147521 pts ยท September 7, 2016
...stare into the terror rectangle and watch society collapse in real time.
Ironic, isn't it? Fetterman's path was paved by people that wanted anyone but Doc Oz - both for being a quack, and for being a Trump puppet - and in 2 years, he's probably going to get primaried for the same reason.
There is nothing about the structure of the US government that is currently incompatible with progressive reform.There are hurdles, yes. Campaign financing advancing corporate and foreign interests over constituency concerns, media monopolies brainwashing the average idiot, and the sheer fact that the Overton window is so far to the right that the very notion of improving things can barely enter the conversation certainly doesn't make it easy.It's definitely not impossible or out of touch.
Somehow it's "common wisdom" that you have to chase the middle ground to appeal to everyone, yet no one's stopped to scratch their head that extreme conservatism is doing so well while centrism keeps stumbling.Democrats can't win by being worse than Republicans at being conservative, but they'll throw themselves in a grave before acknowledging that progressivism is even an option.
He had a few pet issues that were progressive enough that he got a pass. Just so happens that the rest of his interests are conservative - just like most of the Old Guard in the Democrat party.Thing is, now that he realizes he signed up for the party with absolutely no power to do anything he *does* care about, he's not even pretending to have a drop of loyalty to anyone responsible for him having the seat to begin with.
Google finally won against uBlock origin, too.uBlock Origin Lite however works just fine - using the "Optimal" filtering setting takes care of all of it. Breaks looping on shorts sometimes, but I see that as a bonus, personally.
Well, if it's still affecting gas prices, maybe.That seems to be the only damn thing that actually changes anything at the polls, so the fact that he's fucked with it may almost do more to sour peoples' opinion of him than any heinous thing he's done in the past 10 years...Not Covid mismanagement, not J6, not ICE, and frankly not even war. Just gas prices...
Y'see, we *could* just enforce high bracket and corporate taxes properly and use the proceeds to fund comprehensive, dignified assistance for everyone that needs it.Instead, vulnerable and stressed people that can't be certain of their livelihoods are forced to labor without so much as the guarantee that their wages will lift them out of poverty if they manage them carefully, because the minimum has stagnated for too long.This is better somehow because people can eat bootstraps or something.
Wow. Israel ignoring a cease fire to attack civilians. Such a novel event. This never happens. Who could have predicted such rampant violence from them. Shocking. Unprecedented. Wow. /S
I used to believe that people were rational, and could separate media from reality enough to not just blindly emulate what they see, or call out the actions of a villain as being glorified, or mistake consenting kink for abuse.Those unmet expectations and more are behind my descent into misanthropy this past decade. Alongside... just... everything...
You mean the administration that axed their entire infectious disease task force just before a global pandemic also axed a team of regional experts while there were ongoing hostilities in that region?It's almost like he's an asshole surrounded by morons and we had all of the signs he'd be violently incompetent the last time he was at the wheel.
It's almost like it was less of a predictor of future events, and always a commentary on contemporary issues. So in lieu of any efforts to meaningfully improve anything, we've only degraded even further beyond its parody.
Unfortunately the President of the United States is a convicted rapist. He doesn't care that people have been begging him to stop for decades - let alone the singular decade of his political career.By all means, don't let him drag you down that alley quietly. But if you actually think anything is going to change, you have infinitely more hope left than I have...
Everything is a restroom if you have to go badly enough.
Above all else, survival is the ultimate goal. Protecting your mental health by limiting your exposure to The Bullshit is part of that - as are focus-stealing distractions and the little treats you need to get through your days.It's moderation you need to chase - balance what you need to do to stay healthy with the needs of basic function and personal upkeep. Beyond that, any survival is a victory - especially when it feels like a struggle.
We've been using explosive that don't need external sources of oxygen since the 9th century.The in-built chemical availability of oxygen was in fact one of the things that was selected for when developing nitroglycerin in 1846.Now, you can say that black powder was a lucky fluke, but nitro proves we've been using oxidizers on purpose for at least 180 years. This isn't some niche field - it's not even actually rocket science! It's literally basic high school chemistry!
The bodies grow up but the faces don't
You can't change how you were made, your gender will always be the only gender you get, and that's final.But at the same time you're a complete and utter failure if you're not performing your gender hard enough, and it's such a fragile state of being that it requires the state to enforce it, complete with publicized stigma and medical-grade abuse to "correct" misbehavior.Almost like the whole thing is bullshit and they're afraid everyone already knows it.
#1 - Programming skills: "Give me a week with the language docs, and anything becomes c++ with extra steps."
Conservative humor is all about virtue signalling how much you hate others. It's not really supposed to be funny, just a bonding moment.
