Synthuir

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[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

…and then at least another 4, because the LA Olympics isn’t going to have breakdancing.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

According to John Donne, at least the size of ‘no man’

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, but the point is if I see a drone I know it’s a government drone and not just some hobbyist. The ban already doesn’t apply to the government, hence the weather warning drones and anti-drone drones.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Drones have been banned in the city for years. Iirc the city uses anti-drone drones occasionally, but I’ve literally never seen one overhead, be it personal, commercial, or governmental.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I use Estrogen as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Estrogen is just the kernel. You use GNU+Estrogen!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Estrogen, but it's not GNU+Estrogen.

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If Testosterone was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Time of your life

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If literature is too dense for you, I personally like to put on Dropkick Murphy’s Woodie Guthrie albums, Sixteen Tons, Rage Against the Machine, Question, Union Dixie, etc… If anyone has more leftist workout song suggestions, I’m all ears!

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Also, what about the shirt, why isn’t that itemized? And the mallard, why is his price not listed? Do they think I don’t want to buy him, or that I simply cannot afford such a fine waterfowl?

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago

…if he was trying to self-radicalize in the name of terrorism.

This is a very weird way of wording a possible motivation. I guess I never heard about all those suicide bombers shouting “For terrorism!” before detonating. Was he apprehended in full Joker facepaint?

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