This. One kind of good sci-fi is basically thought experiments to better understand the human condition.

Mark my words: It will be Vance, not Trump who gets to be the first King of America.

The future is bleak.

I agree we need to get rid of all the bullshit you mentioned - but I don’t think giving up our anonymity or more gated communities (like facebook, twitter, instgram and all those fucked up places) are the solution.

Emo album cover vibes.

All good advice. I used to find a lot of stuff by entering “site:rutracker.org” behind my query in my favorite search engine - don’t know if that still works but I never needed an account there…

Remember to donate to them tough - and btw. they are actually running their services for radical left activists, not filesharing… so I guess it would be cool to please not strain their servers too much.

I want to leave Windows behind… abcde seems the way to go for Linux.

On Windows I use EAC, it’s great but requires a little work to set up. There are a lot of tutorials for it if course.

I’d prefer my internet free…

“Life is a one way street, I’m doing doughnuts.” (Aw Man Oh Dear)

I clicked the icon. It was pleasant.

This took me back, thanks.

A very good point that gets overlooked a lot in this discussion.

No.

I usually don’t engage with gov-stuff because this instance is running smoothly and the users (& crew) here steer it very well.

But on this I have to vote. Because historically if a left movement came into power, the dogmatic Marxists have always sought to persecute the other, especially more progressive (eg. antiauthoritarian), leftists - even if they cooperated with them before and/or helped the movement to succeed. There is a fascist wave and it is getting worse - but (left) authoritarians are not allies, they’re enemies (sooner or later).

And when the big collapse comes (not if, when) everyone will be doubly fucked because there is no solidarity or human kindness to wrestle the crises (plural).

All the best to you!

Check this out top.

https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

One of the reasons LGBTQ+ people get so much hate is because of male insecurity and the global crisis increasing feelings of helplessness and despair.

It’s also got to do with the haters projecting the things they deny themselves (to be manly or whatever) onto LGBTQ+ persons - and then hating them for allegedly having those freedoms.

Nothing is wrong with being LGBTQ+. It’s the people who hate them for not fitting their norm who need help.

Maybe. Some of it makes sense, but the further you go, the more skeptical I get (seems almost like you believe large chunks of economy and administration are scheming). Do you have any literature on this for.further reading?

Is this just a Seinfeld reference? If not I’d like some more info on this… (if it is: well played)

Username checks out.