TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

I have terrible news for you if you think using a homophobic slur is as bad as anything the previous popes and cardinals have been doing.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

The equivalent would be seeding a torrent backup.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

You should probably note, the functionality you're describing now requires modding/plug-ins and not the "search and enable" kind, the download from third party sites and run random install scripts kind. It also since February requires you use your Kindle to download and copy every book you own (a chore if your family buys a lot of pulpy urban fantasy novels)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you under the impression other countries don't have Covid information websites? The issue here is radicalising a few hundred million people, not the loss of the info.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

It is absolutely the time.

It is absolutely the time.

Is this controlled pantomime opposition?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

Given that she began as Christian Evangelical pop, then rose to fame with a song fetishising performative homoeroticism as "not what good girls do", no. Quite far off.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 66 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Yes! EVs still have a smaller ordinary car battery in them. It charges from the main battery in the same way in a ICE car it will charge from the alternator. If the main battery is dead, or just for some reason not charging the small battery, it can effectively act exactly as if an ICE car has a dead battery.

Fun fact, you can also use that fact to use existing car battery to mains power gadgets in the case of a home power outage without the more complex dedicated reverse-charging that only some cars (and chargers) support, but without running an ICE in/outside your house for hours.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I specifically mentioned ISIS came from American misrule in Iraq. The people aligned with ISIS were on America's side during the Iraq war.

I can picture the pitch to an EU that has just accepted a massive long term project of trying to lift Eastern Europe out of post-Soviet destitution. OK bro, divest bro because obviously the techbros are going to turn America fascist once the boomers implode the world economy in a few years. Just do it bro. Match American military spending bro. You need it bro.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Until 2004, the EU was a western European entity, with Greece alone possible to describe as being anywhere near the Middle East, and lacking a land border with the rest of the EU.

The Iraq war did not cause and international migration crisis. People were primarily moved internally and to other (unfriendly) ME countries.

What really started the migration crisis was ISIS and the Syrian war, 10 years later. Where a Russian ally fought the byproduct of American misrule in the Middle East, and Russian allies directed migrants into Eastern European countries unready for them financially or culturally.

Quite what the EU, a non-military force that primarily overlaps with NATO, was supposed to do differently there I don't know. Should it have predicted that the US would essentially lose to Assad, to the Taliban, and that they would then switch sides and ally with Russia while still in NATO?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Stellaris is like $200 if you don't want features pay-walled from you. And good luck playing a Paradox game the week it comes out - you get to add "Software Tester - Unpaid" to your CV.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Plenty of us did nothing

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