[–] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

A line from Bakersfield to Barstow (both in California) would seem handy.

Newton to Oklahoma City and then Hastings as well!

La Junta to Denver also (both in Colorado), so if a line has issues, it's possible to travel by another.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Marxism-Leninism*

    Might wanna spruce up on anarchist and council communism, those are anti-authoritarian.

    I used to be a social democrat as well, gradually drifted towards those though. If you've any questions, feel free to ask!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago*

    For those who do not know

    In a nutshell, once a simple majority (>50%) of US states enact it, they will have all electoral votes for presidential elections awarded to whichever candidate gains most votes. That means the Electoral College's effects (faithless electors, not aligning with popular votes, etc.) will be sidelined.

    Therefore, rather than an oligarchy (the Electoral College), it is the public that decides the election.

    Situations like Bush winning or Hillary losing, would then no longer occur, because both of these won only due to the electoral college.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    That's the part that confuses me. Mullvad has distanced itself from his stance. As for the party..:

    My analysisThe party he supports has been claimed to be Marxist, and elements of that can be seen in it favouring a 30-hour workweek, strong secularism, making public transit free of charge, as well expanding social housing.

    However, it (falsely) aligns workers with the business class, thus showing elements of favouring the bourgeoise rather than the proletariat; it also is nationalist in character, rather than internationalist, and wishes to deport fellow labourers. Moreover, it disfavours green energy and is thus a tool of the global capitalist coal and petrol companies. It also opposes liberating the worker from gender-based negative discrimination, because it wants to abolish quotas.

    Since their policies don't support inherent change of power structures, nor liberate the worker from discrimination, I would label them as revisionist marxists due to their alliance with the oligarchs.

    Proton on the other hand, has confirmed donations that tend to be for organisations which I'd label as broadly progressive, but generally towards the centre-left. However, their CEO is obsessed by AI and has supported a statement of Trump. So it's really crazy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    I've known someone who uses both Proton's VPN and the Mullvad one. From what I saw when I tested theirs, the Proton one manages to get through and works with frontends, whereas Mullvad doesn't always, but it's got more finetuning.

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    So I'm wondering to elaborate on this theory, what if the wings stand for a chapter each? And here are more wildcards I'm throwing out.

    There are six wings, a heart, and a crown on top. Maybe the gate leads to the soul-having Angel? What would the crown even indicate? Having power over all chapters?

    I also think the Angel may possibly depend on the route. In side A, it might be the Player; but in side B, it is Noelle. The Player Angel's desire is to finish all chapters, whereas for Noelle, it is to be free from her set path, and to find Dess.

    In Chapter 4, when debugging and showing the Angel prophecy, we see Castle Town. I think it indicates where the Angel proper will first appear. If so, that could indicate the Vessel or Noelle. I find it suspicious that the round area in Castle Town could embrace a fountain. So perhaps a new fountain will be made in there.


    A shit idea, but ...

    Just as Lancer is a card come alive as a Darkner a 'layer down' (in the Dark World), so is a Titan a fountain come alive as a NEO-Darkner a layer down. What if Castle Town is a body's Dark World? I've sometimes wondered whether the top is the head, the circle the heart, and the lower area with houses, the ribs. If so, what if all Castle Town is Dess' body?

    Dark Worlds are shaped after a person's will. Perhaps Ralsei is a Darkner of Dess' mind, of pure darkness because the source of the Dark world (Dess) is dead, and Asriel was held dear by Dess, which echoes in Ralsei. So maybe Ralsei's "purpose" is to comfort and guide those who are in darkness.

     

    So, I'm finally getting around to buying a Linux first laptop. I'm familiar with Macbooks, and so far liked them. I've also live stick used Fedora w/ KDE (though Gnome might fit too) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and liked them.

    But I do want to have more freedom and privacy. My most important considerations are:

    1. The laptop is European (or at least, not from the US, unlikely to go Chinese either).
    2. Good specs for gaming (if need be I could virtualise for playing Mac games). I don't play shooter games, but do play Paradox games which iirc are more CPU heavy. Edit: the most intense user case is probably Cyberpunk 2077. I have no idea what makes a good processor - at least with SSDs and the like it's clear that 'higher number = better'. For me, battery life is important, as well screen resolution, clock speed, and graphic card and processor.
    3. Looks - I like the Macbook touch and feel. I don't want a numpad.

    The four main laptops I'm considering are in no particular order:

    1. Star Labs (Starbook Horizon or Starfighter). British. Lookswise they are a great match but the specs I'm not sure. How well would they hold up to an Intel Macbook Pro from 2017?
    2. Tuxedo (Infinitybook Pro 14 or 15) Bit more well-known German brand.
    3. Slimbook (most likely the Evo). Spanish brand. Seems more customisable but again, I do not know shit with graphic cards and processors.
    4. Novacustom (PrivacyGuard V54). Dutch brand. Not a fan of the tiny ass arrow keys. 7 hours for battery life is also not much, imo.

    If any of you know something better, please do tell!

     

    Has this occurred to y'all? My browser as of lately suddenly checks. Even if I just search on "remove trackers" and a lot of normal links, I get the note "we nEed to VEriFY yOURE not a ROBOT"... it feels like Cloudflare et al are trying to force man in the middle attacks on you. And this also occurs on other browsers with other kinds of ""verifiers"".

    The web's becoming cancerous. I hate this.

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