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  • What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"?

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  • Some options:

    • Hypothetically, [...]
    • Theoretically, [...]
    • It's hypothetically possible
    • It's theoretically possible
    • It could be possible
    • It's not impossible
    • It's not mandatory
    • It's optional (only applies to the first example)
    • You don't always need to
    • It's not always necessary
    • It might not be necessary

    I'm not thinking too hard on this, but since you say each of the words convey distinct meanings, maybe try and find a synonym for each meaning of that word. That could work.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • Electoral methods are important and FPTP is an atrociously bad method for a representative election, but the US is beyond that. You can't vote away this level of corruption without first wielding real worker power outside of the electoral system. Reform is a last resort for the corrupt.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • It echoes of China before their ~2011 anti-corruption campaign, they had a serious issue in previous decades where the CIA would basically pay-to-win, bribing officers to give promotions to their confederates. The point being, a corrupt system is easy to exploit, for any country that has some spare change to use.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • Who is "we"? The corrupt government? The corrupt legal framework? The only way to fight a corrupt system like this is to develop political power outside of the system - we must all organize with fellow citizens to wield collective worker power.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.

    Who's this "we"? You can't use a corrupt system to solve the corrupt system, the corruption involves the legal system (remember who is designing and passing the laws!) and the law enforcement officers. So if you want to have the power to lock them away, you're going to have to organize with fellow citizens to develop worker power outside of the state.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • The liberalist faith in law is a huge blind spot. The system is corrupt. It's been corrupt for a while now, but it's unmissable obvious now, and it disturbs me how many people are still saying strange things like how the constitution will stop this, the judges will stop this, the police will stop this. Corruption is systemic, not individualistic. The corrupt system isn't coming to save people from the corrupt system!

    If you aren't already, organize locally with others to perform real political action through our worker power. Even if your local area has to build from scratch - the sooner we as citizens develop political power, the more lives are saved.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • Like some already said, how long ago is "a few years ago"? Because last year my installation had an annoying issue which is now fixed. And maybe five years back, some (newer or rarer) hardware/devices needed a fix through the terminal, but now work perfectly by default.

    I haven't tried Bazzite, but I've heard good things about it and what I know about it so far sounds good. Although @jlow mentioned some alternatives which I wonder if they're even more suitable since you didn't mention gaming. Out of habit, I still recommend Mint to former Windows users. But I haven't needed to input a password for web, graphics tools or office apps, only have to type a password when updating, installing new apps or doing special terminal stuff (which I do by choice!)

    On one hand, Mint's default experience (Cinnamon desktop environment) generally resembles Windows which can make the switch smoother. On the other hand, some other ones fix a lot of defaults Windows chose wrong. Even little things, like moving the taskbar to the top (closer to other options) or to the side (takes up less space), so even if you pick a smaller leap to start with, it's good to casually look around once you're comfortable.

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • I'm picturing "Affirmative. Dollar 1299 now proceeding to window, over."

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

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  • Hold the wealthy accountable and stop letting people get that rich.

    Governance is one of the tools we can use to hold the wealthy accountable and stop letting them get that rich. Not the only tool we have, but a powerful one.

  • I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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  • 2025 Godot Showreel

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  • It's also interesting to see how many game creators and tools (material creation) are being made in Godot.

  • 2025 Godot Showreel

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  • Pingbert's Snow Ride

    I'm a little surprised to see old Tux Racer wasn't listed as an influence.

  • Millionaire CEO warns US economic situation could lead to revolution

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  • The concerning thing is how many people seem to appeal to the same system that enabled this to happen. It's a liberalist attitude of looking for legal loopholes, technicalities and abstract contradictions of ideas instead of recognizing real power and fighting it directly.

    Recall Trump's first term, all the comments of endless smug "gotchas" and lists of laws and constitutional laws broken by Trump. How'd that impeachment end up?

    Now we see the same nonsense again, people implying that ICE can be defeated by suing them, thinking that the police assisting ICE will be leashed by the mayor, thinking that this time the Democrat Party will do what Biden didn't and reverse the slide into fascism.

    No, the sad fact is that you can't just let The System solve this one. You can't vote fascism away at this point. It requires mass community-led solutions, and the sooner that's organized, the less people die.

    Admittedly I often see this discussion through the lens of Internet comment sections so hopefully that's making this seem worse than it truly is.

  • What rule should we add to this community?

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  • You must answer in the form of a question.

  • How Do You Feel About Professional Sports in 2025?

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  • I play sport near-daily but I don't follow professional sports, and I honestly think ideally it should be abolished. It's exploitative entertainment.

    • Athletes often end up with horrible overwork injuries. I remember an interview where a range of former Olympians were asked "Was it worth it?" and the overwhelming answer was no, they now had life-long injury from training.
    • Sport doesn't need to be professional to be enjoyable to play and watch at a high-level.
    • Like OP has said, it's a business. They are parasocial and don't care to truly involve you. They will platform advertisers who foster addiction, to make money. And I feel disgust every time I see a stadium absolutely covered with ads and uniforms covered in sponsorships. It might as well be a billboard with a patch of grass on it.

    I'm obviously not against either sports or high-level competition, but as a profession? No way.

    While many existing sports develop some useful life skills (physical skills, communication, decision making, strategy, ... ) I have an interest in alternative examples that emphasise these. Two of my favorites at the moment are Firefigher's Olympics and Three-Sided Football.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Paper news subscription or any printed magazine

    I've only bought printed local zines/papers as a form of donation to alternative media, the same material is published by them online for free anyway.

  • How do you scare an ICE agent?

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  • What doctor's order do you refuse?

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  • Lucky. In my country that's on the restricted foods list. It's hard to find a doctor to prescribe it.