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[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago

And yet they refuse to update the infrastructure it uses, it uses such an old version of Electron that things that Google solved years ago are still issues on Discord, especially for Linux users.

I understand we're about 4% of the user market, but why do Linux users not get to have audio with screensharing? macOS isn't gaming focused at all, but has support for it. You have to essentially trick discord to get support for it on Linux.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Mate I've forgotten the concept of eating food, I've misplaced my phone that I was holding 30 seconds ago, I've not been able to recall every card in any of my magic the gathering decks from memory ever since I started playing about 10 years ago.

I've forgotten what I was talking about mid sentence because I had to get a sip of water. You can forget about anything with ADHD, just different people remember things differently. I can recall my partner's favorite colors and hobbies, I can barely recall my own favorite media I saw.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That just sounds like you think people who can critically analyze media and the world suck. You must be a very boring person to have a conversation with, I can tell from this brief interaction.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Large scale wise, Doctors without Borders, World Health Organization, and the organizations that help fight for/track sex trafficked people to liberate them.

And within the US (I'm sure there's others, I'm a yank so my understanding of how things in Germany/Canada/China/South Africa go is often poor) there's the Electric Frontier Foundation, Meals on Wheels, Planned Parenthood, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and a lot more that help most citizens and biological beings get the right to, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that isn't actually given by any government.

Also Child's Play and Make a Wish Foundation are pretty good for sick children to get some levity in a harsh childhood. I usually chip in some online donations/sale credits to Child's Play and EFF so that they have entertainment when stuck in a hospital, and more digital rights for when they get out of it.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Even if it was, using media to explain ideas of politics isn't new nor is it bad. Like how is using Star Trek or Star Wars or any other piece of media that the public is familiar with on a cultural level inherently a "Gotcha!" to an argument/debate?

"Hey this book that was taught in classrooms has some parallels to current events." "Wow, you're using your understandings of the world around you to make commentary? Weirdo."

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 year ago

That is impressive! Sometimes you need a right figure to improve messaging.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 year ago

Maybe before, but not these days. They take donations claiming to help abortion rights, but also quietly admit they can't defend them. https://www.jezebel.com/satanic-temple-abortion-rights-religious-exemption-real-1849073332 https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-cannot-help-you-get-an-abortion-and-it-does-not-deserve-your-support/

Plus the Temple was sued for harassment of it's members/advocates. The people were linking publicly accessible info about the Temple's internal issues and then sued for libel and defamation. https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042

Then when Newsweek covered the lawsuit, they themselves were sued for libel, when they literally showed that a lawsuit for telling the truth was being made in courts. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2022cv01343/575138/27/ https://casetext.com/case/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc-12

TL;DR: The Satanic Temple sues you for telling publicly known truths about itself, and then takes money that could go to actual help for abortion rights.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thank you for proving me right, but this a 4 month old thread. Not complaining, just giving you a heads up.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, thank you. No one in the circles I'm in who were hyping up Russian hypersonic missiles as the next ICBM mentioned this.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I wish I could go back to a Lemmy thread showing how Mastodon and other Fediverse instances were blocking Meta ahead of it's integration, where people went "Oh you're just being paranoid, why would they do that?" And when given examples of companies taking open standards and either making themselves the biggest source of users or killing it (Microsoft, Google, Apple) they either went "Well that happened in 2006, it's 2023!"

I know the bootlickers wouldn't actually change their mind, but jesus christ. It's frustrating for groups of advocates to be ignored and proven right each time. Cassandra syndrome is real.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recall hearing how Russia had dozens of them, and the ROI of a 40 million dollar missile taking out a 400 million ship was great. And then Ukraine got worse and nothing happened, with zero of them ever found or used.

And North Korea thinks it can even attempt that. I guess we need a "new" geopolitical boogieman to pander for increasing military budgets, since Russia is losing and China does it usual "we will take over Taiwan, unlike last year!" every year.

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