Possibly yeah, people fleeing or man overboard stuff? Even with a life jacket you can vanish in a moment at sea. They may want to make sure they can find everyone for arrests/avoid the PR of drowning a European citizen. Maybe it leaves a trail on the water or something?

Probably being in 2 places in a physical store would be good.

Ooof that sucks. I guess that is a bit of a tricky one in the bookstore. On one hand it’s just fiction, on the other you might want to specifically seek out work by black authors that is explicitly including themes of black experienced or cultures in fiction.

Getting pigeonholed in the latter though just means you don’t get seen by anyone seeking you out. Probably being in 2 places in a physical store would be good. Or a store just rotating through highlighting different authorial perspectives.

Cool beans, seems interesting.

It’s pretty gross how ignored a fucking giant arse slice of the world drenched in history and cultures is.

Not usa culture centered it sounds like.

What makes something African futurist? Is it just a vision of the future that puts African styles and cultures forward instead of sanfransokyo?

Used pixel 7 running lineage with only the Google crap you need in there (if you need any).

Used phones are legit, replacing batteries is less scary than it seems with ifixit kits if that needs a refurb. Buying new phones is a scam.

It is worth saying that this is in the context of telling someone they’re shit for whinging that they lost to a trans woman. She’s probably just being thoughtless but overall seems to think that trans people playing alongside cis people isn’t an issue.

It’s just… yeah. None of us are very good about listening to the people we’re trying to express solidarity with.

It gets dumber, because so few people are trans they won’t even run the categories. There’d be no audience, no sponsors etc.

Segregation is awful, but if the people you’re segregating aren’t a substantial population segregation is defacto erasure.

I appreciate your support. The other side might call us serverist but without good people like this here poster to make the hard choices we would run out of upbears in a month.

Arch is as easy as anything else if you use archinstall. If not it’s not much harder as there is a wonderfully doxumented step by step on the wiki.

I found it very useful for learning what the components of a linux system actually were.

Anyway no such thing as a fake user. It’s just a tool, if it’s useful use it. If not find something that works.

Glad it’s working.

Linux has a really bad rep because people discount how frustrating windows is as “that’s just how computers are”, and since they’ve spent years learning windows it’s not apparent why the effort to learn a different OS and software ecosystem is worth anything.

The major distros have put in so much work to make things user friendly. Most people will never need to venture beyond the integrated "app store"s of whatever DE they ship with.

I use arch btw

Starting a reactionary movement that blames these new accounts for a lack of effort posting.

edit: ahem

Friends, comrades, and people who enjoy UlyssesT.

Have we not all been through the struggle sessions? Have we not forged our identity through relentless self crit? These freeloaders come and want to enjoy the fruits of our labour without having been through the toils that gave rise to it!

These barbarian hordes have already destroyed their own home! Driving their moderators and administrators to resignation, burying the site with the vestiges of their sanity. Now they are at our gates, will we let them in? No I say! No we will not. We must stand firm against this attempt to replace effort posts with low quality memes, to devalue our work so the elite administrators can farm upbears from clueless newbies.

Ultimately is it not kinder to banish them to the wastes of the fedi, where they might build a site for themselves anew, than subject them to such exploitation? My fellow bears we must harden our hearts and act as the stern father, it is only through turning them away that we can all prosper.

I’m just waiting for the surgery scene on tv where the surgeon goes “The cancer is metastasizing” cut to scene of tumor in the shape of a laughing skull “hand me a second scaple and jack in another line”. Then the assisting surgeon sticks an IV cannula into an existing fluid line.

So there’s, I wanna say there’s like 6, major categories?

• Games where you run a civilisationa that slowly develops. Kittens game is stand out here.
• Games where you repeatedly “prestige” and play the game in various ways to progress. Antimatter dimensions stands out here.
• Games where you have to fight through various levels to get something. Trimps and swarm sim are both great here. Swarm Sim has a unique breeding mechanic.
• Narrative driven games. A dark room and universal paperclips are great examples.
• puzzle placement games like idle reactor.
• clickers, cookie clicker being the original. R realm grinder being the best.

Weird that people would feel embarrassed scribbling something on a scrap of paper in Biro, snapping a blurry pic, and uploading that. Yet feel comfortable uploading this which is even lower quality and effort + ethical and resource concerns.

Suggested names:

The Choker

Meat Beater

The Strangler

Hand Cannon

Deathgrip

The Pounder

Prepping a flower bed. Needed compost so we had to evict the compost rats.

Was a bit stressful, wife cried a lot at the though of hurting them. We carefully disassembled the mound, two kids were too frightened to move so we had to carefully remove them to the rock pile mum booked it into. They were old enough to fend for themselves though, just obviously a stressful sitch for them.

Anyway they were so cute, and I wish we could have adopted them rather than risk them dying due to their home being deconstructed. Unfortunately wild rats don’t do well in captivity, so I hope they manage to find a new shelter.

New compost pile is having its rat proofing upgraded, they’re resourcesful critters though so we’ll see if it’s enough.

I’ve recently been making sandwich sausage with seitan, tvp, and bessan (texture and balancing out aminos) plus herbs and spices maybe sundried Ts.

Shit is easy, affordable, and lasts all week.

Might have been this one: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=acwp_asie

There was another by the same group I think where they reverse the behaviour modifications by giving the fishies a shot of opiates, and then they stop hiding and rubbing their faces.

edit: I should add why I found this so morally concerning; it hints very strongly at an experience of pain, not just nociception. They don’t just run from a bad stimulus, they nurse the site and become more cautious. Something which is hard to explain except if you suppose that like us they have some persistent emotional state which affects how they judge appropriate behaviours. Additionally rubbing, which is commonly observed in humans, indicates an attempt to sooth a spot after harm.

We were ovo pesco at the time and it just made me realise that if fish, which diverged from land animals how many millions of years ago, likely shared so much in the experience of pain including nursing behaviours and becoming more cautious then either these behaviours are highly convergent and frequently occuring or they are very old. Both hinting that consciousness might be extremely similar between living beings.

In other words, Nirvana lied and fish probably do have feelings and that is a horrifying realisation considering how they’re treated. If fish, what new discovery would I wait for before pleading “how could I have known?” why not just take a proper and coherent stance against suffering and draw the line at the presence of a nervous system since it’s very doable.