shake my head any harder I will concus my brain stem.
The Epstein case is important because it implodes the fiction of deep divisions between Democrats, who had no more interest in releasing the Epstein files than Trump, and the Republicans. They belong to the same club.
It exposes how the courts and law enforcement agencies collude to shield powerful figures who are accountable to no one, violate, plunder, loot and prey on the weak and the vulnerable.
The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
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If you have an Ultimate 64, the one that's the whole system, tell me: how hard is it to change the KERNAL and CHARGEN ROM images used? I like the PET/VIC-20 character font and I demand JiffyDOS in all my Commodore systems.
It's very easy just put the roms you want to use on your usb stick, copy them to the internal flash memory on the U64. There are menu options that you can use to pick the kernal, chargen and basic roms. Then reboot. I have used it to use the jiffydos roms and the mega65 basic, kernal and chargen roms as well.
So the video output is either HDMI or the 8 pin video din port. This is selectable from within the U64 menus. The din port can be configured to be either the normal chroma/luma or RGBS. I believe VGA is really RGBHV. Here is a link to the original docs. web.archive.org/web/2021040703…
The new documents don't go into the details of the video pins for some reason. He improved the setup and config in the doc but removed all the nerdy stuff.
@daman_ab I believe mine is 576p50 raw HDMI output and its up to TV upscaler how badly it fucks it up (I have my TV set to keep ratio which ends up with black bars - but that’s TV side thing). I haul the thing to retro meetups and never ever found a screen that would not display it correctly or have lag.
Very easy, you only have to put ROMs there and select them. I am not super sure but I think mine has few swappable slots for ROMs and cartridges (have U64+ prev gen).
Btw. is that new cringe website Perifractic? I chuckled on katakana merch, it just does not belong so much. Commodore wasn’t really successful nor known here in Japan at all.
@blami Yeah, that's Perifractic's new Commodore, of which he is CEO. I don't care for the aesthetic, but you'd have to do more than have a cringe website to make me pass up on what they're offering to sell at the price they're offering.
Okay so its going exactly as I thought it will go. I had tiny bit of hope they will go super technical because thats what we 40yo dads who grew up with C64 kinda want. Tbh this will not work. Also find it funny to pitch it as digital detox on cyberpunk styled website.
I see. “new” Atari with their VCS thing also sold amazing amounts and everyone was hyped but then the whole thing blew up because they targeted and sold to normie people who expected polished and easy to use product as Playstation, Switch or iPad and instead they had to deal with very complex instructions to reinstall Linux based OS day 2. Anyway let’s see. I am biased because not fan of this whole thing. Tbh would be sad if say #mega64 rebranded.
As I see it as completely new product building. Commodore would probably never go that way and in parallel universe where Apple did not make it is probably selling nowadays computers (be it ARM, RISC or x86, maybe niche in way Amigas were). Retro based on FPGA is really not for masses in 25. Still its awesome thing and I love to have it, but it is not Commodore.
@blami From what I gather, this is a launch product, to get them better funded and streamlined, a shakedown cruise. What I'm getting from them is a desire to make something new with retro inspiration, something we haven't got already.
@blami I'm sure they'll make mistakes, but I see reason to be generally hopeful about this one. The people involved are mostly top-tier. I don't think that this is their "this is what we make now" product, I think this is "we needed to be selling something real immediately" product, to be followed up with what they actually want to make.
That’s fair. One thing I myself feel I would want is modern computer with all bells and shit we have today that also has that ease of exploring and toying with things as C64 had. I mean I would not mind being able to open terminal window with BASIC and writing some incantation would allow me draw stuff over the current screen without learning what is window handle, message loop and context. You know what I mean.
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People shitting on Perifractic have big "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!" energy right now.
Like, dude, I'm not big into his videos either, but you're just being needlessly pissy at people who are doing what I would have said was impossible to pull off.
as skeptical as I am about the sustainability of resurrecting a retro nostalgia brand of any kind, so far the new Commodore seems to be doing its best to do it the right way, and if you know what this sort of thing costs to do you know they aren't crassly trying to gouge enthusiasts so far either.
It kinda gives me the same vibes a people who complain about Stellantis ruining the Jeep Wrangler because it isn't just like a Willy's or 1st gen AMC built CJ or something like that.
