Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@mushroom_soup If a bunch of Minecraft references works for you, go for it. Cause from every review I've seen, that's basically the selling point of the movie. Jason Momoa was supposedly ok too, and Jack Black is just Jack Black.

@maxmustermann
Huh... I never thought about it like this regarding antisemitism, although I managed to make the exact same observation about feminists and The Patriarchy (TM) a decade ago.
Yeah, a weird form of religion, that technically only has a negative god, or in other words a Satan analogue.

@mushroom_soup Stroke? At 35? I think he needs to get a treadmill first and foremost.

@mushroom_soup Maybe if you're an avid fan of the game. But if you were one, you probably would have already went to see it.

@maxmustermann
I'm laughing my ass off.

@mushroom_soup God dammit... I hate things like this, cause it messes with my brain, and for a couple of seconds I completely forget how to correctly spell "hired".

@icedquinn @coolboymew
Weirdly enough, there is a small segment of people that do some kind of small work on the go, for whom something like this works great, because they basically need a tablet sized thing every once in a while to view/edit a document. Not complicated work, just slight edits while on the field. Like adding a row in a spreadsheet. Menial stuff. So why carry 2 devices around, when you can have 1.

@icedquinn @coolboymew
>are we just doing this because we can?
A bit because of this, for sure.

I've watched a few teardown videos every now and then, and it seems they've improved a bit over the years. First models had terrible hinges, that got dirt trapped in them and broke them. Now apparently that's a solved issue.
They've even managed to make it hard to fold them the wrong way around.

There's definitely a lot of complexity involved, including some kind of weird ultra-thin glass that is flexible enough to fold, but also protects the screen from scratches from dust in your pockets (cause if you try to actually scratch the folding screen with something serious... yeah... zero protection).

But considering everything, it is an interesting achievement. And while the need is niche, as long as someone finds use out of it, and the companies are making their money back, who am I to complain.

@coolboymew For some people the price is not an issue.

@icedquinn Nah, no need. Jews are cool here. We even have a local, native, Muslim population that is cool. Apparently the local imam basically recommended authorities that we don't take in "Syrian" refugees, because those Muslims would be too extremist to integrate with the local Muslims.

@icedquinn
We're a bit too busy being corrupt morons to have time to get liberty that badly wrong. Sure, we forbade 2 people from running for president, but we don't send the police to people's homes for calling politicians fat (Germany) or for saying mean things about immigrants (UK), so I don't think we're all that bad. Though I don't recommend blatant antisemitism when the country is in the middle of a moral panic over a politician who might have spicy views regarding dead Romanian fascists.

@icedquinn I mean.. here they're replacing the woman candidate for a guy... so idk...
Everything is so fucking weird... I've lost count of how many washed-out politicians, that have been away from public attention for years or even close to a decade, suddenly came back for this election redo and are running. One of them is being supported by an impossible alliance of a right-wing and a left-wing party that normally hate each other's guts.
All of it somehow because one nobody politician that expressed EU and NATO criticism got an insane number of votes.
As Barney Stinson once said in Starship Troopers: "it's afraid".

Somehow, America's chaos seems to make more sense to me than what is happening in my country.
The more of these nonsensical machinations I see, the more I feel inclined to vote for the current supposedly anti-EU guy (George Simion), because everyone else seems to be driven by something well beyond any regular political ideology.

And I'm convinced that Simion is less capable as a politician than Trump is. (if you want a taste of him, he somehow scored a short interview with Gad Saad, but be warned, he left out A LOT of context to make his side look good).

@icedquinn @pwm
Learn German instead. Read Voltaire in German. Why? dunno... I'm sure it will piss off some purist somewhere.

@coolboymew I'd guess: 90% of the time use it as phone, 10% use it as a tablet. When they need to read some pdf or something, flip it open. Maybe even watch a movie while on a plane, or something. Just random small things from time to time.

@zero Hollywood can survive without China money. Apparently they get only like 25% of ticket money from over there anyway.
What they can't survive is not being able to pander to communist censorship demands. They're addicted to it. They NEED to suck Pooh's red dick.

@icedquinn Also... why the F did you read all that? I swear.... something is deeply wrong with the average fedi user.

@icedquinn the Reasons(tm) is what I'm concerned about now too. With some of our recent political history, the Reasons(tm) can get a bit worse than corporate lobbying.

