andrewrgross

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andrewrgross,

I don’t understand how any of these visions fundamentally differ from Mastodon.

Decentralized? Yep. It’s got no center. Open source? Yep, you can fork it and make your own if you want. Unmoderated? Sure, if you want that, you can set up an instance and host whatever illegal content you want. You’ll have a lot of legal problems and most people don’t want it, but the option exists.

Is there any point besides money and crypto bullshit? If you want to post short comments that your friends can subscribe to that isn’t controlled by a big corporation that gives your data to the government… well we have that. It exists. It’s pretty okay. Go use it.

andrewrgross,

Thanks for this clarification!

G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars | The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States. (www.nytimes.com)

G.M. produces the Malibu at a plant in Fairfax, Kan., and will continue to manufacture the car until later this year, when it plans to retool the factory to make a new version of the Chevrolet Bolt, an electric car, and the Cadillac XT4, a luxury S.U.V.

andrewrgross,

I drive one for work and it’s nearly invisible. It’s painfully bland. This is a great decision for GM, I don’t think anyone will miss them except perhaps bank robbers.

andrewrgross,

I really like it! It’s a very elegant solution, I think. We’ll see what others think, but I think it really provides exactly what we need to be help players share their own content.

andrewrgross,

For those looking to better understand the biases of any given media outlet, this is a good place to drop a recommendation for Citations Needed podcast with Adam Johnson and Nima Shiraz.

It’s a great media analysis and criticism show. Who watches the watchers? These fuckin guys!

andrewrgross,

I find it helps to name check the position you’re describing, which is “a one-state solution”.

andrewrgross,

Sorry, I think I had a different comment open in a different tab and got confused before I had to run off to do something.

I’ll leave it up, because I don’t like to delete comments that have been replied to.

‘Huge win’: Brown University protesters reach an agreement to dismantle encampment (forward.com)

This article describes the little-reported on success that Brown University had in disbanding student protest… by conceding to let activists present a case for divestment at an upcoming hearing before the university’s investment board....

andrewrgross,

That’s a concern I share, but I think I’m the immediate moment, the activists have forced the university to break down a very significant barrier: their demands are legitimized by this. It becomes harder for other schools to justify a crackdown. And if this gets repeated, we move on to the next chapter of this story: university hearings across the country.

The goal is to change what is possible and put pressure on Israel and it’s material bankers. A large number of hearings does that. Crackdowns don’t really hurt the war effort or the profits of the military industrial tech complex.

It’s going to require a lot more pressure, but if this is not winning this particular battle, I’m not sure what that looks like.

andrewrgross,

You know, you’re welcome to disagree on tactics, but I must ask you to show a bit of respect.

These protestors put themselves in danger. They made sacrifices for a cause you care about. Time may prove their tactics to have been in error, but they are not “braindead” “idiots” who accomplished “absolutely nothing”.

They know their situation better than you. They put their bodies and futures on the table, and they alone get to decide what trades they want to make. You are welcome to your opinion on what tactics others should use, and you are welcome to make your choice about what to do when it’s your ass on the front lines. But I don’t think you have any business talking big shit about people who are out there carrying the heavy loads.

andrewrgross,

I would amend that to say that this is about the future and eventual end of the occupation. I think it’s more material than you describe, but it’s a slow process.

andrewrgross,

Also, if you follow some links in the article, Israeli divestment has been an big, ongoing movement at Brown. This isn’t a flash in the pan. It’s a big step forward along what has already been a long and brutal road.

It’s not going away. And I truly believe that these students will win.

andrewrgross,

What are you talking about? The occupation includes the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It predated Hamas, and continues – brutally – in regions in which Hamas doesn’t operate.

While the war in Gaza draws attention, folks in the West Bank have had homes firebombed with children inside and watched lynch mobs run whole towns off their land with military escorts. And that doesn’t even get into how Palestinian citizens of Israel are treated inside Israel. They’re legal citizens, but live with curtailed rights under a literal second-class of citizenship in a police state. They get disappeared, raped, and killed in prisons without charges over social media posts criticizing the government. What the hell does that have to do with Hamas?

We need to acknowledge that all these people are living under a military apartheid system, and demand negotiations for the formation of a democratic one-state solution. We already live in a one-state reality, just without civil rights for half the population.

andrewrgross,

I second this.

The problem is that investors are no longer tolerant of ‘We made money, here is some money you get for doing nothing’.

They demand ‘We made more money than last year! And not only did they money go up, it went up more than the last time it went up! And next year, we expect it to go up again, and go up faster than it went up this year! And go up more and faster each year until our product is the primary commodity of all people, at which point we’ll create new life and make that our emerging market.’

Nothing is enough for these people.

andrewrgross,

This article is pretty good, because it’s not subtle about the context: Ben-Gvir is a convicted terrorist who has made his desire to exterminate Palestinians totally clear his whole life. And he went from too radical to serve mandatory military service to in charge of the national police and jails.

He is an exemplar of the worst humanity has to offer.

andrewrgross,

That all sounds great. Thanks for the shout-out too!

andrewrgross,

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Are you telling me that if we support autocratic ethnonationalist strongmen who target minorities and political opponents with violence… … it might hurt an American??? /s

I didn’t read this article. What the hell? He’s doing all this shit out in the open. It’s not a darker side, it’s just his front-facing side.

I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt?

My question is once this procedure has been completed and say the person really got into some heavy cardio and thus were burning a lot of fat would the body be able to burn the fat that was moved to the buttocks or does it not have the associated blood vessels to enable this?...

andrewrgross,

Honestly, I don’t recall the details. What I shared was my best recollection. I think what you said sounds reasonable, but I can’t reliably say.

andrewrgross,

Those both sound like good options.

@poVoq : would it be possible to set up a wiki for sharing maps and such for our game? Currently, they take up around 40 MB.

andrewrgross,

Okay: I’ve started using this, and this is a great resource. I was wondering if I could make more pages within this subdomain. I’d like to add the following pages:

  • One page for each of the six maps, so that each page can list all the formats of each map.
  • A page for background images
  • A page for each of the four starting adventures, linking to all relevant assets
  • A page for user-generated assets.

Is it possible to get permission to create new pages?

andrewrgross,

I don’t think I currently have that privilege. I tried that, and the page has a message that says

This topic does not exist yet

You’ve followed a link to a topic that doesn’t exist yet. If permissions allow, you may create it by clicking on Create this page.

And “Create this page” isn’t a clickable link.

Edit: Never mind, I misunderstood the instructions!

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