netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5hr ago
This is an almost charmingly reductive model of any job.
My industry also exists to chase tax dollars via hobby-horses. At some level, those hobby-horses are informed by serious professionals asking “is this a reliable product,” “does it align with our doctrine,” or “you’re asking us to pay how much?” Their concerns creep uphill until they meet the goals and political postures rolling downhill. Eventually the two forces reconcile in the form of a budget.
Apply this same model to “ScienceTM.” Some academics have spent decades caring an awful lot about extraterrestrial discovery and exploration. Does that all go away when the top layer of paint changes colors? Not at all. You have to purge a lot more thoroughly to see institutions of this size abandon their missions.
Perhaps another tack. What do you think NASA has been doing since the shuttle was discontinued? I promise you, it wasn’t feminist glaciology.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5hr ago
The Apollo missions have provided us with weird shit for ages. Consider the opening sample in this song.
If the government had bombshell evidence of extraterrestrials, it managed to keep quiet through decades of competing administrations, including Trump I. Why would that change now?
On the other hand, if there’s nothing new to report…why not now?
Trump is, as usual, signaling his cool outsider status. He wants you to know he’s not afraid of the swamp creatures who have totally been keeping this from you. It’s the same old playbook; I’m not expecting much.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
9hr ago
We’re discussing it.
For now, carry on :)
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10hr ago
You should avoid it, IMO.
Twitter delenda est.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10hr ago
Approving this instance.
Not sure if we need another repeating thread…was there something wrong with (Financial) Wellness Wednesday?
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1d ago
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2d ago
I didn’t recognize the name, so I looked it up. Ah, it’s the robot daughter one. I’ve seen a couple people playing it.
I didn’t know there was controversy, either. Google doesn’t make it obvious; none of the search results include your links, nor do the related searches suggest any drama. The Forbes review is mildly critical but not controversial. Slant’s is unambiguously positive. How confident are you that this extends beyond the Extremely Online?
It’s definitely not at the level of GamerGate, which in turn was less important than the average games journalist suggests. I prescribe less time on Twitter.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Absolutely incomprehensible take.
I know I’m worthy of my wife. Seeing her in control is still inherently validating and sexy, for the same reasons as most any show of enthusiasm. Being desirable is good! I’m not talking about extreme BDSM here, just mild to moderate femdom.
personally believe a big part of the large numbers of female submissives has to do with women genuinely desiring hot sex, but feeling ashamed of this,
No shit. You don’t need a maximally-cynical model predicting abuse and assault to think “hey, I’m supposed to play hard to get, but what if I could still get railed in the process?”
Now apply this reasoning to men, who have the same post-Victorian, post-Puritan culture in the back of our minds. The tradeoff between desirability and availability applied to rakes and bachelors, too. Consider whether we might also derive some benefit from playing with that dynamic, from allowing our partners to express the desire and longing which we know they feel.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
Governments and institutions have a general tendency to suppress dissent.
A state fundamentally sells security. You get courts and a capable army; they get your taxes. Supply, demand, solve for the equilibrium. Don’t push too hard, though, because failing to come to an agreement is a lose-lose proposition. Suppressing dissent lets states push that much harder before the revolts start.
It was true for the panem et circenses and for medieval fiefdoms. It’s true for us, too. We Westerners have the advantage of liberalism to take the edge off, but that’s all; we are not immune. When the going gets tough, you’ve seen Americans line up to sacrifice those principles. Just this once. Just for the really bad actors, right?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
I only wish everybody here poisoned the discourse as hard as shrimp guy. Look at that! Polite explanation of the two main schools of thought.
Abortion laws do not follow Tumblr. California and New York and Virginia all have third-trimester bans. The states with no time limit include Alaska and Michigan. Saying shit on the Internet is free, but when the rubber hits the road, most Americans—most American politicians—endorse the same moderate position which HereAndGone is lamenting.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
Aren’t representative.
Actually, I’ll bite the bullet and say they don’t exist. Show me someone who argues for shrimp welfare and abortion in the same breath, and I’ll show you a rhetorical flourish, a pairing selected specifically for its shock value. A modest proposal, even.
