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Because people hire landscaping companies, p. much.
When the landed gentry hire land agents, you run right into complete frothing madness and despicable evil.

2026-11-11 17:11:53 UTC

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The L-curve makes paupers of us all!
https://fedicy.us.to/media/e0e5/image/gif/l-curve.gif

2026-11-11 17:09:03 UTC

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Jeez... they're getting closer to erasing the pre-surveillance past.

2026-11-11 17:05:51 UTC

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Never underestimate the power of pencil in mouth!

2026-11-11 17:00:25 UTC

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And with a lot more cross dressing!

2026-11-11 16:58:18 UTC

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More like literal prophecy 🙄

2026-11-11 08:06:55 UTC

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Sometimes it's OK to do bad things. No amount of good will make up for them though. You can't change the past. You can only pay it forward.

2026-11-11 02:33:06 UTC

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Haha good point.

2026-11-10 16:44:07 UTC

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Let's just say there's a reason the water utility people here have been enjoying [tropical Hawaiian vacations](https://www.oregonlive.com/watchdog/2025/03/how-oregon-government-officials-scored-annual-hawaii-trips-and-5-star-lodging.html ) and [lavish banquets.](https://www.oregonlive.com/watchdog/2025/03/oregon-utility-officials-bought-themselves-food-on-ratepayers-dime-running-up-huge-tab.html ). Water rates in Hillsboro have gone from some of the cheapest, to some of the most expensive in the nation, as data centers continue to be constructed.

2026-11-10 16:07:39 UTC

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Still salty over this municipal ISP not giving me a static IPv6 address, and the static upstream IPv6 address. Two addresses, that's all I need as a network endpoint. No switching addresses, no database of leases, no blindly trusting multicast requests... I can figure out NAT on my home router, if I want multiple machines using that address. Heck, if I understand right, only half the IPv6 address is used for routing, so I can just give each machine the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc, and the ISP gets to count how many machines I have online to boot, so they should be overjoyed at that. :p

2026-11-10 15:58:58 UTC

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Schrödinger's Documentation

2026-11-10 15:49:06 UTC

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I'm down for a matriarchal society. I still think everyone of every gender participates in the bloody patriarchy, but switching things up would throw into disarray a lot of their mechanisms they use to drag us into slavery and ruin.

2026-11-10 15:46:14 UTC

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Has a real "Yes it is all black people" vibe.

2026-11-10 15:33:53 UTC

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It's all part of a natural transition into this new chapter in flipping the bird at people who tell you it's all part of a natural transition into this new chapter in your life.

2026-11-10 15:30:57 UTC

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And the baby zombies are powered by fathers in a coma.

2026-11-09 22:40:47 UTC

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Now imagining a Death Stranding with retro pixel graphics, where the zombies are caused by the surveillance towers and you have to save the world by destroying their facilities and rewilding the places. And if you're ever ID'd it's a police chase and possible game over.

2026-11-09 21:48:47 UTC

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If only more people would understand that...

2026-11-09 21:26:40 UTC

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> Destroy US farmland covering it in concrete data centers
😴
> Abuse US citizens while constructing the place
😴
> Sell yourself a billion gazillion dollars, wrecking the US economy (and dollar) with genuine security fraud
😴
> Destroy US education with mountains of slop sites and required AI in schools
😴
> Steal US citizens water and electricity causing them to actually have their water and electricity turned off and > *actually dying*> because they can't pay higher rates, because you wrecked the economy
😴
> Have sex with a Chinese lady
🤬 treason! 🔥⋔️ he must hang!!1!

2026-11-09 21:17:42 UTC

Rewatching Death Stranding and remembering how pro-corporate techbro surveillance autonomous billionaire data center it is. We can save the world, with global surveillance! And Amazon warehouses! Oh by the way your ID has been verified so now you're allowed to breathe. Aren't you gonna add a Like? 🤮

2026-11-09 17:22:25 UTC

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50th on what... totem pole? Is that a... joke about Native Americans? 😟

2026-11-09 17:17:13 UTC

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Yeah, being able to specify uid= and gid= is really nice. I don't chmod 777, but only because I run some programs on my computer that communicate with the Internet, and it's nice when I can isolate those processes as another user. Also I can't accidentally delete /etc

2026-11-09 16:49:49 UTC

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([death knell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_knell ), but cool neologism!)

2026-11-09 16:47:06 UTC

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It's a common age verification tactic. They forward you to a third party face-scanning company, that contains millions of people's scanned faces of course. There was a story a while back, that kids in the UK were using the faces of Norman Reedus in Death Stranding to pass as adults.

2026-11-09 16:37:09 UTC

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They got Al Capone on tax evasion, after all!

2026-11-09 16:35:21 UTC

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Oh also I don't know it's specifically a face scan, just they said "Verify your age to see these results."

2026-11-09 16:33:49 UTC

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I was searching for "anti-sex propaganda," if that helps. My account was locked years ago, because I didn't want to give Google my phone number.

