ennemi [he/him]

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Cake day: December 29th, 2022

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  • The backing comes at a crucial time as Lindner’s Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, announced in June that all ties with the bank were to be frozen pending a government review over claims made by a former Canadian top executive at the bank, who reported widespread “communist dominance” within the institution since its foundation in 2016 — allegations that the AIIB denies.

    You mean the investment fund that was literally founded by the Chinese government because China had less voting rights in the existing “Asian Development Bank” than the fucking United States of America? The one they have minority voting rights in?

    The full depth of this reasoning is just “China bad”, that’s it. That’s the quality of our public officials. This country is a fucking joke.


  • If you live in a big city and can pick from a bunch of disciplines, I’d say either muay thai or K-1 kickboxing for striking and either wrestling (folkstyle or greco-roman), judo or BJJ for grappling

    If the only gyms in your area are regular ol’ boxing gyms that’s still a very good way to train, same goes for kyokushin karate specifically (can’t recommend the other types of karate for learning self-defense)






  • Cool comic and mostly good advice but I’d make some adjustments and additions :

    • Don’t ball up your fist, keep your hands relaxed and flex your knuckles right before impact
    • Exhale as you’re throwing the punch, you’ll get a bit more power and you won’t get tired as fast if you have to throw some more
    • You shouldn’t lean into it that much, leaves you open to unpleasant things like getting knee’d in the face
    • Best not to “follow through” like that either. Your punches should be snappy and practically bounce off of the nazi’s face. This is also conducive to punching more nazis, or punching the same nazi more


  • I’d still recommend getting an AMD graphics card and generally prioritizing hardware with upstream drivers. As in, drivers that are included with the kernel itself. The experience is always better. Overall it’s still a good habit to look up how any hardware runs on Linux before buying it.

    Gaming in a Windows VM is possible but it was a big ordeal when I did it. You have to make sure your CPU and motherboard support IOMMU for PCI passthrough. It’s less of a problem nowadays but there are still some pitfalls with PCIe lanes and whatnot. You need two video adapters, one for the host and one for the guest (because the host has no access to the passed-through GPU) and if you want to game on both Windows and Linux that can be a pain in the ass. It goes on. I personally don’t recommend it. If you have to play trashy eSports that ship with built-in anti-cheat malware then just Windows for that.