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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16hr ago
Keep the dumbbells by your computer. Work in a few reps when you pause to think or switch tracks.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17hr ago
And acts like a child. There was a viral video of a lady streamer melting down because the android drawed you a pictur.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17hr ago
and are now including the pedophilia accusation in their attacks on evil gamers.
Simpler answer: Many of the people lobbing this are just ahistorically narcissistic freaks who fail to grasp a fundamental part of human nature. If you're wierd enough to genuinely not know what a "man" is, then art depicting the Protector role will just come off as alien and disturbing. And if you're a gooner, then obviously it just gets parsed through a sexual lens.
Similar to the women who mainline romance slop calling Sam and Frodo gay because they've never had a real friendship.
And this one became high octane culture war fuel because of all the videos of women streamers having their ovaries take the wheel on stream while playing the game. Of course deep blue types will feel attacked; reds would act the same way if there was a game that had the chuds openly feeling gay-curious. I'll go ahead and note that the latter won't actually happen because it's an apparently inborn trait for a small, sticky slice of the population whereas the former is arguably the literal purpose of cellular life.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Ok this alone makes me think you're disconnected from the world. The average government worker, like the average worker, doesn't give a shit about "the mission". They want to go in, do their job, get paid, go home. They aren't there for pleasure and passion, they're there to make money. Some people may find joy in their job, but it is a job at the end of the day
Most people will not rock the boat in order to "do what is right".
I think I may have completely misinterpreted you there as "care first and foremost about the ostensible purpose of their jobs". My bad.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Personally I don't take the stance that we can only trust the official word of the state, tons of important stories come out precisely because people are willing to leak things but don't want to immediately destroy their careers.
No, that's the story journalists tell about themselves. More commonly, it's the method used to launder libel so as to protect the journalist from lawsuits.
Careerists not wanting to upset their upcoming boss spike indictments that they worry would upset him.
This is pure speculation.
Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further, according to four people familiar with the case.
This is the sort of weasel-wording you have to learn to parse when reading the news. Was told by "a supervisor" (Why not name the supervisor?). "To take the case no further". Further than what? The vote fraud stuff had already been dropped. A normal phrasing there would have been to "not go back to the old stuff" or something. And why? There's no discussion of the actual evidence that the vote buying even happened. Choosing to prioritize resources on easily provable drug offenses is very common. That's the case for most people in federal prison for "drug" charges.
Also worth noting, because it's much more pertinent, but this was soon after González-Colón took office, and she has much more direct relevant and influence over an unimportant province like PR. But "territorial governor possibly implicated in vote buying scheme" wouldn't have this article doing rounds like tying it to Trump does.
The average government worker cares for their job first and foremost obviously.
This is unbearably naive, and just embarrassing to say about PR.
Taking a group that votes you and bribing even more people in the group to.vote for you is actually still bad.
Sure. But right off the bat, it seems more probable that it would have been an inducement to vote in the first place, again, if indeed this even happened.
Considering the careerist lawyers rightfully predicted the investigation would be stalled and decided to drop the case early to prevent further backlash, it doesn't seem like Trump is excited to latch onto this example of election fraud.
Again, this is pure speculation. Do you honestly believe that Donald Trump is particularly invested in the local primary politics of a territory? I know the guy gets autistically fixated on random shit, but I can't recall him ever caring much about PR. And while the governor loves him, the article itself mentions it's a very one-sided obsession.
There are much simpler explanations for this, again, assuming it even happened. I suppose we'll see if he says anything about it. I give high odds that if he does, it's something bombastic and vague in support of the governor just because she says nice things about him.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
massive
MASSIVE. You know what else is massive?
four people with knowledge of the case told ProPublica. They requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Oh, look, it's the red flag for bullshit reporting.
But as federal prosecutors prepared an indictment against the inmates and staff in November 2024 — just days after Trump won the election and González-Colón clinched the governorship — they received a surprising directive. Their bosses in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico instructed them to exclude the voting-related counts against the inmates and all charges against the prison staff, an investigation by ProPublica found.
Trump getting up to shenanigans with his time machine again.
