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  • Kind of unrelated, but this was the point where the wool fell off my eyes and I realized his base will tolerate anything from him. Before, a statement like this from any national level politician would be an overnight end to their career, regardless of party, the supposed "Constitutionalists" would go unhinged.

    But yeah you're exactly right, the moment there is a whiff of leftist elements publicly arming and gaining momentum, we will see favorability for* sweeping gun control. The gun control we have today is largely a response to the right getting terrified of the successes the vocally armed Black Panthers. So get armed, quietly. They have no intentions of this being a 4 or even 8 year administration, the evidence is spilling out of everywhere you look.

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  • Not to mention those of us who deeply give a shit, and are in a position to leave, but refuse to abandon the vulnerable people who can't. Such self-centered, black-and-white thinking from someone eager to dunk on Americans (who are frequently stereotyped as guilty of exactly that).

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • Great perspectives, thank you! Very informative and much more plausible than what I was saying.

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • Well thanks for the interesting perspective and I'm very glad to hear it wasn't so one-sided everywhere, and that you've seen a lot more positives! Everything you said about causes of strife makes perfect sense to me and I would imagine those feature heavily for folks who try it out due to simple curiosity or pressure from a partner.

    I would imagine, too, that sexual trends exhibit regionality and that they diffuse across regions over time and at uneven rates, much like any other cultural trend. Though of course a lot of cultural diffusion has gotten effectively instant thanks to tech - I remember "back in the day" you could travel from a (US) coast to the Midwest and find everyone basically 10-20 years behind cultural trends, from slang to hairstyles, to dress.

    I wonder if relationships and dating and such, being a much slower process in general than changing styles of dress or speech, still have some of that interesting old-school slower diffusion, or more regional pockets anyway.

    Anyway, enough baseless speculation from me - cheers and have a good one!

    (Edit: I hope it didn't sound like I'm calling your chosen romantic style itself a trend - I would never, when I call polyamory a "trend" I am referring exclusively to folks who did behave exactly as if it were any other fad that came and went, just with way heavier consequences)

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • Since you seem knowledgeable, maybe I'll bug you about something I've wondered about?

    Did you notice a significant (huge by my measure) increase in attempts at polyamory for a period of time? As in, that trend seemed to have almost a start and an end, and a real big swell in the middle. And if so, any comments on how that fits into your timeline overview above? Some of your thoughts sound like they may point to this but I certainly don't want to put words in your mouth.

    Anecdotally, it seems to me like I watched a huge chunk of my (significantly) younger sister's generation get themselves into plural relationships, then realize after a year or two of various attempts (often including some serious abuse) that actually they didn't like that idea at all.

    And don't get me wrong, I absolutely encourage people to try what they are curious about, it's a tragedy to spend a life never exploring what one might like. But that phenomena with polyamory / plural relationships in particular stuck out to me, largely because many of the people I saw try it had never previously indicated even remote interest in similar, some behaved fairly jealously toward their partners actually. It felt like a strange societal motivation, some kind of soft cultural pressure among peers, to go for it. And I personally never witnessed a positive outcome, either (which is not me saying that no one should live that way if they enjoy it, or that no one can find it genuinely fulfilling, healthy, and preferable). And for those with clear gender lines in the plural relationships, it was always polygynous - never polyandrous (please let me know if those terms are offensive). Felt like weaponized sexual liberation, frankly, by horny dudes, but that's me making some possibly unfair leaps and introducing my own bias into the interpretation.

    I guess more than anything else I was just struck by what felt like a wave in popularity, followed by an accompanying wave of "oh, nah fuck that actually, forever". Was interesting to watch. Any thoughts?

    (Disclaimer: this can be a thorny topic, anyone should feel free to correct anything I've misrepresented, misunderstood, or just been unkind about, I'm not a jerk on purpose usually).

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • Feel like saying more about what ya like?

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • Just in the name of completeness, I wouldn't say that's the only downside. I definitely have some stability issues with Bazzite, only when gaming though. But game crashes, occasional OS crashes, that hasn't been exactly rare for me. But I will say, gaming is about the one thing in my life I'm almost unwilling to troubleshoot these days. Could be something specific to my setup that is uncommon for others, making my data point unhelpful.

    And by and large, I'd absolutely recommend it for any Windows user who wants an easily transferable user experience and broadly fantastic gaming support with minimal fuss.

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • Would you be willing to say more about what you know / experienced about the removal of Discover? Preferences included? I only noticed it recently, been away from things for a bit, and you sound like your brief info would probably be at least as fruitful as the reading I was gonna look for :)

  • Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guards troops in 19 states in crime crackdown

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  • Mark my words, they are hoping and expecting reactions, from this especially, but from everything they do.

    The actual accelerationists, the ones who mean it, who aren't cosplaying on the weekends, and who actually have the means to achieve it - are in the White House. Every new instability they cause, and every single violent act from anyone of any stripe, contributes to the chaotically ramped up, militarized, unhinged climate that they precisely want for the next election cycle.

    It's been less than a year. You're not being paranoid - naive, if anything. You and everyone else should start preparing for the worst - they are really going to try it, and we've seen very little opposition from the rest of the US government(s).

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • I've never met anyone in the broadly tech fields (and I've been through quite a span of them) who regrets completing an even somewhat relevant degree. I've met, many, many people who lament not starting or finishing one (and many of these were very competent, capable people, good at their jobs).

    It's expensive and difficult, sure was for me, but it is very useful (and the learning is fantastic too if you do it right).

  • [MartinRosner] Hjonk

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  • Chaos and destruction alone remain the companions of the terrible goose.

  • [MartinRosner] Hjonk

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  • Geese are some hideous demon's creation. The Canada goose in particular is a creature built to desanctify life itself.

  • 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds

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  • Either spell the word properly, or use something else, what the fuck are you doing? Don't just glibly strait-jacket language, you're part of the ongoing decline of the internet with this bullshit.

  • How to put a file into a VM without a malware breach?

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  • You could actually do it! If you founded a small dynasty of humans willing to type relentlessly for many hundreds of years, in succession.

  • Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams

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  • Interesting. Good to have a less rent-seeking option, not sure I love the idea of the Fed just (assumedly) having access to all my transactions, though.

  • I'd watch that

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  • Eh? C'mon you gotta elaborate on that!

  • South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’

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  • PBS FTW, been digging their stuff since I was a toddler watching Sesame Street lol. Their PBS Eons channel (on YT...) is great, when I was watching more video content I enjoyed their streaming service for a range of stuff too, can't remember what it was called now though.

    So yeah give em some bucks folks and watch cool stuff, they really need it.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • Ah, but yet...

  • Online Piracy Almost Died. Now It's More Popular Than Ever. - YouTube

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  • I think it's probably being in the age range that kinda straddled the time between now - when it's all an unshakeable piece of daily life - and the time before it existed / was commonplace. Having grown up before all of these world changing tech advances, and then being there for the ride, is just a singular experience and perspective neither our parents or our kids can possibly have.

    I'm really grateful for having gotten to take the ride, but it does strike me as sad in a way.