But the Internet is vast, it contains multitudes, so I’ll stick with the more defensible claim. Sermons intended for the choir don’t reflect policy. As @MadMonzer noted, the vast majority of the U.S. maintains some intermediate position on abortion, one which looks an awful lot like “safe, legal, rare.” Viability is the most common limit. This reflects a moral intuition that abortion is permissible, but unsavory in direct proportion to the amount of gore. That’s more or less where the Overton window has stayed since the development of modern contraception. Neither the religious right nor the Tumblr left is happy about it; how fortunate that neither of them dominates the public square!
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3d ago
It’s the latter. Both of the latter.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
I should probably put on the hat, but I'm tired too, and I suppose I'd rather just argue with you.
We've long moved on from "sadly necessary, safe legal and rare" to "of course you're going to kill the baby, but it's not a baby, it's not a life well technically okay but not a real life, it's not a person, what do you mean murder, now please sign my petition about shrimp and AI are conscious entities that we should give legal rights so they can't be enslaved".
No, we haven't. We refined our apparatus for retrieving and signal-boosting the most offensive possible formulation of any given argument. Now you get to be exposed to a mawkish, progressive strawman of your position. Now I get to read your performative strawman of mine. Wonderful.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
I think the morels are pretty safe here. Wouldn't expect someone to stuff those into patties, though.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Yeah, it's a lot harder to find the gays of Hormuz.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
He'll be well preserved.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Finished Gideon the Ninth. Such a fun book.
Made a trip to half-price books for an excellent haul. Various Vlad Taltos novels, the first five Amber Chronicles, the next Aubrey/Maturin, and. Uh. Gulag Archipelago. There’s got to be something good in that pile!
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
I think you’ll get better results on the Wellness Wednesday thread, friend.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Not really. I got most of my feeling awful out of the way in the first few days, when we were bragging about lethality vs. schoolgirls. Now I just feel numb and annoyed.
Maybe if the economy implodes, I’ll have a better chance at finding a house.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
How do you mean?
Tactical shooters are built around a tension/release loop between the positioning and the shooting. You are running your own strategy with imperfect information about how to preempt the enemy. Collecting more information narrows the possibility space, until one of you gets the payoff in the form of a head appearing under your crosshair.
One extreme form is the extraction shooter, where 95% of the gameplay is routine. Covert maneuvering, inventory management, situational awareness. The whole time, though, you're supposed to be predicting what the other players are up to while you're preoccupied. Then you get a payoff in the form of climactic fights or narrow escapes. I'm sure @self_made_human has said more on the subject.
MOBAs occupy a different space, but they've still got tension/release. The routine activity (farming) gives way to deliberate maneuvers (ganks, pushes) give way to a big payoff (teamfights). You get some control over the transitions between steps if you correctly assess relative strengths, player intents, and so on.
All this without mentioning the social aspect. Monkey brain shows dominance. Monkey brain impress friends. Graah.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
The ones which can be, are. It's all well and good until people disagree on which outcomes qualify as "ideal." Casinos are an excellent example.
netstack
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9d ago
Maybe I confused the issue.
I wanted to say that unfairness in the setting doesn’t imply unfairness in the society. It’s unfair and unsettling that humans have to share a universe with superior artificial intelligences, but they’ve managed to construct a utopian society in spite of it.
If the Culture were the only game in town, I would be more inclined to call it dystopian. But leaving/schisming/self-effacing is a large part of their appeal. I think that forgives a lot of the paternalism.
netstack
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9d ago
No?
Have you ever seen anyone, of any race or class, say “I guess I’m low human capital, time to get on the dole”? Okay, maybe angsty channers. But it’s really not the normal mindset.
Also, this would predict that poor Appalachian whites should vote Dem, which does not appear to have been true for some time.
Entirely possible, and also not at all what I was replying to.
The parent suggested that “SpaceTM”, which I read as everyone involved in space that isn’t actively supportive of Trump, does not care about exploration. Why? Because academics have been known to spend money on environmentalism and critical race theory. Charitably, this suggests some confusion over how many academics are out there, and their level of specialization.
NASA might well be the poster child for government inefficiency, but that’s not the same thing as sandbagging. It’s not going to suddenly start “caring” about its projects once mecha-Biden is back in office.
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