...I'll be completely honest, I was under the impression that everyone had packed up and given up on trying to charge him with anything, fairly certain that nothing could move while he was president.He's probably going to die before anything actually sticks to him, but we're *definitely* 2-3 years to late for it to help anyone.
Critics are generally dismissive of video game ip, kids' movies, and sequels.There's a disconnect in the film review profession between those that measure everything on its merits as high art and those actually trying to give recommendations for whether you'd like watching it...then inflammatory reviews generate more traffic - and what could be more inflammatory on the internet than pissing on Nintendo? Also, Peach has more of a leading role than Mario, so you get that butthurt too.
Except that breaking Vulcan so much that he beats Kurze to death in anger was the point.Then Vulcan calms down, says "Ah! you almost got me! I can still be merciful to the galaxy's biggest prick - you really don't have an excuse, you sad misanthrope. I'm just that awesome. You will die next time I see you, but not because I'm pissed. Oh, also the teleport still works. I made it and you thought a little jamming field would stop it?" And he teleports away with a friendly wave.
...okay, but you can get upset that there's even auto moderation that requires self censorship in the first place. You can get upset that so much of the creator base has capitulated so much that the platforms and advertisers feel free to continue to move the goal posts.You can still get upset that it keeps happening, because one way or another there's an idiot at fault that deserves to be called out and blamed for it.
#15 - I have a feeling that the fact that I didn't watch their April Fools post won't actually stop me from seeing it. It will be mined for its meme potential, as the God Emperor intended.
If they had any ability to think critically, they'd have left the church like her.
I'm a "We're in crisis mode, surround this bitch in scaffolding to make sure no one falls off, then start in on triage" leftist.Too many people too close to the brink to *just* focus on punishment.Of course, that comes with the problem that if they're not punished first, no one who gives a shit gets anywhere near the levers of power.So really it's "I'll be a nice guy about it, but only once everyone stops getting in the way, and I'm not above intimidation to get there."
As always: "States' Rights to do what?"They only support giving the states the right to choose about it if that stance stops a federal ban on what they want. They see no hypocrisy in banning bans, because that also serves to give them what they want.In short: Fuck American KKKonservatives.
Meanwhile no one is actually acknowledging the economic downturn, and all of those 5-digit layoffs are hiding serious structural issues that are frankly going to bite us all in the ass, even as it's driving some people homeless.The industry is REALLY healthy, guys... /s
Oh, but the velocity looks *great* - especially if you put in all those review and bug fixes as separate tickets. SOOO much work gets done, and management sees so much kanban movement!...shame that none of that actually means that anything good is getting done, but it certainly looks good to higher management!
Every recent study about actual use and efficiency puts AI as slower than humans.The humans even self-evaluate as 20% faster, but they're actually 20% slower.The problem being that they can push so many features, but at some point they still actually have to roll up their sleeves and evaluate the code, then correct its issues - and Vibe projects have so much bloat that it takes so much longer to get the prompt correct, iterate, evaluate, and correct than to do it yourself.
Ironic, isn't it? Fetterman's path was paved by people that wanted anyone but Doc Oz - both for being a quack, and for being a Trump puppet - and in 2 years, he's probably going to get primaried for the same reason.
There is nothing about the structure of the US government that is currently incompatible with progressive reform.
There are hurdles, yes. Campaign financing advancing corporate and foreign interests over constituency concerns, media monopolies brainwashing the average idiot, and the sheer fact that the Overton window is so far to the right that the very notion of improving things can barely enter the conversation certainly doesn't make it easy.
It's definitely not impossible or out of touch.
Somehow it's "common wisdom" that you have to chase the middle ground to appeal to everyone, yet no one's stopped to scratch their head that extreme conservatism is doing so well while centrism keeps stumbling.
Democrats can't win by being worse than Republicans at being conservative, but they'll throw themselves in a grave before acknowledging that progressivism is even an option.
He had a few pet issues that were progressive enough that he got a pass. Just so happens that the rest of his interests are conservative - just like most of the Old Guard in the Democrat party.
Thing is, now that he realizes he signed up for the party with absolutely no power to do anything he *does* care about, he's not even pretending to have a drop of loyalty to anyone responsible for him having the seat to begin with.
Google finally won against uBlock origin, too.
uBlock Origin Lite however works just fine - using the "Optimal" filtering setting takes care of all of it. Breaks looping on shorts sometimes, but I see that as a bonus, personally.
Well, if it's still affecting gas prices, maybe.
That seems to be the only damn thing that actually changes anything at the polls, so the fact that he's fucked with it may almost do more to sour peoples' opinion of him than any heinous thing he's done in the past 10 years...
Not Covid mismanagement, not J6, not ICE, and frankly not even war. Just gas prices...
