sun
2yr ago
Comparing my gut reaction to getting a dick on my forehead somewhere in old age to my gut reaction of succumbing to dementia and osteoporosis in old age... I'll take the dicks, thanks.
sun
2yr ago
Some limiting principles are always broken. Why not strive to have a few of them be ones I want broken?
sun
2yr ago
we're australopitecus, not something beyond
we're homo erectus, not something beyond
we're homo sapiens, not something beyond
(you are here)
we're homo augmentus, not something beyond
??????
sun
2yr ago
I'm attempting The Wandering Inn, currently a few chapters into the first arc.
So far, comparing it to other web fiction such as Wildbow I've read... not terribly impressed. It feels like a generic isekai-with-an-RPG-interface, 1D protagonist and forced le funnies included. If the writing gets noticeably better, let me know.
sun
2yr ago
Easily accessible post history is a valuable tool for the regular posters. I see no reason to hide it, other that as mentioned making it harder to detect persistent trolling in order to report it.
sun
2yr ago
Do you feel particularly erased, seeing as you're the majority of your nation?
sun
2yr ago
It appears that history doesn't matter. Only the fervor and unity achieved in the present is what creates a "real" nation.
sun
2yr ago
I think the perfect-or-nothing attitude is well in effect in Russia, for what it's worth.
sun
2yr ago
Have you read Pact and/or Pale? Same limitation on magic users and magic creatures. Pretty much the same result, too, other than there is no issues with normies distrusting magic users because they do not know of them.
sun
2yr ago
With that logic you might as well sneer against progressives being against a literal Doomsday Device. "Oh it's just a little progress and science (and it is), why do you hate it?" Or wonder why don't conservatives want to conserve literally everything that ever existed.
sun
2yr ago
"I Have Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Eight People."
"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr. Pump. I may be... all those things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded, And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr. Lipwig. You Have Ruined Business And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Did Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Food From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr. Lipwig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game."
sun
2yr ago
I would expect reviews and travel blogs to use fancy sentences, not basic ones.
sun
2yr ago
Vocations can be broadly. divided into ones that are positive sum for society (janitor, engineer) and ones that are zero-sum (advertiser, politician). Depending on whether you value pro-sociality or job prestige, you might declare one or the other to be "actual jobs".
sun
2yr ago
We've spent much of our evolution path as a human society denying the legitimacy of the jungle hierarchy.
sun
2yr ago
You run automated call spam? Each victim is entitled to 500$.
Going on a tangent here, but I would raise that to "cut their right hand off". Those who invented and perpetuate the practice of spam calls have ruined the commons of "replying to calls from anyone who isn't in your contact list yet".
sun
2yr ago
I can agree with that. Musk can and is justified in doing that, but you bet I'll hold any previous and future free speech absolutism of his against him, as well as of his supporters against them.
sun
2yr ago
It may be "fair" on some most basic level of fairness to invoke "your rules applied fairly". But it is not honest, not when you spent all your time speaking out against those rules, while pretending the issue was with the rules and not that it wasn't you applying them.
People can speak about being mean to you all they want. It's not until they do something that it becomes a problem
That distinction makes as little difference as "I can swing my fist in the vicinity of your face all I want, it's only when the impact actually happens that it becomes a problem".
People aren't against the government banning speaking out against them because words are those ittle bittle harmless things that shouldn't be banned because they're so harmless. People are against it because words are a powerful weapon and they want to reserve the use of it against the government. I'm fine with that, it's when that weapon is turned against me that it becomes a problem.
sun
2yr ago
If someone's motivated enough, they will not be stopped by your home security - does that mean you leave your door unlocked?
Dangerous to what?
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