Inmate votes were especially key in the 2024 gubernatorial primary as González-Colón, a longtime New Progressive Party member, was challenging the incumbent governor of the same party.
She won the primary by fewer than 30,000 votes, according to the State Elections Commission. Local news reports said that an estimated 5,000 prisoners voted territorywide.
Seems worth mentioning that the election being referenced was a primary. She went on to win the general by 130k votes, with a 10% lead in the popular.
Inmates have been aligned with the party ever since, political analysts said. Political parties in Puerto Rico differ dramatically from those on the mainland. They don’t adhere to a straight divide among Democrats and Republicans. Instead, the two main parties center much of their focus on whether Puerto Rico should become a state and so have Republicans and Democrats within each.
It’s not unheard of for politicians of all parties to court the inmate vote, but the New Progressive Party has made it a “stronghold,” said Fernando Tormos-Aponte, a political scientist with expertise on Puerto Rico and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
“It’s been a huge advantage for them particularly as elections in Puerto Rico have been decided by small margins,” Tormos-Aponte said of the New Progressive Party. In the 2024 general election for governor, the party won 83% of the inmate vote, according to a ProPublica tally of voter returns on the State Elections Commission’s website.
And they were being bribed to vote for the same party that always wins the prisoner vote?
Wow, that is a lot of effort to daisy-chain tie this to Trump, in spite of not having any evidence.
Fun fact: the walking stereotype author of this piece was a Pulitzer Prize winner for investigating child care scams in Wisconsin, but all of the wiki citations about it go to dead pages.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Professional Managerial Class. People who work in jobs that require advanced degrees, or hold high level positions, considered as a class in the Marxist sense.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Similarly, a disproportionate share of the cited murder victims are usually sex workers, an already at-risk demographic even leaving transgender identity aside.
Back in 2019 I looked up one of those lists of ALL THE MURDERED TRANSPEOPLE THIS YEAR, and searched each name. Every single one that I could find news articles about was a black transwoman sex worker killed by a black john in what was presumably "trans panic".
And even with that, the actual overall murder rate for trans people was comparable (probably lower) to the murder rate for wealthy white women.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Part of it was probably the guys who I've heard articulate this were pretty socially adroit/attractive, but framing things as "this is a me thing" vs. "this is a sex thing in general" seems to be pretty effective in avoiding criticism.
Step 1 and Step 2 with a fig leaf.
The close friend who went furthest in the PMC is extremely controlling in his relationships, to a point that even seen from a remove it would be hard to defend him from the "abuse" tag. That's one of the reasons I'm not too sad that friendship dried up with time and distance.
But his charisma and attractiveness were a meme even in high school. And when you're a tall, handsome executive living in a swanky DC suburb, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy in front of their friends. You can do anything.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
FWIW, men commonly report that women are the ones who asked them to try it. We tend to be a bit more focused on, uh, other things.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
I think this is focusing too hard on the BDSM element. As others have mentioned, very few women want an erotic master 24/7, especially if it involves menial labor. OTOH, most women appreciate a man who is confident and commanding most of the time - especially if he can escalate that in a darker direction during sex.
It's a difficult line to walk, and I think most advice for men leans way too hard in one direction or the other. Somewhat ironically, I think the meme trad Christian approach might work best, but only if you never acknowledge that that's what you're doing. Act like you're the captain of the relationship, with her as your trusted first mate (and tolerate her lack of a Riker beard), but never make that explicit.
And kindly insert a bunch of tedious throat-clearing about spectrums and Not All Women, etc, etc. Thanks.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Not many subs would be turned on by being ordered to do their dom’s tax returns, which is probably what would happen if the scenario was real instead of just a fantasy for their sexual gratification.
I would say "Big Yud in shambles", but he apparently has no short supply of "math pets".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
You and I could probably discuss this for days. My friends and I were huge into SC1 and Battle.net back in the day.
Same. Many, many late nights doing 3v3 and 4v4 on group calls with the boys.
That said, did they ever finish the chapter or cliffhanger with Lieutenant Duran and his experiments he was conducting across the stars?
