Twitter is so unfathomably back (note: This is from BlueSky, which is twitter but pretending not to be)

He should die historic

Choking on hard vacuum or incinerated in rocket fuel are good options

Jack left Bluesky's board because it wasn't racist enough and went back to twitter which is pretty fitting for the guy who invented a website as awful as twitter

This is in response to the coup (which has already flared out, as the president is too unpopular to even order the military properly). He accused the opposition legislature of being North Korean agents, declared martial law to try and close the parliament, and then got swamped by protests before he could get tanks and helicopters into position.

This would have been South on South violence if it hadn't already ended

The counter to siege tanks is lurkers, everyone knows this.

The south has more advanced artillery though, they've been modernizing a bunch of their old systems based off what's been going on in Ukraine; a WWII 105mm howitzer is unlikely to survive towed to 6 miles of the target, set up, and sit there firing shells in the era of drones.

But throw that thing into the back of a truck that automatically tells the gunner where to shoot and can leave before the drones/counter-fire arrives, and you've at least got something that's not just a death sentence.

Here's a youtuber who talks about warfare and economics who went to a korean arms expo

If NK is prepared to fight WWII, but on the Korean peninsula, it's not going to go well.

It is. He's got some nasty Internet brain, but I think that comes with the profession

It was super trans for a while, but now it's been flooded with marvel-hamilton-reddit-resist libs, but right wing hate accounts like libsoftiktok have been banned immediately.

It's better than X the everything app though.

The secret is to find starter packs that sound like your vibes (socialist, shit posters etc) follow them all then unfollow the ones you end up disliking.

I've been using it just fine, but I also use it the same way that I use Twitter. I mostly just followed the Chapo boys and my Internet art friends and put it on Following only, instead of interacting with randos.

I read that pro-Palestine accounts started getting shut down very aggressively pretty much right away, but I don't have an account there so I cannot independently verify that.

It's still early days. They are committed to open source code and their work shares some cadres and ideas with the original scuttlebutt (secure-ssb), so for now I have faith that they can build a sustainable open ecosystem before they get eaten by capitalism. The slogans and technical plans have been saying mostly all the right things, the ceo is a millennial former OWS activist, etc.

The actual practice of how they've responded to the recent growth surge is lackluster. They should be working on end-user/volunteer moderation tooling and instead they're putting out statements about "verification".

Their own site moderation has their hands full with just right wingers and illegal shit, but the flood of transphobic resist libs is still enough to drive some of the cool LGBT leftists off the site, since private accounts are not a thing and will not be for a while.

Some Europeans can compete but they are outliers and it's still accurate to say that Korea produces the best players. If Starcraft ability turned out to be a valuable skill during a civil war (it won't) then it is definitely fair to say that South Korea has the greatest reserve of it taking into consideration the great many retired pro-players (who do not compete anymore in the now dead scene for table scraps).

Europe has got many more current and ex pro FPS players which is probably more likely to be actually transferable (but not really).

If any skill were actually transferable to a civil war it would be organizational skills (of real people not the magic absolute orders of RTS) so as much as I hate to admit it the gamers you actually want on your side is the ex-WoW players.

I had a friend who was a pro starcraft player a few years ago. He drank ½-1 gallon of 3.5% milk every day and was thin as a reed and pale as a ghost.