Majestic

They pulled out of the illegal settlements and maybe the greater occupation some years ago and reactionaries were furious.

It's as commonly abused as it is "reclaimed", in a male-dominated space like this it's more abused than reclaimed. One could make the same arguments for the n-word and black people reclaiming it, thing is online there's no way to know who is black, who is a woman, and who is a white man who claims to be a black woman online so he can use words like that and get away with it.

Online moderators are not suited to identifying and organizing a system of n-word and b-word passes to people through verification so we have to assume many, many uses would be in bad faith by people not part of those groups in a potentially hurtful or offensive way.

I want to note I didn't implement this and have no power over it but I do find it kind of shocking since opening an account here how often people use the b-word online casually and I do not think most of them are women.

Queer and gay I'd say have been completely reclaimed. The last time you saw "gaaay" as an insult in popular culture was probably the 2000s decade in young adult media. Whereas to this year you see new media of some angry man screaming "you b-word" hatefully at a woman being made all the time. Men just know it's something you call a woman or girl when you're angry at her, men just know it's a sexist slur, a softer one that the w-word for promiscuous but one just the same used in anger to attack women. When that stops happening, when it's not in media when a generation of young men think it's no longer acceptable even in anger to do that perhaps there might be a point to what you say.

I admit it can make following things confusing at times. I kind of wish it censored it in the form of B or something to indicate which one it was.

I also agree regexes are not nuanced, I've seen false positives based on some pretty obscure ones. But it's policy set by the admins of this instance so the choice is basically accept it or move to another instance like lemm.ee.

It’s server-side. The b-word (sexist slur against women), r-word (intellectual disability) tend to be the most common caught ones (I’d say 95%) though the f-word against queer people and other more and less obvious racial ones are included as well.

It doesn’t impact swears that aren’t denigrating such as fuck, shit, ass, damn, etc.

If it’s essential you see those words you’d need to create a new account on another instance like lemm.ee or something.

Paywall.

Anyways can't wait for that and for nasal rinses to have that brain eating water parasite in them and kill hundreds/thousands because of relaxed regulations among other things. Fuck.

And you just know it won't hit a major company, they'll blame a third party contracted supplier for the problem instead and get them shut down and continue on their ways without any improvements.

Neither of which they're going to do or address.

This is Lucy with the football and Dem voters are Charlie Brown sure this time she won't pull it away. Well she will. And if she doesn't they have the Republicans who magically have the power to break laws, rules, ignore the parliamentarian and Senate decorum and so on and do whatever they need to put a stop to this to which Dems put up feeble resistance then shrug and say they tried but oh well. They didn't really try. They never will. And they'll never break rules, never stack the supreme court, never play ball.

They will let their most rightward members split to sabotage a vote, they won't try party discipline, they won't whip members, they won't threaten, they won't do old politics stuff of if you fuck with the party on major things you get shut out of everything, your district doesn't even get $5000 for a new sign for its park because you get nothing, not assignments, no allowing your bills, no riders, nothing. Play ball or get shut down. Play ball or the party supports a primary challenger on top of those things and does everything it can to push you out. But they won't do that because they don't want any of this and are happy to have spoilers derail it so they can pretend they wanted it and pretend they listened to their base and pretend they tried.

Bullshit. Why would you believe it's good faith? Why wouldn't you want rules written down if they're to be enforced? Rules should be spelled out clearly to be fair and transparent.

They may enforce it for a little while, but they can now quietly drop enforcing it and no one will notice because it will be a change documented internally only.

This is a transparent attempt to manage the outrage.

Bullshit. The begging, pleading lies of those caught in the act and facing down a 20 year sentence, promising now that things have come to a head they'll change the way they've been all their life if just once more they're let off the hook for their actions.

It reminds me so much of the Saddam bit from the South Park movie where Saddam is in an abusive relationship with Satan and keeps winning him back by promising to change and then doing something performative before going back to his old ways. "I can change, I can change!" he sings and it's the same tune these Democrats are singing. They've been singing it off and on for decades every time they lose the base too much then immediately putting away that number as soon as they get the base back and berating them for demanding better, for 'purity testing' and so on and brow-beat with accusations that demands for change help Republicans win.

So excuse us if we're a little skeptical because this song and dance is very worn.

How about actually defending trans people and trans rights instead of getting mealy-mouthed? How about making impassioned speeches in defense of trans kids right to affirming care and transitioning? No they won't do that.

Or condemning the genocide in Palestine and calling out the elements in their own party supporting it? No they won't do that either.

Here I'm still using the separate search box. Why wouldn't I? Plenty of screen real estate horizontally. Nice to be able to do quick math there though I suppose.

94% of Militia members in the US are foaming at the mouth reactionaries if not open fascists, with many being active or former law enforcement or related to military or intelligence.

There is AFAIK no way to do this.

Apple's never open-sourced the APIs and interfaces and it only works on Macs and Windows. For this you will need to have either a Windows install (recommend separate drive so it doesn't break Linux bootloader) or a persistent or not Windows VM with USB passthrough. I'm not even sure how well the VM situation works but it probably should. You don't even have to have a license for Windows, you can just run it in the VM for this purpose alone but it does mean oh at least 40GB set aside on your drive for the VM image plus more if you want to do things like back-up the phone.

Marx of course understood the dictatorship of capital and the nature of revolution as a violent affair. That Mao quote is abused as a thought-terminating cliche to be honest. He is referring to the fact that if you want to change a system systemically you need tools like guns, if you're going to be a revolutionary, if you're going to fight imperialists, you need guns. If you're going to retain your independence against encroachment and attempts at overthrow by capitalist forces, you need guns. But those are largely affairs of the revolution and external defense. Internally Mao absolutely agreed with Marx on political authority and legitimacy of the party through its connection to the workers, which Mao phrased as the Mass Line. So in this way there would be agreement in a sense with Rousseau's line (and Marx's) here though there was a lot more to it from Rousseau obviously and I'm not trying to say Mao or Marx's thought derives from Rousseau at all.

This cartoon is kind of all over the place. For the first 4 panels it features thinkers, philosophers stating how things -should- be run in their thinking to create a society, not necessarily how things were run in their time but how they should be. Then suddenly in the last two panels it goes from proposals for how to structure society to analysis of how society exists or is seen to exist at a given point in time and how its authority is derived.

Yeah GIMP is more than a decade behind Photoshop and a lot of other software in many respects.

It's frustrating. Basic things like content-aware fill for small spaces, not even AI generating huge things for large missing pieces but removing some text over a person's cheek or plaid shirt, something in total 100x100 pixels big or so. Just doesn't exist. You can clone stuff but it's not aware of things like the gradient of a shadow that it should match or a highlight or other basic things so you're left doing extensive work using layers and then cleaning it up to be visually acceptable using multiple tools over 10 minutes of time whereas Photoshop does it with one tool in an instant.