I've never seen a Tankie claim that Russia, China, North Korea, etc. are good governments that are always ethical. It's almost always a comparison between the US and these other authoritarian countries that they get stuck on.

It's really good. Twitter doesn't need to lose for Mastodon to win. But, also, Twitter is probably about to lose.

Oh woe is me, why can't I find an actual leftist space?

What's that, being against western imperialism is inherent to being a leftist?

No, no. It's brainrot! I am very clever.

Why are liberals so eager to excuse this sort of stuff because it's wartime? They would never accept it happening in their own country, even if they were at war. I guess because it's 'somewhere else' it doesn't matter to them.

"Not a step back" was a policy introduced because generals believed that the size of the USSR territory meant that they could afford to tactically retreat more often, which resulted in civilian deaths and a large amount of soviet resources being taken by the Nazis.

They needed to make a stand somewhere, and Stalingrad might've been the turning point of the entire war.

Seconding Kagi. The pricing model is a little rough, but if you're serious about getting the most out of a search engine, Kagi is the way to go.

Imo, paying is worth it to be completely free of Google's services.

Hey, that's pretty cool! This post made me catch up on the newest season.

Star Trek has, from where I'm standing, always had a problem presenting the Federation as the socialist utopia that it quite explicitly is. It feels like some of the series wanted to veer away from that implication, or that a lot of the writers didn't know how to handle writing conflict within a post-scarcity super society. I think we all know how inconsistent it is with money, exchange between civilizations, etc.

Which is a shame, because I watch Star Trek exactly for the fully automated gay space communist fantasies.

“Tankies wreck everything! They are the reason left unity fails!” yeah righto mate you guys keep enjoying squatting in a street during a riot and thinking that's a win. We'll be over here, you know, building alternatives to the current status quo.

I wonder: if you installed it on a VM, and they noticed, what problem would they really have with that? It's to observe you while you're working, right? It seems like the best solution for both parties, as the company gets to do its spying, but you get to conserve your actual privacy.

To me, it almost seems worth it to go forward with installing it on a VM, just to see if that creates further conflict. An employer insisting to be able to spy, specifically, on your private device, even when a better solution is available, seems like it could go favorably for you with whatever workplace rights institution is available in your area.

I did not expect this thing to actually be hauled to shore. Kind of thought they were just going to leave it. How much did it cost to pull that thing up?

I'm also very thankful for this community, and fediverse social media in general. I never got on the Twitter train, and liked browsing Reddit for the sort-of classic forum experience. All of this emphasis on federated software has brought me into a social media fold I've hardly experienced otherwise.

Love waking up and catching up on things while I have my morning coffee.

I feel so bad for that lady. I'm also blown away by the speed of modern typists. I thought I was pretty quick with a 140 WPM speed.

It aimed for a very specific feeling. There was a sense of discovery and a dreading sense of isolation. It made you sit alone with your thoughts in between bouts of awe and wonder. Death was cruel and could be frequent, and the universe had nebulous rules which were never made entirely clear to the player. And why would it? You're in the mind of a dying machine.

Current NMS is an excellent space sandbox minecraft-lite, but the experience of meeting players ten minutes into a new game, and a focus on community events and progression strips away that feeling of isolation.

It's mostly fine. The game has a much broader appeal to match its marketing budget. The game was just obviously aiming at a much more niche audience initially.

Yes, the initial release of Fallout 76 was surprisingly competent in terms of storytelling and worldbuilding.

They did a lot with the premise of no living human beings. It forced them to be creative and resulted in one of the best worlds Bethesda has ever made.

Just like No Man's Sky, the developers lost sight of the initial point of their project. The game is probably a lot better for some, but for me, all of the charm is gone. Fallout 76 wasn't a very tolerable game to begin with, so now that it's a generic GaaS grindy nightmare? No thanks.

This video introduced me to adNauseam as well. I also had no idea the FBI recommends use of an ad blocker.

I really liked it. I'm a big sucker for any episode that ends in some sort of impactful flash forward.

I fuckin' love minecraft maps. I dunno why. It's just cool to see the discovered land and where players have been building.

Lmao my B. I have my stupid hat on today.

I could not imagine stanning a company's ability to run ads. Like, I don't care about ads. Worse, I am actively antagonistic towards the concept of ads. I cannot get into the headspace of this poster. What a loser.

Libs love infantilizing entire cultures and peoples. It's the only way their mind can accept that people in countries they consider to be 'bad guys' may actually lead happy and successful lives.

It's an intense form of brainrot, though. They're categorizing potentially millions of people under the same umbrella of 'woefully mislead.' Like, fuck off. Maybe they're happy. Maybe they think you're woefully mislead.