“some flags” is a very selective way to describe specifically replacing pride flags to create a vision of new york that doesn’t have queer people, and your reply is definitely not in good faith. anyone literate can understand quite well the intention of creating such a pointless and specific mod.

In general, I’d say that I don’t disagree with the point you are making. Having conversations with people that challenge their views and can help them (and yourself) grow is absolutely essential for building a base of opposition to the system of capitalist exploitation.

You’re right about that, and you’re right that while sometimes it is nice to have a space where you’re not constantly working to correct misgivings and instead get to engage with people who already agree with you, it is generally not great to only exist within echo chambers. Growth rarely happens in such spaces.

However, I’m not really sure a video game modding website is really the place for any kind of discussion about much of anything. Keep in mind nexusmods has a blanket ban on all US sociopolitic commentaries.

This isn’t a public service though. It’s a private website. If you want to have an entirely different discussion on whether there should be sites like this that are public that’s something else. There are, in fact, many websites where socialism is prohibited. Instead of being grumpy about it, I just don’t go to those websites.

If someone is “free” to make shitty mods, then a website admin is “free” to ban those mods.

For the record though, I don’t believe in the “purity of freedom” that is pushed by liberal narratives. I actually think that discriminatory speech deserves consequences.

No one is stopping them from modding it how they want, but that doesn’t mean this site has to host discriminatory mods

I’ve never even heard of a disposable barbecue, was this item commonplace??

Literal leeches

Wait so are you like…proud that you don’t read or something?

Theory without praxis is useless, but without theory action is directionless and futile. With no understanding of the systems in place, how can you dismantle those systems or create a replacement? All that’s left is reacting to the specific circumstances with no greater framework to understanding those circumstances and why they came about. Reactionary through and through.

I think I’ve always been very open to anarchists who have the same goal of abolition of the capitalist and imperial state, but I struggle to see the merits in embracing a meme stereotype of willful ignorance and choosing not to educate yourself. Any organizational successes brought about by anarchists were accomplished with a firm grounding in theory.

There are a few anarchist bookstores locally that have a great selection on mutual aid, anti-imperialism, and police abolition, all integral to a true understanding of how anarchist action could actually better the community. It’s not just some nebulous aesthetic choice or a joke online about how you hate the state, it’s a commitment to mutual liberation that requires an understanding of the systems in play that prevent that.

" It’s a tiny embedded chipset called the SKT IDQ S2Q000 that’s just 2.5mm square consisting of an LED and a CMOS sensor. The LED shines into the sensor to produce image noise, and the sensor interprets that as quantum randomness. These random noise patterns become the basis for truly random number strings."

That’s (supposedly) how the Samsung one works. Couldn’t really say how accurate it is to call that “quantum randomness” as that’s not my expertise, nor could I say if it is anymore secure than any other random number generator, which, as you say, are already really tough to hack, but a random noise pattern like that would in fact create a truly random string of numbers. So I guess there’s that.

Curious how this one from China will tackle the “quantum randomness” problem, but it’s likely to be pretty similar in all likelihood. It does seem to be impressively secure, but I (personally, and again, not an expert in this) do sort of think it’s a bit of a marketing buzz to centre “quantum” in this, as it isn’t really what people tend to think of when quantum computing comes to mind.

The article says Samsung has already released one in South Korea, so it seems like it’d be pretty easy to confirm.

Edit: Looks like it does exist, has existed for two years, and so it’s very believable that China has one too. No reason to lie about it really

Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a really good read for sure.

I think the problem is how terminally online so many people are. They see random strangers (often actual literal children) with “anarchist” in the bio saying something stupid on Twitter (a website specifically for people to say stupid shit) and think it’s an indictment of anarchists as a whole.

I’m not an anarchist, I don’t agree with most anarchists on most things, but, y’know…anarcho-syndacalists (like the IWW) have done immense work in union organizing. Anarchists are often the ones next to me at actions. Anarchists are there in the community gardens. Anarchists are participating in the mutual aid networks.

The anarchists that you can work with, the anarchists who just want their communities to be better places, they have more in common with communists than they do with libs and fascists, no matter what people online would have you believe. And the ones who spend their days on twitter with anti-communist takes are…well…the same as the commies who spend all day on twitter, or the libs, or the right wingers…just a bunch of online attention seekers who rarely have praxis to back up their talk. Not worth wasting so much time and energy on when odds are they don’t stand by what they’re saying anyway, they’re an actual child, or they’re not a real person.

Yes, that is how you address a letter for the post in Canada.

This isn’t just silly marketing, it’s bread made with fresh organic man-yeast

What do you mean by “high crime area?” because that really just means poor neighbourhoods. you’re sort of saying that you want to carry weapons around the poor because you feel unsafe.

Putting that aside, the homicide rates in canada are actually relatively low. You are three times more likely to kill yourself with a gun than for someone else to shoot you.

You are as likely to be killed by the police as you are by a “criminal.”

You are seven times as likely to be murdered if you are Indigenous.

You are 125 times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than to be killed by a stranger.

In fact, nearly all of homicides are conflicts between people who know one another.

The places with increased gun homicide rates? Nova Scotia and Alberta. In Alberta it is largely directed towards Indigenous peoples. In Nova Scotia the number shot up because the RCMP let that dude go wild.

Basically…feeling unsafe in “high crime areas” is really a you problem, you’re not very likely to be killed, especially if you’re not Indigenous, and carrying a weapon has very little to do with safety, and will serve only to make poor areas more dangerous.

Don’t think it has anything to do with Rogers. I have Bell, have had zero issues with any connectivity and was able to check my email this morning. Just checked protonmail now because I saw you ask this question, and I can’t.

Poking around and I see a lot of people reporting issues connecting to protonmail this afternoon

What if you just decided to sit around and get an hour paid break without asking for any donations? Checkmate boss.

Canada and Ukrainian nationalism, name a more iconic duo

“These findings indicate that SARS-CoV-2–reactive antibodies were detected in 106 specimens, a small percentage of blood donations from California, Oregon, and Washington, as early as 13–16 December 2019.”

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472?login=false

Editing to add: studies are generally showing a similar trend in countries around the world: covid19 was around before people were aware it was, which really isn’t all that surprising. Spain and Italy, for instance, are both finding they likely had covid19 infections a month or more before the first reported case. An aerosolized virus, that often could be carried asymptomatically, could be mild in some cases, and could easily be mistaken for another flu, during an age of global travel… It’s pretty expected, really, that it spread a bit before being noticed