ogmios

@ogmios@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It’s going to suck a lot.

  That still won’t ever make their stupid idea actually function in reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re supposed to recognize their undisputed superiority and turn yourselves into automatons for their pleasure, having no other options available to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been a concerted effort over the last several decades to push a men vs women dynamic online, and most men don’t buy into it, so it’s really just been people shitting all over men without consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak for anyone else, but I personally like the feeling of two equal and opposite forces pushing against each other, cancelling each other out and creating a firm, unchanged, structure no matter how much force is applied. I do the same while doing squats sometimes, and it feels more stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You obviously don’t even know how it works.

  when the servers are down, you’re fucked regardless.

  As long as you keep the files you don’t have to access their servers to play it again. That’s exactly the same as even physical media. It’s not like a company will send you a new DVD for free if you throw out the one you bought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  when their servers are offline, you can’t download it anymore…

  I have no idea what else you would be expecting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough. Guess not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a good reason to seize greater control of the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like a limited ‘fake’ world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally propaganda straight out of the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook, and useful idiots repeat it for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Largely because it’s very obviously being used as a political propaganda tool, and any criticism at all is being treated as a horrific crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That might actually be the most suspicious possible scenario you could have come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think people would take it as anything else, regardless of what the media might say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if the second president who has openly opposed the CIA is also assassinated, people might be a wee bit ticked off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’d be in a very good mood for very long if that happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking for a source for the answer to a question so idiotic that it has probably never been asked before in the history of man?

  You can’t be a real person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Talked to a mason once who informed me that one of the first rules they have is to never watch TV or listen to the radio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually. But if the premise is particularly stupid I might choose to prompt the speaker to actually think about what they’ve said for a moment.

  Or you could just read any of the numerous other comments here which offer other explanations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you seriously need someone to explain to you why there are multiple words with similar meanings in the world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It shouldn’t take a PhD to understand that openly hating a huge portion of the working class isn’t going to make you popular with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear me out: Maybe everything isn’t some conspiracy to hate others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about how the united states would gather AMERICAN CITIZENS who have comitted no crimes whatsoever, send them to camps, and have them mass killed

  User name checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I may be skipping over some details that are considered common knowledge over there. So basically Epstein, and others he was involved with, and others like him, appear to have been offering their “services” to provide for the fantasies of the rich and the powerful, whatever they may be, while also collecting blackmail material on those same people for political purposes. This appears to have been connected to Mossad, and is believed to be largely responsible for allowing some of the more corrupt behaviours within western societies to persist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The parts that concern me the most are areas where the political parties tend to walk in lock step, such as mass surveillance and monetary policy. The fact that Trump has had a rocky relationship with the GoP ever since he announced his candidacy for the 2016 election helps his image with others who are concerned about the “uniparty”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This video may help to shed some light on the issue for you. Basically, it’s been going on for much longer than most people realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you really want to know, I have maintained a presence on both left and right wing sites since the schism ~2016, as a life long liberal who felt they could no longer support the insanity over the past decade, but is still apprehensive of hardcore conservatism.

  To be blunt, the energy among the right is extremely high right now. The Puff Daddy case has them celebrating like crazy, because despite what people here like to say about them, ending the institutionalized sex trafficking is actually the most important issue for many of them. Along with that, they’re extremely happy that the democrats have such a weak candidate, as they see this election to be the largest potential obstacle to actually being capable of addressing said institutionalized sex trafficking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet and social media has made it much easier for everyone to wall themselves off into groups containing people with only their viewpoint.

  It’s not people who share your viewpoints, unless you buy into the artificial left/right dichotomy and are willing to simply accept whatever popular talking points permeate your silo. Conversely, if you actually wanted to share a space online with only people who are actually from your own country, or even just western society broadly, such a thing doesn’t exist at all. While the issues of political division within America are significant, what flies completely under the radar is how trivial it is for bad actors from places like Russia and China to participate freely in political debates, often without anyone actually being aware of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I can do is more hats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tencent

  That’s all you had to say.