I can't afford to be here
"Pay 1/12th my rent this month."
Absurd...
No fucking way asshole!
Get bent.
Why would you expect that?
"Let's go to a couple bars tonight!"
Hell yeah!
Of course!
Sounds like a great time.
Why didn't you say so sooner?
Its the same money dipshits! We could have bought the fanciest beer and liquor and steaks for this much cash amd chilled in my basement. What a waste. I am surviving inefficiently.
Truly I do not belong on this planet.
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I forgot why I didn't like the original until I was at the third episode. It's such an orgy of violence.
Lots of high tension mini-arcs where the payoff is just gunfire. So many characters are underdeveloped because they're grist for the slaughter mill. Everyone who has plot armor has to survive at the last second. The votes are always impossibly narrow. There's no significant trend or overall sense of self-preservation.
And as usual, everyone from North Korea is implied to be inherently evil.
Then they shaved two episodes off an already abbreviated nine episode season all so they could end it in a cliffhanger?
I'm just not feeling it, folks.
I think that was the point though.
It's all a meat grinder and all the horse races are pretty much the same.
Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
Andi's Writeup
Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration fund, joining other tech leaders making similar contributions^1,2^. The donation comes from Cook's personal funds, not from Apple, which is not expected to make a contribution^3^.Cook met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024, continuing their relationship from Trump's first term^4^. According to Axios, Cook believes "the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity"^2^.
Other major tech figures making $1 million donations include Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman^5^. Companies like Toyota, Ford, GM, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America are also contributing^1^. Donors giving $1 million receive high-level access to Trump and his inner circle, including tickets to eight inaugural events and a private dinner with Trump and Melania on January 19^1^.
The inaugural committee aims to raise over $150 million, which would break the previous record of $107 million set at Trump's 2017 inauguration^6^. The inauguration is scheduled for January 20, 2025^7^.
Footnotes
1- Variety, 2025-01-03
2- The Verge, 2025-01-03
3- MacRumors, 2025-01-03
4- 9to5Mac, 2025-01-03
5- CBS News
6- The Independent
7- LiveMint
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
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Million-Dollar Donors to Trump's 2025 Inauguration
Corporate Donations
- Amazon - $1 million, plus airing inauguration on Prime Video ^12^
- Meta (Facebook) - $1 million^1^
- Ford Motor Company - $1 million^12^
- General Motors - $1 million^2^
- Toyota - $1 million^1^
- Coinbase - $1 million^1^
- Robinhood - $2 million^1^
- Uber - $1 million^1^
Individual/CEO Donations
- Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) - $1 million personal donation^1^
- Ken Griffin (Citadel founder) - $1 million^12^
- Tim Cook (Apple CEO) - $1 million personal donation^3^
- Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO) - $1 million personal donation^1^
Larger Donations
-Ripple - $5 million in XRP cryptocurrency^2^
Sources:
Footnotes
1- Business Insider
2- CNN
3- The Verge
Not trying to whitewash or anything but I figure it's more like Democrats won't threaten 4 years of legislative work against you unless you play ball. Under a Democrat majority Apple just has to lobby in their own interests wherever necessary, federally or otherwise, as you do. With Trump you can't sway a Republican senator's vote unless you pay his boss as well.
I hope he wrote Tim Apple on the cheque so orange man will know who it's from.
Meanwhile, Ann Telnaes, the cartoonist at WaPo has resigned, after her cartoon (see link below) satirising all this toadying behaviour was rejected:
How international NGOs racialise and silence Palestinian civil society
At the onset of the genocide in Gaza, I worked in the advocacy and communications department of a prominent international NGO. What I witnessed was more than complicity; it was an active erasure of Palestinian voices. The lies, gaslighting and manipulation I experienced went far beyond anything I could have imagined.
Our concerns were dismissed outright by the predominantly white regional management. They accused us of bias and even questioned our commitment to human rights and the organisation’s mission.
Despite our objections, they went ahead, prioritising the approval of donors and appeasing leaders within the organisation known for their staunch Zionist views.
But the manipulation didn’t stop there. Everything we wrote - from tweets to reports - had to go through a gruelling “sign-off process” that felt more like censorship. They even hired a white European staff member whose sole job was to edit and approve anything that came out of our department.
