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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up

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  • This is a good time to remind everyone of LibreOffice, which is free and fantastic.

    Also O&O ShutUp, which helps you turn off Windows' intrusive anti-privacy features and delete Copilot. If you'd like to learn more I made a video about Windows privacy earlier this year.

  • 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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  • I think there are browser extensions and add-ons out there that plug in alternative storefronts you can buy from when looking up an item on Amazon, but you'd have to dig them up. I don't recall any of the names, I just know I've read about them.

  • Little bare tummy

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  • I would rub that belly when the furry little god demands it.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • I found Urban eXperiment to be kind of an interesting group. They're the folks who built a hidden cinema in the Paris Catacombs.

  • Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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  • PC gaming all digital is ok because it’s not a closed ecosystem

    This is the crux of the issue. I have a few games in my library that have been de-listed from the store but my access to those games is unaffected and I can still install and play them, and it's a problem that Sony's approach isn't analogous to this.

  • Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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  • It's probably more accurate to say Sony is misrepresenting the data.

    The vast majority of games that get released these days are digital-only, indies, or semi-indies that never get a physical release in the first place. And it's not reasonable to trust that Sony isn't including these purchases in their reported stats. If they were giving us figures that included only games that got a physical and digital release, I imagine the narrative would be different.

    The gaming industry wants licensing to be universal and ownership to be a thing of the past so it's easier to price-gouge as they like.

  • Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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  • driven by manufactured conspiracies.

    I don't think that's entirely true. I know I'm in the minority, but there are legit reasons to resist recent changes with video game hardware, like how manufacturers have made it so they can brick people's consoles remotely.

    Can't remotely brick my PC.

    I do agree that some people are over-wrought about it, but pretending that all of their concerns are unfounded is itself a tad silly too.

  • I can't figure out what flavor this is

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  • That flavor is nectar, the drink of the gods.

  • The Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Quietly Threatening the Future of 3D Printing

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  • For the same reason that it would be better to regulate polluters than to expect individuals to recycle their waste en masse. Regulating this at an individual level is demonstrably less effective, given that the recovery of self-created guns used in crimes has increased significantly in recent years.

    Whether anti-gun 3D-printing algorithms will even work isn't certain yet, but I'm all for giving it a try and forcing people to risk acquiring said weapons via legit manufacturers and shops which may be more traceable or risk the black market.

  • The Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Quietly Threatening the Future of 3D Printing

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  • They're doing this because the number of self-created guns recovered from crime scenes has increased significantly over the last five years. I made a video about it recently, if anyone's bored.

    Calling it a 'crackdown' is a little silly though, and just the kind of overdramatic bullshit one would expect from American gun nuts.

    It's two state-level laws that aren't even fully in force yet, and won't work anyway, thanks to US gun law being a patchwork of fifty different fiefdoms' opinions, many of which are unilaterally unenforced by local sheriffs on purpose anyway. Hell, guns are so absurdly legal in my state that they keep coming up with ways to make them extra-legal so that the gun lobby will keep the bribes flowing.

  • Man claiming world’s smallest penis says he’s booked enhancement surgery after public’s help

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  • A solid point. (Pun intended.)

  • Man claiming world’s smallest penis says he’s booked enhancement surgery after public’s help

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  • This pleases me.

  • Man claiming world’s smallest penis says he’s booked enhancement surgery after public’s help

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  • I was tempted to post this in 'Uplifting News' as a joke.

    But I think it belongs here.

  • Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom — Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, research from Swiss bank UBS finds

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  • No.

    It never took root because they killed them (Huey Long) and imprisoned them (Eugene Debs). The ones they couldn't kill or imprison were intimidated into silence. (Red Scare, among others.)

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    Native americans had slaves?

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  • The brutality of the wars between the colonists and the native people is not very well-taught in the US, on purpose.

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    Native americans had slaves?

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  • I assume the bootlickers are arguing that slavery was kinda sorta okay because Indians and black people did it too.

    That would be my guess.

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    Native americans had slaves?

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  • Yes. Free black people and free Asians did too.

    Several tribes enslaved people. One example is the Iroquois. It's not a secret or something that's rare in the historical record, it just wasn't anywhere near as widespread and industrialized as slavery instituted by Europeans and white people.

  • Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom — Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, research from Swiss bank UBS finds

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  • Meanwhile my 80 year-old dad was driving for DoorDash to survive, borrowing my car, until he started dying in February.

    My mom still does.

    I don't know how anyone in the poor and working class is still capitalist, but this fucking bullshit is why the socialists are about to tea party the Democrats in November.

  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • The weight of experience.

    The heartbreaks, failures, disappointments, and losses you experience in your youth accrue and do permanent damage over time. Also, everything you loved in your youth will be unrecognizably different or gone completely within 20-30 years. (Which is why I recommend people get in the habit of journaling.)

    Also, you won't digest food as well as you age and your digestion's going to get weird.