https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Eustache

He actually can basically any woodwind instrument. He’s not just a musician, he knows how to craft flutes, too. Like, Yo Yo Ma is talented but he ain’t carving his own cellos

This is a demonstration of the innate Chinese bigotry towards nomadic peoples. First, a great wall to keep the steppe nomads out, now the kids can’t choose to live off their 21st century horse (aka a car).

The tank mission was terrible, they should have stuck with FPS

Arial, Comic Sans and Times New Roman are the only fonts they know by name. Arial sounds too much like the (woke) mermaid, and comic sans is too geeky. Times New Roman it is!

This is probably the actual thought process

Times New Roman Salute

CW: very racist rhetoric

This is from yesterday, popped up on my feed, a post by my friend’s brother. Inadequately regulated is putting it lightly. I reported it over 24 hours ago and yet it persists. Not pictured: half a dozen posts re: climate change. Spoilers: he believes climate change is real, but it’s the brown people’s fault for emissions as if the global north doesn’t subcontract their manufacturing to the global south.

I did say “the devil you know vs the devil you don’t”. The random chat program registered in Mozambique by a resident of Belarus at the behest of an investor in Syracuse may be worse, but allowing impressionable children to be bombarded by the above isn’t any better.

Idk, hopefully the kids find a Hexbear instead of finding a Stormfront. I might be unusually optimistic about the whole thing, but leaving reddit, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube might not be an entirely bad situation.

May the trans kids find a better online space than reddit and discord. May the insecure kids find a better online space than instagram and youtube. They deserve a space but the poisoned well of American for-profit social media conglomerates shouldn’t be it.

I largely agree, but:

It will push kids to unregulated spaces

Facebook, X and to a certain extent R*ddit are already unregulated spaces. My friend’s younger sister fell down a zionist rabbit hole because she’s queer and lib queer spaces bought her into the whole “Israel is the only safe space for LGBT in the middle east” and “Muslims want to murder queer people” rhetoric that the algorithm gave her. Like if she wasn’t deprogrammed fairly early on, she’d probably end up like Eve Fartlow.

I love her to death, but her showing me a video she saw on FB or whatever about whatever National Endowment for Democracy funded video about Xinjiang (as the only Chinese person she knows personally) and asking me if I’ve seen it was very heartbreaking.

It’s the devil you know (Zuckerberg, Musk, u/spez) vs the devil you don’t.

The Australian government’s ban on piracy/“”“copyright infringement”“” was to half ass a filter they hand to ISPs that’s very infrequently updated.

So when thepiratebay or eztv or whatever moves to a new domain, it’s available for several months. I have friends who don’t use VPNs and get around the “block” by going on Google and searching “nyaa proxy” and one of the redirects on the page would work.

Oh, and if you swap your DNS to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4, you can indefinitely bypass any Australian government censor.

Australian kids should just learn Chinese.

Semi-serious, the kids here are so monolingual they’re almost American.

R*ddit banned, Hexbear still allowed.

Trust the plan, patriots are in control

Gathering of the Juggalos for neoliberals

Would it not increase the instances of translocation? You’re less likely to run at full speed at someone else if neither party were wearing armour.

I haven’t looked into yank football, but if it’s similar to the introduction of gloves to boxing, it’s overall detrimental.

Boxing gloves reduces visible damage, but vastly increases CTE and straight up fatal blows. Gloves spread the surface area, but adds weight doesn’t lessen the force of the punch which rattles the the brain inside the skull.

There were 400 fatalities in the ring in the 50 years after introduction of gloves and 0 in the 50 years before, and that’s not mentioning CTE.

Bring back the biff

While we’re at it, bring the sanctioned ice hockey fights into grass hockey

Kirked up white girl with no swag busts it down sexual style (with J.D Vance)

Such a cringe sword. Of all the fictional swords to get a replica of, SAO shows you have worse taste than someone walking around with fuckin’ Frostmourne or Zanpakutō or even the goddamn Keyblade

Round the world the truth will echo:

Cromwell’s men are here again

England’s name again is sullied

In the eyes of honest men

This really does remind me of a guy I know who subscribes to Jordan Petersonism re: drug addiction (or at least pre-Benzo addiction JP) while simultaneously worried about cheap Chinese cigarettes flooding Australia.

Found Drew Pavlou’s account ig