How international NGOs racialise and silence Palestinian civil society
To get NGO support, we're expected to strip ourselves of our 'emotional' identity and become hollow mouthpieces for statements that dilute the truth about Israel's genocideMiddle East Eye
i recall reading some quote from thomas sankara about how ngos are another extension of control with the quote - “Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk, they are not helping us. Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.” and how “he who feeds you, controls you”
i also just recently listening to the millennials are killing capitalism, with their interview on the sameer project with hala sabbah, where she works in a mutual aid group in palestine and she talks about the interactions between palestinians and the NGOs
how extremely limited and bureaucratic the NGOs are, saying some similar about how the entire objective of the ngo are to control people.
but interesting to see what the perspective from the NGO's staffer side is like the from the lower ranks jumping through the many hoops
AuroraLinux any other users?
Since around the pandemic, I have been using Arch Linux and KDE Plasma full time and had become completely enamored with it and familiar with the commands and settings. It made it super easy to install almost any app available using Yay or Paru for example to take advantage of the AUR library. I dabbled a bit here and there with other variations of Arch such as ZENArch (Uses the Zen Kernel) and others, my step daughter's PC has EndeavourOS on it. When the immutable craze came out a couple of years back, I tried BlendOS, which was designed to be immutable but found it to be too rough around the edges. I even played around with NixOS a tiny bit and OpenSuse Tumbleweed, which was just is too enterprise centric for me, even though it is for both home and enterprise users. It even seemed a bit slower than Arch as well.
Last week or two sometime, another user posted about a new OS for distrohopping and someone mentioned Aurora Linux which piqued my curiosity. On the 28th of December '24 I took the leap and replaced Arch with Aurora DX (Developer edition), which contains more tools that I use such as VSCode and Docker and other items of that nature by design. I was a bit thrown off with their extended install time where it seemed to be frozen, but I let it process and took a nice coffee break as it were. :) Once the install finished, I rebooted and found my way through the update process and have enjoyed the structure of it and it offers a rolling release which I'm used to for the software. I enabled the auto updater which has made it enjoyable and I don't even realize things have updated to be honest since it's transparently done. Today sometime, KDE released 6.2.4 and within hours my KDE updated to that version. Color me impressed! Yes, Arch could do that as well, but and I often dabbled in their unstable repo's just so I could get the latest Plasma Desktop, which would sometimes take longer than anticipated. I ran into a lot of instability and started to have more issues than I cared for. Yes, I know - that comes with the territory of alpha software and I accepted it! I freely admit too, I became sort of hooked on running the "Yay" command to update my system daily if not multiple times, it was addicting to see the software releases come in.
One of the things about Aurora Linux is it includes "BoxBuddy" which in itself is nothing short of amazing. It tightly integrates various OS's into the terminal where you can install apps which are not found in the os-tree or RPM repositories. This morning, I needed to install scrcpy so I could type through my phone in a chat with a business, and the flatpak version of GUIScrpy refused to see my phone so I tried to install scrcpy but it could not be found. I then fired up an Arch install and installed 'scrcpy' which is really all I wanted and was on my way. Having the ability to graphically run apps, inside of the OS of your choice natively has been nothing short of impressive! While scrpy is not graphical, For testing purposes, I installed "Glabel" which is a Gnome label program and it acted and looked just like it was native to my OS. (There is a flatpak version I installed for the Aurora Linux) which I'm using now for my label printer.
AuroraLinux-DX at least includes kubernetes, podman and docker pre-installed with a desktop management tool for both which is quite nice. I don't really run Docker on my desktop, but this may change. :) (I run Docker on a separate server).
So far, I can honestly say, my system feels quite stable and have not encountered any crashes or issues which have hindered me from staying with it.
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Thanks for your experience report!
Yeah man, Aurora (and uBlue in general) is fucking amazing.
I'm using it on my laptop, and Bazzite on my gaming PC, which is pretty much almost the same tbh.
Sometimes, people here on Lemmy might think I'm getting paid by someone to make advertisements for uBlue, but it's literally the best distro I tried so far.
It's one of the few distros I would recommend for non-techy people, like my mum or friends.
The only thing I dislike about Aurora in particular is the release schedule of KDE.
Bluefin (Gnome) offers a gts variant, which offers older (and therefore more stable) packages, so you have half a year of extra testing.
