Yea, it’s pretty lonely being an actual progressive on lemmy sometimes.

There is no reason for a run-of-the-mill citizen to have access to lethal weapons.

I wonder how many people use the same password for email, bank, and Pringles.com. As much as I hate two factor auth, I gotta remember how dismal the security of passwords is in the wild.

I’ve never played the two original expansions. I pirated them, but never played. I purchased the “complete” edition from GOG, but still haven’t gotten around to it. What is wrong with me?

Ethanol has too low of an energy density; it’s a bad fuel. The only reason countries dilute gasoline with it is because the inputs are so heavily subsidized.

Windows is only like 10% of Microslops business.

Reading the article, the reason proprietary “AI” models didn’t work is because they block the kind of code used in attacks to protect themselves. The Chinese models weren’t superior, they were just able to be run locally without restriction.

The real story is that agentic attacks live and in the wild.

Maybe I’m just a prude, but from my perspective, anal sex was no were near as popular before internet porn. My friends never talked about that. It never occurred to me to try it. Until somewhere around the turn of the century, and now it’s everywhere.

John Cusack in ‘16 candles’: he was one of the nerd friends who takes pictures of the unconscious cheerleader. And Brad Pitt in ‘True romance’ he was the roommate who needed cleaning supplies.

If you teach women about their bodies and give them the choice, they will have fewer children.

The other reason is the christian belief that the Rapture (and return of christ) cannot occur until the Jewish people return to isreal. It’s called christian zionism. Even as a child in the 90s in a roman catholic church we hear about how the jewish people were favored by god and we must support israel. I think the context of that was fundraising for settlement orgs.

Just wanted to expand on this. According to Revelation, in the end times 125,000 Jews will convert to Christianity and the rest will be “destroyed”. No more Jews. So Jesus is the answer… to the Jewish question.

Anyway, the Zionist/ Christian nationalist alliance is better explained by antisemitism than by Christian love, friendship, or solidarity.

the historical truth that Russia wins every war of attrition.

You don’t need history to know this is bullshit. Current events are enough to prove this wrong.

A coworker once told me that the Confederacy was doomed because the Union had superior industrial might. I told him that sounds like wisdom in English, but in Vietnamese it’s a joke.

The difference isn’t culture it’s gun laws and regulations. Gun control works.

You can’t do love by yourself. What you experienced may seem profound, but it can’t be anything but myopic because it’s all in your imagination. This is like falling in love with a fictional character or a celebrity.

It’s the difference between sex and masturbation.

There was once a Japanese celebrity who’s stalker was able to find out her location by a street sign that was reflected in her eye. You don’t need an astrolabe to be a creep.

One of the biggest obstacles to participation in youth programs in the US isn’t money, it’s transportation and time. Having a parent available for hours on weeknights plus away games for months implies a solid middle class home before any dues are collected.

In more well resourced sports like football and baseball, getting the poor kids a ride home after practice and games is often essential for the program.

Language changes and it doesn’t matter if you like it or not. Complaining about it is just “old man yells at cloud”.