Enkrod

To explain the facial hair wavers to my fellow straight-hair-phenotypes: forcing to shave too closely, can lead to really big, painful infections and scars from ingrown hairs if you have curly-phenotype hair.

You can shave close enough for a gas mask to work, but in an organization that had its rules build around the bodily and cultural “normal” of white people, you might still need a facial hair waver.

Maybe it’s finally almost the year of the linux desktop :')

If you guys could just stop fucking jinxing it!

;D

Who downvotes this? Even if you are a tankie this should register to you as an entirely sane take.

If we really want to break it down…

Democracy is not meant to work that way. The feature-contracts it implements is “one person, one vote” and “rule through a majority of votes”.

If you are able to break that contract because of how surrounding systems interact with the democracy subsystem, that means it’s a bug or vulnerability for democracy, used as an exploit by the overarching system implementing the democracy interface.

Now that I can get behind… not literally though, I can’t fight the US fight, am too busy fighting the AfD over here in Germany.

Edit: That reminds me, for all my German comrades reading this: https://pruef-demos.de/baden-wuerttemberg/

Go ahead, you do it.

“with all the money I spent in taxes”

And that gives you entitlement how?! You are ONE citizen, with ONE vote, you are no more or less “important” than anyone else. Money should not buy you influence, that it does buy influence is a bug, not a feature.

In before “it’s a feature, system is working as intended”: imho it’s a bug in the democracy subsystem that is intentionally caused and exploited by how the overarching system was implemented.

Yes, I’m a software developer.

There’s a difference here that’s important about what it means to be actively hostile.

Yes, some types of art in general have a hostile face. Some metal, some gangster rap, some pop even.

The difference is that nobody but the most fucked up people is going around forcing it on me. I don’t have to fear getting to close to the cover of Mayhem’s “Dawn of the Black Hearts”. I can ignore it if it’s right next to me. Ignoring Swangas is detrimental to my health. Album covers don’t amputate my legs when they come to close.

My parents vacation together 4 to 5 times a year (pensioners), all 4 of them are great friends. It’s so cute but a little bit wild, because during the last years of their marriage they really didn’t get along and I remember that time vividly.

When I fell down at a “not-metal” concert, the nice and friendly and approachable people around me nearly stepped on me. Nobody cared.

When I stumbled and fell at a metal concert, multiple people were helping me up before I even had time to realize I’d tripped. They looked scary and not the kind you’d approach for a chat. I’m still in contact with one of them. He likes to hear black metal while he knits. It’s absolutely like out of a badly written comic book.

I know this is not representative and I’ve met my share of racist fellas over the years that wore the cut-offs. But I swear most were big teddy bears in black clothing, and accompanied by some tiny goth goddess in the highest heeled combat boots.

Swangas are among the most fucked up modifications you can do with your car. It’s literally not just a “fuck you” to other road users but actively hostile to everyone around you.

Just reflect for a moment what kind of culture can be so deeply submerged in toxic displays of hostility as a form of “swag”, “coolness” or “masculinity” as to create something like that. How insecure do you have to be?

Had that exact discussion a while ago. Maybe you can take something away from the comments. It absolutely made me think about how the current state (as in modus) of Israel is literally not what I support. Even though I do support the existence of a state that actively hinges itself on being a safe space for the jewish ethnicity/culture/religion.

https://feddit.org/post/35550078/14988338

In no particular order:

• Dwarf Fortress
• Kerbal Space Program
• Project Zomboid
• Vintage Story
• Stellaris

Industrializing the Moon. Why & How.

Solving the conflict between a poor and powerless Palestine and the nuclear power of Israel IS one of the most complex political issues. Not only, but also because of the power-imbalance and generational hate on both sides.

The genocide in Gaza is decidedly NOT complex though. Yes it is a part of that entire thing, but the fact that the IDF is committing crimes against humanity is as simple as can be.

And he’s so clever about it. He talked about what he’s doing and that some people argued he’s only doing small stuff (like fixing potholes) and nothing with big impact.

And he said that all those small things can be done quickly, so people see results quickly and that builds a positive relationship with the public and that builds the political capital do do bigger things and start projects that take longer so people will have to wait and trust longer before results happen.

He is absolutely aware of the importance of the narrative and how to build it.

I mean yes… that’s what a collectors permit is… Viewed in that light…

But I agree, ideally, private gun ownership should be AT LEAST heavily regulated.

There need to be tests to determine if somebody is fit to own a gun or operate a vehicle. Part of that test needs to be about visual and mental aquity. Your mind and sight needn’t be perfect, but at some point you are crossing too much into “you can’t be trusted with other peoples safety if you are allowed to operate this instrument of death” and that is where a line needs to be drawn.

There is nothing ableist about that, it’s a common sense safety measure for the people around you.

Downvotes didn’t see the big, flashing “satire”-sign above this comment.

Still, moving the overton window towards social market econony, while still far, FAR from perfect is better than letting it slide further into fascism. I don’t think we can go around the other side.