Silverdawn
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35-year old male from Eastern Europe.
User ID: 2412
Silverdawn
I wake up 🔄 There's another psyop
7mo ago
You really just have to put your foot down and tell these people (the men, in this case) that they're not welcome. And when they inevitably respond with accusations that you're being sexist, transphobic, and exclusionary, you say: "yes I am sexist, yes I am transphobic, yes I am exclusionary, yes yes yes, it's all true; now please, the door is that way, if you don't mind."
On social media, you get banned at this point. If the moderators controlling the forum in question don't bend the knee, they get removed.
IRL, these conversations don't really happen. Presumably there are a lot of legal things happening behind the curtains but you only find out when you're already being sued.
And frankly, 'trans' advocates were never interested in having a real conversation in the first place. They only act like they want to talk because they think that will get them the most influence. They don't actually believe there's anything to discuss, they already know they're right.
Silverdawn
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7mo ago
Half-life 2 (as well as episodes one and two) are free to keep on Steam as a celebration of its 20-year anniversary. There's also a big update with bug fixes, slight graphics updates and 3.5 hours of new dev commentary.
Silverdawn
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8mo ago
The intuitive response to "look at how much Musk built" is "he didn't build all 'at".
How many of the projects he's working on would exist without him? Yeah, the natural resources and people would still exist and presumably be put towards some kind of productive goal but consider the positive and negative effects of his competitors on the world. On the one end, you have things that are objectively bad like gambling. I would say Elon's current projects are pretty close to the polar opposite; that is to say, objectively good. Curing paralysis, colonizing the solar system, the HUGE push towards making electric vehicles the norm and more recently, major advances in AI.
Silverdawn
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11mo ago
This is why SMS is not a recommended second authentication factor for high-security or high-profile accounts: this can and has been abused before, many times.
What do the recommendations for account security in 2024 look like?
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
There's a spring steam sale happening right now, here's a link for the discounts, sorted from highest to lowest: https://steamdb.info/sales/?sort=discount_desc
If you're only interested in the really big games, set the minimum reviews on the right to 5000 or something along those lines.
Silverdawn
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8mo ago
Has anybody come across good employment opportunities online? I'm between jobs at the moment and a little bored. I don't have any particularly impressive skillset but I like to think I'm smart, agreeable and easy to work with.
The last time I checked freelancing sites like upwork, they seemed to be flooded with low-standard workers racing eachother to the bottom.
One important element to consider are large corporations that already occupy a market. If your Amazon or similar have a monopoly on a developing country's industry, that country can't really build its own industry in the same niche. At least not without very savvy government influence, as can be seen in Norway's hydroelectric power production. If you want to learn more about this fascinating topic, here's a pretty good summary.
TL;DR: Foreign corporations could build and operate dams on Norwegian territory but they had to use a significant percentage of Norwegian workers as part of their workforce and they would only own those dams for 60-80 years. Thus Norway got both the eventual ownership of the dams and a skilled workforce who knew how to operate them.
These are the kinds of clever tactics it would take to truly catch up to western GDP per capita. So you'd need competent leaders, a loyal population with homogeneous culture and belief in its leadership and even then, it'd still take many decades for any kind of noticeable progress to be made.
Natural resources are another obvious advantage but they can either be a boon or a curse. You have countries like Oman where a brilliant dictator guided his nation into modern times but you also have countless examples of oil wealth leading to corruption and a slow descent into poverty and misery for the citizens.
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
You can't time the market, you should come up with a strategy of investing X of your income every Y months and completely ignore the stock numbers. As for right now, don't panic sell.
How strict are the owners of substack in regards to culture war? I'm thinking about starting a blog for reviewing videogames as a hobby and curious exactly where the line is between "spicy" and "permanent ban". I used to do these kinds of reviews on /r/patientgamers but reddit has turned to absolute shit the last few years.
Edit: Consider this question answered, thanks lads 👍
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
I'm disappointed with the way he's treated US allies. Or maybe I should say "ex-allies".
Tariffs are a good idea but aimed at the wrong countries. Better to fight financial wars than the kind that leave young men in wheelchairs or in the ground. But why Canada of all things?
On the topic of economy, numbers tend to randomly go up or down. Neither economists nor governments seem to know what they're doing or have much control so I think it's best to not look at the stock market much.
Doge and anti-DEI efforts seem to be going pretty well.
Overall, I still think he's overwhelmingly a better candidate than Harris, even if he makes embarrassing and bizarre mistakes like antagonizing Zelensky.
Silverdawn
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9mo ago
Please use more paragraphs, they make text much easier to read.
Silverdawn
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1mo ago
What is there to say? The legally elected candidate was arrested and replaced because the people in power didn't like him. Just another example of European "democracy".
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Hiding books that were previously free is a bad practice for a host of reasons.
It's bad from RoyalRoad's perspective because it hurts the objective of the site (namely, no-name authors get a chance to become someone and casual readers can read potentially good fiction for free, with a few small caveats).
