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2026-04-18 00:13:44 UTC

avoided buying superlux headphones recently :blobcatgoogly: they do make some clones of k240s and the popular beyerdynamics closed ones.
clone vendors don't bother me too much. when your headphone design is 40 years old you kinda recouped the R&D cost by now.
i just don't need more foons :neocat_sweat:

2026-04-16 07:44:34 UTC

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its never about protecting kids. its always about control.

2026-04-16 07:35:52 UTC

what if we had a coordinated approach to drowning politicians in the ocean
#note1pxj…ynl9

2026-01-29 04:18:56 UTC

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i'd set up a pyramid instance as a shitpost, but idk how many people would actually want to use this. i don't pull a large enough community to make lasting shitpost spheres :blobcatgoogly:

2026-01-25 04:12:57 UTC

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its a rare thing for me to do any censorious activities, but i'm honestly just goddamn tired.
i think after pirate software had his little perpetual meltdown i laughed for the first couple days and then it was just really sad how this was just some like ongoing milking of attention. like yeah the guy keeps saying dumb shit, but he keeps getting marketing out of it, and an entire class of parasites get their own ad views and patreon bux covering it, and i just said enough.
i stopped even scrolling the home timeline because its always trump this trump that like jesus fucking christ shut the fuck up already

2025-12-23 18:07:27 UTC

FBI: :neofox_laptop: i'll just put these files here in elastic and
:neofox_laptop_notice: i.. i just published the child sex ring files on the internet by accident didn't i
:blobcatcoy: yes. on accident. you accidentally on purpose did that.

2025-12-18 03:34:08 UTC

neoluddites aruging about generative AI doing scrap work surprisingly absent about how the mp3 player is putting travelling musicians out of work too :cirno_doubt:

2025-12-15 06:01:08 UTC

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without knowing the specific dmca i remember people getting takedowns for files they didn't even host before. someone just sees it and files the papers and doesn't bother to check who it is.
ipfs gateways have a similar thing where they have to just block random CIDRs because :cirno_shrug:

2025-11-26 11:46:03 UTC

becoming rich by making a fast av1 encoder
(ah god. useful, but nobody would hire me to.)

2025-11-23 12:46:13 UTC

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> from insufficiently polished software, not the tradeoffs inherent to the schema
they are the same thing. i can give you a discord link and in one click it just works. the same cannot really be done for p2p. it can kind of be done for federated things.
deltachat has tried to help this by having part of *their* website that just acts as an onboarding URL for you to share contact details with. which is nice, though its still basically putting someone back in as "the instance."

2025-11-23 10:06:05 UTC

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alternate chaotic neutral answer: organization is for the weak just use the leap button and a huge buffer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c

2025-09-06 11:23:29 UTC

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yeah the christofascist billionaires are feeling particularly emboldened right now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/magazine/texas-politics-billionaire-preachers.html

2025-04-04 02:41:23 UTC

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its probably tuned to something that is like barely meaningful for normal use but would be annoying if you're a botnet trying to pull entire websites.
bad for archive team though :/

2025-04-02 18:50:46 UTC

don't ask about the AI datacenters
#note19f7…4qse

2025-04-02 16:20:11 UTC

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sure thing

2025-04-02 16:18:11 UTC

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pretty sure i openly admitted not being deeply familiar with the case at the outset, so not sure what kind of points you were hoping to score.

2025-04-02 16:07:15 UTC

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i don't like to mess with other countries very closely and this has never been a secret.

2025-04-01 18:31:38 UTC

:blobfoxdrakedislike: republican
:blobfoxdrakedislike: democrat
:gutkato_roboto: quinnland cybernetic party

2025-04-01 13:37:27 UTC

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whenever someone in government talks about children they're a fascist, yeet them

2025-04-01 13:31:23 UTC

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april first

2025-03-17 08:07:45 UTC

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> devterm
neat i wish mine had arrived. ended up cancelling after a year of their BS

