This was a fun read! Thank you for sharing.
Maybe you could write a feature request on the Lemmy Repository for the ability to use other instance's emotes.
Fantastic video! Do keep in mind however, that Thunderf00t is a very socially and economically conservative person of which you should watch with caution. I mostly keep to watching his Elon dunk videos and his pseudo-scientific-Kickstarter de-legitimizing videos.
100%, to go out and touch grass on occasion really helps keep the depressive states at bay.
Normally I do too, unfortunately I've been forced to use some miserable smart tv as of late.
Had anyone else noticed a sharp uptick in military recruitment ads as of the past few days?
China's take on the Japanese government's handling of the situation, largely due to some of the isotopes they haven't filtered out. Particularly the strontium, iodine, and carbon variants. These have leaked into said wastewater due to the meltdown in several of Fukushima's reactors.
Thank you for your response! Yes, it is true that the States were limited to the east coast initially, though it took so little time to expand westward that I opted to omit it for conciseness of the text. However, as this did play a vital role in their expansionary mentality, and the brutality that the states would show to their fellow human beings, I realize now I should not have excluded it. Especially given how they were constantly rewarded for their effort to eradicate the natives with land, slaves, and resources.
Didn't capitalism start 300-400 years ago? If I remember correctly, capitalism was born of the imperial nations of Europe (primarily Great Britain, France, and Spain), as private capital, now unrestricted from the guilds as under feudalism, expanded for increased control of their respective markets.
The United States, started only slightly after the major imperial powers of its day. In addition, it's geography blessed it with weak neighbors to the north and south, and fish to the east and west, allowing it to develop almost entirely unhindered from the risk of war destroying it's means of production. Furthermore, property rights were enshrined in its very constitution from start due to its status as one of the world's first a bourgeois democracies (widely believed to be the ideal circumstances for the development of capitalism). As such, the United States had one of the most mature capitalist economies in the world by this point. Even at this point it's form of capitalism is probably more mature than many capitalist nations in the third world are currently.
In all likelihood, the course of capitalism in the United States was reversed somewhat by a combination of anti-monopolistic legislation, an end to its pre-worldwar isolationist policies, and the introduction of new markets in the world economy due to need for many nations to rebuild after World War Two. As such, I think it reasonable to call this a consequence of a 1940s late stage capitalist economy.
Please note: The United States did not start out spanning the entire continent, but rather got their though roughly a century of brutal westward expansion and genocide. I apologize for my omission of this information.
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You weren't an ML, but made some excellent communist content none the less. Hope they're alright.\
EDIT: Upon looking around, I found their Patreon. It appears she's taking a brake from and or retiring from YouTube due to mental health complications.
Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I'm also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.
KYIV, UKRAINE—In a desperate plea for aid in the continued effort to expel his nation’s Russian occupiers, sources reported Friday that President Volodymyr Zelensky had called upon the United States to send a totally psycho marine to assist in Ukraine’s war effort. “You know, one of those expertly t...
KYIV, UKRAINE—In a desperate plea for aid in the continued effort to expel his nation’s Russian occupiers, sources reported Friday that President Volodymyr Zelensky had called upon the United States to send a totally psycho marine to assist in Ukraine’s war effort. “You know, one of those expertly trained, one-man-army guys who carries an arsenal on his back and has killed so many people in combat he’s now cold, unfeeling, and completely insane—you gotta have at least one of those to spare, right?” said Zelensky, specifying that the ideal candidate would be a wild-eyed shirtless muscleman who functioned as a completely self-sufficient killing machine and could take out hundreds, if not thousands, of enemies all by himself. “In order to get the upper hand against Russia, we’re going to need your most batshit, balls-to-the-wall ex-special-forces guy. He’ll have a crazy name like Razor or Bloodhound or something, and he’ll always be blacking out and waking up covered in blood with a whole village dead around him. If he has a personal score to settle with the Russians, that’s great, but the most important thing is that he just kills and kills and kills and kills—sometimes using a cherished hunting knife that belonged to a fallen comrade, even though a gun would be faster. Honestly, he can kill a few Ukrainians too, if he wants, just so long as he gets the job done.” At press time, the U.S. Marine Corps had reportedly agreed to send “the craziest motherfucker” it had, just as soon as he had applied his face paint, donned a necklace of severed human ears, and stopped in for chest wax.
Earlier today a comrade got a pretty good tankie instance for Mastodon on this post of theirs. So I was thinking, due such things exist for other federated platforms such as Pixelfed and Peertube? And if so, which are the best for our purposes?
This is a video talking about Deepin OS, a Chinese made Linux distro based on Debian. Plus it isn't full of cringe like videos about anything related to China tend to be.
Minetest
What is Minetest?
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Minetest is an open source voxel engine, designed for the creation of games in the same vain as Minecraft. In doing so it has a preinstalled, built in game, and vary mature modding API, that allows for the easy creation of mods/games. Furthermore, Minetest's built in game is in a mature state, that is fun to play with or without the aid of mods.
Why Minetest?
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The reasoning behind why I chose Minetest is as follows:
- Minetest is Open Source
- Minetest requires few system resources to run properly
- Minetest's main game play loop is that of building/construction, a desire I imagine most of us would like to be able to play with more.
What is Open Source?
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Open Source software must make the source code for it freely available, and allow the recipient of it to distribute that source code accordingly. Furthermore, that copy of their source code may be modified by them according to their wishes, without the need to ask for permission from it's original creator. These principles, enforced through the software licenses that use them, have allowed for the community driven development that created the likes of Lemmy, Linux, Android (Largely), VLC Media Player, and more have lead to stable and largely enjoyable user experiences for all of us, in a secure, community driven manner that benefits all of us.
Why Open Source?
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The attributes described above allowed us to build our community around this wonderful piece of software (Lemmy), even without prior consent from it's own creators, or being kicked off for being "dirty reds".
Is Your Computer Fast Enough to Run It?
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I've gotten the game to run on a laptop with a single core Intel Atom processor with 1GB of RAM, so in all likely hood, you should be able to get this game running on your machine.
The Cons of Me Doing It.
Their are a number of things that could go wrong with my being responsible for doing it however. For example, as I am an Amerikkkan, it is entirely possible that this will be taken down, especialy seeing as the only way I would be able to afford to do this is via a $100 credit I have received for Linode, an Amerikkan cloud provider that would host my server. Furthermore, I am inexperienced with hosting anything online like this, so my ability to correct for DDoS attacks, trolls, and other internet shenanigans would be minimal, leading to long and frequent down times. Finally, as I would be operating this server alone, when I am sleeping or unavailable for work/school/etc any problems in the server would permeate while I'm unable to correct any of it.
