if you're gonna kill yourself for being a child murderer, maybe you should also kill the other child murderers around you first? idk, just a thought.

between this and boris johnson just outright saying a russian victory in the war would mean the end of western hegemony, they're really just coming out and saying the quiet parts out loud now i feel. its like they cant even be bothered to do the whole Democracy and Freedom spin anymore.

I'm not super knowledgeable on the subject, but one issue I do know is that certain carriers will prevent you from unlocking the bootloader on their carrier version of phones, preventing you from installing a different OS on them. A few of them do this iirc, but Verizon is particularly notorious for this. Getting an unlocked/carrier-agnostic phone is the safest bet for getting around that problem.

I've been saying it for a while but Biden needs to die before his term ends just so we can get the Kamala Harris word salad eulogy. It would be one of the funniest events of the decade.

So is this going to actually lead to anything? They were whining earlier this month and were saying they were going to secede, but then nothing happened.

"school lunch debt" is such an abominable phrase. I wish the people responsible for developing a system to give CHILDREN debt over food a very

what the heck is 3D chess then?

a weird game they play on Next Generation sometimes

afaik most of them dont even talk to him anymore.

Anyone have experience running this on linux? the protondb reviews seem pretty mixed

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Anyone else played their new Pick 5 game? I thought it was pretty fun

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West Asia North Africa, as opposed to the term MENA (Middle East North Africa)

:henry-morgenthau-apology-form:

you could also rewind and select timestamps

for real, why is this the thing now? iirc, even vine allowed you to seek

In 1985 the Stasi finally produced a new set of guidelines on how to prevent what it termed “the political misuse of homosexuals.” Some of its recommendations were unsurprising, such as ramping up surveillance of gay activist leaders. But its final recommendation was entirely novel. It insisted that the government find “resolution[s] to homosexuals’ humanitarian problems.” That is, the Stasi decided to actually address activists’ demands.

Their rationale for doing so was actually rather simple. If the government tackled gay men and lesbians’ concerns, then all those church-affiliated activist groups would have no reason to exist. No complaints to be made, Stasi officials reasoned, meant nothing to organize about.

Thus began a series of genuinely radical changes in East German society. The state-censored newspapers, which for decades had hardly ever mentioned homosexuality, suddenly started printing dozens of stories about gay men and lesbians. The government also freed periodicals to accept personal advertisements from gay men and lesbians looking for partners.

The state tasked Berlin psychology professor Reiner Werner with writing a book titled Homosexuality: A Call to Knowledge and Tolerance, which appeared in 1987. Its initial run of 50,000 copies sold out in a matter of weeks. (It would also approve a gay film, Coming Out, that premiered on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell.)

In addition, the state began granting official recognition to gay groups, such as the Sunday Club, a secular activist collective run by Sillge that had been meeting in East Berlin since the early 1980s. And it authorized East Germany’s first gay discos, such as Die Busche, a club that still exists today.

The government even allowed gay chapters within the Free German Youth (FDJ), the state’s official youth scouting organization, and mandated that all FDJ members attend educational sessions dealing with homosexuality. All of a sudden, East German youth were required to attend meetings of gay groups such as the Sunday Club. Remembering this moment, Rausch told me, “The joke was that suddenly everyone was standing in line to get into the Sunday Club,” only a couple years after it had been a target of state repression.

In 1987 the East German Supreme Court struck down the law that set a higher age of consent for gay men and lesbians. The following year, the military allowed gay soldiers, reversing a policy the government had instituted in the 1950s.

Source: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/gay-liberation-behind-iron-curtain/

universities often have their own private police forces

at this rate im just gonna wear a fucking full on gas mask everywhere. holy shit i hate it here.

Good day. It is approximately 7 months since Third World War began, with worldwide deaths predicted to be approximately 2.8 billion. Our living situation is, to put it frankly, dire, with food rations beginning to run out. Surely now is the time when the United States and China can find some common ground and make peace, but I am not holding my breath. I would also like to reiterate that we are getting to the bottom of the people stealing our content and reposting it online. Thank you for you support. On to the Ukraine War, which still continues despite the geopolitical whirlwind that has engulfed us. Russia is closing in on capturing Avdeevka...

we need a bot that posts this with as the trigger phrase

literally how

Erin Reed covers the nonstop deluge of anti-trans legislation in the US on her substack.