Have you ever had to install a Windows OS without the internet because the network card you have doesn’t work without setting up, and setting up requires an OS? I’ve encountered this twice in my life. The first time I actually paid money to Microsoft for Windows 8, and it was such a disrespectful fuckaround I pirated the next one, and am dropping Windows altogether after that.
I remember that as a kid in China, my uncle would give me a stick of incense to ignite fireworks with to put some distance between my short ass 6 year old arms. And also, with the exception of the roman candles, they had to be placed on the ground and I wasn’t allowed to hold them.
It’s a Festivus miracle!
I think the discrepancy comes from whether or not you’re logged in to an existing Hexbear account.
I got a screenshot on PC in an incognito window for just visiting Hexbear as a guest (default: Local and Active) vs my default as a user (All and Active, since federation at the very least)
Ignore the Nvidia pop up, I launched a game in the middle of testing this
Didn’t come here from slop or any other comm, it’s genuinely the top for me. Default settings, which are sorted by All & Active.
Considering we’re not federated with .world, this is probably the most active thread on our federated spaces.
Edit: also there’s quite a few .zip bots which would have artificially boosted the activity
Hmm, my previous work must have had some exceptionally cheap product if it’s below McDonalds in standard. Iirc the ingredients mentioned it was something like powdered potato and palm oil. They tasted ok, texture when cooled down was like damp Pringles.
It was the only thing we imported from America
I thought that was for fresh/frozen house cut fries. Doesn’t processing the potato remove some of the nutritional value? Its been a while but I recall reading an article about mash from reconstituted potato powder having a far lower amount of potassium and vitamins than an equal amount of fresh.
I have witnessed the American diet. It mostly appears to be high fructose corn syrup drink, burger, fries and microplastics.
I would assume there is a small amount of vitamin C in ketchup and trace amounts in the lettuce on the burger. But I’m not sure how much you would have to consume to meet your daily intake.
Mongolian, just for preparation for when the Mongols rise again. It’s just a matter of time.
Huh, I wasn’t expecting good news today.
Huh, my friend absolutely abhors chiropractics. But I guess also all the family members who don’t listen to her and instead waste money to get their spines fucked with
Orthopaedic doctors hate chiropractors
Someone (well, something) who doesn’t violate you because he can’t, not because he wouldn’t, is not a good example.
Like, Thomas Edison didn’t sell me out using his light bulb. Not because he was a good person, because he physically couldn’t. If he were alive today he absolutely would.
So America brained. “Oh they had a pre-existing condition, my sympathy insurance doesn’t cover that then.”
As a Chinese person it’s actually really refreshing to not be inundated with western propaganda. Here’s some examples that come to mind:
The US quietly admitting the “Spy Balloon” did no spying several months and millions of dollars later.
People are actually moving into “ghost cities” as it pre-emptively neutralized a housing crisis before it began
China’s social credit system is actually extremely benign and fragmented while aiming to target businesses and businessmen, tracking bankruptcies, scams and reneged deals and so on.
But you’ll get people too propagandized to accept truth even if, for example, all the sources you provide are from reliable Western media
Huh, wonder who that’s for
The AI wasting hours of processing power having an internal struggle session re: outdoor cats before simply replying with “:pigpoopballs” on a platform that doesn’t have that emoji
Reminds me of Pierce Hawthorne’s dad in Community, he said something like “Swedish dogs, you’re tainted by race mixing with Laplanders. You’re practically Finnish!” Which meant absolutely nothing to me at the time the episode aired but now I realize is a callback to Ben Franklin era racism
“You mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America. I want you guys out of my country by tomorrow morning.”
“But this is Japan!”
“Every country in the world belongs to America”
It’s the opposite of achieving nirvana. Instead of being at one with everything, it’s being at odds with everything.