TankieTanuki [he/him]

The link is correct, but has suffered from link rot.

Archived link to the document

The Atlantic Counci’ls six fellows this year come from the Department of State, CIA, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Navy, USIA, and the Congressional Research Service. […] All have Secret clearances.

Reddit’s policy director is CIA agent

Reddit is a psyop run by feds and advertisers

[buildings]

[The US] has viewed the island as an important check on Chinese expansionism

Where were they going to expand to?

Any one with a somewhat working democracy, and decent social freedoms.

What is an example?

What is an example of an extant state that isn’t “ultraauthoritarian” in your view?

I’ve never seen it once. People love making stuff up apparently. Like “Ultra-mega-hyper-super-authoritarianism!”

Peculiarities:

• Comparison of Lemmy instances contains Hexbear but not lemmy.ml

• Fediverse Observer contains lemmy.ml but not Hexbear.

We’ve all been there

It’s the devs’ test instance.

The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance has nuanced-to-positive views on Actually Existing Socialist (AES) states, and allows for criticism of Democrats from the left.

It’s been defederated by instances whose admins aren’t wiling to critically examine their lifetime of capitalist programming and are accustomed to Reddit’s universal condemnation of AES states.

He didn’t call Hexbears, libertarians, comrade; he said he prefers them over libertarians.

Hexbears have disdain for libertarians^[1], so we certainly don’t pretend to be them.

Qubes OS

The default transcoding profile uses ffmpeg’s veryfast preset, which is the third fastest of the ten available presets, and already leaves a lot of quality to be desired IMO. Using a different transcoding profile requires the use of server plugins, as would the ability to set the profile per channel or video. I haven’t checked to see if a plugin exists which allows the user to select a profile, but it’s something I’m also interested in myself. I’m also not sure if using a different profile makes a transcoding job any more or less likely to fail.

Name four Spice Girls

I tried but he got mad and chased me down the hall yelling “give me back my stuff, you filthy animal!” 🖼️ 🦝 💨 🤬

WaPo next week: “Authoritarianism is on the rise in Niger”

He’s going to regret calling me a poopyhead!

I imagine there is probably somebody who died of a fentanyl overdose on an American street last week, who would have had a relatively prosperous life as a textile worker or horse trainer if they had been born 160 years ago.