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ah, those fucksos who just decided that freedom to buy games is not for "wrong" people in the "wrong" countries and sponsor the war effort targeted at eradicating them
And Steam hasn't even banned all adult games, just the more spicy ones. and if i understand correctly, itch did a blanked ban because they have no good way of filtering their existing library and plan to allow some adult games after they get a system in place
Today, Thursday, Zionist settlers set fire to a vehicle belonging to foreign solidarity activists and threw Molotov cocktails at a Palestinian citizen’s house in the village of Susiya in Masafer Yatta, located in the Hebron governorate in the souther…
I keep seeing this annoying issue, ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED every time I open a new page. Rebooting and resetting the browser haven't helped, and searching online hasn't given me any answers.
What's going on with @Vivaldi? Like I said, today's been full of endless problems for me...
I keep getting an ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error. On all websites. Other browser works fine (Firefox). At first I was blaming the ISP, but after sorting them out,...
If one is randomizing their Wifi MAC address frequently and getting a new IP address from their WLAN router then according to that forum post that would cause it because new MAC + DHCP = new ip address
x.com/9mm_smg/status/195099460… Upward mobility doesn't really exist in modern America. Boomers don't get that, and don't get that their generation is a major reason why that's the case.
@admin @relentless_eduardo I would get him charts and a 30 min video explaining just how hard and why booms fucked us. But like just about everyone. They will reject it unless they arrive at the info themselves after having sought it out. Human mind is weird like that. It's why the old saying "pain is the best experience gainer and teacher" holds true. Most people just won't believe someone till they experience 9/10, especially if your sub 20-25.
the human mind may be weird but not like that. the boomer generation includes hippies and yuppies. it's all over the map so cannot be blamed for some economic phenomenon.
@relentless_eduardo @Azur_Fenix Imagine thinking that hippies and yuppies are actually meaningfully different in their attitude and outlook. Both groups are spoiled narcissists.
there were also dedicated soldiers sent to a scam war in Vietnam. People of that and all generations do a thousand diffferent things. Characterizing people by birth year is for simple minds.
"Imagine thinking that hippies and yuppies are actually meaningfully different in their attitude and outlook"
well yes they were despite your rhetorical sentence.
@Azur_Fenix @admin @relentless_eduardo They always respond by talking about what it was like for them at that age, then insisting that will work for younger generations just as well. No amount of evidence to the contrary will change this.
@relentless_eduardo @Azur_Fenix I'm a Millennial, and yet I've never felt the need to defend Millennials from criticism that is actually warranted, regardless of whether it applies to me personally or not.
@ChristiJunior @Azur_Fenix @relentless_eduardo The thing is somebody has to do the right thing and pass on accumulated wisdom to the next generation. Being part of a shitty generation just gives you an opportunity to make a greater impact by being one of the few good ones.
@admin @relentless_eduardo this why I don't argue with boomers. All it does is make them irrationally angry and blame you. They allowed 1973 and also allowed NAFTA.
"Grinding" doesn't work when employers refuse to let you work enough hours to get health benefits, or when you get instantly replaced with a random illegal the instant you ask for a raise. Fast-food chains outside of Chick-Fil-A would rather hire stoners at minimum wage than pay slightly more for competent employees, and basically every other industry more or less adopts the same ethos, even in cases where paying a little extra for quality is worth it in the long run. Boomers love caping for the insane status quo and deflecting blame onto later generations than acknowledge any kind of shortcomings in their own. The handful of Boomers who don't do this are invariably not the kind who caused the problem to begin with.
@pettanko "I worked hard to get ahead in life." Yes, upward mobility is a privilege most of humanity hasn't had historically. You did, but you neglected to pass it on to future generations. That's the problem.
You can't have a flip phone in the modern work environment. The reason why people eat out is because they have nobody to cook for them, all the boomers were provided with obedient wives by 25 at the latest. Bygone luxuries have become current necessities, but that is impossible for the clueless to understand.
Maybe boomers should take their own advice, live as they prescribe and see how they like it.
@Dubbub Boomers permanently see the world through the lense of a sunny summer day in 1966. They have lived their entire lives in that little epoch, and they will go to their deserved graves still existing in that very same year in their warped mind’s eye. Boomers were born into a social and material cornucopia that had no precedent at any time in human history, and they consequently believe that this anomalous blip in the greater stream of time is just the normal way of the world and that the subsequent generations just didn’t “take advantage” of it, unable and unwilling to comprehend that it was precisely those same Boomers who orgiastically devoured that world of surplus opportunity that they alone were born into.
