I wouldn't focus too much on the anachronistic technology, that's more to keep with the vibe of the original trilogy.
The farming audits, IMO, are pretty directly an analog to what ICE is doing in the US.
There's definitely some WW2 influence and stylistic choices, if anything that's to keep the execs willing to fund the thing, but later on you'll see some more blatant comparisons to our modern situation.
An excellent game, but if at all possible, I implore anyone reading this with a prime subscription to cancel it in solidarity with boycotting the new regime.
It'd be far more ethical to sub to a VPN and sail the high seas than support billionaires.
They're really not. I'd recommend reading the Dawn if Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David We grow, which reveals that our true 'human nature' is actually egalitarianism and cooperation, and that our current modes of existence are an oddly different blip on the timeline of humanity.
Arguably it'd be better to use air conditioners as long as that energy is from renewables such as solar (where the southwest is particularly suited) to help save water, which is in critically short supply in those areas.
As a fellow user of Librewolf, I've also lamented that I can't use the dark mint theme due to that setting. The alternative Alexandrite and Photon frontends we host have easy user-editable themes, though it can take some getting used to if you're used to the standard lemmy-ui.
Your comment prompted me to look into if there's a workaround, and I found this, which describes how to disable the ResistFingerprinting setting, and instead modify the FingerprintingProtection setting in the about:config settings menu to replicate the functionality of ResistFingerprinting while still letting the user set the default page theme.
When I compared the standard ResistFingerprinting setting vs the workaround with dark theme enabled in the user settings, it showed no difference in fingerprint score over on CoverMyTracks, so that could be a good temporary or permanent solution (extra bonus that it effects all websites)
poVoq is also investigating the possibility of adding a dedicated dark theme option to slrpnk as well.
I was thinking Mon Mothma's speech, in particular.
Season 1 is, yes. Season 2 is very much targeting today.
AFAIK, krita has had non-destructive editing for a while now (while gimp just got it with the 3.0 release).
The text tool is a pain point still, though thankfully a new from the ground up text tool over 6 years in the making is soon to be released for Krita this year, likely making it the most capable open-source option.
Something to keep in mind: only 65% of the population voted, meaning only 32% of the population voted for Trump, and he currently only has an approval rating of 40%.
If we compare to Nazi Germany, Hitler had an approval rating of 60 to 70% even towards the end of the war when they were losing.
We're in a much better position to win against them than the Germans ever had against Hitler.
Publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 are going to be more important than ever to help encourage others to also stand up, and show them that there are hundreds of thousands of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany's success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand..
I know it seems like this just keeps going on, but we have to keep up the fight.