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2·3 小时前And, amusingly, apparently what our own top Executive Branch officials in the US use instead of the classified material approved stuff that they’re supposed to. Like, you have the NSA at your beck and call to secure your communications, and you turn to Moxie Marlinspike:
In fairness to Moxie, I’m sure that he doesn’t look like that most of the time, and I use Signal too, but…
22·4 小时前I don’t watch podcasts much, much less follow Rogan. But I will give him this: of the few podcasts of his that I’ve skimmed, his bullshit level seemed to be considerably lower than, say, Tucker Carlson.
That doesn’t necessarily warrant an “amazing” label, but there is a lot of really appallingly bad media sources on the right, and relative to that, well…shrugs
checks Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
In January 2020, CNN described Rogan as “libertarian-leaning”.[98]
In 2019–20, Rogan described himself as socially liberal, saying he supports same-sex marriage, gay rights, women’s rights, recreational drug use, universal health care, universal basic income, gun rights, and the Second Amendment.[99][100] He describes himself as a strong supporter of freedom of speech, and has criticized cancel culture and what he perceives to be suppression of those who hold right-wing views in the television and film industry.[101] He has also criticized what he describes as an American foreign policy of military adventurism.[102]
So if you compare him to the American political spectrum, I guess it’s kinda a mix of positions from what one might consider “left” and “right”.
I understand that he got initial visibility from being with the UFC, which is popular among guys on the right, which gives him immediate reach.
kagis
Why is MMA so conservative and right leaning
I’ve noticed most MMA spaces and clicks most people lean very right wing. Most fighters lean right, and of course the people funding these fights lean right to. I’ve heard people say that it’s because the people making up this scenes have a very disciplined “winner” hyper masculine mindse
Not only masculine, but blue-collar/hard-working in general. I grew up wrestling, and that is a sport that also leans very strongly to the right, with the whole blue-collar, crazy work ethic, personal responsibility, etc. mindset. Obviously a lot of wrestlers funnel into MMA as fighters and coaches.
Then you get many of the international fighters that hold similar beliefs and values, like the (Muslim) Dagestani’s.
All of this attracts a huge contingent of rural area, red-leaning white dudes. Top it all off with capitalist Dana as the head of the thing, speaking at the RNC, cozying up to Trump for a mutually beneficial relationship, talking on Fox, and now even getting involved in the dumbass culture war.
Probably a really great illustration as to why we shouldn’t permit this to be used domestically with pure Executive Branch discretion.
The Church Committee pulled domestic surveillance out of the CIA baliwick for similar reasons.
Sounds like something to go on the list of things that need some future restrictions to be imposed.
and a 64oz gatorade
Moderation to an extent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Gulp
At 128-US-fluid-ounce (3,800 ml), the Team Gulp remains the largest fountain offering in the world.[5]
Ah, thanks for looking at it. Hmm.
Paprika is mostly for color, so they could maybe drop that. Chili powder…well, for the spiciness, you can just put capsaicin in directly.
Cheddar is actually normally white. The orange color we’re used to is itself mostly added coloring, so one could use white cheddar.
goes looking for something on cheddar coloring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese
Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added)…
Dammit, the more I talk about it, the more I really want non-terribly-messy Doritos. If Frito-Lay doesn’t want to do it, I wonder if some other corn chip manufacturer could clone it and just dump the coloring.
Thanks. I think, though, that the “organic spice powder” is probably changed for the organic version, to include things that act as natural colors.
So, it looks like (regular) Doritos uses Yellow 5, an artificial color. I don’t see any breakdown for Doritos, but for another food that was replacing Yellow 5:
To replace Yellow 5, GNT uses carrot, pumpkin, algal carotene and turmeric.
So my guess is that turmeric probably would qualify as “organic spices”, and you’d use it to color things.
Well, fair enough.
One point that someone does make in that thread where someone also brings up the “where to start with Final Fantasy” is that it doesn’t really matter that much, because the series isn’t in one universe — it’s a bunch of stand-alone games. It’s not quite like you’re starting on trying to read, say, Hellboy comics many decades into multiple series or something like that. The games did evolve in the technical sense, but you won’t ruin a game by playing others “out of order”.
Just thought I’d highlight that, since you said almost the same thing in your post.
Probably the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Internet civil liberties.
I think that they’ve done some really helpful things by throwing resources and legal or technical expertise at the right place where often there isn’t another organization that would address the issue. Stuff like privacy or security issues online where no one entity stands to really benefit strongly enough from a fix to get involved, and they have the technical chops to make correct statements. When they make recommendations, I’d call them reputable and objective, someone who I’d generally trust. They’ve helped shape the Internet as it became a mainstream element of human society in ways that I’d call positive.
They’re US-centric (that is, they don’t just do the US, but do have a US focus). In the EU, EDRi is a little similar.
It looks like in the UK, the Open Rights Group may be analogous, but I haven’t read enough of their material to have an opinion on them.
I think that you’re going to likely get more-helpful suggestions if you list some games or genres that you like, something beyond “No Final Fantasy” and “No GTA”.