2025-03-16 01:49:15 UTC

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> Untold evil in the pursuit of a good is /by virtue of its consequences/ evil (regardless of the original intent, the consequences are the point), particularly when the net outcome is vastly increased amounts of suffering rather than any amount one might consider "equivalent or lesser".
consequentialist and utilitarians do not have virtues. they have a calculus of world state and whether one world state is better than another.
in increasing degrees of brainrot extremism, they do not consider "people i don't like" to be "people," so that calculus assigns suffering to negligible. it is only evil if the world state score decreases and i can just classify people i don't like as furniture.
which, is what historical communist extremists have done (lenin, stalin.)
> Only the impractical fools.
well, that's who runs things now (cf. nixos, python, opensuse, opendesktop, fedora)

2025-03-16 01:09:25 UTC

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> How does that have anything to do with making technology into malware that abuses the user?
its fundamentally an issue of virtue ethics vs consequential ethics.
the virtue ethicist says that imposing decisions on the server admin is unvirtuous, so even if the intent is well intentioned the action is impermissible.
the consequential ethicist is not concerned. nazis bad, so anything that imposes that belief on others is good. killing an unlimited number of orphans is good if it results in one nazi dying.
my main issue with that crowd is they don't even have the presence of character to acknowledge they are naked consequentialists. if you read the tickets, the dev actively sidesteps and denies that they are making decisions for people at all and has an unlimited supply of copes that "we're not doing anything, we're just hurting nazis" as though the means they are intending to do so psychologically don't exist at all.
the everything is political crowd tends to oxidize people that want to just make tools (because the tool isn't being designed specifically to *their* own ends.) they also tend to be completely blind and unwilling to acknowledge what they are.
since one of my deepist maxisms is to always know what you are, this doesn't work well for me :cat_sad:

2025-03-11 03:00:19 UTC

how many generations of hyphenation before people's last names get too insane to use in reasonable conversation

2025-03-09 22:08:47 UTC

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who needed hurricane alerts anyway :blobcatderpy2:

2025-03-09 22:06:22 UTC

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I like the part where they fired the weather men and then proceeded to blow up a 20 million dollar rocket

2025-03-09 22:04:01 UTC

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has the buyers remorse set in?
turns out Trump actually was a disaster all along and the 0/10 government was just better for us because the Fed is a scam :blobcatgooglybadumtss:
The cabinet of yes men proxies for musk is oof

2025-03-08 01:25:53 UTC

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you mean the technology that is slowly getting pushed out of work spaces because the corporate surveys are showing it creates even worse code per line than the foreign wage slaves?

2025-02-25 16:37:32 UTC

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> stims
> sleep
:blobcatwaitwhat2:

2025-02-22 18:49:15 UTC

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buy a good steering wheel controller and play euro truck sim for a while. get all your crashing out of the way. it helps.

2025-02-22 18:34:52 UTC

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i mean cars should be classified as luxury goods (for point to point transit.)
i find car bothersome because i do not have the income to support going to enough places that the maintenance is bothersome. it would be better for someone like me if i could just rent one as-needed.

2025-02-22 01:37:20 UTC

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what does this have to do with net neutrality

2025-02-22 01:33:34 UTC

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i mean you could just take the policy and give it to the FTC instead? (net neutrality)

2025-02-22 01:30:21 UTC

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rationing airwaves isn't explicitly banned by the constitution so i'm not sure what the point is
unless you're arguing it abridges speech by limiting who can speak with a specific frequency

2025-02-22 01:27:46 UTC

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congress shall enact no law blah blah

2025-02-22 01:21:15 UTC

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the fcc also violates the constitution by enforcing morality clauses on TV, but the conservitards are nowhere to be seen on that one

2025-02-21 23:39:16 UTC

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opposition to net neutrality is purely line go uppistry, eh

2025-02-21 23:32:57 UTC

> net neutrality getting killed again (tech crunch)
its really a pain in the ass to read these bullshit shibboleths (like them going on about "trumpist" this and that) please just fucking stop doing things that sound cute like calling things trumpist or "M$" and funny variations of cloudflare's name

2025-02-20 03:39:52 UTC

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oh no, unwanted internet police are going insolvent.
the only question is how do we scale this problem to more institutions :blobcatfireeyes:

2025-02-19 20:17:12 UTC

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yes, and literally step over the part where i agreed that ukraine didn't start the war lol

2025-02-13 22:46:16 UTC

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he does seem to be marketing to the alt-right. i've seen a couple takes where he's very ungenerous to the speaker, though i'm also prone to trying to see people as reasonable :neocat_woozy:

