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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • MAGA are patient, playing the long game, they’ll wait? These are the guys that wear diapers to virtue signal they’re Trumpers, and charge into the Capitol building when they lose an election.

    They’re neither intelligent nor patient - they just have NEAR ZERO pushback from all the people in institutions around them, everyone turning to the person next to them going, “gosh that’s … can you believe they’re doing that - that’s unconstitutional and definitely illegal”.

    I read the article, and even the outgoing Fulbright board just handball the problem to the next people.

    [With] the board calling on Congress, the courts and future Fulbright Boards to “prevent the administration’s efforts to degrade, dismantle, or even eliminate one of our nation’s most respected and valuable programs.”

    Why the hell are they not doing that? It’s cowardly and its essentially a strongly worded letter.






  • Refuting irrefutable evidence is their bread and butter.

    Jan 6th?? Livestreamed attempted coup, recorded at a hundred different angles. With a thousand different people saying “I’m doing a coup”. Mock gallows. Mobs of terrorist traitors shouting “hang Mike Pence!”,“hang Nancy Pelosi!”. Carrying guns, knives, handcuffs and cablecuffs. Multiple bombs placed (still unsolved). Smashing into government offices, beating and killing cops.

    “It’s overblown. It’s deepfakes. They’re crisis actors. It’s a false flag by Antifa… Ok so they’re MAGA but it was just a peaceful protest… OK so it happened and was violent but so what, it was justified. They’re being prosecuted for being pro-Trump, not for breaking the law. This is all the deep state! … Trump should pardon them… Trump pardoned them. Nothing was done wrong and there’s proof”


  • I think I’ll just keep using tailscale until they start enshittifying, and then set up a Headscale instance on a VPS - no need to take this step ahead of time, right?

    I mean, all the people saying they can avoid any issues by doing the above - what’s to stop Tailscale dropping support for Headscale in future if they’re serious about enshitification? Their Linux & Android clients are open source, but not IOS or Windows so they could easily block access for them.

    My point being - I’ll worry when there is something substantial to worry about, til then they can know I’m using like 3 devices and a github account to authenticate. MagicDNS and the reliability of the clients is just too good for me to switch over mild funding concerns.


  • Channel 9 are not quite Fox News level but definitely Fox Lite. They’re careful in their written news articles to only be centre-right, but their video and TV news broadcasts are heavily favoured to right-wing bias and favourable story selection, and always very critical of any left wing interests.

    I’m not sure of their YouTube channel is available worldwide, but if you check that out if you can and you’ll quickly see it’s got all the same talking points as Sky News Australia (News Corp - Murdoch, Sky News is the Aussie version of Fox News).




  • Would it shock you to know that ALL of these are in the Steam terms of service also?

    The only really sus one to me is the forced arbitration clause, and Steam also had that til they were pressured to remove it by multiple legal cases, including a class action brought to them by Steam users just last September. It is only sus because it’s outdated - companies are generally removing them now rather than adding them. https://www.legal.io/articles/5540864/Valve-Removes-Mandatory-Arbitration-from-Steam-Subscriber-Agreement

    RE: remaining top 5 bullet points, 3 of the remaining 4 bullet points are uncontroversial bullet points about anticheat. The fourth is banning modding, which is also just a heavy handed anticheat attempt, and not uncommon for online games to add to their ToS to allow banning at their discretion. Either way its clumsy at the least as some mods can be harmless eg HUD mods for colourblind people and deserves some negativity - but not to this level, given everything else is just so boilerplate.

    Collected data types: these are all for if you buy stuff with a credit card / paypal / etc off 2k/parent company Take 2. Remember, they sell games with in-game purchases. They also have an app which has location permissions option which is what the precise location is about.

    So yes - again, as OP said, this is nothing controversial if you have paid attention to ToS meaning and content over the past 20 years.

    Aside from the forced arbitration crap - which Steam, Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, Uber, Google, AT&T - and hundreds of other major companies all snuck into their ToS over the years, and many have now been legally pressured to remove by consumer rights group. That is stupid because it shows their legal team is behind the times, companies are mostly removing their forced arbitration clauses nowadays because it has been the cause of many lost class actions.