Excrubulent

@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I present my girlfriend's daughter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iggity-iggit-ig-ig-ig-uhhh, don’t mind the flag.

  That’s actually a real strategy that stutterers use to get around hard phrases, to just rephrase what they mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Secure” doesn’t just mean “defend” or “safeguard”. “Secure” also means “capture”, so it implies you need to go put and get it, like with invasions or something maybe, idk. It’s a lot less passive.

  “Existence” means both “survival” and “prosperity”. It implies that both their existence is under threat, while creating the idea that they might be able to make it better. Maybe they could, idk, make america great again, trying to return to some mythical prelapsarian era by beating back the eternal threat.

  “A future” does this too, implying they may not have a future at all.

  And talking about the “children” brings up the concept of making new people, evoking the idea that non-white races are out-breeding them. It also includes the common “think of the children” idea.

  And finally the fact that it’s short and boring comes from the fact that nazis are uninspiring and uninspired, and they need a simple, to the point slogan to repeat without thinking about it too hard. They certainly know how to make a message concise, even at the cost of saying almost nothing of meaning when you think too hard about it.

  All of this is classic fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll give 100% when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha, so when the boss tells me to “give 110%” I can go ahead and translate that to 55%.

  And then not do that either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Council housing when?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s the market” is another way of saying “because I can”.

  They don’t have to raise the rent to match the market, the market is simply a signal to them that if they lost you by raising the rent, they could potentially replace you for the same or higher rent.

  They could ignore that and leave your rent alone. They don’t. It’s a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This cimes from the assumption that right wing views have equal validity and exist on am equal footing, but they just don’t.

  Right wing autoritarian attitudes are just whatever is propped up by the propaganda of the prevailing hierarchy. They’re blasted out of mainstream news outlets everyday. They don’t survive on merit, but on funding.

  Like honestly, if you want to hear what conservatives have to say, go watch their news, listen to their pundits, join their social media apps, but if you’ve got half a brain then you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s just a pile of callow, self-serving bullshit. You will be disappointed.

  Like this is an open system. Anyone can make an instance. You know why right wing instances just… aren’t? Because they can’t stop themselves from being bigots, which most people hate, actually, and gets them yeeted, so they don’t thrive here. It’s ot some conspiracy or bias, it’s just what happens when assholes aren’t shielded by some big daddy corporation. They can’t hack it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fediverse chick just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean in the vast scope of objects that exist in our universe you basically are.

  If you have DNA at all you are in a very small and closely related club in the context of the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one can know my shame⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In future you can just say that rather than talking in circles and making no sense. Goodbye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point is that the issues don’t affect the core experience, and I’ve explained how that’s wrong, and you’ve ignored it.

  You’re also now blatantly mischaracterising what I’ve said.

  If you want me to keep talking to you, I need you to tell me that you are actually curious to understand what I have to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you ignored the worst parts of it in favour of things you could dismiss for yourself, and then you ignored me pointing that out. I’m not going to keep explaining this to you any further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The science is divided⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Horse blindness is a made up illness designed to gaslight us into believing that horses exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I don’t understand how and you haven’t explained it, you’ve just said that you don’t personally care about it, which isn’t an argument I can respond to. You’re free to have your opinion, but I don’t see how it’s relevant here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardcore gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a cavalcade of poor decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, if you ignore the worst parts of it that I explicitly laid out and only focus on how it makes you feel personally, then I can see how you might feel that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’m so angry and salty that I checks notes wrote a detauled and even-handed analysis of the situation with appropriate caveats. How dare I state facts with sources and explanations of my reasoning.

  I’m just absolutely raging. It’s embarrassing, frankly. I’m making a fool of myself. I can’t believe I lost control like that and said words that I believe to be true. Who does that? Unhinged behaviour. Just wild. I should be banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one way it happens, but on general the term appears to be about decline in quality for the purposes of profit-seeking, regardless of whether services were offered for free or not.

  The wiki article starts with this:

  Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

  Other articles I looked at seem to agree with this basic concept.

