You miss out on all the phytonutrients.
AnimalsDream
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I think the problem of left unity is a symptom capitalism. Models of anarchism, communism, and socialism have wildly differing systems of social relations, organizing, governance, economics, etc. Even the sub-models in each of these categories have vast differences. But in our political discourse they're all compressed into the same box of the "left", because our prevailing system so dominates the narrative that these other systems are all erroneously viewed through a lens that presumes private property and redistribution of wealth vs no redistribution of wealth as the dividing line. Nevermind the hypocrisy of "redistribution of wealth," as corporations are speedrunning to unjustly pump virtually all forms of wealth into their coffers.
I remember when I was young and dumb and finding myself fascinated by the Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement. The basic idea seemed so elegant and promising to me: we can use technology to solve our problems, to use technological progress to obsolete scarcity itself!. I tried to chat with people about it, and on more than one occasion somebody would just shut the conversation down with, "But that's socialism." That was the first time I realized something was very broken in our discourse, because it was like, yeah kind of technically, but it's also something very different from what we normally think of what socialism is.
That's kind of what a lot of these labels are, ultimately. Thought stopping cliches.
Oh, and lifehack I guess: Just keep a supply of frozen veggies and add those to your ramen.
I had to stop eating ramen. I tried my hardest, but I could not for the life of me find a whole grain ramen that was affordable (the whole point of eating ramen). So instead I use whole grain spaghetti noodles and veggie broth. I miss the squigglies. 🥺
I have learned that even whole grain noodles can be microwaved though, so that's cool. Works a lot better for penne, cause spaghetti noodles tend to clump together more.
What are your dietary issues and food allergies?
Bigger picture, pasteurized milk is not fine. You need a system of animal agriculture infrastructure to make that happen, and that system is why we're in this mess in the first place.
I'm all for trash talking the circus of Trump and RFK, and anti-vaccers, but anyone doing so while still eating animal products is a hypocrite.
It started roughly around the ps3/360 era, when corporate devs began prioritizing turning their games into skinner boxes that were designed to motivate players to keep playing, so they would be more likely to engage in microtransactions, see more ads, or continue paying subscriptions. Of course gacha garbage is a fuller expression of this kind of manipulation now days.
Still plenty of great games out there, and in some cases we have a real renaissance.
That was somebody else's point. I just chimed in with my own take. :D
You can't kill Wikipedia. MediaWiki is free software. If hosting in the US proves to be too hostile, the foundation can either pack up and host elsewhere, and even if they don't, anyone else can easily host their own Wikipedia as well.
On my laptop I switched from Debian to Fedora and that had a distinct impact on gaming performance, though I think it had more to do with how I had it set up previously. For instance I used full disk encryption for Debian, but skipped that on Fedora, because it does seem to impact games noticeably.
But it also might be because Fedora is more bleeding edge, so the OS itself might actually play a role here.
On my desktop I've been running Bazzite and that's been pretty great so far.
I keep thinking about this.
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Most retro handhelds do not have cellular network chips, gps, or even built it microphones or cameras in many cases. But many do still support wifi and Bluetooth.
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The vast majority of them do support either Linux, Android, or both. This is the area that needs the most work, since the Linux distros on these devices are so stripped down that they can't do much more than run emulators and a few bespoke game engine compilations. And for the Android-supporting devices, there would be a need to build more privacy-respecting roms. But that's the thing - many of these devices openly support that, it's just not something the communities have gotten around to creating.
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While this would become less useful with popularity, this kind of approach would be a form of steganography. If you're in an extreme situation where you or your belongings are being searched, how many people are going to suspect that the little Retroid Pocket gaming handheld is even something you can or might be storing your private info on?
Edit: Judging by the comments so far, I underestimated how unknown these devices must be still. While they do technically include handhelds like the PSP/Vita, 3/DS, etc; these days when people use the term "retro handheld" they're usually referring to a veritable cornucopia of gaming devices that come in a wide variety of hardware configurations and form factors. They are most often ARM-based devices, though there are even a couple that are pocketable fpga devices. Some of them are even small enough to be keychains.
Right now some of the most popular companies in this category include Retroid, Anbernic, Ayn, and Ayaneo. There is also a large selection of 3rd party custom firmwares out for many of these devices. But again, most of these are just very stripped down versions of Linux. Instead of full fledged desktop environments, they normally have media center style frontends like Emulation Station. And as far as I know, none of them have bothered to port any of the conventional Linux package managers.
As far as I understand, there is no technical reason why PostmarketOS, Mobian, or LineageOS for MicroG couldn't be ported to at least some of these devices, as some examples.
Hopefully that is enough resources for anyone to start to get up to speed. It should be apparent that full, unbroken system experiences with up-to-date software is possible on at least some of these devices, even including apps like Signal.
Way, way too many websites. I have to research all of them just to use one? I have choice paralysis! The corporations are right, I shouldn't be trusted to make decisions for myself, and the internet should be like cable.
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The FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists
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F. The more fundamental problem is that these are all cars, not bikes. Fuck cars.