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1. Poe’s law?
2. Endlessly sucking off cheney and mao in hell?

Yeah. The US definitely was horrifically evil long after other Global North countries had decided to chill but we were far from the only people running on the genocide and enslavement of the Global South.

In a lot of ways, the US was late to colonialism and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it. The USSR/Stalin was late to (there is probably a better term for it but I can’t remember it) peasant revolutions and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it… and then ended up being a global power that extended said reign of terror to anyone sharing a border with them.

Communism inherently couples both the economy and the government.

In theory, capitalism can be decoupled since it mostly depends on laissez-faire governance. Communism inherently requires a planned economy and centralized control of such.

There is theoretically nothing stopping said leaders of a communist regime from being elected through a democratic process. But much like democracies tend to favor capitalism and (lower case) libertarian ideals, communism tends to lend itself to dictatorships because… you have a centralized control of all aspects of society.

dot ml 'bout to crest the horizon like the riders of rohan.

“It’s not gay to suck someone’s dick. It is only gay if you let a man suck your dick”

Basically the Inverted Glory Hole Argument.

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Eothas. Fucking. Wept. This is amazing.

Was just chatting with a friend about how it seems there is widespread illness and injury going around and at least some of that is probably related to depression over the Democrats fucking up last week.

This… we gonna be running god damned marathons.

To be clear: there is absolutely nothing wrong with consenting adults sucking each other off. But this is just so god damned juicy.

Wooo. Was worried when the icon didn’t have “gamepad + touchpads” but the “ai generated render for legal purposes” did.

Time will tell on the ergonomics. But Valve know their shit and the Steam Deck is genuinely pleasant to use so I assume the size and angle should mean the d-pad and face buttons are still fully usable. Rather than the mess of a switch controller where only the tiniest of hands can use them without cramping.

Currently leaning “three steam controllers, maybe a steam frame when we know more” since I already have an HTPC under my TV.

I would also like a fanny pack form factor (great for spare batteries too) but it’s “just” a snapdragon. The actual chip is likely nothing compared to the displays and battery

It definitely doesn’t look glasses friendly but that is also a solved problem these days. Many of the online glasses companies directly sell them and they just push on rather than needing to buy the lenses and print a mount and then remove the old lenses and blah. My ex and I both wear glasses and we never had a problem swapping out on the facebook quest or whatever.

It is both. Standalone device but also designed to communicate with a PC via a USB dongle. So lower resource games “just work” and you take advantage of your PC (or Steam Machine…) for the heftier stuff. Which is as close to the “norm” as it gets in VR these days (although the facebooks connect over WLAN)

Contraceptive sponges are/were basically the precursors to IUDs. Basically a (simplifying) female controlled form of birth control for people who don’t respond well to The Pill.

As it provides zero protection against STIs, it is theoretically a form of birth control you use in addition to a condom (in case of tears/improper sizing) or with a partner you are fluid bonded to and are comfortable having The Talk in the event of a missed period.

Mostly it just raised a LOT of questions about what Ms Benes was getting up to with these randos

… was this when she wanted to bang a Kennedy? Oh god, now I need to look up which one… To The Plex Server!!!

For all USB 1.0 (assuming color is being used correctly) that is of more questionable use.

But, generally, stuff like this is actually ridiculously useful. If you are just dealing with a tower on the table next to you? Yeah, that is stupid.

If you are dealing with supporting an office (or facility) full of computers that are all mounted under desks or smushed between the desk and wall and waiting for someone to sit down too aggressively? Stuff like this is ridiculously useful because you can feel out what port you plug what device into AND have the orientation to make sure you do put the thumb drive full of offline updates into the blue or red port and don’t waste 3.0 on a mouse and so forth.

So more “Neutral Good” in the sense that things might not be immediately obvious and everyone is going to clown on them for being lame.

Yeah… be incredibly careful about shoving something with metal bristles into your charging port.

Maybe once a year I get a bit of gunk in my port (hey-oh!). Samsung (presumably all usb c androids?) are generally really good about losing their shit and yelling at you to remove the cable immediately and clean your port.

