It’s truly incredible watching liberals look at the infinite mountains of terrible shit that a genocidal apartheid-emerald-mine-inheriting techbro grifter billionaire has done and deciding that the worst of it is not backing a genocide in Gaza, attempting to coup multiple countries to steal their lithium deposits, or doing a literal Nazi salute on live television, but rather than he has business ties to China and that somehow those dastardly inscrutable orientals are somehow the true bad guys here.

Then again, if I had spent my entire time on this planet being convinced that voting for whichever ghoul is wearing a blue tie this election cycle would end fascism forever I’d probably lack the introspection to realize I can literally just look up how the Chinese government is structured rather than scream on the internet how Xi Jinping personally ate all my ice cream with Stalin’s comically large spoon.

It might be; I’ve only ever used in on Wayland to make up for Discord using its ancient version of Electron. If the canary branch Discord works for you though I’d stick to that, I was just offering another option for either yourself or people reading the post!

Related to the Discord Canary comment, Vesktop is a third-party Discord client that’s properly supported Wayland for quite some time now. I’ve been using it ever since swapping to Linux full-time to make sure streaming works correctly.

This just ruins the gentlemen’s sport of dogfighting! It’s not real chivalrous combat unless you look each other in the eyes as you try to sweep each other out of the air with machine gun fire! Has China no shame?!

docker-compose has made it too easy to take all the random shit I had running on my home server and make it reproducible-ish.

I wonder if the uptick in actual human opinions in that comment section represents a shift in online spaces now that the usual propaganda arms are being gutted. Good on people for ripping into him for this bullshit.

Yeah, the silver lining here is that the reason we use plastic for everything (well, the reason beyond “oil stonks go brrrr”) is that it doesn’t really react to much of anything and is about as inert as a substance can be. And as terrible as it sounds, if there was any massively noticeable interaction between microplastics and our nervous system/bloodstream/neurons/cellular activity/etc we’d probably be dropping dead by the thousands everyday already, barring any future realization that this stuff fucks with our brains like lead exposure.

Germany was always the second strongest imperial power in Europe behind Britain from 1871 onwards, and without the English channel that would be debatable.

The Nazis’ initial success in WW2 is entirely dependent on France falling apart the second they were invaded and the Reich getting to loot the entirety of it and the low countries to keep their economy alive. Had France put up even token resistance Germany would have imploded within a few months and the European half of the war would’ve been a minor footnote in the history books next to Japan invading all of Asia.

Meanwhile Chris Murphey went on PodJohnsPodJohnHour and said that Democrats are quiet because people keep calling them on the staffer office lines and telling them to kill themselves.

Depending on whether these are angry chuds gloating or legitimately mad marginalized people venting, (un)critical support.

Insert that one meme about chess being a NTR harem simulator here

WOKE has officially gone TOO FAR!

Because being right on the internet is life’s greatest treasure /s

Taking an incredibly lazy swing at your idea though: a “soulmate” implies that some higher power or function is assigning one person to another to be their one true partner, and that any other pairing is inherently wrong. Ignoring the metaphysical aspects of that, attraction and companionship is built off of mutual trust, shared interests, and more often than not a heaping helping of base biological impulses in the form of Those Good Hormonal Chemicals™. You could easily make these relationships with a ton of different people and be perfectly happy in any of them, and if you’re non-monogamous you’re probably going to, and any insistence that your partner is the only one for you boils down to an amoeba in a rain puddle insisting that the puddle was made for it simply because it came into being there.

Also the soulmate trope inevitably turns into a shitfest online about OTPs, and nobody needs that when there’s oodles of crack fics out there to keep us entertained.

The problem is that there’s no core bureaucracy capable of running an FDR-style state anymore, and everyone who would be lining up for the job are the same grifters and sycophants that have been running the show for the past 40 years. You can lean into neoliberalism real easily, but leaning back away from it requires rebuilding your entire state apparatus from scratch.

I still find it really funny how the core concept of a foundational (heh) scifi series is literally just a guy discovers historical materialism and is considered a prophet for it.

While the dollar hegemony remains, unfortunately the US government can literally just print more money and be fine for a while.

Granted that’s probably going to implode too if this kind of shit keeps up.

I’ve seen one or two companies doing exactly this, but specific to certain varieties of bureaucracies (mostly insurance companies, unfortunately). It struck me as one of the few potential real uses for LLMs so long as it can provide a bibliography for any responses that can be confirmed deterministically.

Having dealt with ML engineers in depth before, American tech companies tend to throw blank checks their way which, combined with them not tending to have backgrounds in optimization or infrastructure, means they spin up 8 billion GPU instances in the cloud and use 10% of them ever because engineers are lazy.

They could, without any exaggeration, reduce their energy consumption by a factor of ten with about two weeks of honest engineering work. Yes this bothers the fuck out of me.

Interviews are a Byzantine nightmare made up by HR people that have no idea what that job entails, let alone how to interview people for it. Companies put up fake job postings often to make themselves look better, not bothering to tell candidates that they’re interviewing for a position that never existed at all.

You are not the problem, never were, and you will find a job. I’m sorry you have to deal with the shittiness that is the job market, and I promise you most if not all of us have been there before.

Ironically not watching the video because it’s too long, but a large part of the reason why a lot of games are bad is because they’re too long. Or, more specifically, because the developers choose to pad out the playtimes with meaningless sidequests, enormous (and completely empty) open worlds, collectathons that give your character an extra outfit if you find all 4900 of the shiny rocks the developers had some algorithm autopopulate the world with, and basically every other AAA trope that doesn’t involve well-polished, purposeful gameplay or story.

And they do this because the industry has repeatedly doubled down on “more content == better” dollar-per-hour metrics. There are plenty of games out there that actually take 120 hours to beat (looking at you, Persona) that are legitimately great games because they fill those hours with engaging storylines, characters, and mechanics (some grinding aside).