~~Sadly, KDE doesn't allow that, so it's more of a rolling release, like you said.
Because of that, my experience with Aurora has been a bit worse than Bluefin, but still better than most other distros with KDE imo.~~
EDIT: Dumbass me chose aurora:latest and not aurora:stable, no wonder I constantly got brand new packages. Ignore the last part.
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KDE doesn't control what packages are released on a distro? That's Aurora that chooses not to have point releaes version, and instead seems to have a rolling release from your description.
Bluefin GTS is based on Fedora 40 while Bluefin is based on Fedora 41. Fedora doesn't do rolling release outside it's Rawhide rolling dev branch. It does point releases and bug fixes.
There are plenty of KDE based distros that are also point release and not rolling release if that's your preference. I'd also recommend feeding back to Aurora if you think they should alter there KDE release schedule; they chose when to feed KDE releases into their distro.
I edited my comment and corrected it. Thanks.
When I had those problems (and constantly new packages), I probably chose latest and not stable.
I think that was the issue.
What I love the most from bazzite team, is their work with distrobox . Install the distribution you love, follow their tutorial, boom, you get access to the AUR, and it has a minimal impact on your system.
Bazzite felt great to me, but too slow on my computer to enjoy it, so I hopped. But still, I love what they do.
I had issues with Boxbuddy on Aurora, couldn't get it to clone containers. Pinged the BB author, he said it was distro related and I'd agree since the same version worked on regular Fedora. Then I started having other issues with it just pausing doing standard things like opening files, sometimes for like 15 seconds. Generally it was slow as hell and I blew it out and went back to Fedora. This was maybe a couple weeks ago.
I'm not really holding it against Aurora, but sure didn't seem like it was ready to be used as a DD on that laptop yet.
I can’t say much because I don’t use it, but I put it on my partners computer after Aeon crapped itself and put the system in a boot loop until I switched the hard disk out.
Her use case is simple- immutable, hassle free updates, and some games.
She has no problems with it so far.
I used it a little bit to back up an old hard drive, it’s just what I expected, a simple KDE implementation that isn’t messing about.
But what I really hope it will be is no random breaking that takes the entire system out, (and to be fair to Aeon in that case - Aeon is still in release candidate).
I put it on my partners computer after Aeon crapped itself and put the system in a boot loop until I switched the hard disk out.
It is only release candidate software. As such, I didn't have high expectations. However what you've described here is pretty troublesome. And I'd imagine your partner didn't do crazy stuff that would justify such a reaction by the OS.
I'm personally very interested in the future of openSUSE Aeon. So far, I've mostly seen positive reactions. Therefore, a negative experience as such really piques my interest. If possible, could you elaborate upon what had transpired before the system broke? Or perhaps your partners personal experience with the distro in hindsight.
I used Aeon myself from it being called microOS Desktop Gnome until around August of this year, it had replaced my old Tumbleweed install, and it had been rock solid the entire time. Absolutely loved it.
It was everything I needed up to that point - wayland, automated updates and rollback, the default packages were spot on and super light, network config perfect out of the box (something I always struggle with), flatpak first! I’m a KDE user (well I’m really an Openbox guy but no wayland solution yet), so I suffered gnome for the sake of having a great system. I really like what Richard Brown has achieved, it’s almost perfect.
You suspect right, my partner is not a tech user - Firefox, steam, libre office is pretty much it for her. When she shut down the night before this she had just been uploading photos to her cloud storage.
I believe it was related to the implementation of full disk encryption. As this happened immediately after that policy was changed.
after the ASUS UEFI splash screen; the screen goes black, it flashes up 'Random seed file is too short'.
Then it goes to a prompt:
'Please enter recovery key for disk root-x86-64 (aeon_root): (press tab for no echo)
I found the recovery key in my inbox, and in my partners sent files, as we knew it was probably important so she sent me a copy during installation.
But when I put in the recovery key, let it go through the motions, it would restart and come back to this prompt. No amount of retrying the recovery key helped.
I posted the error on the Aeon subreddit but after the recovery key wouldn’t work I just walked away from it. I couldn’t find any other mentions of this error anywhere, and the death of search engines has made this kind of thing difficult to chase down.