So, confession: I actually like Awkwafina. I like her grating voice and I like her grating humour. I was introduced to her (or at least her voice and adlibbing) in Raya, and I really liked Sisu as a character, and it makes me sad that everyone hates her and finds her annoying.
Following a new law banning machetes, Victoria, Australia, is rolling out "Machete Disposal Bins" where people "safely and securely dispose of these weapons."
"If you want #people to #protest in a way that the #oppressors will approve of, then you are not #protesting correctly and missing the fucking point of a protest."
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As the anniversary of what Israelis refer to as the Destruction of the Temple approaches, extremist Jewish groups are organizing a large-scale assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque scheduled for Sunday.
A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.
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Oooh. I'm going to need a new button for the website too. That's the first in a while.
I think small things can tell you a lot about someone.
I think the fact that I use photos of real buttons as digital buttons on my website, and continue to think that's the BEST THING EVER, says a lot about me.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and confidant, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas, prison officials said Friday.
These are the games: - Leap of Love - Being a DIK - Season 1 - Leap of Faith + Official Walkthrough - House Party - HuniePop - Lust Theory - Season 1 - Treasure of Nadia - Summer's Gone - Season 1 - Fetish Locator Week One - Helping the Hotties - Agony + Agony UNRATED - Sapphire Safari - POSTAL 2
I'm the guy whose gonna play Agony and Postal LOL...
Ermahgawd! The AC is off, the windows are open, and it is exactly the same temp/humidity inside and out right now (75F / 45%). Temps look to touch 80F as a high for the next week. THIS is what a Michigan summer is supposed to be. #weathernerd #PWS #personalweatherstation #sweetcorn
See, I've seen this happen. She was at the grocery store, standing at the ice cream freezer just staring for a solid 15 minutes. And some guy just wanted to get his Bryers Reeses and get home because it was late. So he squeezed into that little air gap between her and the freezer and reached in to grab the gallon and go. That switched her ice cream fantasy into about him. Another 15 minutes later, she ran out to the car. That's when she realized her life is shit and made this video.
Oh, it's autism. See, 40 years ago, someone like her would have felt compelled to suppress their mal-adjusted instincts and learn to mimic the behaviors of society at large. But now, the internet shows them that there are tons of crazy people out there and it's perfectly fine to act like a loon. And the doctors and therapists validate all of it because it's a huge cash cow for them.
Hence my catch phrase: We've made the world too comfortable for crazy.
📣 #TorBrowser 15.0a1 is here: We’ve rebased to Firefox ESR 140, rolled out important security fixes, and brought Android builds up to speed from day one. This alpha is the foundation for our next stable release–test it now: #opensourceblog.torproject.org/new-alpha-…
You may have noticed billboards for something called "PDX Crusade" popping up in recent weeks. This event is being sponsored by Athey Creek aka Proud Boy Church, since a number of Oregon Proud Boys and their associates attend services there.
Portlanders should be aware that a number of out-of-town far-right chuds may be roving around before & after the event happening this Sat & Sun - August 2 & 3 - at the Moda Center. Please take appropriate precautions.
The Christian concept of "crusading" has a long and bloody history of hate, and the refrain from the far-right claiming they need to "save" or "cleanse" a city that isn't theirs is one we've heard in Portland many times in recent years.
We see this christofascism writ large in the actions of the current administration but it's especially visible in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who has tattoos of a crusader cross, and the words "deus vult" ("god wills it") and "infidel".
The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades.
Starting today, Sputnik Agency is broadcasting around the clock in Portuguese on the FM band in Brazil. Listeners in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, home to 13.5 million people, will now have access to Sputnik's analytical programs...
Yo MAGA so dumb, they thought a corrupt New York real estate tycoon would be the savior of the middle American working man (and in some cases "women.")
Yo MAGA so naïve, they voted for a known sex offender thinking they would get to be the one porn star who got paid off instead of the many people who just got screwed.
THACKER PASS, #Nevada -- "While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of #Paiutes at Peehee Mu'huh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a #LithiumMine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance.
"The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before #MyronDewey was killed, and continued afterwards.
"ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the #BIA, and a #CounterTerrorism task force.
"During a meeting in April of 2021, the sheriff met with a spinmaster who linked the resistance to #StandingRock. This was six months before Myron Dewey was killed when a truck driven by a mining engineer hit Myron head on.
