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Get out of here Gentoo Mage! Nobody likes you!

Unlike Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc., which have alternative frontends, LinkedIn doesn’t have such an alternative frontend. Sorry OP.

Look, I’m just gonna say it. Fuck Gavin Newsom! If Gavin wants my vote he’ll have to disavow his meeting of the minds with Charlie Kirk as him meeting with a fucking fascist. He’d have to abandon his support of silicon valley oligarchs outright and vow to tax them into nonexistence. He’d have to make homelessness legal in California and set up housing for the unhoused with clear social safety nets designed to uplift them financially and socially. And he’d have to defend Trans people’s rights to play in sports as the gender they identify as.

But we all know Gavin is just more of the same Democratic bullshit with slightly more combative language. I suspect he’d make as bad a President as Kamala would have been, or worse. If there is a presidential election next cycle, it’ll likely come down to Newsom vs a Charlie Kirk wannabe or some Nick Fuentes Groyper.

Don’t let that happen, don’t compromise your ideals. Call out everything wrong with every Democratic candidate, so vehemently it’ll make any centrist’s ears bleed. If a candidate accepted campaign contributions from anyone other than small donors, fuck em. You aren’t their constituency if they do.

Lean so far left the whole country tips over.

Yeah, it’s just that the output is anywhere you can type, not just the terminal or a clipboard.

Others point to paying for text expanders, but a simple free one is Espanso.

I use it in combination with nvim and bash scripts to set up large HTML templates and latex math formulas as well as much else to save on repetitive typing.

Getting creative with espanso and nvim can be quite satisfying, especially if you code.

Vimium, Neovim, Tiling Window Manager, Ortholinear Keyboard, Text Expander. Just do these.

Luthen Rael from Star Wars Andor. We need people like him right now.

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Zionism is a supremacist cult, and nearly all of Israel is a part of it.

Thank you.

Specifically it looks like its The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson, an audio book series.

It’s available on audible it looks like.

Again, thanks!

Super interesting. If you can find that episode, I’d love to give it a listen.

No, but a lot of people I’ve met and encountered have a similar fear. Usually there’s no way of assuaging said fears as its very very innate and understandable.

I guess I’m not scared cuz I spent a lot of my early adulthood smoking a lot of weed, drinking a lot of alcohol, doing some psychedelics, and participating in various other behaviors in an attempt to forget my somewhat traumatic childhood, in which I was only partially successful at forgetting.

After going to therapy for some time, I realized that traumas cut deeper than memories, and that there wasn’t much to do but move forward with all of it integrated and try and do the best I can. It’s an imperfect answer, but it’s the best I got.

Because of this when I think about the horror of losing my memories, I kind have made peace with that losing memories is likely simply a part of death. Sure there’s the horror of still being alive when it happens, but even if you believe in an afterlife, you likely can’t hold onto every memory of life and your infinite afterlife, right? Unless you become God or something I guess, but then you have every memory of everything and everyone…which is…well probably kind of boring…so you split your consciousness off into other beings and live as other entities to keep things interesting until the end of time when you, as God, die… unless God also transcends time…but I’m meandering a lot at that point.

And yeah…it goes on like that…a kaleidoscopic rubix cube of making memories and forgetting them and fearing loss and accepting impermanence… eventually you come to accept it…until existential dread hits you from time to time, but you eventually get used to that being part of the whole being alive and existing thing too.

Or at least that’s how my insane mind deals with it anyway.

Yes

Dr. Mike is a currently practicing Family Physician that obviously makes good money on YouTube with 14M subs, and just gives pretty standard medical advice while covering interesting topics in his field and dispelling common medical myths.

The worst thing I can say about Dr. Mike is that he is very much an Old School Democrat and procapitalist/anticommunist, as evidenced by his podcast guests and his statements about his upbringing in Russia. But those are his political views. As far as I can tell his success on YouTube has to do with his looks, personality, and production quality alongside sound medical advice and interesting insights into the medical field.

I’m pretty sure at this point he has a whole team managing his channel, so he still has time to be a full time doctor. It’s extremely rare for a legitimate currently practicing doctor to be able to be a youtuber full time, but it does happen.

EDIT: wording/clarification

There’s so much where this could be used to silence people, I can’t trust this. What if you’re an expert in a related field to the “serious” topic and disagree with the mainstream opinion held by experts within that field? Who gets to decide what constitutes a “serious” topic?

I just keep thinking of the recent Ms. Rachel controversy where conservative voices basically said she should stay out of talking on Palestine because she was “only” a children’s educator. But one should be able to express their opinion on this serious matter even if you aren’t an expert, and yeah, even if you’re a major influencer.

I want societies to address misinformation and disinformation campaigns as much as the next person, but to be clear, I just don’t trust governments to be the ones to do that. Granted governments are admittedly experts in misinformation and disinformation, so at least we can rest assured that experts have eyes on it though…

“You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kif, show them the medal I won.”

And also:

“In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.”

Probably free. Depends on how hot the soup and how scary the movie.

My limit for spicy is habanero and my limit for horror is the Smile movies. After that the price goes up significantly, probably in the hundreds of dollars, with more emphasis on the spiciness of the soup, but if the movie will cause nightmares for weeks to come…yeah, that can also add up.

Interesting question OP.

Even on GrapheneOS, sure it uses a sandboxed Google Play Store, which is obviously great for users, but the developers of Android apps still have to hand over their personal data to Google specifically as this new decree from the Lords of the Google fiefdom entails.

Because FOSS developers rightly value their personal privacy, this decree effectively kills incentive for FOSS developers to continue making and maintaining apps for Android. Running GrapheneOS doesn’t circumvent this.

It’s like I’m saying “I’m hungry” and you say “Go for a run, it’s healthy for you.” I mean… it’s true that running is healthy… but the act of running doesn’t solve the problem of me being hungry…

Not a movie, but Andor had so many good ones. And I mean a lot, too many for a single post. My favorite though is Namek’s Manifesto:

"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And then remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this. Try."

I really love the Voice Acting in Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. Just superb story and the actor’s really sell a superb script. One of the better stories I’ve seen in Video Games.