I am by no means an expert, but the test that was explained to me is that if you look at the famous tianamen square picture of the guy holding grocery bags facing down a line of tanks, and then proceed to side with the line of tanks, then you’re a tankie.

When I say that I am not an expert, what I actually mean is that I’m a random idiot from the internet, so don’t take anything I say as gospel truth.

I’ve only been on lemmy for a few months, and I’ve never heard the term tankie on any other platform. My understanding is that a tankie is a militant supporter of communism, who completely disregards (or is in support of) how every time it’s ever actually been done it turns into an authoritarian dictatorship (or something similarly unpleasant to live under).

My own biases exposed: I am an american, and most of what I know I learned in the absolutely fucked american public education system, which says communism = evil, because of the red scare a while back.

If you do some googling, there’s a wikipedia article on the subject. I’ve forgotten most of the content of that article shortly after I read it, I should look at it again and maybe it will stick this time.

I’ll never have kids.

My niece though will have a thorough education on sailing the high seas when she’s old enough to choose media on her own.

You sound like a rational tankie, which by the definitions that lemmies have explained to me, would make you not a tankie.

In order for a 3rd option to be viable, the entire system must change. I’m not holding my breath.

Between now and then, all we can do is vote for the less bad of two evils.

solved for quite some time. it gets mixed with concrete and stuck in a bigger concrete container called a “dry cask”.

Link, because I believe in “outsourcing critical thinking”.

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=Qc0-Z6rVcmS3x78R

Ooof. I hope that’s a stain and not heat discoloration, otherwise that’s not a sword, but a sword-shaped wall decoration.

yeah, but it’s funny tho

fifteen years ago, I was made fun of for asking how the xmen movies related to the mcu movies. LOOK WHOS FUCKIN RIGHT NOW BITCHES.

What really got my panties in a bunch was when the next bus after that flew by without stopping (an hour after the previous bus).

I’m so glad I don’t ride the bus anymore.

THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY BRAIN! I JUST GOT HERE!

What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.

why don’t people use krita? Gimp may be the most famous photoshop alternative, but I almost never hear anyone talk about others that may potentially be better.

I’m an idiot making a thing, and I need to pick a license. Where’s a good place to talk to people more knowledgeable than myself on the subject?

EDIT: so my thing isn’t software, i probably should have mentioned that. I am making a ruleset and setting for something similar to but not exactly a tabletop rpg. The ORC license sounds promising, but the legalese makes my brain gray out. ChatGPT tells me to use a version of the Creative Commons license, but ChatGPT isn’t exactly reliable.

Thanks bro

I get that this is a joke, but I was drunk the other day and had an existential crisis about something similar.

When I write stories, i am inventing a world which basically makes me a god. Am I a bad god for writing stories where terrible things happen?

Interestingly and coincidentally, a couple weeks after that both Overly Sarcastic Productions and Hello Future Me put out videos containing the quote “characters are not people” and I felt personally targeted by that (which is of course ridiculous because why would they know about me?)

… what the hell is a tankie?

(no, I haven’t been here long, how could you tell?)

Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?

krita is pretty good. Not as good as photoshop, but it’s 85% there and doesn’t do bullshit adobe things. There’s an addon for it that brings photoshop like ai tools using stable diffusion, and runs entirely locally.

Dynamic Range Compression. VLC player has it, possibly under a different name though. Set it up on my theater pc, and I almost don’t need subtitles anymore.

chrome used to be good. Emphasis on the past tense.

Firefox was always good. Chrome was very briefly better. Firefox has not suffered enshittification like chrome did.

You’re absolutely right. Microsoft has systematically killed every reason I have for having their software on my pc. I’m not switching to linux because linux got better (although it certainly has). I’m ditching windows because windows now sucks more than I can bare.