TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on project paperclip be like 11 hours ago:
I suppose with regard to Ukraine I should have said “our support was.”
- Comment on project paperclip be like 14 hours ago:
The US is all about realpolitik, and begins to make a lot more sense when you look at everything through a Kissinger-shaped lens (rest in piss, you evil bastard). We pretend to be ideological so our citizenry can feel good about ourselves, but the way the nation operates is purely pragmatic. Look no further than Israel-Palestine and how buddy-buddy we are with Saudi Arabia for modern examples. Even our support of Ukraine, while overlapping with an ethical imperative, is driven primarily by the interests of NATO and the relatively inexpensive degradation of Russia’s military and political standing we can participate in. We only give a shit about “human rights” when it benefits us.
Operation Paperclip was pragmatism. It creates a sense of cognitive dissonance when we try to hold in our minds that we brought Nazi scientists over and the idea that we’re “the good guys” and fought for “justice,” so our brains try to reduce that cognitive dissonance by saying those scientists weren’t behind any of the evils of the Nazis. They were, obviously. That didn’t matter to our government, but they kept the operation classified for a reason.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 15 hours ago:
Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer
R.I.P. Tom Lehrer
(Heard this first in For All Mankind, an excellent show I recommend to everyone, pirate it if you don’t have Apple TV+.)
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 6 days ago:
Like Mary’s bolt-on fake tits.
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 1 week ago:
Along with all the other examples listed here:
The Bear
Also wtf is the "Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after" trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
No, but depending on circumstances and the work the abuser is willing to put into changing themself and making things as right as they can, forgiveness can be earned.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 1 week ago:
“Sort of” because it isn’t a lawnmower, it’s possessing a lawnmower.
“But yeah” because that’s splitting hairs. 🤣
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 week ago:
She herself refers to how she played a “nuke-ular psychiatrist in a James Bonk movie” in the episode of 30 Rock where she and Tracy are leading a protest of NBC by their fellow idiots. 🤣
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 week ago:
I love that San Francisco (NorCal) and LA (SoCal) are swapped.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 1 week ago:
Well sort of. But yeah.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
Important thing to remember about the “console wars.”
Other than the Nintendo Wii (iirc), most consoles sell at a loss at the beginning of the generation. They eventually turn a profit on console sales, but console sales aren’t the point.
Game sales are.
When each console was its own very specific architecture and games needed to be designed specifically for them, console sales matter a lot because that’s how you’d sell games.
But now that architectures are similar (if not the same), cross-compilation has become easier than ever. It’s why you see Sony finally releasing first party titles on PC.
Microsoft knows full well that their console sales aren’t great, but that’s okay for them. Their PC sales are. Many of their titles sell on Steam. And they sell some of their titles on PlayStation.
They’ll continue to make some form of console because without it they lose out on millions of Game Pass subscriptions from people who don’t want to make the initial investment in a gaming PC, or deal with the complexity, but their goal of making that next console more and more like a PC fits perfectly in their model.
It’s a shame the Series X has sold so poorly, it’s a great console, but I doubt Microsoft is too worried about “losing” the console wars to Sony. The game has changed.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 2 weeks ago:
Hmm.
This sucks for TSMC, but I have a hard time being upset that humanity’s ability to make better processors will expand, especially given the vulnerability of Taiwan. But I don’t really know enough to have a firm position on this.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 2 weeks ago:
Johnny was a real good kid,
But now he is no more.
What he thought was H2O
Was H2~SO~4. - Comment on Pro tip 2 weeks ago:
Also
#*it’s
- Comment on These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t played It Takes Two (same developer) I highly recommend it. I liked it even more!
- Comment on These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now 3 weeks ago:
I liked Split Fiction, but It Takes Two was better. I hope for more good things from the developer in the future!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that story would get you banned from itch.io due to payment processor drama.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I got there by context. How pissed was your maternal grandpa? Did both parents get thrown out or just your dad? I’m fascinated by this story, like a train crash you just can’t look away from.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If your dad is 10 years older than your mom, some questions are best left unasked...
Especially if his dad was 10 years older than twice his mom’s age when they met.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
he was also my paternal grandpa’s bestest bud and living with the family for ~1 year at my grandpa’s invitation
I suspect you mean “maternal” grandpa here. Otherwise he was his own father’s bestest bud, and your mom was living with your dad’s dad for some reason.