Conversely if you are this triggered by a neutral response to a shitpost maybe switch to a social media that just doesn’t allow replies?

I can’t fathom being so sensitive and so chronically online that you need to post a genuine Response to a fucking jokey post about girls needing to be a little mean to make creepy dudes go away.

Oh no, I’ve replied to a meme in a non-hostile way without downvoting it and boosted its platform visibility. How dare I?

If you ever wonder, “Why am I single? Why won’t someone date me?” It’s because you say stupid shit like this. You’re not a victim, dude, so stop acting like one.

Engaged, but appreciate the concern for my dating life.

This is a pattern that if applied broadly feels guaranteed to spiral into the opposite of the desired outcome.

1. Be rude as a rule to men

2. Men interpret what was once ‘rude’ as normal behavior

3. Stepping positively outside the new normal gets interpreted as possible sexual interest

4. Now you are required to be even ruder baseline to avoid misinterpretation, and men just get treated worse socially.

Ffmpeg is quite good for this

I’m not sure if you use the term tankie correctly.

Quite right. I was using it this way because it is used often incorrectly on Lemmy and I figured it would get the point I was making across.

But I can never agree with a tankie claiming to share those values while supporting regimes that would make even marx and lenin vomit (or I hope so, even though I’m not their fan and don’t know that much about them).

Very easy to end up sharing those values and supporting regimes that don’t agree simply with the prevalence of misinformation, or sometimes when a difference in priorities is masquerading as a difference in values. As someone who is not a fan of nation states in general, I just try to sus out if people are unironically on board with atrocities or just disagree about the history but would be horrified if they believed.

Yes! 6 Book series, and the first is Furies of Calderon. Trigger warnings for sexual violence and sex trafficking, but its a neat little series based on the idea of crossing the lost Roman legion and Pokémon if that doesn’t bother you.

Has several cute romances and the wolf people are absolutely sick. They come in during book 2.

Or, if you can get the trunk open, dump an entire bottle of Jack Daniels in there. It will smell like whiskey for months. No one will want to rent, or drive the car, and odds are insurance won’t replace it either.

Strange, for some reason I keep reading this as ‘pee on ICE vehicles’ even though that’s not what you wrote 😂

the litmus test for tankies is whether they blindly support modern era china, russia, and nk, all authright empires

This is pretty close to my own thoughts, though my definition might go more into the ideological underpinnings of those positions. There’s also a lot of leeway in the “blindly” on that one, and I would guess I am less likely to label someone a tankie than others here.

The term is thrown around pretty loosely on Lemmy. I’ve been called a tankie on here for criticizing democrats and for disagreeing with specific criticisms of the Trump regime (things like going after Melania’s nudes or other things I find entirely trivial next to the monstrous crimes) so I expected it to be taken as the more vibes based usage here.

I didn’t mean they were directly responsible for him losing the sponsorship, just that it has made it harder to find new ones.

If my memory serves this isn’t the first time systemd has moved into a space and the existing infrastructure has withered away. Vaguely thinking udev or logind, but its not so much a critique as a worry. I’ve played with OpenRc, RunIt, and Upstart over the years, and I want them to remain viable alternatives

Tankies as a whole, no. Individual tankies absolutely could be. Also it is quite possible to be honorable and still evil, you can be a villain and still be honest and idealistic enough to be trusted to act against a common enemy. If a tankie told me they would put me against the wall if they had the power, but would never betray me to ICE that is a slim common ground, but being that direct I might trust enough to share info or loosely coordinate against ICE

The key is finding the axis along which your interests align, and finding an individual enemy whose motivations are enough to trust. If you find for instance a halal butcher who the corporate player is trying to crush, you might find yourself someone with means and motivation to help you improve the world somewhat before your division reasserts itself. It isn’t so much ‘let’s compromise’ as it is ‘we might never get along, but destroying the meat corporation is a matter of survival for both of us’

I feel like the prevalence of rentals represents kind of a vulnerability. Maybe there is something protestors can do to sour the relationship between ICE and the rental agencies. A way to make it unprofitable enough to get them cut off

I mean yeah that kinda works as a metaphor. Imagine if vegans and butchers teamed up to destroy Tyson foods before going back to being enemies

Not gonna lie, kinda blame systemd for this. The more utilities they swallow the more funding gets concentrated to the RedHat folks, and the less freedom you have to choose different software. They’ve certainly made some improvements in specific utilities, but there is an invisible cost of centralization

Opposed: Yes Shunned: Might be pragmatic to not-shun

I think you’re probably right, I’d be quite happy if the ‘fight’ at the end between tankies and anarchists was simply diplomatic. Having met a few people who I would qualify as red-fash though, I am not fully optimistic on that count. My point is I guess that a pragmatic approach to building working relationships on a low-trust basis will get us to that point more readily than completely dismissing each other.

If their goals align with fash they can’t, that’s kind of the beauty of this relationship. Also gadara are personal relations not organisational ones in-universe, so it isn’t so much can tankies as a whole be trusted and more of a can this individual tankie be counted on to act against fash. Its also somewhat circumstance based, if I understand their motivations and ideals, I can probably determine if a given fash threat will be enough to keep their mind on the right target.

Been through scouting and boy does it have some issues, but its also valuable. Wish we could trash the institutions as they are and replace them with a unified education org. Scouting is great as a learn about the outdoors and leadership education, not so much as an alternative to tying kids hands to the bed frame to stop them masturbating (iykyk).

Hopefully this won’t be what kills scouts, hopefully the org will have a more phoenix style burn and rise form the ashes renewed and better

Sort of. Roguelike’s defining feature as a genre is the reset of all player progression between runs, and the random generation of the runs themselves. Basic progression is transitory, so a name for progression that goes outside the runs and doesn’t reset is useful

And if rumor is to be believed not even paying the ICE officers carrying out their monstrous little plans.