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andrew_bidlaw

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  • Better safe than fucked up so check in with a psychologist.

  • I hope EU and US takes notes, because that's what you get if you slash all education, pump up nationalistic bubble and live your population in such misery their men can as well sell themselves for $30000 and gamble on their survival, or do that on pure enthusiasm. The rightwing campaign to co-opt the problems of white youth would inescapably lead to something like that in a couple of turns and with enough pressure. Thus there would be another country joining the humanity's war on extinction on the side of extinction.

  • undiscernible blurping from the likes of Vance

    Zee: Thanks, I guess? So much for the global superpower.

  • We've seen Mad Max, but what about Reasonable Max, Supply-Side Max or even Opportunistic Max? Or, in this particular case, Grimes-please-call-me Max? That's a whole different story.

  • Watching that inteview and remembering the first Zelensky's adresses to his and even my russian people early in the war, I was pretty occupied with an idea of how these two numbheads would be good punching bags once I put a trash bag on them and use a duct tape to ensure their breath doesn't leave it, and hitting them repatedly with a fist or some blunt and heavy object. I don't usually accept or encourage violence, but I felt lost watching this shit piece of negotiations and also very, morbidly angry. I couldn't avoid thinking of going physical with them and it probably took a year and a half from Zelensky's tired neurons to keep himself contained until the meeting ended. I'm pretty sure he kicked something after leaving it. I'm sure I would've if I has been him.

  • To add, if you didn't know that, Zelensky and Putin are both Vovas, but the start of their names are spelled a bit different, Volodymyr vs Vladimir, volo vs vla, following ukrainian and russian takes at the same root name. The thing that doesn't make sense tho is that the end of their names, dymyr\dimir is spelled exactly the same, and is not a marker of dialects, but rather Putin having an old soviet-like transliteration of a slavic name while Zelensky has a more modern one that follows the actual way it's spelled. A probable reason for why the old version is like that is that russian and ukrainian have their У sounding very different to English Y, like 'ugh', and using 'I' avoided such association. I'm not a linguist at all, so take it with a grain of salt.

  • In the 90s media were completely uncut though, especially their coverage of the first Chechen war. Some openly satyrized Yeltsin and he was kinda ok with it. Toying the line started with overtaking НТВ under Putin, the major divide between pro and anti-state stances and publications then happened around demonstrations in early 2010s, and in the end of the decade the latter started to be pushed out until ouright bans and suppression in 2022-.

    There were, like, some guidelines, but when coffins of young boys started to arrive in droves and people protested against the war, print media was there to cover it, and this better-to-be-forgotten page of our history is now set in stone and I occasionally see publications from that period, no way to purge them all. Compare it to today, when mothers' union not against war, but for better treatment of their sons got quietly put down, and the existing media are just a surrogate tightly governed by statesmen.

    On the initial question about Yeltsin vs Trump, it's hard for me to compare them for their context is inescapably different. Boris was, like, the first real elected pres, and a populist at that, and while Trump is tasked with just not fucking things too much, Yeltsin took a wheel in a harsh transitional period. And as two populists they share a lot of what makes their public image. But, call it naive and biased, Yeltsin sounded humble and honest when he talked about what he does, like he believed in it. It felt like he cared, but was a wrong person to be there from the very start, and drunk himself to death some eight years after passing the wheel to Putin being still influenced by that. With Don getting prezzed in after neolibs Obama then Biden and actually doing worse than if he did nothing at all, with empty waving like with the wall on the Mexican border, I perceive him significantly worse, more dishonest than Boris. Even knowing now that two were deeply pocketed by oligarchs (first time, eh?), I'm still find some sympathy towards our drunkie and find some personality and struggle within him, that I can't say I see in Trump.

  • IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.

  • February 2022 Part 2: Electric DOGEloo

  • What's the current meta in that quest?

  • One another bet. And that one I'd like to counter.

  • I mean I don't too, but it would be an interesting coincidence. There are a lot of chances that his term will end prematurely, and it's interesting to bet it occurs somewhen around this margin.

  • The monks aren't druggies

    One of them's called Meth-odius

    It's a classic blunder of any war on drugs at that point.

  • And the name of the place they were produced in can be adapted to English as Fuckyoursk.

  • Murica

  • Trains: exist.

    If you have set destinations for years to come, you don't need a driving wheel.

  • Poor? Look how many sausages he got!

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
    andrew_bidlaw @sh.itjust.works

    The gossips I work on are as follows: laptop, w11, Iris vcard chip, visual artifacts and reboot on only chrome+obs for a half an hour.

    I'm OOTL on both Win11 and Intel's discrete gfx, and I wasn't there to see the drop myself, so I just retell you what onlookers've seen at the moment it crashed hard. It boots ok right now, so I can do every possible check. I just lack experience with both this system and this brand of vcards. I'm 100% sure some Lemmimgs have expertise in that and maybe even encountered that.

    linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What would your favorite gamepade look like and have unlike other? What are the benefits?

    As I had no experience with Valve's products, but rather ps4-5 knock-offs, I want them to have one or two scrollwheels with a sensory feedback in the future.

    Switching radio stations like in old timea, adjusting your cam's focus in Outlast-likes, rolling the roulette while gambling in some Yakuza game, switching your equipment in some stealth game - it can certainly has it uses if it wasn't too weird.

    But what idea or part would you like to add to generic controllers and schemes if you had an authority over that one an you had studios to follow this quirk?

