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As long as we know our governments aren't obeying the law, and are acting to abridge people's ability to have conversations freely, there isn't really going to be that choice for long, is there?

My government is in the process of nationalizing the internet by regulating it like a broadcast so they can dictate what's allowed. One day this instance I self-host is likely to disappear from the Internet.

Meanwhile, useful idiots throw out the word "Nazi" like it means anything except "person who isn't a person and doesn't deserve basic human rights"

They respond to every press inquiry with a poop emoji. Mentioning it as if it's some measured response is why some people start cults worshipping prophetic magic 8-balls.

"you can't have any productive conversations on there because it's a pit of establishment shills, sycophants, and socially accepted hatemongers working together to create a giant circlejerk in which only a very limited number of opinions are allowed on any given topic"

"That may be true, but on the other hand it's very expensive, so it must be good!"

Someday I need to go to England to order a glass of oh ah ah ah ah

The coolest thing about playing war thunder is all the classified state secrets you'll learn as they're passed in between the glow in the dark people arguing.

If you can't post to only fans from Auschwitz, Hitler basically won wwii

How any Nazi paraphernalia manufacturing plants do you own?

Embarrassingly I don't even own one 😭

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imagine paying for porn on the internet.

I think you can go a step further: During the hard times, that's when old morality is the most important. Frugality, hard work, working together, not harming your neighbors, and above all not coming up with some bullshit that's going to actively hurt you it's all really important at all times but when times are hard you don't have the extra resources to spend on something that isn't beneficial.

We can only afford to try new stuff that's probably wrong when there's enough excess that we won't die by getting it wrong. That's why the baby boomer generation, the generation born into the most material wealth of all time, also made the most changes of all time.

One thing with straws is rather than going with the paper straws that make everyone miserable, why not just go with pla straws that are created from cornstarch, are compostable, and don't dissolve into nothing leaving you flaccid and disappointed?

We can't stop here, this is scholar country.

Poor bastard. He'd see them soon enough.

("Do you have a peer reviewed study for that? How many papers have you published? What's your impact factor?")

Soon it'll be too late...

For instances that want some ddos protection, both nginx and apache have modules that help protect against ddos. There's also options like syn cookies.

I've said many times before: There's nobody coming to save us. We can only save ourselves.

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According to various sources, oil has *always* had about a 20 year supply left. (incredible to see an article like this on gizmodo, but it's before the dark times)

https://gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354

Thanks!

Important thing to note is there's already a season 2. I was pretty much expecting a really disappointing thing when I realized it was only 12 episodes, but it's actually decent and comes full circle in a lot of ways. Really wants to tell the Trigun Maximum stories.

I've been reading through a kids bible with my son and trying to understand the stories as we go. I'm not very religious, but the stories are very interesting and multi-layered in the themes they express.

In Jeremiah 24, Judah had been conquered by Babylon, and many of the people of Judah were captured and taken back to Babylon. Jeremiah was shown two baskets of figs by God, and God said that the two baskets represented the two groups of people who stayed in Judah and those who were taken to Babylon. God said that the people who were taken to Babylon would know suffering and they would learn to follow God's teachings, but the people who stayed in Judah were like the bad figs, and they would ultimately be destroyed.

The thing I was trying to understand from an allegorical standpoint is why it's the people who were captured that are the good figs. Maybe it's because they suffered and they went through the journey and it's through their journey and their struggle that they will be equipped for the future, and they'll get the wisdom through that suffering to know they need to follow God's teachings?

The one thing I didn't get is... Did God choose the people who would be brought into captivity, or was it random? Or does it not really matter and the story isn't about that, and sometimes allegories contain things you shouldn't think too hard about?

In a literal sense, if God chose certain people to be taken to Babylon and certain people to stay behind, it sort of seems like a dick move -- like whether you had a chance for redemption would be totally random.

This sounds odd, but I read bible stories from a more secular viewpoint, where God is an allegorical vehicle for following morality, and those who follow god follow morality and those who do not follow god do not follow a robust morality. In that view, it's a more complicated thing to think about. In one viewpoint though, maybe it suggests that we shouldn't hate those who are immoral totally because sometimes the difference between a moral and immoral person is simply the journey they've travelled. If it was truly random, then the people who went through the tribulation of slavery in Babylon becoming more moral thereby wasn't their choice ultimately so while they ultimately made the right choice, you should recognize that they just as easily have made the wrong choice had their experiences been different.

Totally a result of a decadent system that isn't required to successfully achieve anything real. As long as it distributes money to the maximum number of states to placate congress and the senate, it never has to be a usable weapon or practical when in a state of war.