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Yeah.
Our society is pretty sick. I predict full scale fascism, probably inside 8 years unless a civil war derails it.
It's a sad day when I'm hoping for civil war.
I don't want to leave. I'd be leaving behind the only family I'm close to, a friend of 30 years, and various and sundry other loved ones. I feel like I'm abandoning them. I know I will feel sick keeping up on American affairs from abroad. Assuming I do get in to canada, I'll feel terrible for the advantages I had that I couldn't grant my own brother or sister, or all of my friends that are racial, ethnic, gender, or sexual minorities - people I'm close to and/or people that will suffer american fascism the hardest.
I don't want to leave. But I don't think I can stay. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Yeah, I would feel the same, we are definitely sliding into fascism, and even today, 74 million people voted for Trump and a great many insist he must have won. This won't end easily
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No matter what someone believes it's hard to ignore that a good portion of the population believes The Big Lie. People will simply disagree about what the Big Lie is. (Election was stolen/Election was not stolen - we were always at war with europa/we were never at war with europa)
We're in a post-truth point in this society, and post-truth is pre-fascism.
Things have gone totally post modern here. It's no longer about what is true.
What is true is now what people in power tell you is true.
The election was legitimate and *not stolen* only because of who has the power right now. Not because it's the truth.
Let me see if I can explain this better. The truth in this country, right now, is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is power. People in power dictate what is "true"
Because a significant portion of the population wants it that way. It feeds their alternate reality bubble, because in addition to being lied to, they're being validated and affirmed.
But it doesn't just affect them. It affects everyone now. We have to impose "truth" at gunpoint. The scary thing is, they will impose their "truth" at gunpoint and again, it comes down to power at the end of the day.
People are so divided that they can't even agree on what is objectively real.
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Yes, democracy is broken. If 40% of the population vote based on bullshit they read on the internet (white genocide, agenda 21, Q), then how can votes represent the will of the people?
And yes, I watched insurrection be planned on Parler. I see people talking about violence being the only solution, on Mewe, every day. I was permanently kicked off Facebook for not liking fascism
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I for one am glad to see the back of Donald Trump - you've been quiet on here of late - are you working on another article ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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One on backtracking algorithms?
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I've been juggling some projects, plus my windows has been down. Getting a new PC tomorrow should fix that.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Getting a new PC tomorrow should fix that.
I am curious... what are you getting?
I am patiently waiting for the new Radeons to be available / a bit cheaper than launch prices to buy a new computer for me.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah, I would wait if I were you. I couldn't because my current machine has serious problems and I can't afford to wipe it. I need to run two machines in tandem for awhile while I move things.
My machine is:
AMD Raedon 7 .. 4650? I think it's called. 8 cores.
32GB of RAM,
512GB NVMe primary storage,
2TB (IIRC) of HDD secondary storage that I'll wind up eventually replacing.
Currently onboard video, but it's probably good enough for me, esp since it's that APU powered mess. We'll see. If nothing else I'll buy a used vidcard for like $200 online
500W power supply, tower case, fan cooled
I paid about $1200 USD for it through Amazon, so it was pretty good deal I think.
The CPU benches @ 3rd place right now at the sites I've checked.
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Oh you get sun where you are do you? Luxury!
(and I just got the point of this. It's been a tough day. All I can say is with one thing and another I'm going to have to find a real book to read given my jaw-dropping news reading days are now over)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Brighter indeed! Brilliantly put.
I can explain it too! But I would end up in the soap-box!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Run rabbits run.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Iron near iridium tethers the hellion of the trickster. (6)
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Iron FE
near NR
iridium IR tethers the hellion of the trickster.
FENRIR (Wolf fathered by Loki (the trickster), and which killed Odin)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I am impressed by your knowledge of the comics ecosystem
/edit : Added the joke icon - I know about nordic mythology and not mistaking it for marvel.
modified 20-Jan-21 6:02am.
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My comics ecosystem was the Beano and old copies of Superman comics from the second hand book shop when I was a kid!
Oh, and 2000AD when that came out: "Y'know a kiss on the hand might be quite continental, man. But tactical thermonuclear weaponry is a guys best friend."
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modified 20-Jan-21 5:13am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: My comics ecosystem was the Beano and old copies of Superman comics from the second hand book shop
 And let's not forget the Dandy.
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I couldn't afford both of 'em! 
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You missed out on Dennis and Gnasher 
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Dennis and Gnasher were in the Beano! (And the Bash St Kids, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz, ...)
The Dandy had Desperate Dan!
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Just testing
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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 Yep.
OriginalGriff wrote: and which killed Odin
Are you saying that we are all progeny of Lif and Lifthrasir after the events at Ragnarök?
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I see no Norse Gods around (other than Vidar, Vali, Baldur, Hodr, Modi, and Magni - and they emigrated to Florida, I think) so it's entirely possible!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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It's here and it's Zig (ZigLang[^]).
If you didn't like Go and you hated Rust well, you're going to detest Zig.
But the dealio is that you can play this nice game in your browser all thanks to Zig (Oxid[^]).
Based Upon, which Was Based Upon...which was...
Oxid is an arcade-style game where you fight waves of monsters in a fixed-screen maze. This is more or less a clone of Verminian Trap (2013, Locomalito). Verminian Trap was originally inspired by Wizard of Wor (1980, Midway).
So, get your loathing powers fired up and start loathing Zig today.
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Looks good! 
I almost want to try it out, and be the zag to your zig! 
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