Fascinating how all you are capable of saying in response to that whole comment is to think I am doing a bit when I mention I have two degrees.

No, its not a bit.

I seriously doubt anyone here in a chapo reddit could actually make a meaningful economic or political argument at this point.

oh sorry did I say reddit? I couldn't tell I wasn't on it what with the utter lack of meaningful or interesting discussion, and preponderance of memey edgy troll posters.

As usual, the cosplaying tankies in a 'leftist' community are amazingly hostile and disrespectful to anyone who says they are an anarchist.

I had been able to post for a week or so on another chapo reddit /until/ it became unable to avoid the astounding hypocrisy and wilful blindness that online MLs have regarding the horrible things done by authoritarian societies in the name of communism.

Good riddance to you idiot trolls.

Its baffling to me that chapo communities are nearly entirely ML edgelords. The chapo crew never suck off and worship Chinese Style 'Communism', but for some reason seemingly all online chapo communities are based around this principle.

I used to work for a non profit helping the homeless that had a logo very obviously looking like a vulva and clit.

Seeing as how the org started decades ago aimed at just women, and actually caught some heat in the press for giving out lingerie to homeless and poor women, part of me thought this might be intentional.

But then I actually met the person in charge of brand and theming and logos and immediately realized they were an out of touch overpaid moron who had no idea how the org actually worked, what it did or how the employees felt about anything, so I went back to assuming the new redesign was unintentional.

I miss the old days when someone was being annoying and you could take the rubber ball out of your mouse and bounce it off their head haha!

Hah, what OS am I running?

It does far, far more than monitor for spies.

I agree with you that in a world where any state has an intelligence agency, every state needs its own intelligence agency.

I am not even coming close to defending the CIA, but its possible that the enemy of my enemy is not actually always a great way to run a society.

I agree with you that the logic of a state necessitates its survival over any principles it purports to uphold.

And yes, of course Western societies have terrible surveillance apparatuses as well.

Kind of all goes back to the whole 'being critical of the concept of a state because it always has to maintain its own stability and existence over all other objectives' thing.

He is a friendless neurotic depressed drug addict who unironically still loves South Park and Rick and Morty. He still plays every Pokemon game that comes out despite being in his 30s, is terrified, literally terrified of any game with direct online contact with another player, oh right, and lied to T Mobile to engage the parental control mode on my phone and stalk me in his car and on foot, and then lied about doing that to the rest of my family.

Its fitting for a tankie to spy on his brother and lie about it though, so points for being true to form.

They already teamed up and made me homeless.

Anyway, its not possible to deprogram my Dad. Tried for years. He's never wrong you see, because what about this unrelated complex topic he has no understanding of? He is a master of gish gallop and rhetorical trickery, and when he actually does obviously lose an argument he just laughs.

Tankie brother? Maybe possible to deprogram, but it would be pointless. He is massively neurotic, depressed and highly manipulative. Also very anti social.

Never took any of my advice relating to my decade of experience in the tech industry, never listened to what i was saying about econ or poli sci until a youtuber he watches told him about it, despite my degrees in econ and poli sci. And then he would either gaslight me and tell him that i did not actually tell him what i told him 6 months ago, or he would have a depressive breakdown and need my forgiveness and support everyday for 2 months.

I /could/ easily beat him in a knife fight, but at this point I am content for him to live the rest of his life knowing what he did to me and being a neurotic guilt ridden mess about it, while I sleep soundly on the other side of the county, never speaking to him again.

I forget what its called off the top of my head but there are decent debian screen recording softwares that can record a game in fullscreen that work on PopOS!

My god an actual trackball user!

Sorry I just hardly ever see any these days.

I have also found PopOS! to be a fantastic distro. Easy to setup, user friendly, has tons of software that works with it , great UI, and I have not had a main OS patch/update break anything since I think 3 years ago now.

And it also does not punish you too hard if you tinker under the hood a bit!

Only real room for improvement is the PopShop, but thats relatively easy to fix, so I do think it makes more sense for them to focus harder on general stability, compatibility, and the new Rust based DE.

You can always install synaptic or the debian software manager for deb based stuff, and a flatpak store if you get tired of the PopShop and want to stick with PopOS's deb/flatpak paradigm.

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He is far, far, far beyond saving.

After years of myself, a person with a degree in Economics and another one in Poli Sci, spending countless hours attempting to explain to him, whose main education on such topics come from Rush Limbaugh (rest in piss) and even more extreme nutbags, that basically everything he, my father, believes about economics and politics is actually objectively, factually wrong...

After a decade of this, my therapist and psychologist told me that I am Autistic.

I told him this, and he attempted to send me to a long term mental health care facility, gaslighting me extremely badly, claiming I was delusional and making this up. Mind you, at the time I was holding down a remote data analyst job, making more money than him.

Long story but I ended up homeless ultimately due to the actions of him and the rest of my family. My brother decided to start stalking me by enabling parental control on my phone by removing me as an authorized user on the family plan we were both on.

My entire family are unstable delusional idiots, many with serious criminal records, meanwhile I am the only one that went to college and up until they tried to ruin my life, I am also the only one who could solve any of their problems.

I lost everything I ever owned, but honestly, it was worth it to finally realize and be free from how absurdly awful my family is. So much less stress.

Welp, they got a test track and a miniature capsule going 600 km/h so far, or such speed is claimed.

I am not able to find any video actually showing the test capsule moving anywhere near that fast, and strangely the SCMP article you posted makes reference to a potential 1000km/h, while their youtube video on it only mentions 600 km/h.

So basically they have gotten as far as the American hyperloop did.

Guess I'll keep my eye out for updates.

I would very much like to read as much about that as I possibly could!

I will be honest, I still think the general idea of a train of some kind in a vaccuum tube makes basically no sense whatsoever...

... but maybe either this is not exactly that and theyre just using the name hyperloop, or maybe somehow they think they can or already have figured out the engineering/economic difficulties with the core concept.

Either way would make some interesting reading!

Holy shit youre some kind of Super Anarchist!

Yep, as I thought, Anarchist.

I sure hope I don't get murdered in the comments, though surely there's no historical precedent for that!

Uh ok... well if you had ProtonVPN on, selected an endpoint and both those websites showed that your IP is indicated as coming from the selected endpoint, in another country, that is good!

Unfortunately that doesnt tell us all that you would need to know though.

I have to go to sleep, but if you would like send me a screenshot of what both those sites say when ProtonVPN is on, I could probably tell you if you are good to go, or if you need to dive into ProtonVPN settings.

God help us both if the problem isnt the ProtonVPN config and somehow something with your linux config is fucky, lol.

EDIT: I mean pm me the screenshot, not post them here lol.

Also... yeah I used to use ProtonVPN, switched to linux and dear fucking god the non CLI version was so buggy and broken I switched to i think another VPN provider that actually had a working GUI on a debian based linux build, then to a different one that was CLI only, then more or less gave up amd went with Mozilla because at least the fucking GUI worked.

Thanks, he is dead to me now. Probably I am going to need some therapy to uh... process all that.

But no, really, thank you for the empathy. =)

Sorry I thought this was the chapotraphouse subsection, named after the podcast that routinely levels far more barbed insults at contemptible individuals and groups.

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