The bravery of this women to speak up for injustice! No doubt she is going to “face consequences” for this disruption. Let’s wish her the best.

Salam Alaykum Ibtiahl Aboussad!

That did the trick. Thanks! Now I feel stupid for posting this.

My mirror must be permanently down because I’ve attempted to install cmake several times over the past three days. How do I go about switching it?

Massive congratulations to Europol and its partners in taking this shit down and putting these perverts away. However, they shouldn’t rest on their laurels. The objective now is to ensure that the distribution of this disgusting material is stopped outright and that no further children are harmed.

With that logic, I might as well throw away my computer and phone and go full Uncle Ted.

I feel that the whole “Woke/DEI” era will be remembered as a poorly timed inflection point. On one hand, you had the media conglomerates, who, instead of investing in original content decided to put stock in continuations of established franchises which often had poor writing and were poorly executed. These works also just happened to have a “diversity” angel to them. At the same time, we saw the increase in right wing voices online that started to infiltrate the fandoms of those already established franchises.

Social media algorithms also began to push this kind of content to a wider audience. How many times have you seen a random Youtube video with titles like " X is WOKE PROPAGANDA TRASH! Hollywoke is in DECLINE! " appear in your feed or homepage? If the work in question was a critical flop (i.e. terrible), it was not a flop because of creative deficiencies. No, it was a flop because it had a non-binary black character!

You never heard legitimate criticisms like “Hollywood is putting profits before good entertainment” or “[Show or movie] had poor writing, bad acting, terrible direction and didn’t contribute anything to already established canon.”

Take Deep Space 9 as an example. A great show with a very diverse cast but that diversity would be useless if the characters weren’t as fleshed out as they were. Now imagine what the discourse around DS9 would look like if it were made today:

“A New BLACK Protagonist? Star Trek Has Gone WOKE!”

“Jadzia Dax and Odo: Trans Ideology PROPAGANDA?!”

When a new piece of media comes out and there is a massive stir attached to it, ask yourself this: is the criticism warranted or is it ideology driven?

They arrested this century’s Oppenheimer but they won’t arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!

Forget about growth. Forget investors. Forget about all those capitalist nonsense. What good are profits if everything goes to shit? The best thing about Lemmy is that it doesn’t give a shit about that. It’s decentralized and community driven. Capitalism prioritizes money not people.

Look at you, in-in-insect!

Just make sure they don’t smoke.

They should call it EUROS.

Correct me if I’m wrong but extensions can still be installed manually correct?

I only think of one thing: nostalgic park memories.