The website's quality decline has been for ten years or so. I remember well how it used to be; if I had my first account there it would be, like, 16 years old? (Good riddance.)
I'm glad people mentioned PieFed there (+10 score as of now!), as well as old style forums. (I'm hoping those eventually join the Fediverse. But even if they don't, they still have a place in my heart.)
After Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, now it's Lyon.
I expect "[insert European government] ditches Microsoft" to become more and more common news, until it becomes non-noteworthy.
Group name: None, individual drawing. I'm just reserving the space in case anyone wants to do stuff that interacts with it (like critters climbing it, etc.)
Matrix: none
Template: link
Fun fact: it's a tree. Very wood. Much leafy.
NOTE: the group's goal is to coordinate attacks against the largest country flag in the canvas, whichever it is. Void, random doodling, etc. is welcome.
further info, including channel rules.
Channel rules:
The target is always the biggest country flag. Drawings in the flag are disregarded; only width x height counts. In the case of a tie, the leftmost flag takes precedence. Focus preferably on most iconic features of the flag.
Observers are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. You're also free to join the group even if you belong to another group, just make sure there's no conflict of interest.
Q-and-A
Q1: Why would I join it?
A: Reasons are up to the individual. We don't need to share the same motivation, only the goal.
Q2: What constitutes a large or small flag?
A: Up to debate but we don't need to set this line up, since we're picking on the largest one anyway.
Q3: What about the trans flag? Or the anarchist one?
A: Not country flags, we're leaving them alone.
Q4: What about drawings that are not part of the flag, but associated with it?
A: Leave them alone, and focus on the flag itself. And in the case the flag is built into a bigger drawing, focus on the elements of the flag, not of the rest of the drawing.
Q5: Vandalism is wrong!
A: Not a question, but whatever. This sort of online canvas is not just cooperation, but also competition. Also, people actually concerned about vandalism in the canvas know that the main source of said vandalism are large country flags.
Q6: If u dun liek it, than y u dun fuck off teh gaem?
A: No. People who want to get rid of large flags have as much right to organise themselves towards their common goal as you have to organise your flag. Deal with it.
Q7: as someone working on a large flag, I ask u, can u stop doin that?
Q8: excuuuuuse me, do you know that I'm entitled to have you listen to my defence of large flags?
Q9: ackshyually is this harassment?
No.
Q10: why do you hate [insert population]?
A: Our target is decided based on canvas area, not personal feelings towards the subjects of the government associated with that flag.
Q11: instead of fighting us, why don't you join us to build our MONUMENT?
A: I do monuments like this every day. In my bathroom, just after #2.
Yes. All my yes.
If my analysis is correct, the people in the Ukrainian government do know that Putin and Trump are on the same team. And they're trying to break it, by exploiting the fact Trump has a huge ego and a small brain. That's why Podolyak is framing the attacks as humiliating Trump.
After Zelenskyy was humiliated in the White House no less, he must know these people are Demons right?
When fighting a devil, sometimes you need to make a deal with another.
I'm low-key excited. It has been a long time since the anime series, it was a blast, and based on this trailer it seems the movie keeps rather well the "everything is so fucked up might as well laugh" feel.
Leosqualo da Vinci? Johaainnes Vermeer? 鳍白石 / Qí Báishí? ...Pi-cação?
I'm going to reply to myself because there's a huge discussion in the comment chain, and I'd rather speak freely than specifically address what they're saying. And because this is 90% rant.
A country is not the people it rules over. A country is not a human being. A country is an abstract structure of power. A country is an "it".
No country should be seen as having a "right of self defence" or crap like that; it's the same as saying "I hate people so much I'd put them on the same level as an abstract structure." It's genuinely disgusting.
And someone might say "well ackshyually the Israelis have a right of self defence". Sure; unlike the state of Israel, the Israelis are human beings, they do have the right. However (and this is important), the ones joining the war against Hamas and the Palestinians are not just "defending themselves"; they're putting themselves at risk to defend that abstract structure.
And people keep oversimplifying this shit as if it was "Israel was attacked, so it's self-defending". More accurately, what's happening is that the state of Israel was attacked by Hamas, and using the attack as excuse to kill the Palestinians.
It gets worse. The continued existence of that "it" is causing people to be killed, since it's an ethnostate on the same level as Apartheid South Africa. By assigning "it" a human right of self-defence, you're giving the "it" an implicit thumbs up to kill actual human beings. Now you aren't even putting human beings on the same level as an "it", you're putting them below the "it".
inb4 something that sounds pretty much like "B-but right of self defence! Apartheid South Africa is defending itself, from terrorists like Rolihlahla! Are you siding with the terrorists?".
(I do plan to read replies but I'm not arsing myself to reply to them.)
The factory must ~~grow~~ rule.
Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don't have one, I simply torrent my series.
Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.
And people who don't have bread to eat should eat cake instead. *sigh*