Here’s the full article if you’re interested:

https://www.dsausa.org/strategy/toward_freedom/

We cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private,” because contracts are not made among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members.

For now that’s the case. But if there ever becomes a time when life outside of prison means starving to death, dying in a heat wave or storm, it won’t matter.

People still have things to lose. But people are losing things.

A name to rally behind is good, regardless of if it is Luigi or The Adjuster

Sure. But my whole point is that we’re headed in that direction.

I think you’ve misunderstood. I’m talking about the choice that people make when these effects start happening, not a choice now. Of course most people aren’t opting to get violent yet, there backs aren’t yet against the wall.

It very well could be the rest of your life in both cases.

For now. Give it a few decades when the effects of climate change start forcing people out of their homes, cause widespread crop failure, kill thousands with heatwaves and storms, etc.

If you’re choice is between

1. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets

Or

2. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets after holding those responsible to account a la the adjuster

More and more people will choose option 2.

One can hope

Nonsense.

It was a wake up call for execs to quit their bullshit. It was a wake up call for the working class to band together.

And there is still a very slim chance he gets acquitted/a not guilty verdict.

The conditions that caused this event haven’t gone away. And all of the school shooter types have just been taught that you will be widely regarded as a folk hero for shooting an exec, so they may opt to change their targets for the better. We will probably see more exec shooters.

His political affiliation is a distraction that ultimately only serves to hurt us. Even if it is him that they caught, he did a good thing.

I’ll condone it

For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

I’ve definitely ‘abused’ the hell out of that. But at a certain point with the original, it seems like all the little tricks I learned hit an upper limit to their usefulness.

The original was just brutal.

Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph.

I’ll definitely have to give that a try next time.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

This has been the only version of the game I’ve ever gotten close to beating. For that reason alone it’s worth mentioning.

Notepad ++ is invaluable for writing code, I’ve used it for a long while now.

Not to pick an argument, but as a dev VSCodium has been a significantly better experience. It’s a good text editor, it’s got good search functionality, can be used as an IDE, and has good support through extensions.

And more of a shallow reason, it’s got much better dark mode support.

2nded

Been using this for a few weeks now, and it is really fucking convenient

Actual - Accounting/budgeting/etc

Wrote up a python script or three to handle parsing my bank CSV export files into an actually usable form, with automatic categorization, and so now I just do a periodic export and sync, and have all my financial records all in one place with some nice visualization, categorization, and budgeting features from Actual. It saves everything to a local sqlite db, so I can always jump ship to a different system if needed, and also itself provides a CSV export option.

10/10 software, would recommend

Active directory for both, against my will. It’s all three

FUCK active directory

we should probably burn it

Agreed