"Myron was well known for his #reporting and #drone coverage at Standing Rock 2016--2017. Myron was livestreaming the day before he was killed near his home in #YombaNevada, Sept. 26, 2021. Myron was fighting the U.S. military's expansion of the bombing range on his #Paiute homeland. The Nevada legislators were pushing hard for the expansion, which Biden signed into law. Myron had also been delivering supplies to Thacker Pass in the months before he was killed."
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the jury verdict that Google’s app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. It affirmed Epic v. Google.
Thousands of German Harry Potter fans who could not wait for the latest JK Rowling epic to be published in their own language have translated the book in less than two days.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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I'm remaining cautiously optimistic but it looks like I might be getting access back to all my @duck.com email aliases that all got deactivated on the 28th. #DuckDuckGo #Email #Protection
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Major Australian tech company Atlassian has terminated 150 staff with a pre-recorded video, as the company pushes its AI-embedded customer contact solutions.
Windows 11 is one of the laggiest operating systems I've ever had the displeasure of using. It's almost been two months and I still can't get used how slow every element of the UI is to respond. What a garbage piece of software.
@verita84 Unfortunately I have to use it on my 4 year old work laptop. And it's feeling all 4 of those years with this shit. If I didn't have to touch this garbage at all I would be much happier.
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*Simplicity* is set in the not-so-distant future, in which the US has dissolved and its major centers have been refashioned as "Administrative and Security Territories" - a fancy way of saying "walled corporate autocracies." Lucius Pasternak is an anthropology grad student in the NYC AST, a trans-man getting by as best as he can, minimizing how much he sells out, which is not enough to make his bosses treat him with respect, but is more than his friends can stomach.
Pasternak's fortunes improve when he gets a big, juicy assignment: to embed with a Catskills community of weirdo sex-hippies who supply the most coveted organic produce in the NYC AST. They've been cloistered in an old summer camp since the 1970s, and when civilization collapsed, it barely touched them. Pasternak's mission is to chronicle the community and its strange ways for a billionaire's vanity-project museum of New York State.
The meat of the action is set in Simplicity, the Catskills home of the Spiritual Association of Peers, where Pasternak struggles to gain the support and trust of the community, working their gardens by day and, eventually, attending their orgy/free-for-all nightly rituals, where the community members work out their tension and aggression through a mix of wild sex and punch-ups.
But no matter how diligently Pasternak tries to fit in, he still finds himself at the community's margins, unable to win over their trust. Then, just as he starts to make some progress, members of the community start going missing, turning up horribly mutilated. The horror of this is compounded by the erotic, nightmarish visions that have haunted Pasternak since his arrival in Simplicity, of a many-tentacled, many-mawed, many-vulvaed monster.
Pasternak's bosses abruptly recall him to the NYC AST, and that's when he learns the *true* nature of his mission to Simplicity, and the story moves into a thrilling, action-packed final act with an *extremely* satisfying conclusion.
This is such a tight little tale, speedily told in that way of the best graphic novels, which cram so much expressivity and atmosphere into the visual storytelling.
This is post-cyberpunk, ecosexual revolutionary storytelling at its finest. I know Lubchansky mostly from her absolutely amazing podcast, *No Gods, No Mayors* (co-hosted with Trashfuture's November Kelly and Riley Quinn), where she is incredibly charming, funny, and incisive:
If you'd asked me to imagine what kind of science fiction graphic novel she would turn out, I probably wouldn't have guessed this one - but now that I've read it, I'm not surprised at all that it came from her.
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
That cover is lying: It clearly indicates that the title is "In the Land of Simplicity" which, according to the info provided by the publisher, is false. (Sort of the opposite of the equally annoying covers that hide words like 'of' and 'and', which as a former librarian I find equally annoying)
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Η κρυφή επιθυμία του ακροδεξιού ή κ του καθαρόαιμου φασίστα, είναι η χώρα του να γίνει σαν το Ισραήλ ή την Σ. Αραβία. Για αυτό κάνουν σα τρελλοί όταν υποστηρίζουν αυτές τις χώρες. Είναι το wet dream τους, το ζενιθ της πολιτικής τους οπτικής.
Si es otra posibilidad para el fin de la humanidad pues venga, ya a esta altura hasta lo deseo, solo pido que sea rápido y si es posible casi indoloro.
"We would rather starve to death than die like this." - [comra] reporters interviewed survivors of the recent Israeli massacre that targeted aid seekers in northern Gaza.
