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Given I stopped playing them after the OG on the snes I feel I am a bit out of date….

I thinks it’s possible to criticize free market capitalism and western society without turning a variety of complex historical figures and events into cartoon caricatures of good and evil. But mayyyybe that’s just me. 🤷‍♀️

My unpopular opinion is that I think most folks are vastly overestimating the competence of Vance because he doesn’t constantly present to the world as a profane cognitive merry-go-round. Take Vance seriously, but stop giving him so much credit. He’s mediocre. He doesn’t deserve that respect.

Which one are we talking about right now?

Officer Piss Test has opinions.

You ABSOLUTELY should laugh at all of this. Are you a human being?

I am *here* for it.

Open relationships and poly aren’t anarchy…….

the difference between this and all the “brave anti-woke academic speaking out despite the risks” is that (a) she’s actually risking something, and (b) she’s actually saying something that’s correct

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

Disabled and neurodivergent folks have always made art, so when you use them as a shield to defend AI and say the “need” it, you’re an asshole on top of a thief. Hope that helps. Have a wonderful day!

I’m…. Conflicted on this point. Pedantic background here: I’ve spent my entire career in distributed systems. Peer to peer is good at a lot, but they very much struggle to be even vaguely power efficient at a lot of tasks, large scale web hosting being one of them.

AI? really? FFS….

No joke, we once had a hen that started crowing and took over rooster duties. It also bonded with a pigeon. No, I’m not kidding.