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Hulk Hogan tried to get the bats that killed Ozzy Osbourne, but he wasn't the young man he used to be, and hadn't practiced wrestling for too long. He failed to avenge Ozzy. RIP Hulk.

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Man... the Atheism movement is so fucked.
Christopher Hitchens died.
Daniel Dennett died.
Sam Harris' brain probably turned to mush over his obsession with Trump. Can't remember the last time I heard him say a word on Atheism related topics. He will occasionally attack Islam if prompted, but it has only been if the topic is Israel-Gaza. I haven't heard him say something about UK's issues for instance. So conclusion, Sam Harris is useless now.
Richard Dawkins (was my personal favorite of the bunch) is literally afraid to speak anymore. He's been given the opportunity to talk on the UK Muslim thing, and he just refused.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali literally declared herself Christian, because she realized Atheism got completely cucked.
That's what happened with the "horseman of Atheism".

Now let's look at some of the minor figures.
David Silverman was literally falsely MeToo-ed out of the movement, and went into selling insurance or something like that. By his claims, he's making good money.
Matt Dillahunty went locco even before Harris, and I think was involved in canceling Silverman.
Seth Andrews, I've stopped following him a while ago out of boredom, but I occasionally see some of his episode titles, and it doesn't inspire confidence that his brain is still fully functional. He's not innocent on the Silverman thing either. But at least he was just a cucked that believed all women, and wasn't an attack dog.
TJ Kirk... Need I say more?
Hemant Mehta is a douchebag creep (by my own experiences).
Aron Ra, turns out he's also a complete scumbag. Also got involved in cancelling people.
Thunderf00t's brain has broken over his obsessions with Elon and Trump. He hasn't done anything Atheism related maybe for a decade.
Hugo and Jake... one got so fat that he gaslight himself into thinking he's trans, and the other went insane (literally put on a banana suit in the middle of an online debate).
The Armoured Skeptic is the weirdest conspiracy theorist you've met. Complete "history isn't what they tell you it is" levels. Not Antisemitic mind you, so no claims of false history surrounding that. Just everything else.
C0ct0pus (from the Goddamn Podcast) now does weird drama streams about some random fat ugly bastards.
And there's so many other small YT channels I'm still aware of that just disappeared since forever ago.

Like seriously, from the biggest figures in the movement, to the smallest guys I know, they either died, became deranged, or just moved on to something else and abandoned the cause.

The Vshojo drama made me think about something... it's a bit of a stretch, but hang on with me.

So there's one thing that religions and Churches usually get credit for. Building communities. Even the Atheist movement acknowledged that one of the big reasons people don't abandon Christianity, even if they don't actually believe in god anymore, is their need to be in a community. And it's the thing I would hear a lot from Atheist figures that we needed to get better at. (Atheists never did manage to build healthy communities. Instead it all went completely to shit).

Well, I've been thinking now... are vtubers the new churches?
Like look at this shit, Ironmouse makes a video, then more vtubers and people covering the drama follow suit, and before you know it, you have a community raising over $1 million for charity. Isn't this one of those things we expect out of churches? To bring people together, to unify under a goal, and do good deeds (charity) together? And it's hardly the first hugely successful charity event vtubers lead.
And I guarantee you there are people of completely opposite sides of the political spectrum in the streams of the most popular vtubers. So they're definitely able to build a community and have people set aside differences for a couple of hours.
"But Vtubers don't preach, you dummy". You sure? I've seen plenty of examples of vtubers telling people "hey, don't be that guy". I've seen them setting moral examples and telling people right from wrong. It's not the sort of nagging preaching, sure. But then again, good priests weren't supposed to feel nagging.

We're in a new age. Why shouldn't our spiritual leaders be completely different from what we're used to? Who's to say Jesus has to reincarnate in ragged clothes? Maybe he can reincarnate as a cute anime waifu?

Huh.. made an interesting discovery. Old YouTube streams (1-2 years old) that previously had a vp9 encoding (something I KNOW for certain, since I have downloads of those streams) now only have h264 encodings (verified with yt-dlp but also in browser). I guess they're trying to save disk space. Very interesting though.

My guess (how I'd do things), they probably have some cleaup utility, where if a video wasn't played for long enough, it will delete all encodings except what is needed for maximum compatibility.

Not the first time I tried to (re)download an old stream, but this is the first time I noticed codecs missing from YouTube's repertoire. Must be a cost cutting measure.

The bats finally took their revenge. RIP Ozzy Osbourne.

The Vshojo story keeps getting worse. They even managed to screw over what was supposed to be the future gen.

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"Censorship isn't real. Nobody is regulating what you say"
"Unalive"
"Ass*ult"
"R*pe"
"M*rder"
"PDf file"

Man... the Vshojo thing is crazy! Way beyond the Niji fuckup.

Black Panther branded external HDDs exist. 😆
Who the fuck do you think would buy that?! It's not even the "good" Black Panther, it's the sequel nobody watched! Fucking morons...

If you use Mastodon, do you have at least slight clue what Fediverse means and that it does include Mastodon?

Third time's the charm. This time I didn't forgot to add third option and also set time limit for 10 days.

Just when I was preparing to make a post, reminding people of how atrocious bluetooth support is on Linux, the Wifi decided to have a hiccup and stop working for a few secs. You can't make this shit up.

As for bluetooth. It has weird moments when it insists on disconnecting bluetooth headsets every 10 seconds or so. At some points, after I keep insisting, it magically starts working fine. I tried to rule out interference, but that doesn't seem to be the issue. Restarts don't affects things either. Then it decided to crap out on connecting to a bluetooth mouse too.

Meanwhile, booted my Win10 (installed on an external SSD btw, best gadget I have by far), everything worked perfectly.

"Let me smell my own farts about how I don't listen to western propaganda, and how I know better that China is such a good capitalist country."

Meanwhile, in the real world, the horrors of state planned economy, where everything fails in ways you couldn't even imagine.

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So before I got distracted, I had a thought today.
For this one, let's assume there's something big in the Epstein files. What, I don't know. But I'm gonna pretend I fully believe this, for this post.

If Democrats didn't want to use it, for whatever reason. And now Trump and co. seems scared shitless and don't want to talk about this thing. This makes me ask a question, to myself first and foremost, and to anyone who wants to listen.
Do you think you can handle whatever is in there?

I saw the interview Blaire White had with one of the victims. I'm convinced the experience traumatized her to where it fucked her brain. Like fully. Alex Jones looks calm, stable and sane by comparison.
If the Epstein files are truly horrific, as bad as people have been hyping it do be, do you trust you can survive with your mental health if you were to see it?

What if Trump and co. saw something that rattled them deeply, and they just think the average man wouldn't be able to handle it? I know people will say all sorts of things here, and object about how it should be their decision to make, not Trump's, etc. Maybe. But at some point... there are things I actually don't want to know, cause I probably wouldn't handle it well.

I don't particularly trust Trump to be a good judge on what serves me best. But when I see multiple political figures of different persuasions seem to be unified in not wanting to touch this, it does make me think. Maybe this would be one of those cases where I immediately regret that I went looking for information right after receiving the information.

So have you considered if you'd be able to take the worst of the worst of what could be in the Epstein files?

If you thought software-as-a-service was a bad idea, I just came up with a cursed one: dildos-as-a-service.

>play latest minecraft release
>get happy ghast
>get him in the nether
>build regular ghast farm right next to him
...
Am I the baddy?

Felt cute, might melt your brain with horrors you can't comprehend later.

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