2025-01-07 16:59:29 UTC

choose your punishment
someone has used the timeline scalpel on the united states. it is now

2024-11-29 13:57:25 UTC

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actually some of these are not crap its just android devs are so bad that you give them a 1990s supercomputer and they found a way to waste all of it

2024-11-29 13:56:24 UTC

software freedom be like
buy our open hardware computer (clockwork pi)
shipping time nine years from now
cpu is obsolete by the time we bother to box it
vs
crap tablet market
we have them strategically prepositioned all across the globe at all times
costs like 50$
its crap but you can use it while waiting for all the raspberry patents to expire for clockwork to ship :ablobcatdundundun:

2024-09-28 13:53:35 UTC

apparently dislike of the type a/b body thing is relatively prevalent
I was trying to find justification for it and it's pretty much just a Larry Fink thing

2024-09-10 16:15:07 UTC

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one involves boiling water (typically with coal) and using captured pressure from the steam to push turbines, and the other involves igniting the most flammable gas in the universe :gutkato_brulas_senzorge:

2024-09-10 16:03:01 UTC

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:blobcatgooglysoldering: we don't put pure hydrogen in steam engines lmao it would be a torrent of fire if we did

2024-09-10 15:49:54 UTC

is that because they closed all the coal plants :blobcatgooglybadumtss:
#note1j77…ka8s

2024-09-08 22:41:10 UTC

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there is a web client for mumble but it requires extra steps

2024-09-08 20:25:37 UTC

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i still use it sometimes but its deluded to think discords onboarding isn't far superior to "wait go download this, yes find this exe link here, ok install it, don't worry about what 'were generating a certificate for you' means, navigate this window to add a server, ok now paste this IP'"
:revblobfoxgooglynomlog: haha click discord.shit/fuckballs welcome to chat
there are ways we could make it better. not just fucking encoding attachments as base64 to use a line protocol is low hanging fruit :blobcatgooglynotlikethis:

2024-09-08 20:22:53 UTC

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i mean you aren't filling the ttrpg seats i would have lost not capitulating to discord, so.

2024-09-08 20:20:00 UTC

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webrtc is basically SIP by retarded webdevs. i think it basically IS rejacketed sip.
but the reality is everyone else is now offering zero-download web browser support, so that is where we need to be :neocat_pensive:

2024-09-08 20:14:57 UTC

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yes. chat is some line text protocol or something, and images are bodged on with base64.
for voice chat mumble works fine but it could do with some UX overhauls (and, perhaps, switching to webrtc like literally everyone else now does so we can shovel the web client on top of murmur like people are wanting)

2024-09-08 20:00:38 UTC

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mumble is OK but the protocol and the clients need updating.
it transmits images with base64 encoding :comfyglare:

2024-09-07 20:30:13 UTC

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i have long held the very unpopular line that the purpose of a business is to do something, in the face of everyone spouting the "business/make money" doctrine, and it seems that history does bear this out to an extent. money enables the art, and finance weasels ruin everything.
idk. i am biased.

2024-09-07 20:28:44 UTC

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> line go up
it didn't used to be like this. the courts forced it with dodge v. ford IIRC.
Ford had a neuron activation and decided to spend his income on his men, Dodge brothers threw a fit because as shareholders they weren't going to benefit from this. thus one of the landmark cases that the Line Must Go Up.
in recent years people have protested Line Go Up by creating the concept of a public benefit corporation, which is basically a regular C-corp with the explicit provision that shareholders are not entitled to line going up.

2024-09-07 19:26:45 UTC

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especially since we've seen the full mask off wrt. Nix going around purging everyone right of Mao and claiming its oppression if the conduct board isn't given total dictatorial power with no oversight (as happened with Python) it's a... very strange thing to proudly proclaim.

2024-09-07 19:24:39 UTC

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they wanted to add some stuff to sqlite. some of it seemed ok (like random rowid.) i just take offense to the idea that if you don't have a local commie block captain the project is somehow unusable.
like you could have just stopped at "we wanted to add some things"

2024-09-07 18:39:28 UTC

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> But despite having its code available, SQLite [..] doesn't adhere to a code of conduct. So community improvements cannot be widely enjoyed.
maybe it became a standard because it is good and not because it was busy being a communist block captain

2024-09-07 18:36:32 UTC

https://turso.tech/ mein gott they colonized sqlite

2024-08-31 10:08:57 UTC

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there is a plushie torrent?

