I make people upset just by using my eyes and brain, as such please be careful to ensure your tears do not get into your electronics, thank you

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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • archonet@lemy.loltopics@lemmy.worldA Sodium Sunset
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    2 days ago

    I realize LEDs have better color rendering, are more efficient, and are generally safer for pedestrians and drivers as street lighting. I get all that.

    but you can not tell me sodium vapor lights aren’t more aesthetically pleasing, and it is for this reason I will be sad to see them slowly disappear.





  • archonet@lemy.loltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldT is no longer.
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    11 days ago

    But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven’t been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don’t need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can’t be erased so easily.

    Because the Nazis stopped at just Jews, right? Surely they never expanded upon that to encompass all “undesirables”, right?

    Oh, wait.


  • archonet@lemy.loltoReddit@lemmy.worldElon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
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    “Reddit continues to be anti-free speech,” Cedric Hohnstadt said on X. “I just got a lifetime ban from the ‘comics’ subreddit. Yesterday, I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn’t. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the ‘comics’ subreddit. But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?” The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.

    Amazing that a blind man can draw comics.





  • archonet@lemy.loltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldPatriots Wanted
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    16 days ago

    yeah I reckon we’re about to see, after the deportations of immigrants and the sudden labor shortage caused by it, a lot of other Americans who are also considered “undesirables” being voluntold to get busy pickin’ or get busy dying. We already force our prisoners to do slave labor, and you know what a hate-boner Republicans have for prisoners – how do you think that stacks up against their hate boner for trans people? gay people? Or, why, just anyone who doesn’t “vote correctly”?










  • archonet@lemy.loltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldRefuse
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    20 days ago

    I take one issue with this, just one.

    “They can’t be everywhere”

    See, that may have held up in the 1930s and 40s, but we live in the country with the most robust surveillance apparatus on the globe. And almost every one of us carries around a fun little brick full of privacy violations with us, everywhere we go, absorbing everything we do and say and buy, and packages it neatly into a form ad agencies and the government can use how they like. And one of those little bricks we call smartphones, why, not only do we carry them around willingly, they’re almost a necessity to get anything done in the modern era. We have surveillance that the Gestapo would’ve had wet dreams about. And, more, all of the largest tech corporations and their techbro CEOs – Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc. – are only too happy to kiss the ring and give them unfettered access. To say nothing of the countless other devices spying on you – Ring doorbells selling your data to police departments comes to mind. License plate scanners – even if your car doesn’t spy on you (which, if it was made in the last decade, it almost certainly does to some extent). Your desktop computer has been backdoored by Intel’s management engine or AMD’s PSP for well over a decade – if you don’t think they’ve built in backdoors for the government, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. They can strongarm any company in the world they want, especially ones owned and operated in the US, do you really think they haven’t quietly taken them aside and demanded hardware-level access to every computer made in the last 20 years? With how much the people at the NSA would have wet dreams about that? Yeah, no.

    I’m not saying it’s necessarily hopeless. But there will be no Anne Franks hiding in the attic if it comes to that point. They can, in fact, be everywhere, and if the hammer falls it’s going to fall hard and fast, there will be no long continuous search for undesirables across the countryside.

    If you want my advice? do as much sketchy-looking shit as possible while not actually doing anything illegal. Use a VPN. Look up Kali and Tails and download them to a Ventoy flash drive. Run I2P (even Tor – but preferably I2P) on your computer. Get Signal. Download the simple sabotage manual, expedient homemade firearms, etc. Do everything in your power to make them look as closely at a complete nothing as possible, and destroy their signal to noise ratio – and tell your friends to, as well. They can collect mountains of data on everyone, certainly, and we can’t really stop that now; but it still takes humans to sift through (AI cannot, yet, do that for them with any meaningful accuracy) – make them look for their needle in an ever-increasing haystack.