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There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”

We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

Herd animals gonna herd animal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I’ve ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.

They’re game devs, not an acquisition and mergers team. “We signed contract to do business with xyz terms” should be plenty reliable enough for conducting business. Not “Lol, whut? You didn’t read the fine print? Psyche! We’re changing everything.”

Unity deserve to get sued into oblivion for this

Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

You have to wonder if we aren’t just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.

“The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it.”

https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976

YEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south

Yeah I’m absurdly good at not speaking in my native Appalachian accent, opting instead for a sort of “generic midwest.” Unless I’m tawking to ma day-ed-dy, n’ then all bets is awf."

My sister and I cover so well and so often that none of her four children who are literally being raised in Charleston, West Virginia has even a trace of our accent.

The irony that phenylephrine intravenous is actually effective at maintaining blood pressure in people who are trying real hard to die on ya. (Our ICU uses it sometimes.)

https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine

Preach. I hate the shit, it makes me feel shaky, but god damn does it work.

There are so many consumers MONOPOLIES now that products that aren’t good or exploit their users can still have a healthy market.

FTFY

They can buy themselves a few years at best without a functioning supply chain. We all depend on society, no matter how much they like to deny it

They think they do. No amount of money will protect a person from the collapse of a civilization. Never has, never will. Their plans are very much predicated on the assumption that markets will somehow magically continue to function after the general populace has lost all faith in them

Their content promotion algorithms are not protected by section 230. Those algorithms are the real problem, pushing more and more radical content onto vulnerable minds. (The alt-right YouTube pipeline is pretty well documented. Reddit, I think, less so. But they still promote “similar content”)

It’s a rather bizarre argument, essentially saying “it’s not the whole solution so it’s not a solution at all”

Lawdamercy, can you please say it louder for the people in the back whinging that they refuse to vote for Biden because his Climate Bill wasn’t perfectly everything all at once? In the face of the Republican denialist obstructionism, it’s pretty fucking miraculous. The ultimate solution to climate change is going to be a patchwork quilt of a million different tiny solutions

I always struggled to imagine what dodos must have looked like irl until I saw these things. They almost look make-believe! Happy to see them reintroduced.

This was not a good year for me to pick up Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry of the Future” book

Vivekananda is one of the most brilliant minds in modern India, contemporary with Gandhi, and only less well known because he died so young.

And “what that is” is that you’ve blindly accepted outsiders’ racist assessments of your people. You really need to question that shit:

https://keywordsechoes.com/decolonizing-the-mind