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  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • Some are talking about power consumption in this thread and I've had similar ideas. Gone are the days where I can run a beefy spec'd desktop in good conscience, it's just such a resource hog. I have a laptop that stays in hibernate mostly. My other idea for a low power consumption home computer was to get a Le Potato single board and pair that with an e-ink monitor (there's some really nice ones out there) which I think was sitting at maaaaybe ~5kwh. I think the more we can limit our power consumption, the better, all that electricty directy translates into coal being burned and additional CO2 being created. I'm no luddite, but it has impacted how I consume media which is now very mindful of the impact watching a few episodes/playing a couple hours of games versus just one or two hours of content on any given day.

  • California Governor Gavin Newsom demands cities force homeless people to move every 72 hours

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  • Yeeeeaaah, go thirteenth amendment!!!

  • Have some civility.

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  • It's like banging your head against a brick wall inevitably causes you to see the truth, but at that point your brain is so addled that you are hallucinating the truth, despite your best tries at avoidance.

  • Have some civility.

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  • Buuut it's your guy's fault, if only you'd have voted for the less evil of the two evil guys we'd have a waaaay less evil guy doing less evil guy shit and being waaaay less evil-y obvious about their evil shit. Don't you see? You made it obvious that the evil guy is an evil guy, instead of the less evil of the evil guys, damnit!!!

  • Have some civility.

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  • In this post: making a case against electoralism without realizing they're making a case against electoralism...

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    I'm Starting a Laser's & Feelings Quickplay Game Over at Every Post is an RPG. If You Like Quick, Improv-heavy RPGs, Come Join Our Community and Join the Game!

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  • Batting for Billionaires

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  • And Batman doesn't exist, so the quote still checks out. But, if he did, he shouldn't either. Absolute Batman has a great take on Batman as a poor, working-class person. I think Batman works better as that. Batman inherently is problematic, as a billionaire playboy beating up mentally-ill people. (This coming from a Batman fan myself).

  • Fedora Atomic is the bomb

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  • What about NixOS? It seems to be doing something very different from most distros. I used it briefly and it was a refreshing experience to just update the config file to add and remove programs, I know that a lot of people share their configs and it makes it easy to keep programs consistent from different installs. I would have installed it on this laptop if the installer wasn't giving me so many issues, so I ended up with MXLinux instead, but I still look on my NixOS days fondly.

  • Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

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  • That's what I came here to say. What's the point in making an unnecessarily complex "hack" to circumvent what shift-control-c and v does? I've never had a problem with it. And there's something to be said for not making it super easy to paste text to a terminal, especially from places online...

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    Bernie Action Figure! Easily Folds!

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  • I can see that. I think there was one progressive blip in US politics, and funnily enough Roosevelt was pushed left-ward by the communist and socialists of the era to get the New Deal passed. And we've not seen such a progressive slant in US politics since. That's what happens when you get a major purge of progressive parties from the McCarthy era forward. Communist and Socialist parties used to be much more prominent in the early 20th century until they we're practically eliminated, now they're a shadow of what they once were.

  • Lemmy needs more donations

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  • Yeah, makes sense. I was part of the reddit exodus with the api stuff. Although, I'm not someone that would be part of the typical reddit culture. Or at least the die-hard libs types. I always was on the fringes of reddit, and in the last few years I stayed away more often than not. There are a few forums and "smol web" places I visit. Even frequent irc occasionally. So, I've been out of the loop when it comes to the general reddit mentality. It sucks that those types have to take the piss out of .ml users so frequently though, it's gotten pretty annoying lately with people saying stuff like "of course, it's a .ml user" like we're some type of pariahs.

  • Lemmy needs more donations

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  • Just gauging the sentiment towards lemmy.ml, even in the fediverse there needs to be a safe space for people. It's sad to say, but merely jumping ship from reddit doesn't ensure that comrades will be safe online. .world and .ee users seem to be reddit-esque but just in a different ilk. I regularly see users from those communities targeting .ml users and since the reddit exodus it's only gotten worse. Stay strong comrades.

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    Bernie Action Figure! Easily Folds!