With everything going on in our life I couldn’t troubleshoot this, I just needed her system up and I had Aurora ready on a thumbstick already.
That was a great read. Wonderfully detailed. Thank you!
It's a pity that it went down like that. Would you say that a properly matured openSUSE Kalpa would be your perfect setup? Out of curiosity, have you used projects related to Fedora Atomic for long periods of time? If so, how would you compare them?
My only experience with a Fedora-based distro at all has been Bazzite that I had on a htpc for about 12 months, and the use case doesn’t really let me compare to Aeon. Similar to Aeon though, I had no problems with it during that time.
I had Aurora on a thumbstick because I wanted to try it, but never got around to it.
I was hoping something would happen with Kalpa, but I don’t believe anything will. I think if it was ever there, that with be best for me. I’ve moved to cachy OS mainly because I needed to get certain things working that were only packaged in appimage- BUT I believe I could have worked it out in Aeon by fiddling around with distrobox. I was going to test out Aurora for this and just stumbled into cachy OS instead.
I’m not sure if I would go back to Aeon now, as I’m back on KDE again I don’t think I want to look at gnome for a while.
But for my tastes, I think once there is a mature wayland-based Openbox replacement (eyes on labwc) I’d look around to see which distro works best with that. I’d imagine it could be Tumbleweed but I’d also watch how well it works on something extremely stable maybe Debian-based.
Nothing is getting me really excited about Linux right now, not the way Ubuntu did in the 2000s, or how Crunchbang did, and not the way Tumbleweed did. Which is probably for the best because I don’t have time for tinkering or system maintenance, and that’s what makes the immutable distros shine.
Thanks a ton for the elaborate answer!
I’ve moved to cachy OS mainly because I needed to get certain things working that were only packaged in appimage
Hmm..., I'm aware that the AppImage situation is pretty dire since it requires FUSE 2 libs while everyone and their grandmothers have moved to FUSE 3; software that's been almost out for a decade now. Thankfully, I've never actually experienced trouble getting it to work on any distro. Sure, installing some libs was often required, but nothing too fancy.
BUT I believe I could have worked it out in Aeon by fiddling around with distrobox
FWIW, I'm 100% positive that you could get it to work on Aeon. IIRC, I've also used AppImages through distrobox containers.
I think once there is a mature wayland-based Openbox replacement
Interesting. If it isn't too much of a trouble, could you pitch Openbox :P for me? I'm not too familiar with it, but you did get me curious.
(eyes on labwc)
Put into my backlog of stuff I've got to checkout.
It’s nothing special, it’s just what I like. I learned Linux using fluxbox, and later moved to Openbox because it was more feature complete. It’s a window manager, stacking-style, mouse-centric unlike Sway, i3, Hyprland, dwm etc.
All config is done through a handwritten xml, but there exist gui tools to help edit/write all or parts of this for you.
No panel by default, so you’ll need to find your own. You just right-click the desktop and you get a menu.
It’s called a pipe menu, and it’s been nearly 20 years since I learned about it so I’ll do my best to remember how it works.
The pipe menu dynamically changes as bash scripts are activated on mouse movement. So pointing at one thing in the menu would activate a script which triggers the next part of the menu to appear.
The hook is that openbox and fluxbox are very fast and use very little system resources.
Openbox is considered to be bug-free and hasn’t had any commits in nearly 10 years I believe. I think openbox is still being used in the lxqt suite, so maybe the default for Lubuntu? (if that’s still a thing!)
Very enlightening! Thank you so much!
mouse-centric
This is actually unfortunate for me. I seem to be prone to RSI related aches. Keyboard is fine~ish. But mouse can be pretty troublesome. Do you happen to know if it plays nice with trackballs and/or trackpads?
Yeah, any pointing device is fine. And keyboard shortcuts, ask easy to setup since it’s just .xml.
I mainly mean, in comparison to a tiling WM which is intended to be key commands and minimise mouse use, Openbox is based around stacking and menus. It works be just as easy as KDE or Gnome to use keys.
Aight, got it.
For now, I'm exclusively on Wayland. Though, hopefully Openbox (or something inspired by it) will make the jump so that I can see for myself what all this goodness is about.
Anyhow, it was a lovely conversation. I enjoyed it to bits. I wish ya tha best. Cya, out there. Bye!
