FearandLoathingintheMotte
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FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
The current metagame of '65 then a decade or two of meandering cruises until eventually you roll a Natural 1 and hit the final 3 year slope of increasing disability but massive medical expense
This is poetry
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Phelbas might be my favorite and I've genuinely read all of them. Games/weapons other two favs. Found the rest interesting but not inspired to read again unlike the prior 3 which I've read a few times each
What are your favorite culture books?
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Games/weapons/phelbas are by far the best 3.
I think he's genuine and correct. The culture is by far the best outcome for humanity and also sucks for its own reasons.
But those reasons are literally just the human condition at the end of the day "wahhh I fuck 10/10 models constantly and go lava surfing so much it's boring. What does it all meannnnn."
> inb4 "but the AI runs everything and we have no power/are basically glorified pets"
You have essentially 0 power ovwr the institutions that run your life today. The government of your respective locality could largely be replaced by a benevolent AI and you'd have no idea, in fact your government would probably get much more competent. I don't really see how it's different. If the CIA wanted to fuck my shit up tomorrow they could. Hell, a few years ago all it took was an angry mob on Twitter.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Wow we have the exact same tastes I don't even need to write my comment. I wouldn't have put lifted pickups (but they are dumb) but delivery when you live in a downtown city and cruises were my first two answers
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Why do you think the west is legalizing weed?
Because policing it is retarded?
But yeah the soma aspect isn't a downside
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
On a similar note, I am extremely curious to see how the Native American Government Funding Extraction Industrial Complex in Canada is doing in about 10 years.
They're absolutely raking in settlement, etc cash right now.
But once Canada is ~50% Indian, I'm curious how that will play.
Sandeep et al have a pretty good argument for why they shouldn't have their tax dollars paying to endlessly rebuild water treatment plants in rural Canada, they were being oppressed by the British at the same time the Indigenous people were!
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Oh neat I didn't know that - thanks for sharing
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Wait sorry can you please explain this further? I would have 100% assumed the opposite result from expressing those two opinions.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
People lasted longer then, among the heroes it wouldn't be unusual for her to still be beautiful and fertile at 40 or 50
What is the mechanism of action here? They didn't have sunscreen or dentists
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Did he have a child bride, knock her up then go off to war?
.... Based? I weep for what we have lost
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
You are correct but the majority of poor people aren't criminals and do actually provide goods and services to the economy, while also purchasing other goods and services.
On the balance of the odds, a "little ghetto baby" will be a net positive impact on society, in that they're a human who will have relationships, experience joy, and be a semi-productive economic net gain
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Happy Trudeau noises
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
There's a reason the South Koreans have the best sunscreen tech in the world and to be very clear that reason is racism / colorism
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
Increasing the total size of the economy doesn't benefit natives
I agree with a lot of this, but the above sentence is incorrect.
There are increasing returns to scale in an economy. It's a large (hah) reason why the US and China are as successful as they are. It's a reason why the EU exists, etc.
can actually vote them down?
At a certain point if the bottom 30-50% of young(er) people get pissed off and poor enough, the protests up to and including genuine physical violence to seize the reins of power could be in play.
Old people can outvote the young handily, and that won't change for ~100 years given current demographics. But their power is only on paper, a revolution, where physical power rules, is much less favorable.
I'm not advocating for a butlerian jihad against Simon & Linda, but at the extremes it is a possibility
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
I agree with you on all of this. I just think it applies to basketball too via similar mechanisms of action.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
In a space opera I'm really hoping we're leveraging our IQ and coordination abilities, not rock throwing at their laseguns
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
further cements my personal opinion that people as a whole will gleefully be discriminatory as long as they have the power of the state behind thier actions to excuse it without any self awareness.
This isn't your "personal opinion" it's literally human nature and you are 100% correct as it's the truth of the universe
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
amazing how even obnoxious dogs recognize what it means when a human bends down to grab a rock
Love this
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
bedroom key
Why does your custom home have a bedroom lock?
Keyfob for my mother's car
Does she not need it? Why carry it?
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
If we were a video game class, it would be our special racial skill.
Not IQ?!!?!? What?!?!?? Or communication?!?!?!? Throwing things? Really?
I don't want to downplay how OP we are at throwing things but I'm not typing this comment on a thrown projectile lol
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
spend thousands of hours on a movement skill that has no application to anything else whatsoever.
Unlike hockey, where the skill of using a shaped stick to throw things will pay dividends over their lifetime lol
I used to play soccer as a kid, and I now kick stuff around my apartment with precision to clean up, so that was good.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
I have no answers for you
It's a tricky thing paying people to do stuff. I remember reading studies decades ago about how it lowered motivation for many tasks to add a paid component.
You could give a fixed allowance predicated on some amount of chore completion so she acquires money but it isn't 1:1 related to the task
My concern is less chores, and more of any unintended blowback by accidentally making her dislike crafts because her parents monetized it and it killed the vibe (I can't remember the mechanism of action in the studies lol)
FearandLoathingintheMotte
2mo ago
I don't think the logistics are in my favor, but I wish I could come to your housewarming
I just want to say that I deeply respect how the mods actually stick around to litigate their actions (which are always unpopular to some subset of people) and provide rationale/further explanation/snarky responses instead of just acting in the shadows and refusing to elaborate, or handing out extra bans for questioning them
To answer on your preferred scale: I initially thought this was about a 5/10, a Mussolini-tier moderator action. But after reading your responses, I’m fairly convinced and would downgrade it to a 2/10 Salazar. I don’t totally agree with the decision, but I appreciate that someone is keeping the budget balanced.
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