I am by no means an expert, but the test that was explained to me is that if you look at the famous tianamen square picture of the guy holding grocery bags facing down a line of tanks, and then proceed to side with the line of tanks, then you’re a tankie.

When I say that I am not an expert, what I actually mean is that I’m a random idiot from the internet, so don’t take anything I say as gospel truth.

I’ve only been on lemmy for a few months, and I’ve never heard the term tankie on any other platform. My understanding is that a tankie is a militant supporter of communism, who completely disregards (or is in support of) how every time it’s ever actually been done it turns into an authoritarian dictatorship (or something similarly unpleasant to live under).

My own biases exposed: I am an american, and most of what I know I learned in the absolutely fucked american public education system, which says communism = evil, because of the red scare a while back.

If you do some googling, there’s a wikipedia article on the subject. I’ve forgotten most of the content of that article shortly after I read it, I should look at it again and maybe it will stick this time.

Is that normal? That doesn’t sound normal. If I, a random nobody from nowherevill got convicted of thirty something felonies in a single trial, would my sentencing be multiple months later? I actually don’t know, and that might be because I’m kindof an idiot, but this whole thing smells of bullshit.

This is the year of the linux desktop!

By our powers combined, we’ll exceed 2% market share!

(no actually, please support linux. I just switched like a month ago and while it’s so much better than windows there are so many petty annoyances that will never get resolved unless more people bitch about it and that kind of support needs more users)

I’ll never have kids.

My niece though will have a thorough education on sailing the high seas when she’s old enough to choose media on her own.

You sound like a rational tankie, which by the definitions that lemmies have explained to me, would make you not a tankie.

In order for a 3rd option to be viable, the entire system must change. I’m not holding my breath.

Between now and then, all we can do is vote for the less bad of two evils.

I didn’t know biden was this far gone. We’re so fucked. the DNC is such a shitshow, they’ll refuse to nominate anyone else, and the debates prove he doesn’t have a chance.

If trump wins the election, democracy in the western world is dead. The DNC needs to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and figure this shit out real fucking fast.

Why is trump not in prison right now? I thought he was convicted on thirty something counts of felonies a couple months ago.

when was the last time you installed windows? Also, what version? If you’ve only ever had it set up for you, then you may have only used windows that had already been cleaned of all the bullshit. This includes pc s provided by your work.

For win10, the install iso provided by microsoft puts ads for games in the windows store in the default start menu. I have installed many win10 pc s over the years, and candy crush (among others) is always there.

The game isn’t out yet. The fuck are they talking about success for?

it’s yet another open world survival craftathon with fortnite building and a gimick. If you like the gimmick, then good for you, don’t let me tell you not to like the thing you like.

I’ve seen a number of these games come and go. Ark survival, raft, conan exiles, rust, and more that I’ve forgotten the names of. Obviously there’s a demand for a game like this, but none of them stand above the rest. If you ignore the aesthetic, then they’re all the same. Play one and you’ve played them all, and to me that’s boring.

solved for quite some time. it gets mixed with concrete and stuck in a bigger concrete container called a “dry cask”.

Link, because I believe in “outsourcing critical thinking”.

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=Qc0-Z6rVcmS3x78R

Ooof. I hope that’s a stain and not heat discoloration, otherwise that’s not a sword, but a sword-shaped wall decoration.

yeah, but it’s funny tho

I did not read the article. However, the headline really makes it sound like I’m supposed to think that paying for sex is a bad thing. Don’t get me wrong, Matt Geetz is a fucker and should probably be in prison, but we live in current year. It should absolutely be ok to hire someone to get your rocks off.

fifteen years ago, I was made fun of for asking how the xmen movies related to the mcu movies. LOOK WHOS FUCKIN RIGHT NOW BITCHES.

What really got my panties in a bunch was when the next bus after that flew by without stopping (an hour after the previous bus).

I’m so glad I don’t ride the bus anymore.

THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY BRAIN! I JUST GOT HERE!

What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.

and become facebook? I’d rather not.