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The Confederacy of Independent Systems, abbreviated to CIS, and otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance, the Separatist State, the Separatist Confederacy, the Separatist coalition, or simply referred to as the Separatists, was a confederation with limited recognition of outlying star systems in the galaxy that had declared independence from the Galactic Republic, a democratic union, and had its capital on the planet Raxus Secundus in the Outer Rim. Secession could be traced back to the Raxus Address by former Jedi Master Count Dooku of Serenno, from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards the neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds. Furthermore, the Confederacy was secretly supported by several major galactic corporations which formed the executive council, while a parliament of senators become its civilian legislature.

Thousands of disgruntled star systems seceded from the Republic and joined together in the newly-created Confederacy of Independent Systems, born from a galaxy-wide secessionist movement orchestrated by the Count of Serenno Dooku. By 24 BBY, it had become a political crisis which led to escalating tensions between the Republic and the rising Confederacy. Many within the Confederacy, including its senators, had no desire in fighting their adversaries, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic. The Confederacy was supported by the Trade Federation, led by Viceroy Nute Gunray; the Stalgasin hive, led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser; the InterGalactic Banking Clan, headed by Chairman San Hill; the Techno Union, led by Foreman Wat Tambor; the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai; the Corporate Alliance, led by Magistrate Passel Argente; and the Retail Caucus. However, in 22 BBY, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars, the first major conflict in a millennium, after the conflict exploded into being on the Confederacy's first capital world, Geonosis.

By the third year of the war, the Confederacy had suffered several major defeats in the Outer Rim Sieges as the conflict began to approach its end, while losing many starships in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which also resulted in the death of Dooku. In the days following their defeat at Coruscant, General Grievous was neutralized on the planet Utapau, leading to the collapse of the Separatist leadership, and the fighting effectively coming to an end.

Following both the Jedi's demise and rise of the Galactic Empire, Viceroy Nute Gunray and the other surviving leaders gathered on the planet Mustafar with hopes of securing peace with the newly rising Empire ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. However he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to wipe out them and deactivate the Separatist Droid Army as a threat to his Empire.

With the end of the Clone Wars, the newly-formed Galactic Empire as the successor to the Old Republic, reintergrated former Separatists worlds into the Empire, with only several holdouts daring to resist the Empire, which were suppressed. But an idealized view of the cause persisted during the Imperial Era, with some still holding secessionist tendencies, even into the New Republic Era.

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[โ€“] peppersky@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Nothing is fun anymore

[โ€“] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3111

Please, let's not discuss the matter of why running nautilus with sudo -- hold your knowledge on this particular matter for yourself because the issue here is more important. :)

I wish I had half the patience of the average GNOME desktop maintainer. It must be incredibly painful to deal with really smug and unhinged comments all the time.

edit: extra

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/4

[Rant. Feel free to skip] It's July 2023. We have self-driving cars, we sent a car to the space and we now have ChatGPT, an AI almost able to write a novel for you. But in Linux you still can't drag and drop a compressed file from Archive to a Nautilus window. Come on. This bug has been around for 4 f*cking years. Bill Gates must be rolling on the floor laughing while saying "Windows allows drag and drop since version 3.1".

Another comment:

and what this tells me is that the efforts are being focused in other areas instead of basic user experience, which is something that - for a good reason (investment + high quality standards) - Apple still has the upper hand and we should learn a thing or two from them.

doggirl-growl

[โ€“] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the onus of GNOME maintainers to be civil but people can call GNOME the cancer of Linux and face no public repercussions.

"Contributions welcome!" will always be my favorite reply.

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[โ€“] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

One of my favourite RPG characters was a star wars droid, ex-cis. Enough that I played them in two campaigns.

I think they might work better in fanfic format.

I want their principal foil to be an Imperial Engineer who is not as smart as he thinks he is, studying an auctioned off lot of decommissioned battle droids.

They'd talk about fascism.

