The star links sucked anyways. Can really only handle like 100 connections before they overheat and they put them all on 192.168.0.0/24 address space so when you have 500+ people trying to connect it just straight up didn’t work.

Luckily switching to 10.0.1.0/16 is easy, but most of the people they were handed out to didn’t know that. Meanwhile HAM radio just works. It can also support unlimited connections.

That’s what they’re going for

Wait, I’m in the US. You start at 5 and by the time you’re in 7th grade you’re on your 8th year. That’s 13

I think the real issue is more of “okay, so if this didn’t get caught by the pre-flight inspection, what else was missed”

Yeah, like how opiates today still have very valid medical uses, but their application has become so widespread that they’ve left the realm of medical tools (for many people) and entered the realm of escapism.

When people aren’t turning to religion because of their total fear of destruction and destitution by capitalism, and the churches themselves begin to take on a more community organized and driven structure, you’ll see the “true” form of religion emerge and over time the need for that religion will fade as the needs that were sated by religion becomes sated by the community as a whole.

Or at least the religion begins to take on the form of the socialized society that it exists in as opposed to impressing it’s own hierarchical structure on the society that seems it out.

Yeah, the best interpretation is that a communist mode of production would remove the need for the pain dulling opiate that is religion.

The allegory actually holds up on terms of the war on drugs, where fighting against the medication that people give themselves while in pain and despair doesn’t solve the underlying pain and despair, but building communities and reducing the harm that those drugs cause will over time reduce the abuse of those drugs.

Like in a socialist case, providing alternative organizational structures to churches and allowing those seeking to leave an abusive or conservative church to have a safe haven where they are respected outside their “opiate of the masses” consumption is healthy. But at the end of the day the drugs aren’t what’s causing the problem, it’s the societal structures that drive people to use them that’s the problem.

6th or 7th grade is 13-14 year olds.

Poor Bobby DROP TABLES; commits a felony every time they type their name into a search bar

It is machine games developing it though, and the Wolfenstein games were actually pretty good.

They have tons of experience with games about killing Nazis

Hey it’s like Bush’s policies but more conservative

The “dissidents” killed in the revolution were also mostly Batista supporters (so literal fascists) or plantation owners and their security.

There were lots of public sector workers that fled, but they also tended to be Batista supporters.

My grandmother worked under a Cuban expat as a teacher in Florida who was administrator under the Batista regime and he was so openly misogynist it was wild.

Baptists (frequently ABA) and Presbyterians (frequently PCA) tend to be the biggest evangelicals.

The ABA has always been super racist and the PCA is so heavily Calvinist conservative that they’re one step away from calling for blood sacrifice to maintain the economy.

The evangelical movement tends to exist more within churches themselves though. The organizations just care about trying to not split again, so it’s really the individual pastor’s decision if they’re gonna go full evangelical or just phone it in.

There are also evangelical cult churches that are totally divorced from the sects and basically just cherry pick the worst aspects of all of them and call themselves something old testament. These are the ones that usually harass college campuses (see Antioch)

// if non-number, do not draw it
if (n == 1994)
    return 0;

//
// Display level completion time and par,
//  or "sucks" message if overflow.
//

…

    else
    {
        // "sucks"
        V_DrawPatch(x - SHORT(sucks->width), y, FB, sucks); 
    }

      case 141:
        // Silent Ceiling Crush & Raise
        EV_DoCeiling(line,silentCrushAndRaise);
        line->special = 0;
        break;

So many switch statements

That scene was weird too, they didn’t have him record a death scene and so they literally just put some blood over slowed down b-roll and played a random voice clip of him saying “hell of a ride”

Weird, DDG only returns 2 results for “unserious”

3 pages of results for “cowardly”

17 pages for “reactionary”

2 for “dumb”

And 2 results for “unremarkable”

This is the best one

I’m the most secure and use Snapchat. The messages auto-delete! /s

Matrix is just a backend framework for sending and receiving. I was actually wrong about Telegram being a Matrix client. I usually just don’t use a lot of online messaging stuff though outside work so that’s my bad. Got Telegram and Element confused.

Matrix is just the one I see more trust about in the community and getting an instance up and running is easy to do.

All three are open source (Matrix, Signal, and Telegram) so you can audit their security protocols or follow people on the issues pages that are identifying security vulnerabilities, but in the end using any service that you don’t have control over is gonna make it difficult to remain truly secure.

If at any point an instance owner decides to share server data they can, which in most of these apps won’t necessarily give them access to messages if the server never loads them as plaintext, but will give them access to information about who you’re talking with and such.

If you aren’t like actively organizing or doing anything that would require absolute security in messaging all of them would probably be fine as they’re better than sending MMS or SMS, but at the end of the day you just need to be aware of who is controlling your data and who might want it.

Nice, everything’s a honeypot isn’t it. Self hosted IRC it is then