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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it is psychosomatic, but can still be debilitating. i knew a Navy veteran who could not drink straight water at all because while in the Navy, he had to drink several gallons of the stuff every day. as soon as he was discharged (honorably), he found he couldn't have water without anything added to it simply because he had so much of it in the service. of course, he still has to drink water, so he carries around a bottle of flavoring

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Star Trek: Discovery has Cadet Sylvia Tilly, a character who's not identified as autistic but is very coded as such (e.g. in her first scene, she seems to have trouble with picking up on social cues and talks a lot, and she had to get a different fabric for her bedsheets because of "special needs"). her portrayal is very respectful and positive, and as all the characters get to know each other they make an active effort to be understanding and accommodating towards her and treat her like the capable officer she is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I looked up the Open Technology Fund on Wikipedia and it has no relation to the CIA. well, except that its parent agency (Radio Free Asia) is part of the US government like the CIA is. they don't seem to work together at all, and they're under the purview of two different branches of government

besides, as other commenters have said, they're open source and they've been audited. anyone can build the client themselves (with any potential backdoors removed) and set up their own server. would the CIA allow for that?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nothing better than Signal

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.

source?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

NPR News is probably what you're looking for. sports and celebrity stuff is relegated to the Culture section, which is its own separate thing (although there are a couple of music stories that seem to have been misplaced). here is the RSS feed for the News section: https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

true. gotta get one of those desks you see at schools, with the hole in the corner and the plastic cover

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the setup actually isn't bad at all. using a soundbar is a nice touch. i would do something about the clutter though; you want a nice clean desk for gaming sessions. too bad we can't see the chair, you need something like an office chair for maximum comfort and not a gaming chair, as they actually aren't very good for your back

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

to spite entropy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

the Republican Party checks off almost all of these.

  • powerful and continuing nationalism: MAGA and America First
  • disdain for human rights: the ongoing trans genocide and their support for the Palestinian genocide
  • identification of enemies as an unifying cause: the "woke" fearmongering
  • supremacy of the military: Trump has waffled between praising the military and calling them "losers", so not quite yet
  • rampant sexism: reinforcement of traditional gender roles and the "tradwife" movement
  • controlled mass media: inside their sphere, yeah. Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN breathlessly hang on to every word Republican figures say
  • obsession with national security: bOrdEr WAlL!
  • religion and government intertwined: anti-abortion policies universally have religious justifications for them, plus several Republicans have said (and seem to sincerely believe) that Trump was ordained by Jesus
  • corporate power protected: corporate tax cuts and the withering of regulatory agencies under Republican leadership
  • labor power suppressed: the logical corollary to the above
  • disdain for intellectuals and the arts: distrust of experts and scientific endeavors
  • obsession with crime and punishment: running on being "hard on crime"
  • rampant cronyism and corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's undeclared trips from Republican donors are likely just the tip of the iceberg
  • fraudulent elections: not yet, and hopefully never 🤞
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

he absolutely carried Stargate Atlantis, it was weird to see him in Aquaman

 

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall's screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

 
 

the best answer yet to "why pirate movies"

 

Marx and Engels mention a class "below" the proletariat called the lumpenproletariat, which i understand as meaning a class that has no class consciousness, and is therefore susceptible to the influence of the bourgeoisie. but i don't see the difference between that and the proletariat proper. don't the proletariat receive propaganda to suppress their own class consciousness, and don't they have to be woken up? i don't get why the lumpenproletariat supposedly can't be woken up in the same way. besides, some examples of the lumpenproletariat given are people in organized crime, sex workers, and the unemployed. i find it hypocritical to condemn a class of people based on what they do to survive in a capitalist society (or in the case of the unemployed, the fact that the bourgeoisie won't give them a job). but more than anything, i'm just thoroughly confused by this concept. i feel like i'm missing something major.

 

this isn't about anything specific, this is just a general question.

i always assumed that multiplayer wouldn't work on pirated copies of games, or at most you'd have to play on specially configured servers. but the other day i saw a thread about a game where online multiplayer works even with pirated copies, and now i'm curious about how often that happens.

i understand that every game is different, and i want to know: what are your experiences with online multiplayer in pirated games?

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