Oooh, time to bring up a weird CA history thing I know - Sacramento and most of central CA is in what’s essentially a giant flood basin, and it’s flooded before! In 1862, there was a massive deluge in the state that more or less turned the center of CA into another Great Lake of the US. It also happened even worse in 1605 apparently, so everyone’s mostly wondering at what point will it happen again. Or maybe the sea will just swoop in and claim the great bowl of CA for itself.
Even if there were a non-zero amount of African slaves that somehow had a better life (and to be absolutely clear, they’re weren’t any), that in no way absolves the practice of slavery for the millions of slaves who’s lives were irrevocably harmed. And that’s not even touching on the centuries of damage that had and continues to have on the class structure of the US, but I suppose that’s the point of statements like this - they want to pretend nothing happened and nothing is wrong now. What an absolutely shit take.
A little light reading while you wait 20 minutes for your McFood because nobody wants to waste their life being abused for hunger wages by a literal clown....
I mean, this is almost certainly in an employee only area (hence the “NO CELL PHONES” reminder with it), so any “random person” reading it has most likely heard the many reminders from corporate they most assuredly get weekly.
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
you need a Microsoft signed stub to boot anything other than Windows on a PC
Can you expand on this? Maybe I’m just misunderstanding you, but a “pc” is not a Windows made machine. It is a collection of disparate computer parts made by different companies with no requirement to run Windows as the exclusive OS once put together.
Even on a Windows OS, I can run any program I want (that’s made to operate with Windows). I may get a warning if it’s not a “known” developer, but I can still run it. Did I miss a big update to how 11 works with unknown software or something?
To be absolutely clear, this is what all the groups demonizing “CRT” were fighting for. All the "well acshually"ing about how CRT was only a college course, etc etc, completely missed the point of the campaign. They’re not interested in facts. They want to legislate away any claims of racism by making it illegal to talk about facts.
Somehow couldn’t find that. Thanks! Kinda funny looking at all that through the official Reddit YouTube channel. Wonder if they’ll get banned at some point.
Bad news everyone! Nobody is posting and I’m not getting my daily fix of Snu Snu, Mom slaps, Leela eye rolls, and of course opportunities to bite Bender’s shiny metal ass....
Looks like they banned Fable in Alchemy ahead of rotation and Nerfed Crucias to a 3/1. Seems like a big change for both formats. Crucias now dies to Bowmasters. Will we continue to see rakdos dominate both formats?
It’s definitely an instance thing, not an app thing. If you look at the comments through their instance using the rainbow icon, you can see what they see.
Grabbed Project Zomboid last week and it’s kicking my butt. I’m admittedly making it harder on myself by starting a whole new save when a character dies, but I’m trying to figure it out without relying on too many crutches. Still pretty enjoyable even with the difficulty.
'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security (abc7news.com)
Foreign LLC continues to acquire land in California critical to energy and national defense....
Change my mind (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Stolen from Mastodon. Original by @andrew
Twitter to ditch bird logo, Musk says (www.politico.eu)
DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery (www.washingtonpost.com)
GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith...
Some dystopian doublespeak from Micky D (lemmy.world)
A little light reading while you wait 20 minutes for your McFood because nobody wants to waste their life being abused for hunger wages by a literal clown....
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
[OC] I found an Eastern Hercules Beetle today (lemmy.world)
I’ve never seen one in the wild before. Dude was huge!
r/place atm. (lemmy.world)
Florida Schools to Tell Kids Slavery Benefited Black People (www.thedailybeast.com)
Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”...
Wow. Such surprise (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Forced to use mobile app to see /r/place (lemmy.world)
Is there a way to watch r/place without using reddit application?
I want to see those all “fuck u/spez” pixel arts without driving any traffic to reddit.
The experience they sell to you vs the experience you get (lemmy.ml)
Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20 (www.reddit.com)
Totally not suspicious timing at all....
Does this place really have 12k subscribers and no posts in 4 days?
Bad news everyone! Nobody is posting and I’m not getting my daily fix of Snu Snu, Mom slaps, Leela eye rolls, and of course opportunities to bite Bender’s shiny metal ass....
Sneaky Alchemy/Historic updates
Looks like they banned Fable in Alchemy ahead of rotation and Nerfed Crucias to a 3/1. Seems like a big change for both formats. Crucias now dies to Bowmasters. Will we continue to see rakdos dominate both formats?
Somehow, TikTok is sending me notifications even though I don't have the app. And in order to disable them I have to install it. (mander.xyz)
What have you been playing and what do you think of it? 7/16/23
This is a topic I enjoyed seeing over at the other place, so I thought I’d try to get it going here if people are interested.