you must construct additional electrons.

generic term for sentient entity from the sci-fi webcomic Schlock Mercenary.

I always imagine the malevolent clippy from gwern’s short story.

you still wouldn’t be a clanker. clankers are AIs. you’d be a mindripped sophont.

what phonetic writing system is this? it’s definitely not IPA, but it kinda resembles it?

can’t do the UK because I’m trans, but I’m looking at staying in France for a spell at least. thanks for the links!

ohgodletmeinpleaseIneedtogetoutofhere uh I mean yeah understandable

man I’ve been feeling so dorseless lately 😖

there was a libertarian takeover project to use NH as a sort of libertarian exclave. NH also hosts the Porcupine Freedom Festival, which is like a summer camp for libertarians where you pay for booze and wares with slivers of gold. Planet Money has a great episode about it.

it’s not like a majority of NH is libertarian, it’s just the highest concentration of libertarians. and subjectively the vibes are real different from VT.

critiquing both is what makes you a left libertarian.

Libertarians in the US want small government on three axes: they want to eliminate programs (e.g. welfare, retirement or universal healthcare), public utilities (e.g. electricity, highways), and regulation (e.g. antitrust, banking laws.) in economic terms, it’s very right-wing, since it’s pure unadulterated capitalism. usually they want government to “stay out of the bedroom and the boardroom” though, so they’re often progressive on civil liberties. unfortunately, many self-styled “libertarians” are socially conservative, or care only about their freedoms.

Left Libertarians see both the State and Corporations as oppressive power structures, and want to reign both in. think Anarchists, but not as radical. most favor decentralized, collective government with lots of direct democracy. New Hampshire is the most right-libertarian state, while Vermont is the most left-libertarian.

the Libertarian Party in the US is ridiculously disorganized because organizing Libertarians is like herding cats. afaik there aren’t really unified Libertarian parties anywhere in the world, though maybe e.g. the Pirate Party would be close?

aw yeah, motherfucking Cheerwine! though Blenheim’s is a little more my speed.

No boot sequences

(being annoyingly pedantic) technically there is a boot sequence: the Gameboy logo. on the DMG there’s a little blob of code from 0x0000 to 0x00ff that clears some memory, sets up the screen, reads the logo from cartridge memory and scrolls it. the loader only jumps to the game if the logo is byte-identical (the idea being that unlicensed games could be sued for trademark infringement.)

on the GBC the loader is a little beefier but mostly the same.

t. made a horribly broken FPGA core for the DMG that got just far enough to load the Tetris intro

everything is still a problem, it’s just a self-inflicted problem! 😁

“Sir” is in her first name, and her last name is also a boy name.

she actually did that for the “trans” character in the Hogwarts game.

Sirona Ryan. I shit you not.

Tina Cracker.

fuck Putin, slava Ukraini!

I definitely didn’t know how heated people were towards .ml when I joined. istg I’m not a tankie.

I voted for Harris. I’m trans. I can’t get my passport updated. I live in a blue state, so my vote just didn’t matter.