@mitch I saw earlier this week that they're playing shows in South Africa next year... I didn't realise they're still around!
After all this time on the Fediverse, I finally had a reason to use the Mute button. I can see what the hype is about, it actually feels good to use it.
@juliank Yep, when Ukraine were made to give up their nuclear weapons programme they were told that they would have the full force of the US and their allies behind them if Russia were ever to attack in any way... instead they're being used to make politicians and their buddies rich while Ukraine is slowly being wiped out completely.
@praveen Plagiarism is a massive problem. Big corporations are using massive amounts of public data and processing it and presenting it as something that their LLMs have generated, but in fact it's a fancy form of autocomplete of other people's work.
The 'Woke Agenda' is actually just Human Rights. Every time someone says 'woke agenda', mentally substitute 'human rights' and the conversation will become clearer.
@LucasWerkmeister I played Civ6 for the first time last month, and just saw that a friend is playing it too, suddenly feels like everyone is playing it :)
@luckytran I remember back when I was only 10 years old and disagreeing with adults and they told me "Your views will change as you get older". They're right that it changed, but only more towards the humanist/libertarian side, not away from it.
@lanodan It's a pretty decent list, although I'd rank most of them above lynx since I *think* it's the only one among them that is completely unaware of css.
It's just amazing how unhinged people are. All of them. perhaps I should let loose a bit too. I wonder what that would even mean? I'm not sure I know how to be crazy. Or maybe I'm crazy and just don't know it. Maybe I should jump into a bathtub filled with cheese puffs. This requires some additional thought.
@LALegault Do you have a moment to hear about the good news about Cheesus Crust?
@LALegault I think she could have done a lot better if she had more coaching from marketing people and other popular polititians, even Sanders and Warren could've probably helped her shape her language to be a lot more palatable.
@LALegault You know, a good politician can usually put a good spin on something without even changing anything in reality. When her supporters chanted pro-palestine slogans at her rallies, she could've easily said something like "I'm not going to say something against the policies of my president, but under me things will get better" which isn't any kind of commitment at all, but it's a lot better than the effective "F U" that her supporters got from her.
@LALegault I'll license it for who wants to marry a Capetonian, because property prices here are already skyrocketing due to the influx of Americans and Europeans who are fleeing.
@magicalgirlsabrina I won't be smug about it because I hoped she would win. I wouldn't have been particularly happy about it, but besides her poor foreign policy the democratic campaign set forth one of the progressive campaigns ever, and a democratic win would've been a lot better for the US, for individual rights for people in the US, medicare, workers rights, and for climate change. This *should* have been a slam-dunk, but unfortunately she chose to be dismissive to voters.