It's obviously bad from the user's perspective because what used to be free and convenient is neither anymore. Even if I take the obvious next step of filtering out works with the 'stub' tag, maybe I find a story I like, come back to it in a year and find out most of the content is now gone. And this also changes my perspective of the site: it used to be "This is a pretty good way to introduce casual readers to decent fiction", and now it's "This site is unreliable, any story could be removed at any time". Naturally, I will no longer link to such stories, which hurts everyone.
It's arguably bad from the perspective of the author because they trade short-term money for a loss in popularity, word-of-mouth circulation, comments, reviews and even freedom (in the sense that they are stuck with Amazon).
But the main reason this is bad is what it does to the community and people's way of thinking. If we have an environment where information is freely distributed, everybody benefits. The authors get a little bit of fame and a little bit of money, the readers get to enjoy what is usually way less accessible. But if a few authors start reneging on this unspoken rule? Well, everything changes. A lot of authors will see this is allowed and start thinking "Why not me too?", a lot of the community members will start subtly guilt-tripping the unhappy fans in the obvious, predictable ways. And the unhappy people will leave silently because of the widespread censorship that will follow any negative public expression. And in no time at all, you end up with a completely different atmosphere: fewer positive emotions all around, more aggressive monetization, way worse access to good content for everyone.
The RR owners screwed up in a huge way when they didn't immediately punish the defectors in this game of Prisoner's Dilemma. I can't change that but I can push-back on a personal level against what I perceive is a phenomenon that significantly hurts something I care deeply about (fiction, writing, free sharing of information).
Silverdawn
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5mo ago
"We" (or rather the US) can fight a war without clothes, shoes and auto parts. China receives 60-80% of its oil through the Malacca strait. The US has worked for decades to make almost every nation in East Asia an ally in a possible war with China and has stationed a tremendous amount of troops, naval and air assets in that region.
Here's a decently detailed video if you want to learn more about the situation there.
Silverdawn
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7mo ago
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that in fiscal year 2019, the federal government spent about $300 billion on civilian personnel, including wages, salaries, and benefits.
80% of that number is $240 billion dollars. Posting this in case anyone other than myself was curious.
Silverdawn
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8mo ago
Are there any strategies for controlling/reducing anger that actually work?
Silverdawn
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11mo ago
Where is this conversation happening? Is it all on Twitter and private chats? I've seen some people mention Deepseek but feel otherwise mostly out of the loop.
Warfronts released a pretty good video summarizing the current NATO military asset situation.
TL;DR: NATO/Europe is actually fine in most respects and even significantly outnumbers Russia in terms of navy. The critical bottleneck are artillery shells. Artillery is responsible for ~70-80% of casualties in the current war for Ukraine, to give you an idea of its importance.
There are multiple factories currently in construction but it'll be years before they're ready and producing in the necessary numbers.
Watching the disastrous discussion between Zelensky Trump and Vance I wonder how you guys here feel? The whole thing made me nauseous
"Nausea" is exactly how I felt as well. Trump could have had such an easy win: show the world the US is still the keeper of peace and justice, bloody the nose of one of America's two main rivals and get natural resources worth trillions for the US economy. Instead, him and Vance are acting like 10-year old playground bullies, antagonizing their allies and showing the world the US will only follow through on promises when convenient.
As someone on a different forum put it, the main danger for Russia right now is running out of champagne.
You should have good AI.
This is the most unbelievable choice by far to me. The ai genuinely plays like a 5-year old and needs to cheat its ass off to present even a mild challenge.
Civ 5 in multiplayer was a 9.5/10 experience for me. Single player is straight up tedium in comparison.
Any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans out there? 5 days until release of the long-awaited sequel. The newly updated system requirements dashed my hopes for launch, unfortunately.
But GAMMA's latest update is launching on december 3rd, and it's a big one. Huge changes to artifacts, gear, damage system. And tooltips that are actually accurate and descriptive, for the first time ever.
Silverdawn
I wake up 🔄 There's another psyop
7mo ago
What "woke" dialogue was in God of War?
Probably referring to the 2022 game. There are a few token black characters and some humiliation rituals where female self-inserts are presented as badasses at the expense of Kratos.
I feel like Reddit is mostly dead. Or at least in very heavy decline.
Whenever I look into a particular topic, there's a 80-90% chance the discussion is happening on twitter or discord. The big subreddits look alive but if you look carefully, you'll quickly realize they are incredibly heavily botted.
As far as smart people, there seems to be a very strong correlation between intelligence and intolerance towards censorship. Every worthwhile sub I can think of has moved elsewhere. There's a couple news-related ones I still glance at occasionally because reddit is good as a news aggregator but that's about it.
As far as useful information, you can simply ask an LLM. They've already been trained on everything reddit had to offer, and they can be as kind, patient and detailed as you want them to be. They'll never delete your question because it's a 'duplicate', they can provide sources and you only have to wait <1sec if you have anything urgent. They lie sometimes but so did people on reddit.
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