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- Comment on They call me the problem solver 17 hours ago:
Sweet jebus, I’m sorry to hear that. You’re absolutely right though: “have you tried PTSD?” may not be right for everyone.
- Comment on "feminine" 1 day ago:
You may not like it, but this is what building wealth and saving for early retirement looks like.
- Comment on "feminine" 1 day ago:
Maybe. Is that the one with a floor-hole through to the cursed basement?
- Comment on "feminine" 1 day ago:
Exactly. This person has/needs a full or queen sized bed, but their bedroom isn’t big enough for it. So, it’s blocking the closet, because that’s the only place it can go.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 days ago:
This is why I follow reviewers and curators that sift through the bottom 99% to find interesting indie stuff. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping what never shows up on Steam’s store landing page or queues.
Splattercat is one such reviewer. He tends to prefer dystopia and post-apocalypse style stuff, and clearly works hard to bring interesting titles some more exposure: www.youtube.com/@splattercatgaming
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
You can survive Phantom Liberty. Bad news is that you’ll live on with at least five completely new forms of PTSD.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
Good news is: you’re now functionally immortal.
Bad news is: everything tastes like metal.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
The Ascent. I am now an indentured servant sanitation worker with a poor sense of self-preservation, but just so happens to be really good with a gun. Oh, and the arcology that is my home has been thrown into complete pandemonium because the head Corpo AGI shit the bed.
- Comment on Bring it back 3 days ago:
Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
- Comment on I need an adult 6 days ago:
What really gets me is that the compounds responsible for this hue in food are called “anthocyanins” which means “blue flower.” I can’t even.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
No worries: those server chunks haven’t been explored yet. Give it time.
- Comment on Low rating 1 week ago:
Seconded. That kind of humor is 100% on-brand for her.
- Comment on You can do it 👍 1 week ago:
How in the world could someone find the energy to…
inhaling cocaine
Ah, okay. Why is the answer always drugs?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
The finance side of things has also enabled a kind of house size inflation. Anecdotally, I’ve seen new tract housing go up in areas that need housing, which were all 3000 sq/ft each. They could have developed for higher density and sell more units, but I guess the margins are better on houses that sell for 700k and up. Especially if folks are willing to go into deep debt to pull it off. Plus that does little to ease demand, so the cycle can continue.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 2 weeks ago:
$15 million? Hasn’t APAIC spent many times that much money in trying to fight progressives this year already?
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
This is pretty much what I had in mind. Circumvent censorship, and put paper directly into everyone’s hand.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 2 weeks ago:
FLORIDA hurt itself in its confusion.
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 2 weeks ago:
I can’t tell. Is this a Jonathan Swift reference?
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
I have no plan. Only a few concepts and tactics.
Print newsletters keep coming to mind. Perhaps that’s me romancing a bygone era where sweat equity gets you distribution and readership, even if it’s just a single page. Then again, print has never been cheaper for the common-man, and sitting on top of global digital distribution would create an impressive reach.
We can also start making “conservative alt accounts” in social media, in order to penetrate those spaces. Build a profile that gets you into echo chambers that you don’t want anywhere near your real life. At the very least, before all these damn photo ID features and laws go into place.
There really needs to be a playbook for dismantling propaganda, and how to handle people that are programmed to parrot talking points. Like some kind of conversational aikido.
Social media rides on optics, tagging, and vibes. It might be possible to co-opt the style and tagging of existing content, say Newsmax, and provide a palatable lean for recent topics for a conservative audience. This is nothing like going full-bore “The Onion”^1^, but rather, providing a positive framing or just undercut the lies that are in the same space. Report the exact same stories - move for move - just without the hyperbole, lies, and vitriol. Facts should speak for themselves.
In fact, more positivity online in general might be a big help to everyone. The algorithm rewards engagement, and while rage bait is 100x easier to create, stuff that makes people feel good (e.g. kittens) gets good traction too. Granted, that’s a high-effort and talent-focused operation - not for everyone.
Lastly, it’s possible that we could see a great firewall go up around the US, or find de-facto censorship and de-platforming a huge problem to any attempt to better organize digitally. Once you’re a legit problem, the ban-hammers will come out. I think it prudent to be prepared to take to mesh networking, radio, sneakernet, private couriers, (again) print, anything that works around a complete fascist takeover of the internet. Fortunately, the bandwidth and storage requirements for truth and information are shockingly small. It won’t take much.
- InfoWars has it right by laying out a massive all-onion buffet, but man is that a tough watch.
- Comment on Certified post about shit 2 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell, this may be accurate. I’ve observed that we (USA) have a taboo around discussing what happens in the bathroom. I’ve pushed back on this and, anecdotally, have uncovered that this is all too common an experience. I wound up testing myself for food allergies and sensitivities and learned that there’s a whole range of foods that my body can’t handle. As I share my situation, I find more and more people that are waking up to a similar situation.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
One thing comes to mind: overcome or circumvent “the algorithm.”
Retreating from spaces like X and Reddit has had one big drawback: we are choosing to not engage with people that have bought into propaganda and right-wing rhetoric. There’s no winning anyone over or changing minds if you’re not there to speak.
At the same time, those spaces have elevated the generation of echo chambers to an art. Algorithmic feeds of all kinds of media are strongly reinforcing this. Breaking into those spaces would be a useful ability to bring change. Again, we can’t even begin to address that kind of a problem if nobody is there.
Alternately, we need a vehicle that can go around all of the above. What does that look like? I don’t know. Alternate media like print perhaps? Or maybe just an outrageously good youtube channel? Anything would be better than nothing.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 weeks ago:
I fucking love these.
My favorite is the Waffle House: wandering-nobunaga.com/…/a-waffle-house-at-three-…
- Comment on Anon's gf is intense 2 weeks ago:
Actually, maybe. Anon left out the part where getting down with an athlete can amount to outrageously good sex.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t think that style of dystopia will require cameras at all. My best hunch here is that the self-checkout will migrate to the new “scan while you shop” model. Associating your personal scanning wand with, well, you is all it takes at that point.
Meanwhile what we’re looking at here is Walmart solving the problem of not having a good look at a shoplifter’s face, since there is no better place to stick a camera in their comically proportioned warehouse-sized stores.
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 4 weeks ago:
I think this is just one step on the way to this meal’s final form: Sauerbraten.
- Comment on forklift 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for posting the obligatory Klaus video.
- Comment on Keeping my promise to Zephyr 1 month ago:
I got this a lot when I was an actual boss. It was always done in a brotherly, jokingly left-handed, kind of way. This fits perfectly with my management style. It was nice.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 1 month ago:
If it’s satire, it’s really close to the line. So close, that I wouldn’t be surprised if right-wing propagandists ran with it, just to prove a point. After all, if a big enough group of crazies rally behind something like this, they’d be stupid not to.