2024-08-29 18:03:46 UTC

> GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making
lol. lmao.

2024-08-26 13:05:49 UTC

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it seems like friendly societies worked a lot better for some of this—before they were killed by shenanigans.
i'm not sure how we could revive them though.

2024-08-26 12:25:12 UTC

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so basically you have
- poor people who actually need the service are being robbed to give it to whoever the state prioritized instead
- other people think everything is being handled because they are being robbed to fund services they don't need
- nobody realizes the programs are actually not that effective, until they need them
i've been told the swiss have similar issues. their social programs are actually significantly more competent than ours, but people exhibit that "someone else is taking care of it so why should i care" aura i was talking about.

2024-08-26 12:20:40 UTC

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i just bring that up because i had to slot ~2,000$ in to the old people fund last quarter when i had that job. for healthcare. that i can't have. because instead of being allowed to get new glasses or teeth fixed i was forced to pay it so old people could choose not to work or something.

2024-08-26 12:19:36 UTC

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not specifically about healthcare. its that charity work tends to happen when your cup is overflowing.
abusive taxation (such as in the name of social welfare programs) takes the money from people who's cups are actually not overflowing to begin with, and just oppresses their ability to help people *they* actually care about.
some of this could be helped with allowing the flat tax to be deducted like income tax, but they won't do that.

2024-08-26 12:11:05 UTC

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the gross part is in the USA due to obamacare they now fine you for not having insurance. which we already fucking pay for out of the social security mandate.
so they basically force you to buy a private service or they just take money from you. then they just take the money that would have gone to your deductible from you anyway. its an absolute ass of a clown show.
meanwhile i sit here with busted teeth because :blobcatdunno:
why no i'm not bitter :neocat_up:

2024-08-26 12:08:01 UTC

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i suspect high taxes and performative socialism reduces the overall donations to charity. when the state is raping your wallet for 15% of everything you take—for "medicine" that only a minority of the population is allowed to have—people get this "it's already taken care of" feeling.
i know because people tell me to "just get on welfare" and they tend not to know that doing so in the states requires lawsuits.

2024-08-26 10:01:41 UTC

> if you are in a country for 183 days you are considered a resident/citizen for the purpose of taxes
:comfywoozy: funny how its easier to become a tax cattle than a real citizen

2024-08-26 00:52:54 UTC

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couldn't give a number. but being deliberately miseducated about life combined with no social fabric probably doesn't help much no

2024-08-20 02:20:14 UTC

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:comfywoozy:

2024-08-20 02:12:40 UTC

might cook technically expired ribs tonight :comfyeyes:

2024-08-20 01:52:10 UTC

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@npub1hlw…psnv shotcut hasn't crashed on me this past month (windows.) i have asked very little of it though. taking a VOD from twitch and just cutting some frames.
i've been told some of the crashing of NLEs has to do with using improper codecs. in production film you're supposed to crunch all your film to ProRes or DNxHD proxies. they are fucking huge files but they are designed in such a way that the program can easily read a random frame cheaply.
using mp4s puts strain on your box. if you are doing like 4 layers of video, then ask it to seek, its having to go back and resolve interframes all over the place.
for streaming you are already supposed to use keyframes every 1-3 frames anyway, which is what i send out of OBS.

2024-08-19 21:14:35 UTC

twitch ads be like
> watch black people shoot each other, now on peacock tv!
:blobcatwaitwhat2: no thanks i could just go outside

2024-08-19 02:06:10 UTC

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well
what are you supposed to be doing and what have you been doing :gutkato_grandiga_vitro:

2024-08-18 22:25:28 UTC

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no, they know. i don't really keep that many secrets. that and the mic boom pole isn't very subtle.
i have to tell them anyway to shut up the job nags.

2024-08-18 06:06:44 UTC

:blobcatsleepless: pls no
https://s3.v5.yokai.cafe/blobcatfiles/3f9bf8853ba7c32d7d6acbc9e6b5048d642df1e6e4ad7b32fcf974c99855609e.webp

2024-08-18 00:00:28 UTC

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that's how every organization that uses force works, yes.

