i wonder if it’ll save any time/space if you make iso images from your bluray’s with something like dd and mount them when you want to play them, instead of ripping their contents.

that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.

russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.

the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.

this is rich considering that the economist helped manufacture this narrative themselves.

it’s like the chair shooting meme, but in article form.

same here on both counts.

i created a convincing lcars interface based on enlightenment 20-ish years ago and it would take on a whole new level of enjoyment nowadays with a touchscreen laptop; i could pretend that i have a padd. lol

it’s expected for orban & hungry; it’s odd for france or germany to do the same thing.

that part of my comment was meant to be a self indictment/reflection; i’m a bit of a linux cuck since i’ve adapted myself to fit ordinary distros’ designs instead of creating something that works for me. lol

that’s why i marvel at people who do the needful that i should be doing, like here.

i hope trump imposes those sanctions for purchasing russian oil since the most effect outcome of his administration is weakening the american empire’s soft power.

i wish i understood the european obsession with russia; especially the delusion that russia wants to conquer europe when poland and ukraine was the closest they ever got and the europeans (especially the british) have literally conquered territories across the entire globe.

i wonder of eu capitulation to american hegemony in all sectors, like tech described in this video, will result in more accelerated forms of fascism since they now have to come up with an alternative to the financial and military backing from the fascist machine that they helped create and is now abandoning them.

it’s nice to see people are still doing this; bravo!

i’ve also intended to try my hand at this, but my inner masochist is too lazy for it. lol

i think that the scariest thing about all of it is that it can only collapse once there’s isn’t enough money in the world to provide the table scraps necessary to keep the pawns inline; meaning that there isn’t enough food, shelter or even drinkable water to keep them towing the line.

the last largest financial crises averted a system wide shutdown and created a welfare state that allowed this system to continue operating and its wealth gap ensures that there will be millions of people who will voluntarily join the military in the hopes of viable future; as is happening right now.

it also feels like the media capture of the colonial narrative is holding strong examplified in tiktok’s ban and ukraine’s invasion. those native american pogroms were documented during their time and the people adjacently impacted, ie the mexicans, were cast aside until the memory of them only existed history books.

i feel that capitalism learns from its mistakes and adjusts since the people who benefit from it are learning, thinking beings who want to perpetuate it for their personal gain; the only thing that can stop it is itself, once it’s inherent contradictions become too large to smooth over.

at best: this is going the same way that the native american genocides happened and just like then, there will be no consequences.

at worst: americans and isrealis will be subjected to more bombings and/or more 9/11’s, leading our governments to respond with more wars and our people to further inculcate themselves with further complicity.

you’re nicer than i am; i just send them a link to my github/gitlab repo’s and then COMPLETELY check out.

it makes me wonder if things will ever improve.

First the hill and now the ny times; who among the liberal media will be next to admit the reality that led to this needless Ukrainian tragedy and will the western world acknowledge it?

Democrats are overwhelmingly made up of liherals and I said vote counts, not registered voters; nice spin to redirect the point btw.

I wish it were irony that another .world liberal would conflate liberals w leftists and try to bend reality to suit their narrative, but it’s only sadly indicative of how little they pay attention and of how much ignorance they willfully maintain.

a /scaled version of new comments is what i’m looking for.

popular opinion is one thing; those people appear to be willfully ignoring reality.

there was a post yesterday on asklemmy from someone who wanted to escape fascism by going to italy and i got downvoted for trying to make them aware that italy is doing the same shit, like this posts describes.

i wish i could understand why they assumed that italy isn’t fascist when they literally elected a fascist leader and made worse anti-lgbt laws than the americans have done (so far).