why was there a sudden increase in building in games after minecraft

someone splain it

Oh so it sounds like we will be in good shape with some patches.

Because the United States was founded as a loosely confederated colonial slave empire, and it benefits the caste of people who founded the empire and still control it to continue this form of government, I don’t think “shifting to state’s rights” is going to bring us any closer to freedom. Fascist slave empires shouldn’t exist. You shouldn’t contribute to them. Individually, if you are trapped in a fascist slave empire, you should seek to distance yourself from it in whatever ways you can. You should slow and stop spending money where possible. You should leave the country if you can, and remove yourself from the direct power of petty lords if not by moving out of their jurisdictions. If you are adamant about staying where you are at, you can build and contribute to a local mutual aid network, but understand that makes you ‘the local mutual aid network within a Fascist captured zone.’

Governments are not immortal. Fascist governments have risen and died before. Unfortunately fascists steal their people’s futures. I liked my future a lot better before I heard about Trump but he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last American Fascist.

Saved to watch later, does anyone know what he covers in this video?

Yes that’s somewhat true but it has mostly translated to less programming generally and especially fewer “bandcamp fridays”

the feeds are still pretty good and you can see what indie music people are actually buying

I suggest you check out the feeds on Bandcamp. I find a lot of great new music that way. If you like comedy, lots of comedy shows have musical guests. Late Stage Live for example has great musical guests that may be new to you.

Generally speaking, corpos like Spotify are more interested in paying Joe Rogan than helping you find quality music.

The hard nationalist name is a great giveaway

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Oh okay I think we just disagree then.

I can see why you might read my post that way because what other context do you have. I don’t belong to the “us” group you mentioned. I spent 2015-2022ish doing direct service activism and it cost me a great deal. Part of the reason I sound disillusioned is because the fascists directly attacked and destroyed much of my work as I was performing it (especially in 2018 2019 when they were a little better organized). I did literacy and library access work for the incarcerated, primarily. My work was primarily volunteer so it seriously hurt my family’s economy, in addition to being undone in real time as paper bans and mail bans were put in place. People at the universities I “worked” for would provide verbal support, but that was all it ever amounted to.

Part of the reason I like Doctorow is because he gave a pretty accurate description of how literacy access within the prison system works in The Bezzle except for the part where he was using it to distribute LSD. That sounds cool but its largely based on a myth made up to protect prison employees who trade drugs inside.

You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

Not trying to call you out otherwise, how are you supposed to know

Heyyyy you’re right

fantastic post, I wouldn’t have considered that fan setting issue on Bazz…

wonder if one of the linux fans speed apps can replace that functionality to some extent

Since all my local newspaper websites went pay-to-read, I walk two blocks to my local library and read the hard copies maybe once a week. There’s only about one or three articles per week that aren’t just USA Today internet drivel, so it’s not like I’m sitting there for hours pouring through papers like a maniac, and how dare you picture me that way.

If you are a traveler, it is a good trick to pick up as many library cards as you can get your hands on. So many libraries are traveler friendly from old COVID policies and if you aren’t working touristy towns, even pretty flimsy community connections can get you a card. “Oh I work for this practice in the community, can I-” and when your contract in that community ends, what, are you going to go turn in your library card? And let your community’s ebook DRM go to waste? No 😜

You know I think he actually uses the music producer example in his 2nd novel (The Bezzle).

Doctorow can write a great detective novel but he lives in absolute La La land. I’m glad he’s open about the fact he’s just distracting himself with this post, but the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

He has some understanding of that, I think? But like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

The people who tell you to be civil aren’t going to help you on the line, generally. Unless its one of those fake protests like The March for Science.

Don’t let people who aren’t going to help you tell you how to behave.

There are some things you can do that hurt America.

1. Leave. You won’t be welcome elsewhere unless you have roughly 125k saved, liquid cash. That may not matter based on where you are at on the ladder but it really wrecks my family. For example, if you’re broke and unwelcome in the USA, maybe roll the dice? This is not legal advice. We’re stuck by family and fake middle class assets. “Not welcome” means you cannot legally work elsewhere, you are subject to the USA. We live under feudalism internationally.
2. Stop spending money. All USD money is Nazi money. The less you spend, the less the machine goes.
3. Don’t work for cops. As in outright refuse to do anything to help cops, ever.
4. Donate to causes that actually erode US sovereignty like Indigenous legal defense funds, and leave your assets to the people your land was stolen from.

edit* This is all assuming you won’t fight, because I was there in 22 and there wasn’t a fight. That’s when we lost our rights. So don’t pretend like fighting is an option please, this isn’t that kind of forum anyway.

Don’t let propagandists tell you that you have to survive a nazi regime

in about 201X I was having a terrible time trying to get through the thesis period of a master’s program

picked up some bundle of the OG 2DS (black & blue variant) and Pokemon X and loved it

a world where I could pick my friends, people were pleasant, my next career moves were obvious, and my work was rewarded? To this day, this is my escapist fantasy.