Jealous. I made the dire mistake of going with a Virge GX as my first 3d card, and then next up I bought a Savage4 because I guess I just don't learn. (The savage4 was fine though for the most part)
Quake 2 always struck me as an anti-gestalt. Like, it had all the elements to be great, but it just was never as good as it felt like it should be. Action Quake 2 was pretty great though (I guess proving that it could be made great without massive changes)
Jeez, this music is making me want to get my brothers together and play Quake deathmatch over null modem cables.
(I know, it's a strange connection, but we'd have music like this blasting over the stereo and we'd play play games like that)
(I know, it's a strange connection, but we'd have music like this blasting over the stereo and we'd play play games like that)
You can find yourself a searx instance and it'll basically do a lot of what dogpile does without the wall of ads.
I run my own. It's a bit slower than most because I also run a yacy instance so I can get some results from a 100% non-commercial search index. (and I think I'm contributing about 0.1% of the pages to the total distributed index)
I run my own. It's a bit slower than most because I also run a yacy instance so I can get some results from a 100% non-commercial search index. (and I think I'm contributing about 0.1% of the pages to the total distributed index)
Once I started looking at the data, it became undeniable. One you start to see the statistical outcomes for kids who grow up in non-standard homes such as single parent households, it looks like a crime against humanity to advocate for such things.
Shit happens, I'm not saying that every instance of divorce can be avoided. My parents split up when I was growing up. But given the outcomes, it makes the most sense to at least aim at a boring conventional family because it's best for the children and thereby for the world.
Shit happens, I'm not saying that every instance of divorce can be avoided. My parents split up when I was growing up. But given the outcomes, it makes the most sense to at least aim at a boring conventional family because it's best for the children and thereby for the world.
The boomers tried free love, and it worked ok for a little while because they still had the old ways of doing things to fall back on. Their kids on the other hand lived in a world without the old ways of doing things, and it was a catastrophe that made nobody happy.
Ironically, without meaning to or intending to, younger generations are now starting to try to figure out what to do, and in doing so are rediscovering the old ways of doing things.
Ironically, without meaning to or intending to, younger generations are now starting to try to figure out what to do, and in doing so are rediscovering the old ways of doing things.
I could be wrong, but it seems like the salt water pools are less salty than ocean water, but the pool water is used as an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell which takes water and sodium chloride and produces chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide. The Chlorine gas obviously chlorinates the water like bleach would, but without the increased trouble of having to handle chlorine or sodium hypochlorite. Apparently you do need to dump some HCL into the pool now and again because the pH eventually starts to drop (and that's the sort of thing you want to avoid), and you also have to top up the salt. There'd also be a slight benefit to just having salty water, because it would be a slightly more challenging environment for microorganisms which aren't suited to salty water since the salt could try to pull water out of some.
(Maybe everyone in this conversation already knows all this, but I thought it was pretty interesting and looked it up myself and learned a thing or two and decided to share)
(Maybe everyone in this conversation already knows all this, but I thought it was pretty interesting and looked it up myself and learned a thing or two and decided to share)
lol "Oh no you don't. You said he was the bestest evar and better than he's ever been. You've made your bed, now poop in it"
We can thank Mr. Trudeau for opening that particular pandora's box.
He and his whole cadre really need to Canadian Healthcare themselves.
He and his whole cadre really need to Canadian Healthcare themselves.
I'm sorry fren, not even Trump GPT could save the American film industry. Trump tower is 58 stories, 202 meters tall, and not even it is tall enough to get you far enough to find the American film industry up its own ass.
@7235c54512c28918a4dcb0d47aa48709feef5c4be45e85f5672cdc4a9a32a871 used to run one of only very few based lemmy instances, called wolfballs. Wolfballs and exploding-heads were the only instances I actually participated in regularly a few years back, and pretty much every other lemmy instance had them blocked because they both refused to censor things that later turned out to be basically true.
Not locking up political opponents directly before an election is a threat do our democracy.
The outraged establishment press proclaims that they are defenders of free speech.
All of us know that's false. Because they're not really the press, they're the government-approved press.
Pravda always had the freedom to praise Stalin and criticize Trotsky. Der Strumer always had the freedom to praise Hitler and criticize the Jews.
Imagine the audacity of claiming you're fighting for the right to say what you're told to say by the powerful.
All of us know that's false. Because they're not really the press, they're the government-approved press.
Pravda always had the freedom to praise Stalin and criticize Trotsky. Der Strumer always had the freedom to praise Hitler and criticize the Jews.
Imagine the audacity of claiming you're fighting for the right to say what you're told to say by the powerful.
Jeff cliff is a conspiracy theory. Evidence: Saskatchewan is also a conspiracy theory.
I've been thinking more of this lately.
Isn't part of the problem actually that society thinks virtually every problem is to be solved by the state?
In 1900, the state made up about 10% of GDP. There was no income tax in most places at all. Today, the state makes up about 50% of GDP, and blue collar workers might spend 50% of the last dollar they make in income taxes.
