Urist

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[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Generally speaking, Library Genesis, Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub are your friends :) Otherwise you can try to email the authors. They will probably provide you with a copy.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

It is a work of art!

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What became of the second spidey?

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

I obviously downloaded a car after seeing that obnoxious anti-piracy ad.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As far as I know all bikes have these. The number is definite proof of ownership, but can of course just be removed by the perpetrator (if they bother).

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yes! Two days ago, someone stole my bike. That is, I had parked it (and locked it) in a bike garage monitored by CCTV at the train station where I commute and when I came back from work my bike was gone and only my broken lock was left. However, as I looked around a little the thieves had not moved it far, only down a floor into the premium "bike hotel" area that is an actual locked in area as well. So I just called the company, and they let me in and gave me my bike back.

Afterwards, I called the police to let them know someone stole my bike and that the whole ordeal was caught on cameras (they have to open an official investigation before the footage can be used due to surveillance laws). As I tried to report the theft (or attempt thereof), I had the following fun conversation with a policeman:

  • Me: Explains the circumstances of what happened.
  • Policeman: (Interrupts) "Yeah, maybe you should keep that in mind for next time."
  • Me: "Uhm what?"
  • Policeman: "Yeah, maybe you should be a little bit smarter with regards to where you put your bike."
  • Me: "Uhm OK, I just told you I put it in the designated parking spot that, as pointed out, is monitored."

I get that they do not really care about bike theft as they account for 30% of reported thefts, but I mean come on. They obviously moved my bike (along with others, I assume) to a nearby area so they could collect them all in a van later that night and drive off unnoticed. The police could have sent one patrol there at the right time and have them caught red-handed with video footage of the entire ordeal. Incompetence and unwillingness to actually do their work is precisely why there are so many thefts to begin with. Had I said I was a shop owner and had a bike stolen, I am certain they would show up in no time.

TL;DR: Bike got stolen and the police sucks. Thankfully, the thieves sucked marginally less, so I got my bike back.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Wealth tax and taxing inheritance. You know it works because the capitalists flee the fucking country as soon as you inplement it (or rather before, when they buy information from a corrupt official or legally from a politician).

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

That is where I looked and could not find it, albeit only on my short commute from work.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are not wrong. I got curious how much they receive in donations, but could not find anything about it in their financial statements.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Transsexual "women" fail to meet one basic requirement to be considered women: they are not female.

Ok.

When the left stretches things up to the point you can face legal consequences for truthful speech, we digress into totalitarianism.

This is not at all what totalitarianism means, look it up in a dictionary or something.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The woke mob wants me to affirm that a transsexual woman is, in fact, a real woman. I will not say that. I would be a lying. I tend to pursue truth. Truth does not care about people's feelings.

Ok. Seems to me that you just want a free pass at being an ass.

She is a real woman even though she does not conform to your expectations of what gender is. Here is the thing though: She does not need your affirmation to

  1. be real
  2. look like a woman
  3. live like a woman
  4. feel like a woman.

What reason do you have to claim that she is not a "real woman" (whatever that means, I can guarantee that it is not well defined)? Most importantly, if she feels like a woman, even if you disagree on some metaphysical level of nonsense of what is a woman, why would you have the need to tell her what you think? Lastly, why do you think your opinion about her body is important?

 

The bourgeoisie in my country have pushed the euphemism of "working capital" as something that needs protection from wealth tax. By inseparably connecting capital with jobs, they push the narrative that you cannot tax wealth without removing jobs and consequently hurting the working class. They paid for research groups to prove this connection, but what their research actually showed was that wealth tax creates jobs due to incentivizing keeping profits within the companies they own. The audacity to think owning the means of production is a privilege they should enjoy special treatment to keep is beyond me, but even so, this type of rhetoric keeps gaining ground.

What is the propaganda they are pushing on you, and how can socialist policies prevail if reason loses to made up words changing the narrative?

 

Perhaps the best part of Dwarf Fortress is creating and sharing stories. Share yours below!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Urist@lemmy.ml to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml
 

Great Toady of course wrote this with the "hopefully" caveat, but here is to hoping.

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