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
1d ago
Hard status is also not one axis. What ever would Trump do alone in the jungle?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
That's not true at all. Banks expect a consistent credit history because they want to establish that you are a low-risk loan. It has nothing to do with credit cards.
I would assume that banks are less reluctant giving loans to people with no credit history in countries where credit card use is not as widespread. Consider the higher education inflation. Same thing. In theory all employers want someone who meets a certain standard of diligence. In practice, having everyone go through the gauntlet of getting diligence credentials simply raises the standards and makes them overly rigid.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
My cash could be bound up in investments.
What's the practical difference between "I can prove I have been earning $X/month for years" and "I can prove I paid back $Y/month of credit card loans for years"? The latter case doesn't mean I can't suddenly stop being responsible any more than the former.
Presumably the banks have an easier time beating money out of rich guys who default than I do. That's why the banks lend money and I don't. At any rate my first thought is not "will he pay me back" but "if he doesn't, can I make him".
Looking at the US situation from the outside it just looks like banks expect a consistent credit history only because credit card use is widespread, and credit card use is widespread because banks expect a consistent credit history. Aside from minor benefits of credit cards over debit cards the primary beneficiary appear to be the banks.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
"That's just virtuality, imitation of life. Can AI VR let you truly enjoy adventure? Find romance and fame?"
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Why wouldn't income history be enough to build confidence that I can pay shit back? Naturally, someone who gets paid in cash under the table can't provide one, but even in the land of Freedom such inconveniently physical dealings are rare in the year of 2025 on a high enough salary level... right?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
In my estimation, in my country you'd have to do something like visiting a blatant phishing website to get scammed out of your money. I've heard of no cases where a physical vendor could do that. What are some typical cases in the US?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Mine doesn't do so by default.
There's a thing that can let you pay without carrying cash around, without being present and without having to apply for credit. It's called debit cards. You spend money you actually own, as opposed to some weird exercise of "paying back the money you spent during the month" that I once was surprised to learn most Americans apparently have to engage in. You can't be preyed upon with tricky overdraft fees because if you don't have the money, you simply can't spend it.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
If it was actually possible to stamp down the number of handguns circulating in the US metro areas (and not just taking them from the law-abiding citizens), I'd expect a general reduction of crime for the following reasons:
- criminal ghettoes could be policed more reliably and in a less volatile manner, resulting in lowering the hostility of inner city culture towards cops;
- harder to commit crimes and run gangs when guns are harder to get;
In addition, while I'll let Americans correct me my impression was that the large segments of the population who are wary of black people and the segments of non-black population who live in the US metro areas were two circles that do not overlap much. Cities vote blue, rurals vote red, do they not?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
If it's equivalent why don't I hear of drone gang wars, or drone robberies, or drone school shootings?
I made a post on this not too long ago about gun rights being civilization rights. If we don't trust Hassan to have a gun we don't really trust him to exist and live in our civilization.
I suspect this equivalence is true for most people:
(Number of people you trust to own a gun around you) < (Number of people you trust to live in society around you)
This doesn't compute for me. It's true that I trust fewer people to own guns around me than live in society around me. That means that gun rights are not the same as civilization rights. Many crazies are harmless when they do not own tools that can kill at a twitch of a finger and steeped in the culture of using them against perceived threats.
And on a larger scale, do you trust the state to determine whether or not you're crazy enough to take your rights away more or less than you trust the presumably small portion of crazies in society to not kill you?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
human-generated slop was already at functionally infinite levels prior to AI, so I'm not sure if there's a net loss here.
I expect the ratio of slop:epic to rise by at least an order of magnitude and I do consider that a loss.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
I am not sneeding about no skill, I am sneeding about no expression - or at the very least, significantly less expression. How many prompters are going to painstakingly describe every detail they just don't have the painting skill to put on canvas, and how many are going to go "hot woman in cyberpunk armor, in the style of studio ghibli" or whatever? At least the photographer actually has to discover/set up the shot.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
This is your brain on online gender war.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
In that metaphor, what's the babbling?
Is it me or does Silksong gameplay make the player rely on tools and spells way more than Hollow Knight? In particular, flying enemies seem much more of a menace, constantly dipping out of reach of the primary weapon while often chucking projectiles at you. If I'm stuck in an arena with multiple of those I basically have to blast them quickly with a spell or I'll be toast. I don't envy the "nail only" gimmick players.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
The idea of relying on the feedback loop of remixed AI slop for entertainment and it drowning out genuine good stuff evokes in me disgust that is hard to convey.
This is the part where the whispering earring tells me "better for you that you take me off".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
It might be good practice for building wheels from scratch, but your future job probably wouldn't like you to do that, they'd want you to know what different wheel brands are good for and which ones to use.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
I don't believe the idea of "actually shooting your enemies as an organized unit" has, either.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
It's easier to find card-carrying Socialist party members than Nazi party members.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
I'll trade you "only calling people cultural Marxists/communists/bioleninists if they are actual members of Socialist parties".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
Nobody thinks people have to literally be members of the defunct German political party NSDAP to be called Nazis, not any more than you have to specifically commit an unlawful killing to be called a murderer.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8d ago
My impression is that hardened criminals have a wider range of interactions with the police than pretty much anyone else. So the only way to convince a hardened criminal that you're trigger-happy and unaccountable is to actually be so.
"Would you love me if I was a worm" interestingly suggests the opposite - that women would prefer to be loved primarily for their personality (which persists after they are no longer hot). Conversely, I feel better when complimented for my looks (primarily the immutable parts like height, face structure etc) rather than other personal qualities, and I suspect it is because having looks is effortless to me while keeping up prowess takes work - it is more reassuring. And I'm straight.
Don't PUAs hammer in over and over that the boyfriend's nice personality is only praise because it is predicated on him being the boyfriend in the first place?
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