Yeah,
I will say that a lot of the missions are very fun, with good replayability.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Much of the worry about the school gender crap is precisely worry about what your own kids are being groomed to do.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
You are correct. What a shame.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
As moderate evidence, the fact that the Reds tolerated this behavior from people who were often open insurrectionists acting in accord with a hostile foreign power. Just saying, we live in a world where a third of academics refuse to tolerate the hiring of colleagues they consider to be right-wing, no matter how qualified. If Reds were willing to act the same, Bill Ayers would still be rotting in a prison instead of teaching Education at Columbia and communist sympathies would be as much of a hiring black mark as Nazi sympathies.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Spoilers for Mage Errant. General spoilers, @ThomasdelVasto should avoid mousing over, but for anyone else it's general worldbuilding stuff, not specific plot points.
Actual plot point spoilers:
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
I was saying that job was the solution. It wasn't sales, but the social pressure of not acting like a moody bitch at random customers (and instead getting to solve problems and generally make them happy with me) sort of slowly rewrote the offending part of my brain. Actual sales is not something I am a great fit for. I loathe upselling, and would rather autistically drill down to a clients actual needs, even if that's only a minor sale or even recommending them a different business that better fits their needs.
Luckily, that's been working out decently well for me and my small fiefdom of Globocorp.
I don't have any specific advice for someone who is experiencing depression/anxiety from working sales, though I think I get exactly where you're coming from. Maybe seek some kind of lateral move that involves more sorting than maximizing?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
though a bit too redditor for me to truly love it.
That gets worse. There's a point where the very redditor author seems to realize the, let's say, meta-social implications of his worldbuilding and has an on-page freak-out about it.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Depression: I think a major factor was having a job where I had to put on a fake face. The mind affects the body and the body affects the mind. Smile, and it will trick the treacherous mind into being happier. Though, that job also involved organizing stacks of heavy boxes, so it was simultaneously good exercise and a constant source of satisfaction for my 'tism tendencies.
For anxiety, the only solution I know if is to brazen through. Exposure therapy. IME, it really doesn't take that much.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Sorry, I meant to rephrase that so it was more clearly ranting at the hypothetical in general, and not you in particular.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Recommend not grinding. They're nice if you just want to play a quick game or two, without the stress of a pvp game.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Oh, are we ranting about Starcraft? Let me pour out a drink and ante up.
I don't remember StarCraft 1 being remotely that obnoxious and one note. Oh well.
Starcraft 1 had it in a much older style, that hews closer to "White guy gets accepted into alien culture" tropes. Think The Last Samurai, or every rip-off of The Last of the Mohicans. Once you get past the first Terran campaign, Raynor is estranged from Mengsk, so the story keeps him around by just letting him tag along with the Protoss.
"Greetings. We are the Firstborn, the sons of Aiur, the Protoss. Our people are advanced far beyond your ken, both technically and psychically. We have come to do battle with the greatest forces of darkness, wielding our eldritch might in the most ancient of our sacred warrior traditions.
Also, we brought our friend Jim. He is a kind of monkey-thing, militia, motorcycle-cop. We gave him a battlecruiser; it's hilarious."
SC1 is a lot funnier if you interpret Jim as the Protoss' version of Boblin the Goblin.
But yes, the plot for SC2 is fucking stupid all around. They can't alienate any players, so all three factions have to have Good Guys, though they all splinter so much that there's someone for everyone.
I forget which mission it was that finally broke me and caused me to switch to normal, but it was some defense mission where your allies start off covering your east, west and south entrances, and you get repeatedly hammered from all three directions.
My general love for Starcraft is matched and mirrored by my burning hatred for the damned defense missions. Why the actual fuck did that team think static defense missions were the best way to cap almost every campaign? And the LotV one was just actually offensive. You spend the whole campaign building up and unlocking Solarite powers, and then they take them all away for the final mission?! One of my angriest video game experiences.
Difficulty-wise, "hard" feels like the correct choice for all of them. Normal for the horrendous defense ones that feel terrible to try at.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
MAGA is closer to "90's Democrat" than modern Dems are.
The videos I saw were regular (hot women) streamers, though I don't actually watch any of them, and didn't note names well enough to mention.
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