Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club), page 5

@mushroom_soup
>made a tier list of races
Weirdly enough, that one might actually be in character.

Question: if someone where to make a script that asks Gemini AI a random question each second, how much energy could a single user force Google to waste every day?

@nyanide The schizoid thing got me moving away from Ubuntu too, so I get it. For me it wasn't necesarily an issue of getting all software up to date, but I'd hear "Gimp has this new feature!", and then I'd discover Ubuntu wouldn't put it in for several months. And I've had issues with PPAs too... so I wanted out. Solution for me was Manjaro and currently Endeavour. Together with KDE, I'm actually happy right now.

I have days when I think about going Windows again, but not strong enough to actually do it. But I also don't want to change my distro unless someone pays me a lot.

@nyanide Honestly... I can live without package managers. It's definitely an useful feature Linux has, but at times, especially when I was in the Ubuntu ecosystem, I just wanted the ability to download a .exe equivalent setup file from a webpage, and know it will "just work".
Ubuntu had .deb at the time, but those could be hit or miss if the dev didn't package for the latest Ubuntu version. These days, AppImage is a good equivalent, but not everyone uses them. And I have trust issues with Snap and Flatpaks that devs seem to prefer.

These days, arch repositories & AUR really do seem to have everything, so haven't felt that "just give me a damn .exe!" need in many years.
But software packaging is still a mess in Linux overall. Too many package managers, too many standards. Windows keeping it somewhat simple is a big benefit for the average users I talk about.

@nyanide I keep saying it, the Linux community is bad. And he's right, most of the good software you associate with Linux is available on Windows too. So there's little incentive in switching to Linux in the first place.

Until user friendliness becomes a priority, Linux is not a good choice for a desktop OS for the average user.
It's a good choice for some programmers, people who like to tinker, and maybe some other niche users. But not for... pretty much everyone else on Earth.

@sysrq @dcc @teto @pernia @p @wizardmanperson
I used to think nazis were gay. Today I discover that they're actually super mega gay... I can't believe how wrong I was.

@mischievoustomato
I believe humankind was gaslight into thinking twerking is hot. Only a select few individuals managed to withstand the brainwashing.

@mischievoustomato
try some fabric softener.

@LukeAlmighty @brimshae @ChristiJunior
I wonder which you think is the smart one and which the retarded, cause I find both of them to have bad takes every now and then (and also great takes). But overall, I've found them to be reliably informative, they find interesting videos or people to analyze/criticize. Sometimes they even do topics that I don't see anyone else do at the time. I remember them focusing on criticizing CRT at a time when people were busy with Biden/Trump drama.
Sure, it's not a perfect show, and I've had plenty of disagreements with them over the years, but nothing is perfect, and it'd be boring if I never had a disagreement.
And besides, they've probably been my best avenue to keep in contact with what the far-left are doing via their reactions to random goings on.

@brimshae @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty
YouTube weekly long-ass political podcast (they regularly have 8-9 hours long episodes, though the last 2-3 hours can be just superchat readings, so I usually skip that). They're center/center-left politically, and they've tackled every major topic I can think of.

@brimshae @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty
That was a while ago, wasn't it? I know I saw it (or rather listened to it), but I don't remember that much from it. Wu's appearances on Adam&Sitch were more memorable to me.

@maxmustermann @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty
At least he's honest enough to say "I couldn't get a woman, but I'm marrying this symbol of femininity".
I'll always respect honesty more than people who lie about what they do.

@LukeAlmighty @maxmustermann @ChristiJunior
Oh god... I cringe so bad every time I see this picture. All the "I married myself" and "I married the Eiffel Tower" people are so fucking nuts. And Sarkeesian is somehow the worst of them, cause she didn't even have the guts to say it directly. A weeb that "marries" Hatsune Miku is just slightly less cringe then she is with this dumb post. "wedding-themed birthday"... the stupid cope.

@LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior
In retrospect, it's easy to identify Quinn as a murderous psychopath. But for everyone at that time, she was a "literally who". We didn't have any information on these people because they weren't public figures, and GG didn't have anyone that mingled alongside Zoe, Wu or Sarkeesian. Nobody really had an actual conversation with these people, to get to understand how they think.
Even for Sarkeesian, who was more out there than the other attention whores, it took years, until McIntosh left her and she was left doing (or rather failing at doing) content on her own, that it became clear how much of a sock puppet she had been all along.

Identifying a psychopath is not an easy task, and even now, we don't want to fall into the mental trap of calling "psychopath" anyone who disagrees with us, because that will lead us into the same self gaslighting pattern that the left went down.

I've seen the left doing it since the online atheist movement of late 2000s. At some point, they stopped actually responding to Christian arguments, and they'd just accuse anyone right-wing of being stupid, racist, sexist, etc., and they self gaslight into believing that being right-wing was in fact synonymous with anything bad. And I think this then allowed them to be vulnerable to psychopaths taking over.

