seitanic

seitanic, 10 months ago

What’s the good urbanist response to homelessness?

seitanic, 10 months ago

Even when the Proletariat does win, they often still install a dictatorship. Because those are the kinds of people who lead revolutions.

seitanic, 10 months ago

Fascism has already won if you’re a person of color.

seitanic, 10 months ago

Well, yes and no. The Democrat Party is structured to prevent takeovers like what happened to the GOP (e.g. super-delegates). I think it is moving to the left, but glacially slowly. 20 years ago, somebody like Bernie would have been a joke. Now, he’s a viable contender. Maybe in another 50 or 60 years, they’ll be where European leftist parties are now.

seitanic, 10 months ago

Yes, voting is the baseline. It’s the least you can do.

I’m sure that there are anarchists out there who refuse to vote out of principle, but they still do activist work such as participating in mutual aid groups and so on. They’re wrong, but at least they’re still helping society in some way. I think the vast majority of people who don’t vote are just lazy, though.

seitanic, 11 months ago

I’ve gotten the warning, but I just close the window and watch the video. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Because, if so, it’s only a minor annoyance.

seitanic, 11 months ago

Then I’ll just watch stuff on Invidious.

seitanic, 11 months ago

For external SSD?

seitanic, 11 months ago

That would be awesome. I hate having to find a cable to plug my SSD into. If it was simply a card that could be inserted into a slot, that would be so much easier.

seitanic, 11 months ago

It was a cost-cutting measure to save money on tapes by reusing the old ones.

seitanic, 11 months ago

LOL. You must’ve been watching a different Dark than the one I did.

Time travel is a difficult trope to do well, because there is so much potential for paradoxes and other confusion. I always find myself going “So, if they could travel through time, couldn’t they just do X?”

In Dark, it started with a good premise, but the last season was a total wreck. It felt slapped together, like they had to come up with an ending in a hurry.

seitanic, 11 months ago

Respect… dead people? They’re dead…

seitanic, 11 months ago

Well, you were wrong LOLOLOLOLOLOL

seitanic, 11 months ago

What train of logic led from “Trump is still alive” to “the Clintons must be murdering people”?

seitanic, 11 months ago

They said that they know it’s a conspiracy, which means they believe that it’s happening.

seitanic, 11 months ago

Wow, that’s fucked up. It’s like something out of a Junjo Ito comic.

seitanic, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Wouldn’t rm -rf / eat /home, too? That doesn’t get backed up in a snapshot…

seitanic, 10 months ago

I’ve always loved Linux, even when it was kicking my ass. I can’t imagine approaching it with the attitude “Ugh, I have to force myself to use this thing, and I know that it’s going to frustrate me”.

That sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everybody has cognitive biases. Since you expect it to be frustrating, you’re going to remember all the times that it is and forget the times when it isn’t.

seitanic, 10 months ago

Try telling that to…every software company ever.

seitanic, 11 months ago

I said “not a conspiracy theory”. Big difference.

seitanic, 11 months ago

I agree with most of that, but I think you’re reading a lot into two sentences.

This type of thinking is exactly what the Israeli lobby wants. If you can conflate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism, then you can silence critics and make other people afraid to speak up. (Of course, some criticism of Israel is antisemitic, but it’s dangerous to start from that assumption.)

seitanic, 11 months ago

I’ve known several men who were severely fucked in the head, and they could’ve gone to a psychiatrist or a therapist, but they were too proud. In the worst case, the guy committed suicide. Depression is no joke!

seitanic, 10 months ago

Whenever I try to use GNOME, there never seems to be a setting for the thing I want to do.

I convinced a friend to try Linux once, and she abandoned it because it didn’t have a setting that she needed for her work. Later, when I tried KDE, not only was the setting there, but it was the default.

It really sucks that desktop is the default for so many distros, because most users coming from Mac or Windows don’t even realize they can use a different desktop environment. So, if your only experience with Linux is GNOME, and you think “Linux sucks”, I can hardly blame you.

seitanic, 11 months ago

Windows 11 may be the king of operating systems

In what world? I’ve just started using it at work, and I swear the other day it tried to sell me an XBox controller. Not like I was on the Web and an ad popped up, no. It was part of the operating system!

Can you imagine going back in time 10 years and telling somebody “In the future, Microsoft is going to put pop-up ads in Windows.” People would think you were crazy!

seitanic, 11 months ago

That’s not a good idea. You have a violent revolution, somebody could get hurt.