Posts by starbreaker@libranet.de
(DIR) Post #AYrrSeCpQJBBSqKfKa by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-18T21:32:12Z
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@ParadeGrotesque You can stick with vim if that's what you prefer. It's a good, solid editor.
(DIR) Post #AYy48r4ULQtdvW5EeW by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-21T20:25:11Z
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@janbartosik @catselbow @eyrea @whitmad @kwispelHere's Roger Zelazny's story. It's actually pretty short. https://web.archive.org/web/20040307184223/http://www.msu.edu/user/carterca/rose.htm
(DIR) Post #AZEaGy6oMx3v8FRQum by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-29T16:15:27Z
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Never mind what you can do for your country. What has your country done for YOU lately?
(DIR) Post #AZEbt1kJOXNBN2d4Ay by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-29T18:41:32Z
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@hypolite Care to elaborate? What do you mean by "massively benefit" in this case?
(DIR) Post #AZEbt3LvQB3QLzEcRU by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-29T20:50:22Z
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@hypolite Well, what if the rest of us were as demanding of our society as the richest among us are? Why shouldn't we be? If taxes are the price we pay for civilization, are we really getting our money's worth?
(DIR) Post #AZILinJjMe6f5g8Ohs by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-08-31T15:42:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque These fuckers want us to do the work of ten for the salary of one fresh out of college and wet behind the ears.
(DIR) Post #AbJ7gyFxRLIPl28uae by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-10-30T20:11:19Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Ick.
(DIR) Post #AbZl86zv7fbkG2kQC0 by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-07T17:41:17Z
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@sharonecathcart Every child that is bullied at school or leaves school with a dislike or outright hatred of reading is an indictment against public education. I was one of the former. My brother is one of the latter. For these reasons, I would just as soon see every public school razed to the ground.Find a better way to see that children get the education they need to participate in an advanced technological civilization and I'll get behind it. But the Horace Mann approach to mass public education is no longer suitable.
(DIR) Post #AbjUZTaVUBEuUxvGIy by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-12T02:50:41Z
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@ParadeGrotesque It certainly looks like Mizu's off to London, though the ship looks a bit small for such a journey with only one mast. Maybe she's currently heading to Nagasaki to catch a bigger ship.And I doubt Akemi's content to merely be the spare's wife. I wouldn't be surprised if she arranged to have the heir and her new MIL discreetly bumped off so that the spare could step up, making her the power behind the throne.
(DIR) Post #AcHLV1BC7zycelyWKO by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-28T20:23:08Z
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I may have mentioned this, but I was born a bastard and worked hard to become an asshole. What makes me an asshole? Somebody who isn't an asshole wouldn't think the following, let alone post it.I've become extremely cynical about people requesting donations and calling it "mutual aid". Most people requesting help genuinely need it, but will never be in a position to help me should I ever need it, so from them "mutual aid" is just a disingenuous euphemism for charity.I refuse on principle to engage in charity: the principle being that I already pay taxes and that the taxes I pay should be used primarily to ensure that those in need get the help they need, regardless of who they are or whether they seem "deserving". Of course, that's not how it actually works, but I'm not sitting atop billions of dollars in wealth accumulated by shafting consumers, stiffing workers, and evading taxes so it's not really my problem.Likewise with "allyship". The way it's used nowadays, it seems like a demand upon the "privileged" to give of oneself without any expectation of reciprocity. I suppose that whether one responds to such demands depends on one's sense of noblesse oblige. For my part, I'm hardly noble, and I don't see myself as particularly privileged, so I have no sense of obligation toward people who seem to see me as nothing but a means to their ends and thus try to exploit me by playing on what vestigial idealism I still possess.Instead, I've come to think that Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo had it right when he said to Alfred's friends:“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.”I won't burn down the village just to feel its warmth, but if somebody else strikes a match, I will get involved lest my own house burn, too. I'm selfish, but not stupid, and my myopia primarily affects my eyesight, not my thinking.
(DIR) Post #AcHLV1wLIhgt102Aoi by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-28T21:15:16Z
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The plain fact is that despite having clawed my way into the ranks of the petit bourgeois, I can't seem to get my head out of survival mode. I might have gotten mine, but I could lose it all with a single mistake. Hell, I could do everything right and still lose, and nobody would give a shit because I'm privileged.Therapy hasn't helped. And I'm not so privileged that I can easily access effective mental health services, let alone afford them.
(DIR) Post #AcJ6uC8bPeVst0EIjY by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-29T18:35:46Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Promotion to management comes with mandatory electroshock "therapy" to purge inconvenient memories and knowledge and make newly promoted management more amenable to indoctrination.
(DIR) Post #AcJsO3V4mr5Od9TxFg by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-28T17:44:35Z
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Brand accounts should stay on the commercial social media platforms they helped ruin.#FediBlock♲ https://mastodon.social/@secondlife/111488858434388369
(DIR) Post #AcLElWk6cfnS8O4MNs by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-30T16:28:38Z
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@ParadeGrotesque A bit of searching suggests that "sencha fukuyu" is supposed to mean something like "longevity tea".
(DIR) Post #AcLNiXweaxFQa9alt2 by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-11-30T20:40:52Z
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@ParadeGrotesque It's Thursday. I still haven't gotten the hang of Thursdays.
(DIR) Post #AcsPQycBJkk0IX09nk by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-12-16T19:18:20Z
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@ParadeGrotesque What I don't get is why this sort of thing can't be done with desktop apps sharing posts over BitTorrent. The Fediverse won't ever be truly decentralized as long as its platforms are designed under a client/server paradigm.
(DIR) Post #AcsSD771EAWWSbVTVo by starbreaker@libranet.de
2023-12-16T19:51:24Z
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@ParadeGrotesque If I wanted to code for free I could work overtime at my day job. 😀
(DIR) Post #AdTwy46yfm2tLERvjE by starbreaker@libranet.de
2024-01-03T21:37:48Z
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@ParadeGrotesqueIs the corporation behind PornHub even obligated to comply with these laws? Aren't they based outside the US?
(DIR) Post #AdXDpEVKwbXPfB65qq by starbreaker@libranet.de
2024-01-05T01:40:05Z
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@gmcgath This is mere pedantry. It doesn’t matter if the head of state is himself a clergyman if he’s taking orders from clergy.What matters is that these dominionist assholes don’t realize they’re undermining the very legal protections that guarantee their right to engage in their preferred form of demon worship.@vjack
(DIR) Post #Adi1lAlkenxdiWdbSS by starbreaker@libranet.de
2024-01-10T16:59:17Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Of course they expect you to do five people's worth of work for just your salary.