supastevo.bsky.social
all cows are beef
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Some time next year
bigwalk.game
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It's best to try not to be paralyzed by the scale of issues at a global or continental scale. A dedicated group can feed a community. A fed community is more resilient against the attacks of fascism, which exploit societal weaknesses
Even if the only person you help is your neighbor, you helped
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You don't need a majority or even a plurality of the populace to effect meaningful change within your community. Sure, voting is easy; but when corporate interests control who is even allowed to be on the ballot, what does it accomplish? OTOH, hunger can be eliminated by a relatively small group
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Rather than getting mad at voters, I would encourage you to consider that maybe *voting* itself is the issue. Elections are not an appropriate tool to solve many of the societal problems that we face today
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Not sure why you think hardness is the sole determining factor for air velocity. Baseballs still travel much faster
Screenshot is from www.theroar.com.au/2021/11/19/c...
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You're telling me the term "Desert power" (from the science fiction novel Dune) has existed longer than the term "soft power" (an actual thing that exists in real life)
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moons hogged
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Ok go to your breaker box and shut everything off then let me know how well your life is going a month from now. Keep in mind you can't afford electricity in this simulation so no spending more than $5 per day to feed yourself
Hopefully lived experience will teach better than reading comprehension
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Have you considered reading the second sentence?
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Cops don't use crown vics anymore. This is about people with explorers in a neutral color, twice as much if they have a roof rack
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Microsoft was just the first to realize that the formula of prior generations will not work in the future.
The money well of "trapping users in your ecosystem and skimming off the top of other people's games" is drying up.
Consumers are starting to value and demand portability in their games
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Am I insane for seeing the game delay (supported by the literal CEO) as a huge sign of health for the industry?
Like in decades past, they'd have just made them crunch for nine months and hire temps to replace the people that killed themselves in the process
Glad to see them moving away from that
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I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. Do you think Layla Elabed has a mind control laser? Do you believe that she was actually casting a spell that changed people's minds to confirm what she predicted? Do you think the people at the weather channel create the hurricanes?
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This is just a list of right-wing individuals / institutions who pose as left-wing to gain popularity. Of course, someone who genuinely believes in horseshoe theory would similarly get duped by the disingenuous posturing to the left, but that doesn't mean horseshoe theory is real lmao
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@massivelyop.bsky.social has had great coverage on the development of Dune Awakening
massivelyop.com/about/
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It's the same thing the Nazis did. They described themselves with the word "socialism" but then did the exact opposite
These ACP fucks aren't communists
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Pretty exciting because this will probably be Waymo's first experience with a stakeholder that actually tells them "No, that's not good enough. It needs to fucking work before I put it in my goddamn vehicle" and maybe that's what they've been needing this whole time
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Oh I thought the "Clint Eastwood" name next to Clearly Pierce Brosnan was part of the joke. Like the Hanson Nirvana shirt
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The Heat
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This is a great example of why it's necessary to be clear (and consistent!) with your intentions. Nobody is saying you're being unclear. Ned on the other hand...
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FA
RT
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LLMs are the next leaded gasoline. It's a tool that makes you stupider every time you use it
I don't care how "useful" the tool is if it undermines my mental acuity, curiosity, and attention to detail
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I think the issue is people are seeing you say "the majority of Nvidia's valuation is baseless" and interpreting it as "100% of Nvidia's valuation is baseless"
Nvidia has had an effective monopoly on the GPU market for around a decade now. That can't be why they've exploded over the last two years
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"I will face my couch. I will permit it to..."
Ok that's enough JD
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How about we establish non profit transportation companies that charge minimal fares. And why stop at just one little car for the taxis? How about we have huge taxis that can hold like 50 people in them! And for really busy transport corridors, we can chain a whole bunch of these mega taxis together
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Target stock over the last year
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I thought they were supposed to be boycotting Wrangler for their collab with Lil Nas X
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I know there's always a stupid one in a crowd, but I genuinely don't think I've seen anyone saying this. I've only seen responses like "yeah the media affects beliefs, but the only reason why the media is a negative force is because of the material condition of corporate ownership of most media"
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It's arguing against somebody who thinks architecture isn't real because 9/11 showed that buildings don't necessarily remain standing under every conceivable circumstance
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It's also in service of arguments like "we should not bother making improvements to airplane safety because accidents are just bad luck, they can't be prevented"
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How might have the wildfires been different if there had not been a lightning strike that day, hmmm? What if the thunderstorm happened to float over a slightly different section of the thousands of acres of extremely flammable material accumulated by decades of poor ecological planning? Hmmmmmmmm???
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I'm with cait on this one
bsky.app/profile/cait...
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Oh yeah I totally agree. But the whole "destruction of the country" thing definitely could have been perpetuated with or without him.
That's will's whole thing. He tries to define the causes of these mass movements to just a single thing (or nothing!)
The point is to dismiss workers movements etc
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Same playbook as George W Bush. Find a charismatic idiot who asks just the right amount of questions (as close to zero as possible) and make idiots like Stancil think that he's calling all the shots. Rinse and repeat
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Not specifically and not in the short term. But generally in the long term, yeah. The project 2025 freaks would have picked their next homunculus and probably still end up winning the election and doing the same shit by now.
Actually y'know what, the tariffs stuff would probably be different lol
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Terminally online leftists: "you would be more popular if you adopted and committed to these popular positions"
Democrats: "fuck outta here with your purity virtues, we're just gonna do what what we're told by the imaginary family living in Chuck Schumer's imagination"
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All of Project 2025 just vanishes, along with all of the architects behind it, if the projectile takes a different trajectory?
I'm pretty sure stancils "concrete facts" in this case aren't even *that* concrete lol
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The context that you're missing here is that Stancil makes arguments like "the USSR collapsed because...they had bad ideas or something" and can't comprehend that it was affected in any way by the decades-long campaign of oppression by the West. As if it's impossible to press your thumb on the scale
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Ah yes, the abduction of political opponents pressed into extrajudicial concentration camps, famously a topic that does not at all resonate with voters. It's a shame we can only talk about one single thing per week; the focus group testing is going as fast as it can!
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Aha, now you've waded into the waters of leftist infighting. Welcome, comrade!
(The joke here is that there is a never ending debate between those who believe in a centralized "communist" economy vs those who believe in a decentralized "anarchist" economy)
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You can't find the logic in it for the same reason you can't find a good ski resort in the middle of the Sahara desert
People who do that aren't acting logically. They are exhibiting a conditioned response which has been reinforced by indoctrination
One reason why mutual aid > electoral politics
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When right wingers say "communists want you to own nothing!" they are doing the exact same thing as when they say "the estate tax wants to steal your inheritance!"
Well, 99% of people aren't inheriting a billion dollars so the estate tax doesn't affect them. Same with the means of production
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Thank you for your open minded approach!
I think others have said similarly, but as for the "don't own anything", I think the best example is housing
Most leftists agree that owning a house that you live in: totally fine and great actually
Owning the house that *somebody else* lives in: very bad
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This is why the New Deal was perhaps the largest liberal accomplishment. It saved capitalism from complete collapse by temporarily borrowing some ideas from socialism while retaining the same systemic issues that caused the Great Depression
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Liberalism is the moderate right-wing position. It boils down to believing that capitalism is good with the right regulations.
Liberals often believe the current economic system is "broken" and needs to be fixed/saved.
Leftists recognize that the system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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You should consider a new line of work. We changed the default branch name because the main branch does not exert control over the other branches. It simply makes more sense to use "main" in the era of CI/CD, dipshit. Why would you insist on using a shittier misleading name?