Tankie is a term used derogatory that essentially refers to people who are self proclaimed communists that support the CCP and other authoritarian governments that label themselves as communist. I’m decently sure the term is a reference to the Tiananmen Square.

The tankie triad is a reference to the 3 biggest instances for them: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net

Now in all honesty I have only seen a handful of bad faith actors. Usually it’s because:

1. They are extremely critical of the US and in extension Israel, which is completely valid because right now the US is a shithole
2. They are extremely defensive of any communist parties. They deny any wrongdoings of the CCP as western propaganda, take the side of Russia over Ukraine, CCP over Taiwan and HK, etc.

To me it’s hypocritical to be against the current authoritarian and fascist US, but also be supportive of the authoritarian CCP and Russia. It’s ok to recognize some actions that the CCP has done as an objectively good thing (like modernization of public transport), but they also deny the fact that the CCP has done atrocious acts and essentially bully the neighbors (aka the rest of Asia).

For reference I have no issues with the idea of socialism or even communism, but the CCP is far from those ideals.

Depends on the state of mercury. Mercury in an inorganic state is survivable. It’d probably still mess up your organs. Organic mercury or mercury in its vapor form is a lot more dangerous, and can cross the blood brain barrier.

A medical video essay about mercury: https://youtu.be/NJ7M01jV058

The inner machinations of an electrical engineer is too complicated for me to understand, I think they might be thinking on a higher order to understand these circuits

Thats why I barely passed my electrical engineering class lol

Can you teach me the ways of reversing time

Notinotes is a neat simple app

Its just notes on your notification bar but my previous app has been scrubbed from almost everywhere so its a nice alternative

https://github.com/Yanndroid/NotiNotes

Clip of his response: https://www.twitch.tv/piratesoftware/clip/AssiduousTiredBoarRitzMitz-j0W1S8wiY9wGCtK7

Video summary (timestamped at where he just trashtalks the movement for a solid minute) https://youtu.be/R-RaQZPzhqU?t=494

I don’t know if there’s any real good TLDR for this situation, here’s the best I could find: https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/streamers/pirate-software-stop-killing-games-controversy-timeline-events

WoW controversy part https://deltiasgaming.com/pirate-software-world-of-warcraft-drama-explained/

There’s a couple of other stuff like abuse allegations against him and other minor controversies like cheating in puzzle games. You can look those up if you want.

Also, for context, I do not condone any of the harm sent his way. I think what he’s done is pretty scummy, but he and his team doesn’t deserve being sent death threats and swatted

The thing the switch can do is play closed garden games because nintendo refuses to release their games anywhere outside of their own consoles

I guess you could use an emulator but thats not ideal for 95% of the population

Unpopular take is a bit of an understatement. He called the entire movement shit and trashtalked it instead of just disagreeing. He also, after all the responses, doubled down and said he hopes “the movement gets want it wants, but not what it needs.”

It’s also not really a one off situation from PirateSoftware

This just served as a way for others to shed light on how scummy he is as a person in general.

Presenting male but identifying (mostly just not publicly out) as another gender

Usually a thing trans ppl do to avoid situations with family or because they live in a red state

Tangentially related is whitelist/blacklist. Nowadays its more common to hear allowlist/denylist or blocklist. Though I’m moderately sure the dated term is coded in something racist, unlike your example.

Isn’t nightcore sped up plus (optionally) additional pitch shift? Some of the vocals for nightcore songs sound a lot higher in pitch than what it would be if it was just sped up

https://youtu.be/f7IvO_XALAs

https://moskowitz-eye.com/blog/lasik-safety-whistlin-diesel (The original video got taken down)

I’m not going to dissuade people from doing lasik, in theory 99% of candidates should not have any issues. Personally the complications of a failed surgery are a little too scary for me.

The other problem is that not every clinic is a morally good one. They might try to upsell lasik on a not so good candidate, and that risk is not a risk I’m willing to take.

I love the sun

Granted I work in essentially a gremlin cave because the designers decided to not install any windows in my team’s corner of the office and I also live in the rainy state

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/azul-crescents-silly-scribbles/list?title_no=934441

Link to Azul Crescent on webtoon

If you’re going anywhere in the wilderness for an extended amount of time, it’s best to have the person driving to bring a case of water in the trunk for this situation (and also first aid)