They listen if you listen

In a fantasy world version of the US, conservatives do that, in the real world US the minute you start doing that you have abandoned what it means to be a conservative.

What ICE is doing is way worse than what happens on the internet…? Most of the stuff on the internet is words, ICE is actually kidnapping, killing and deporting people.

You can put a clause in the license saying the software cannot be used for the dissemination of hate speech. The open source community has discussed this and decided it goes against the principles of free software and open source.

Says who? How can you authoritatively say the open source community has decided something collectively on this subject? That categorically doesn’t make sense on multiple different dimensions.

I don’t need Nintendo DRM in my dog, that is a dormg and those are nowhere near as nice.

The trouble being that telling folk the only solution is to destroy capitalism is a hard sell at the best of times, and in April 2023 capitalists could point to any number of initiatives to show how they were “making progress.” Unconvincing to someone who is disinclined to look past 50 years of excuses, lies, vacillating and half-hearted compromises, perhaps, but enough for your average liberal who really wants to believe someone else can sort it all out while retaining, roughly, the status quo.

Just two years later, though, Gelderloos’s predictions that capitalism would be unable even to maintain its existing lacklustre efforts towards reducing carbon emissions, let alone deepen them, are worth returning to.

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In fact, between the ultra-capitalist dream of crypto markets and this dystopian sci-fi hellscape of tech bros’ imagined Nazi artificial superintelligences, you can pretty much write off the entire benefit from solar and wind as having been sucked up into an exercise filling the internet with a more convincing type of garbage.

That’s what capitalism, in the post-pandemic world, has actually done regarding the one big ecological issue that it said it was going to fix.

I am at the edge of my seat in anticipation!

This is what losing a war amidst an exhausted offensive looks like.

Well for the US, at least the industrial inland rust belt part, I think it has got to be The Armed.

https://thearmed.bandcamp.com/music

Medication, structure, additional societal resources, whatever it is that is prescribed is only helpful if it actually helps not just points out why something is broke or stuck in someone’s life.

It’s harder to prescribe exercise, which takes time and effort and can be difficult to start for people who are depressed.

This detail is swept under the rug in this article and will most certainly be swept under the rug in discussion about the headline.

Telling people to exercise as a prescription only works once, after a patient is made aware that exercise would make them less depressed and they fail to undertake it, the advice becomes a convenient way of saying “just try harder” with different words.

I am not questioning the science here, I am pointing out the consequences of how it is framed.

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It was originally a survival focused modpack for minecraft until it morphed into a separate game and it is very good at that.

I also like the engine better, the fact that you can chisel out blocks, it allows for really beautiful building and makes crafting tools interactive in a simple but fun way.

Highly recommended!

Luanti

https://www.luanti.org/en/

VoxeLibre a game on the Luanti engine

https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/

Vintage Story

https://www.vintagestory.at/

I would have also kept playing Luanti/VoxeLibre and Vintage Story.

Combo!

If you have a computer you can get a used/older NI Maschine for fairly cheap just make sure you get a software key. The pads feel really nice on those, but it is all down to preference.

A lot of people like the Ableton Push series of controllers but for me the pure playing feel of the Maschine is hard to beat and the ability to build loops into songs without looking at your computer screen while still having access to all the benefits of being connected to a computer (easy file access of samples for example) is really nice.

Go to Guitar Center or something and try out one, they are a blast I promise! They are inherently percussive instruments and I think having experience as a drummer is a great platform to enter into learning MPC type instruments from.

Have you thought about an “MPC” type instrument like a Native Instruments Maschine? I feel like that might be a nice evolution for you as it would allow you to transition a love for percussion into a songwriting tool that is a blast to jam out with and make patterns with.

I mean, I really like nice finger drumming pads, but you could also just use a more traditional midi drum kit to record loops the point is that you can have a blast with an MPC type tool all by yourself with headphones on and you can then choose to share that or not, it is perfect as a solo instrument.

Bonus points you could record loops of yourself playing your actual drums and slice up the audio samples in an MPC, that would be super cool.

I also think as a drummer having an MPC might be really nice to throw loops of certain sections of songs into that you wanted to practice so that you could easily switch between them and keeping looping that section to practice as long as needed.

So I’m asking myself: what’s the point? Why not just step away?

Video games are amazing and fascinatingly diverse!

Ok, what content stream in what medium when viewed in a bulk popularity view like that isn’t 90% memes or equivalent?

I agree, I think something that has been lost in conversation about progressive politics and leftism more broadly (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (with plenty of exceptions) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths.

Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera by the state, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it.

When people enter a space where progressive and left voices haven’t been systematically silenced and it is a new experience for them, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren’t healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me… it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately more often than not leftist spaces actually try to do it and it that is a good thing.

I entirely agree with people having agency to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn’t, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything. Everything is political, if you have the capacity to complain about being subject to “too much politics” be thankful for your capacity to experience that state of choice.

Also, and this is on a personal note, talking about politics doesn’t make me depressed, it helps me feel less depressed and anxious because I know other people feel similarly and the more educated I am about what is happening the less scared and confused I feel.