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[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

the european nations who previously plundered the global south with their literal empires being imperialists still? no, surely you must be sharing russian (because you mentioned ukraine) mis- and/or disinformation!

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Thankfully the United States Pharmaceuticals Inc. has got us all covered! Tired of the anxiety the constant Weltschmerz brings you? Well, feel no more! Introducing the all new Next SSRI®, still as debilitating as the one before!

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

capitalism i guess

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Because it's often real fucking scary? My every past (often futile and misguided) attempt at forming a (stricly monogamous cishet) relationship ended for one reason (me) or another (the other half). I have been hurt by myself and others, by my own feelings or the other's or the lack thereof from either. Now I live together with an incredible woman who gets me and I get her and our futures have so far seemed well aligned and stuff and I never have to fear to be judged or ridiculed by her unlike in previous attemps and I know she trusts me (and I trust her when she says so) as well. And yet still I find myself fearing: what if she'll just stop loving me because of xyz? Because everyone else has left so far (sure I might have personally driven away a few because of my fears and insecurities, and maladaptations or other toxicities, but I've grown from those times emotionally). It's real scary to open your shell and be at your most vunerable, but it is also required. Not everyone can be expected at any point to be able to do it just like that.

That's my two cents.

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

War, what is it good for? A few individuals' paychecks and testing out the latest man-killing toys on live targets, it seems. Ghoulish behaviour smh

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

This seems a good answer, let's go with this!

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

it seems to me that people are arguing over semantics why it shouldn't be listed as a "logical fallacy". kinda reminds me of people arguing about semantics on why i shouldn't call people nazis when they're not actually members of the NSDAP. fucking infuriating.

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

...ere the titans get hungry.

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only know of this game because has SsethTzeentach reviewed it in the past, but it seems quite funky indeed.

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

needs more jpeg

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Dwarf Fortress represent my personal brand of Autism best

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

i love everything about this thread and just wanted to upvote everything here so far because of loving vibes, and so i did.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by narr1@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

So the USA is turning into a fascist military dictatorship because of capitalism and misinformation campaigns swaying voters etc. etc. How do you (as a USian or not) view what is going to happen in the immediate-to-near future regarding civil liberties & disobedience, especially the current secret police and/or ICE (just getting a big, beautiful budget increase to unbeforeseen heights); and also thinking civil war and outside intervention?

For me, the current situation seems hopeless for the state. The bipartisan system is in its core a laughable excuse for an actual functioning democracy (then again are there any real democracies in the capitalist world?), as both parties are controlled by the same organizations and lobbyists, with governmental administration occasionally changing hands from one to the other only to unmake what little "progress" the currently "progressives" had made last time they were in the administration, forming but a pittance of what the people actually want. But the current administration seems to be too much akin to the Italian fascists or the German NSDAP of yore, and its attempts to control all media too see-through for some, who mostly seem to be in the bluer (richer and thus more better off) states. I think this stark divide between the population will be the force that rips the nation apart, as most people in the bluer more progressive states probably aren't as big on the secret police appearing unmarked and unannounced and armed, ready to take people away to concentration camps in undisclosed places in foreign nations in unmarked vans as the people of the redder and more conservative states seem to be.

So the question becomes how will the people react? Civil disobedience probably sounds nice right up until they start gunning those disobeying down, and deploying the National Guard and Marines against them (which I think might be unconstitutional there? not sure though because it happened already). The US Armed Forces apparently have 1.3 million active members (without a draft mind you) and even though there are people in this group who aren't as morally bankrupt as the administration is atm, I think they'd still have enough members positioned around the world in enough places that there isn't a single force in the world to oppose it willingly and easily. I bring this up because if (or when) push comes to shove and the civil disobedience in the blue states becomes too much for DJ Dump and his christofascist capitalism buddies, and they start driving their military might against their own people with increasing force, who will be there to come in to save the (non-militant minded) people? I think the US administration would consider this a declaration of war, and respond to it as such. So as I see it the US is on a surefire highway ~~to the danger zone~~ to Civil War part II: Electric Boogaloo, and in the end will either rip itself apart or pull the entirety of the western (NATO) countries to war with it. So thank god my country just got in! Wouldn't wanna miss this one, boys!

Anyway post your prophecies on the manifesting destiny of the US below, we'll eventually see who got it right.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by narr1@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hello all,

So I have this old Samsung RV520 laptop. You can see the specs there. I've installed and reinstalled a few different linux distros on it for the past 12 years or so, the last one being Arch (btw) which is what I use as my daily driver on my main desktop as well (by the btw). But I really don't need this laptop anymore, so I was thinking I'd give it as a birthday present to my friend's son, who turns 2 this month. It would be used as a "media station" to basically just play kids' videos from Youtube.

The problem is that I basically need to install an extremely windows-like (or otherwise simple) distro on it, because while my linux-fu is somewhat high level, my friend uses windows daily so system maintenance must be simple. Ubuntu is for me the obvious choice, but I'm not sure if the laptop can even run it anymore :D of course the HDD in it is also 16 years old and I'm pretty sure I'll upgrade it to an SSD before set up. So, taking all this preamble into account, what would you recommend? Some Ubuntu-derivative, pure Debian, maybe even Arch with linux-lts? Give me your thoughts!

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