Like seriously, it is a decent FPGA based platform that by all appearances will be quite open and hackable and fun that is all you can really ask for from it at this point Nobody is going to set up a foundry to make 6510s and VIC IIs and SIDs or make new CRT monitors.
That is my main doubt about it...I think the product is great but the expectations evoked by the brand by anyone who even cares about it anymore might just be unachievable
Perifractic taught me a lot from his videos, and he gave me some good advice when I asked for help when I was reconditioning my C64.
That and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, but in my experience jagoffs tend to not be that kind of helpful to someone they don't know.
Did you know? Lemmy instances with *key instances!
In case you've been interested in wading into microblogging and didn't feel like Mastodon was your thing, the Lemmy instance you're on might have a *key instance to check out!
I'm posting to you from Sharkey World, Lemmy World's Sharkey instance. However I was surprised to find that Programming Dev has an Iceshrimp instance over at Bytes. Meanwhile I first learned of Blahaj Zone from their Sharkey instance awhile before they spun up their lemmy instance.
One of the cool features of each of these is that even if you're not into microblogging, they also basically have a blogging feature built in alongside it in the form of a Pages feature. Prefer the long form? Write there and then easily turn around and share it with a microblog post.
Are there any other Lemmy instances out there running *key instances? Mention'em in the comments!
Are you a friend of Blåhaj? blahaj.zone is open for registrations for queer folk and their allies. We're a small instance, running on #Sharkey (a fork of #Misskey).
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@VeSpectagles I wouldn't make myself dependent on whether the *key instance is by the same admins as the lemmy instance. The *key softwares are generally recommended if you want a lot of functions and a modern interface. I particularly like the Antennas / News Pickers, with which the content can be structured very well according to your own search terms (a kind of topic-specific timelines). The interaction with Lemmy also works well. There is an instance list for #Sharkey and #Iceshrimp instances here
THE POLITICAL MATRIX SUSTAINS THE ILLUSION OF FREEDOM
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”
We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic.
In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens).
For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people.
In other words, we’re allowed to bask in the illusion of freedom while we’re being stripped of the very rights intended to ensure that we can hold the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution.
This is no longer America, land of the free, where the government is of the people, by the people and for the people.
Rather, this is Amerika, where fascism, totalitarianism and militarism go hand in hand.
Freedom no longer means what it once did.
This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches
by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from militarized police invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ commitment to the American experiment in freedom.
Not only do we no longer have dominion over our bodies, our families, our property and our lives, but the government continues to chip away at what few rights we still have to speak freely and think for ourselves.
In reality, however, we are only as free as a government official may allow.
We only think we live in a constitutional republic, governed by just laws created for our benefit.
Truth be told, we live in a dictatorship disguised as a democracy where all that we own, all that we earn, all that we say and do—our very lives—depends on the benevolence of government
and corporate shareholders for whom profit and power will always trump principle. And now the government is litigating and legislating its way into a new framework where the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the inalienable rights of the citizenry.
With every court ruling that allows the government to operate above the rule of law, every piece of legislation that limits our freedoms, and every act of government wrongdoing that goes unpunished,
we’re slowly being conditioned to a society in which we have little real control over our lives.
As Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone and an insightful commentator on human nature, once observed, “We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
Indeed, not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves, but we’re also instilling in them a complete
and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat, what to wear, how to think, what to believe, how long to sleep, who to vote for, whom to associate with, and on and on.
In this way, we have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp—call it what you will, the meaning is the same:
in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom.
these are mile markers on the road to a fascist state where citizens are treated like cattle, to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse.
Freedom, or what’s left of it, is being threatened from every direction.
The threats are of many kinds: political, cultural, educational, media, and psychological. However, as history shows us, freedom is not, on the whole, wrested from a citizenry. It is all too often given over voluntarily and for such a cheap price:
This is part and parcel of the propaganda churned out by the government machine.
That said, what we face today—mind manipulation and systemic violence—is not new. What is different are the techniques used and the large-scale control of mass humanity, coercive police tactics and pervasive surveillance.
We are overdue for a systemic check on the government’s overreaches and power grabs.
By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry.
