Trump and Republicans are suddenly realizing that if they lose the House in November, Trump’s presidency is effectively over, and they know that this is likely to happen. Trump is panicking. We need to make this outcome a reality.
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."
For better and worse, AI code is rampant now, it's even in the Linux kernel. We're going to need to legislate this stuff. You know, when we can. 😑
Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
And that's stuck in my head now, thank you.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
We all look crazy alongside you now, fam.
"you are responsible for every possible way your words may be interpreted" is an expectation, I think, that no one would want applied to themselves, but it seems to be becoming normal on this site. internalizing this is a good way to make yourself crazy.
That's the easiest part of the book to adapt by a country mile.
A small watercolor painting of a shrimp on a card that says "you're shrimply the best"
Everything is terrible so painted a shrimp
Handmade sign on a rectangle of cardboard, in black marker and red paint. “TO DO<br>☒ buy milk<br>☒ feed the dog<br>☐ hold them accountable<br>☐ never let this happen again”
see you there
Praise the gods of small things.
Another great day of saving the beeeeeeeeees.
As usual, science provides good news.
Gee, it's almost like science is a good concept that betters mankind.
Slay the Spire 2 using MS paint for placeholders was really lovely.
AI has one use and one use only on games. For management to cut staff and replace them with reshuffled stolen work.
That's it. That's the bottom line.
Fuck them.
👍🪖🙅♀️🏥
The Abattoir. It haunts me. I ultimately learned to ace it, and that haunts me too.
The voice of experience for sure haha ❤️ Genuinely good advice here, folks.
Deeply honored and grateful to have the support of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a leader who has never been afraid to put justice, humanity, and the truth ahead of political convenience. Her courage has helped blaze the path for so many of us.
I fear that it's knuckleheads all the way down there.
Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
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Sorry I missed it but it was a welcome notification. Welcome back. 😊
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RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
What are you working on?
the major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all
No, wait.....I think you're genuinely on to something. Maybe we don't need to rapidly evaporate drinking water for terribly written essays.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
I have, yes. It's a beautiful, slow, and surreal descent into madness.