Gregory's Server
  And look, it's going to be difficult. Malik is a highly qualified professional, but the truth is many Belgian landlords do not like to rent to refugees. He and the family will have to learn French or Dutch to function in society. But this, by the Gods, IS THE ASYLUM SYSTEM FUNCTIONING AS INTENDED. Belgium signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and is now beholden to it, and these are the consequences of having signed that document in 1948. This is HONORABLE. 8/ This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats. Elite:Dangerous is an MMO space sim game, with a big galaxy in which you fly a spaceship doing stuff. Spaceships need fuel, which you buy at stations, or if you have a fuel scoop you can skim the surface of certain stars to get usable fuel. Space is big though, and it's quite possible to run yourself low on fuel in a way that you can no longer warp to any inhabited system to refuel. At which point you're screwed.
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@danderson What a fun memory to surface ☺️ Being a Fuel Rat was the most fun thing I ever did in E:D and kept me in the game much longer than I would have otherwise. After classes were done for the day I would just pop up some Netflix, poke around aimlessly in Fuelum, and hang out in the IRC channel until it was time to roll out. The only thing I ever fired at a player ship was a limpet!  @danderson Valheim has a similar thing. If you accidentally wander into a biome you can't handle and get killed, and can't get your stuff back, there's a loot retrieval squad you can get in touch with. You give them your game details and they'll hop in and grab your stuff back for you. The game has random events and some of the late game ones are triggered when certain items are present in game, so they figured out what gear and items they can bring in for recovery without screwing up the game.  @danderson I was completely ignorant of all of this. Thank you for sharing it, it's beautiful.
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 @FediThing @FediFollows @dansup Understandable! Unfortunately having it tightly integrated is a huge perk, and Eugen isn't even properly working with PRs to make Mastodon better as it seems… 😔  @FediThing Thank you for making those 💕 I hate bsky starter packs, this is a much better way to do it. @FediThing @FediFollows @dansup I recently joined and had a little trouble at first. Thank you for helping me get started. 49! Germany has been controlling (some of) its border crossings for 2 months now, and has managed to find 49 people in that time on the border from Luxembourg https://infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembourg/a/2249562.html That’s FEWER THAN 1 A DAY! For ridiculous cost employing police to do these controls! 🤯 Regardless of what you think of the ethics here this is an insane waste of money
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 @jon As RTL is not the best source, are there figures for all the other, much longer borders that Germany has? Luxembourg might be important to migrate money, so it shows the idioty, but the harder controls are on different borders. Kind of a subtoot but not aimed at anyone in particular - I follow a lot of creative people. Sometimes you toot about your projects - art, games, code of some kind - using only some entirely abstract name and no hint of a clue as to what the project actually is. Sometimes it'd be nice if you could give a hint as to what it actually is so I don't have to exercise mastodon's severely limited search functions to try and find an answer. Apparently people need me to be more clear after some of the replies. I don’t care if you self censor or not. I don’t want to see folks getting vanned for their loose mouths. Have those discussions in private preferably with locals. When my wife is away, my day cycles start going out of whack. Already it is 1:00 in the morning and I’m not in bed. 😖 Queer Comfort Viewing: cozy coming of age movies: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/queer-comfort-viewing-coming-of-age/
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 @Impossible_PhD The book _Generation Kill_ by Evan Wright is a good read on people not being able to shoot to kill and the amount of training needed to get them to do it, amongst other “strange” reactions to war. I'm the oldest daughter of two Lt Colonels, and the product of a three-generational military family on both sides, and I think y'all need to listen to the next bit: We ended the draft because the military's analysis of the Vietnam War revealed that 90% of all draftees would not shoot to kill, even when it was life or death. They'd shoot high or low, but they *couldn't* shoot to kill. As such, they actively degraded the war effort. So you need to think twice before arming yourselves. (1/?) There's a lot of *wildly* irresponsible rhetoric floating around right now about how all queer folk should arm themselves to resist what's coming. And, deadass? If you're armed, and you're not 10000% sure that you can shoot to kill, the only thing you're gonna do is get yourself and everyone around you dead. Period. A weapon is a *massive* escalation. Meanwhile, the tool that really gets you out of deadly trouble in a fascist dictatorship? A silver tongue and steely guts. (2/?) @Impossible_PhD The book _Generation Kill_ by Evan Wright is a good read on people not being able to shoot to kill and the amount of training needed to get them to do it, amongst other “strange” reactions to war. Sometimes people are like "you act like someone who is having a conversation with you online is supposed to exert cognitive effort to learn something about who you are" and I'm like????? Yes?????? I don't know what you are all here sharing thoughts online FOR, but my assumption is that we are in general trying to use some of the same social mechanisms that we rely on for like.......social life in general @grimalkina I like it when people tell me about themselves, but I'm really bad at requesting/inviting/encouraging it. @grimalkina I follow your posts with interests. I just find it hard to understand your perspective sometimes, such us in this case. I wonder if it's an expectation mismatch on how social media works (I wrote something before about IRC versus more Twitter-style netiquette). I get though that it's unpleasant to be on the wrong side of this, and for what it's worth I am sorry if this reply is adding to it. My wife is looking for old pictures with a friend. I got my first digital camera in 2004. It had a resolution of about one megapixel. In order to save space, I often used 640x480. And our photo skills were abysmal. The fotos on film are often worse. Too much light. Not enough light. Feet cut off. Just an arm. Not in focus. This is terrible. No selfie skills. 😧  And the Democratic Party, run completely by corporatists, cannot figure out how they lost. In fact they know very well how they lost, and they don't care. As long as corporate/billionaire cash flows through their hands and directly into their pockets, nothing will change. Those in power are perfectly content with the actual results. An American perspective. I didn’t know what BFU and AFU meant when people talk about phones and I ended up reading this PDF: https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/ It refers to devices that rebooted: modern phones are encrypted and stay encrypted (BFU) until you log in. Then a lot of info is decrypted (AFU). Thinking about enabling Lockdown mode. Reading about it just makes me think that this is how all devices should work. Have you tried it?  No billionaire caused those Black men to say "I will never vote for Biden again." Biden did that to himself. Harris tried to win them back, and did a decent job! But she own-goaled in October chasing imaginary swing voters. And fundamentally, she could never win all 20 back. Detroit yes. Dearborn no. 5/N two hackers encounter a relic of an ancient past stanley lieber (https://stanleylieber.com) said this to me once during a heated debate on the best web browser (mothra v links2). The quote stuck with me ever since.
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 @kcarruthers trying to see what he is talking about in the way back machine but it's not obvious to me. Can't anyone find what is missing and screenshot it?   |
