Fascists will never see you coming out of the night in your acts of resistance because to predict your actions consistently requires actually understanding what makes you tick, and to do that requires recognizing at some level that you have something they do not, integrity in your beliefs, whereas their mental landscape is a barren monoculture of childish hate and bullshit.

Make no mistake if they think twisting the algorithm is going to make the voices of the left less disruptive they have no fucking clue what it is like to fight people who believe in their beliefs because they ernestly think they will help and save people.

We were going at Biden and Harris with kid gloves on because we knew Trump was going to be much worse, but the kid gloves are off and leftists will do everything up to and including dying for what we think is right… because we aren’t full of shit like the cowards in power are.

I dare them to kick us out of social media conversations, we are just going to become more radicalized into taking direct action instead of asking nicely.

For real, centrists are often insufferable in their refusal to reflect on their beliefs unless you can prove to their face they hold a small percentage minority view and then they acquiesce like the intellectual cowards they are. That is the reason you call them centrists and not some other word that points to a set of beliefs with any degree of substance.

The Palestinian Genocide is one of these instances.

You’ll notice that nearly all the people who couldn’t stop posting articles about what disasters Biden was engineering in Palestine, and how big a problem it was, are no longer as enthusiastic about the nightmarish future that’s now on deck

I am one of those people and that is a lazy bullshit generalization. The left has gone nowhere and was screaming about this future coming to pass since you before you were born.

no leftist worth their salt thought this was going to end the genocide, where you not listening to anything the left said?

lol, Biden sure as hell didn’t negotiate any ceasefire either, Netanyahu handed it to Trump as a PR gift while Biden sat there smiling.

this is amazingly accurate

For what it is worth I am not trying to dunk on being awkward, introverted or neurodivergent in a way that makes it hard to be confident in “normal” social situations (i.e. a normal defined by people with a brain entirely unlike yours). I don’t mean that kind of computer geek.

The thing is, there are plenty of hot people who would think you are hot for being exactly that precise kind of nerd, or artist, or just different person with a different brain it’s just that interesting and different people are usually shy because of how people treat them for being interesting and different and so it is hard to actually find that other hot cool weirdo and get into a conversation with them. Once you do, you are off to the races into some weird kind of sexy nerdy wonderous relationship and all this incel nonsense collapses in one moment of looking into their eyes.

The losers I am talking about never get to that point because they are never nice enough to a woman long enough to have them gaze into their eyes like that and a whole lot of them went into computers or business…

The people I am attacking are too narrow minded to understand that the reason nobody they are attracted to wants to talk to them is the way they treat the people they are attracted to in moment to moment social interactions and also in political ideology and values.

Computers are cool as fuck, computer people are great, we just need more cool people to dilute and displace the toxicity of this kind of ingrown toxic male masculinity that permeates a lot of video game and computer circles. It isn’t just bad for women, it actually erodes the capacity of the men in these circles to critically think, in otherwords this shit is brainworms.

TL;DR Make Computing Great Again a.k.a. bring it back to it’s roots a.k.a. make it queer, feminine and militantly focused on fighting oppression and totalitarian ideologies again

I mean I take your point but again you are just describing the technical details of localization. The little fiddly bits that can be automated and neatly dealt with by a computer or person with an accountant’s mindset for making sure little things plug neatly and cleanly into other little things. Any concept of “localization” that does not include careful consideration of the vast territory of nuance that surrounds the much easier technical details seems useless to me in the context of solving any actual real world problem.

When it comes to the actual hard parts about localization I am fairly certain almost every computer professional I have ever met or talked to does not understand them. The more successful a computer person is in their career the more they tend to think everything in the world functions like computers and thus they don’t need to try to understand alternate systems or phenomena that don’t adhere to their narrow tool belt of critical thinking strategies that can’t handle even a homeopathic amount of ambiguity or subjective nuance.

These types of people spend all day thinking in programs and then go home and play factorio and they think they are the smartest people in the entire universe, and they are idiots. Very very skilled idiots.

I am disgusted and I think I hope I will be disgusted for the rest of my life because shame on me if I let the memory of this atrocity committed and facilitated so closely by my government fade from my mind.

Burn in hell Genocide Joe, Trump is going to be so much worse but you had to insist on setting the table for fascism in the most pathetic and violent way possible didn’t you?

Let me point out before any pro-Israel people respond (Do y’all still want to have an adult conversation or did most of you fall silent as more and more images come out from Gaza? Don’t worry we won’t let you quietly step away from the conversation, this isn’t how it works : ) ), this is catastrophic for the jews living in Israel. I don’t know what the form of reactionary violence and consequences will be, or how the mechanisms of rot function precisely in a population that has been radicalized into genocidal beliefs that eat away at all that is beautiful and kind about that culture… but I know the potentials for now mercifully only recorded in grief or expressions of emotion will not simply remain potentials.

