Ildsaye [they/them]

You don’t understand, yes Hitler isn’t perfect but MechaHitler would open yet another front and also develop a way to kill each person twice probably

Unable to replicate the robust vitality imparted by Juche necromancy, even to a clone

Please, SARS2, eat the rich

Infinite ironic demises on the eugenicists

Their return to oversize boomer glasses. Well, maybe I do understand - the narrow, futuristic glasses of my youth disappeared along with the concept of the future itself

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My friends seemed alright, but then I continued to be covid cautious

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School Spirit equals soviet power plus electrification of the whole country

Big same. Maybe there is something comforting to my autism that that some people cannot fully suppress their authenticity, lows and all. I feel safer in such company, and hope I can offer similar refuge

TFW no sassy cat

Obama rode in on the H O P E that the Bush admin was but an anomaly, but demonstrated that it wasn’t. Coasting down that hill again would require climbing it, and the dems have no intention of doing that

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I believe WD-40 has wax or something wax-like in it, which can make it good for weather resistance in cases like outdoor tools or maybe a bike chain, but it just hinders things otherwise

My most difficult but rewarding playthrough was a base level starting gear sorcerer. I permitted myself to upgrade the starting gear, and use whatever rings or spells, but couldn’t equip anything else. Maximizes the feeling of being a frail, scrappy trickster

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It mistakes them for blank CD-RWs and wont proceed without trying to format them

I bought an mp3-CD audiobook so that I wouldn’t have to deal with not really owning the DRM-infested download version (and uncertainty as to whether the state of the DRM arms race [and my limited technical skills] will allow me to liberate it before my purchase is clawed back [and no, I can’t find it on the high seas or the library system]), but the CD-RW drive in my ancient laptop only seems to be able to read raw audio CDs correctly, it won’t see data CDs.

Does any maker of external optical readers have a particular reputation for compatibility and reliability?

Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.

Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic’s invasive presence in our lives.

A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don’t think anything less could.