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- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it? 8 hours ago:
Because Americans conflate this with race when it’s not the skin color that causes pain for Europeans but the cultural aspects. Clearly Islam and gypsy cultures are much more than race right?
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it? 8 hours ago:
This is oversimplification.
Americans made a huge mistake tying race to identity so hard and it’s incredibly cringy from outsiders pov. Europe is taking more of a colorblind approach and while it still needs a lot of work it’s much more sustainable and really the only viable future.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 4 days ago:
Its only vialble if there’s a organized critical mass of people doing it.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 4 days ago:
His #1 regret was not being a biggee douchebag which according to many experts was already an impossible beach.
- Comment on Two Point Museum just launched as Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam 4 days ago:
The last two of their games - two point hospital and two point campus - were both incredible.
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- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 6 days ago:
Just legal bullying. Good luck fighting an army of lawyers that are also lobbying the system. That being said all of that would be civil suits so if emulator creators don’t earn money they don’t have much to lose but the ability to continue the work.
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 1 week ago:
This is an easily solvable problem if the front end could just group posts with the same link
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 1 week ago:
Oh no you might see something twice - unusable!
- Comment on Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!” 1 week ago:
Ah man now I really want to play the game
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t usually watch late night American shows but can never skip this dudes rant clips. I wonder if he thinks of having a stab at politics or maybe his mission is just better serves as a show host.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 2 weeks ago:
Stock market is basically meme gambling these days no different from crypto. Its not a reliable indicator of anything.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
People generally enjoy that stage of a relationship the most so you can do your own math here.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.
I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel’s back. Everyone’s who’s angry now doesn’t have a good “deal” for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.
- Comment on Invariant (AKA Indie Half-Life/Black-Mesa) 4 weeks ago:
Zero information about the developers on the web. Not a good sign
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 5 weeks ago:
I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn’t understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I’m in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you’re traveling at all then.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 5 weeks ago:
Saboteur is an incredible fun. Feel like replaying it now
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 5 weeks ago:
I’m a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn’t program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it’s not really needed in contemporary dev.
- Comment on Creator of Bloodborne 60fps Patch Says Sony Has Sent Him a DMCA Takedown — but Why Now? 5 weeks ago:
Tried to play the game like 10 times - just can’t get over the incredibly poor performance. What a waste.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t know man it feels like it’s too far gone. I’m getting constantly bullied for saying soviet union was actually evil and should not be aspired to which is such a turn off.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well said! More people need to hear this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Me too though luckily I’ve only learned about Neil Gaiman just before all of this shit broke out.
I think cancel culture might actually be a net good and hear me out. There are a lot of really good people and role models out there but it’s a crowded space and we should move quicker with social judgement to sort out the marbles. We still hadn’t figured out how to do it in a more organized manner but yeah fuck Neil Gaiman, there are thousands of other brilliant writers who are also great human beings, we should give them space to thrive!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yup, though it seems like we missed our chance at this long time ago. Can you imagine what would have to happen for US or China to split up in this day an age? That’s world-war territory and tbh I’d rather have what we have now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m quite fond of it!
I’m traveling around south east asia working remotely and staying in small expat communities for a few years at a time (long term visas are still hard). There are a lot of small communities all over the place here in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia. I’d hesitate to call them anarchist per se because it’s still kinda overseen by local authorities when it comes to crime and visas etc. but it’s pretty close otherwise!
That being said I don’t know how anarchism could be sustainable at scale without a major cultural reset, so I’m not sold on the idea it would work for giant homogenous places like China or US.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I used to consider myself quite a socialist but tankies really straightened me out by taking side of Russia and Soviet Union of which I’ve experienced the horrors off first hand myself. There is socialism without cancers like Kremlin and CCP but the whole thing has been ruined and hijacked by these idiots just like alt-right ruined conservatives.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 1 month ago:
This is absolutely a scale thing. Small teams and employers can learn about each other and evaluate risks more accurately than big corporations.
If I hire a security guard for my own company and perimeter I’m familiar with I know exactly how much work is needed to secure it and I know exactly what I should expect from my guard. On the other hand, if a big specialized company does this as a service they don’t know this and thus impose stricter requirements and expectations.
I think this makes sense but also why can’t we just do more of the former and less of the latter as it’s clearly less efficient from societal pov even if appears to be more efficient from purely economical one.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 1 month ago:
Many boring jobs are overly strict and forbid employees for any form of multi tasking and often not because it would make them worse workers but because the employer has all the power and would rather not take any risks even though the risks are so minimal.
- Comment on A delicate balance 1 month ago:
Man you’re trying to solve metaphysics wirh ratios and cement and shit lol go away
- Comment on A delicate balance 2 months ago:
I think you fundamentally misunderstand Golden Mean if you argument against it with statistics and I’ll leave it here.
- Comment on A delicate balance 2 months ago:
Fair point but I don’t think it applies here. Balanced doesn’t necessarily mean a compromise.
In your first example Golden Mean would be to take antibiotics until you are fully cured not less not more.
Same for your second example. Going too far in autocracy would could mean efficiency but also injustice and going too far into democracy could mean nothing ever gets accomplished due to endless indecision. This is exactly what elective democracy is so effective imo as it’s a Golden Mean of these two edges.
That’s what Golden Mean means - the center is where magic happens and the edges are always full of failure.