@coolboymew
I've never seen one that got actual use out of it. I've seen a few in store displays, and they don't have any real noticeable crease to speak of. Maybe slight bumps or lumps, because the screen isn't hard glass, so it's not a perfectly flat surface. They look perfectly usable imo.
But those phones don't get real use, so I've got no clue how they end up IRL.

There's some weird shit going on in Romania. Beyond what you've probably heard so far.

So everyone knows that we had an election cancelled, because the guy who was came in first in the 1st round was... dubious, according to authorities. This isn't really about that.

It's about the lady that came in 2nd. A lady named Elena Lasconi, from the USR party (United we Save Romania). Her politics and the politics of the party matter less (they're supposed to be right wing, but at the same time they're considered "progressive". Make of that what you will, I personally resigned myself to the idea that our politics are backwards for a long time).

What gathered my attention, and what I'm concerned about, is that her party is suddenly retracting their support of her running for the do-over of the presidential elections. And for the life of me, I can't comprehend why.

While she personally scares the shit out of me, because her face reminds me of Hillary Clinton, from my point of view she has proved herself that she has a lot of public support, that she could win the race. She already achieved a great result for her party in the cancelled elections. Why is she getting replaced by her party?! She already proved that she can attract votes, that among her party, she is likely the best candidate.

Considering USR was one of the smaller parties before this (and it still kinda is), and that they never had a candidate pass the 1st round of presidential elections, shouldn't the person that managed this performance for the first time in the party's short history be kept as their go to candidate for the do-over of what is basically the same election?

I haven't seen her say or do anything in the past few months since this whole fiasco started that would justify taking away their support of Lasconi.

There have been some changes in polling, that is true. But that's after a new guy, Nicușor Dan, who used to be a big figure head in the party (not sure where his home is these days) announced that he's joining the race, and USR members have been slowly showing their support for him. And now the party is doing it officially. So it feels like it's not something Lasconi did wrong, but rather the party went behind her back and got the new guy, so the polls started to reflect what the party was doing. If the new guy hadn't come into the picture, and Lasconi had her party's full support, I don't see why her score couldn't have been the same.

Which has me worried. Why bring Nicușor Dan into this, when you had a candidate that proved herself? My concern is that someone is trying to protect the guy from the law, cause the president is completely immune from prosecution. What did he do that we're not aware of? Who is pulling the strings? How deep do things go?

We've already had 2 presidents that were deeply corrupt before. Well, technically all our presidents post communism were corrupt in some way or another. But the last 2 were a bit more spicy. Are we getting another bastard that we'll find out afterwards that he did god knows what, and nobody does anything about it for a decade?

And are we gonna struggle again with 80% of the media playing defense for the corrupt bastard? I still remember them playing defense for Băsescu, and insisting that he didn't work for the Securitate (our version of the KGB), only to find out AFTER he left office that he was indeed a snitch for communist secret services, which actually rendered him incompatible to serve office in the first place.

I'm still waiting to see if we'll find out how the president after him managed to buy 7 houses, when he and his wife were just highschool teachers, and if it has anything to do with the child trafficking rumors.

The solution to escape crimes over here seems to be:
1) become president
2) put your favorite state prosecutor into place, and have him owe you one (and possibly your party too)
3) ....
4) profit.

So far Băsescu is the only one that has gotten any attention from the justice system, and that's only for the Securitate (KGB) thing. He's suspected of a lot more things. So the method works.

Of course, the beauty is that EU had no issue with these bastards, and were perfectly happy with them. And Nicușor Dan and USR are perfectly happy to repeat the "EU is ALL GOOD" mantra, so they're definitely not rocking any boat either. So I'm of course also a bit worried of the possibility that Nicușor has been picked to some degree by EU leadership, so that he'll maintain the servile colony status-quo that we've had since 2007. The only Romanian party that is viewed as progressive, I mean, what's not to like from an EU perspective? And between Nicușor Dan and Elena Lasconi, this is gonna sound weird, but somehow Lasconi seems to have more of a spine and balls than Nicușor does. So he'd be a better pick for them.

You know what this reminds me of... Hilary Clinton getting the DNC support over Bernie Sanders back in 2016. Yeah... it just smells fishy to me...

@icedquinn THANK YOU!!! I could kiss you right now!