More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation
Dear Rivals @Game NewsRecently, we've received feedback fromplayers regarding an issue where someindividuals playing in compatibility layerprograms have been mistakenly flagged ascheaters, even without using any cheatingsoftware. This has resulted in bans. Wesincerely apologize for this situation andwant to assure you that we do not & will noban players who are playing fairly andwithout cheating.
We have identified the specific reasonsbehind these false bans and have compileda list of affected players. We have liftedthese bans and want to express ourheartfelt apologies for the inconveniencethis has caused.
Our mission is to provide all players with afair, just, and enjoyable gamingenvironment. Therefore, preventing andidentifying cheaters is one of our toppriorities. We have invested significantmanpower and resources to improve thespeed and accuracy of our detectionsystems. With any any ongoing detectionsystem, there is always room forimprovement. We appreciate yourassistance in helping us tackle thischallenge. If you encounter any cheatingbehavior, please report it immediately; ourreporting system will respond promptly. Ifyou believe you have been wrongly banned,you can appeal to our customer supportteam, and we will review your case andrespond in a timely manner. You can reachthe support team via either in-game or inDiscord!
Thank you for your understanding andsupport! (edited)
Oh wow. That's cool. By the way, does the game support Dualsense's adaptive triggers?
Edit - Yes, it does. (Source)
More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation
Dear Rivals @Game NewsRecently, we've received feedback fromplayers regarding an issue where someindividuals playing in compatibility layerprograms have been mistakenly flagged ascheaters, even without using any cheatingsoftware. This has resulted in bans. Wesincerely apologize for this situation andwant to assure you that we do not & will noban players who are playing fairly andwithout cheating.
We have identified the specific reasonsbehind these false bans and have compileda list of affected players. We have liftedthese bans and want to express ourheartfelt apologies for the inconveniencethis has caused.
Our mission is to provide all players with afair, just, and enjoyable gamingenvironment. Therefore, preventing andidentifying cheaters is one of our toppriorities. We have invested significantmanpower and resources to improve thespeed and accuracy of our detectionsystems. With any any ongoing detectionsystem, there is always room forimprovement. We appreciate yourassistance in helping us tackle thischallenge. If you encounter any cheatingbehavior, please report it immediately; ourreporting system will respond promptly. Ifyou believe you have been wrongly banned,you can appeal to our customer supportteam, and we will review your case andrespond in a timely manner. You can reachthe support team via either in-game or inDiscord!
Thank you for your understanding andsupport! (edited)
Right on time, someone smarter than me.
Really though, I didn't know whether or not that would be emulation, so thank you. I guess I better look'er up
Wine/proton was already whitelisted
Yep. And just to be a little more precise, since the distinction is a bit subtle: an emulator typically involves translating byte code so that you can run a binary on different hardware. A compatibility layer translates OS calls so that a binary can run on different software.
In the latter case, the binary still runs, as is, directly on the CPU because it's compiled for the same instruction set architecture (x86_64, in this case).
Not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct. You can't even say "Winnie the Pooh".
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NetEase is the developer of Marvel Rivals. They are a huge Chinese based company, they have ties to the CCP.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase
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It'll be funny when undead are removed from the original version of WoW.
Seriously, censorship works. That's why those in power are so eager to take our voices away from us.
Not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct. You can't even say "Winnie the Pooh".
Censoring westerners that keep being racist is good actually.
NetEase is the developer of Marvel Rivals. They are a huge Chinese based company, they have ties to the CCP.
The CPC keeps a close eye on the companies in China. This is not a bad thing like you are framing. If you wanna point out to a real problematic case then point at Call Of Duty for being a military propaganda tool.
Criticizing or making fun of a nations leader is not racist. In fact, the comparison originates from China.
Maybe you should do a little more research before you jump to conclusions just because China is involved. Based on your instance, I doubt this is going to happen though. You'll just go back to your echo chamber where anything critical of dictators is bad and must come from the west. They'll probably agree with you, despite it being incredibly easy to learn more.
Criticizing or making fun of a nations leader is not racist. In fact, the comparison originates from China.
Then go ahead, actually criticize Xi instead of associating him with a yellow bear, which is definitely not racist, no no no, not racist at all.
