It sucks being around plague rats all day, because an N95 is only so effective and I still get sick occasionally, though no COVID so far. On the upside I make sure to just randomly call in sick a few times a month to take some extra days off
I agree the core issue is less female characters of course, but I also know that JRPGs tend to be plagued by long-winded male monologues, especially from villains. EDIT: Was just thinking, I’d be curious to know how Chrono Trigger holds up regarding this. I remember the game having pretty great writing for the female characters and even had an openly ~~non-binary~~ gender non-conforming character which was neat for a 90’s SNES game.
This is huge. A commenter on Lemmy just discovered this simple hack that has been plaguing social media since the 90s. Read to the end to understand how. So this Lemmy commenter replied to another comment–this is so unchained, this is why I love social media–that was itself a reply to an image of some other replies originally spotted Garfield on reddit. They found that you can get people already primed for scrolling to read pretty much anything as long as you provide an engaging emotional framing for the pointless content.
Holy shit the transphobia on is bad. I generally avoid default like the plague but I got bored this morning and checked out r/all. Enormous mistake. I’m not even trans and the amount of psychic damage I took from 5 minutes in one of the threads was so intense I had to gtfo. It’s like weaponized ignorance and mixed into one. I don’t even know what words to use anymore to describe how bad it is. The level of was through the fucking roof. Like, I knew transphobia was rampant but my brief time in this wonderful space almost lulled me into a false sense of “maybe it’s not so bad”. Fuck that. Anyone who self identifies as a redditor deserves the
Hustle culture “you are the average of the your friend’s net worth” is a plague but what bothers me more if that the responses make it sound like economic realities are a matter of perspective. Whether people across socioeconomic goods, class divides etc. are faring well is something that can be objectively measured. Never perfectly but if done well the readings can still be extremely useful. But the “I fucking love science!” ers come up with responses like “uhm ackshually the people doing well are not going to be bragging about it on reddit” as if it is something worth adding to the conversation.
Way way back in the day, I wrote a graduate symposium paper on why China was going to become a global power. I was right, and in my presentation at a hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea (so posh…) I stated that many younger people weren’t viewing China as any worse than the US. Some were viewing China as the lesser of two evils in a world plagued by, for lack of a better term, oligarchical bull shit. No nation at the top of the world stage is great, but when you look at thing amorally, China is beating out other countries in a number of places right now, the seeds of which were sown 15 years ago. These include infrastructure, renewable energy spending, mass production of higher (note I said higher, not high) quality consumer goods (cars and battery tech came out on top), education, and well-being for the population. Yes, you can double take, but China has actually invested pretty heavily in healthcare outcomes and population well-being in a way that makes places like the US or UK look laughable because I include transportation infrastructure in that measurement. I’ll have an aside below you may find interesting… On the flip side, today’s younger people don’t know about the violence of the 1980s and 1990s. China’s invasion of Vietnam. The abhorrent human rights abuses then, and the abhorrent human rights abuses of now. The now is important because, China is socially engineering it’s population and using very hard engineering via a party approved justice system to ensure China is what the CCP and Xi want. But they don’t see it. They see Epstein, Putin, endless wars, inflation, christo-fascism, and a stable and non-confrontational China. So I get it. And, as RejZor said, Tsingtao beer is pretty good when you compare it to the other “national” brands. Aside: There’s a story from a British journalist I can’t find, but is burned into my memory. I think it’s from Ken Burns’ The West. He observed the Americans built the state capitol of Montana way off in the middle of seemingly nowhere. Might have been a city hall, but whatever. The Americans said the city would grow over to it, and they were looking ahead. That’s what China is doing now with their high speed rail, highways, and solar projects. They are building for tomorrow. That’s huge and people who are living in a world of potholes, education cuts, and rising prices see that and say, “Hey, they’re doing some good shit over there.”
