Pynewacket
1yr ago
is that dark humor? does that mean that every heavy/death metal band is dark humor?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I imagine he has in mind the myriad voices advocating for Ukraine, and giving it money.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Also, since Dems in the federal government are likely more committed than Republicans
what makes you think that they are more commited?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Wouldn't it be good for artists if they got some set% of the resale value of their art?
No, I don't think it would be good to create a new class of rentseeking. I consider this question as part of the background to led to copyright extensions of lifetime of the author + 70 years, total travesty of the system that should never have been considered.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
hmm, so you are on step one of the Narcissist Prayer.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
It's not a big deal.
to you, and if true you will leave the thread for greener pastures; for everyone else here like Coil it's a sign of the current demoralization campaign through adoration of the ugly and decadent.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
what should we call it?
pre Wall-e nirvana
Pynewacket
1yr ago
it's better to just report/downvote the troll, don't feed them.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
and the lovestory of the mod team with the idea of "increasing the participation of more Darwins in the subreddit/site" continues.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
And isn't golden rice exempted from patent enforcement anyways? The relevant patent holders have agreed to not try to enforce their patents against asset-free 3rd world farmers.
what is stopping them from changing their minds in the future when their situations change (revenue streams diminish, are acquired by a more aggresive patent holder, etc.)?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Is your point that lots of partners early degrades whatever neurochemical method the human brain uses to pair bond, making you unable to fully do so when you'd want to?
my question was due to you sounding like you didn't believe pair bonding was a thing.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
well, they already named the system Sky, at this point it's just a question of linking several together and see what happens.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
welcome to Bonobo World, how you doin'?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I'm not at all convinced that that "pair bonding" is a super significant phenomenon
How do you explain entire animal species mating with only one partner for life while other species don't?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
sorry, I will try to be better than this potshot, but when the OP reacted like the classical Progressive I couldn't resist the impulse to try to find if he was a troll or just part of the herd.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
this may sound out of left field, but How would you have felt if you didn't have breakfast yesterday?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
and I believe retains some fraction of it's original spirit
can you define its "original spirit"?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Wasn't this how Facebook was conceived initially?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Straight men having a lot of sex is praiseworthy
Because it's an accomplishment. The opposite is easy.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
What reason do you have to say that they aren't going to do it?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
"But GW isn't introducing female space marines. So that's a non-issue." is the "it's just a couple of kids in college campuses,..." of tabletop. Anyone paying attention to the hobby culture wars already knows what is the next step, especially after the "Warhammer is for everyone" message.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
the main conflict in W40K right now is female Custodes and female space marines. Black people was more an issue in D&D where the racists insisted that orcs were representation of African Americans.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
yeah, I forgot about it. Comics gate was so long ago I just remembered it now.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
My humble opinion is that they (the wokies et al) notice, and they will continue and double down and berate you if you point at it at all. They simply don't care if you watch or not, its their vanity project, but that is ok because they are making it better for their people (hint: not you). They are the middle management, the marketing people and the danger hairs with liberal arts degrees.
So far they have been getting their way because they were propped up by pension funds like Black Rock and Vanguard, but now that there have been significant outflows of capital there have been some purges, but it won't be enough. Looking for example at Hollywood, the writers guild's strike looks to have been successful in getting concessions from the studios (chaperoned AI [meaning, AI can only be used by the writers themselves, not the studios to replace writers] and a minimum number of writers in each writer's room of 5 I think).
Battlefields I have seen:
Hollywood
Videogames
Tabletop Games (W40K)
Novels (Nebula award)
Localization of Japanese Entertainment
Gundam Model Kits (This one I think is more a product of the imagination of the antiwoke people, as yuri is an staple of Anime/Manga)
CoC's in Software Dev Projects (This plus the ousting of Linus)
The push for Woke language in programming (example: the Master/slave controversy of a few years)
Marketing in general (Always mixed race or minority pairings, sometimes ads not even related to the product but for the purpose of browbeating their core demographics, the Budlight fiasco, the Gillete ad of "boys will be boys")
The point of it is trying to change the culture from the middle down (remember they are the middle managers and their minions, while some CEO's are probably true believers like the Ice Cream dudes Ben & Jerry, the majority are only looking up to enrich themselves and their cronies like with Bobby Kotick), and if you have any objection it just means you are an enemy and your opinion doesn't matter to them. Just look at the bruhaha that is happening right now with the female Custodes or the Blowback the Lovely Complex Localizer got for giving ammunition to their critics when he went mask off.
in my opinion The right wing gets free speech and all it entails, and the left wing freeze peach and all it entails. That means I'm judging them based on their own standards without any hypocrisy involved and I get to keep my moral high ground, thank you very much.
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