impairedimperator
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- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 1 day ago:
Well, in theory the poorest members of society will work hard in exchange for money from the rich.
In practice, you either get slavery or bears.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 1 day ago:
There was a theory (disputed and in some cases discredited) that basically said this is why most historical empires started around a river surrounded by desert. Their subjects were more willing to put up with oppression because going somewhere else was hard.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 1 day ago:
Yeah, and you should take two whole second to realize how much worse it would be in you were over 50 and in Gaza. Checkmate.
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 2 days ago:
Same. Some things were good. Many things were not.
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 3 days ago:
Pronounced: Schlipght
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 3 days ago:
I think it’s a standard figure 8 but with one side pulled through into a slipknot.
Not sure if that has a specific knot name. Knowing sailors, it’s probably something that sounds like a drunken slur.
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 5 days ago:
Keep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 2 weeks ago:
This is impossible.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 2 weeks ago:
Best I can do is cut personal spending as much as possible and retire early.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it was a test run or if it showed the ability to weaponize Extremely Online folks.
I remember gamergate as something that, on the surface, looked like possibly legitimate criticism, but then as you said, people that went into it became kind of odd, with their own language used to describe it which didn’t really make sense. Like, the words were there, but they were using kinda tortured definitions in a way that weaponized them.
Personally, I’ve always been fascinated with language as someone who basically grew up bilingual, and picked up a few along the way since. There are concepts that I simply am unable to discuss in certain languages, because the words are not there.
Weaponized language had been around for some time. Hell, Gingrich basically made his career by using specific loaded phrases in speeches given to an empty senate chamber, specifically for the weirdos who watch C-SPAN. Similarly, you had some insular (often hate) groups that had their own internal lingo. Gamergate seems to have combined the two in a way that is now becoming increasingly common in politics.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 2 weeks ago:
2014 for me. Gamergate was…weird. I didn’t realize it fully at the time, but there were a few people I previously respected that I started having serious questions about.
Couple years later, I started cutting maga out of my life and if felt exactly like those gamergate folks.
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 3 weeks ago:
I have played GTA5, and I didn’t remember that until reminded. Methinks the lady doth protest too much…
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 3 weeks ago:
And if you don’t think you need extra skins, give the handjob mode a test drive.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 3 weeks ago:
Huh. Never actually looked into it, but I always assumed GI meant general infantry.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 3 weeks ago:
One thing I found out recently is that the reading standards for American schools almost explicitly discourage that. They literally teach kids to guess what the word means based on context, or just skip over that word and move on.
- Comment on You got this 💪 4 weeks ago:
A farm is one letter away from a fart…
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 5 weeks ago:
*himmler was obsessed with the occult. The rest of them thought he was a bit kooky.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 5 weeks ago:
“easy heat dissipation” lol there is nothing easy about getting rid of heat in space.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 month ago:
Yeah they’re super jesus-y. They had the whole thing back in 2012 where they fired people for being lgbtq+, their owners fund a number of Christian political organizations, and they aren’t open Sundays. Not sure if they franchise or are all corporate, but I think they might even have rules that franchises can’t be open Sundays. There was another story where they claimed religious discrimination after an airport denied them retail rentals due to them being closed Sundays.
- Comment on Absolutely true 1 month ago:
I have the sneaking suspicion that this is true. My life is pretty great, until I remember I’ve never been in a relationship and I get sad for the rest of the day.
- Comment on Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire 1 month ago:
I think the math works out that you only need 23% of the total vote to win an election? Number from a mostly remembered YouTube video a decade ago.
Assuming 50% plus 1 in the 40 least populated states and no votes at all in the 10 most populated states.
- Comment on Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire 1 month ago:
Tariffs are just a roundabout way to implement flat tax. That’s why they talk about how tariff income will replace lost tax revenue.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 month ago:
If you have to pay to go to grad school that’s the school’s way of saying you don’t belong there.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
And in an ideal world, kids don’t get head injuries and don’t get cocaine smeared on them. But we don’t live in that world.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
And yet, cocaine is schedule 2 in the US, with legitimate medical uses primarily in pediatric emergency medicine.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
I think there is benefit to society in creating alternatives to parasocial relationships with chat bots.
Until then, I see this as somewhat analogous to fighting ADHD by banning Adderall. Yeah, the drugs aren’t good for you, but the lack of them is worse.
- Comment on ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ 2 months ago:
Pretty minor. If they picked up the whole data center and soaked it in a large jug of 10% acetic acid for about nine months, the concrete would lose about 20% of its strength.
Not sure about the civil engineering side, but I assume there’s enough safety factor in your average construction to account for 20% strength loss.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 months ago:
Then it’s a problem of reading comprehension, because absurdism is not that. Absurdism is finding joy in action.
The only reason I have any remote ammount if happiness is that I broke the boulder. Sisyphus is a bitch.
Go wallow in your misery then.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 months ago:
Oh, I’m not implying you didn’t read the book. That part is extremely obvious. I’m implying that you didn’t even bother skimming the wikipedia article.
Not really sure what I can do with that. Maybe you’ll be better off wallowing?
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 months ago:
Hmm. Well, it is pretty clear you didn’t do any reading.