deathbird

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago

I wish the US had spent its efforts and resources towards completely eliminating the Taliban as an institution and ideology rather than kind of shoveling money around to opportunists with no skills for organizing people or maintaining loyalty. I think what happened instead was that the US was afraid of sparking a new movement that would eventually operate outside of its control so it funded what it thought it could control: rich assholes.

And now the religious fascists are back in charge. Wheee.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just because they're conservative doesn't mean they're publishing falsehoods. Just be on the lookout for bias, which you should for all media.

For example, the oppression of women in Afghanistan is probably being reported on more by conservative sources not because they are against the oppression of women, but because they're hawks who disagreed with leaving Afghanistan, and there's probably some anti-muslim sentiment motivating it as well. Likewise liberal media sources are probably ignoring it because leaving Afghanistan the way America did was largely considered to be a disaster which was finalized under a Democratic administration, and for all their talk of caring about women they did basically abandon half the population of an entire nation. It would probably not help their side of the current election cycle to shine light on the catastrophic fallout of one of Biden's major international policy decisions.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope these IDF soldiers wake up. You can't kill people without killing part of yourself.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is basically Objectivism.

Wouldn't it be cool if people who committed violent acts couldn't actually be traumatized by those acts if they were unambiguously immoral. If people who did Evil were always consciously aware of it. If there was a moral order to the universe manifested in our bodies and in our works. One could then be sure that anyone who committed an act of evil and reported being traumatized by it was really lying.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Everyone has a choice.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no such thing as a "correct" people to erase.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I hate Twitter, but I'm getting to the point where I want it to get better because if bluesky gets many more members we're just gonna have Twitter again.

One thing I liked about the Muskification of Twitter was the scattering.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure I've lived on less than this in inflation adjusted dollars.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I don't think it's a problem for Discord, but when it comes to software projects specifically I find the reliance on Discord frustrating because of its non-public orientation. If I'm having an issue I'd far rather search for a solution on a public wiki, bug report system, or forum than sign up for one more Discord server.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Far more than should tbh. Too many little game mods will have a Discord for questions and reporting issues rather than using their GitHub or a forum.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

I think you're giving the guy too much credit. Sometimes things are as they seen. He just didn't like the moderation scheme on Twitter, made a gesture buying it, fumbled a little bit and overbid, then after having been forced to acquire it tried to turn it into something closer to what he wanted it to be.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Masnick's post is well put, but also a disturbing reminder of how much power nation-states can exert over the Internet.

 

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I'm looking for a set with XDA profile and a darker color scheme (the base is black). Most XDA profile caps I've seen on AliExpress seem to be on the lighter side, and most darker caps aren't XDA profile.

And ideas?

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