After checking just now, it appears that it does! :D
Lemmy.world is already the largest instance, recommending it to more people seems like it'd just speedrun burnout like what happened to lemm.ee, not to mention centralization around .world goes against the philosophy of the fediverse.
That's a good point. On a similar note, Programming.dev had pretty severe database breakage that took quite some time to fix, but thankfully both instances seem to be healthy and working well nowadays. :)
For lemm.ee users who will be migrating to new instances: You can export your subscriptions and blocks to import them to your new instance! You can export that info in your profile settings panel, and import it from the same page on your new instance.
General instances:
Sopuli.xyz is a great medium sized general purpose instance. Good admins that update to the latest Lemmy release consistently.
Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you'd prefer a smaller general purpose instance (to help spread the load and prevent the burnout that lemm.ee experienced) that's also run by a solid admin.
Themed instances:
Retrolemmy.com - a cool place for retro tech/game enthusiasts
Literature.cafe - For book lovers and readers!
lemmy.dbzer0.com - fantastic instance for Anarchists and those who like to go Yarr! 🏴☠️
Programming.dev - For techies interested in programming and linux
Mander.xyz - Focused on Science and Nature
Lemmy.zip - PC Gaming and Tech focused
You can find more over at Lemmyverse.net
Piefed:
If you're willing to try an entirely new way to interact with Lemmy and the threadiverse, consider giving Piefed.social a try, a completely independent project from Lemmy. It's still a little behind in some ways, but also has a bunch of features that lemmy doesn't. If you're a community mod looking to migrate, Piefed apparently makes it particularly easy!
And Pirates Gold on the Sega Genesis is a good option for any emulation handhelds, basically a pixel art version of the remake.
I misunderstood what you were after, since I consider neo-nazi's to be neo-fascists. If you wanted examples of people resisting fascist or tyrannical governments only, there's not many examples of that happening in the US specifically since those movements would be almost immediately and harshly quashed. I don't know if you'd consider the Battle of Athens to count since it was only against a corrupt local town government. And the Battle of Blair Mountain, I assume, doesn't really count either.
For larger scale conflicts, we'd have to go abroad and often farther back in history, which may disqualify it from what you're looking for.
Examples:
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Rojava using weapons to protect against tyrannical and oppressive neighbor states
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The Spanish Civil War, which was leftists (even George Orwell joined in!) vs. the fascist army of Francisco Franco (plus Documentary with more detail)
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Nestor Makhno's Black Army during the Russian Revolution (plus short historical video)
Conceal carry restrictions have a long history of being created and selectively enforced against the black population.
During Reconstruction, several states, especially Southern states, passed laws banning concealed carry. These laws were often aimed at disarming African-Americans, and though they did not explicitly say so because of the 14th Amendment, were not to be >enforced against whites.
Rivers H. Buford, associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said that the Florida law banning concealed carry, "[t]he original Act of 1893 ... was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers ... and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. ... [I]t is a safe guess to assume that more than 80% of the white men living in the rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. It is also a safe guess to say that not more than 5% of the men in Florida who own pistols and repeating rifles have ever applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a permit to have the same in their possession and there has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it >has been generally conceded to be in contravention to the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested."[11]
In fact, Florida was not the only such state to ban the carriage of arms by blacks, nor was it the most explicit. The 1834 Tennessee Constitution, 1836 Arkansas Constitution, as well as the 1838 Florida constitution, stated "That the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defence."
This continued into the modern day, with Ronald Reagan and the NRA supporting and implementing the Mulford Act specifically to illegalize and target the Black Panthers and other black communities, who were exercising their rights to arm themselves to protect against police brutality and racists. Unfortunately the arming and legal targeting of the Black Panthers for that arming was very likely an FBI operation.
There were some concealed gun control laws in old west towns that were implemented against whites as well, but even then, only selectively against those the local Law Enforcement didn't like.
I've never had a Manjaro install not break in the 4 times I've given it serious tries, all from updates. I could've avoided a few them by checking the forums first, but one was due to not updating for a couple months, which seem to set it up for failure when I did update.
I can't imagine cursing a newbie with it.
In comparison, Linux Mint has virtually never given me trouble, even if left not updated for months.
Ah bugger, looks like it's dead too, never realized. :(
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GIMP 3.0 combined with PhotoGIMP and Resynthesizer is stupendous (coming from a GIMP hater)
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GIMP and I have never gotten on well. I'd tried it many times over the years, but it always felt sort've off. Unpleasant, even. Things got better when the Single Window Mode came out years ago, but still, I would choose something else to edit images if I could, which usually ended up being Krita, even if it was forcing it into a role it wasn't originally intended for.
With the release of GIMP 3, I was hopeful things would be better and maybe even have its Blender 2.8 glow-up moment.
3.0 on its own, while nice (and setting the stage for more rapid improvement), didn't turn out to be the revolution I was mildly hoping it would be.
But I'd heard of an outside attempt to improve the UI called PhotoGIMP, and was pleased to find that it'd already been updated for GIMP 3.0. Installation was as simple as could be. And by Jove, it really does what it says on the tin.
For the first time, using GIMP felt good. When you get right down to it it's not a monumental change, just a reorganization of windows and some better shortcuts, but damn if it isn't just what the doctor ordered.
This positive experience warranted further investigation of the merits of GIMP, and if it could be pushed further with community efforts. That's when I discovered Resynthesizer, a plugin that replicates most of the functionality of Photoshop's Context Aware Fill.
That installed even easier thanks to being available as a flatpak, and after quickly learning how to use it, I was off to races, content filling all of the areas to my heart's content (and I assure you, it was thoroughly contented, and I haven't even tried G'Mic yet!)
In all seriousness, GIMP with these modifications was a revelation for me on how good GIMP can actually be when you spend a minute giving it a bit of polish. If you'd written it off in the past as I did, I hope this post encourages you to follow in my footsteps and give it another go as well. You might find that you can get along with it after all.
Their military is in shambles. Satellite photos show their armored vehicle stockpiles are virtually empty, to the point where they're sending some troops on suicide runs using ATV's, golf carts, and motorcycles because they don't have enough APC's to spare.
They are in no shape to invade anyone besides ukraine.