The list was compiled in 2002 so it’s missing a lot of contemporary ones. with the purpose of effecting “regime change,” attempted or materially supported by the United States—whether primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election (SE): 1893 – Hawaii (Liliuokalani; monarchist): success (OF) 1912 – China (Piyu; monarchist): success (OF) 1918 – Panama (Arias; center-right): success (SE) 1919 – Hungary (Kun; communist): success (CO) 1920 – USSR (Lenin; communist): failure (OF) 1924 – Honduras (Carias; nationalist): success (SE) 1934 – United States (Roosevelt; liberal): failure (CO) 1945 – Japan (Higashikuni; rightist): success (OF) 1946 – Thailand (Pridi; conservative): success (CO) 1946 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): failure (SE) 1947 – France (; communist): success (SE) 1947 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE) 1947 – Romania (Gheorghiu-Dej; stalinist): failure (CO) 1948 – Italy (, communist): success (SE) 1948 – Colombia (Gaitan; populist/leftist): success (SE) 1948 – Peru (Bustamante; left/centrist): success (CO) 1949 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): success (CO) 1949 – China (Mao; communist): failure (CO) 1950 – Albania (Hoxha; communist): failure (CO) 1951 – Bolivia (Paz; center/neutralist): success (CO) 1951 – DPRK (Kim; stalinist): failure (OF) 1951 – Poland (Cyrankiewicz; stalinist): failure (CO) 1951 – Thailand (Phibun; conservative): success (CO) 1952 – Egypt (Farouk; monarchist): success (CO) 1952 – Cuba (Prio; reform/populist): success (CO) 1952 – Lebanon (; left/populist): success: (SE) 1953 – British Guyana (; left/populist): success (CO) 1953 – Iran (Mossadegh; liberal nationalist): success (CO) 1953 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO) 1953 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE) 1954 – Guatemala (Arbenz; liberal nationalist): success (OF) 1955 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO) 1955 – India (Nehru; neutralist/socialist): failure(CO) 1955 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): success (CO) 1955 – China (Zhou; communist): failure (CO) 1955 – Vietnam (Ho; communist): success (SE) 1956 – Hungary (Hegedus; communist): success (CO) 1957 – Egypt (Nasser; military/nationalist): failure (CO) 1957 – Haiti (Sylvain; left/populist): success (CO) 1957 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO) 1958 – Japan (; left-center): success (SE) 1958 – Chile (; leftists): success (SE) 1958 – Iraq (Feisal; monarchist): success (CO) 1958 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO) 1958 – Sudan (Sovereignty Council; nationalist): success (CO) 1958 – Lebanon (; leftist): success (SE) 1958 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO) 1958 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (SE) 1959 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO) 1959 – Nepal (; left-centrist): success (SE) 1959 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO) 1960 – Ecuador (Ponce; left/populist): success (CO) 1960 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO) 1960 – Iraq (Qassem; rightist /militarist): failure (CO) 1960 – S. Korea (Syngman; rightist): success (CO) 1960 – Turkey (Menderes; liberal): success (CO) 1961 – Haiti (Duvalier; rightist/militarist): success (CO) 1961 – Cuba (Castro; communist): failure (CO) 1961 – Congo (Lumumba; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO) 1961 – Dominican Republic (Trujillo; rightwing/military): success (CO) 1962 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): failure (SE) 1962 – Dominican Republic (; left/populist): success (SE) 1962 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (CO) 1963 – Dominican Republic (Bosch; social democrat): success (CO) 1963 – Honduras (Montes; left/populist): success (CO) 1963 – Iraq (Qassem; militarist/rightist): success (CO) 1963 – S. Vietnam (Diem; rightist): success (CO) 1963 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO) 1963 – Guatemala (Ygidoras; rightist/reform): success (CO) 1963 – Ecuador (Velasco; reform militarist): success (CO) 1963 – United States (Kennedy; liberal): success (CO) 1964 – Guyana (Jagan; populist/reformist): success (CO) 1964 – Bolivia (Paz; centrist/neutralist): success (CO) 1964 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): success (CO) 1964 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/marxist): success (SE) 1965 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): success (CO) 1966 – Ghana (Nkrumah; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO) 1966 – Bolivia (; leftist): success (SE) 1966 – France (de Gaulle; centrist): failure (CO) 1967 – Greece (Papandreou; social democrat): success (CO) 1968 – Iraq (Arif; rightist): success (CO) 1969 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist): failure (CO) 1969 – Libya (Idris; monarchist): success (CO) 1970 – Bolivia (Ovando; reform nationalist): success (CO) 1970 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): success (CO) 1970 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): failure (SE) 1971 – Bolivia (Torres; nationalist/neutralist): success (CO) 1971 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO) 1971 – Liberia (Tubman; rightist): success (CO) 1971 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO) 1971 – Uruguay (Frente Amplio; leftist): success (SE) 1972 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE) 1972 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): failure (SE) 1973 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): success (CO) 1974 – United States (Nixon; centrist): success (CO) 1975 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): success (CO) 1975 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): failure (CO) 1975 – Bangladesh (Mujib; nationalist): success (CO) 1976 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): failure (SE) 1976 – Portugal (JNS; military/leftist): success (SE) 1976 – Nigeria (Mohammed; military/nationalist): success (CO) 1976 – Thailand (; rightist): success (CO) 1976 – Uruguay (Bordaberry; center-right): success (CO) 1977 – Pakistan (Bhutto: center/nationalist): success (CO) 1978 – Dominican Republic (Balaguer; center): success (SE) 1979 – S. Korea (Park; rightist): success (CO) 1979 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (CO) 1980 – Bolivia (Siles; centrist/reform): success (CO) 1980 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO) 1980 – Italy (; leftist): success (SE) 1980 – Liberia (Tolbert; rightist): success (CO) 1980 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): success (SE) 1980 – Dominica (Seraphin; leftist): success (SE) 1980 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO) 1981 – Seychelles (René; socialist): failure (CO) 1981 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): failure (CO) 1981 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist); success (CO) 1981 – Zambia (Kaunda; reform nationalist): failure (CO) 1982 – Mauritius (; center-left): failure (SE) 1982 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): success (SE) 1982 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO) 1982 – Chad (Oueddei; Islamic nationalist): success (CO) 1983 – Mozambique (Machel; socialist): failure (CO) 1983 – Grenada (Bishop; socialist): success (OF) 1984 – Panama (; reform/centrist): success (SE) 1984 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (SE) 1984 – Surinam (Bouterse; left/reformist/neutralist): success (CO) 1984 – India (Gandhi; nationalist): success (CO) 1986 – Libya (Qaddafi; Islamic nationalist): failure (OF) 1987 – Fiji (Bavrada; liberal): success (CO) 1989 – Panama (Noriega; military/reform populist): success (OF) 1990 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): failure (SE) 1990 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE) 1991 – Albania (Alia; communist): success (SE) 1991 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): success (CO) 1991 – Iraq (Hussein; military/rightist): failure (OF) 1991 – Bulgaria (BSP; communist): success (SE) 1992 – Afghanistan (Najibullah; communist): success (CO) 1993 – Somalia (Aidid; right/militarist): failure (OF) 1993 – Cambodia (Han Sen/CPP; leftist): failure (SE) 1993 – Burundi (Ndadaye; conservative): success (CO) 1994 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE) 1994 – Rwanda (Habyarimana; conservative): success (CO) 1994 – Ukraine (Kravchuk; center-left): success (SE) 1996 – Bosnia (Karadzic; centrist): success (CO) 1996 – Russia (Zyuganov; communist): success (SE) 1996 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): success (CO) 1996 – Mongolia (*; center-left): success (SE) 1998 – Congo (Kabila; rightist/military): success (CO) 1998 – United States (Clinton; conservative): failure (CO) 1998 – Indonesia (Suharto; military/rightist): success (CO) 1999 – Yugoslavia (Milosevic; left/nationalist): success (SE) 2000 – United States (Gore; conservative): success (SE) 2000 – Ecuador (NSC; leftist): success: (CO) 2001 – Afghanistan (Omar; rightist/Islamist): success (OF) 2001 – Belarus (Lukashenko; leftist): failure (SE) 2001 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE) 2001 – Nepal (Birendra; nationalist/monarchist): success (CO) 2002 – Venezuela (Chavez; reform-populist): failure (CO) 2002 – Bolivia (Morales; leftist/MAS): success (SE) 2002 – Brazil (Lula; center-left): failure (SE)
Anybody know when they plan to release 0.18? I’ve been following the development, I’ve seen a couple of beta tags but I haven’t seen anything concrete so I’ve just assumed it’ll just be out whenever it’s ready. Meanwhile, people are plagued with this issue now so I don’t know whether patching it myself would solve the problem for a couple days or a couple weeks. EDIT: looks like it’ll be pretty soon https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3090#issuecomment-1591009865
Other kernels, such as the Windows and macOS kernels, are somewhat similar too, in that they are also large and bloated monolithic kernels with huge attack surface, but they at least realise that these issues exist and take further steps to mitigate them. As an example of this, Windows has historically been plagued by vulnerabilities within its font parsing code so in response, Microsoft moved all font parsing out of the kernel and into a separate, heavily sandboxed user space process, restricted via AppContainer. Windows also implemented a mitigation to block untrusted fonts from specific processes to reduce attack surface. Similarly, macOS moved a substantial portion of its networking stack — the transport layer — from the kernel into user space, thereby significantly reducing remote kernel attack surface and the impact of vulnerabilities in the networking stack. Linux, however, does not focus on such systemic approaches to security. This one is particularly funny, combined with the idea that they think windows or macOS is more sandboxed than linux. For years, internet explorer was so tightly integrated into windows, that clicking a browser link could install malware that would affect your entire filesystem, steal all your regex and system data, and even cause your OS not to boot. In the mid 1990s, identity theft was exacerbated by the fact that microsoft, rather than fix bugs, would sue the people publishing the bugs.
The Black Death (bubonic plague) that devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th century did not occur on the American continent. However, a later, separate outbreak of the bubonic plague was introduced to the Americas around 1900, resulting in the following recorded deaths: United States (1900-1904): The first major outbreak in San Francisco killed at least 119 to 172 people. United States (1900–2015): A total of 1,036 human plague cases were reported in the U.S. during this period. United States (1900-1942): Before antibiotics, there were 511 cases, of which 336 were fatal (66% mortality rate). United States (Recent): In recent decades, an average of seven human plague cases are reported in the U.S. each year. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov) Key Facts on Plague in the Americas: Origin: The plague arrived in the US on rat-infested steamships from Asia, primarily affecting West Coast port cities. Endemic Status: The disease established itself among wild rodents in the Western US (especially New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado). Location: While rare, modern plague cases in the Americas occur primarily in the United States and Peru. Smithsonian Magazine