We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents—empowered to indulge their authoritarian tendencies by legalistic courts, corrupt legislatures and a disinterested, distracted populace—rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law.
Where we find ourselves now is in the unenviable position of needing to rein in all three branches of government—the Executive, the Judicial, and the Legislative—
—that have exceeded their authority and grown drunk on power.
We are the unwitting victims of a system so corrupt that those who stand up for the rule of law and aspire to transparency in government are in the minority. This corruption is so vast it spans all branches of government.
The predators of the police state are wreaking havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The government doesn’t listen to the citizenry, it refuses to abide by the Constitution,
which is our rule of law, and it treats the citizenry as a source of funding and little else.
The American kleptocracy has sucked the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.
This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and the government—establishing “we the people” as the masters and the government as the servant—didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen because of one particular incident or one particular president. It is a process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how to “divide and conquer.”
Unfortunately, there is no magic spell to transport us back to a place and time where “we the people” weren’t merely fodder for a corporate gristmill, operated by government hired hands, whose priorities are money and power.
Our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people.
Through every fault of our own—our apathy, our ignorance, our intolerance, our disinclination to do the hard work of holding government leaders accountable to the rule of law,
our inclination to let politics trump longstanding constitutional principles—we have been reduced to this sorry state in which we are little more than shackled inmates in a prison operated for the profit of a corporate elite.
If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.
For there to be any hope of real change, we must change how we think about ourselves, our fellow human beings, freedom, society, and the government.
The following principles may help any budding freedom fighters in the struggle to liberate themselves and our society.
First, we must come to grips with the reality that the present system does not foster freedom. The government’s primary purpose is maintaining power and control. It’s an oligarchy composed of corporate giants wedded to government officials who benefit from the relationship. In other words, it is motivated by greed and exists to perpetuate itself.
Second, voting is no guarantee of liberty. Voting is a way to keep the citizenry pacified. That’s why the government places so much emphasis on the reassurance ritual of voting. It provides the illusion of participation while maintaining the status quo. As Jordan Michael Smith, writing for the Boston Globe, concludes about the American government, “There’s the one we elect, and then there’s the one behind it, steering huge swaths of policy almost unchecked.
Elected officials end up serving as mere cover for the real decisions made by the bureaucracy.”
Third, question everything. Don’t assume anything the government does is for the good of the citizenry. As James Madison warned, “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Fourth, there is little hope for any true resistance if you are mindlessly connected to the electronic concentration camp.
Remember, what you’re being electronically fed by those in power is meant to pacify, distract, and control you.
Fifth, be wise and realize that there is power in numbers. Networks, coalitions, and movements can accomplish much—especially if their objectives are focused, practical and nonviolent—and they are very much feared by government authorities.
Sixth, as always, change must start with “we the people.”
I’ve always advised people to think nationally but act locally. Yet it can be hard to make a difference locally when the local government is as deaf, dumb and blind to the needs of its constituents as the national government.
Seventh, local towns, cities and states can nullify or say “no” to federal laws that violate the rights and freedoms of the citizenry. When and if you see such federal laws passed, gather your coalition of citizens and demand that your local town council nullify such laws.
If enough towns and cities across the country would speak truth to power in this way, we might see some positive movement from the federal governmental machine.
Clearly, it’s time to clean house at all levels of government.
We have been saddled with the wreckage of a government at all levels that no longer represents the citizenry, serves the citizenry, or is accountable to the citizenry.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about the federal government, state governments, or local governing bodies: at all ends of the spectrum and every point in between, a shift has taken place.
“We the people” are not being seen, heard or valued.
We no longer count for much of anything beyond an occasional electoral vote and as a source of income for the government’s ever-burgeoning financial needs.
Everything happening at the national level is playing out at the local level, as well: the violence, the militarization, the intolerance, the lopsided governance, and an uneasy awareness that the citizenry have no say in how their communities are being governed.
You’ve got a better chance of making your displeasure seen and felt and heard within your own community. But it will take perseverance and unity and a commitment to finding common ground with your fellow citizens.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we’re making it way too easy for the police state to take over.
So, stop being an accessory to the murder of the American republic.
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We really need to sort out a better way to get CPUs though. I wonder how many I'd have to order for it to be worth WDC's time to sell to me directly.
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