#Bella To thoughtless things I do The dreams that don't come true 'Cause I'll never change, believe me I try Rick Coonce, American rock drummer (Grass Roots) would be 78 youtu.be/RgZpm0Mpfqg?si=4Ii4M-…
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The Palestinians of Gaza have nothing. They are completely reliant on international aid in order to survive. They are literally some of the poorest people on the planet, and Israel has systematically destroyed their ability to produce their own necessities for themselves.
The Western coalition destroying Gaza has everything. They have high tech weapons, most of the worlds wealth, and leadership positions in the UN. And they have all of the political power associated with that.
This contrast is no accident. It is a mere microcosm of a fundamental feature of the capitalist world-system itself.
"It establishes an accumulation of misery, corresponding with accumulation of capital. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital."
Imperialism and fascism are both inevitable outcomes of a system which so comprehensively causes the total accumulation of the world's resources into the hands of a global minority of less than a thousand people.
When people are given the incentive to take more and more and more, and when our economic system makes such an a polarization of wealth inevitable, it is only natural that the ruling elite within that system will expand their plunder to the maximum possible extent.
The genocide in Gaza has an economic motivation, this motivation being to facilitate this expansion I mentioned earlier.
None of the atrocities being committed by the Zionists are exclusive to Zionism, and most of their motivations are also held by other ultranationalists, including the Russian ultranationalists in Ukraine.
And ultranationalism in practice is itself an economic ideology that is justified with racialist logic.
Nazi lebensraum is inseparable from the economic pressures on Weimar Germany after the loss of their colonies. Colonization in general is driven by the tendency of capitalism to seek new markets and exploit more laborers.
#BackToTheDawn ended up actually being quite a disappointment. I have a feeling I got the Bad Ending™, because even though I don't know if there even are alternate endings, it sure seemed so. If that is the case, though, I don't actually know what I was supposed to do in order to get a good ending. And while I guess it's implied, they don't tell you that the game actually does only last until election day; after that, it's over, no matter what you have left that you wanted to do. If I knew that...well, to be honest, I might not have picked up the game, because I really hate games that put you on a timer.
It's a wonderfully-written game, beautiful art, all that stuff, just...I don't think it was really a game made for me.
This is the best update I've read about Hillary Clinton's scheme to frame the President of the United States of America. x.com/charliekirk11/status/195…
Να θυμίσουμε ότι ο Ισραηλινός ιστορικός Ραζ Σιγκάλ, ένας από τους σημαντικότερους μελετητές του Ολοκαυτώματος ξεκαθάρισε ότι το Ισραήλ πραγματοποιεί γενοκτονία λίγα 24ωρα μετά την 7η Οκτωβρίου του 2023.
Το να το πεις σήμερα είναι καλοδεχούμενο. Σημαίνει όμως ότι ήσουν αρνητής γενοκτονίας για δυο χρόνια.
Endeavouring to try and be more positive. Laugh more. Be strength-based. I do it in my work, and neglect to do it in my personal life.
I'm also endeavouring to build community, and right now, build my channel. This is a brand-new channel on a brand new instance, so if you see my stuff, and you enjoy it, and are like, "ehhh, should I boost this?" I'd appreciate if you boosted it, because there's a good chance you're actually the only one who will see it otherwise!
They set out in search of a bag of flour… but return carried either as bodies or wounded by bullets.
In Gaza, even the pursuit of a loaf has become a journey laced with death.
France, Great Britain, and Canada's recognition of a Palestinian state might matter someday. But, as usual, the Palestinians won't get any immediate help from Europe, much less from North America, in stopping the Gaza genocide now.
France, Great Britain, and Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state might matter someday. But, as usual, the Palestinians won’t get any immediate help from Europe, much less from North America, in stopping the Gaza genocide now.
I'd caution against considering a recognition by #France, #Britain, and #Canada a done deal yet.
All three countries have left their respective backdoors open, for copping out. There is no principled commitment.
Which demonstrates none of them is considering the recognition of the State of #Palestine as a #sovereign state the right thing to do, under all circumstances.
All three use a potential recognition as a threatening gesture towards #Israel. That is, France, Britain and Canada are openly portraying recognition as an evil, that can be "avoided" by Israel, under certain circumstances.
This is not a principled stand, but again the position of cowards who have failed Palestine for decades.
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ah, those fucksos who just decided that freedom to buy games is not for "wrong" people in the "wrong" countries and sponsor the war effort targeted at eradicating them
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And Steam hasn't even banned all adult games, just the more spicy ones. and if i understand correctly, itch did a blanked ban because they have no good way of filtering their existing library and plan to allow some adult games after they get a system in place
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