I’m not defending China here, but since Snowden we now know that American corporate spyware does serve the government. And they are suppressing democracy - this isn’t a democracy yet, and peaceful protests for democracy are met with violent police resistance - Occupy, BLM, etc.
I sincerely hope that Lemmy can grow large enough to serve as a staging ground for democratic protests in America, just because it’s not corporate controlled.
If it really ramps up, we could share block lists too, like with ad blockers. So if a friend (or nth-degree friend) blocks someone, then you would block them automatically.
I liked summoning in 3, but in 4 it feels like all the monsters just run straight past my summons to me. It’s like having an incompetent offensive line in American football. I just spend every fight running around avoiding monsters because they’re smarter than my skeletons.
In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.
Calling them weird isn’t going to work at all, that’s an absolutely terrible idea. Everyone wants weird. We need weird right now, just not their weird. We should be upping our weird game and present options that will work, that centrist libs will say are weirdly communist or anarchist sounding.
Things are about to change big time and it’s too late to stop that. The best we can do is shape it into something good. But nobody is buying tickets on the normal train. If you’re here on Lemmy, then you sure aren’t.
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No thanks China! (lemmy.today)
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
After watching batman throw around explosives left and right I no longer believe batman doesn't use guns because of some sort of moral quandary but rather he just prefers the challenge.
Are We Watching The Internet Die? (www.wheresyoured.at)
Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee (www.politico.com)
3D movie (discuss.tchncs.de)
China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary (www.cnbc.com)
French journalists were able to get access to a confidential report from the French Defense Dpt. on the war. (www.marianne.net)
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Leftists X Democrats (lemmygrad.ml)
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U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest (www.nbcnews.com)
Diablo 3 was not fun and Diablo 4 looks worse... (lemmy.ca)
Israel to restrict access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan (www.aljazeera.com)
Space Wolf firestrike turret (lemmy.world)
Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done (www.pcgamer.com)
The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds.
The internet is a beautiful place (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
(Not OC)
👁👁? (lemmy.world)
The Deep Weird: Consequences of the Rabbit Hole (jaredyatessexton.substack.com)
We're incredibly fortunate that the GOP is so weird. We need to take advantage of that before that weird becomes normal.
Republicans complain Joe Biden had too much energy at SOTU (www.newsweek.com)
I am avoiding linking to the Fox article so as to not send them traffic. Can’t make this stuff up.
What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order?
Real-time feedback (lemmy.ml)
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Israel Redefines Evil, Massacring yet More Starving Civilians Queuing for Bread (www.thecanary.co)
Stop the Worsening Undercount of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza (nader.org)