AllNewTypeFace

joined 2 years ago
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They abandoned the gold standard because it suffered from acute boom and bust cycles.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 124 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Time to Switch 2 a Steam Deck.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 9 months ago

The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 9 months ago

This is my surprised face.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 156 points 9 months ago

During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Nazi Germany toned down its rhetoric as to appear normal to visitors, and “No Jews allowed” signs disappeared from public places. The moment the Olympics were over, they reappeared.

This has the same energy.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 21 points 9 months ago

See also: Elon Musk’s how-do-you-do-fellow-geeks shtick (“it’s the car Blade Runner would drive”)

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 28 points 9 months ago

The Internet now:

> google

> find AI-generated content for your bizarre thing that nobody else has thought of yet

> start chatting with a bot that reinforces your fantasies with the mashed-up content of all the world’s knowledge

> disappear into a rabbit hole forever

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It’s ingrained to avoid attraction to siblings we grow up alongside, though anecdotally there have been many cases of siblings who grew up apart discovering they were siblings after meeting as strangers and feeling mutual attraction, so the biological instinct may just have evolved around the most common case.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 10 months ago

He’s still useful to the people who can conjure money into being. Surely they can spare him a few oil-company board positions, book deals, newspaper columns or “consultancy” roles in think tanks, or otherwise throw him enough of an allowance to reward his service and keep him ready for the future. And then there’s the public speaking circuit.

Boy’s not going to be bagging groceries.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 10 months ago

As Churchill said, “I love Germany so much I want to have six of them forever”

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 10 months ago

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If Anon really does live in Siberian forest, he may want to exercise caution about non-traditional gender presentation. The government there really does not like that sort of thing, and are looking for cannon fodder to feed into their war.

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