DuckDuckGo is OK, as is Yandex.

Also niche search engines like Marginalia or Wiby are good, if you want to look for stuff that's not corporate slop

Others have talked about the unhinged anti-communism, so I'll skip that.

But season 4 took this big, lovecraftian, difficult to comprehend horror, and just distilled it down to 'beef between some dudes'. And that's fucking boring!

If you're not wedded to an e-ink display, I bought a cheap android tablet for about $50, and set it to auto run an e-reader app called Moon+ Reader. You'll have to fork over a couple bucks for the ad free version, but it's a solid piece of software.

Hell yeah! My local book store cat Is named Spooky, because he was found in a cemetery

Raises hand

I play Retro games because they're easy to pirate, and don't take up 800GB of disk space for one game

Omg hai Mr. Softie!!! 🥺🥺🥺

I was listening to a podcast yesterday, and the two hosts, who have both written books, made a brief aside complaining about people pirating their books.

And I think they were failing to understand that, if I pirate your book and I really like it... I'll probably go out and buy a physical copy for myself. Or vice vera. I bought your book, but I want it on my ereader. Pirate it.

It's no different from the sales "lost" when people freely check out a book from the library. In fact, it will increase exposure to your book.

Lots of people have become incredibly successful, because their art got known through piracy networks. Think Metallica playing stadiums off the back of tape trading.

We talk all the time about how "piracy is media preservation" which is true, but it's also a form of media discovery, and I think we should talk about that more.

Given the fact that 80% of Subway employees I've encountered have been high as fuck, that doesn't surprise me

Isn't that the guy who signed all of his posts? Lmao

Does he still look like he's in a blink-182 cover band? That was...a choice he made for a hot minute

Bona to vada your dolly old eek

WOAH SHIT, NEW TRANS MEGA!

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!

in other news, I'm teaching myself HTML and making a Neocities website! So that's fun! Stepping away from corporate socia media, and into these federated and 'Indie web' spaces has been super cool!

WOAH SHIT, NEW TRANS MEGA!

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!

in other news, I'm teaching myself HTML and making a Neocities website! So that's fun! Stepping away from corporate socia media, and into these federated and 'Indie web' spaces has been super cool!

WOAH SHIT, NEW TRANS MEGA!

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!

in other news, I'm teaching myself HTML and making a Neocities website! So that's fun! Stepping away from corporate socia media, and into these federated and 'Indie web' spaces has been super cool!

If I may, it's less a matter of anyone consciously "rigging elections against third parties" and more a matter of the fact that the electoral system itself naturally trends towards a two party system. It's called Duverger's law.

These are the same freaks who screech about "realism" when there's a woman in a game they don't think should gave women.

I think it depends. Something realistic? I'd want ps3/ps4 level graphics. But for fucking Mario? That cartoony little shit does not have any reason having graphics at all superior to the fucking GameCube.

Yeah, like I've got a batocera emulation setup, and I have a bunch of old flash games I played as a kid on there, as a curiosity. But I hardly touch them.

The only one with substance that I occasionally go back to is this one puzzle game with little Viking guys trapped in ice, and you have to free them. It's a cute little time waster, but that's about it.

Please tell me more, because I asked a friend of mine who's a doctor about them, and she advised against it because they were too experimental. I also asked my endo and she wasn't familiar with them and was going to do more research.

I just want to be cute, and not have massive knockers! Is that so much to ask?!

I absolutely adore mine! I sprang for the more expensive ones, with the 3 levels of noise cancelation. 11/10 highly recommend

Nah, I like it. It's like the Wikipedia equivalent to putting someone in the stocks to be publicly humiliated

Sidebar, but I once had a professor claim that the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was the same as the US forcing indigenous peoples onto reservations....

It's called Horrorcore, and it's pretty rad

Halloween lovers being oppressed by the Hexbear Slur filter

UlyssesT x Dirt_Owl fanfiction, when?

Liberals unironically believe this though. They're literally rewriting history! I love/hate reminding them that, no dipshit, Trump winning wasn't a matter of not enough people voting, it was a matter of how deeply ineffectual and anti-democratic the institutions you uphold actually are.

As a poli sci major, there are two broad camps of people in the field, when it comes to Marxism.

First are the people who do shit you're complaining about, where they "refute" Marxism without understanding a Damn thing about it.

And then there are the people actually doing Marxist analysis. The people actually doing Marxist analysis are mostly comparativists in the subfield of political-economy (Yes, it still exists, just as a sub-field of a sub-field of poli sci).

And the way these groups interact is the first group nods their heads in agreement with the Marxists. But only so long as it's called "political economy" and not Marxism. The minute you call it Marxism, they start trying to tear it down, even when they were just agreeing with it, five minutes ago.

We actually had big blocks of American cheese you could get sliced. But it was such a massive pain. If you didn't put paper between the slices, they'd just re-congeal...yum

Nah most of these are way too exotic for the whitest of white people. Plenty of them get scared by anything that's not mild Cheddar or Colby Jack.

Source: used to work in a deli

Just started playing a patched English version of Boku No Natsuyasumi 2. For what's basically a chill, summer vacation simulator, I ran into some surprising character depth.

One of the characters you come across is an older girl named Yasuko. She lives with her little sister and grandpa, because her parents "aren't in the picture".

Her bedroom can't be accessed from within the house, because the door is locked. Her mom "took the key when she left". So you have to go around to the back of the house to get to it.

The room itself is full of books, records, and paintings that belonged to her dad. So there's a lot going on with this one character, and now I wanna know what her deal is!

Also, her room is cool as fuck, look at this shit!

This post is too good to be bad

Polar bears in the north pole

Penguins in the south pole

Two houses both alike in dignity...

Sh.itWould.BeFunny

Between the font and the way the photo is composed, that campaign poster looks like a Tarantino movie.

It's fucking awful. The verbiage is so gross.

America was "built". The indigenous peoples were simply "Stewards" of "our land" and didn't build anything for themselves.

How did it come to be our land? Who can say?! But we're thanking the natives for taking care of them until we showed up UwU

You're missing my point.

I know full well where I'm posting. You're talking about the importance of nuance, while painting all Hexbear users as somekind of monolithic hivemind.

Meanwhile, I a humble Hexbear user, am trying to ask a user from another instance, in good faith, to explain their ideological position in more depth. Because I earnestly want to know.

If you want to probe the "liberal=fascist" sentiment, we can. But that's not the discussion I'm trying to have here.

You're the pot calling the kettle black, my friend.

Unfortunately, in some corners of Lemmy, such as Hexbear or Lemmygrad, the ability to distinguish and discuss nuance is not included in what I would describe as their "community values".

But I'm standing right here... Making a nearly identical point about liberals

Why can democrats hit a woman holding a "stop arming Israel" banner with "We ❤️ Joe" signs. But they can't do the same to Matt Walsh?

We all know why

If I may, can you clarify what you mean by

I am a liberal in the U.S sense. Not a leftist, nor a democrat,

In US political parlance, Liberal is typically synonymous with Democrats, and a broad, ill defined, 'left' of the political spectrum.

Outside the US, and in much of political science, liberal denotes a broadly centrist, status quo position, that can be left or right leaning.

And in neither of those definitions do liberals 'want revolution'. At least not in the way that my fellow commies on Hexbear might typically conceive of it.