2026-11-09 16:31:41 UTC

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Wonder if you could make an adventure on that. Some clever NPC would realize how gamified adventurers are and exploit that for profit. Like they'd have you raiding their rival's fortress, on the promise of 30,000 point rubies that turn out to be colored glass. Or the fortress you raid would only have chocolate coins in their treasure boxes, because they just have food and refugees for treasure, and were getting ready for a candy hunt for the kids.
Some tedious treasure generating process, and it all turns back into drawings of treasure when you leave the room. Like you give the PCs a magic mirror that says "Draw the treasure you want," and make them actually draw it. Then once they left say their bags feel lighter, and when they check their bags, hold up the drawings saying "You find these."

2026-11-09 16:24:54 UTC

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Better than most DMs who don't let you play unless you join their Discord.

2026-11-09 16:20:15 UTC

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> Whether by directly assuming the burden or offering cash and resources to private groups, governments need to take steps to ensure that an open and free internet continues to exist.
Or by forbidding AI data centers, cancelling any pending contracts to build them, and demolishing the ones that exist, without recompense or restitution. That is, in fact, something government can do. We can also turn off their power, and water.

2026-11-09 15:59:44 UTC

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I already cannot browse reddit anymore, and Youtube has started demanding face scans with increasing regularity, and there are no age verification laws in my jurisdiction at all!

2026-11-09 15:56:19 UTC

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If it is the norm, then you are in terrible, terrible danger. Much better to only give the card to the seller if they choose to use card based payment. It's really no business of ebay to know our credit card and bank account numbers.
(We are kind of in terrible, terrible danger.)

2026-11-09 15:50:20 UTC

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No, it's not. The theoretical mindgame was just in extremely poor taste showing a severe lack of judgement.

2026-11-09 15:47:54 UTC

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No, you're right. I don't know how bubbled you are or not. Those people indeed seem to be stupid, a bunch of idiots, and political zombies. Real friends listen to each other, even if they disagree.
I do often feel like I'm arguing wrong though, and there are better ways to get them to see they're being manipulated, that wouldn't be like talking to a wall. Just can't offer you much advice there...

2026-11-09 15:40:10 UTC

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Heck I didn't even know he was white. And I agree democracy isn't the greatest. I usually advocate local people making the decisions, through resilient communities and friendship, and the vote of the greater populace only comes into play when our actions strongly affect the greater populace. You still end up with some rotten communities of absolute suffering, but since that strongly affects uh... everyone in the world, other communities should be able to intervene without giving up their own self-deciding. Veerhoven didn't really... advocate that though.
We do differ in that I feel Starship Troopers gets far, far more respect than it deserves. But you might not be aware that it's required reading for much of the US military, and was a big influence on ending the draft and switching to recruitment scams to get people to join.

2026-11-09 06:07:45 UTC

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Bubbling is a truely fearsome state of affairs. That's all I'll apologize for. If you talked with someone who then voted for Phon, you go right ahead, call them what they deserve. But some people are so bubbled that they don't even know what Phon is, never mind whether to pick that. And you're bubbled too, kept from ever even being made aware of their existence.
It seems impossible that people would do something so stupid, because the people doing it have been hidden from you, distorting your picture of reality, and distorting theirs. And yeah many are genuinely awful people, but how did they get that way, and how to prevent it?

2026-11-09 05:44:21 UTC

Currently salty about #politics where people are like "This guy/these guys are guilty of horrible crime!" with no talk of how to stop them from being rich and having unfair amounts of power and influence. Like what, are you bragging how much shit these fucks can get away with?
People think knowing that guys in power do evil will destroy them, but doing evil is the *point.* They *want* us to know they're getting away with murder. It only proves we couldn't stop them.
#rant

2026-11-09 04:42:16 UTC

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Wow! I can be both those things!

2026-11-09 02:07:26 UTC

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For the good of what whole? Military and miners have both risk their lives generally to benefit a small upper class, at the rest of our expense. Do you think the government will praise people who risked their life to take down that upper class? Do you think they'll reward miners whose coal and iron are given freely to the people, rather than being property of a very large mining company, or the crown?
In short, Veerhoven is a creep slaver, and taking away people's vote if they don't go out of their way for the thugs terrorizing their family is stupid.

2026-11-09 00:53:42 UTC

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Draw me like your French klansmen

2026-11-09 00:49:27 UTC

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You should say "I too am a woman of science, not faith."

2026-11-09 00:03:01 UTC

#fediblock fedi.moegirl.live looks like a creepy data harvester spy instance. Seems to only have an account (yumiko) with no posts, following 4,000 people.

2026-11-08 23:50:57 UTC

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Eh, didn't seem super complicated to me. The partitioning and filesystem creation and network configuration was very similar to any OS installation, and beyond that it's just unzip the "stage 3" on the root partition, then chroot in and run "emerge --sync && emerge --deep @world"
Do follow their instructions though don't listen to me. Though if you get stuck, I'm running Gentoo, at least until I'm forced to switch to NetBSD b/c of all the LLM in the Linux kernel that renders Gentoo's anti-AI policy pretty performative. So I can poke stuff and search for stuff, if you need it.

