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What brain drain? They’re evacuating, not casually popping over to the mainland for a bit of fun.
“Oh no! The nearby volcano erupted and it’s gonna flood a city of millions! We’d better start evacuating one person at a time so they don’t experience brain drain.”
C’mon man.
Yeah, I’m sure South Africa emerged from apartheid just so they could defend a colonizer.
It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.
A Dreamcast controller with a modern, moddable vmu system would be sick.
Man, it has been fascinating and kinda horrifying to see what Twitter can get away with due to their size. Imagine if a major Lemmy instance was hosting arms deals.
Diamonds aren’t even cool anymore. Laboratory gems, however, are fucking awesome.
Hnnng… Blow your load in me daddy; give me that good-good healthcare batter. Nnnnnnhh~
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone explicitly state it, however I remember seeing a handful of people on Reddit who’s comments seemed to imply that view point several years ago when people first started talking about removing them. I could have been misinterpreting what they were saying, but that was the impression I got and it grossed me out.
Meh, I don’t agree with them, but I understand why they feel strongly about it. The statues were an attempt to whitewash the civil war; of course people, especially non-white Americans, are going to feel very strongly about it.
I guess the way I see it though, is that the statues are technically part of America’s civil war history. No, they weren’t put up during the Confederacy, but they were intentionally built to affect the way people saw the civil war. Afaik that kinda technically makes them a part of civil war history.
Does that mean they’re worth preserving?
Tbh, I don’t really know, I’m not a historian so I ultimately don’t know how useful they’d be for studying and teaching about the civil war and reconstruction era. I’m concerned about losing parts of human history, but if expert historians believe the statues wouldn’t have any use for research or education, then I guess there’s not really any reason to not crush or melt them down.
Another side of it is that it’s a lot harder to downplay their significance or claim them as hoaxes when the original article still exists. That doesn’t mean people won’t try to do it anyway (I mean, Holocaust denialism seems in vogue among the far right wing right now), but it makes it easier to rub their faces in their stupidity when you can point to a physical mass of statues as opposed to a photo gallery or a plaque (I can already imagine people trying to claim that the pictures were AI generated or that the media was making a bigger deal about it than it actually is).
I’ve also already seen some people who seem to think that if the statues are removed, then the problem magically disappears and America isn’t racist anymore. That’s gross and makes me uncomfortable. America has a very racist, bigoted history. Don’t try to whitewash American history like that.
I know they aren’t confederate-era. The thing that I think makes them historically significant is the fact they’ve caused so much outrage. As such, I think it’s important to showcase just how much of a problem they are. It’s not like a single statue here or there, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of them.
As I asked in another reply, which would be more impactful, seeing a statue or two with a plaque that says something about hundreds of them existing, or a balcony overlooking a warehouse full of them? Personally, I think the latter would have a much stronger impact on me because it would emphasize just how many of them there are/were.
I’m aware they aren’t Confederate era. I still believe them to be historically significant due to the outrage they’ve caused. I think it’d still be worth putting them all together in a single warehouse because, at the very least, people would be able to get a true sense of the scope of the problem.
Which would have more impact, a statue or two with a description saying that hundreds of such statues existed, or a balcony overlooking said hundreds of statues?
Personally, I’d find the latter way more impactful. It’s hard to imagine just how many statues are in “hundreds of statues” (heck, some people literally can’t visualize things in their heads); seeing them altogether would probably be mind boggling.
I hope they’re putting the statues they’ve been removing in storage or something. Imo it’s kinda important history (partially due to age,1 partially because their removal is kinda big from a historical perspective) and just destroying them kinda sucks. Put them in a huge warehouse for academics to study or something.
1 (yes Europeans, I know 100yrs isn’t much and that your apartment building is probably that old. However, in the US, it’s rare for something to last more than 100yrs)
Edit: for clarification, the “historically significant” part is the fight to takedown the statues and the realization of just how many and how common they are. I’m aware they were erected after the civil war.
Imo people aren’t buying enough lab gems. Diamonds can come from all kinds of fucked up places, but lab gems can only come from laboratories. Like, they literally don’t naturally exist on earth. They can do all kinds of cool things too, like fluoresce or change color under UV light or depending on the angle that you’re viewing it at. They’re vastly superior to diamonds for jewelry purposes but they’re not very common so the only affordable ones tend to be cast-offs.
At 444 consoles there’s a real chance he may have some consoles hooked up that have no emulator due to their rarity or some unique, hard-to-reproduce characteristic.
Fun fact, there was actually a man named Ronald Numbers.
Basically nothing AAA as far as I’m aware. Only major AAA releases I’ve had any interest in are the Sega relaunches (JSR, Crazy Taxi, etc), but some of the rumors I’ve heard aren’t good so I dunno how much hope I should put into it. Everything else is either indie or old console games.
Furthermore, “RUNK” was originally made in the 1980s to take over from a program written on punch cards in the 1960s. Finally, it’s missing some important functions that the original 60s program had because "RUNK"s developer doesn’t see the purpose of those functions and refuses to add them; and no one has publically released a fork of “RUNK” that adds those functions back in, so you have to do it yourself. Thank God it’s open source.
Edit: oh yeah, and back in 2005 there was an effort to make a GUI for it, but “RUNK’s” sole developer got mad because “back in the 80s we didn’t need GUIs; command line is infinitely faster” and kept intentionally breaking support for the GUI with each bug fix, leading to the project eventually being abandoned.
He’s from Australia.
My dog doesn’t say anything and acts like she thinks she’s being punished. She obviously isn’t, but the poor thing seems to believe she’s being punished.
Tbh that’s actually pretty good for what is probably a VHS rip. They might not even be all that compressed compared to the original.