strength loss definitely creeps up on you, i have done nothing to maintain and the difference is pretty stark from 3 or 4 years ago

I’ve had a windows bluescreen cause irretrievable data loss on a separate Linux drive formatted in BTRFS.

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no, i said you’re an ignorant idealist. you are a liberal who gives good anarchists a bad name by posting juvenile shit like this. it’s hard for me to believe you have finished high school. it’s embarrassing to think an adult would act this way habitually. hope it’s fulfilling though, sincerely. it would be a shame for you to spend all this energy on something that leaves you feeling hollow and purposeless.

your commitment to maintaining a pure idealistic ignorance about 20th century history, in the face of many people much more informed than you doing their best to educate you, does imply a certain tenacity. however, i can’t go as far to say that it’s commendable in any way. you should read some books.

plenty of better ways to spend your time, is all i want to say. like, is this really fulfilling for you or does it just feel empty afterwards?

lol just take up a hobby or go do some productive labour, why do you do this to yourself

There is nothing scientifical that would explain the phasmid’s existence.

one of the best things about the game is the covert sci-fi setting. Didn’t you learn about the pale? ending is perfect imo and the Phasmid encounter into the final showdown is the most emotionally resonant portion of the game, totally beautiful. The deserter being kind of a gross vulgar asshole is also great, would have been boring if he was some ideal cool communist guy.

made up nonsense

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cultural revolution

I would present evidence

please do

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

terraria master mode is probably my favourite grindy game

IQ is skull measuring nonsense. how good you are at taking a standardised test is in fact not a remotely good “measure of intelligence”. if you care about education you should discard the notion of IQ.

this is a half-assed non-apology and basically a promise not to grow or learn anything about trans people (people, not a “topic”; frankly dehumanising). are you a marxist or not?

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i love SG1 but the propaganda aspect does get noticeably worse over the course of the show

i don’t know what you really expect from the BBC, by their standards this is quite a damning exposition. it’s not really meant to be a “critique of Israel”, just to show the truth of settlers and what they are like, their mindset which i think it does a decent job of. of course they have to get the usual October 7th spiel out of the way near the start but it mostly moves on from both sidesing after that imo. i don’t think it’s fair to say Theroux tries to both sides things, he obviously does skirt around using certain language but he repeatedly points out settlers’ hypocrisy, double standards and contradictions throughout the piece. he also asks a settler if he is from brooklyn which is hilarious.

pity he is a nazi, not the kind of PR we should be happy about really.