netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
20hr ago
Is support for Israel actually reliant on dispensationalists? Hell, is it even tied to Boomers?
- Knee-jerk reaction to Oct 7
- Knee-jerk reaction to one’s domestic opponents expressing a position
- General distaste for Islam
- Vague sense that Israel is more aligned with western interests
On the rare occasion that I encounter such a discussion at work, it’s more likely to be the last one. It’s not like there’s any shortage of Christians here in Texas. But we also fought enough wars in the Middle East to give a ton of non-Boomers an excuse to support Israel. Pro-Palestine protests only confirm that bias.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22hr ago
That doesn’t seem right. FTL barely has metaprogression at all, and it’s a definitive roguelite.
Besides, why should expectation of completion deserve a separate genre? “FPS” doesn’t even distinguish between single-player campaigns and uncompletable multiplayer lobbies.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
“Procedural dungeon crawler.” Maybe squeeze in the word “permadeath” if you’re worried about people confusing it with procgen-as-compression like Elite.
I don’t think -like and -lite merit different terms. If adding a jump button or RPG stats doesn’t keep a game from being an FPS, adding metaprogression still leaves you with a PDC.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Depends on the user.
There are a few where it’s just “ugh, not that Austin Powers guy again.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Since I haven’t played silksong, I guess I’ll hijack this as a general video game thread.
Nebulous: Fleet Command is a sci-fi naval tactics game modeled after Cold War/modern hardware. You equip your fleet in the editor and then take that list into battles. Right now, that’s almost always 4v4 against other players, though a campaign mode is coming with the next big update.
I like you get to build towards a particular strategy and then try to play it out. I like that the micro has a relatively low floor; ships and weapons are unwieldy enough that you generally have to commit to your course of action. I think the visual design and the sound effects are great. And I particularly enjoy the existence of a game which cares about ELINT and RCS. For professional reasons, of course.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Getting bombed by the U.S. does not make you a failed state. Getting bombed by a U.S. ally, even less so.
I think this is a questionable decision, but not a particularly novel one.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
We aren’t.
Other commenters have asked the important meta-questions like “why do you think your socials are representative?” and “who exactly are you planning on shooting?”
So I’ll engage purely on Catholic terms.
- Is there a competent authority organizing your violence? No, there’s no credible counterpart to the existing government. To satisfy this one, you’d be better off joining the army or at least the police.
- Is there a realistic possibility of success? The caveats about an organized authority ought to apply here. But you’ve also got to have a goal which is actually compatible with whatever you’re trying. There are remarkably few which benefit from acts of terrorism.
- Is the cause just? I consider this the free space on your bingo card.
- Is it your last resort? Ask yourself whether Republican control of the White House, Supreme Court, both houses of Congress, 28 state legislatures and 27 state governors represents a total collapse of your legal avenues.
One in four criteria. Make of that what you will.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
The PRC also can’t do anything about us. Descending into civil strife gives them strictly more options.
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Would you count journalists? A lot of these are personal, or credibly "wrong place wrong time," but there are a couple that stand out. Especially if you don't rule out mass killings. I guess I could imagine someone with a (real or, more likely, imagined) grudge against Kirk.
Commenters are going to say they hated him because he told the truth. Because he was somehow uniquely "dangerous" to a nebulous leftist project. But if that were enough, this wouldn't be so unusual.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Fuck.
I learned about this by overhearing a hushed conversation between coworkers. Feels different than if I’d just seen the firehose on social media.
Have they not caught the shooter yet? Sites reported a “person of interest” in custody. If that’s not the killer, I’m guessing it’s whoever asked a gun question seconds before he was killed. Hell of a coincidence.
I guess I’ll register a corresponding prediction. The shooter won’t turn out to be trans. Synchronizing an assassination to a political question is strictly more insane than just killing someone. As such, the specific question probably wasn’t relevant, and I’m falling back on base rates.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
This is still not the place for drive-by culture warring.
Your last warning for this exact behavior was last month. Your last ban was further back—but it was also the exact same behavior.
Three day ban, this time. Please show some restraint.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
You are making the pronouns an issue. Would it be any less ideological if the NYT abandoned their style guide, just this once?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
That’s actually what happened almost immediately after Prohibition, yeah. Some areas allowed the sale of 3% beer.
Today there are still Byzantine regulations on which stores can sell what percentages.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
This is why we had segregation.
No, it is blatantly not.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
…but had better access to nutrition, sanitation and medicine. I think data is all over the place. Even 1% per birth adds up over a life with 5-8 births!
More to the point, I don’t think a woman has to die in childbirth for it to make her life much more difficult. Assuming that the past was so much easier is hopelessly naive.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
So their argument is: anyone who would be addicted already is, and the only effect of keeping the drugs illegal is that criminals are in charge of selling and producing them instead of capitalists/entrepreneurs who are above the law, and that there will be less stuff that is spiked/laced because of regulations.
A pretty extreme version of the position, maybe. It doesn't have to be the "only" effect to be worth it. Just the biggest one. Every dollar siphoned from the cartels reduces their capacity. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as they say.
I think the strongest counterarguments start by observing that people don't handle legal drugs that well. There are something like 15 million alcohol addicts in the States. Not drinkers, addicts. Would legal fentanyl really be less harmful? Or consider tobacco culture. Kids get ahold of this stuff and try it as an edgy symbol of rebellion. Some of them develop the habit. Is that dynamic going to be improved in any way by harder drugs?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
This wildly underestimates the amount of labor and stress involved in subsistence agriculture.
Did you know that the a bunch of historical measurement units were traditionally defined in terms of ploughing speed? One furlong for an eight-ox team to plough until they needed a break. Use that time to set up for the next furrow. Repeat for an entire day and you have an acre. Repeat for an entire ploughing season and you have your effective limits on land.
Do this twice a year if you don’t want to starve. Spend the rest planting, weeding, foraging, harvesting, haymaking, shearing, milking, breeding, slaughtering, repairing, digging, building, etc., or you’ll still starve. Have your crops pillaged by a passing army and starve anyway.
And God forbid you’re a woman. You avoid some of those backbreaking tasks, but get your own set instead. Not to mention the joys of giving birth in the era before anesthetics or antibiotics.
Seriously. The past was much harsher than you’re imagining.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
No, because “no real domestic economy” means cheap labor supply means more competition for tourist dollars.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Who the hell steals vegetables?
Statistics are predictably elusive, but all I could find indicated that meat, cheese, and infant formula were the most popular stolen foods. Excluding alcohol, that is.
I also object to the idea that vulnerability to theft makes anything cheap, but I recognize that was tongue in cheek.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
The economics of air travel are not immediately obvious. It’s not just distance/duration. Route availability and the density of the endpoints are even more important because airplanes and their infrastructure are so expensive. I wouldn’t think this is a particular Thai advantage.
Though it is funny to see bitching about airline prices followed by a complaint that it’s too cheap. And you’re not even worried that it’s a bubble or something—no, you’re scared of visa jumpers? That’s less credible than the traditional complaints about tourists. I feel confident that the US-UK routes are not a significant contribution to either country’s illegal immigrants.
Your story makes me think of the stereotypical “gap year” amongst privileged college students. Only in that case, any insights about America’s bizarre economy are far more likely to grant an affinity for socialism. It’s enough to make me wonder how your policy prescription looks.
That’s an argument for choosing a different style guide, not for abandoning it when the subject is sufficiently grim.
It also assumes that the NYT does not, in fact, believe the underlying premise. I don’t think this is obvious. If it were, though, why should they break kayfabe for this? Is it somehow more compassionate?
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