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The time is now
Also, it's possible to be priveliged and also understand and sympathize with the problems of other people.
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The time is now
Also, it's possible to be priveliged and also understand and sympathize with the problems of other people.
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Every time
Weird, jellyfin always seems to have it.
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'I am not going to apologize': Bishop who confronted Trump speaks out
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Unironically, Jesus was radical left in many ways. Many Christians do not like to confront those aspects of the bible.
Let criminals into your home. Give them shelter and food. Give all of your money to charity. If someone harms you, turn the other cheek. Feed the poor before yourself. Brutally whip greedy wealthy people. Those are just some fun examples.
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A slight majority of these guys are quite muscular.
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This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment.
What happens if you write GNU since that's a recursive acronym?
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Hair
It comes for us all. Embrace the chrome dome and never have to wash or style your hair again. It's so freeing.
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Model is absolutely stoked to make her mark in the gaming industry
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Without more info, I'm assuming the rest is also modeled after her but she's just excited about the ass.
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You MUST specify what that stands for so there isn't a terrible misunderstanding with what you are suggesting.
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It's a meme about how draining the cmos battery bricked some PC's, I think. It's formatted like the Wikipedia sidebar summary for articles on wartime battles.
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Toot! Toot! Fire's out!
inb4 Everett just killed an entire theater of people
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Hurry
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It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™
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If you have a desktop and not a laptop, it's always a great idea to get a separate sound controller. Either a dac/amp for nice headphones, volume controls on a wireless headset, or even buy a sound mixer like the rodecaster duo so you can assign independent applications to each physical slider on the mixer. I do that last one and it's such a quality of life improvement if you use your PC a lot.
All of these options can't be seen from Spotify.
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Well I get the analogy, but also I think they didn't use pencils because of the graphite and complications with filtering air or something.
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AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
On one hand, I don't generate ad revenue for anyone in the first place and would love to see the ad-supported web model collapse. On the other hand, I don't like that AI is destroying things. I'm conflicted.
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Travel fare
I mean, I get where they are coming from. Like nobody is stopping you from traveling across your country/as far as you can go without a passport. "Anyone" physically fit to do so can quit their job, lose their home and walk. You can try to catch and cook your own food. Or scavenge and beg. You can see sights and explore nature for free.
All that being said, that's obviously not the type of traveling people want to do. It works if you're already broke and young and fit (and in some countries, not a minority), but if you want to keep your job and go other places quickly, that shits expensive and the OP knows this and is just being pedantic by saying all you need is courage.
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Cracked minecraft: where the heck is it? How do I obtain it???
Side note: if you want to run a dedicated server and play on it with a cracked version (or just an offline mode or while MS services are down) edit the server.properties file and set online-mode=false from true. (Then restart the server if it was online)
This wipes everyone's inventories if there was already progress, so have everyone put their items in a chest before doing this. If you use modded, have everyone unclaim their chunks or any other username-bound items like teleporters with permission systems.
All of this can be redone, reclaimed, re-bound after the change happens. This effectively changes your in-game identities on a server from a Microsoft one to an offline one. This also makes it possible to evade username-based bans.
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This is how I interpret it personally, with no effort put in to attempting to discover the artist's true intent.
I relate the the grungy, gritty, malformed and out of proportion art style with the overall narrative theme of Linux, freedom, anti-consumerism and post-collapse with the following logic:
With all of the hyper consumerism, anti-consumer behavior from corporations, ad-ridden web, and attempts to restrict digital freedom, we are exhausted. I have been so beaten down by the online hellscape, it has sapped my will and left me unstable. The uncomfortable character design embodies how I feel as a tech user. I am not healthy, I have no safe place to exist online unless I forge one for myself. I scrap together a system that works for me from small in-development projects. I don't get to engage with the clean, shiny nice things because they're all predatory.
My mental health, which is effected by all of this, is easy to relate to how the characters look like they feel like. It's uncomfortable and unnatural, just like the state of existing online for an early internet user in current year.
The fight for personal freedom in software, culture, and economics is not a glorious one. It is a dirty, personal fight. You will get no help from the system. It is not easy. It is not clean. You will get lost. You will give things up. It will leave you unrelatable to some or all of your friends and coworkers. But you'll have your scrappy little friends to help you, who are also in the same headspace.
This is why the comic looks the way it does, or at least this is how I choose to interpret it.
While the art style may be uncomfortable, it is highly relatable to me.
Just like how the possum memes came to be, for a more simple analogy. Possums are scraggly little folks that look annoyed, scared and dirty. The perfect animal to represent many neurodivergent individuals, which are who adopted the meme first. Identifying with imperfection or wounded mindset and using that identity to make light of or come to terms with that imperfection or wounded mindset is something becoming more common.
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Me at CES today
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9950x3d. It has double the cores of the 9800x3d, with an extra CCD that has 8 cores, but the 2nd CCD has no 3d cache. Which was known, to be fair, but still is disappointing.
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Gnome Slander Rules
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Gnome: Features? Oh you mean plug-ins right?
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Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.
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Every outside cat turned into an inside cat is a good thing. Cats are invasive and annihilate local ecosystems.