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  • A fantastic book covering the American political system, is "Democracy Inc" by Sheldon S. Wolin, which wrote about how the system is constructed to give the semblance of democratic participation but, is in fact, what he terms a "managed democracy", in which the levers of the democratic processes are manipulated to a minute degree. He wrote this book in ~2006, I believe, which just goes to show how long this horse and pony show has been going on for (probably FAR longer).

  • Firefox Finally Did It (Tab Groups)

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  • I can't stand having more than maybe 5-6 tabs open. As the poster above stated, it just gives me anxiety to have random tabs open. I get disoriented trying to figure out what my focus is in a sea of tabs.

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    Bernie Action Figure! Easily Folds!

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  • Yes, I appreciate that Bernie moved me further left than I was already. Although, if I had more political consciousness before Bernie arrived on the scene, that shift would have happened irregardless. I dropped out of politics for about a good decade (after being disillusioned with Obama's first term) and he got me back thinking that a real progressive had a shot.

    But after the last ten years, it's quite evident that the progressive wing of the Dems are merely a pressure release valve, same that the Dems are for the Republicans. It just keeps people endlessly mired within the constraints of a system that will not move leftward no matter the consequences of not doing so.

    After reading enough Marxist literature, it's clear Marx was right, and that only a revolution ending in the dismantling of the current system and installation of a worker's controlled one, will create any meaningful and lasting change for the working classes.

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    Bernie Action Figure! Easily Folds!

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  • "If we the voters can kick this football, then the Dems will move left"

  • Vintage

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  • That guy looks like a real life Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, giving off mad Mac vibes too.

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    Stop dividing the left!

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  • It's amazing to me that you could read that quote, and your take, unironically, is exactly the sentiment that Arendt was warning about.

  • Yeah...

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  • Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    It's amazing how such a short, seemingly benign paragraph has had such a monumental impact on the United States for 150 years. The other thing that is striking is that this topics is only marginally discussed, and not only that, but prisoners are spoken of in such derogatory terms such as "do the crime, do the time", that prisoners are dehumanized to the extent that many people wouldn't bat an eye at the treatment of inmates as modern day slavery. They deserved it, right?

  • How am I supposed to go on?

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  • including your allegedly heinous example of bonding with a widow because you also lost your SO! Can you imagine?! Humans bonding over a common experience?

    I used that example, because I am a widow myself. My fiance passed a few years ago. I don't mean to imply people do this out of malice, just that they try to "make you feel better" by relating to your grief, but unfortunately grief doesn't work like that. When I am grieving, more than anything I'm just looking for someone to listen and understand, not try and tell me "it's normal" or "this happens to everyone, don't feel so bad", because as genuine and heartfelt that sentiment is it is not helpful. I'm not immune to it either, I met a man on the bus who'd lost his daughter, and my first reaction was to mention my fiance rather than listen and let him let it out. I realized what I was doing and reflected about it later, I saw how he reacted and how sharing that type of pain doesn't mitigate it, what you really want is to talk to someone without comparing tragedy. There is a time and place for that, but not in those moments of grief and pain.

    Yes, I mentioned that explicitly in my comment, did you read all of it? I never said that it was okay for that type of thing to happen to men, and that we should talk about it. And just like with letting women have the floor, we should allow men to have it when the convo is centered on that issue. I don't see what the issue with giving each issue their own time and space is, we need to have focus if we're talking about two very different, yet similar scenarios, in order to have some kind of real way to find a solution proper to both.

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    JOHN IS POSSESSED!!!

    Quickplay Improv Game Using Everybody is John at Every Post is an RPG community. Feel Free to Join Up!

    lemmy.ml /post/29024975
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    Just Repeat His Name Until It Loses All Meaning...

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    Finally Summited on Celeste Classic and I didn't Throw my Laptop Out of the Window!

  • rpg @ttrpg.network
    wolfinthewoods @lemmy.ml

    EVERY POST IS AN RPG - Each Post is a Quick, Improv RPG. First RPG is up: Stuperheroes! A parody of the superhero genre inspired by comics like The Tick and Megaton Man.

    lemmy.ml /c/Every_Post_Is_An_RPG
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
    wolfinthewoods @lemmy.ml

    EVERY POST IS AN RPG - Each Post is a Quick, Improv RPG. First RPG is up: Stuperheroes! A parody of the superhero genre inspired by comics like The Tick and Megaton Man.

    lemmy.ml /c/Every_Post_Is_An_RPG