You’ll just go back to your echo chamber where anything critical of dictators is bad and must come from the west. They’ll probably agree with you, despite it being incredibly easy to learn more.
LMAO, then fucking prove China is a "dictatorship". You libs keep repeating the same "China bad", EBIL SEESEEPEE with zero self awareness of how the west is actually looting, underdeveloping and actively destroying the rest of the world.
Prove it? Sure. It's a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that's not a dictatorship then I've never heard of one.
You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn't a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it's exactly what I'd expect though.
I don't know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.
Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn't racist. It has nothing to do with race. It's making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind. Prove it is, since you're asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.
Prove it? Sure. It’s a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that’s not a dictatorship then I’ve never heard of one.
A single party system is not inherently undemocratic, we communists believe in democratic centralism. The CPC is the dominant party in China, but there are multiple other parties in the country.
You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn’t a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it’s exactly what I’d expect though.
No, it shows how ignorant YOU are, since you clearly don't even understand how different political systems can be democratic. Your vision of democracy is limited and is easily dismantled by showing how in the US, for example, you have basically a two-party system that at the end of the day serves the same purpose, to continue to impose the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie upon the working class, or how you libs call it, "western democracy". Your lack of class analysis in China's system fails to account for how the CPC represents the proletariat instead of the bourgeoisie and how that completely changes the inner functions of said country and society.
I don’t know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.
You can't be serious, right? You can't simply point fingers at a country with a bunch of false claims and not expect a direct comparison with how the rest of the world does stuff to dismantle the argument. The implication in this discussion is that China and the CPC is a bad evil dictatorship that oppresses people and curbs their freedom of speech. By pointing out how the west does things I'm providing a counter argument of the false claims. You can't simply claim a bunch of stuff in a vacuum without directly comparing with how the it in the rest of the world, it's disingenuous. Do you not understand how arguments work?
Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn’t racist. It has nothing to do with race. Prove it is, since you’re asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.
Oh stop playing dumb. You know very well that it is racist to associate a Chinese person with a yellow character. Also, it doesn't matter where it comes from. Pepe and the Ok sign didn't start as hate symbols, both were turned into one. If you can't see how westerners constantly calling and depicting Xi Jinping as Pooh isn't racist, then you're the racist.
It’s making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind.
Oh so according to you it's not racist, it's just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he "presents clean and kind" you're implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.
Oh so according to you it's not racist, it's just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he "presents clean and kind" you're implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.
It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil. That's why bringing up western stuff doesn't matter because the conversation isn't about any of that. It's about the comparison of President Xi to Pooh Bear. You just keep swerving around trying to hit a different target because the actual conversation doesn't work in your favor.
Clean, meaning morally, no he isn't. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he's a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn't still be in power if this were the case. The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it. It's the Streisand Effect. It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn't handle it.
Is it fat-phobic? Probably. Is it racist? Hell no. It's just making fun of someone with a fragile ego with someone he's made public that he's insulted by. Implying it's racist because Pooh Bear is yellow is just trying to shut it up by making shit up. It has nothing to do with that. It's just what the Chinese picked to make fun of him with.
It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil.
Ignoring? I literally addressed that in my previous comment. I'm not gonna repeat myself. And I'm not saying westerners are evil. As much as I hate using these moral terms like good, bad and evil, if I were to use it it would be to say that the west is evil, not the westerners.
Clean, meaning morally, no he isn’t. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he’s a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn’t still be in power if this were the case.
Yeah yeah, keep changing the meaning of words to only fit how you see it on your head. And really? He's still in power because he presents himself as "clean and kind"? Like, really? First you say he's a dictator, now he's only still in power because se presents himself well. Which one is it? And that aside, do you really believe he's only in power because he presents himself well? Like, really?
The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it.
A single meme is not representative of the will of the Chinese people. By this logic I can say the USians are nazi because of how much Pepe exploded in popularity. It's beyond silly.
It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn’t handle it.
First of all, Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China, it is still a very popular character there.
Second of all, you lack understanding of how Chinese society works. China, and some other asian countries do not simply speak ill of their leaders and representatives. It's a cultural thing. Which is not to say that they don't criticize them, they do, but it is completely different than the rest of the world.
