Nah, my writing is sigma.

Seriously Indisputably Gross Mistyped and Absurd

Yikes. At least he's dating someone with similar interests?

You're right about the lesson learned. A silver lining.

Damn, I've never thought of myself as a whale before but I guess for a while there I was. I wonder how many of the people we see in these games with all the premium characters and skins are like me, struggling. I always thought of them as having more money than sense but maybe they (we) lack both.

His diaper is actually always empty. All of Donald Trump's shit flies out of his mouth as sound waves.

Indirectly, it's a strong indictment of Trump's mental health. A politician's strongest weapon (and a conman's, which he also is) is their image, and Trump knows it. If he's letting himself go to the extent that his odor deserves note, then you can be assured that he's let go of everything else that he considers less important than his image (i.e. everything else that exists) at least as much as he's let go of his hygiene, probably more.

The Donald J. Trump that debated Biden was a bad choice for a set of reasons that did not include becoming incapable of caring for the most important thing in his life. The current DJT has added that reason to the list.

If it helps me to avoid something even worse later on, maybe it was even worth the 500 bucks! Hopefully I'll never have to find out.

Yes, you did answer my question very well especially with the part about cyclical history. I will watch the resources you linked to in both comments. Again, I am very thankful that you took the time to answer me so thoroughly.

After I've done some studying, would you mind if I maybe DM'd you?

Better to play it safe.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment, and for being so nice about it too. In this polarized political climate, it's quite refreshing to find someone who holds "extreme" views and who is still willing to educate rather than butt heads.

Can I ask a follow-up question? Reading your comment an immediate concern that came up was with complacency. The system you described seems to rely very heavily on nobody being an idiot (in the original Greek sense of the word, someone who isn't interested in matters of the city-state) but in reality, a lot of people are. What if a few generations into an anarcho-syndicalist utopia, a group of people decide to elect a representative in a broad sense, informally of course, because they trust him and it's easier this way and they can focus on other things? And then another group likes the idea, and another, and these representatives end up scheming amongst themselves...

I think where I'm going is that the structure doesn't seem rigid. That can be a very good thing for several reasons, but it can also be bad in that it seems (again, to my uninformed self) to not be very resilient against erosion.

I hope you'll notice that I am absolutely on board with the abolishment of impositional hierarchies. Both concerns I've expressed have to do with how the system would stay alive rather than with what it sets out to accomplish.

Thanks again for taking time out of your Sunday to educate a total stranger.

Fuck, my condolences.

I am not the guy you responded to but I am interested.

Because in my ignorant head, the big problem with anarchy (I use the word broadly to mean "a lack of government" mostly because I don't know any better) is: what's stopping an ill-intentioned mob from making itself a de facto government little by little through coercion when people can't resort to a system that concentrates and organizes the otherwise sparse powers of society that want to uphold the state of anarchy? It's like you'd need a government to ensure that there's no government, which is clearly absurd.

Thank you! I very much have that predisposition. I've noticed that I have addictive behavior towards sugar and caffeine as well (I'm fine as long as I don't have any, but if I have some I'll continue to crave more at shorter and shorter intervals until I go to sleep and it resets), and recently celebrated my third month nicotine free after about four years total smoking and then vaping.

Addictive proclivities are a personal defect normally. But when you exist in a context where there are people whose job it is to get you hooked on things, they become a handicap.

I was thinking more along the lines of "everybody uses more soap than they, specifically, need to". We're taught to completely remove the outer layers, wven exfoliating the skin in some cases. That's too much regardless of where your starting level was.

I was a young idiot making minimum wage and I spent 500 dollars in a gacha game over a three month period. It's been years and I still wake up at night, remember this and feel the strongest remorse.

Using too much soap dries your skin. So then you moisturize to make up for it, increasing consumption and pollution when just using less soap would accomplish the same thing without the drawbacks.

The decision on this hexagram mentions making an offering with two bowls, so I like to think she's presenting the offering of fruits laying before her.

Sure, but you're saying that you'd call this "badly drawn" if it were made by a human. And the reasons you're giving are that it isn't realistic. But the two aren't the same.

Wouldn't that count more as a critique of the style than of the technique?

Thanks, people don't usuallt recognize it! They're one of my favorite bands.

One reason would be that with an iPhone, you're paying two to five times the price of an Android phone with comparable hardware.

This has absolutely nothing to do with ReVanced.

You mean like literally every single attempt at DRM since the Big Bang?

Ketamine does a lot of good for a lot of people. Don't knock on a genuinely life-saving medicine just because Elmo can't handle his drugs.

Did anyone expect any different? Bragging like he'd already won before, making an ass out of himself during, downplaying it after. That's par for the course with Trump. It's how he dealt with every single one of his court hearings as well.

I've been running Plasma 6 + Wayland since the packages went live in the Arch repos and have had zero issues. I was already running Wayland sessions in Plasma 5.2x with only a few minor annoyances. On AMD hardware.

It's written "pseudo", a prefix in old Greek meaning fake (as in pseudopod). "sudo" is a Linux command to run a command or script as another user.

You lack discernment. A bastard is still a bastard when he mistreats a delusional freak, but this post is about the delusional freak. There's no reason why we can't fewl superior to both sides in a sruoid squabble.

This is just one of the many reasons why our current IP laws are complete and utter garbage.

Anybody who needs to be told this is either a newborn or braindead.

This hexagram brings the image of a fox crossing a frozen river. If it drops its guard before reaching the end, its tail will get wet and all the care it took until then will be wasted.

Flux decided to make the fox humanoid and to completely thaw the river but I liked the result.

I didn't mean to imply that they did. Just pointing out a difference.

At least launchers don't fry your SSDs and tank your performance like Denuvo "allegedly" does.

The only one I know is Street Fighter 6 (over a year after release too) but I'm sure there's at least two others. Your point is made, however.

If you've never watched the movie 12 Angry Men, do yourself a favor and watch it. You are going to love it and it has everything to do with your comment.

I think this is an example of where the left-right axis isn't the most adequate way of viewing things. The Fediverse in general is anti-authoritarian. You can be all the way from a far-left anarchist to a far-right anarcho-capitalist and still be anti-authoritarian, just like both tankies and nazis are authoritarian.

But isn't that exactly what they were saying? If you go on X, for example, you can literally be banned for using the word "cisgender". Musk considers it a slur. Here, you can voice any opinion.

However there's a different between agreeing with some right-wing policies and being a full-on MAGA fascist. Full-on MAGA fascists shrivel up and die when exposed to any discourse that hasn't been heavily censored and editorialized in their favor. So naturally they'll avoid places where different opinions are shared. This alone is enough reason to call this place an echo chamber, because a (sadly) very prevalent set of opinions isn't represented here.

And I can, for example, get away with referring to MAGA fascists as MAGA fascists knowing full well that not a single one of those Trump-fellating pussies will say anything against me for it, and even if one does, the community will not have their back.

Not all fraud is venture capitalism, but all venture capitalism is fraud.

Wrong premises lead to wrong conclusions. Games are expensive because publishers that add absolutely no value to the product take a big cut of the revenue. The solution is not to raise prices and continue feeding the parasites, it's to cut costs. Otherwise, the price increase will simply lead to less people buying the products and even lower profits.

YouTube ReVanced still works. Also, ad blockers on desktop.

~ resolves to your home folder only if it's at the beginning of a path. /~ isn't the same as ~. Go ahead and test it with something other than rm if you don't believe me (this is the Internet, I could be lying).