It’s not a racial slur. It’s just what they use for someone that isn’t family.

I mean it definitely can be. I mean, fuck, my best friend Kai (who is 100% Hawaiian, from a well known Hawaiian family) just about beat the shit out of another mutual friend (who is also Hawaiian) when he was was joking about his kid gonna catch diseases from the haole he was standing next to (me). Friend maybe meant it as a joke, but Kai sure af took it seriously enough to scrap.

But I’ve also had another neighbor tell me “Oh you don’ worry nephew, you da’ good kinna haole”, and mean it.

So it depends. It depends how you say it and what context.

the Millie Vanillie of vibe coding if you will…

Growth narratives on the fediverse:

Because America isn’t a nation, so much as an idea.

And Trump recognizes that he’s in control of what that idea can become. Democrats have, at least in recent history, represented an utterly incapable and worthless challenge to that vision. The “centrists”, if you can even call them that, capitulated entirely to Trump-ism in the period of 2020-2024. They aren’t a challenge to Trumpism.

Mamdani is giving voters an alternative vision of what the future can be, and that is the most threatening thing to both Trump and the management class of the DNC.

This is about controlling the narrative, and Mamdani shows what we progressives have always been saying: Put the policies on the table and the voters will vote for them. The things Mamdani is running on are wildly popular; some of the most popular policies that exist. And they break corporate control over our politics, something that hasn’t happens in the US in almost 60 years since the implementation of the southern strategy.

The war Trump is waging against the citizens of the US is no different that than why Putin invaded Ukraine: They are working to redefine the identity of a nation.

Mark my words, Trump will kidnap and murder Mamdani before he cedes control of the narrative which he believes is his own.

The steam deck controller addresses all of these issues. I was literally an anti-controller (wasd gang) zealot and the steam deck controller converted me because I can literally play city skylines in bed now…

The steam deck controller is the final culmination.

Literally perfection.

The actual weather weapon:

Someday there will be Wolfenstein levels modeled after this.

We need a federated equivalent. Anything centralized can be stopped.

Well you had me at “Rat Casino” but “Adult Rat Casino”?

How do I make a down payment?

At least if they were part of the military they’d be bound by the ucmj

Bruh you are the least qualified person on the planet to be commenting on what reality is.

Your “reality” cost the country its Democracy.

Supporting Joe Biden when there was -> 0 <- fucking chance he could win, and it was obvious to anyone with two braincells to rub together; if that was you, Trump is your fucking fault.

And not just supporting him, admonishing ANYONE AND EVERYONE who was pointing out that the strategic approach you were insisting on was a fucking disaster. That’s on you fam. At least your crime is on record.

And if you STILL walking around with this lessor evil mentality, a mentality that WILL lose the next election if imposed in support of a shitty candidate, who stands for nothing, who fights for nothing, who represents nothing but genocide and the defense of a corporate power structure: You WILL lose the next election if you can’t fix yourself.

This is the kind of mindset that resulted in running Biden long enough that we didn’t have a real primary, and Trump winning.

Too many cooks: Handwringing. Whataboutism.

The authors misunderstand how to think of the (and even) elements of the fediverse. It’s still taking a competitive view/ worldview/ framing, and when that’s all you understand, sure. But the right way to understand the fediverse is as protocols, like email, and each branch as a flavor of email, or some other misguided metaphor. And it’s it’s only a problem when infinite growth or exp. scaling is your goal. However if neither of those things are your goal, it’s more of an annoyance.

Commercial capture: More handwringing. Misidentification.

Meta took a crack at capture. It didn’t seem to have worked. The fediverse is populated by the leavers, not the takers. The Internet happens at the edge and the normies are always just catching up a few years too late. The point of the fediverse is that it’s a extraordinarly easy to vote with your feet. If the fediverse can fall victim to a 51% attack, fine, well just leave and do it again.

Guilty by association: Again, more handwringing. Also, we should do that.

Federated p2p file sharing e2e file sharing for unsavory bits that governments and corporations don’t want you to have sounds like a great idea.

It’s in the CIA field manual, that when you want to destroy an organization from within, urge caution, and question every unfounded problem.