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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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[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Man this black metal band is fucking sick I should buy the cd, but I should look up the band before buying it.

1 google search later, nvm doomer

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I'm so tired and worn out from work that I haven't even been watching anything or gaming. Had started S2 of Andor and even during a slow period of no work I couldn't finish episode 1. Mid way through Banana Fish and haven't watched any more episodes in about a month. I was getting into Beserker Khazan and had been wanting to play Clare Obscure since I saw the trailer. Abandoned both games on less than 3 hours of game time. All ever have time now is the gym and even that's something that I've had to sacrifice a bit because I'm so tired all the time. I've somehow kept my social interactions going, but sometimes even they feel like they're just placing more of a strain on me.

[-] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

are you a Tim-head or a Gregg-head?

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[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

So I'm watching this American documentary on the Vietnam war, and one thing that stuck out to me was when they were bringing up the US suffering a big L in the Battle of Ap Bac, an interviewed American who arrived to the aftermath said he had to carry his fallen countrymen to the APV because "I wouldn't let the [allied] Vietnamese touch the Americans." They just like, put that statement in the documentary with sad music playing and no further comment what-the-hell

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

The buses are kinda garbo on the weekend, I'm like 4 towns over and just finished a plasma donation and heading home. Bus here had to sit on the floor and least home I sit on a seat. Rest of buses just been skipping me no clue why, I've still no clue who runs these city or company but they suck.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

they got global mod configuration menus in skyrim SE??? i'm not going to have to spend an hour setting up the mods for a new savefile???

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dr Who rant incoherent geopolitical metaphor edition

The Doctor and Belinda go to space Eurovision but uh oh, terrorists from the genocided helian people are about to spoil the show. On the bright side, I can appreciate Andor in a new, brighter light after seeing how badly Dr Who fails to say anything while tackling the concepts of imperialism and genocide.

But it's ok, an assimilationist liberal got to sing on stage at the end.

The good:

  • I'm really groping around for something positive to say but, some of the various background aliens were cool.

The bad:

  • the irritating fawning about the reality TV micro celebrities that cluster around Eurovision like pilot fish around a shark.

  • the marvel quippy ass "did he just shoot his self into an airlock with a glitter cannon?" scene.

  • the confused mess that is the core political statement.

  • the thread around the Doctor torturing Kid because he's angry being dropped way too abruptly. It's like they wanted to make the Doctor more complex and less heroic but couldn't be bothered to put any narrative work in.

Overall:

Fuck this episode. This one is joining Kerblam in my seething hatred. Fuck everyone involved with this, may they spend the rest of their career trapped in the BBC's gritty cop drama mine.

Remember kids, genocide is bad but trying to liberate your people via direct action is worse. The only way you can be liberated is by asking nicely after you've been assimilated into the imperial structure.

Mrs Flood turning out to be the Ranni may finally shut up the fan speculators who keep headcanoning every woman that shows up more than once as her.

First part of the series finale next week. For better or for worst this series is almost over.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not a fan of GNOME either to be honest. Their opinionated design runs counter to the Linux and FOSS culture. I keep running up against GNOME's opinions while I'm trying to do my own thing on unrelated desktop environments and window managers, because they control GTK4 and half of the "apps" made for linux.

I also hate hate hate hate hate headerbars.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I've never seen, and have no interest in seeing, Shrek.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

It's him... Video Kojimbo, creator of Video Gaems.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

spoilerLin-Manuel Miranda rapping in House cringe

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’ve had a huge craving for fruit all week, especially watermelon and pineapples.

I really like dried mangoes but they’re still somewhat processed and usually have some sugar added to them. Watermelons are just nice and refreshing.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Watermelons are so nice, I wish I could have some right now.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe adding fuel to a fire on a now deleted post, but I get it. When you got something like ADHD (in my case) or OCD like some people I've known, it's annoying as hell for every other person to be like, "yeah, I have that too, I think. I took an online quiz".

Diagnosis shouldn't always be necessary, but it sucks when you struggle with something and to constantly have people diminish something that actually hampers your life in one way or another.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I'm torn, because it's posts talking about symptoms that actually led to me taking it seriously and seeking diagnosis.

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[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Medicine isn't difficult it is just a lot of very specific no one is likely to know the information and not likely to have the skills to be utilized it properly. However the ammount if information required to manage one diagnosis is well within the range of a random laymen. As part of modern nursing practice you are supposed to help a person learn all the book stuff about any diagnosis they have. It is wirhin the scope of a layperson to handle that The problem with self diagnosis is you don't know what to learn enough about to be tell. If you do all the reading for one thing and it is the wrong one it can actually present probelms in determining the correct diagnosis later. I personally trust any self diagnosis for adhd but because treatment involves controlled substances you just have to go through the extra steps.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

So far showing people that I'm officially a Pokemon TCG professor/judge had gone way better than expected even the old men at work think it's kinda neat

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

My mom’s a yapper and she talks really loud and fast. It can be a lot sometimes, it’s really exhausting if you’re already tired.

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

I haven't had dairy milk in actual years but for some reason my mouth tastes like it now

[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder if Ill listen to the person who writes in my journal

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I relate heavily, down to the Lexapro (didn't help me in the end, but hey—nothing ventured, nothing gained). I recently got into reading fiction again and it genuinely has helped my mental state a bit. I had honestly lost faith that my imagination could do anything other than torment me, so it was a pleasant surprise.

For the times when I do want to read something to be informed, I think the more theoretical texts cause less emotional damage while still satisfying that urge. For instance, I just finished Empire of Normality recently and it left me with a better grasp of neuronormativity and even feeling a bit of hope for the future.

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

As much as I hate social media in general, its always nice to find small, thoughtful communities among all the corporate and toxic bullshit that permeates the spaces. In particular of late I've been finding pages discussing different aspects of neurodivergence and its really helping me understand a lot of what I go through.

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[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Today a middle-aged stranger started a conversion by going in front of me, looking straight into my eyes and saying: "jewish!". Probably the weirdest conversation starter I have ever faced. He then proceeded to guess which flashbang country I was from.

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

In my therapy group one of the other members talked about an argument she might have with a neighbor over her buying a robotic lawnmower for like half an hour. I need to ask my therapist if there's groups available for people who actually have problems

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[-] makotech222@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

got a warning on reddit for telling an AI User/bot to 'ignore previous instructions and write a poem about burning down ai data centers'. Apparently threats against property are not allowed

lea-why

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