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🚫 SAY NO TO THE ATF!

Arkansas HB1481 would ban state & local enforcement of most federal gun control—past, present & future. 🔥

No state resources. No local assistance. Nothing.

Next: House Committee hearing and vote on Feb 18 🏛️👇
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/02/arkansas-bill-would-ban-state-enforcement-of-most-federal-gun-control/
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"Proposed social media restrictions for minors could pave the way for a broader shift toward mandatory digital ID systems."
https://reclaimthenet.org/connecticut-nebraska-utah-push-social-media-digital-id-laws
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Who said Germany have not free speech?

They have completely free speech, but free speech is not absolute.
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@xianc78 yeah I always keep in mind that he relied heavily on public $$. (Since I don't lean into cults of personality anyway, I've never researched the extent of his reliance.)

Doesn't mean that I'm not thankful for a few things he's done, though.

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@animepfp @nozaki The problem is that the "left" (or the massive amount of shitlibs) have echochambered themselves to death, are unable to be chill for two fucking minutes and are attempting to erase everything and everyone that aren't shitlibs

Just like how the right will sometimes fall for neocon/rhino/whatever talking point, the actual real left will also often devolve into shitlibs behavior and talking point because their spaces has been practically mostly that for the past decade now

All in all, the Internet in general gotta be de-2016'd, but that was a pandora's box that's most likely never closing
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@nozaki @animepfp hard mode: being yourself and watching the entire internet throw their shit at you
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@nozaki The other part is that being an exclusively rw space is part of the problem. There's not enough diversity in thought. At least people are beginning to realize this now and make fun of the podcastrace guys who do nothing but post "they hate you and want you dead" and "are you getting it yet???"

Mother 1/Earthbound Zero/Earthbound Beginnings is the best and the only truly great Mother game because it actually feels like a late 20th century road trip movie adapted into an RPG.

Earthbound/Mother 2 is way too goofy and is mostly a retelling of the first game without the Giygas backstory. And Mother 3 is a very shallow critique of capitalism, modernity, and western culture which goes against the premise of the first two games, and it might as well be a Final Fantasy game.

I think the series in general is overrated, but if one game is deserving of the hidden gem status, it would be the first one.

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>also alot of the new momentum in the development side of things is putting a mastodon-adjacent gay retarded governing body behind the ""standards"" (if you can even call them anything beyond a suggestion) so I dont expect it to improve with time

I made a post about it the other night, but Mastodon's competition going forward is going to be bsky and not Twitter/similar as much.

Not having quote tweets fucked them over hard because it was a battle of the 2017 post-CVille leftists who felt "if this feature can cause harassment, it shouldn't exist" vs the 2025 "Dude, where's my quotes" Twitter refugees.

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tbh i see that most of fedi users are twitter migrants, so some of that culture comes into fedi and stays there. I see overly so that the fedi political climate is an echo of that on twitter, albeit in its own way, but still very similar.

I personally think that fedi has kinda dug its own grave, as seeing with mastodon basically being an echo chamber for the twitter spergs, and darkfedi approaching that state but for the opposite political alignment.

also alot of the new momentum in the development side of things is putting a mastodon-adjacent gay retarded governing body behind the ""standards"" (if you can even call them anything beyond a suggestion) so I dont expect it to improve with time

eventually ill find that people will converge into their little echo chambers and fedi will become less and less appealing to others considering how exclusivist most of the circles are anyway
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For anyone still using Android / Apple you'd be advised to stop. Google just added a program to scan your device for content the government deems unacceptable (my summary not having fully read the story yet): protectstar.com/en/blog/androi

" it’s distributed via Google Play Services or the Play Store in the background, without requiring any additional confirmation from you."

If you need a phone that doesn't ship with Google Play Services, the Play Store, or Android (ie core) I'm still selling at least basic smart phones with LineageOS 22.1. And assuming people remain interested in such phones at some point probably Pixel and/or some other models with GrapheneOS (again).

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Do you really care about spoilers?

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@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Dude, it's fiction.

I feel like I'm making lolicon discussion type arguments but the fucking proprietary software in the anime isn't real bro...

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Musk’s companies—Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity—have raked in billions of taxpayer dollars over the years, yet we aren’t hearing a peep from him about slashing those handouts.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/solutions/elon-musks-biggest-doge-cut-could-be-himself

#TheFreeThoughtProject

I'm tired of self-proclaimed "libertarians" simping for the biggest welfare recipient in the world.

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fun fact: your house was proprietary, all the software that went into structural analysis, material analysis, and testing is all propreitary.

Your appliances? Parts drafted with proprietary software, manufactured with machines that run proprietary software.

Remember that everything down the production line MUST be gnu or youre using proprietary software...

like a spoon, basically proprietary software....

RE: https://freesoftwareextremist.com/objects/ec3e1d23-11c0-4db0-a6f4-ea1ec508bf67
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