yunyun333
18d ago
Bioshock, dishonored, last of us all have "badass male MC protects little girl" and they're some of the most praised games ever. This one was created by a Japanese dev and appeals, intentionally or not, to the vtuber-lolicon crowd. Mainstream reviews will shy away from this because it's off-putting, to say the least, but this is probably why the game is getting pushback.
yunyun333
20d ago
It is clearly objectionable that the NGO Blob got to decide who gets deplatformed and debanked. But ultimately it's just another form of the old cancel culture debate. The Blob could not deploy real legal consequences on tech/financial infrastructure companies; its weapon was naming and shaming. Thus its power derived from cultural cachet, from when the SPLC successfully destroyed various actual honest to god KKK groups. The general cultural backlash has sapped its power; presumably that's why their activities in this vein appear to have stopped several years ago and haven't restarted even with Trump 2.
yunyun333
23d ago
5th circuit court halts abortion pill access by mail
The court order, citing Louisiana’s claims that making pills available by mail has allowed patients there to access the medication despite the state’s near-total abortion ban, said that “Louisiana has shown that it is irreparably harmed without a stay.”
For various legal reasons, although SCOTUS ruled against universal injunctions in Trump v Casa, now no one gets to mail pills anywhere until the FDA completes its safety review, even though Louisiana is the one complaining that women keep managing to get abortions anyways. This is lame and we should just have the opposing states fight (in court). Blue states have already enacted "shield laws" and red states have countered with "We can sue you anyways" laws.
yunyun333
23d ago
Is Massachusetts gerrymandered? If the distribution of Rs is even enough, it's basically impossible to create a reasonably contiguous district with enough Rs. A cursory look at the map doesn't reveal any obvious ways to carve out an R district, and it seems that few state republicans complained about the last redistricting..
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/02/massachusetts-trump-gerrymander-texas-california-democrats
Ultimately we should just get rid of single member districts.
yunyun333
24d ago
I refuse to believe Gaza was a serious issue. There were not enough Dearborns to impact the election. Not that the Israel issue isn't seriously divisive (perhaps within both parties, soon) but "it's the economy stupid" is usually a good explanation for things.
yunyun333
25d ago
The founders believed states would have much more power and guard it jealously. The Gettysburg address was the tipping point between "The United States are..." and "The United States is". Then the depression and the war ensured federal dominance.
yunyun333
26d ago
Well, it's more likely to work than charging Comey with writing "8647" in seashells, but there's really not much to say about this.
yunyun333
26d ago
The New Orleans shooter managed to cook up some homemade RDX, though he forgot that it requires a detonator. Bizarre display of semicompetence from an Army vet.
yunyun333
26d ago
This guy was a caltech grad and he couldn't come up with a better plan than "run past a security checkpoint and hope there aren't more guards"? He didn't even get onto the floor of the ballroom itself. What happened to good old fashioned ANFO?
yunyun333
29d ago
Where does this end?
In the short term, robo-caretakers for the ballooning aging population. In the medium to long term, artificial wombs for mass production of wards of the state. Sexbots will help top off the bread and circuses. AGI will pay for all of this of course.
Or, continued mass migration from the wellsprings of fertility. One seems more realistic than the other.
"Your honor, my client could have run over way more people if he had wanted" is not a defense.
He also did permanently disable 8 people.
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