I was sliding down the alt-right rabbit hole, mostly out of loneliness. Algorithms and echo chambers love loneliness.

I think there’s a really important threshold, and I’m ashamed to say I reached it, where you know it’s propaganda. Where you stop falling down the rabbit hole and start walking down it of your own accord.

The first propaganda, you believe. Some people commit crimes, or hate you, or are dangerous. Capitalism is freedom. The stuff an uncurious and uncareful person can believe all of and still be internally consistent, if wrong.

Then there’s the propaganda that requires you to acknowledge the lies you believed earlier were lies. No, it isn’t Hispanic people that commit crimes - it’s Jewish people! Capitalism isn’t freedom - libertarianism, or state capitalism, or whatever buzzword for company towns is in vogue.

And you know the stuff you believed before isn’t true. But you still say it in polite company, you mask and start to pretend you aren’t someone who believes what you do. You know it’s unacceptable.

That’s what got me out. Realizing that I was in a dark cycle of self-isolation and internet addiction, and trying to be deliberately social and empathetic and present. Therapy helps, but you’ve gotta want it.

Anyone know what changed circa 2010?

Nix-specific shell aliases: nixls is 'cd /etc/nixos && tree *.nix(wrong tree syntax hut you get the gist)nixrs` is a function that…

• runs git add . and git status in /etc/nixos
• runs nixos rebuild-switch --flake
• returns you to whatever directory you were in

lib.mkIf for optional configs

Using let ... In {} more often, basically treating nix as a programming language instead of a config language

I’m (genuinely, curiously) interested in the logic for not voting at all.

As I see it, mathematically speaking, my vote is counted either way. The election outcome not being influenced by my lack of vote is effectively giving half my vote to each candidate, for a net zero.

As I see it, given it’s going to be counted either way, I’d rather it be counted for the candidate closer to my preferences.

Comrade, what would you recommend I do with that 45 minutes on a workday other than vote?

At no point did I say I’m not engaging in organization. I do, and I think i do so quite effectively. I will also vote for Platner, because the alternative is to effectively vote for both Platner and Collins. My vote will be counted either way, mathematically speaking.

****Brother I am, the camdidates I wanted didn’t come in first in ranked choice. Volunteering, protesting, didn’t win out. Thankfully, we at least have ranked choice.

What am I supposed to do, not vote? Like theres only two people who are realistic to win. I’m gonna puty first choice on a leftist party, but we all understand the mathematical reality of American electoralism mandates two parties and that capitalism has corrupted both.

Platner is likely to be less harmful to the global south. I’m trying to change restaurants, but renouncing citizenship and leaving is easier said than done. Paperwork takes time.

I’m not saying Platner’s a comrade. I disagree starkly with him politically. Also, his platform would be materially better than Susan “photo ops with white supremacist militias” Collins.

To make a food analogy: I like a turkey Reuben. Platner is a McDonald’s dollar-menu burger that’s been sitting in the sun all day. Collins is a can of indoor-use DDT pesticide from the '50s.

Neither is what I want to eat, but I only get two choices and I’m gonna be forced to eat one of them. I’m gonna choose the one that’s less likely to immediately harm me.

Then 10/10 does not exist outside fringe 3d-printed ITX desktop hardware enclosures. If that’s your definition, cool. Just don’t tell me I should adopt it.

You’re arguing the difference between internment camps vs concentration camps? Waiter, this fediverse has a fed in it!

I understand that wish of yours.

Fuck AI, fuck the slop it vomits out, and thank goodness we aren’t hooking up autoslop machines to StackOverflow.

Lenin said that if he were in Britain, he’d vote Labour. Not because he agrees with them, but to show the British people that yes, moving leftwards does make improvements and no, Labour is not doing enough. To show them that a further-left Socialist party is needed.

Accelerationism is a … choice. It’s easier, in my view, to push further left under ineffective neoliberalism than it is under right-wing authoritarianism. What you may view as a chance to get your ideal from the ashes, the fascists view as their chance to put you down for good.

I’m fortunate to live in a state with ranked-choice, where I can literally make a gradient of my preferences for nearly every contested election I vote in.

What I see most frequently is uncontested elections. Vote for the one registered candidate, or write someone in. Most of those have an R next to their name, and dollars to doughnuts a red armband in their closet.

I think those are just running shorts. I see my local university running team - men and women - wearing them for summer runs.

Probably womens running shorts, given its femboys in the meme.

I suck at programming, and GH is easier to use. As I learn more, and gain some skill, I’ll waste Codeberg’s server space instead of Microsoft’s

In the most British act ever, Britain is cracking down on a drug that makes you laugh.

Interesting framing at points, but overall an informative article.

Worth noting, Steven “Tommy Robinson” Yackey-Lennon is a professional victim, and has been convicted in relation to criminal agitations multiple times. He’s a damn Nazi, and they’re still allowing him to lead marches through London.

It’s fair to assume an anti-palestinian bent to any law enforcement actions that take place, except (don’t get your hopes up) The imprisonment of Nazi agitators.

A permanent victory, no. Another shot fired in a long war, yes. A thankful nod down the trenches to Judge Boasberg.

neovim through nvf on NixOS. I’m not even a power user, I just had a shit mouse in college and didn’t want to use it and now I’m hundreds of lines of Lua too deep to go back. This is my life now.