Cause once they had formed this environment where left=good, and right=bad, all a psychopath needs to do to avoid suspicion is to claim he's on the good side, while using all their vile psychopathic tendencies to attack the right-wing. And since the right-wing are by definition bad, any kind of attack is justifiable. If anyone from the left looks at you, just scream "Black Lives Matter" louder, or put on a wig, and you'll avoid scrutiny.

Coming back to the original point, regarding the "literal whos" of Gamergate. By the time people realized what Quinn, or Wu, were actually capable of, it was a bit late, and they went back to not actually mattering in the grand scheme of things, cause they weren't the main driving force of the SJW/woke phenomenon anymore. They were just a couple of stupid broads that pocked their heads out a bit too early. The real driving force were corrupt journalists (not just gaming journalists), universities, consulting companies, entertainment companies that became corrupted with most people not realizing it, international organizations etc. The fight was much larger than a handful of psychopathic narcissist women.

Maybe if people kept their attention on Zoe, Alec Holowka would still be alive. But the fight quickly became much bigger, against an ideology that threatens the lives of many, many more people, to the point where, no offense intended, Alec Holowka doesn't matter as much.

Was Gamergate wrong in how it did things? Sure. I've been saying for years that Gamergate, as a movement, was a complete failure. But it's possible that part of the reason it was such a failure is because it was such an early battle in the "culture war".

People were unfamiliar with the ideological traps the left had created, people didn't realize how far the cult had spread, and "racist" was still powerful against everyone of all political persuasions.
Gamergate was doomed to fail because even if you had the right approach at that time (and I know @ChristiJunior personally had, cause I remember his username/avatar from Twitter in those days) there were simply not enough "soldiers" willing to fight as hard as it was needed to accomplish anything.

We've seen today how much of a failure Concord was, because people were willing to call out the ideological driven uglification and all that. There were enough "soldiers" to spread the message, and everyone had been exposed to woke cult for long enough, to be receptive of the message "don't buy Concord".
Well, that didn't work for Mass Effect Andromeda, one of the earlier cases of woke ideology fucking up a game to the point of making women intentionally ugly. And it didn't work because people were simply incredulous. Normies hadn't been exposed to the shit for long enough to recognize the patterns. People weren't receptive to the message "don't buy this woke game" yet.

There might have been better ways in which Gamergate could have been fought, but I don't know if there was a legitimate chance for the results to be that much better. People who noticed Gamergate back then, were a select few who noticed something happening to the culture a decade before everyone else noticed. Not enough people to scream loud enough to make actual lasting change.

P.S. This is why I use Bing as a search engine, rather than Google. It actually understood the question and pulled info on Alec Holowka, the victim, instead of promoting the criminal.

Imagine calling Dave Rubin a fascist... the guy is barely able to make belief being "conservative" (and I know I'm gonna get flack for being this generous with him already), and you think he's a fascist? Are you insane? Well, of course you are. You have "anarchist" in your bio.

@LukeAlmighty @beardalaxy
Thing is, we just don't know how the universe as a whole would behave. We see galaxies spinning all the time. We even see clusters of galaxies spinning as a single object. But we also see all of these spinning both clockwise and anti-clockwise. We see local pockets of the universe spinning, but as far as we know, these local spins might cancel each other out, and at the universe level, it could be no spin. Until we measure it somehow, we can't draw a conclusion.

Imagine seeing a small whirlpool in a body of water, and trying to conclude from it that the Earth is spinning. It would be faulty reasoning. The whirlpool's spin isn't prof that Earth itself is spinning. It could be just a localized movement that gets canceled out at a greater scale.

@beardalaxy For now, it might spin, but at a speed that is too slow to measure accurately... with the current tech. But yes, we have some clues that could point at the universe as a whole spinning.

@beardalaxy I know my answer is very wishy-washy, and that's because we don't actually have solid evidence. Just a few computer models that would fit with everything else we know about the universe, which would help explain a few odd observations of very distant galaxies apparently having a preference of rotational direction (which normally you'd expect a 50/50 distribution of clockwise and anti-clockwise spin).

@nyanide @j
It's not just one account. There are quite a few of them already. And the stories are quite similar. Almost every time, the psychologists completely ignored other mental health issues that the patients had, all their history, and pushed them into accepting that they were trans. A lot of sexual abuse too. And they were all from an era when they actually had to do some therapy. That's not even a requirement anymore these days.

But you are right that this is barely the start of the push-back. We won't get the full pendulum swing until we start seeing the young people who transitioned very recently start detransitioning in 10-15 years from now.

It will take time, but by the end of it, this period in medical history might have a worst reputation than lobotomies.

@p
>phosphorescence
I know there is some work being done in creating lasers with the help of bio phosphorescent dyes, but look at the thickness of those lasers. That's not lab equipment lasers. You definitely need some heavy equipment for that.
>crystallized milk solids
Excuse me, what?!

>bold to assume that the CIA was "hit by" something
Sure, once feminism took over, the letter agencies started doing the engineering too (which is why I mentioned the tit shrinking rays). But their agents are not immune from ideological crap.

>Okay, I *do* have a thing about tits
Case closed.