sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i think it might be a dick move that apple is still selling the intel 27” imac right now

@aphyr yes but what about the lighting trick

https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZZTHYQ2RQTTU3TTRUPK3/full

i go back and forth on whether or not to send people who have ghosted me in the past birthday wishes. my heuristic is that if the birthday is <6 months since ghosting and the personal relationship was >1 year, then I send well wishes into the void, otherwise no.

@th this is one of those hobbies i am interested in but, like analog photography, i file under "must wait until i have a house with 10 more rooms than the house i have now"

i just downloaded the latest release of audacity (3.0.2) for mac and ran it, and it makes precisely zero network connections.

whatever this kerfuffle is, so far it's posturing.

cool art from the zombie makeout club

new doc martens got

@ElfLord i was gonna make the same joke in a reply before i got to the third paragraph

am i allowed to be sad that rumsfeld died of natural causes (cancer) and not because the world is just (it isn't)

@stemid yeah not relay - i want my posts here on this instance (which is defederated widely because of my political views) to be automatically reposted on my accounts on the dozen other instances on which i have accounts.

is there a tool that will repost my AP posts on this instance to my accounts on other instances?

https://www.epsilontheory.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2020-09-20-The-Welding-Shut-of-the-American-Mind.pdf

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” —Allan Bloom

shoutout to https://report-uri.com/ which remains great and useful

TIL there are on average 80,000 people held in solitary confinement every day in the USA.

america the police state just elected a prosecutor as VP and a cop as the mayor of its largest city.

both are supposedly of the "left"

flee while you still can

fuck cheer, fuck school, fuck everything, fuck state censorship

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/supreme-court-free-speech-cheerleader.html

apparently exercising one's fifth amendment (and human) rights as a US citizen at the US border is enough to get on the CBP shitlist, which means you're permanently under law enforcement investigation, which means they can forever deny any/all FOIA requests about you per 5 USC 522(c).