This requires a level of pre-planning that I am only sometimes capable of.

I don’t understand how it isn’t more obvious to everyone that the American people at large literally did not elect him, the election was stolen, Trump and Elon Musk both were on national television bragging about how they’ve done so, multiple times.

Do not ever trust the US government for anything, ever - you’re completely correct there - but please don’t get the impression that the majority of citizens are over here cheering and rubbing their hands together in sick, evil glee. We are hostages of the owner class. What is happening, happens without our consent or approval, and those who express their disapproval are shot dead.

There is a small percentage of very uneducated and unwell people who do support the actions of the American regime and they’re being hugely signal boosted by said regime as a way of whitewashing what is going on. If they can get one person to express approval and then put that sound bite onto Fox News, then suddenly you can have a thousand people express approval. Once you have a thousand people on board the misinformation is now self supporting, it’ll spread on its own.

A small subset of Americans are cartoonishly evil, and surprise, it’s primarily the robber barons just like the last time. A larger subset of Americans are criminally underinformed about their situation, either through their own lack of interest or through targeted efforts to destroy their ability to learn the truth (defunding of educational programs, defunding NPR, burning books, etc). The largest subset of Americans are just scared. Everything that has defined the backbone of domestic life in the USA in our lifetimes has been destroyed and it is not coming back. People who speak up about this publicly are disappeared or executed. Some of them, you hear about on the news after. Most, you won’t.

I have such an unbelievable amount of respect for citizens in other countries who are willing and able to stand up for their rights. I always thought the US would be capable of the same. And in some ways, we are. In most of the ways that matter, though, we’re scared little children, whose fear and ignorance is being amplified and preyed on by those who would take advantage of it, and the average person is either blind to it or afraid of the consequences of standing up to it alone.

Please, hate what we’ve done, hate who leads us, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that regular citizens are approving of this.

Time for rolling,

Grass

Lucky.

I played a goolock a few years ago, when he finally got the proper attention of his patron, he, uh… delaminated. His patron briefly turned off the strong/weak nuclear forces holding his component atoms together.

Loras started that morning as a human man and ended that night as a pile of loose protons. Rough way to go, as they say.

Yes. Don’t ask me why, I don’t have a fucking clue, but it is. If I had to guess, it’s because it’s a (quite good) game about rebuilding yourself from nothing. You start the game as an empty shell of a character who was just shot dead and lost all their memories, and the entire rest of the game is about creating yourself to be who you want to be, and about making change in the Wasteland and deciding on a new future of things to come. I can sort of understand why that might resonate for trans folks. I have no idea if this is an accurate assessment or not.

But it’s a game that I love with an ongoing unholy fervor so I say, the more the merrier.

For me at least, being grounded was the preferable alternative to having my ass beaten physically off my body with the nearest leather belt or wooden implement. I can serve my time and be free afterward, or I can make things worse for everyone involved, and still be grounded but also be physically harmed while I’m grounded.

Was this good and right? Hell if I know, man. It feels like a fundamental disrespect of someone’s human rights, but also, I was ten, and it succeeded in teaching me to be less of an incorrigible little fucker.

YOU made this? In GIMP?

Fuck yeah, I’ve had this saved for like two years, no idea where it came from. Nice work, this is top quality, I’ve already reposted it to several people across Lemmy.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

I’d believe that some corners were cut in these servicemen’s duty, and it just happened to be one too many corners one too many times. The men are fatigued, they want to get off the ship. It’s possible these corners were even cut on purpose with exactly this result in mind in an attempt to get them off the ship.

Sure. This comment thread is about class mobility in the West though.

But, fact is, it seems it’s the same everywhere.

Throughout pretty much all of human history it’s been apparent that the “nobles” class has been, at best, more trouble than they’re worth; and at worst, the instigating spark that creates a nation-destroying blaze.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read a history book that the American nobleman is equally as useless and destructive as his counterpart anywhere else.

You say “fired all the five star generals”, I say “created new leadership opportunities for disgruntled veterans”.

America is going to end up with two armies, one full of soldiers and one full of sycophants and idiots. Boy, this doesn’t sound familiar or anything, does it?

Nah, if you do it right the wafers are thin enough that you won’t stick to things. You want them to be able to react to nearby EM fields, which means they need to be small and light so they can vibrate (? I don’t 100% recall the exact function they perform to give you this sense). Which in turn means the magnets are small and light enough that they aren’t likely to stick to objects, or wipe credit cards, or damage your phone.

But probably don’t pick up powerful magnets with those fingers and probably don’t get an MRI on your hands.

This is why I was so mad about Starfield, on its own merits it’s a perfectly mediocre game that I nearly enjoyed for about 15-20 hours, but the instant I booted it up I realized it was still on the same mf engine they used for Fallout 4. Whole game plays like a high quality F4 mod. I was mad as hell, that was the one thing I was actually somewhat excited for about Starfield was that the space setting and new IP might actually give them the opportunity to cook up a new game engine.

At this point I’m expecting to see ES6 come out on yet another further Frankensteined iteration of this crusty bitch and I’m just going to laugh about it. I’ve lost hope that it’ll get better and there’s a slim chance I might get pleasantly surprised.

Look man this entire sprint was only six days long and we had enough shit already planned, take your scope creep and shove it. Saliva works if you’re dedicated enough and you’re smart enough to invent Astroglide. Ship it

I’ve wanted to do this from the very moment I learned it was possible, circa 2014.

Unfortunately it’s kind of difficult to find a doctor who will do this sort of elective surgery for you. So my options are kind of just, do without, or do it myself. So far I’ve just done without. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t give the occasional side eye to the kitchen knife whenever I’ve had a bit to drink.

This incident will be reported.

This is a real life hack. I’ll flip a coin to make a decision all the time, not because I’m beholden to the coin’s result, but because while the coin is spinning I’m suddenly aware of which side I hope it lands on.

“Could American Evangelicals spot the Antichrist?”

The answer is, resoundingly: no, they cannot, despite having an entire Where’s Waldo-esque guide to spotting him listed in their holy book that they love to claim to have read.

I’m an atheist (reading the Bible critically will do that to you); and even I readily recognize that Trump, and men just like him, were explicitly called out and warned against in Revelations, among other chapters.

Religion was most useful to us when it was used to reign in kings who feared nothing except the wrath of God. It was, in fact, quite effective at that and I think we’re largely better off for it. That use case has outlived its usefulness by now though.