kittykabal

i want to emigrate to Equestria!!! 🥺

the point isn't really to convince anyone on the spot. that's the insidiousness of this kind of propaganda.

it's always there. it will always be there. every time you face a problem in your life, there's an article in your periphery that blames migrants, or minorities, or migrant minorities. and sure, you don't believe them. you're rational and aware that this is manipulation.

but then nothing gets better. there are just even more problems, some completely different in kind. and a bunch of people seem to think it's the migrants and minorities again. but you know that's manipulation.

then you lose your home because the economy is fucked, and you lose your job due to downsizing, and the job market is terrible, and you're heading for poverty. now you're afraid, and sad, and angry, and wondering where you went wrong. you're looking for something to blame, someone to blame.

and there's an article making a very pontificated argument about why this economic and social crisis has been exacerbated by "mass immigration" since about when you first started reading those articles.

a lot of people will start questioning themselves here, and in desperation, look for a way out they haven't tried yet: imagining that the people pushing that message are correct, and campaigning for change. because nothing ever changes for the better.

the rich toast another vintage wineglass.

the fact that i was paywalled trying to read this pretty much says all one needs to know about where such a sentiment could be coming from. HMMMMMMMM

not reliable, even if it should be. i've seen updates replace the file in a way that clears the read-only flag. same with other clever tricks like making it a symlink.

Unown!!! so many possibilities there, or just pick some random ones.

putting aside the ethics of DRM in general (ew) and that this developer has already made a fortune on a mod virtually unequaled... my biggest problem with this kind of thing is that bugs happen. "mines" implies that the goal will be to do something malicious to pirates. so what happens when there's a bug in the detection code, or in the auth server, or when you didn't test it on some specific quirky hardware-software combo, or when a cosmic ray strikes the RAM stick and flips the wrong bit?

a paying customer gets fucked -- or a lot of them do. all for the petty greed of someone who can't envision the obvious fact that the actual pirates will just fuzz your bomb logic and patch it out within two days.

i see this as an absolute win.

i think the issue with this is that it doesn't carry the broadness of 'queer.' it lists gender, sexuality, romantic minorities... and nothing else. there are things typically thought of as 'queer' that are not strictly one of those three things.

you may be interested in the open-source "Home Assistant". it's a free home automation hub thingy that supports practically every brand and protocol out there, including Shelly. if you're technical enough to set it up, free yourself from proprietary apps!

kindly grow up. people are allowed to like different things than you.

this is absolutely justified. my company switched from Slack (which we all largely enjoyed using) to the bundled Teams (which causes problems all day every day for everyone) solely because they were already paying for Office and Teams was free.

on the other hand, i can't imagine how much money we're losing from the lost productivity...