Shame on us all and may the way the victims of our violence deal with the trauma we have caused be more merciful than the way we dealt with our fears and traumas…and may we also never forget how cowardly it is to only realize how desperately we wanted this to be true after the severity of consequences from our willful blindness became apparent.

Not to tech bros, they were to hungover from their sketchy frat bro ragers full of men hoping to get lucky and commit sexual assault to pay attention in that one humanities class they took freshman year.

Language studies are an obsolete profession to them, the future they have built is bullshit all the way down, there is nothing left to study other than the language of utter incompetency and proud willful ignorance steeped in chauvinism which they eminate like a 2005 vintage Abercrombie & Fitch mall store eminated vapors of shitty cologne.

I think you meant *a more palatable explanation.

While centrists might have difficulty differentiating the two concepts, nobody else does.

If you don’t see the point it is because you don’t hate women enough.

You have to think from the perspective of a J.D. Vance who women (and men but especially women) react with repulsion and disgust towards because thankfully women have better options to get laid than loser bigots (what is the point? just get yourself off at home if you are horny, JD is gonna just blow his load in 10 seconds and fall asleep leaving you there to finish the job yourself anyways), and being rich or powerful doesn’t really solve the problem for pathetic, feminism hating incel types like JD because like, even if you are a woman who desperately wants to have access to money and power you still have to know on some level that having sex with JD Vance would be crushingly boring and unfulfilling.

People like JD know this on some level too, they were the kids in school that when popular kids made fun of them for being weird the other kids would look on not with a pity or a blank neutral gaze but with a recognition dawning on their faces that though bullying is bad, this JD Vance type incel being bullied is dangerous and slimey.

They just want to hurt women for laughing in their face when they try to lecture them about how they are objects, it truly is that dumb and pathetic.

Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…

No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/210854/the-world-of-bonfire-the-background-story

https://hallgames.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-world-of-Bonfire_web.pdf

My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.

Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.

What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships…

looks down at the unfolding mass extinction

nothing to talk about here but electric sheep…

Which is why Wolf Of Wallstreet is the most honest 'murican love story ever written

Biden got played like the racist idiot he is here, it is amazing how he let netanyahu walk all over him even though netanyahu was clearly making moves to help get trump elected, you could see this political theater of a “ceasefire” being handed on a silver platter to trump coming from a mile away.

Pathetic and genocidal.

Rot in hell Biden (and that goes for Trump and the republican party in general too).

Mastodon’s main problem IMO is how long it takes for features to make their way into the live version.

Bluesky’s main problem IMO is how it is fundamentally a profit driven venture that cannot tolerate slow and steady growth and how fundamentally, no matter what anyone including the CEO says, Bluesky must and always will unflinchingly support the interests of its investors over the interest of its users, period. To really spell things out here, the continued employment of anyone at Bluesky is fundamentally predicated on their ability and desire to do this very thing.

Bluesky is a business, after all

no, but the various algorithms that control and construct these “user customized feeds” is precisely the part of bluesky that is architecturely a bottleneck, and it isn’t a bug, the ceo of bluesky has gone on record that bluesky hasn’t ruled out using this intentional centralization point to force ads on the system

Under fascism every centrist will loyally enforce fascism, that is why it destroys a society and why the long history of centrists shouting down leftists trying to raise the alarm about a descent into fascism is so ironic.

These people never realize the vile they spit at progressives for violating established rules and norms is the same vile they will deploy on innocent people under fascism because “well that is the way things are now and I am going to live my life, now get in line and follow the new rules!”.

It is now a serious question how to deradicalize essentially the entire population of Israel away from genocide, and since neoliberalism is ideologically bankrupt there really isn’t much of anywhere to even start (I say this as a USian who very much implicates my country in this, only verrry low horses here)…

…which is what people really mean when they say neoliberalism and capitalism inveitably attempt to set the stage for fascism. Once the stage is set and the transition complete it is far to dangerous for the average individual to resist and limit the machinery of violence they are now part and parcel of… and most centrists then have lost the language to even think in those terms anyways. Going back is much much harder.

Once you shout down leftists and systematically disempower them for advocating for treating oppressed people like human beings and “compromise” with fascists who will never settle for anything less than fascism, you have not simply destroyed a societal guardrail, you have destroyed that society’s capacity to even understand there is a cliff or what it feels like to fall off it.