In what way were they the worst? Were their arguments exceptionally bad?

Society developed the tools to manipulate humans based on common errs we make, and so of course the logical end-point is the continued control of those already in power. We've also deprived the vast majority of people from the tools for counteracting common mistakes, behind paywalls, time theft, and esoteric elitist language. By this, we've kept the means of inoculating ourselves against control out of reach.

The rich directly define how this world by who they lobby, what charities they fund or deprive, and what they make their news outlets pedal. They are the reason for ignorance, stupidity, and fanaticism.

First we must educate others in order to inoculate them. Then we must organize to wrench our power back to ourselves and away from the elite.

actor is being treated as a gender-neutral term describing both genders more recently.

it's the third weed type: sativa, indica, and friendica.

"Somethin's Wrong with the G-Diffuser!"

"... I guess I should be Thankful..."

"Hey, what's the big Idea!?"

"Don't party just yet. It's time to try our new weapon"

"COCKY LITTLE FREAK"

"Somebody beat us here. it's all gone!"

"Still think there's Nothing to Chaos Theory?"

the secret is that all logos are soulless slop. you just become attached to the old ones due to familiarity. when that familiarity is removed, you see it for what it really is.

Can't tell if you are trying to be forcefully post-gender or trans-exclusionary.

Gender is arbitrary, being conceived in passing by ancient society noticing the difference in hardware without nuance, which was later used as a rhetorical tool for subjugating women and 'deviants' (those who didn't fit neatly within the binary). Because of this subjugative function, it began being strictly enforced, and we still see that strictness in society today.

Modern attempts at sorting gender have been a failure, consistently failing to actually cleanly sort men from women in a clean binary.

Eventually there will come a time where trans can be omitted from conversation, but that is not now, due to the danger omitting it poses for trans individuals from unadjusted individuals. The strict gender binary must be dismantled first.

They are different in how they are treated and their life outcomes due to their treatment. The same can be made about why leftists talk about trans men. We don't care about the trans part, we care about the treatment they are put through by society.

Contrasting that with how racists talk about black men because they view that there are irrevocable differences between black men and white men, or how transphobes say trans men because they view them as women 'faking' manhood, and you can see how the same language changes meaning in differing contexts.

I'm so cooked - I thought the pic was a video because I mistook the handles in the glass as a pause icon.

The idea is that these social media sites always become monopolies. That occurs because no one can communicate with each other across platforms, which eventually leads to a majority of users migrating to a single platform over time. Once that happens, the social media group no longer has to try and the media site enshittifies slowly over time. On top of this, the insane amount of users also cripples the centralized system's ability to self-moderate properly, leading to user-based enshittification as well.

With federated social media, that barrier doesn't exist, and, in theory, the subsequent conglomeration of users doesn't happen. Additionally, federated instances can be self-hosted and sport much smaller userbases which can make self-moderation much simpler.

The joke in the video is that rather than switching to federated social media like mastodon and lemmy, twitter users chose to go to yet another centralized social media site (which while having a federation protocol, is unlikely to have users utilizing that defederation). Essentially, Billy is abandoning twitter to go to another site which will potentially have the same downward trend as twitter did before.

Get a switch lite, yeah. I highly recommend playing star fox 64, Pokemon stadium, and the older legend of Zelda games. They are very good entry points into gaming and are all available via a Nintendo online membership.

Hey, I'm no Ubuntu user! ... I'm a linux mint user. /j

Here's the journal article the infographic cites

That would be innovation, which I'm convinced no company can do anymore.

It feels like I learn that one of our modern innovations was already thought up and written down into a book in the 1950s, and just wasn't possible at that time due to some limitation in memory, precision, or some other metric. All we did was do 5 decades of marginal improvement to get to it, while not innovating much at all.

Jewelery making I think? The round tooth life is often used for winding metal wire and the toothed side is for actually grabbing things, so using the multipliers you could quickly switch between which type of work you're doing.

That's my guess.

I think it is spoof-resistant from the sound of it? You giving a valid proof-of-region via one of their circuit designs provides proof of your region but does not give your exact location, from the sounds of it.

I'll get back to you after I've read through it.

Really not the right take to say "we lost the Election because of Muslims not voting for Kamala".

• It was not just Muslims who did not turn out to vote. It was a large list of different demographics. Some demographics were explicitly shown to having turned out more in order to vote for trump. Of any demographic, Muslims and Arabs were the groups who had probably the best reasons not to vote (islamophobia on both sides and our nation actively propagating a genocide of Arabs regardless of the political party in power)
• While we're focusing on the demographics which did or didn't show, it's still a massive issue that the majority of Americans don't vote, period.
• focusing on this failure as a point of anger and choosing only to blame a group you have no control over has zero value. You either need to either put your eyes forward to prepare for what comes next, or analyze what you could have done better in order to improve your own actions for next time. If there is ever a time for stoicism, it is now, right before the oncoming crisis.

I agree that the Lost Cause myth is romantic, and I'd say that Whedon used it very effectively as a theme.

I can't really agree with Feral Historian's take that this myth was 'kinda true' for the south as that seems to suggest that southern fighters are somewhat absolved of guilt. "They were just trying to preserve their way of life!" When that life revolved around assisting plantations in maintaining control over their slave populations, often by hunting down slaves, or acting as overseers of their work, rings hollow to me.

It reads the same as anyone who's kept their head down to get by in an unjust system. You are culpable. And then fighting to try and preserve that unjust system makes you even more culpable.

That is why state government elections are so important right now.

• States all need a representative voting system implemented. Ranked Choice, STAR, it doesn't matter, just get something that's not a single ballot practice.
• Each state also needs it's electoral college distributed to top candidates proportionally, by either direct vote count or by counties won. This at least somewhat neutralizes the effects of gerrymandering.

Better systems can come later, this should be a top priority for going forward. As it stands the American public doesn't stand a chance at being represented and that needs to change first before other fixes can actually come about.