xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

everyone's a scumbag, everyone sucks

People who just want to sit around and get high all the time are scumbags who suck.

cut them out of my life

Without a second thought. They're going nowhere. You have limited time on this earth, and even more limited time while young and able. Getting high often as a young person is incredibly unwise.

How many domain names your government needs to block in order to censor an entire network?

Bluesky: 1 domain name
Nostr: 680 domain names, but blocking 10 most popular relays and hosted clients would probably be enough to kill it
Fediverse: more than 20000 domain names

#Fediverse #Censorship

@xianc78 I'm real, not a bot lol. I mostly use this account to repost stuff. It's all good

The WHO has brokered a limited truce between Israel and Hamas in order to get Gazan children vaccinated. Is there something more sinister afoot?
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/mortal-enemies-reach-truce-over-a-polio-vaccine.html

_Self-replicating vaccines due to be rolled out next month in Japan could result in a worldwide disaster_

FTA: A replicon vaccine is a type of vaccine that uses a self-amplifying RNA as its antigenic component. Replicons are derived from viruses, such as alphaviruses.

There are 32 alphavirus species which infect various vertebrates, including humans, rodents, fish, birds and larger mammals, as well as invertebrates. Some are species-specific while others are not. Transmission between species and their vertebrate hosts, including humans, occurs mainly via mosquitoes.

The use of alphavirus-derived RNA technology in vaccines is where the danger lies. The man-made genes in the replicon vaccines, if introduced into humans, are likely to spread not only to other humans but also to other species.

In November 2023, Japan approved the use of the first self-amplifying mRNA (“saRNA”) vaccine against covid. The vaccine is called Kostaive and is also known as ARCT-154 or, in Vietnam, VBC-COV19-154. At the time of the approval, researchers were hopeful that this was only the beginning for saRNA treatments for infectious diseases and even cancers.

The difference between a covid mRNA vaccine and a covid saRNA vaccine is that with the former, a cell’s machinery produces the spike protein for as long as these instructions persist while the saRNA goes a step further. It integrates the genes needed for the replication and synthesis of the spike protein-encoding RNA, effectively establishing a biological printing press for fabricating the vaccine inside cells.

https://expose-news.com/2024/09/01/self-replicating-vaccines-rolled-out-next-month/

just testing out segmented walls. i can make them look prettier, they actually just look segmented because it helps me keep track of them while developing.

i currently like this approach of just removing the lower wall whenever a player is in a room where it would obstruct their view too much. they can only turn the camera about 50 degrees each way, so they'll never actually be able to see the bottom wall of a room anyway.

as much as i want to give players free control over the camera, rpg architect's camera doesn't have collision. because of that, it'll clip into walls. i don't want the player to have to deal with manually zooming in to see specific spots.

i was toying around with fixed camera angles too and i might use that for some key scenes. it's good to know it's an option but i'd also have to remove walls in some instances doing that anyway.

@xianc78 Been thinking about that too, a lot of people I know my age are now just settled in to doing nothing and sitting in front of the computer and getting high. They seem like they're really in a terrible place but that's what they want to do. And for some reason the suggestion to something fun outside of their home is abhorrent to them and elicits a bitter response. Like "I don't want to meet anyone, everyone's a scumbag, everyone sucks" whatever. And money definitely isn't an issue for them. When these people hit middle age it will hit them hard, because they'll realize they spent 20 adult years of freedom not doing anything interesting. And it sucks, lately I feel like I have to cut them out of my life or else I'll be sucked into that too.

The research, conducted by a team of international researchers, reveals that after decades of steady improvement, global academic freedom has begun to decline over the past decade.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/academic-freedom-around-the-world-declining-for-first-time-since-wwii.html

#Taxes
#ForeignAid

@xianc78 @j I think it's the low barrier of entry.

GMail and the big dogs, aside from working with the feds, also ask for everything. If you're going to do illegal shit, it's very easy to make a burner email with cockli/proton/similar. Proton users are outed by the recovery e-mail that they do keep on file as an example.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/
https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

There are a lot of fucked up people online, but a better way of putting it is for those people the "no bad tactics" mindset really does hit hard. I mean, just look at the Torswats shit. These guys were literally swatting government officials for the thrill of it, in between swatting some random retard who was featured on a Jim stream.
https://www.wired.com/story/torswats-swatting-arrest/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-foreign-nationals-charged-swatting-conspiracy-targeting-lawmakers-private-victims

It's my birthday 🎂

@PurpCat @realman543 @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @j I don't have any alts on other fedi instances except the now defunct freespeechextremist.com and I don't think I'll be making any new ones. After Baest shuts down I'm probably going to migrate entirely to Nostr. I already have a Nostr identity I rarely use so it will be time to start shitposting on it full time. I had been considering the idea of making my own instance but honestly everything I've seen related to the technical aspects of the fediverse makes me think the network was always fucked from the get go and there is no point in dealing with all of those issues myself.

Baest will (not) be shutting down on November 8th.

Why? A few reasons.

1. This is getting expensive and time consuming to run.

2. God has other plans for me and trying to continue running all of this would hold me back.

3. I want to spend less time on the internet.

4. I'm a very different person and in a much different situation from when I started.


One of the main reasons I started running a fedi instance was I had a bunch of free time because I couldn't work.

I've had a great time and met lots of wonderful people.

Honestly, if it weren't for fedi I'm not sure where my life would be but probably somewhere very different and not as good. I know I wouldn't be able to give Cornbread a home.

I want to thank everyone for hanging in here with me all this time. I'm sorry I'm shutting it down. This isn't an easy decision to make and I do feel guilty about it.

Don't worry, I'm not leaving fedi and I really hope this doesn't cause any Baest users to leave fedi. I just have more important things I need to focus my time and money on. I'm at least going to make it through the election, though.

Thank you for letting me be a part of all of this for all of these years. I am extremely thankful.

Edit: it seems revolver will be ready before then so @p will migrate Baest to revolver so nothing will go away. Beast will just become fully decentralized. The West hasn't fallen after all.

Can't stop thinking about the Deckintosh