netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
10hr ago
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Hypothesis 5: (master) bait and switch; PPV will sneak in once they’re established.
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Hypothesis 6: the guides are intentionally or unintentionally wrong.
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Hypothesis 7: Competing on the margin by undercutting models who do PPV.
I’m guessing it’s the last one. Price discovery at work.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10hr ago
Is the default using preferred pronouns, or is female just the default in German?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10hr ago
I’m pretty sure “they” are inconsistent because “they” consist of a bunch of vaguely-aligned interest groups.
Those darn Christians, denying allegiance to the Pope one minute and then affirming it when it suits them.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10hr ago
I think there are women saying something exactly symmetrical. What, men only have to get tall and hairy?
I think you’re both wrong; the struggles that are easily visible to you are not obvious to outsiders, and vice versa.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17hr ago
Whoops. You can tell it’s been a while since I read the bitcoin lore. Also, I botched Nakamoto’s name.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Does this theory apply to the VA Tech, Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Parkland, UT clock tower, or Columbine shootings? Because that’s how far down the list I had to go before finding one that wasn’t a current or former student.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Modhat off: Twitter delenda est, so I guess I’m going to rely on your takeaways. Primary sources are for chumps :)
- Makes sense. I’m only surprised that no one has tried to sell “bundle” subscriptions a la cable TV in an effort to rejuvenate their flagging model.
- Sports are guaranteed to make weird comparisons. OnlyFans has no merch, no endorsements, and apparently not much in the way of subscriptions. You need something that emphasizes distribution and, apparently, personalized content. Netflix spent like $18B on content this year. Spotify is more complicated thanks to the existing royalty regime. I have no idea how social media expenses work. But those are all going to be closer fits to a pornography platform.
- These girls can’t produce content forever, and what they have produced can only depreciate as it’s copied, leaked, or imitated. My god. We’ve finally found the promised deflationary asset. Sakamoto is gonna be so pissed.
social degeneration
You mean, like, compared to the past? Because those three vices are classic. Literally classic. Cannabis wasn’t all that popular in Rome, but they had the other two covered. I think the same is true for most every society past a minimum level of economic freedom. If you can find or produce drugs, people will demand them. If you can afford specialist sports, people will gamble on them. And there’s no “if” for the world’s oldest profession.
young males
No, please! You’ll summon the evo-psych crowd! I’ve had more than enough from them lately.
But also—always has been.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
There’s no official policy on including xitter threads. So long as you pass the effort threshold, you should be good.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
It’s not meaningless when you’re trying to trace the Overton window.
I’ll assume for the sake of argument that Israel is trying to ethnically cleanse Palestine, that Harris recognized it, and that she also knew supporting them would lose her the election. Why, then, wouldn’t she say it out loud?
Whatever you think Kamala lost by supporting Israel, it would have been much worse if she’d said “yeah, kill all those brown people.” The costs massively outweigh any benefits. That’s what it means for something to be outside the window. Even if one believes it, one can’t say it out loud.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
There’s a great YouTube channel which covers the different games. He’s also got PvE and PvP matches. I’ll see if I can dig up the link when I get home.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Are you familiar with the Combat Mission series? Real time with pause (…and turns), small unit tactics, obsessed with hardware, semi-autonomous, models the limitations of command. All the features you’d expect from a milsim in a strategy game. Has campaigns where you have to preserve your assets; I don’t know if anyone has made ones that let you progress in tech.
I have my own submission for the dream video game question. Maybe I’ll write something up for Friday.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
That’s fucked up.
If it helps at all…I think you’re doing the right things.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Did this…happen? I vaguely remember some Central Park nonsense. I don’t remember it being a psyop.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Precisely.
Whether or not that works out, Fuentes is going to have roughly zero impact on the candidate.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Ask Betteridge.
People keep making the mistake that the "real world" is more important than a small fringe of online crazies, and they keep getting proven wrong over and over and over (e.g. with woke, the alt right, gender identity on Tumblr).
None of those things outweighed the political fundamentals. If they did, the last three elections would have looked very different.
The fringe gets to insert a few people into the back-bench. They get to influence decisions on the margin, and they get to put their message out in party channels. So you get a Gang of Four, you get Biden muttering something about gender studies. But kingmaking demands something more.
Come 2028, there’s going to be a Trump-shaped hole in the discourse. He’ll probably try to promote one of his kids for the spot; none of them have demonstrated the required charisma. That leaves Vance in a really strong position. For this Fuentes nonsense to see any success, they’d have to hijack whatever Trump wanted to do anyway. I don’t see that working out.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
How many of them would describe it in those terms? I guarantee you, Harris never framed it as ethnic cleansing. As far as I can tell, the closest she got to mentioning the death toll was acknowledging the “suffering in Gaza.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Sounds like my kind of humor.
Two recommendations in response:
Thunder Below, a WWII memoir of an America sub captain. Known for sinking a number of Japanese ships and one train. Alternating hilarious and awesome.
A Country Doctor’s Notebook, collected serials by Mikhaio Bulgakov. English translation here; no idea where to read the original.
Are men issued such a card? I appear to have missed mine.
That’s my whole point. You can’t see their card, and they can’t see yours. It doesn’t mean the card doesn’t exist.
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