Your response and the amount of likes you got shows me that people here still believe that America is not as racist as it actually is

I don’t think it’s about people not believing in the all-encompassing systemic institutional racism. That’s kinda impossible if you look at literally any statistic with racial distribution.

This type of stuff is deranged by any standards. With how extremely individualistic the people, especially the conservatives are, you normally expect the hatred to be projected outwards, not inwards. That’s the whole point of in-circles. So I’d expect to hear something like “I will take my second amendment and actually murder this person for standing near my white child”. And the “You’re no longer my kid” - “K” is definitely not a typical interaction.

What 80 years of peace at home does to a mf.

So you’re saying America bad? Even though they didn’t nuke anybody for 80 years? Curious.

33 people died in one day. 5 children. How is this a conversation about fucking tactics.

My brother in christ, what is this reactionary leftism. NATO bad, so every single thing they report is a lie and propaganda actually, even when it comes from “your side”? Without so much as to bother to look at the pictures, because they are actually photoshop and ai?

You’re looking at a piece of an engine 50cm wide and confidently go “actually this is clearly from a rocket that’s 15cm in diameter”. Like fuck, man, why is it the same shit on both sides.

Kh-101

Dimensions

Sidewinder AIM-9

Dimensions

Ngl I’ve been getting the same weird vibe from them for a while. Particularly when the questions are framed as “is this thing that we generally support actually bad, or maybe not?”

Crazy suggestion, but how about we don’t do the Israeli “this blown up hospital is definitely not what it looks like” thing? The rocket used was the Russian-made Kh-101.

Talk to them about good political news as well. When all you hear is “everything everywhere is terrible” it’s easy to just tune it out. Successful unionization efforts, protests, progressive legislature.

While we’re here, what is your opinion on the movie Resident Evil: Extinction (part 3)? When it came out, the mainstream opinion basically was that it had ruined the whole franchise, poopoo dogwater. I personally quite liked it as a standalone movie, fun action film.

Actually, hard agree. Can we make filth a thing instead?

It’s the curse of being a leftist. I walk past a coffee shop and think about how there are no third spaces left to hang out for free. Because they were systematically destroyed, in order to separate the people into individuals, and at the same time commodify their leisure at ever growing costs. How there are so many people working miserable jobs in those coffee shops, jobs that we don’t need in the first place. About the chains that have swallowed all the individual businesses that could’ve been of higher quality, had better working conditions and pay. About the bench outside with extra railings, so that the unhoused people couldn’t sleep on it. They’re forced to sleep in designated “bad hoods”, from where they will eventually be kicked out by pigs so that their hoods can be gentrified. And all those freshly gentrified hoods will have tons of empty condos that would never house even one of those displaced people…

Then I smoke a joint, watch some cute animal videos, and forget about it until the next time I walk past a coffee shop.

The funniest part was when he called the book “neo-communist”. Gotta go get ready 4 Ze New World Order.

Look if there’s any help needed in your local soup kitchens, mutual support orgs, homeless and animal shelters, orphanages, community centers, refugee service providers. Activism is about being active, not labels. And you are very likely to meet like-minded people there, who might introduce you to more politically oriented causes if that’s more your vibe.

I mean, this is much more about the conservatives rather than the anarchists. Trans people? Women’s intelligence and bodily autonomy? Minorities’ humanity? Poor people’s right to exist? No thanks, we’ll work on it not being a thing, even if the woke fake news are trying to persuade us differently. Anarchists, on the other hand, just deny the existence of showers.

Apparently this is a controversial opinion, but I fuck with most anarchists. Obviously, there are plenty of reactionaries under their umbrella, not unlike communist/socialist one. But overall our goals align so much more than they diverge, and in the immediate future they’re almost one-to-one. Once we get to the stateless (or near-) society with no policing, jails, and capitalist ownership of the means of production, we can bicker with them and assert our vision. But today it’s mostly counterproductive leftist infighting.

And in the US since 2020 it’s up 88%.

We have currently had 12 consecutive months of record breaking global temperatures, with an average of 1.63°C above the pre-industrial levels. Good times.

Ooh baby, this is just a tiny part in how terrifying they actually are for the open web. Their implementation of manifest V3, platform for browser extensions (that they basically force every other browser to use), along with the deprecation of V2-based extensions (starting this month) is straight up authoritarian. In short, they entirely remove blocking of webRequest and Event pages (user-side background scripts), among other things. This will essentially kill open ad blockers (like uBlock origin) and let them control the supported ones (like AdBlock), meaning we will have ads from advertisers who pay the fee purposely let through.

We have known about this coming change and its implications for 5+ years.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Meanwhile Firefox, who would also have to implement it for cross-compatibility, will not remove those critical features, as well as will keep support for V2 extensions. This is only one aspect in which Firefox is committed to user privacy, security, and control. I would highly recommend Firefox to everyone, including the Android version.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

I gave a number of real life use cases where it would solve real problems. There are so many more, especially “boring” ones like official documents, research, and medical records that would benefit from it tremendously. Blockchain does not equal crypto, but they complement each other really well.

Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it’s been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year

What do you mean, Ethereum is pos.

I AM NOT SHILLING CRYPTO IN ANY WAY OKAY THANK YOU

With that out of the way, those are not intrinsic qualities of either. The fundamentals on which every shitcoin and the bored ape garbage were sold to the public are still very strong. This is like saying “online shopping is horrible” in 2004 - technically not incorrect, but very shortsighted. While the proof of work protocol (mining for it to function and who mines more is the truth) is unsustainable, proof of stake (who holds more is the truth) and mixed ones are fundamentally amazing. Imagine stablecoins pegged to indexes of international currencies. BRICS coin, for example. With smart contracts (rules built into the transaction itself) and being practically legitimate international currencies it opens up so many possibilities. Transparency and easy comparisons in payments - salaries, rents, goods and services. Immutability - you can’t just whack a person and steal the deed to their house. The “chain” part of blockchain - clear history of ownership of assets, no more “I accidentally bought a stolen car/house”. And eventually the contracts can be made complex enough to cover most interpersonal transactions.

And the same thing for nfts. Especially now, in the rapidly exploding era of unethical AI art, music, etc. Artists could easily sell/lease rights for their work, including for it to be a basis for generative models. It’s not limited to digital products - whatever you want to to confirm ownership of can be tagged with one-way encrypted signatures baked into nfts.

So both are great technologies that can still be improved on a lot. But it’s just that the ways in which they’re used today are almost exclusively rugpull bubble dogshit.

That’s neat and all, but especially considering the eventual outcome this has nothing on the legendary Soviet faceted glass. Autogenerated auto translated subs on the video are pretty good.