Gugabe
1yr ago
Honestly I'm confused why a bolt gun or some sort of pneumatic guillotine isn't used. Latter is literally impossible to fuck up if you put enough PSI behind a heavy enough blade.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Cobra Kai fine but it said 95% of what it needed to say in the first season.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Which layer of caretakers? The immediate family are the chief 'victims' from that POV, though it does raise a question of whether paid assistants can be considered to have downsides.
They're doing an ostensibly unpleasant job, but they're getting paid etc.
Gugabe
1yr ago
refuge for right-wingers
I mean it kind of inherently is, due to the overton window for most of Reddit being like 90th percentile Left to 40th percentile Left, which also produces a lot of the 'I was kicked out of the Motte for speaking truth to grotty Right Wingers, but can't possibly be wrong since the rest of Reddit agrees with me' dynamics.
Gugabe
1yr ago
covid was a very minor plague in comparison
As an actual disease, sure. In terms of economic, lifestyle and cultural consequences I'd argue it got inflated into one of the biggest ever
Gugabe
1yr ago
Anything resembling lockdowns, mask-wearing during any sort of physical activity or absurd location like a restaurant.
Gugabe
1yr ago
I mean my point is that the 'competition' for obscure fetish art really isn't anything great, so the AI's got a lower barrier to entry into the marketplace.
Gugabe
1yr ago
I'm prettymuch in agreement about the karaoke period. Then again it raises the question of the amount of medication and care going into sustaining said karaoke period.
Gugabe
1yr ago
In Australia, the first pensions were introduced in 1900 for 65 year olds. It seems weird that the cutoff's only drifted by 2 years in the time since.
Gugabe
1yr ago
But on the other hand, if even a few percent of 6,300 nuclear weapons work, that's still a lot of nuclear strikes. So let's not be too brave about denouncing their arsenal.
I mean that's really the core point, especially since there's a difference in failure between 'Their nukes are good to a 100KM radius not a 10KM radius' or other stuff that's gonna not really change the core calculus
Gugabe
1yr ago
Bunch of songs came out on the theme of BLM, but then again it's not like there isn't already significant over-representation of that theme amongst popular music anyway.
Hard to really do a protest song for COVID without getting absolutely nuked from orbit by the media.
Gugabe
1yr ago
you're so right wing that you can't possibly stay in the closet about it, it would be too obvious, which regardless of your politics isn't a good look, and quite likely maps onto something like "superfascist" anyway.
Agreed the more I think about it. Having enough social awareness to just tick 'Left' on the politics box and 'hide your power level' is a key stumbling block, and also confirms that you're less likely to be a complete pastiche of a raving QAnon-type or whatever overtly, regardless of what your true beliefs are.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Still by virtue of it being a very small number, you'd imagine it'd have changed hands a bunch unless he's literally only the 7th person to hold the post since the secret service debuted.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Amusingly there were some critical articles released around the last season claiming that the show was ‘whitewashing’ the British Empire. I suppose it kind of does, in that if you were a random western teenager with little knowledge of history the Empire portrayed and suggested at on the show seems like a much more modern, tolerant and DEI-affirming multicultural polity (at least from the perspective of the metropole) than it actually was.
I mean how can they simultaneously diversity-cast historically-set media whilst not whitewashing the lack of diversity?
Gugabe
1yr ago
Different optics on the justice system just failing to do its job initially versus actively pardoning people, IMO.
Gugabe
1yr ago
It generally makes it difficult lines to tread. I'm in a management position, and feel like I can be a lot more hands-on and mentoring with my male graduates/juniors than I can with females. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter, but even a small % chance of it being a career/financial/reputational landmine means I've gotta be cautious.
Gugabe
1yr ago
I mean NFTs are more in the 'new speculative good that might experience some adoption but probably not but you never know' category compared to the short squeeze cargo cult where it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how the market works. Equivalently dumb things have bubbled as NFTs.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Yes but the political events are sufficiently spaced & he's now got sufficient capture of the audience that there's no real advantage to him in putting his status to any real test.
Gugabe
1yr ago
The teacher example's got a lot to do with the proximity to the age of consent, though?
Then again I'd feel differently about like 3 different hypothetical situations of
50-something CEO sleeping with fresh, 20 year old Intern in first real job
30-something middle manager sleeping with mid-twenties graduate who is their direct report
40-something senior middle manager sleeping with middler middle manager who's also in their 40s.
Gugabe
1yr ago
Oh I'm gonna take the RAT test as a respect to their cultural beliefs but the fact that it's even a conversation is amazing to me.
Gugabe
1yr ago
He's already 73 and it's a largely ceremonial role. I'm sure he'll be a bit more outspoken, but can't really see it turning into much in practice.
I mean if you've got a super-obscure fetish it's not like you're commissioning Rembrandt to do the already-available art. In my meandering experience most niche stuff trends towards being low quality anyways, and the inherent... super-specialization of fetish probably goes a long way.
If I'm into pale girls wearing red high heels and a police uniform, the current situation probably means I can get police uniform or red high heels but AI art is gonna let me layer in all the levels of fetish.
Honestly it's kind of concerning seeing how much internet communities have already done for sexual dysfunction and getting overly fetish-focused.
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