The development of the one after this one, for Doom Eternal, is a sad story and a good cautionary tale.

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

Lol

If you know what you’re doing, then sure. I do not. I know too many stories of people who attacked delicate machinery with their good ideas and then got all surprised when it afterwards functioned worse, and not better.

I don’t think they care. They are simply trying to destroy. The specific details of this program, what it does, and its impact on either the people who use it or the IRS or the treasury, are completely irrelevant.

Unless it impacts someone whose initials are “DT”, “EM”, or “VP”, they literally couldn’t care less. That’s why they periodically are becoming surprised that something they attacked without even bothering to figure out what was downrange does impact one of those people, and then having to reverse themselves.

A lot of drugs that give you uncontrolled mental energy will give you focus, insight or creativity, in short uncontrollable doses. In the same way that burning down a building will let you see into rooms that you never were familiar with before. For a short time.

I have heard that meditation can give you the same type of experience and insight without destroying you while you are doing it. I can’t say I know for sure, but I can believe it.

We’re clearly both capable of having a normal discussion, I think, and have now started to do so. Strong feelings on this type of topic are okay. Just because we’re together doesn’t mean we need to agree 100%. It is ok. I definitely didn’t come here to bicker, and I think neither did the other person. Look at the nature of all our other comments.

You used the word “electoralism” as a pejorative. In my experience, that is associated 100% of the time with being opposed to voting in elections. Also, most of what you described as “not really trying” that I described was referring specifically to trying to stop Trump getting elected.

Stopping Trump from getting elected would have been the easiest and safest way, by far, to stop all this ongoing nightmare from happening. If my interpretation of your reply was wrong, and you’re agreeing that trying to stop Trump from getting elected was incredibly important, and a good thing, then sure. Surely you can understand how I could have gotten some other impression, though.

If you have ideas for what to do now, I’m all ears. Protest sounds good, strikes and boycotts sound good, spreading truth and standing up for the forces of “2 + 2 = 4” sounds good, but that’s about all I can think of that I think will take things in the right direction, and it all doesn’t sound likely to succeed any time soon.

When you write things like “we’re fucking trying” – speaking for all of us, not just yourself – don’t you agree that it rings a bit hollow?

I didn’t mean everyone in the US. A lot of us are though, a lot of them more than me. I get that it could have come across as talking about all the people here and that it’s pretty hollow. That’s why I explicitly said that I get it, and I don’t want a medal or a cookie for any of it, because it’s pretty cold comfort for someone in some other place who wasn’t involved who is now also staring down the barrel. That part of it, I get.

You’re going to lecture me about how trying to stop Trump from winning in November was not important, because it is “electoralism?” Please tell me that’s not what you are saying. It sounds like that’s what you are saying.

I am clearly including activities outside of “electoral outcomes” in what I am saying, and don’t need any sanctimonious reminders about them. You can read back, if you missed it. Lecturing me about how electoral outcomes are unimportant, in the wake of what’s happening right now, deserves some kind of every-single-person-in-the-audience-smacking-their-forehead gif.

I don’t think this is true. People remember Sophie Scholl. People remember the French resistance. People remember the Warsaw ghetto uprising. And people remember Pétain, too, and what happened to Mussolini once “his” people got sick of it all.

Anyone who has to stop the whole conversation to lecture the other participant about how they need to be showing more respect right now, is almost invariably a piece of shit.

People who genuinely earn respect don’t feel the need to instruct people in how to show it and correct them on it if they aren’t.

True, but according to what I just became an expert on two minutes ago, you can file form 2555 and deduct the first $130k of your wages, and all your housing expenses on top of that. It sounds like working abroad means you still have to keep in touch, but your tax burden is likely to become minimal as long as you’re legit not maintaining a presence in the US.

It’s all still theoretical as applied to me personally. And there is still the big decision of “flee to safety” versus “stay and fight.”

Yeah. It’s fucking heartbreaking.

We’ve done these things before. We did it to the Kurds and the Afghans, we’re doing it to the Palestinians on an ongoing basis. But this feels different. We are the world’s enemy.