  And like I said, spam from scammers and inbox spam are examples of shittiness that seep in regardless of if you engage or not. There is no “no marketplace plz” option, and even if there were scammers can still send you friend request spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The steam marketplace is an attempt to monetise the user base by creating a bunch of microtransactions and taking a cut for the store. They have created a speculative market, which is essentially gambling, and made it available to minors. This market is designed to exploit people’s psychological weaknesses.

  Yes, users and devs get a cut too, and that’s better than some sites will do to you, but creating a market also has a bunch of externalities - extra problems that are offloaded onto other people and not borne by valve.

  So suddenly we’ve got a bunch of scammers creating accounts to make money, which obviously can scam users, plus it generats spam, and it creates a need for user-hostile security. Now I can’t friend my kid’s account without spending money on it for instance,

  Also there’s the item spam. Now when I get a notification I don’t know if it’s a community forum reply, or just more worthless junk in my inventory.

  Some of these are minor inconveniences, but that’s how enshittification happens. It’s little, creeping annoyances that get worse and worse until it starts to make people look for alternatives.

  And like I said, it’s not as bad as other places. Steam is still the best distribution platform out there, but it has enshittified a little bit. It has to, because the interests of the owners and the interests of the users are fundamentally at odds - more money spent means more money for the owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t do whatever you want with open source either. One big stipulation of copyleft licenses is the share-alike clause, which means you can’t make modifications and then decide your program is now closed-source, so it protects the code from being enclosed again.

  I mean yes you can make whatever modifications you want, generally, but it’s not totally unrestricted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say the marketplace is a form of enshittification. They’re not burrowing headfirst into the shit like some platforms, but it’s an inevitable trend regardless.

  Plus who knows what happens when gabe isn’t around any more. Best case scenario is he leaves the company to the workers as a co-op and then it has a chance to be a lasting legacy, but maybe it goes to someone who puts it up to be publicly traded and that’s game over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, you can talk about how it works in theory, but in practice we see the rightward ratchet effect. The LNP won an election and immediately raided the ABC journo’s offices, which led to David McBride’s prosecution, and they did robodebt and prosecuted Richard Boyle.

  Then the ALP comes back into power and just allows those prosecutions to continue. We’ve got another whistleblower prosecution just the last couple of weeks.

  That’s literally the ratchet effect. They are barely doing anything, just marking time.

  The rightward ratchet is not a purely US thing, it is how liberal democracies all over the world behave. The mechanisms are all slightly different but the reality is that our governments are captured by the wealthy and powerful, and they want them to go right, so that’s where they go. The two sides of electoral politics are simply a more sustainable method of maintaining that rightward movement.

  You say preferences send a message, but I don’t feel particularly heard, do you? You know what sends a stronger message? The removal of PMs that go against US interests. Our politicians know exactly where they stand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those benefits were won by the actual labour movement.

  Parties like the ALP coopt the movement and put an official face on it. They take the wins and put them into legislation so people believe the wins were given to us by our government, which dupes people into thinking our government is legitimate.

  Oh and as a bonus legislation can compromise what was actually won by watering it down, so we accept less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid is having such bad luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know being born into wealth isn’t a great deal either. Does Musk seem happy to you? Or any of the other ghouls in that orbit?

  There is plenty of evidence that large amounts of wealth has a similar effect on the owner as brain damage.

  No, you don’t want that. Having enough to be comfortable is good, but wealth is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, laws? Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me just tune up real quick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh like when it just doubles down? That is some of the funniest shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While shitposting at work as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You know that employee is definitely going for a wank, right?”

  “Yup.”

  “So why don’t you discipline them?”

  “They do their best work freshly wanked, plus do you want to have that conversation?”

  “Uhh…”

  “Just make sure IT knows not to touch their keyboard and there’s no problem.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we could all just assume this was done with dev tools and not actual vandalism, and then go on our merry way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that series converges, it’s not an infinite sum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BJ saw it in 60s US, and you know what he did?

  He got to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just looked it up, very positive reviews and very cheap. No mention of boobies in the feature list but it has this:

  Key features:

  • First Ever Open-World Paris

  Thank god, FINALLY someone did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not but that does sound good.