sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
15hr ago
The value of hard work is pretty much common sense.
The value of hard work is that it allows the less capable to attain, by rote, some of the diligence and understanding that comes naturally to the more capable. It is a virtue when it allows one to be useful rather than not. When selected for in highly competitive spheres that ought to require talent and creativity, it burns billions of man-hours on rat racing against each other and accomplishing little other than letting employers demand higher credentials for the same level of actual competence.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
15hr ago
I find birth to be a natural and fitting Schelling point for when one's life becomes the business of society.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
17hr ago
We assert that things have inherent natural purposes. A knife exists so that it might cut things.
There is no such thing as a knife in nature, at least if you exclude human intent from nature.
If you include human intent into nature, then the inherent natural purpose of an apple is to be eaten and the seeds thrown into a landfill where it will most certainly not grow into an apple tree.
Driving exists to burn gasoline in the engine. Making wheels roll is just a useful side effect.
This is according to the base function that a mechanism can be stripped down to.
According to "the purpose of a system is what it does", the vast majority of sex acts are for pleasure while minimizing the possibility of conceiving, while the vast majority of driving is for getting from place to place while minimizing the possibility of crashing.
According to God or other source of objective telos, well, you can quote them once you present them.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Better in the sense that they possess some virtue you appreciate, or in the sense that they're making a better choice?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
I don't see how that would be so dystopian, either. "God wouldn't make your burden heavier than what you can carry" is absolutely lindy. Why not make it truth for once?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
There will be no shortage of Central Asian migrants to replace them.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Vatniks are the ideological supporters of mainstream Russian politics. I think you meant conscripts.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Is it taboo to eat that cake in prison?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Glazed raisin cakes are some of the best parts of Christian culture that I'm glad to appropriate.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
I assume they only get one chance during the given strategically significant period of time.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
For the purposes of assassination I don't care which one is the evilest. I'm not here to punish them individually for being evil, I want to do damage to the Evil Empire.
Killing a true believer and especially a sympathetic true believer seems like a great way to consolidate the Evil Empire followers around a martyr. Instead I'd say the plucky rebels should assassinate Bob, to send a message to the most apathetic, opportunist and amoral Evil Empire henchmen (which I expect to be the majority) that rather than the most loyal or the most efficient, it could be any one of them.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
The apex of social status was filled by strong young successful men; it does not follow that the majority of strong young successful men, or even a significant fraction of them, were at the apex.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
If it's woke to be against bad actions towards black people that are also bad when done towards anyone else, then I'm proud to be woke.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Do you see young Asian guys loitering in the hood often?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
I can't think of a reason why a grown woman from upper class circles (although that's always debated w.r.t. Trump) would think that begging people to stop talking about something embarrassing could ever work.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
One of those things does not seem like the other. How is slice of life the same stripping down of meaningfullness as cutting gameplay out of games, in your opinion?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
I'd assume starting to vote for non-senile, non-israelophilic presidents would be simpler than repealing the first or whatever you are suggesting to do to "purge government and journalism".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
Dealing with lobbying is part and parcel of being President. If he's "vulnerable" to persuasion that's not the fault of the persuader, it's a skill issue.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9d ago
I do not value "myself" in the abstract sense of the word. I value myself because I experience myself, and everything I know about the mechanisms of the world tells me that I do not experience the clone.
I also do not believe you can truly value yourself in the abstract sense of the word because you (as any lifeform) had never had a chance to fully decouple the intellectual appreciation for one's existence from instinctual self-preservarion.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9d ago
The thing is, from the context I suspect that it's less like the guy had checked how useless various types of recycling are and just pattern-matched aluminium with the rest of them, and more like he has a rock that says "recycling is fake lib shit".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9d ago
America is actually a lot of different subcultures in a way. There's this weak idea of what we are as a national culture but it's nowhere near as strong as a national culture of somewhere like Russia. Not even close. Russians are 'extremely' nationalistic and patriotic. America isn't culturally all that unified.
It's funny how it looks like the exact opposite of what I see observing from Russia.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9d ago
Russia vs. VPN saga
I haven't seen the recent events in Russia regarding the internet mentioned here at all recently. Fine, I'll do it myself. Don't expect the depth and wit of our more regular posters, though, because I'm lazy and don't want to expand my writing with AI.
Russia has been exercising in access restrictions since the middle of 2025, implementing DPI to block Russian users from accessing Instagram, Discord and a number of other platforms. Youtube had been gradually "slowed down", and truthfully I can't pinpoint the exact moment when (if) it became totally inaccessible with vanilla connections, because by the end of 2025 most Russians with basic internet literacy had probably known what "DPI bypass" was, myself and all my acquaintances included.
For the past year or so, the Russian government has been rearing its head towards messaging sovereignty. There were three main messaging and content publishing platforms in use in Russia in the middle-end of 2025. Telegram, the most infamously resistant to submitting under the aegis of Russia's security agencies, was probably the most prolific and might still be. Whatsapp, to my knowledge, was mostly used by boomers and the local equivalent of HOAs. Vkontakte or VK, the local Facebook, had been declining as a content platform. Content makers' opinions had been that the algorithms of VK are outdated and/or hostile to anything but the most soulless and optimized content management.
"That won't do", Russia said, and started cooking up its own in-house national messaging platform, MAX. (Technically pronounced Makh.)
Efforts to migrate the userbase to the shiny new government platform had been crude and had not went well. Russia must have learned what "network effect" was that year for the first time. It did not help that the new app, even setting aside the concerns of most certainly leaking everything you say to FSB's ear (unlike Telegram which merely might be doing it), has not ameliorated the concerns of leaking your credentials to Western criminals.
More recently, Russia started to flirt with whitelists, beginning with the phone internet. (Likely due to it covering more everyday users and fewer business cases.)
Fun fact: many Russian war bloggers and soldiers use Telegram for their own propaganda, donation gathering and communications. They did not like it when Russia started making actual noises towards shutting Telegram down. I had witnesses those bloggers that positioned themselves as chill, level-headed analysts always ready to prove why Russia is doing everything correctly and how it's going to be fine (for patriots, anyway) being utterly baffled by the level of block-headedness exhibited by the Ministry of Digital Communications. Some are less "baffled" and more "toeing the line of death threats to the politicians involved".
(It could have been a 4D chess plan to unite the Russian party line supporters and the Russian opposition, because I certainly had never been in more agreement with those guys.)
By the start of 2026, most Russians with basic internet literacy probably knew what VPN was, and an annual subscription to one was the best 50 bucks I ever spent. Someone must have explained what VPN was in plain Russian to the Ministry of Digital Communications, too, because they started trying to fuck with those, too. So far, the most they've accomplished was hitting the entire remote payment system with friendly fire.
Some of my friends are anxiously awaiting the advent of the Cheburnet. I'm amusedly awaiting the 2026 Duma elections. I wonder how much more shit and crud the system can dump into itself. Trump's recent escapades have been a suitable backlight.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
12d ago
If legal and social consequences to some actions disappeared today I would still have my own habits and conscience. If I was brought up in an environment where legal and social consequences to some actions did not exist, then I would have likely had different habits.
Less of a vibe than many other legal Schelling points, as discussed in this branch w.r.t. age of majority/consent. You can actually tell when a baby is connected to the mother, versus when it's not.
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