2026-11-08 23:45:18 UTC

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Someone's right to be there is not freedom of speech. There are laws other than freedom of speech that say whether you can be somewhere or not. Anyway, none of the people were driving the Nazis away. They were just refusing to speak, or answer questions, while they were there.

2026-11-08 22:30:31 UTC

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I remember when the DHS was created. All the TV stations got switched to the news, who showed the twin towers falling over and over again while chanting, "Will never be the same." My class got stopped to watch it, and I... walked out after like 2 minutes. Can't believe everyone else fell for it. Like glued to the screen. Then suddenly we're all PATRIOTs, they're firebombing Baghdad for no reason, thugs are checkpointing airports, and "terrorist" is forcibly crowbarred into the public consciousness. It honestly didn't seem real. I didn't think people were that stupid. But they just... cried over dead financiers, hated on Muslims and cheered as the USA Gestapo was established for our safety.
I'm honestly even doubting my memory. How could absolute despicable Saturday Morning Cartoon villainy just succeed without any opposition or resistance?

2026-11-08 22:09:28 UTC

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Then... why did they say tenant? 😟

2026-11-08 22:07:50 UTC

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object-capability-style access is nice. That's how my stupid forum database was supposed to work. Heck if I know how to make a filesystem about it though.

2026-11-08 21:19:12 UTC

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My analysis of the Gospel of the Lord is along the lines of "Oh look it's some Greek scribes larping as Hebrews."

2026-11-08 21:13:17 UTC

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How would you do file permissions for a portable filesystem?

2026-11-08 21:12:31 UTC

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Oh, alright. It's true Microsoft tries to be incompatible with every other OS. I wish ZFS had better support on Linux, but there isn't really a good cross platform filesystem. Though I never had trouble with EXT and removable drives, long as you properly unmount it before removing. It's true that UID/GID can't work with portable drives, unless both computers have the same user at the same UID etc.

2026-11-08 17:32:22 UTC

Score Voting isn't the solution to everything. But it's better than first-past-the-post. There is no reason not to switch to multi-winner score voting everywhere, so anyone who contests that can only do so in bad faith. #HotTake #politics

2026-11-08 16:42:38 UTC

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I prefer range or score voting, personally, but either is better than first past the post. Thing is, the vote counting method is only one of many ways we're getting squashed. The problem being the wealth disparity. Eliminate the wealth disparity, cancel all debt and obligation, and redistribute property equitably, and then first-past-the-post works fine. Nobody will have the funds to generate a gigantic propaganda campaign and/or disenfranchisement scheme, and everybody else will have the funds to stop them.
Wealth disparity + range voting/RCV = slightly slower progression toward slavery
No wealth disparity + first-past-the-post = progression away from slavery
I would much prefer to address the core issue than adopt a technique that will only make things somewhat less convenient for the wealthy to control.
So that's "How the fuck," but that being said, there's no reason we can't fight for both at every level. The more inconvenient it is for the wealthy to gain power, the easier it is to take power from them and force them to play fair. Anyone opposing RCV for any other reason than "it's not extreme enough we need both RCV and billionaires mounted on stakes" is a treasonous billionaire schill. ESPECIALLY the ones who say we're not smart enough to use RCV.

2026-11-08 16:05:16 UTC

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If only Indivisible was grassroots...

2026-11-08 05:01:09 UTC

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Don't you insult noble pirates like that!

2026-11-08 03:48:50 UTC

Anyone remember this back in 2012?
https://fedicy.us.to/superfuzzyhappycuties.html

2026-10-13 15:16:22 UTC

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And as usual those of us who can't get a husband are just totally screwed...

2024-06-19 16:25:40 UTC

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The terrifying thing about it is borders have never been more closed than they are now. Humanity is migrating at an unprecedented rate never before seen by any organism, taking our disease and invasive species with us, and yet we are only allowed to *travel,* not move. We have vast surveillance and accounting to ensure people are imprisoned in their birth nation, incredibly restrictive immigration requirements, and laws all the way back to Rome geared at preventing people from escaping their oppressors.
None of that will matter before an actual drought driven migration, but it will mean good decent people forgetting their compassion and coldly gunning down refugees fleeing for their lives. Normally that only happens in isolated incidents, and the mass murder only starts when elites start to send armies at their neighbors, but now we have a wholesale persecution machine prepped to make us slaughter people not for trying to invade, or to drive us from our homes, but simply for trying to escape. That didn't exist in the last big American drought; elites had very little clue who was allowed to be where back then.
CC: @npub1gg4…euuk

2024-06-17 02:23:14 UTC

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The worst thing about the city forcing businesses to bow before crummy landlords is that the lords can simply refuse to renew the lease, even if the business is doing well. They can force our businesses to be worse and less efficient ,by evicting them as soon as they start treating employees decently, respecting minorities, or producing good, healthy, high quality products.
No amount of success can shield a business from this; they will still have to take the huge financial hit of completely rebuilding their entire facility in a new location (assuming landlords aren't conspiring together, again) (assuming one landlord doesn't already have a monopoly over all commercial real estate within the nearest 50 miles).

2024-06-12 03:43:34 UTC

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ur mom is the algorithm