I never cease to be amused by how this app has a community that hates the staff and a staff that hates the community and both sides are completely open about it
this isn’t a retirement home it’s a Waffle House
Honestly I half-assume anyone saying this is just an embarrassed Nazi, because the paradox of tolerance demands maximum intolerance of intolerance. Anyone crying about this being 'anti-democratic' is not your friend or ally, they are a plant.
So, we can dis-bar lawyers who abuse the law. Can we dis-bench judges who abuse the law? If not, WHY NOT?
This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year.
The purpose of a system is what it does!
Neurotypicality is a processural field of violence against & amidst those deemed neurotypical AS WELL AS the neurodiverse. It has differing effects and consequences on each, but affects and shapes both
A key part of the banality of evil is that fascism trains people who are boringly and completely neurotypical to be incredibly violent, as part of their boring job.
It literally could not possibly work if it could only be done by the tiny fraction of the population with cluster B syndromes.
Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose
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This is breaking the fundamental social compact between writer and editor it's like the Red Wedding for people who write for a living
I remain convinced that the census folks should be the ones in charge of handling voting district arrangements, probably with the help of the post office. They’re the one who are supposed to know where everybody is, right?
HOW TO SAVE ACADEMIA
make it free for studentes
higher educacioun for those who choose to access it ys a foundacioun of a free societye
Hey, speaking of another thing urban areas are actually considerably better at than rural areas
btw we do mean this very sincerely. the bsky team wanted a haven for technofascist consolidation but they failed to account for how many furries work in IT and how much overlap there is between furries and various marginalized communities, we truly think this is a factual read of the early days
the foundational concept of Bluesky was to create a space for tech bros by using invite only for a span
the foundational reality of Bluesky is that invites became life rafts for queers fleeing Twitter by way of furries
nobody working for Bluesky has ever forgiven this
Pushing this again: this site does Corporate autopsies of why every product has gotten worse over time
www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glass...
saying that charlie brown had "hoes" is like saying that temple of aphrodite at corinth had "hoes". what was happening there was within its own cultural context, and we should be careful about describing it in modern language
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM
Yep, that's basically where I'm at
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"Schumer promised they would be butter knives too!"
…see, now I’m thinking up what a KiY/Swordspoint crossover would look like, and I gotta say I like where it’s going.
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
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I dunno that I’d call that a conspiracy THEORY, since they’ve pretty much admitted it on multiple occasions…
User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?
Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.
"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."
It's always about avoiding accountability with folks like these.
"Feeling guilty" is more heinous because it affects them negatively personally, rather than acknowledging the long and enduring histories of racism, colonialism, misogyny, etc., which they can more easily sidestep as white cishet men.
A spokesperson for Reform added: "Too often some public spaces are presenting divisive views of history that are designed to make people feel guilty."
which "divisive views" goose dot jpg
Some interesting stuff in there, mixed in with the traditional humanocentric thesis. (I remain convinced that language, in the sense of symbolic information transmission, is vastly more widespread among living things that we credit from our verbal-centric bias, but I’m a dirty animist, so…)
I wrote a story of two doctors to illustrate what it really means to meet MAGA defectors where they are.
We live in a sick nation, so we should pursue a culture of healing. And every movement toward health begins with a confrontation. www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...
yeah dudes get real uncomfy when you tell them "the birth rate crisis" is because children are getting SAed less
Hey, look, another one for the “I’ve never heard of this individual” to “this one seems like a tool” blockage speedrun Olympics.