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I was sliding down the alt-right rabbit hole, mostly out of loneliness. Algorithms and echo chambers love loneliness.

I think there's a really important threshold, and I'm ashamed to say I reached it, where you know it's propaganda. Where you stop falling down the rabbit hole and start walking down it of your own accord.

The first propaganda, you believe. Some people commit crimes, or hate you, or are dangerous. Capitalism is freedom. The stuff an uncurious and uncareful person can believe all of and still be internally consistent, if wrong.

Then there's the propaganda that requires you to acknowledge the lies you believed earlier were lies. No, it isn't Hispanic people that commit crimes - it's Jewish people! Capitalism isn't freedom - libertarianism, or state capitalism, or whatever buzzword for company towns is in vogue.

And you know the stuff you believed before isn't true. But you still say it in polite company, you mask and start to pretend you aren't someone who believes what you do. You know it's unacceptable.

That's what got me out. Realizing that I was in a dark cycle of self-isolation and internet addiction, and trying to be deliberately social and empathetic and present. Therapy helps, but you've gotta want it.

Not OP, but I know why carbon hurts (and why it's useful!):

Carbon is stiffer than steel. That does a lot of stuff, but two things primarily - one good, one bad.

Good: the force you put into the pedals bends a steel frame more than it does a carbon frame. Every bit of force used to bend the frame is force that doesn't get used to push you forwards, so a stiff carbon frame is a lot faster than a bendy steel one.

Bad: the force from the road works the same way as the force from your pedals: it also gets reduced with a bendier frame, and a stiff frame will take every bump and crack in the tarmac and put that force right into your taint.

I've found consistent enjoyment from Stylix on NixOS. Applies tinted-theming compatible schemes, either custom or from a toml file, to every app with color customization. Easy to exclude, too, which means my Waybar and Neovim stay the same, even when my Hyprland and Kitty change, and can also be updated independently.

Plus, for custom configs that you still want to follow the system palette updates, you can always color = mkOverride ( lib.Stylix.colors.base0X ) to custom-swap within your existing palette.

Anyone know what changed circa 2010?

Nix-specific shell aliases: nixls is 'cd /etc/nixos && tree *.nix(wrong tree syntax hut you get the gist)nixrs` is a function that...

• runs git add . and git status in /etc/nixos
• runs nixos rebuild-switch --flake
• returns you to whatever directory you were in

lib.mkIf for optional configs

Using let ... In {} more often, basically treating nix as a programming language instead of a config language

I'm (genuinely, curiously) interested in the logic for not voting at all.

As I see it, mathematically speaking, my vote is counted either way. The election outcome not being influenced by my lack of vote is effectively giving half my vote to each candidate, for a net zero.

As I see it, given it's going to be counted either way, I'd rather it be counted for the candidate closer to my preferences.

Comrade, what would you recommend I do with that 45 minutes on a workday other than vote?

At no point did I say I'm not engaging in organization. I do, and I think i do so quite effectively. I will also vote for Platner, because the alternative is to effectively vote for both Platner and Collins. My vote will be counted either way, mathematically speaking.

It's actually american law. Europe deliberately designed a parliamentary coalition system. America designed a party system. They differ greatly. The party system mathematically gravitates towards two parties, while the parliamentary system has far more varied outcomes.

You can say that law feeds a mindset, which then perpetuates the law, which then feeds the mindset, which...

But the wheel has to break somewhere, and laws are easier to change than the outlook of people you'll never meet.

****Brother I am, the camdidates I wanted didn't come in first in ranked choice. Volunteering, protesting, didn't win out. Thankfully, we at least have ranked choice.

What am I supposed to do, not vote? Like theres only two people who are realistic to win. I'm gonna puty first choice on a leftist party, but we all understand the mathematical reality of American electoralism mandates two parties and that capitalism has corrupted both.

Platner is likely to be less harmful to the global south. I'm trying to change restaurants, but renouncing citizenship and leaving is easier said than done. Paperwork takes time.

I'm not saying Platner's a comrade. I disagree starkly with him politically. Also, his platform would be materially better than Susan "photo ops with white supremacist militias" Collins.

To make a food analogy: I like a turkey Reuben. Platner is a McDonald's dollar-menu burger that's been sitting in the sun all day. Collins is a can of indoor-use DDT pesticide from the '50s.

Neither is what I want to eat, but I only get two choices and I'm gonna be forced to eat one of them. I'm gonna choose the one that's less likely to immediately harm me.

jjjjjjjjjjj? Nah fam, 11j.

I was on the fence about this exact thing. My logic is that corruption requires wealthy/powerful people to be corrupt in favor of. If there were no billionaire class, no bourgeoisie, there would be no people who benefit from the oppression of the proletariat, so corruption as we conceive of it in modern America couldn't exist.

Of course, people will act unpredictably and some people with power will abuse it, but the whole system of billions being spent on campaign contributions and lobbyist dinners couldn't continue if there weren't entities with billions to spend.