stepan

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[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago

please read my whole comment before downvoting

Lots of terrible stuff was done by the west/USA, or because of it. These countries you listed are in some ways much worse for their own people than the US is for americans, but mostly don't terrorize other countries. I think you grossly underestimate the amount of people murdered by US and its allies' bombs compared to those murdered by their own authoritarian governments.

When you learn about all the horrendous monstrosities some of the goverments do, it's easy to just dismiss any critique of the West, because at least they are not this evil.

Well, I think the tankies have it just like that, just reversed. When they learned about all the tens of thousands (probably more? idk) innocent people and little kids murdered by the USA in all those countries all in the recent history, and none of our "civilized" countries doing anything about it, they just support any regime that opposes the US, because at least it's not this evil.

If you have the world mostly divided into two camps, it's very depressing to acknowledge how evil both are. If you see one's atrocities first, it's easy to dismiss the other's due to it.

Now, some tankies are more fanatical than others, but many of them are similar to liberals supporting the US. They don't deny some of the flaws of china for example, but they still support it over the US, for obvious reasons. The US supporters also don't deny some of the war crimes and atrocities, especially after a few years since they happened, but they never see the big picture. They see individual mistakes excusable by the perceived evilness of the enemy.

Tl; dr:

When you said:

The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.

you basically answered your question. Just reverse the sides.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

is this ai?

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

Probably yours, I can see it just fine

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

it was some ai weed actually

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 77 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I've had drugs that put me in a weird agonizing bodyless state for what seemed like probably days. It's really hard to describe, but it was terrible. And I think an hour or two in reality. This post reminded me of that strongly, an awful idea.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

maybe show some evidence? otherwise you are just wasting people's time. you probably read that somewhere, no? if so, whoever said so should have provided evidence. if they didn't, it's better to ask them to do so than to post here without context.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, she thinks she "succeeded" when the men look at her, but when the women look too, she gains suspicion and finally notices what's wrong.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago

To hell with lawmakers; I am worried!

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 week ago

but it sounds cool and i like it

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

he does, but you don't "wear" your face, no? or maybe you do i don't know english idk

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

he's wearing photoshop

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 week ago

I think religious law is bad, whether it's islamic or jewish or christian or any other religion's. I don't criticize islam as much as other religions these days, because there's brutal islamophobia in the west, and where I live especially. But still, no gods, no masters, and that includes islam.

 

You get to live a happy life and don't care about all the horrible things happening all across the world. You wouldn't feel terrible for children getting killed in a genocide half the globe away, every day. Blissful ignorance.

My response would be no. And I suppose most responses are gonna be no, but I also don't think anyone who already doesn't care would take a pill to start caring. That's an interesting concept to me.

I'm sure that what me caring does to my mental state is far worse than however good is anything it does to anyone else. But by that logic, if everyone stopped caring, how would the world look like?

EDIT: It's permanent. It doesn't take away your emotions, it just stops you from caring about things like wars as long as they don't directly affect you. Just like many people already have it.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by stepan@lemmy.cafe to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Hi, I'm thinking about writing a media piracy tutorial for absolute beginners (think my mother - people who can use browsers and office but that's about it).

Does anybody know what's the legislation for that? I'm in the Czech Republic (EU), and the site is hosted on Codeberg pages (Germany). Nameservers for my domain are managed by CloudFlare (USA). So I'm curious about both EU and US laws.

If it's illegal, can I make it legal by not including any direct links, or stating some "educational purposes only" bullshit?

I feel like the internet is full of that stuff and even GitHub READMEs usually get away with "we don't condone piracy", but I also vaguely remember some lawsuit against redditors discussing piracy?

Thanks for advice.

 

I made this userscript to play multiple videos from pirate streaming sites in sync (play/pause them at the same time)

usecase: You want to watch dubbed version of a movie (most people here probably watch in english, but may have friends or family members who don't). You find dubbed version, but in poor quality. Finding high quality english version is easy. You play the english version muted in foreground, and the dubbed version with audio in the background. With this userscript, you can play or pause them at the same time.

Not sure if anyone else finds it useful, but it' super useful for me, so I figured I'll share it here.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by stepan@lemmy.cafe to c/android@lemmy.world
 

I've written this blog post about moving from rooted Samsung to a Pixel running GrapheneOS. It's a list of every root tool that I used, with a note on whether I'll miss it. I wrote it as a checklist for myself initially, and decided to add links and more comments and publish it. Turns out I don't really need root, which truly surprised me.

Do you have any apps or tools that hold you back from leaving root?

 

Hi, I've been using Instander for some time, but even the early beta is outdated by now, and doesn't work correctly. Does anyone have any recommendations on good Instagram mods? I know about AeroInsta, Honista, MyInsta and few others, but not sure which are safe.

PS: please tell me if this isn't the right community for this question, I'm not sure but it seems like the best one PPS: I know precisely how bad instagram is, and I still want/need to use it, so please don't waste your time telling me that.

 

Picture of dummy notification showcasing my SwayNC rice

Image showcasing SwayNC with uncollapsed group of notifications.

 

Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.

 

It's very much WIP.

  • Distro: EndeavourOS

  • Compositor/WM: Niri

  • Floating menu in the center: Fuzzel

  • Bar: Waybar

  • Terminal: Foot

  • Terminal multiplexer: Tmux

  • Shell: ZSH

  • Prompt: Powerlevel10k

  • Editor: Neovim

  • Browser: Firefox

  • dotfiles (kinda messy + outdated README)

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