We've replaced the role of family, church, and community with the state. Instead of having duties to one another, we have entitlements granted by the global megastate. When there's a problem to be solved, often the claim is that it's the state that must fix it.
It is a sort of stupid individualism, because it isn't individualism. We replace everything with a totalitarian state that takes over everything and tries to control everything, and culturally we start to think that it's normal and desirable for the state to control more of our lives and to provide for more of our wellbeing.
No wonder society is breaking down and both men and women are in a perpetual state of peter pan syndrome, they never have to grow up because there's a tyrannical father figure who tells us it will take care of us and if we try to take care of ourselves we're doing something against nature.
The criticism of neoliberalism is in fact criticism of that totalitarian state taking from everyone to "take care" of us and once the work is done, handing the fruits of that sacrifice to a privileged few. To many people it's self-evident that such behavior is evil, but that's also the power and danger of a totalizing state presence overriding individuals, communities, and forces such as organized religion. The tyrannical father giveth, and also taketh away at his discretion alone.
Father Government says "Worry not, my child, you shall all pitch in some money, and I will use my mighty power to force a few people to give up their lands, and we will build a power plant for everyone. Ok, it's built. Now I shall be giving it to my campaign donors for a pittance because it's really absurd that everyone should pitch in money for something and that I should use my mighty power to force anyone to give up their lands so we should really prevent that." and because unlike individuals Father Government is immortal, he can do so over time spans that hide his hypocrisy.
In this way, the problem with both individuality and neoliberalism isn't the ideas themselves, but their disingenuous use as part of an effective cycle of kleptocracy. Take much from the common man while saying "we need to work together" when it's time to build common goods, then once those goods are built wait for people to forget that those are the people's common goods, and then "we need to stop having control over everything in your lives!" so those common goods can be sold at a loss.
In that way, the individual ideas of state power vs. autonomy are actually irrelevant, because both are just tools of a totalitarian regime. The same way Mao implemented freedom of speech after a long period of controlled speech, but with the intention of loosening the lips of dissenters so he could have them killed.
A result of this is that the current path isn't sustainable. Federal debt, provincial or state debt, municipal debt, and personal debt are all at levels and rising at levels virtually guaranteed to lead to a collapse or revolution that totally changes the paradigm, and I think it'll happen during my lifetime.
Isn't part of the problem actually that society thinks virtually every problem is to be solved by the state?
In 1900, the state made up about 10% of GDP. There was no income tax in most places at all. Today, the state makes up about 50% of GDP, and blue collar workers might spend 50% of the last dollar they make in income taxes.
We've replaced the role of family, church, and community with the state. Instead of having duties to one another, we have entitlements granted by the global megastate. When there's a problem to be solved, often the claim is that it's the state that must fix it.
It is a sort of stupid individualism, because it isn't individualism. We replace everything with a totalitarian state that takes over everything and tries to control everything, and culturally we start to think that it's normal and desirable for the state to control more of our lives and to provide for more of our wellbeing.
No wonder society is breaking down and both men and women are in a perpetual state of peter pan syndrome, they never have to grow up because there's a tyrannical father figure who tells us it will take care of us and if we try to take care of ourselves we're doing something against nature.
The criticism of neoliberalism is in fact criticism of that totalitarian state taking from everyone to "take care" of us and once the work is done, handing the fruits of that sacrifice to a privileged few. To many people it's self-evident that such behavior is evil, but that's also the power and danger of a totalizing state presence overriding individuals, communities, and forces such as organized religion. The tyrannical father giveth, and also taketh away at his discretion alone.
Father Government says "Worry not, my child, you shall all pitch in some money, and I will use my mighty power to force a few people to give up their lands, and we will build a power plant for everyone. Ok, it's built. Now I shall be giving it to my campaign donors for a pittance because it's really absurd that everyone should pitch in money for something and that I should use my mighty power to force anyone to give up their lands so we should really prevent that." and because unlike individuals Father Government is immortal, he can do so over time spans that hide his hypocrisy.
In this way, the problem with both individuality and neoliberalism isn't the ideas themselves, but their disingenuous use as part of an effective cycle of kleptocracy. Take much from the common man while saying "we need to work together" when it's time to build common goods, then once those goods are built wait for people to forget that those are the people's common goods, and then "we need to stop having control over everything in your lives!" so those common goods can be sold at a loss.
In that way, the individual ideas of state power vs. autonomy are actually irrelevant, because both are just tools of a totalitarian regime. The same way Mao implemented freedom of speech after a long period of controlled speech, but with the intention of loosening the lips of dissenters so he could have them killed.
A result of this is that the current path isn't sustainable. Federal debt, provincial or state debt, municipal debt, and personal debt are all at levels and rising at levels virtually guaranteed to lead to a collapse or revolution that totally changes the paradigm, and I think it'll happen during my lifetime.