    Metal @lemmy.world
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    Emotional Terrorist by Thou

    Doom Metal @lemmy.ml
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    Emotional Terrorist by Thou

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do apps redownload mediafiles that are rendered in my app\browser when I save them?

    Maybe it's something in UI, but many times I watch pictures (not even videos, they are their own can of worms), and want to save them, it shows me that I'm downloading them again although they are cached in whatever app I see them from.

    Like this link with a happy dog: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/1e/52/711e52f1d6c7ead78f4380214f68c259.jpg

    I see it in high rez in my browser, I can zoom in, and I can't tell any difference from a copy that I can download, but it's still, well, another download if I want to save it, and not a move from cache to my download folder, another request to the server, another waste of traffic.

    Is there some rule of sandboxing for everything you load that I don't know about? In cases like our fediverse, I wouldn't like to cause double load when I already have the picture I want. Can I cut it down with some plugin in mobile Firefox?

    I feel like I'm missing something big time.

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How to contain ones's fear and anger if you live in repressive states?

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    E-Try-cicles carshare and selling business could be a banger in promoting e-vehicles

    1. That's how we sometimes introduce first-timers (usually kids) to the idea of riding, it's easier to balance especially in the taffic jams and isn't as dangerous for first-timers;
    2. The space between and over two back wheels may be used for a motor, a battery and a place to put your luggage on.
    3. They have a good marketable slogan already in the name, as they are Try-cycles.

    You just need to design it to cool and\or professional so the rider won't be afraid of looking like a kid or a clown.

    Pro and con: it's width is way more than that of a bycicle, but at the same time it gives a bit of wiggle space for your feet.

    askgaybros @lemm.ee
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    What red flags in dating men are critical in your opinion

    The title.

    Political humor @sh.itjust.works
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    Some russian 'fuck off' phrases to use with republicans

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you screw in both bolts on VGA cables, just the top one or ignore them altogether?

    ShowerThoughts @sh.itjust.works
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    Men don't cry and therefore should be obligated to use a tear-free baby shampoo

    Anime @ani.social
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    Is Uzumaki cursed?

    That's not just second episode and it's dorky animation, the first one is dogshit too. I feel like Uzumaki just can't get a proper adaptation. And it's probably a curse we won't have a chance to lift.

    Juke Box - share music @sh.itjust.works
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    E L U C I D - The World is Dog (rap, jungle, beats)

    Found this today and I think it's cool and true, although too shooort.

    Videos @lemmy.world
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    The Alt-Right in Tabletop Games

    I've stumbled upon that in my feed.

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Where to put a smartphone if you move fast and need it always at hand?

    As I always move fast I have a problem with feeling like I loosely strapped a brick onto myself when I put my phone in my pockets, including waist and knee ones. It chaotically moves at each step and I'm tired of that. To the point I take it in my hand when I'm in a real hurry.

    I guess, Lemmy has a lot of people who either run or do outdoors activities and labor.

    What are the best positions on the body to make it move less when you walk or run? Are there some great smartphone holders, straps that you can recommend? Can I use it with casual clothes without it looking weird?

    I suppose the ones you place on the belt are obvious to suggest first, but I haven't seen them since the death of small button phones and current smartphones are kinda big for that to work. And no, putting it into a bag, a suitcase or a backpack wouldn't work for me for I prefer not to be dependent on carrying them on me.

    interestingasfuck @lemmy.world
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    About the russian Memo

    FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone posted it around a lot, and it sounds legit due to it being on the .gov site.

    I wanted to dig into the original version since I'm a native and have some edge in using it over my homies. Even some rewards at that, kek.

    Welp. Mostly it's an easily translateable basic vocab including media-specific words. I suspect it's an american or a russian-american person writing in Russian and sometimes\always using an automatic translator. And they are stupid at that, as they don't know how complex punctuation works or don't read what they post. The punctuation is kinda confusing, sometimes hinting that it's a copy paste from a translator.

    • отличается от таковой - is a rare turn of words that many russians fail at, just like americans fail at they're. I don't know many persons who can correctly put it into a sentence. That's probably a translated text since they can't handle the right placement of commas.
    • ставленником - is a weird archaic word tha
    Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    andrew_bidlaw @sh.itjust.works

    Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and how to avoid it

    Since Russia started to use DPI to block YouTube and other stuff, there arised a couple of solutions to fuck with it. I've come around this repository or, even better, the end of it's page for many cross-platform tools that may let you avoid DPI, and I've used some of them to prove they are working.

    https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

    They don't work for resources that are explicitely banned, it only undoes this one layer of blocking. As Russia didn't block YT (like Twitter) that's enough for that one usecase. It's no private VPN or something, but it may become useful in the future.

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Weird links between the Tower of Babyl myth and the Twin Towers

    • Babylon is in modern Iraq, one of the countries invaded by the US in the aftermath of 9\11
    • Both claimed to be the highest towers in the world
    • Both are in populated influential trade centers
    • The Babylon myth with different languages VS the War on Terror, affecting policies worldwide, growing tensions and fear in the post-USSR world, now - post 9\11 world
    • The pronounced reasoning behind the 9\11, told as a fatwa by Osama, starts as follows: All these American crimes and sins are a clear proclamation of war against God, his Messenger, and the Muslims. Not that far from what caused the abrahamic god to prank Babylon.

    This connection is loose, lacks context and mixes very different things together, but I haven't got a pleasure to shower any longer than that to think things out.

    How BS is it?