I feel like those posters aren’t really socialists either. There’s a point which just claiming a worldview isn’t enough to justify the accuracy of that label while holding all the opposing positions to its values.

I’d like to block all users and posts from hexchan, exploding heads, and lemmygrad. I don’t care if it sends the data as long as it blocks it from my UI.

What’s that written in? Python? I need to learn Python.

I honestly wouldn’t give those people the dignity of calling them leftists. They’re too concerned about cosplaying as activists and dunking on people to actually give a shit about advancing the rights of real people or trying to protect anything good.

Honestly, it’s begun to feel more hostile and shady. Pretty sure the Russian trolls are here, but hexchan ain’t helping either. I’m waiting for a client side instance block feature. We really need it.

Harvard has its CS50 lectures online for free. Can’t hurt.

I definitely noticed that it’s pretty seamlessly replaced Reddit for me at this point. It’s been a decent source of stuff to read and there’s enough of it now that I don’t feel like I’m just seeing the same thing repeatedly.

I like reading articles and discussions, so it’s nice to be able to have that without propping up some big toxic company.

I’ll believe it in a couple of years if he doesn’t turn up having faked his death again.

Ew, no. Go away.

A good number of them seem to be trying to import reddit into Lemmy wholesale.

Uhh, don’t think it’s the propaganda that’s perpetuating the war. That’d be the invasion.

Found the Russian sympathizer though.

I’ve more paid attention to Ukranians’ accounts of events than major media coverage. Lots of pictures of really old tanks being dragged away by farm equipment and other extremely dated supplies being found. If this is anyone’s propaganda it’s Ukraine’s, in which case I’m happy to participate.

Nobody said it hasn’t been hellish for Ukraine, or that it hasn’t been a hard fight. Even if they were equipped with entirely WW2-era supplies, an invasion is an invasion, and by all accounts this has been a particularly cruel and brutal invasion.

I really don’t care at all about being fair to Russian engineers at the moment.

I don’t think most countries are using first aid kits from the 70s.

As long as you take some oxygen with your hit and you sit down. People have definitely bonked their heads trying to do nitrous while standing up or even walking around.

Yep, it’s nitrous oxide. It can be purchased in 3 grades. Medical grade requires some kind of licensing, food grade does not. Don’t inhale industrial grade nitrous.

You can either use a typical barista/restaurant style whipped cream can or you can pick up a cracker from a head shop. The whipped cream container is a bit less grippy on the balloon than a proper cracker, but you don’t have to worry about your hands getting too cold. The gas is compressed so it comes out very cold.

Hitting them from a balloon is a lot more pleasant than hitting them from a whipped cream compressor, and balloons are absolutely necessary for a cracker or a tank. A tank without a balloon would likely freeze your lungs and kill you. It also facilitates putting an absurd amount of gas into two or three balloons and going through them a bit faster. It doesn’t stay in your system long, so you kind of have to work at it to get a decent dose all at once.

The nitrous itself is actually fairly benign, but you have to make sure you take air in with it or you can get light headed and maybe pass out. But that’d happen with any concentrated non-oxygen gas being inhaled in large quantities. So always sit down, and pace yourself.

Doing way too much way too often can lead to this weird wrinkly hand condition apparently, but I’ve never met anyone who’s even come close to doing that much that regularly. Most people I know who’ve gotten into it either buy a few balloons at shows or pick up a box of carts once in a blue moon. It’s incredibly addictive for a very very short time and then really not remotely. Probably why it isn’t restricted in the US at all. I’ve seen it sold at concerts in front of cops many times. And there’s definitely no hiding it. You can hear a tank from easily a quarter mile away.

Yeah I’ve heard people refer to ‘wahs’ too, but that makes me think more of the sort of baseline state of that sound/feeling, not the bit where it sort of pushes over the edge.

Nitrous tends to produce some sort of ambient auditory hallucinations, often in a way that directly corresponds to feelings of physical euphoria. A sort of rippling-breathing almost echoing effect is common, but often a hallmark of a really good hit is a sort of ringing sound that tends to be accompanied by a particularly pleasurable and relieving feeling. It’s really addicting in the short term, but most people are kind of over it after a couple hours.

You can definitely lose track of how much you’re spending in that time, though. Many do.

I thought it was implied that they were triple balloons.

Is… Is this a boomery economic reality denial meme with a wizard? Oh no not 3 dollar toast.

Look, just one more. And then another after that. And like two more because I had a ringer and I want to keep it going.