That new group has literally existed for a fraction of a second compared to all the others, and it already has so many bad actors. I have a close friend; one of my best friends really, who decided to transition and fucked over his wife and children and no longer talks to his parents. I've talked to so many women over the past year who have kids or grandchildren who have transitioned and refused to talk to them; their community telling them those families were "toxic."
In my own personal life, I've tried to be friendly, but I see more and more how nearly all the trans people I've know have only really cared about themselves. Most of them are narcissistic, and immediately dismissive of anyone who doesn't share all their political views. Talking to them is like walking on eggshells.
I've know and even been decently good friends with trans people in four different countries. In my early days on fedi, one of the NZ trans people I use to work with and even play poker with went off on me for a joke about Kubernetes; accusing me of "man-splaining."
I don't think it's disingenuous to be upset with an attempt to change the morality of the western world for one I think is based on a lie and leads to isolation and eventual self destruction. I think it's tragic and sad and we should all be allowed to talk about our moral values honestly without being called Nazis or hateful.
or just use VLC. ... but still, if I forgot to install VLC and got that fucking popup, I would be pretty enraged too.
I wish Microsoft had just charged like $50 for each release and just not done all the ads/spyware/shitwear/ms-store, instead of making each "update" "free"
I fucking hate bed bugs. I've picked some up once from an AirBnB in Holland, and from a Hostel in LA. Both of those times I was on the road and just washed everything at the next stop on hot and was rid of them. Once I picked some up from a Motel 8 and those took like ~4 weeks to get rid of. The worst was a Motel 6 in Georgia and those were insane; took over 2 years to finally get rid of them. Ended up having to using something called Aprehend, a spore suspended in an oil that the bugs will carry to where they harbor and spread to the other ones.
FYI, If you do get bed bugs, normally Crossfire is all you need, plus washing everything on hot and drying it for 2 hours on hot, plus some diatomaceous earth sprayed into all the cracks in your room.
This is how animals go from endangered to reintroduction. Some animals drop to less than 1000, and in breeding programs, there are very small pools of animals to breed. A lot of the offspring are deformed and die. But this also means the ones that survive are missing all of those terrible recessive traits.
Animals on the brink of extinction, that bounce back, are often much more resilient, because they've dropped all the bad evolutionary baggage.
The last Lan party I went to was in 2015. My friend Andrea wanted one for her birthday. Most of us bought laptops. Only one guy brought his gaming desktop. We played some Serious Sam and other random crap. We're all older, so we were remembering a forgotten era even back then.
... but I remember even in 2012 there were still cyber cafes if you wanted to game on one of the super high end machines and talk to other random gamers.
I'm not sure if I ever actually tried the Bleem! release. Did it get an actual release? The demo could do a handful of games, but the dude also coded a lot of stuff in assembly and didn't have version control and constantly screwed up his code base and took over a year to release. It's was a fucking mess. When it did release, I think I had completely forgotten about it.
ePSXe could play every PlayStation game I threw at it with very few bugs, including a few Final Fantasy games, Star Wars games, Einhänder ... random demo CDs I got from PizzaHut .. all on a Pentium 4 laptop with a GForce4Go in it.
Bleem! was way earlier on the Pentium 3 era with Windows 98, so yea maybe it was more performant. But we'll never know because it used so many low level system calls it could never be ported to Win 2000/XP.
oh man, I shit you not I still have a Bleem! CD-key somewhere. It had like 18 tracks on it, many of them non-standard, to use as the DRM for the never released Bleem! emulator. It was quickly overshadowed by the opensource ePSXe emulator (which I played and beat Final Fantasy 9 on)
Reverse engineering is not against the law in the US or Australia. In the US, emulators and reverse engineering have a decent amount of legal protection, especially for archival purposes.
The case with Nintendo and Yuzu is a weird one because apparently those devs were kinda shitty, didn't release a lot of their source and charged for certain releases. There are other open source/free Switch emulators (that still require you to provide your own Nintendo BIOS/ROM dump, so no infringement in the code) that Nintendo hasn't touched.
This is also for reverse engineering multiplayer protocols for a game service that is literally going away forever. In the 90s, games allowed you to run local servers on your network using the game itself (like Counterstrike). Blizzard was the first to go after the opensource bnetd, which let people setup Warcraft/Starcraft servers locally instead of depending on Blizzard. They caved and went away, but they didn't actually test the case from a legal perspective.
The scamdemic and anthropocentric climate change are certainly a combination of psyop turned neo-proto-religion .. and they were intentionally pushed by some for specific interests.
Israel is a bit interesting. The Last American Vagabond had a supercut a few weeks back of Netanyahu backing wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq .. like literally the "7 countries" list Richard Clark talked about in the W Bush days. It could be argued every one of these wars starting with HW's Gulf war was a war for Israel. These wars served no purpose for American/Europe. If true, Israel hugely benefits the Military Industrial Complex™.
..but I still concede your point .. even that doesn't really affect the average American or Aussie or Indian or most people in the world. They are highly divisive topics that are being used to fracture the human mind.
MKUltra never really ended. It just kinda expanded to the entire human population with access to the bullshit we call news.
I haven't listened to the show in a few weeks, but whenever they did talk about Israel they never seemed to take a side. It seemed like they always acknowledged there was something fishy about the Oct 7th op. Has something changed on the show?
The Last American Vagabond has had some really good coverage on Israel/Palestine. Hey recently had on a guest that went over the history of the region going back before the Ottomans into the 1700s and 1800s.
Justt to nitpick, this bastard who literally wrote the book Manufacturing Consent said that people who didn't get injected with the most experimental and least tested preventative drug in modern medical history shouldn't be allowed into grocery stores and would be on their own for food.
He also openly defended Slobodan Milošević and loves communism.