ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Many brands incorporate either plastic fibers or a polypropylene based glue in their paper bags, so be sure to look up each brand, even if it looks like paper.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Something to bear in mind: most teabags are made with plastic, and release thousands upon thousands of microplastics that you then ingest.

As it's becoming more clear how dangerous microplastic ingestion is, I would recommend opting for loose leaf tea with a strainer whenever possible. You can use up your existing tea by ripping open the bags and pouring the contents in a strainer.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

There isn't for me. Does it go away if you click the CC button at the bottom right?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it truly the guy who can take on the trump empire?

No single person takes on anything. The only reason why it seems that way is because the history books generally point to a particular person as being responsible for some big change in society, but people like that are only able to exist because there's hundreds of thousands of people who's names you'll never know put in the work to make it possible for people like Bernie, or MLK, or whomever to be the face those movements.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War implemented one of the few positive revolutionary societies, but it was quashed after about a year due to the Soviets betraying them and Franco eventually destroying what was left.

That revolutionary attempt seemed like it could've had long term success without the pitfalls of Marxist attempts had it survived, but it took about 30 years of slowly educating the populace on those ideas, creating alternative ferrier schools, and building up successful unions to prime them for that outcome, and the failure of the Russian revolution and it's decent into authoritarian bureaucracy was relatively fresh on their minds.

I suspect in our current world, prefiguration is likely the best course of action, which attempts to slowly build up the society we want to live in within the skeleton of our existing one, and to then remain standing as the skeleton around it crumbles. Which would indicate that building up unions, worker owned coops, community mutual aid (ex, food not bombs, community gardens) is crucial to pushing society in the right direction.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Another great book by him is The Shockwave Rider, which predicted:

  • The self-replicating computer virus, and was the first use the term 'computer worm' to describe it
  • DARPA's Policy Analysis Market (essentially betting on the probability of assassinations or political disruptions in the middle east)
  • Normal citizens having no access to data privacy, which is only reserved for corporations and powerful individuals
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Part 2 (available here) goes into other materials that protect against microwave weapons, such as space blankets and conductive cloth.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Dreamweb.

90's cyberpunk point'n'click with a dark mature story and a rocking soundtrack.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 26 points 4 months ago

I point it out because it shows how psychopathic he is to cut out a close family member from his life over nothing. He's a heartless asshole, and I think that documentary shows most rich people fall from the same tree, to varying degree.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I always like to mention Warren Buffet completely disowned one his grand daughters for appearing in a documentary about rich people made by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

I disagree that stable distros aren't good at general purpose gaming systems, they work fine unless you have very new hardware.

And sometimes the newer stuff csn bring more problems than a stable distro, depending on your hardware.

As an example, my system is an nvidia laptop with an external monitor. Unfortunately, the Nvidia driver is absolutely unusable under Wayland with this setup, which was a bummer for me, as I wanted to use Fedora with it, but starting with Fedora 41, X11 was completely phased out, so I couldn't fall back to it.

I'm not a fan of openSUSE tumbleweed or Arch based distros, which do still support X11, which left me with the more Stable distros. Mint worked flawlessly with my setup, and I have no issue gaming.

Tl;dr there's more nuance to stability vs bleeding edge, and both have their place.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Only issue with uBlue distros is the lack of documentation and limited help resources (many questions in the forum are left unanswered, as the uBlue team is quite small and likely can't get to them all).

 

A classic :)

 

I would've watched the shit out of this if it had been a real spinoff.

 

Hopefully this is allowed, I thought this was some particularlly well done cover art from the early era of PC gaming. It's quite misleading as to what genre the game itself is though; a form of Battle Chess, of all things!

It also had a pretty sweet soundtrack, for those interested.

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