They’re going higher around the far side of the moon than previous missions, so further from earth

We are going to the moon. Artemis II is going to bring humans further from earth than any human has ever been, and doing a drive by like this is part of the process of landing on the moon

What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?

They lose their power. It’s that simple. They’ll continue to break the government until we get them out of office, but their emails will be ignored because they can’t administrate properly

Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

Yeah, I think you have to try to make the world better, so that when you come back you have a better time

They’re house members. They’re generally not all that rich and powerful, they’re protected because they’re useful

They’ll be thrown in front of the mob the second a billionaire feels tight under the collar

I think it’s more that they see the writing on the wall… The people want consequences. There’s likely to be trials

If they wrapped that in the right spin it might just give Putin enough wiggle room to back down without losing his head

Yes?

Wait… This isn’t click bait? Audible expression

And that’s why I left the church. Priest kept drumming up hatred for little zero reason

Been getting more involved with a small non-denominational church over the last few months though. The pastor really steps back when to earth when he gets off the little stage, just back to being a normal guy

I love community and hate hate… There’s no room for hate within me, I won’t let that poison taint me

A domain is a url, like oaksprout.com. A provider is a server/computer that the domain points at. Many services sell both together at an upcharge, but a domain itself usually costs like ~$15 a year

If an IP address is a mailing address, imagine a domain as a way to pay the post office so people can just address it to oaksprout. You could have them forward your mail to your house, or you could send it to a PO box or business address, and change it whenever you want

The provider is like the mailbox in this metaphor… It receives the mail and holds it for you

Fair. And it only goes our way if Linux devs take a stand in the first place…I think they will. I hope they will

No, I shared my experience with the game and then explained why I think it’s also totally valid and relatable why they couldn’t get into it when they played it. Sometimes art is timeless, sometimes it can only be properly experienced in the time it was made for.

Although I guess most art won’t hold up if reading comprehension continues to plummet…

The point is the writer is a midwit

When the fuck did I say any of that??

I don’t know why you recommend games to people, but I do it so others can find enjoyment. I had a deeply meaningful experience from the game that I like talking about, but I also think it won’t hit the same in 2026. I just don’t think others will have that kind of experience with nier in the current media environment.

It sounds hard to be so insecure in your own tastes that you need external validation

And if everyone used E2E encryption for their private messaging like everyone who understands the topic has been pushing for decades, signal users wouldn’t stand out

The state cannot enforce this, it still relies on compliance in advance

Not the government provided identity verification service…I can see the use case for that , even if the government is an untrusted party

I mean the age gating laws going around. They’re suddenly popping up all at once because there’s a not so secret cabal of surveillance state freaks trying to make 1984 happen

And I do mean freaks. They’re death cultists trying to bring about the end of the world either because they think they’ll stand even higher on top of the rubble for some reason or from quasi religious psychosis. Look up Peter Tiel and palantir if you want to learn more, it’s pretty disturbing stuff when you realize how many governments are buying into it

But these laws are being pushed so private companies can collect data on the population and sell monitoring back to the government. If the government is part of the demasking process, they’ll get everything they want neatly packaged

Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days

Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It’s just not feasible

Realistically, they’re going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they’ll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance