“Chilling moment”

They never stop trying to convince us, do they? This is only chilling if you’re an ultrawealthy sack of shit.

Is this the Epstein files we’ve been hearing about?

Not mentioned here but there was some other drug, a tranquilizer called xylazine that was being used to cut fentanyl that I heard was largely to blame.

“Au Feu de Bois” - wood fired

I hate agreeing with the right

Then don’t. Make no mistake, we are living in the world the United States wanted. It’s disingenuous for the right to come along and be like “look at these freeloading Europeans” when hegemony was the reason the United States ordered things the way they were.

The reason they talk like this is because the American political class has been successfully captured by Russia and Russia now sets the agenda. Hegemony for the United States is decidedly not at the top of their list.

I think it’s fair to say those rookie numbers don’t reflect reality. The orange turd can’t have his minions saying anything is less than perfect.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

This statement is gibberish. It makes no sense.

“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.”

A deal with who for what? This is an American talking to a Russian?

What the fuck is this point of this stupid verbal diarrhea?

I like JavaScript a lot and would be excited by its use in this context.

Oh well if a senator said it then by all means, let’s stop and take notice.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

Oh hey, that was easy. I guess they have nothing to hide after all!

Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it’s memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn’t seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I’ve never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.

I know there are actual people like this, but I do think it’s mostly foreign bots beating the war drums. It happens here too, though far less than on Reddit.

If they’re truly dumbfounded by all this, then they’re so braindead that they very likely voted for it. No sympathy at all.

Cyberpunk has a city that actually feels like a real city to me.

Funniest foreign language TV show of all time, lol. I fr had to have subtitles going the whole way but I cried laughing at times. I’m so in love with Saoirse.

I partially switched to Linux this week, I had an older Windows machine just laying around so I decided to install Linux (I went with Mint) sit it next to my regular Windows machine and set up a switch to easily switch between them. That way if I really need Windows, I still have it. I don’t think I will.

I’m still configuring the (now Linux) machine and getting everything like I like it, and all I keep wondering is why I didn’t try this sooner. There are so many cool things (like sftp right in the File Manager? right on). I have no complaints.

Steam has run every game I’ve tried with only minor tweaks (switching to recommended Proton versions for each game, basically). Gaming is not a problem on Linux anymore. I’ve run old games (Torchlight II, Portal 2, Skyrim) and new games (Oblivion Remastered, Baldur’s Gate) and the only problem has been my shit-ass video card just can’t run them basically (1050Ti, time to upgrade, lol).

A little while doing all this and I’ll convert the Windows machine to Linux and be rid of Windows altogether. Before the end of the year, hopefully. Everyone should give it a try.

In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.