[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 5 points 3 days ago

I have been using Tuta since the start of the year when I decided it was time to remove myself from Big Tech as much as I can. Really highly recommend them!

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Christ, what an asshole

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I was aware though under the impression of improving geospatial and mapping models. There are many ways in which we are now entwined into these systems and so it's a matter of deciding, on a personal level, what you are comfortable with.

I am certainly not comfortable with the data going to Saudi Arabia where access to such is used for active suppression and harm.

Maybe it was a naive viewpoint at the time, but the climate of 2016 was very different to what it is now.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 160 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a level 50 Pokémon Go player, who has played since release day, and that's the app deleted.

Next up will be requesting removal of my data under GDPR.

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Just sharing some thoughts on this as I procrastinate weekend working.

I am a relatively new player to FFXIV. I started earnestly about a year ago, after getting to around level 35 in the MSQ way back in 2015. Before FFXIV, my main MMO was Guild Wars 2 for around 9 years and prior to that WoW for around a similar amount of time.

As I progressed through the earlier expansions I was assured that the story was fantastic, even if major leaps in logic

spoilersuch as the construction of the huge Talos to reach Mount Gulg or Varis suddenly believing in the need for rejoining or Zenos turning up at the conclusion of Endwalker

were prevalent in all expansions.

I was also lead to believe that Dawntrail was going to be absolutely awful with terrible writing and a slog on the level of post-ARR. But, honestly, that hasn't been my experience so far. I have just finished the level 91 journal and I am finding the story of Dawntrail quite refreshing after how WoL-centric the previous expansions were and I am enjoying the world building being a bit more subtle and delivered via small character interactions rather than being beaten over the head with exposition for cutscene after cutscene.

I have been warned that there are moments where the narrative tension is sapped, but that was also really prevalent in Shadowbringers (as a Viera player, Rak'tika Greatwood was beyond disappointing) and Endwalker

spoiler(much of Elpis and Ultima Thule)

I've also heard so many complaints about the balance and game design that I am just not really understanding. Perhaps I really need to dip my toes into Savage to understand this, but looking at the concerns it seems very quaint compared with the balance issues in other MMOs (looking at you Guild Wars 2)!

Maybe things really will get monumentally worse and I won't enjoy DT by the end of it, but I am enjoying DT considerably more at this stage than the other expansions aside from Shadowbringers.

I will try to remember to come back and share thoughts when I am done!

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 16 points 3 weeks ago

I am not sure what you don't understand about the statement that walking back support is, in fact, walking back support.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 28 points 3 weeks ago

Walking back support in one area is walking back support.

It ain't that complex. As soon as concessions are made, the far right demands more because there must always be an enemy to crush completely for the in-group. Who will then pick a new enemy when it comes politically convenient.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 70 points 1 month ago

The US regime believes in notifying parents, irrespective of the possible harm, if their child might be gay or trans but won't bother with bullying so severe it leads to suicide. The US is fucked.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 62 points 1 month ago

Ahh, phrenology is apparently scientific if you do it with AI?

I fucking hate this timeline

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 21 points 1 month ago

I think it is a link to X so I won't click on it.

This was just announced https://retrohandhelds.gg/retroid-pocket-flip-2-announced/

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 14 points 1 month ago

I'm not surprised sadly - I have a PhD in chemistry and then continued to a postdoc and teaching before heading elsewhere. During my undergraduate there was a woman on the course who was very good and very competent but was also evangelical to the point of believing in a young Earth. To her, concepts such as half-lives were just lies that needed to be learnt.

Normally that has been flushed out by the time of doing a PhD, but if not it really should be.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 16 points 1 month ago

Kinda totally past the point of caring about that distinction tbh. We're seeing where conservatism leads and it's abhorrent for anyone with a mild sense of decency that cares a shred about science and a world with even a hint of equality and acceptance.

[-] DimlyLitFlutteringMoth 91 points 1 month ago

I really cannot fathom how anyone that has been paying the slightest bit of attention to anything they've been doing during their PhD could vote for Trump and his fascists.

They were very clear what they were going to do and that included cutting this support.

It's a huge assault on the sciences and Trump being in power and acting as king has already been impacting American researchers in hard sciences to the point where papers on physics and chemistry that are under peer review are requested by authors (and in some cases journals that should be investigated by COPE) to be substantially changed.

The censorship is incredibly wide ranging and these idiot PhDs don't seem to have woken up yet to how bad it is.

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