This Reddit post has a list of PS2 games that “still hold up”, without genre restrictions. There’s nothing there that I glance at and say “oh, I loved that and one needs to go back and play it”, but it’s probably a reasonable starting point. Like, I enjoyed Max Payne (which I recommend playing on the PC rather than console) when it came out, but I don’t know if I’d go back and play it as an FPS in 2025.
Yeah, that’s it. That’d make more sense if people were selling stuff on boats. I was just saying that there isn’t really, like, industry on the island to be selling anything.
I don’t care about either of those, but I’m kind of curious what Doritos would be like without any dye at all. The power on the stuff makes a visible mess, because it’s so intense in color. It should be possible to achieve the flavor without the color.
what did you think the community was going to be for? literally fucking AI?
Well, there’s !aigen@lemmynsfw.com…
If they were selling them stuff, this probably wasn’t Macchias Seal Island, though it might be some other border area. There’s not much there.
kagis
Oh, apparently someone is raising it this term, though.
https://www.restore.org/maineenvironews/2025/6/3/a-fight-may-loom-over-tiny-machias-seal-island
The Republican leader of the state House, Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham of Winter Harbor, last week urged President Donald Trump to defend “sovereignty over our waters,” referring to the little island in the Gulf of Maine.
14·8 小时前I’m not familiar with Arch’s updating scheme, but I’d bet that it’s pretty similar to Red Hat’s and Debian’s. If you don’t complete an update, boot it up — even if it’s in a semi-broken state — and just start the update again. Even if the thing dies right in the middle of updating something boot-critical, so that it can’t boot, you can probably just use liveboot media, mount the drives in question, start a chrooted-to-your-regular-root-partition root shell, and restart the update.
Doing that and installing or reinstalling packages is a pretty potent tool to fix a system. It’s not absolutely impossible that you can manage to hork a system up badly enough to render it still unusable in that situation — I once wiped ld.so from a system, for example, and had to grab another copy and manually put it in place to get stuff dynamically-linked stuff like the package manager working again. But that’ll deal with the great majority of problems you could create.
2·8 小时前Yes, but it speaks to the “if the problem is more on Russia firing many more missiles” bit that you raised. I suspect that it’s probably more-practical to dramatically reduce Russia’s access to a continued supply of ballistic missiles than to dramatically reduce Ukraine’s access to a continued supply of ballistic missile interceptors.
You can search all Threadiverse communities on https://lemmyverse.net/communities.
EDIT: One place you might try would be !futurism@lemmy.ca. Not much going on there at the moment, but as per its description:
A place to discuss the ideas, developments, and technology that can and will shape the future of civilization.
That’s not specific to AI alone, much less pessimistic views, but how technologies like it will impact society would be in scope.
EDIT2: As to moderators being active, there’s not presently much there to moderate. One mod seems to have been inactive for two years, but @troyunrau@lemmy.ca looks to be alive, commented somewhere three days ago. And there aren’t any memes or rage-stuff presently on there, if that’s what you’re hoping to have moderated away.
forced labor and money laundering conspiracy
Taylor and Brannon, according to the indictment, compelled their victims to work at their call centers and to work for Taylor as his “armor bearers.” Armor bearers were Taylors’s personal servants who fulfilled Taylor’s demands around the clock. Taylor and Brannon controlled every aspect of the daily living of their victims. Victims slept in the call center facility or in a “ministry” house, and Taylor and Brannon did not permit them to leave without permission. Taylor demanded that his Armor Bearers transport women from ministry houses, airports, and other locations to Taylor’s location and ensured the women transported to Taylor took Plan B emergency contraceptives.
If victims disobeyed an order or failed to reach his monetary goals, Taylor and Brannon punished the victims with public humiliation, additional work, food and shelter restrictions, psychological abuse, forced repentance, sleep deprivation, physical assaults, and threats of divine judgment in the form of sickness, accidents, and eternal damnation.
KOGGC/JMMI received millions of dollars in donations each year through its call centers. Taylor and Brannon used much of the money to purchase luxury properties, luxury vehicles, and sporting equipment such as a boat, jet skis, and ATVs. In total, Taylor received approximately $50 million in donations since 2014.
Recent court filings show Kingdom of God Global Church leader David E. Taylor suspected federal agents would raid his properties, and he believed he was a “general” leading the “end time army.” Taylor was accused of expecting his workers to wage war against anyone seeking to interfere with his mission.
“I am just telling you, you kill them on contact if they come in here with that foolishness, you understand? They need to die,” Taylor told his workers, according to court documents.
I mean, as long as that was what God wanted, I guess it all seems pretty reasonable.
I don’t really care that much one way or another, but this would be a prime post for cross-posting to !EnoughMuskSpam@lemmy.world.
I think that you can make most tragedies worse in a fairly-mechanical fashion. Whatever it is, it’s probably worse if you’re being stung by bees at the same time, for example. So trying to come up with the very worst tragedy seems like it’d be pretty hard. You could list some bad tragedies…