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I wanna go mod Dune 2 to add this as a playable unit.

thebardingreen,
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It’s a shitty choice between

“Business as usual center right Joe Stability Biden, representing rich old business people with a smile and a grandfatherly handshake” and

“My followers LITERALLY want Hand Maids Tale style Christian Fascism in this country and they have a plan to do it and that’s fine with me as long as I get to win and avoid criminal prosecution, also I’m a wannabe Russian mobster! Donald Trump”

So yes, DO make sure to get out and vote against a piece of shit this November.

thebardingreen,
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And Trump wouldn’t be supporting the genocide a million times worse?

Hate him, he deserves it. It’s a terrible situation, but it will become even more terrible if it turns into a Republican victory, and some of that responsibility is in fact on the heads of people too angry to see and do what needs to be done.

Underneath it all, there’s a tragic, numeric reality and we have to confront it.

thebardingreen,
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The American electoral system just doesn’t work that way. That is a steaming shit sandwich, but… sitting out the election or voting 3rd party because you’re pissed (rightfully so) is like headbutting a goat. It hurts you more than it hurts the goat and the goat doesn’t care or change it’s behavior. The goat in this case is 100% the collective body of American Democratic voters and the assholes who run the DNC. They will NOT care. They will learn all the wrong lessons. They are old and out of touch and they pull to the right every time they lose.

thebardingreen,
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Smart take is smart. /s

thebardingreen,
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No, I want you to vote AGAINST the insane vampires. Stop thinking of the US electoral system as something where you vote FOR somebody. We haven’t had an option that truely represented us in literal lifetimes. You have a button for bullshit as usual and you have a button for “FUCK WOMEN, FUCK TRANS PEOPLE, FUCK IMMIGRANTS, HAHAHAHAH JESUS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BABY.” If you DON’T push the first button… that IS in fact a reality fail and LOTS of vulnerable people will suffer for the sake of your principals.

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Agreed. You can have a stubborn goat who won’t change or White Jesus with an AK-47 riding a dragon, leading a glorious army to put women and transpeople back in their place. It’s a STUPID choice, but there IS a right answer.

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I mean… don’t look now, but how many times has American “business as usual” been culpable?

thebardingreen,
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Actually… great! Tell me how. Tell me your plan. Tell me your end game. Tell me what you plan to do about all the gleeful idiots who want to watch the goat die and then shoot you in the back while they pray to Trump and Jesus?

Again, also not advocating for anything. We ARE just talking about goats.

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Look… let’s be straight. Who is worse FOR ACTUAL VULNERABLE PEOPLE HERE AND ABROAD. Out of touch, arrogant and pro big business neo liberals or Trumpian Christofascist Republicans. If we’re comparing them to fantasy horror creatures… which one has more hit dice and is more destructive and aggressive?

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No, I described BIDEN as bullshit as usual.

thebardingreen,
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I basically agreed with everything you say here… Except that I think the fascist right is scary organized and well-funded compared to anything going on on the left… And the goat is the only thing standing between them and everything that they want.

thebardingreen,
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Yeah yeah, go spend this energy on someone who’s actually a genocide denier.

I’m done here.

thebardingreen,
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I call that “throw away the little power I have and get a participation trophy to help me sleep better at night” You do you, but I think we’re clear on what I think of your stance.

thebardingreen,
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Look around. The two party system is entrenched. It’s rooted.

As long as we have an electoral college and a first pass the post system, This will not change no matter how many times you throw your vote away. You don’t have to like it, I personally hate it, but it’s real and present and with us and it’s winning.

What would change this? Ranked choice voting? National popular vote? You know who’s never ever ever going to change those things? Republicans. Not ever.

The system actually uses third parties to blunt the power of the far right and the far left. Don’t take my word for it, just look at election outcomes and the media and follow the money. This is massively backfired, because the far right has seized control of the Republican party. THAT is the cause of the Democrats pulling farther and farther right every year.

Voting third party is not a service, it doesn’t do anything. It gives you an illusion. It’s a comforting drug. I can’t stop you from indulging it, but I’m sure as hell never going to join you in it again. I did that in my younger days when I didn’t understand what was going on.

thebardingreen,
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What’s stopping you?

thebardingreen,
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The 1980s YA books Spacebread and Born of Flame are 100% set in this universe.

thebardingreen,
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Any AI solution you find is probably going to be command line / python and is going to require some debugging of your python environment and dependencies to get it working. And that means yes, you will need to separate the audio and video tracks and then recombine them. For that kind of work, I’m only familiar with Linux tools. I’ve used a tool called Vidcutter that is buggy, but powerful and has a semi intuitive gui.

That said, the results from those AI tools can be a powerful game changer if you can figure them out.

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Also…

https://lemmy.starlightkel.xyz/pictrs/image/5db5b036-d036-4a07-94fb-6e6658037cba.png

thebardingreen,
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It just turns out that Tuxedo Mask was the wolf all along.

thebardingreen,
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His later stuff hasn’t lived up to it, although his asteroid mining series is pretty cool.

thebardingreen,
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Tailchaser’s Song really is like GoT with cats, isn’t it?

thebardingreen,
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Iain M. Banks.

thebardingreen,
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I feel like the townsfolk would pay Geralt at least 200 florens to get rid of that.

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He got his IPO money. He gives zero fucks what happens now.

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