To be fair, those deaths can be blamed on the brutality of the likes of Stalin and Mao. Communism didn’t kill those people— but its authoritarian nature certainly provided fertile ground to be abused by monsters.

Like most things political, it’s highly nuanced and complex. I don’t particularly like to defend communism, but an ideology alone can’t do anything. It requires bad actors who use that ideology for their own ends.

One does not

That’s a leap even our Olympic gymnasts knew better than to try.

Our kids hardly get an education as it is. When those who hate paying their fair share of taxes throw a fit, politicians always make sure that they get to voice their opinions, publicly and loudly.

Makes you wonder: who’s buying all of these politicians? And it’s always the Republicans trying to take your rights away from you.

Everything I hate it’s finally coming to the fediverse! Yay!

Only if it’s 25 years ago. Today? Never.

Yes, now, anyway…

October surprise

In the politics of the United States, an October surprise is a news event that may influence the outcome of an upcoming November election (particularly one for the presidency), whether deliberately planned or spontaneously occurring. Because the date for national elections (as well as many state and local elections) is in early November, events that take place in October have greater potential to influence the decisions of prospective voters and allow less time to take remedial action; thus, relatively last-minute news stories could either change the course of an election or reinforce the inevitable.[1] The term “October surprise” was coined by William Casey when he served as campaign manager of Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign.[2] However, there were October election-upending events that predated the coining of the term.[1][2]

I agree.

I grew up in the age of c/c++ and then Java. I get it: people hate it and it’s time to move on, but jeez, folx, chill. It will happen in time, and there’s no reason to go all civil warsy about it.

Things like this should not be rushed.

“They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.

Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…

I was referring to the lemmy devs, but ok, I guess

Perhaps you should report this as a bug to the devs. Otherwise, this was an interesting read.

It did get annoying having to run back and forth through all of the worlds, but some were very cool, like the one with the fighting arenas. And the tomb with all the levels. And the story was awesome.

The sequel was pretty good too. They’re both on GOG, btw, And have aged pretty well. The graphics aren’t so good, but the story and gameplay are still pretty great. I still replay them (and the Myst games) from time to time.

• Star Trek
• Ultima Underworld
• Myst
• Fallout
• Jurassic Park (book)

there’s plenty of that going on, too, just not on as large a scale.

Mastodon revolves around following topics and hashtags, not individuals. I learned that early on, and am having a much better experience.

I also had a good friend who was a paramedic until recently, and those are some gossipy bitches, lol. That guy would never shut up about work

My dad is a doctor. I grew up around him and his partners.

They don’t. Outside of work, they don’t talk shop and want to do anything else. Usually golf.

I won’t say never, but work is very stressful, so they do their best to leave it behind.

I see, perhaps I’m just unfamiliar with the criminal justice system in France

In the United States, this would not be considered an arrest, but an investigative detention (a minor but important distinction)