So when I get home? I just get one of my flossers (for teeth) that tend to have a cheap plastic toothpick attached to it. Works perfect, no liquids, and very minimal risk of damaging the port.

Eww.

The touchpad are amazing but do not replace an analog stick or dpad. If this is legit, it is going to be the steam controller 1 all over again where it really is only good for games without xinput gamepad support

I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.

And I agree. But, like I said

Because maybe you DO care about the principle of it (I know I do). But “It is the principle of the matter” is just as ineffective an argument as “I have nothing to hide”.

Almost all of that is just cell tower or internet traffic data combined with calling Fred at the DMV who has zero issues pulling records for money. Let alone all the megacorps that have varying levels of legitimate access to the DB themselves.

While I agree with the sentiment, let’s just go down that list:

• Where he lives: DMV and taxes cover that
• What he looks like: DMV covers that
• How many devices are on the network: The vast majority of people have no reason to care about that. Hell. I am not even sure I are about that
• How many kids he has and their ages: Taxes and social security
• What times they are home: Their internet usage patterns and likely cell towers logging their sim cards
• What types of food they have delivered and how often: Traffic cameras and asking uber eats or whatever. Although… this goes back to “how important is this data?”
• Guest info: See above regarding sim cards

I 100% agree it is important to be aware of what data a given device/vulnerability has access to. It is ALSO important to figure out if that is actually any new data being available and to think about what orgs/agencies would be a concern.

Because maybe you DO care about the principle of it (I know I do). But “It is the principle of the matter” is just as ineffective an argument as “I have nothing to hide”.

A lot of people in graphics design et al are contractors. They get hired for a job, do it with their own resources, and then move on. Those folk tend to need to provide their own software.

Aside from that? Companies DO provide software. But, at least in my experience, early career staff decide they actually NEED matlab or some other super proprietary nonsense and take it upon themselves to get the tools they “need”. Which results in their manager having to have The Talk about why you don’t do that in an actual company and how they are REALLY lucky you are the one that saw them because that is a fireable offense.

Let’s say you are a graphics designer. You use Adobe Illustrator and you pirate it. You work for Innertrode either as a contractor or a full time employee. You make their new logo.

Adobe’s legal team are bored. They see that new logo. They know it was made with Illustrator because of some of the visual quirks/tools (or, you know, because it is anything graphical so of course it uses Adobe). They know that Innertrode doesn’t have a license. So they call up Lumberg and say “what the fuck?”.

Lumberg then calls the person who was in charge of the new logo and they point at you.

If you are staff? You were given training not to pirate anything. It is all your fault. Innertrode buys a few years of a license and apologizes and fires your ass and makes sure to tell everyone they know about you. Or you are a contractor and you signed an agreement saying you had valid licenses for everything and they just give your contact info to Adobe and move on.

And Adobe MIGHT just want to shake you down. Or they might want to make an example and sue the fuck out of some people.

Also… it is a lot of hearsay for obvious reasons, but there are very strong rumors that some of the more prominent cracks tend to add digital watermarks for the purpose of automating this.

I used a boox for maybe 7 or 8 months? I do not recommend them.

There is a native ebook reader. It is… real bad. And the book management is similarly really weak. Great for throwing a quick PDF on there, not so much for having a “library” as it were where you don’t necessarily want to have to remember which was book 3 of the series while you are on a plane. Not sure if the Calibre support got better to help with this (I know the Calibre devs recently made a huge effort to support non-Amazon devices) but when I used it it was all about you building your own folder structure.

But mostly it is designed around taking advantage of being an android tablet with an e-ink display. So just use the actual kindle app and so forth. Which, on paper (hee hee), is really cool. In practice, you rapidly realize that the kindle et al apps are designed with a fast refreshing display and most of the UX is built around holding a phone in your hands and not gripping a good sized tablet on its edges. LOTS of accidental page skips and font shenanigans.

Also, the android it runs is fairly out of date which is a pretty hefty security concern.

And there is a LOT of “mysterious” traffic going off to servers in China. How much that bothers you is… up to you.

Switched to a kobo and incredibly happy with that.