The Panopticon Is Here.

Resistance Is Futile, Puny Earthlings.

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2025
  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workstoBluesky@lemmy.world•Just saying
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    8 hours ago

    Not a Jan 6, more like a Revolution of Dignity.

    Jan 6 was against the constitution. The current regime is anti-constitution. The Jan 6 people and the current administration are committing treason. Section 3 of the 14th amendment means the current adminitration is illegitimate. In contrast, getting rid of the current administration would actully be patriotic since we would be restoring the constitutional order. And therefore, this should not be categorized as a “Jan 6”.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you combat boredom?
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    12 hours ago

    Look around at the objects in your house and imagine if an assailant broke in to your home/school/workplace, or if you are on the street, they jump right in front of you ready to attack, what is your plan?

    What weapons do you use to defend yourself, where are the escape routes, do you record evidence, or call for help, and who do you call? Can you even trust the law enforcement. Do you run or counterattack your assailant. Where can you ambush your assailant. etc, etc… Its a fun mental excercise that could save your life.

    “What do we say to the god of boredom?”

    “NOT TODAY!” stabs

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workstoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Does a vpn really matter when torenting? Do people care?English
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    12 hours ago

    I mean I torrented without a VPN on comcast/xfinity and nothing happened besides a few emails, eventually they stopped even sending those emails. I mean I had my own unlimited mobile data plan, and everyone in my household is abusive to me so I just decided to test what happens, worse case scenario, their internet gets shut off and I’d just have to use my own mobile hotspot connection. (Don’t judge, I’m just very petty about being on the receiving end of abusive behavior and I would sabotage my own family for revenge) Welp, after like 6 months of downloads, nothing happened, I eventually stopped doing that and used a VPN because I wanted to watch some weird tv shows and movies that I didn’t want them know about.

    But this is anecdotal, don’t test this at home.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workstoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 English
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    1 day ago

    Actually, the funny thing is, in my experience in both China and the United States, I noticed that the US has no safey barriers while China actually does. The first few yesrs of my life in the US, I had a phobia of falling onto the tracks so I basically just hug the wall. There are some stations where there are tracks on both sides and the station is in the middle, I hate those. No safety barriers really sucks.

    Although, I got to say, the “Tofu-dreg construction” is a big problem in China. Luckily, I’ve neven fallen in to an escalator platform in the years I was there. Food safety tho, that’s probably an even bigger problem, its a common issue that I remember my mom always talked about. The government sucks at enforcing food safety (I’m not sure if they even had food safety laws).

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites?
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    1 day ago

    Some people just reach a point in life where their brains are just incapable of learning empathy. I would just cut ties if you can. Lile what happens when they wanna watch fox news and then it doesn’t work? They’ll just bother you again saying “the computer is broken”.

    Long story about my family (its gonna bore you to death)

    My entire family (aside from my brother) is just sitting in the living room warching content spoonfed by WeChat, about China’s military strength, something about “using military” to “resolve” the Taiwan issue, and since we are in the United States, there are also some anti-Democrat rhetoric, something like “NYC Dems RUINS city, by inviting DANGEROUS MIGRANTS” (but written in Chinese of course). Oh did I mention my family are immigrants? None of us are born here. My dad and grandmother who lives with us are still a non-citizens. and I heard my dad several times complaining about the “illegals” “taking away resources from society”. Blocking WeChat isn’t gonna work since the main reason they use their phone is to access WeChat, its not really a phone anymore, its a WeChat Terminal.

    I guess the language barrier has a lot to do with this. I mean there are also Taiwanese news, but they instinctively don’t trust anything from HK, or Taiwan because they have been programmed to ignore those “evil rebel secessionists” so only what comes from Beijing is considered the truth.

    And what’s worse, there are some “influencer” bullshit with videos teaching people how to parents. Basically a bunch of filial piety shit and advocacy of corporal punishment if their children “misbehaves”, “video games are bad”, “work harder”, “if you spend you free time to relax enjoy yourself, you’re wasting your life”, a whole bunch of bullshit, on par with the western Youtube “influencers” acting like some sort of gurus.

    Which is probably why I never had much of “happy memories” growing up, life is so fucking miserable because of propaganda and these “influencers”. Why the fuck is it still okay to hit your children, wtf society?

    I just facepalm and don’t even bother, they’re too deep into the propaganda machine. All I said to them is: “if y’all don’t wanna get deported, y’all better hope Harris wins”.

    Welp, I guess we’re in the dark timeline.

    So… Roll the dice. Deportations? Or perhaps cecot? Gitmo? Their small bussiness and all their assets surely are gonna get confiscated ironically by accusations of being “CCP Spies” (they’re not spies lol, just idiots that watch too much WeChat, but surely that would be a convienient excuse by the tyrant in chief)

    Sometimes all you have to hope is for them to die, so the next generation take the mantle and can fix this.

    As for my brother, he’s in some conspiracy rabbit hole, instead of the tyoical propaganda, he’s inventing wacho theories about the world, so not much better:

    TLDR: My whole family is just so fucked up, guess that explains where my anxiety and depression came from, this shit does really run in the family.