Sorry but this is tenderqueer nonsense. Geopolitical alliances made by the ruling class (when have you ever made an input on NATO?) does not equal queer liberation even if you stretch it to the farthest extreme. Shame on you for spreading ruling class propaganda as some sort of queer gotcha statement. Your "fuck tankies" just proves to me that 196 has no idea what it's talking about. You create enemies that don't even exist and then get shocked when your propaganda is cringe (and not based on reality).
I commented before on that thread (before hexbear members got to weigh in) and today I still don't think permanent defederation is warranted.
Hexbear absolutely needs to do better and some of the issue could also be with Lemmy's technical limitations. For example, Hexbear emotes are bugged on other instances and also the fact that hexbear and other instances were able to comment on that thread which muddled the objective of the post. Only blahaj members should have participated and we know that for the better.
Defederation to me means complete erasure of an instance that threatens the integrity of the host. I joined Blahaj to be express my queerness on lemmy and Hexbear isn't taking that away from me. Nor do I believe (imo) there was evidence of that in the 1st thread.
If it's too inconclusive then I'd say not to defederate and instead focus on making sure Lemmy as a whole can be improved for its users.
That's horrible. It seems like the only viable solution is to ban all proprietary software in schools to prevent this kind of power imbalance in the future.
Kimathi Bradford, a 16-year-old Oakland tech repair intern, has looked into whether there was a way to replace the outdated Chromebook software with a non-Google brand, but it ended up being a lot of work, Kimathi said, and the open-source replacement wasn’t up to par.
I call major BS on this. Unless chromebooks have even more built in jails and tyrants (like cpu throttling and BIOS emprisonment), the modern GNU/Linux more than satisfies the average student.
Hexbear is really queer friendly and polite. It's also one of the few actual leftist spaces on here after the homogenization of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. The main goal I've interpreted from Blahaj.zone is to be a queer-first and affirming space on Lemmy, so one has to prove that Hexbear is a large enough systemic threat to Blahaj's members to warrant defederating.
Amberol does hold up really well with high threshold music folders in my experience. I had a 24+ hours worth of music that loaded successfully in less than a minute.
Amberol has a "restore playlist" feature which loads your last playlist quickly.
Amberol is probably one of the biggest hidden gems in GNOME apps. It's a simple easy music player whose background color changes based on the song's artwork.
Parabolic is another GNOME app for downloading videos from youtube using yt-dlp. It's super easy to use and even allows for multiple concurrent downloads.
mpv is one of those rare moments where using a proprietary implementation is objectively worse. Must install on any personal computer/mobile device.
The people who make this claim just point to sophisticated ant/termite colonies and go "Look at that, why can't society be like that?" It's just projection of their own desires to control others without reason.
Tbh the solution that Sully and Mike come up is still the same system of invading another world's people and exploiting that world's youth for energy, only with added harm reduction on top that gets explained away by being more profitable. The fact that the receptionist happens to be chief of the company's militarized security force (idk if they're city cops or not, also wtf) is glossed over.
Also they just leave the yeti on the human world in the third act. Nobody comes back for him??? The guy is drinking his own piss standed in a hostile world. Its fucked up.
Edit: now that I think about it, was the Yeti a criminal in the monster world and so his punishment was to be exiled to the human world (did they fucking disappear him?) Also the present threat to the monster world is humans coming into their world (and presumably doing the same thing to them/revenge). The monster world/metropolis is a imperialist nation with a militarized police force (they brutalize/humiliate an employee in the first act when he unknowingly has contraband on him) to use the human world as a threat mechanism and source of resources for its people. Did I watch this movie too many times? Yeah probably.
Edit 2: To delve deeper on "it's just a work of fiction": Monsters Inc is a story about two everyman individuals who out the CEO of a energy firm because that CEO tried to replace all the workers with machines (in a capitalist drive for never-ending profit) and expand the imperialist system with outright war (kidnapping children). Sully is given managerial position and Mike takes sully's old job. Nothing changes from the status quo.The emotional journey of the movie is furfilled when Mike painstankingly reassembles the door to boo's house (something that movie goes out to imply that Mike acted alone with his limited knowledge). The end result is that "good people" like Sully (who was the hardest working employee before) are in positions of power and good people will inevitably be granted with positive outcomes (laughs are more energy efficient than scream by chance). Sully's good nature is rewarded in the end and the system is a better one (in a marginal way). The message the film is comfortable with is the vague protestant notion that hard work and principles will resolve systemic conflict, not agitation of already established authority or science.
In other words, the USA's supposed political ethos (The American Dream).
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Sorry but this is tenderqueer nonsense. Geopolitical alliances made by the ruling class (when have you ever made an input on NATO?) does not equal queer liberation even if you stretch it to the farthest extreme. Shame on you for spreading ruling class propaganda as some sort of queer gotcha statement. Your "fuck tankies" just proves to me that 196 has no idea what it's talking about. You create enemies that don't even exist and then get shocked when your propaganda is cringe (and not based on reality).
Anyway, way to go "mask off."