iTunes: Quod Libet

pyCharm: native

Windows games: Proton

“Algorithmic steering” is okay as long as the algorithm is relatively straightforward, public, and well-understood.

The problem is when the corpos tweak it to suit their mass-market advertisers.

Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!

That’s fine.

In that case you can feel free to ignore the US-specific portion and go back to the first “no, they are synonyms” statement.

Are there good alternatives?

I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.

Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.

What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?

Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.

Lemmy almost fills it but tends to be too ephemeral and doesn’t handle multiple forums/channels for one broad topic.

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters.

Ugh…

Yes, kind of. Problem is that from the right-wing pov “undeserving” is a euphemism, almost a dog-whistle for “brown” or in reality closer to “low on their made-up hierarchy”

Right-wing POV: Why are they undeserving? Because they’re not white. Why do we feel that non-whites are undeserving? Racism. Why do we care about who deserves what? Hierarchy/“god’s plan” which put us on top and them on the bottom.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

I just checked, and they do not.

Edit: they still find the cartoon funny after being primed with the information that “Gumby” is a claymation character.

Guesses: “some women” means poor brown women.

Reads: “Studies show that women are also less likely to be screened if they are nonwhite, uninsured or identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.”

Or brown.

Does sublime retain contents across restarts like notedpad++?

Depends on the app, it’s not a “windows” thing.

It’s “hawking” not hocking. Hocking would be pawning them.

pam_faildelay almost does it, but it only delays on auth failure. You would want something that delays on success. Might be almost as simple as “if not” on a check on pam_faildelay.

I’d take that over rapidly running backwards like the US is doing now.

No but yes but no.

I’m not sure you are serious/genuine here but I’m also not sure you deserve the downvotes and I have some time to kill.

“Republic” is “rule by the people” (Rex public). It means the same as democracy (“people rule”). The only difference is Latin vs Greek.

As used in the US, your description kinda-sorta covers the principles that the parties once maybe kinda stood for 150 years ago or so. (Something like “more federal power / less federal power”).

In reality these days they’re just labels for two different groups, and the words have no connection in this context, it’s just an historical note.

What you’re suggesting is that large corporations are so incompetent, and being incompetent is profitable,

I mean, you said it not me. This is not false.

that they should be left alone to continue to be incompetent.

Different question — it’s one of priority. If you can catch 90% of the non-European items cheaply and easily, better to do that than to catch 99.9% and raise prices so much that the European products are not competitive. They’re guidelines not strict life-and-death rules.

the misery of slowly losing knowing that there’s nothing you can do

Given that’s the entire point of the game, that seems like it achieves the objective. Why would you want to extend that phase of the game?

You’re certainly optimistic.

“Sentenced” implies a trial, conviction, and general “due process” that the fascists are happy to skip.

I agree with what you’re saying but trying to be as nuanced as you suggest is a lot more difficult than it seems.

There’s a lot of grey areas, and you’d need a significant supply chain tracing system to do what you suggest. If you do that you also drastically increase the cost of European goods, which is counter to the goal.

The method they are using is cheap-ish, easy-ish, and effective… -ish.