And finally third, if people started representing Obama with the image of a gorilla, let's say, from Tarzan. Wouldn't that be racist? Wouldn't that be censored and ban worth in most places? So stop with the double standard bullshit. Just realize you're racist against asians and do some introspection.
For everything else you said I already have replied previously.
You're incredibly unserious and I'm not losing my time engaging with you any further.
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Not sure how that's relevant to them knowing about Linux gaming and caring to ensure it'll work properly despite proper anti-cheat.
Can we at least cheer that on?
Not just that, but I think it's important information to disseminate because it can be used to hold other game's developer's feet to the fire.
At the end of the day the WINE community is doing absolutely free work to allow game devs to reach a wider audience, and with the sunsetting of Win10 this year, that's going to be more important than ever. While not a huge marketshare, there are plenty of users like me that will just straight up not play a game if it doesn't work under WINE.
companies based in country have to follow rules of said country.
If you don't believe in that you can try to not follow sanctions and see what happens to your business.
They are similar, but generally emulators have a higher run-time cost - this is because they are "emulating" an entire system, not just translating system calls. By cost, I mean performance of course. Emulators typically simulate/mimic other hardware, whereas translation layers just convert the system calls to be run natively on your existing hardware (which means your CPU architecture must match, etc).
Wine is far faster than regular emulation would traditionally be.
China's real estate market stabilizes with comprehensive 2024 policy measures
China's real estate market stabilizes with comprehensive 2024 policy measures
BEIJING -- Supported by a series of policy measures to address the yearslong slump, China's property market has shown signs of stabilization and uptick, with renewed confidence and rising demand observed in its most dynamic regional real estate marke…www.chinadaily.com.cn
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The GoneWild posters will definitely fuck me if I show up at this event!
—All the attendees, probably
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They seem to be go-fund-me'ing their coup attempts nowadays.
The only places the US is still having success is in the ME. They even lost their own hemisphere, they can't even prevent leftists from getting elected in Mexico anymore.
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Yes because the CIA definitely cares about LGBTQ rights
I get the joke but c'mon they definitely don't.
Some people on the internet are saying it's okay to not support Palestine because they're not pro LGBTQ enough.
It's an insane argument to make so I guess that's why OP feels like it's CIA.
Assuming there's not some new thing:
The recent US general election was, as usual, a face-off between the two predominant parties. The incumbent party, while nominally being the relative "left" party, continued the unbroken support the US has provided to Israel since its conception, despite recent genocidal activity. There are some who insisted that, while that support is reprehensible and isn't representative of the will of the left, the alternative party would be just as bad for Palestine while also being worse by most other metrics (including LGBTQ+ rights).
There are some who suggest that those insisting such a thing are shills or intelligence agents, logging into niche leftist spaces to manufacture tepid consent, rather than individuals expressing genuine concerns.
Access to aviaries at Maryland State Parks restricted amid H5N1 concerns
Access to aviaries at Maryland State Parks restricted amid H5N1 concerns
A presumptive positive test of the H5N1 virus found in migrating snow geese in Delaware prompts Maryland State Parks to enter a Phase II bio-security protocol at all 7 of the state’s aviariesLinnea Hoover (WMAR 2 News Baltimore)
‘There’s No Public Evidence of the Kind of Manipulation TikTok Is Accused Of’: CounterSpin interview with Yanni Chen on TikTok ruling
‘There’s No Public Evidence of the Kind of Manipulation TikTok Is Accused Of’: CounterSpin interview with Yanni Chen on TikTok ruling
"It singles out a single app without really providing any justification why, and then they just say, 'Congress picked this one.'"FAIR
… it relies on annual subsidies from Denmark worth some €500 million a year …
Seems likely to sink any serious independence talks. Doesn’t sound like they can survive on their own, at least not at present.
BRICS’ new partnerships shatter ‘take sides’ myth, drive true multilateralism
BRICS’ new partnerships shatter ‘take sides’ myth, drive true multilateralism
On the first day of 2025, nine countries - Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cuba, Uganda, Malaysia and Uzbekistan - officially became BRICS partners.www.globaltimes.cn
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in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • • •Going out is the thrill that anything can happen. You never know who you're going to meet and what may happen.
Staying home is knowing pretty much what's going to happen. You're gunna have a good, predictable time.
Potentially amazing night vs The good night you know