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Hotline Miami but with furies.

Trying to compare forced-labor and human trafficking to chattel slavery obscures and excuses the institution of slavery in the Americas.

Slavery apologists use these arguments. "Slavery is no worse than prison." "Slavery still happens, and to white people".

Their are some key differences, I'll point out three.

1. no matter how depraved and cruel the conditions of a trafficked person are, they don't expect the same fate to befall their children and grandchildren.

2. Human trafficking is illegal and rather looked-down-upon. Chattel slavery was considered normal, routine, necessary, and good throughout the society where it occurred.

3. Human trafficking victims are legally people with rights recognized by the legal system; their abusers must hide their activities and fear punishment.

Critical thinking is great, but none of us can sustain it perpetually. Shortcuts and heuristics are the way we actually evaluate the world.

The good news is that self-awareness will improve your ability to detect deception regardless of the quality of the lie. learn what kind of deceptions ring true to your ears, and you'll be less credulous. Be doubly suspicious of the things that confirm your priors.

Elon Musk? You mean the guy who murdered all those children with a chainsaw? The guy who invented replicator technology, but only for CSAM? That guy?

If you really think that the minutia of white-supremacy is common knowledge, you're in a bubble. Sealed off from mainstream (white) culture.

Everyone knows that it was taboo (and after Nat Turner illegal) to educate enslaved people. What isn't such common knowledge is the current project of white-supremacists is 'White Innocence' if your being polite, or 'White Ignorance' if your not.

They labor day and night to keep white people incurious and out of touch. Entire news organizations, newspapers, influencers, even radio broadcasters make it their business to lull white people into believing that anti-colonial struggle is irrational and savage; that racism is an artifact of a bygone era; and that state violence is necessary and good.

The ironic part is that for POC, all this is obvious basic knowledge. But in the white world, it's esoteric and mysterious.

This is the main reason I hate white supremacy. Not because I'm a good person or an ally to the oppressed. I've always known white supremacy was bad for those people. I didn't get aggravated until I realized they were keeping me ignorant and out of touch.

It's helpful to collaborate the setting and world-building with the players. Not only does this allow them to create characters who are native to the setting, it also gives them agency and stakes in the story.

This will this save you time and effort, and make you a better DM.

AIPAC's money, at least in this case appears to be impotent.

Did you know that for every dollar AIPAC spends on pro-Israel lobbying, evangelical Zionists spend 2-3 dollars more? Turns out it's the Christians who are furtively controlling things behind the scenes.

Look to the wiki link in my previous post for details, but the basic procedure was to uninstall the Nvidia drivers, shut down, install the new card, boot up and install the AMD drivers (there is a command to automatically detect your card and select the appropriate driver from the repos), and update the bootloader. I ended up having to do the second half through SSH, but otherwise a pretty painless process.

I switched from an Nvidia to AMD on catchy. There are instructions in the Wiki. https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/chwd/gpu_migration/

It worked for me with only one issue. When I booted up the first time, I had no signal to the monitor. No big deal, I just used SSH from another computer to install the AMD drivers and update the bootloader.

Even more so if your tastes change over time.

This is a challenge. I've grown on hip-hop and rap, and finding the media is a struggle. For example, the first 'Run the Jewels" album is basically unavailable on CD.

I recently upgraded and over-payed for a 16gb card because I felt like that would keep me playing new games for a few years yet, and a few years after that in indie-games and low-settings.

8GB is basically the minimum for today's games, and 4GB is obsolete out of the gate.