*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.

Intel macs about to go for cheap (hopefully) and will be great for putting Linux on.

The Turncoats (The Raincoats)

I mean, I don’t think any of them are naturally blond anyway, so the original band name, 4 Non Blondes, could work just as well.

In effect, the fruit is a nonce.

What’s the fruits name, Jimmy Savile?

Shocker that a rapist will never understand the word “no.” He probably thinks Greenland is “playing hard to get” or some sick loser shit.

Also, and I’m just throwing this out there, maybe the circlejerk of nostalgia bait for Gen X/Millennials means fuck-all to younger people in general because it’s the nostalgia of their parents, not their own thing?

Like, aren’t we seeing this in so many different properties? As time marches on, interest wanes? Nobody cares about Marvel movies anymore. Nobody cares about Star Wars anymore. The most hardcore fanatics tend to be older and had the originals, which were literally original content, as things they grew up with. Part of the mystery and excitement of them was how much was left unexplained. Seriously, the Clone Wars was this mysterious fucking thing when it was just an offhand comment by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope. Now we have entire TV series dedicated to the background of the Clone Wars. Mystery gone. The first season of The Mandalorian brought back a sense of mystery to the series and then promptly dropped it to mix it in with every other piece of Star Wars memorabilia.

Young people want their own stuff that they’re growing up with, they don’t want rehashes of the shit their parents obsessed over.

Look at the continued interest in Adventure Time spinoffs, for example. Adventure Time first came out when I was just shy of 29. It would be fodder for the children of people just slightly older than me. It was also enjoyable for older folks who enjoyed silly fantasy, which gave it wider appeal. It persists more because it was an actual original thing that some people grew up with.

We live in an era where copyright that lasts 100 years after authorial death has broken corporations brains and they are scared to death of anything original in case it might not be a clear moneymaker. Letting interest in a new property grow over time is almost unheard of in the Netflix era of two seasons and then fuck you, it’s over. So even when new properties are explored, most aren’t given enough time to mature into something that becomes truly nostagliac for a younger generation.

If corporations want people to be as invested in long-lived series, they have to allow the option for new, interesting series to take the stage. Is it really a shocker that people are over games that started in the NES era? That young people want stories and ideas that reflect the world they live in, not the one their parents grew up in? Young people absolutely lose their shit over Undertale and Deltarune, both games made by a single auteur developer. Pokemon, referenced in the article, were sleeper hits that took time before they became an absolute craze.

I’m in my forties, and I constantly talk about how the world our parents brought us up to live in was dead before we were born. It’s the same but at an accelerated pace for kids these days. The world we know and are trying to prepare them for no longer exists. Our stories and nostalgia become meaningless for our kids because it doesn’t speak to their experiences.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

“If so, you may be entitled to compensation for your loss.”

but who knows, I might be wrong

“But fuck it, who cares if I’m wrong, we ought to indiscriminately murder the infirm for the crime of being infirm.”

I hope this motherfucker gets hit with a brick and is suddenly infirm himself. I’m sure he’ll think he’s the exception to the rule. Especially since this motherfucker is already 52. Sounds like he’s getting old and infirm even without a brick to the skull.

Sorry for being so angry, getting cancer at 42 through no fault of my own and having jackoffs like this think I should die makes me wish they’d get a taste of their own medicine.

I mean, it depends a lot on where you are I suppose. I am stuck in a backwards, conservative, largely MAGA hick town where all the white people seem super glad that we’re deporting a bunch of their friends and neighbors considering this a big farming town, and we have a lot of immigrant farm workers. They don’t seem to care that the white people left over aren’t strong or resilient enough to actually do the farm work nor do they want to because they think they’re above it.

I don’t have any friends here, and I am staying with family who while not MAGA is still very conservative in the economic sense, so I get a lot of grief for being broke and having cancer and acting like I should be worshipping the ground they walk on because I’m not on the street instead of that being the bare minimum you should do for family who did nothing to get saddled with an insanely costly disease.

So I huddle inside and try to avoid going out as much as possible because there isn’t much here for me. All the people with educations and thoughtful opinions leave this town in their twenties at the latest. I’m not going to suddenly meet a whole group of smart, thoughtful people. It’s also not even particularly good to look at, it’s a drab, dirty, desert town without a lot of trees and a bunch of concrete.

Like seriously, when you’re in a situation like mine, what the fuck is going outside even for other than being reminded that you live in fucking hell?

I put a trans mask on your trans masc so they can be trans masked while they are trans masc

I think you mean first rule if Project Mayhem.

Me going outside:

Session at least has a foundation behind it as well to try to seek financial support and drive development, and I’ll give it that.

However, personal opinion incoming, I think another underappreciated aspect of the “privacy” conversation isn’t just routing but also hardware ownership. We can rely on other people’s routing services all we want, but in the end, that’s still other people’s property we have to traverse to make connections. Especially for groups that function within a small community, I think locally hosted intranets are really important. Sure, some metadata leakage may happen, but most of the metadata leakage that happens (if I recall correctly) is to the service host/admin. So if you’re in a small, local, tight-knit community you may not be worried about your best friend who is a technical wizard knowing small bits of metadata for your localized interpersonal communications. Especially if you use the Matrix protocol but decline to federate and keep it an “internal” tool for your group/organization. I think “ownership of the means of communication” may be the 21st century equivalent of Marx’s “ownership of the means of production” in terms of importance to the proletariat. If we continue to just use large organizations network pipes to communicate, there are still unfortunately ways to target and block our traffic, even if our privacy is otherwise secured.

I mean… That’s why it’s called theater, because its theatrics to make you feel secure but doesn’t actually secure anything at all.

So what those other countries are doing is simply called “security.”

I don’t know if you’re ready to hear this, but international trust in US news was in the shitter before 9/11 and got flushed after 9/11.

Or did everyone forget the lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction repeated breathlessly by US media without question?

TSA sucks too, though. Security theater that strips travelers of 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. Tons of shit that isn’t supposed to get past the TSA does and people are chosen at random for enhanced screening where they have to open their bags for no good reason. Also those X-ray machines were never proven to be necessary or safe.

Nah for real fuck the TSA too, they were an overreach during the Bush era that never got put to bed. It was a stealth jobs program to help cover Bush’s shitty economy.

So for real I don’t feel bad that privacy invading TSA agents aren’t getting paid for their 4th amendment breaking jobs.

Funny because the UK colonized half the fucking planet just for tea and curry.

Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.

https://www.wireguard.com/