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- Comment on Stephanie Sterling - "YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend" 3 days ago:
I’m actually with you on that point, watching younger people come up with euphemisms like unalived and PDF file to work around the braindead moderation on other platforms actually gives me a sense of hope, because it just highlights the futility of the censors’ efforts (and also I just think it’s cool when languages evolve and we get new slang and stuff)
I still think this is worth posting though because of the underlying bullshit going on here - a ton of Stephanie’s old videos and other videos that documented the rise of lootboxes 10 or 15 years ago are now being disappeared, which is just a crime against history. Also, I do think there are some limits to how far euphemisms can take us, and the fact is that just having to run the risk of possibly being demonetized for using the wrong word is going to keep a lot of creators from even trying to engage with this issue.
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- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not totally sure I would go as far as requiring criminal charges to kick things off, but their ought to be some restraints on recalls. Besides stability in government being at least somewhat important, it’s unfair to the past electorate who voted whichever candidate in for a given term to have a different electorate (because new people are always becoming eligible and other people are passing away or otherwise becoming inelligble) come along and mess with that.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 weeks ago:
Fair point in practice, but in theory that’s a campaign finance regulation problem not a recall election problem
- Comment on Achievable dreams 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately (almost) anything you do for a living becomes a chore even on the best days
- Comment on Income inequality 5 weeks ago:
*freebased
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 weeks ago:
They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money
Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we’re dealing with here
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Fusion kitchens are the best and maybe the only good thing to come out of colonialism
Well, there’s also a pretty good music that jazz doesn’t happen the way it did without putting European instruments in the hands of formerly enslaved Africans. Would be a lot cooler world if we could figure out how to evolve our art and culture without crimes against humanity, tho.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
How do you get the energy drink and nutrition supplements to stay in the taco
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
I’m hearing that my summary won’t be helpful, so I don’t need to spend my time on this request, which certainly works for me. You are, of course, welcome to take any notes for yourself that you would find helpful, and I would be happy to review those if you would like.
Thanks for your time!
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
According to my recollection, you accepted full responsibility and pledged to do better going forward. You also promised not to embezzle any of the company’s money going forward, which was a weird thing to say unprompted.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
Avoiding my calls because verbal conversations make you anxious? Fair enough, I will spend an embarrassingly long time to write, re-read, delete, re-write, re-read several times, re-delete, re-write a third time by blending versions one and two, re-read and realize I didn’t explain something, re-write and realize that something else is irrelevant, re-read and realize it wasn’t irrelevant because two paragraphs later etc. until I have a message that can’t possibly be misread, send it, and then agonize about writing something that was misread until I hear back from you while pathologically refreshing my inbox.
Saying you can’t talk now but scheduling a time for me later? Totally fair, you have a whole ass job outside of my stupid problems, if they can wait I will wait and if they can’t I’ll go back to paragraph 1.
Avoiding my calls because you think I’m dumb but won’t just tell me how I’m being dumb so I can try to make improvements? Congrats, my new work project is making your work life a living hell until you either quit or schedule a call with me where we can discuss preferred communication styles and how to demonstrate mutual respect.
- Comment on Bugger! 2 months ago:
Well that’s epistemological ephemera for ya
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago:
Easy there Camus
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nat 20 3 months ago:
[says that out loud in American English]
Yeah this all checks out
- Comment on Nat 20 3 months ago:
Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho
- Comment on Nat 20 3 months ago:
I am sort of amazed that between Charles Dickins and other serialized writers’ zeal for selling stuff and the Goths tendency to love superstitious parlor games somehow nobody in 1800s era ever managed to come up with a table top storytelling dice game (at least that I’ve ever heard of)
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 4 months ago:
is working splendidly
Is it?
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 4 months ago:
Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to
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- Comment on OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 5 months ago:
That archive link wouldn’t load for me but this one seems to work - archive.is/HoGoV
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- Comment on It's depressing, man 6 months ago:
A lot of “stupidity” you see in the world is a result of anxiety and exhaustion proximately caused by individual poverty and bad infrastructure*, imo
*Infrastructure includes hard systems like transit and housing and soft systems like community organizations and government agencies imo
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- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 6 months ago:
If some historian a hundred years from now or whatever wants to say this moment represented a real turning point, please don’t
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 6 months ago:
Yeah, like less than a second after he says violence is a sudden and absurd amount of gore
