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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Honestly I’d bet the “too stressed to care” make up only a few % of the middle 33%, and that the middle is more representative of a different kind of ignorance. I’m talking about the people who were born reasonably comfortable and never found history, science, or politics interesting. People who devote most of their time and personality to things like sportsball, video games, or social media. People who choose to watch bottom-barrel reality tv unironically. Basically the “centrists” who don’t really know how anything works, ignorant of pretty much everything outside their niche education or profession, whatever’s spoon fed to them, and the mainstream media.




  • but where’s the Proton Drive application for Linux!? … I sincerely hope Proton is working on it

    It appears the author didn’t read the blog posts they linked:

    “Over the next few months, we’ll enhance the app further by adding more new features and releasing the Software Development Kit (SDK) that the new macOS app is based on, which we anticipate will serve as the basis for a highly requested Linux app.”

    It sounds like they haven’t even started. Hopefully the SDK covers most of the functionality and the Linux app is minimal additional effort.




  • While all of this is true, and America is up there among the worst crimes in modern history, most countries histories are littered with horrific shit.

    It’s worth remembering that ALL of human history is atrocity and injustice galore, so despite all the horrors the last few decades are almost certainly the best and safest time to exist (for humans, not the rest of the planet). When we look back at the 50’s and 60’s middle classes in the west, we do so with rose tinted goggles; they were a small percentage of the human population in absolute terms. The average human globally — especially in the bottom percentiles — were much poorer, less educated, and had a lower quality of life than they do today.












  • Reddit argues handing over the information will create a chill among other users, explaining in its court filings that “anonymity is not just a user preference but a defining feature of Reddit’s business model and identity.”

    Bullshit. They have no problem banning users for specific keywords, like “Luigi”, and anyone who upvotes those posts/comments. They just want to use the platform as their own propaganda machine, instead of the states propaganda machine.