Dude, we’re fucking trying.

I wrote letters to voters trying to keep this guy out of office, I donated money, I hassled friends and family to get them to vote, I wrote letters to my congress people. I’ve been to one protest so far, which is not enough. I argue with people in person about politics and I shitpost on Lemmy, which seems like a waste of time electoral-outcome-wise, but I think the wild success the Russian troll farms are having kind of implies that there’s at least a little bit of impact from it.

I think this weekend I will apply for some jobs outside the US. I can’t stand the idea of my taxes going to help all this bullshit happen. I have no idea how much if any I will follow through on that kind of thing, but I’ve been thinking about it anyway, and this was a hell of a kick in the pants to motivate it. It is probably better for my safety, to be honest, anyway.

I’m not asking for a medal from you for any of that of course. I get it. But also, helping us fix our democracy is going to be a better and safer way for the rest of the world than is trying to come after us as a “rogue state.” That kind of problem is still in our wheelhouse, and is likely to remain so for the most part even as Trump tears apart all the rest of it.

Yeah. It makes me feel physically ill when I think of it. I’m not even joking. It’s mostly not even anger, although there is that, it’s just a sick wrong feeling inside.

I don’t usually get upset by world news. I was genuinely upset about what happened today.

I cannot imagine being in Zelensky’s position, having the future of his country depend on how skilled he can be at placating a bunch of mean children who are needling him with ridiculous lies in front of the entire planet and then yelling at him when he pushes back. And probably beating himself up (as the press will surely do) about how, in hindsight, he should have done a better job. Not that Trump should have done something different: That he should have.

Fuck 'em. Sure, in a theoretical sense, it’s true. But it’s not even the point. The bullying nature of the whole setup, to make it “his fault” when everything blows up because of Trump and Vance’s cruel posturing, is the point.

I just sent Ukraine’s defense ministry some money: https://u24.gov.ua/ and click on “donate now” in the top right corner.

Fuck 'em up, guys. These assholes do not represent us.

Hm, I would try just changing it back first. Use geekroom.tech. Any community or anything that federated or went into the database, with one of the other hostnames, is probably cursed now, and best just deleted and never looked back on. But, if you try to reinstall, you won’t be able to keep geekroom.tech as the domain at all, you’ll have to pick a new one (or just use a subdomain like lemmy.geekroom.tech).

Once stuff is federated out from one install under some given domain name, it’s pretty much immutable from that point forward. It probably shouldn’t be that way, but that is the current state of things with ActivityPub being the way that it is unfortunately.

It says: The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error.

rDataHoarder also doesn’t show in the list of local communities.

Did you change the domain of your host, after it had already done some federation and created databases, or something like that? I do see the rDataHoarder community in the list of non-local communities, which is a real bad type of error to be seeing. You didn’t do any hacking around in the database to fix things or anything did you? That should never be that way as far as I know.

Hm, I saw no posts on your instance for !rDataHoarder@geekroom.tech, so I tried to make one on my instance to see if it would show up, and now your server’s giving me an internal error viewing that community. Do you know what’s up with that?

I think the time period during which whatever-it-was was making things not work, may have left your federation of communities in a borked state. One thing you can try: Unsubscribe from some particular remote community from all users on your instance (so your instance will request to stop getting updates). Then, resubscribe, and see if you start getting updates again. The initial request to get updates might have gotten swallowed by the brokenness.

This might be a good question for the devs, also. Both because they can help more and because they should know about it as an issue (whether or not it was caused by some Cloudflare thing and whether or not it was your “fault” in setting it up, both of those questions I have no idea.)

It’s also illegal to fire people from congressionally-mandated agencies, or steal their funding so you can do what you want with it, and yet here we are.

Yeah. It’s honestly just kind of heartbreaking, watching the position that he’s in.

You’re not wrong. On the other hand, it’s easily possible that they will just happily make exceptions for them. A lot of what they’re trying to do is install “the right people” in place administering the right elections, who will make sure that “the right people” still have their rights protected, whatever the law says.