i wouldn’t have minded it so much if there was always an option to do a dungeon dive with a default character

Rogue Legagy. after a while it suddenly occurred to me that if my characters were slowly getting more powerful as a result of how long i played the game, the game wasn’t challenging me to beat it, it was challenging me to invest my time until i’d customized the experience to be easy enough for me. so i switched back to playing more traditional roguelikes and roguelikelikes (which is what we called roguelites at the time) where you reset to 0 each play

this conflict can be resolved with tuna

they did though, is the thing, particularly in Russian and Ukraine, less so in Ukbekistan and Kazakhstan. where i can sympathize with your “USSR always better” posturing here though is that the violence against children in Russia intensified after the collapse of the soviet union. additionally eugenics programs structured against left handed people were not unique to the soviet bloc, with the last law in the united states mandating the punishment of children for left-handedness being repealed in 2004 after a teacher in Tazewell, Virginia paddled a child for their lefthandedness in first grade.

however, in order to forge a better future we have to look back at history with a critical gaze to understand how we came to stand where we stand. violence against left handed children in the USSR was real, and to dismiss it with a simple “no they didn’t” is disrespectful and dismissive to real people’s lived experience that we can still draw from today. my neighbor in his 40s danced when that law was repealed in 2004 because he was so excited no child would be allowed to be scarred the way he was in a Russian orphanage in the 80s. he is today an organizer and advocate for that all forms of corporal punishment against children should be ceased as it’s just a normalization for when they’re adults. i find your flippancy with “no they didn’t” absurd and dismissive

they’ve expanded the 100 miles to 250, and include cities with international airports now. we’re at a point now where USBP jurisdiction is wherever a USBP agent happens to be

their primary product is a VPN. for ages they’ve been the best in class for privacy vpn. however, it turns out their CEO is basically singlehandedly bankrolling a far right political party in Sweden so people are looking for alternatives

the people who understand what’s going on have figured out that what the regime means is “brown people are, as a group, the worst of the worst.” the people who don’t understand that are more vulnerable to believe that the face value is the truth

worth noting, Hyundai is also classified as a war profiteer in both Ukraine and Palestine. you will find me in another comment praising the Ioniq 5. This is in contrast to Tesla, bear in mind

noted!

that’s great news! it looks like they started fixing this in 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

here’s some context

Along with fellow humans giving CT drivers the bird and snarky notes under their one dumb windshield wiper, they’re also just… not very good vehicles. The steering is vague, the acceleration is ass because the vehicle is so heavy, and they get the gremlins if they get wet and they weren’t set to car wash mode. So some drivers are going to be quietly trying to trade them in for shame, and some are going to be perpetually in the shop getting fixes for problems they never should have been allowed to have in the first place

The only downside I know of with the Hyundai is that their single pedal driving controller interprets US law about braking strictly and does not turn on the brake lights unless you dump the pedal, engaging the brake rotors. So either just don’t use single pedal driving mode, or have faith that US drivers don’t drive distracted (this is an endorsement for not using Hyundai’s single pedal driving mode btw)

it’s been going for 16k years

we need more bus access

Newpipe at the moment

https://web.archive.org/web/20250318235233/https://www.letemps.ch/articles/sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-l-entreprise-genevoise-proton-accusee-de-soutenir-donald-trump/gifts/ybn6gho5JTnuet2bcoda4jDMR573NaKyC9cKGuFh

not exactly. the more nuanced inspection of what he said was that donald trump’s plans to deregulate the tech industry he expected to benefit his company. however, that deregulation is in service of allowing more surveillance capitalism, environmental degredation, and worker mistreatment. the wording i provided is what that ultimately means as an analysis of how and why proton would make more money in that type of environment

the owner is fine with fascism because fascism makes his product more lucrative

Mojeek and Qwant both have independent indexes but afaik have no paid teir

malware is bytecode Google didn’t approve of. when google spies on you, that’s just “legitimate interest”

that’s the last time anyone chose to use it instead of treating it as some form of hegemonic default