2024-08-17 21:12:38 UTC

east fedi: :blobfoxangry: i cannot stand people who do not automatically know the word "the" is now racist as of five minutes ago
west fedi: :blobcatbeer2: i want to grow boobs and/or die

2024-08-09 00:56:52 UTC

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screen shot taken
screen shot taken
subtitle offset adjusted

2024-07-09 23:49:43 UTC

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as opposed to the open air rape cage where they steal my stuff anyway

2024-07-09 23:45:11 UTC

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have to make your own jobs
for example my job is rich person burglar :blobcatburglar:

2024-07-09 23:05:38 UTC

:blobcatmage: kneel
:neocat_hyper: nyo
:blobcatmage: ah, shit.

2024-07-09 22:59:43 UTC

frank herbert the only person to attempt to justify sword fights in space
:blobcatnerd: well, see, its uh. they wear beccause i said so devices that mean you can only have cool sword fights now.

2024-07-09 20:43:43 UTC

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maybe not everything needs to be smartshit
if its going to be smartshit it needs to support OSC :neocat_gun:
:blobcatphoto: but quinn we use mqtt here
:neocat_thonk: mixed feelings about mqtt. i've read that spec, its not smol.

2024-07-09 20:43:05 UTC

> voice control bladeless air fan
:blobcatgooglyscream: HEY FAN. AIR PLEASE.

2024-07-09 20:36:28 UTC

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vinyl

2024-07-09 20:34:15 UTC

when you get feeling down just remember people are still intentionally buying an inferior music platform that sounds like noisy shit and degrades on playback :blobcatgooglybadumtss:

2024-07-09 20:33:08 UTC

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laser vinyl :blobcatscience:
https://www.elpj.com/

2024-07-09 20:09:13 UTC

:blobcatnomdisk: noms your vinyl

2024-07-08 20:55:17 UTC

i feel like this entire letter could have just stopped at "that is already illegal. good day."
RE: https://bird.makeup/users/endwokeness/statuses/1810356355003212000
#note18u7…xf0g

2024-07-08 20:39:19 UTC

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french news

2024-07-08 20:37:22 UTC

> "they cheated!"
an easy sentiment to have, when you literally dissolve parliament in response to your impending loss of office.
this is like the CEO shooting most of the board members and then going see everyone loves me

2024-07-08 20:07:58 UTC

i think a lot of problem with [pseudo-]left things is that the core idea behind a lot of it--once removing the psychosis, gang bullying and other insanities--amounts to grilling enthusiasm.
so it's not like people actually want to sit there and close the hospitals or whatever, but they don't want every waking moment of their day to be hearing people bitch about how the hospitals don't match some super ideal (also the super ideal has varying degrees of reasonable to unhinged.)
so people don't really want to mount a counter campaign because grilling enthusiasm is pretty neat, but they're tired of the endless emotional blackmail about it.
:blobcatthonkang: hm.
"grilling enthusiats, but utterly batshit crazy."

2024-07-08 12:47:42 UTC

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still kind of miffed at anker. they took the aux port out of a speaker and didn't update the marketing :blobcatknife:
i mean their products aren't bad.. so far.. when you actually get what they advertise.

2024-07-08 12:42:08 UTC

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some of the problems (that don't get talked about) are sort of neat like the one guy who showed gerrymandering is functionally identical to election fraud, or using simulators to design cities.
used to be curious about trying to map out design patterns for city growth (based party on dwarf fortress wiki lol.) like what kind of shapes and patterns should you use when creating systems that ex. may have an unbounded mission length.

2024-07-08 12:38:59 UTC

> but you bitch about politics
:comfywoozy: i actually hate modern american politics its just what people actually respond to.
kinda only like politics from a systems perspective. the school yard shit is deeply uninteresting.

2024-07-08 12:35:04 UTC

i was told earfun speakers are good

2024-07-05 12:45:27 UTC

:long_pancake_top:
:long_pancake_bottom: :ablobcathungry:

2024-07-03 09:29:22 UTC

someone invites me over :blobcatadorable:
their girlfriend makin things weird :blobcatpleading:
i'm go :blobcatghostrev: