specialseaweed
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- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
i think your edginess is really cool
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
If one had a fetish for masochistic torture of nuance, then yea, you hit the nail on the head.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
I think it’s important to remember that Biden was, perhaps more than any president in my lifetime (and I’m an old man), an institutionalist. He was a senator for just about forever, then the VP for 8 years. He was 78 years old when he became president. He is an old school liberal Catholic, a very nearly extinct person in the Catholic and Christian spheres.
I think he saw his presidency as a repudiation of right wing reactionary politics. His election, in his mind, was in large part a call to what he saw as the original intent and purpose of the executive branch. To put it plainly, he saw himself as elected because America rejected the politicization of government under Trump. Included under that umbrella of beliefs about the purpose of the executive was the unalienable requirement that the executive not direct the FBI to investigate the opposing political party. Remember, Joe Biden was a senator when Nixon resigned. He was there when Nixon was using the executive branch to attack Democrats.
Biden appointed Garland to the DOJ. Garland’s record was perfectly fine and appeared well suited to the role, but his biggest strengths (in Biden’s mind) was his nonpartisanship and his conservative view of government. By conservative I mean staying within the lines of what the DOJ should be doing, a cautious view of the use of DOJ power. Again, this was done in reaction to Trump and his… let’s call it “expansive” view of government power. In Biden’s mind, he was righting the ship.
And Garland was exactly as advertised, to a maddening degree. He was cautious to the point of being timid. He refused to throw the weight of the DOJ into investigations with political implications without reaching an imaginary bar of fairness that just isn’t realistic. You saw it in the Jan 6th investigations. You saw it in the Kushner deals (and all of the Trump family deals which are obviously dirty). You saw it in Garland’s unwillingness to take on wildly politicized federal prosecutor offices because doing so would be political interference (in his mind). You saw it when Robert Hur took unprofessionalism and partisanship to the absolute extreme when attacking Biden under the guise of a special counsel appointment and Garland did nothing because instiutionalism in his mind meant not interfering with the process.
And you saw it in the Epstein case.
Garland did everything by the book to an absurd degree that ended up paralyzing justice. Biden didn’t touch Garland or any of it because he believes doing so was itself an injustice, even if Garland was wrong to handle it the way he did.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 3 weeks ago:
My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.
And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.
The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.
A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.
I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 2 months ago:
Aside from this being false, it’s kinda crazy that Steam has had no significant public leaks.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s why I said my explanation was quick and dirty.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
No. The far more likely way to handle it is with flocculation/coagulation since plants are already set up to support this.
- Comment on just got this captcha 3 months ago:
How would you know it’s the green?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 3 months ago:
The same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.
- Comment on Do kids of rich people feel loved, or are their rich parents toxic? 4 months ago:
Everything is relative, and trauma not dealt with is passed down.
I was not raised wealthy. Laying in my bed, in a room in a 2br public housing apt I shared with my two brothers, I could hear my parents fighting over money at night. I used to daydream about a rando giving us money and in my vision of how that would go it was never that we would have stuff, it was just that my parents wouldn’t have to fight over it anymore. I was homeless when I left home, sleeping in my beater broke down ass car and taking showers in public showers. I joined the US Army because I ran out of options. Just to give my broke ass credentials. It wasn’t the bottom, but it was close.
I am wealthy now. I live in a wealthy neighborhood. My kids go to a public “rich kid” school. They’re both teenagers, so I have a fairly good knowledge of the neighborhood kids since our house has always been the hangout house.
It’s weird. Being rich is sort of exactly what I thought it would be. We don’t argue over bills. My wife was not crazy town poor, but she was definitely lower middle class. We are both extremely frugal. We torture them dollars. I ain’t goin back. My kids have never known that world cause we hit the job lottery and the money showed up right before the first one was born.
Anyway.
All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn’t there but it’s replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.
It’s not that they don’t have empathy. It’s that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only regular humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they’re all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?
Because that’s the mind fuck. Rich people aren’t better than you. Some shit went their way and that’s the difference. Elite earners don’t work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it’s just normalized. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s that they internalize it as “normal”.
Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.
You’re right though. It is more luxurious. I let fruit rot on the counter because I won’t eat it after I buy it because if I eat it I won’t have it anymore. These fuckers eat all my oranges and blueberries because that’s what they’re for. Rich assholes.
- Comment on If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do? 6 months ago:
Wonderful post. Thanks is for taking the time to write it.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 6 months ago:
Great comment. Thanks for posting it.
- Comment on In a bit of a pre upgrade slump, what do you recommend? 7 months ago:
Mad Max was way better than it had any right to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yes please. Right on.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 8 months ago:
I love you both very much.
I still play SSX3 GameCube version on my Wii.
- Comment on What careers are relatively easy to get into with decent unions behind them? 9 months ago:
My brother is a journeyman plumber in Seattle WA. He only does new pipe on metal frame (big buildings) for new build. He makes $130k a year not counting overtime.
Great job. Amazing job.
- Comment on Empires fall 9 months ago:
Circuit City was great until it wasn’t.
Sucks.
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 10 months ago:
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 10 months ago:
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot 11 months ago:
I have two kids. Both prefer pc or switch for exclusives. They haven’t touched the PlayStation or Xbox in months if not years. I don’t even think they know how to turn them on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The Democrats have an unusually deep bench right now. Honestly there’s probably at least 5 very high quality candidates for Veep. Another 5 won’t take it because they plan on running for Prez themselves and don’t want to backbench when their current gig is going so well.
The veep choice won’t be a problem.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
Another for the wishlist. Thanks for posting that.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
Thanks for that. Added to my wishlist.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 1 year ago:
My kids played this till their eyes bled. Great local screen party game.
- Comment on Capes has released, XCOM-like TBS with unique superhero characters - Reviews: 77 average, 75% recommended 1 year ago:
Looked great at PAX last year. Excited for it.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 1 year ago:
I just want to play with a controller.
- Comment on Formerly Anti-Union Volkswagen Worker Explains Why He Switched to Pro-Union 1 year ago:
Good video. The guy was well spoken.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 1 year ago:
Absolutely.