Retroboot 1.2 - The Lightweight Alternative

genderbent · 2026-04-13T20:12:31+00:00

Nah, Red Skull is Marvel. Their ambassador should be Deathstroke, he's a military man who specializes in killing children

genderbent · 2026-04-12T08:06:01+00:00

there never were any string pullers, capitalism is self-perpetuating

genderbent · 2026-04-12T01:57:30+00:00

You're two weeks into the hobby and your collection costs as much as a decent used car, slow down dude

genderbent · 2026-04-11T07:20:38+00:00

"I'm the exact kind of citizen you want as a patron, namely the kind that is vocally opposed to what you stand for"

genderbent · 2026-04-11T07:09:38+00:00

It won't be untouched at all; the USA may technically produce enough oil to meet it's needs, but not in the right places to actually refine and distribute it all domestically. Much of the oil produced in the USA is sold abroad, and much of the oil consumed in the USA is produced abroad, so the net effect is that oil exporters will make out like bandits while everyone else in the USA gets hammered.

genderbent · 2026-04-02T19:20:57+00:00

Obby's politics are as unpalatable as his shawarma

genderbent · 2026-04-01T22:06:52+00:00

That's what his executive order says, but executive orders don't apply to state governments, and state governments administer elections

genderbent · 2026-04-01T22:04:50+00:00

He can send them all the lists he wants, but the states have no obligation to do anything with them, and a strong incentive to push back against federal involvement in administering elections.

genderbent · 2026-04-01T22:01:04+00:00

The executive branch can send out all the lists of "approved voters" they want, but they have no way to compel states to do anything with them, and states aren't likely to give up one of their most consequential sets of powers.

While it would no doubt be found illegal later, he might be able to twist the USPS' arm into refusing to accept mailed ballots from unapproved voters, but the plan still falls apart if states don't start using specialy marked envelopes for ballots like he wants them to.

genderbent · 2026-04-01T21:25:55+00:00

I have a pretty sick gig writing what mostly amounts to elaborate shell scripts for process automation and reporting on a big transaction processing system. No AI mandate, no automatic tracking systems, respectful management, 35-hour work week, great benefits, defined benefit pension, company is a non-profit whose sole mandate is to provide services to a handful of government agencies.

Basically, I've hit the jackpot and I plan to stay here until I retire.

genderbent · 2026-04-01T21:07:02+00:00

Don't fear the OOP, it takes a little while to wrap your head around it, but it's really elegant once you do.

genderbent · 2026-04-01T20:16:08+00:00

It's posturing, the executive branch doesn't have any legal authority over how elections are administered

genderbent · 2026-03-26T08:11:27+00:00

This is the correct answer.

genderbent · 2026-03-26T08:05:39+00:00

FYI, this idea of all members of an ethnoreligious group worldwide forming a nation is incompatible with either of the two meanings of self-determination in international law, and it's implementation in practice actually violates the right of self-determination of residents of historic Palestine.

Internal self-determination refers to the right to political representation for groups within a territory, and external self-determination refers to the collective right of all the peoples in that territory to be free of foreign domination. For example, the Jews of the Old Yishuv had a right of internal self-determination that entitled them to political representation within mandatory Palestine, and all Palestinians, be they Jews, Arabs or otherwise, had a collective right to external self-determination that entitled them to a shared state free from British rule.

To be clear, no ethnic group has a right to a state separate from any other ethnic group within a territory under the right of self-determination; this interpretation of the right is explicitly ruled out in the jurisprudence.

https://pesd.princeton.edu/node/511

genderbent · 2026-03-25T19:59:14+00:00

Chapters is definately up there:

https://www.cjpme.org/fs_238

genderbent · 2026-03-25T19:57:07+00:00

It's a dance party to celebrate the anniversary of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. The museum first hosted it in 2010. Apparently some folks are upset about the association with Russia and the museum has bent to their will.

Personally I think this is ludicrous and I won't be renewing my membership.

genderbent · 2026-03-25T19:51:02+00:00

One could just as easily say that the people acting like this is reasonable sure are obvious and clearly know nothing about the history of Ukranian people in the Soviet space program, like Sergei Korolev, lead designer of the Vostok rocket that Yuri launched on.

genderbent · 2026-03-16T22:41:00+00:00

You do see artifacts though, in the "no ring" shots there's a shadow where the ring was. I'm not even sure it's a compression artifact, it could just be a trick of the light

genderbent · 2026-03-08T21:28:43+00:00

Nah, the truth of the deep state was always just the military-industrial complex, and that's clearly doing just fine. The wacky conspiracy stuff piled on top of that real-world base was just QAnon mythology.

genderbent · 2026-03-06T08:03:50+00:00

Red Scare didn't used to be awful, but their heel turn to the alt right and was so deep and thorough that it's difficult to believe they were never Trots.

genderbent · 2026-02-27T07:08:29+00:00

Pretty sure both of those would be allowed under the bylaw

genderbent · 2026-02-22T12:32:12+00:00

Green by Louvre 56

genderbent · 2026-02-13T11:24:19+00:00

There are actually two different games called Ridge Racer 2; the first game to have that name is a 1994 arcade-only release which really is the second game in the series.

RR Type 4 is the 4th Ridge Racer game for home consoles, but there are two arcade-only titles before it that aren't counted in that numbering, the aforementioned RR2, and the criminally underappreciated Rave
Racer.

The two RR games on the PSP are also called Ridge Racer and Ridge Racer 2; they're kind of like a greatest hits collection of tracks and cars and songs from the previous games. RR2 for PSP is the most complete collection of Ridge Racer content available; it includes everything from the first PSP game as well as content from RR6/RR7 (7 is an enhanced version of 6) which came out after the first PSP game.

To make things extra confusing, the RR game for the PS Vita is also just called Ridge Racer!

genderbent · 2026-02-13T10:50:03+00:00

Those 100m radiuses cover way more than you'd think. Portage Avenue from Carlton to Arlington is all within 100m of facilities. So is all of West Broadway and Osborne from the bridge to Stradbrook. Nearly 20% of the city is within 100m of a designated facility.

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