neat! also fwiw where i’m at anything that seats 9 or more requires a cdl

during the first big migration to lemmy a lot of folks were splitting between discord and here, and a really common refrain was “anything but old school forums” and i absolutely did not and do not get this attitude. old school forums were great! the discussions were always super relevant because everyone was there to discuss whatever specific thing everyone had signed up for, and the people posting were always super reliable, knowledge wise, because, again, it was a dedicated place for discussing something specific, and the frequently asked questions would always end up in a really good wiki. sometimes i wonder if people had bad experiences on those forums because they’re much more focused. like on reddit everyone would complain about the arch forums on r/arch, but none of what they said matched the actual tone of the arch forums. it made me think they posted short one liner questions as thread starters instead of giving a full breakdown of the error they were seeing, what they did to troubleshoot the problem, and what errors had come about during that process.

overall, i think we’ve had a shift in the architecture of the internet thanks to general purpose discussion sites like twitter and reddit. before, the internet was cathedrals filled with texts related to their specific topic. everything on a sportster related forum was going to be about the maintenance and modification of sportsters. maybe there was a subsection where people could talk about their other motorcycles, but that was more of a social lounge than anything, like the equivalent of the fellowship hall in my cathedral analogy.

after reddit and twitter took over those scenes, the internet became a mall. unfocused, impersonal, and only meant to pipeline you into purchasing products. none of the people up front are very knowledgeable because you don’t need to be knowledgeable to make sales, you need to be attention getting. especially when what’s for sale is disposable

most of the buses in the next town over from me are f-350 and e-350s, so quite literally yes

i don’t mean it’s typical of russian people, i mean it’s typical of the russian apparatus; of russia itself

it’s also pretty typical russian behavior

we’re not to a point yet where people understand the context of remixing his creations. for now what remixing his creations does boost his signal into the feeds of people who don’t already know the context and might go looking for more webcomics like the one that made them laugh. this is an old school way of awful people to leverage “edgy” humor to get more of their propaganda in front of more people.

on the whole, what you did is like… goosing the accelerator when the light turns yellow. it’s not what you’re supposed to do, but it’s not morally reprehensible either.

as anarchists we find ourselves in these troubled times providing guidance on how to interpret and resist propaganda

yes. nothing better for democracy than putting on the ballot “dissolve democracy?”

one admin my partner and i have been immensely critical of is making $800k/yr. meanwhile he’s ballooned tuition to “restore the endowment”, increased undergrad enrollment, and cut funding to graduate students

Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter

by who? where can i read it? how did i not know this? this sounds fascinating!

NATO members can though

that’s not really relevant here since panama isn’t a NATO member

no amount of conformity will ever make you safe under fascism. the noose will always tighten to meet the fascists’ needs for torture. once the old enemy is eliminated a new hegemony will be homogenized and the torture will continue either at the same pace or accelerated.

it’s not really about skin tone, accent, visa access, sexual identity, gender identity, or even political stance. it’s about that the fascists must other, and they will other you any way that thy can.

the idea is more like… once you realize that nothing has any predetermined value, you get to be the final arbiter of value. you can take stock of that your ancestors invented god as an expedient to create shared community values. god doesn’t exist though. but what really mattered was that your ancestors wanted to have shared values. you can actually skip to the end and create shared values because you and your community accept them as good.

it’s a common misconception/misinterpretation that nihilism rejects value systems entirely. it’s more like what to once you realize they don’t exist without support from you and your people.

spam bot. tho there is a funny timeline where she’s legit, just really excited about the fediverse, and all us are clowning her for it

JD Vance has denounced the annulment of last year’s election as an indication of European backsliding on democracy

i denounce jd vance backsliding democracy just to do it

the antichrist is charismatic and weilds religion to do things against what christ taught by tricking the people to believe he’s the second coming. nothing is new, and a guide to seeing the warning signs of all this is published within their religion’s manual. but they’ve all been taught since birth to misinterpret the warning

maaan could it be any clearer the republicans hate our Ukrainian allies. this is a slam dunk easy win and still they’d rather capitulate to the russian overlords. you know, until 2016, the one thing in america you could count on was no politician would fuck with russia. republicans hated them because they used to be communist, democrats hated them because they’re openly fascist. now we got a weird mix of republicans loving them because they’re openly fascists and certain “leftists” loving them because they used to be “communist”

maaan we’re all out here falling for the oldest trick in the book. a populist is out here lying about what’s the plan and people are buying it. it’s so sad

steve bannon calls it flooding the zone. it’s a classic russian trick, too. the government lashes out omnidirectionally because it’s just about seeing what the people are capable of preventing right now

Each y’all in my dialect would be like… “I need each y’all to do something for me, you don’t all have to do it the same” where as “y’all need to do something for me” is just someone needs to do it, be it an individual or a subset of the group. “all y’all need to do something for me” is “You, as an entire group, have wronged me and I need you all to get in alignment together, and if you don’t, there will be consequences”