[โ€“] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody have any good recommendations on MMT? Specifically how MMT could apply to urban economics.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Proles Pod did an episode about it recently if you want to check that out.

One takeaway I got was I should purge "taxpayer money" from my vocabulary and use "public money" instead. Since the government creates money, our "tax dollars" aren't technically funding anything. Taxes are a way to reduce the supply of money, not funding.

On top of being technically more correct, it also de-individualizes public spending and re-collectivizes our responsibility.

[โ€“] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Capitalism is dumb cause Guy That Takes Care of a Lot of Cats isn't a paying job. There's do many kitties out there that need a good life and if given a Cat Ranch I'd be the person for the job. I'd give Darby a lil cowboy hat and she'd either beat them all up or whip em into an army of unfathomable power. Tough call. Despite how tiny and cute she is, Darby does love beating up other cats.

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[โ€“] Rojo27@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I don't often like saying I hate someone when it comes to referring to anyone I have an intrapersonal interactions with, but... I'm getting real close.

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[โ€“] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

liberal protests are very interesting. it was very effective to make them feel like they had some agency in life over the ruling class by doing gestures that don't actually affect change.

I've been following the Infinity Nikki drama, where players are mad at the game for introducing some anti-consumer practices. It's not a very shocking thing to happen, as it's 1. a gacha, 2. targetted at women. The company that makes it basically has a monopoly on gacha games targetted at women, so they can be as shitty to their playerbase as they want. Anyway, aside from bitching online, the players also are boycotting purchases in it (which, we all know how effective "voting with your wallet is). Obviously this did not get a good enough response from the company's PR. So the protestors have a new plan, which was not to play the game.

For a singular day.

Not a week, not a month, not until their demands are met. A single day.

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[โ€“] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda hate how my favorite WKUK line is from their most unfunny and offensive sketch.

spoilerSomething about this lead pipe in my hand says this fucker ain't magic!

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[โ€“] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never understood how people treat โ€œMommy Dearestโ€ as a joke when Iโ€™ve seen many unhinged parents act like that and get scarily violent over the smallest things. A lot of them also had that oddly overly dramatic way of speaking and moving.

[โ€“] ttjshaman@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

big ups to:

-Aaron Schwartz

-Alexandra Elbakyan

200+ articles of information absorbed, thanks to them

[โ€“] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thinking on it, the first three episodes of S02 of Andor felt kinda aimless. They had a point to make, but they felt more cartoony and less related to the rest of the show than most other episodes. What's up with that?

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[โ€“] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hell yeah none of you jabronis better mess this up for me

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[โ€“] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Every time I start to get into a flow while working I have to go and take a shit. I wonder if I've "pavlov'd" this behavior into myself by slacking off at work.

[โ€“] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Camo mlb hats look like shit, fuck the troops

[โ€“] HarryLime@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] ratboy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Friend randomly came to visit that I haven't seen in years and ended up having a total meltdown in the coffee shop bathroom on the last day because they were so completely disorganized and vague and not communicative about anything the entire time and idk what the hell happened but it was so fucking stressful for me, I've never been so stressed out hanging out with someone before. But like I also don't know if it was me just overreacting to everything and I feel like an asshole. I feel like I tried to frame it as an exercise for learning to be super flexible but it didnt work. I went to bed at like 9 last night and slept all day and still feel exhausted from the past few days.

Being autistic fucking sucks. I want a do over

[โ€“] Euergetes@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

goddamn the SNL trump guy fucking sucks

i personally know two better trump voices than that who the fuck is running this show

[โ€“] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

howdy-skull

๐ŸŽถkeep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถin case he comes to town๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถkeep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถso he won't take me down๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“] flugolem@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

how's alex jones doing these days?

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[โ€“] jjsandwich7@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] Carl@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Made chili today. It was pretty good, but I accidentally left the stove on after scooping out a bowl so when I went to get seconds it was all burned to shit. Feels bad man.

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[โ€“] Cowbee@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Mega mega mega THREAD live-slug-reaction

[โ€“] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
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