Y'see, we *could* just enforce high bracket and corporate taxes properly and use the proceeds to fund comprehensive, dignified assistance for everyone that needs it.
Instead, vulnerable and stressed people that can't be certain of their livelihoods are forced to labor without so much as the guarantee that their wages will lift them out of poverty if they manage them carefully, because the minimum has stagnated for too long.
This is better somehow because people can eat bootstraps or something.
Wow. Israel ignoring a cease fire to attack civilians. Such a novel event. This never happens. Who could have predicted such rampant violence from them. Shocking. Unprecedented. Wow. /S
I used to believe that people were rational, and could separate media from reality enough to not just blindly emulate what they see, or call out the actions of a villain as being glorified, or mistake consenting kink for abuse.
Those unmet expectations and more are behind my descent into misanthropy this past decade. Alongside... just... everything...
You mean the administration that axed their entire infectious disease task force just before a global pandemic also axed a team of regional experts while there were ongoing hostilities in that region?
It's almost like he's an asshole surrounded by morons and we had all of the signs he'd be violently incompetent the last time he was at the wheel.
It's almost like it was less of a predictor of future events, and always a commentary on contemporary issues. So in lieu of any efforts to meaningfully improve anything, we've only degraded even further beyond its parody.
Unfortunately the President of the United States is a convicted rapist. He doesn't care that people have been begging him to stop for decades - let alone the singular decade of his political career.
By all means, don't let him drag you down that alley quietly. But if you actually think anything is going to change, you have infinitely more hope left than I have...
Everything is a restroom if you have to go badly enough.
Above all else, survival is the ultimate goal. Protecting your mental health by limiting your exposure to The Bullshit is part of that - as are focus-stealing distractions and the little treats you need to get through your days.
It's moderation you need to chase - balance what you need to do to stay healthy with the needs of basic function and personal upkeep. Beyond that, any survival is a victory - especially when it feels like a struggle.
We've been using explosive that don't need external sources of oxygen since the 9th century.
The in-built chemical availability of oxygen was in fact one of the things that was selected for when developing nitroglycerin in 1846.
Now, you can say that black powder was a lucky fluke, but nitro proves we've been using oxidizers on purpose for at least 180 years. This isn't some niche field - it's not even actually rocket science! It's literally basic high school chemistry!
The bodies grow up but the faces don't
You can't change how you were made, your gender will always be the only gender you get, and that's final.
But at the same time you're a complete and utter failure if you're not performing your gender hard enough, and it's such a fragile state of being that it requires the state to enforce it, complete with publicized stigma and medical-grade abuse to "correct" misbehavior.
Almost like the whole thing is bullshit and they're afraid everyone already knows it.
#1 - Programming skills: "Give me a week with the language docs, and anything becomes c++ with extra steps."
Conservative humor is all about virtue signalling how much you hate others. It's not really supposed to be funny, just a bonding moment.
...I'll be completely honest, I was under the impression that everyone had packed up and given up on trying to charge him with anything, fairly certain that nothing could move while he was president.
He's probably going to die before anything actually sticks to him, but we're *definitely* 2-3 years to late for it to help anyone.
Critics are generally dismissive of video game ip, kids' movies, and sequels.
There's a disconnect in the film review profession between those that measure everything on its merits as high art and those actually trying to give recommendations for whether you'd like watching it
...then inflammatory reviews generate more traffic - and what could be more inflammatory on the internet than pissing on Nintendo? Also, Peach has more of a leading role than Mario, so you get that butthurt too.
Except that breaking Vulcan so much that he beats Kurze to death in anger was the point.
Then Vulcan calms down, says "Ah! you almost got me! I can still be merciful to the galaxy's biggest prick - you really don't have an excuse, you sad misanthrope. I'm just that awesome. You will die next time I see you, but not because I'm pissed. Oh, also the teleport still works. I made it and you thought a little jamming field would stop it?" And he teleports away with a friendly wave.
...okay, but you can get upset that there's even auto moderation that requires self censorship in the first place. You can get upset that so much of the creator base has capitulated so much that the platforms and advertisers feel free to continue to move the goal posts.
You can still get upset that it keeps happening, because one way or another there's an idiot at fault that deserves to be called out and blamed for it.
#15 - I have a feeling that the fact that I didn't watch their April Fools post won't actually stop me from seeing it. It will be mined for its meme potential, as the God Emperor intended.
If they had any ability to think critically, they'd have left the church like her.
I'm a "We're in crisis mode, surround this bitch in scaffolding to make sure no one falls off, then start in on triage" leftist.
Too many people too close to the brink to *just* focus on punishment.
Of course, that comes with the problem that if they're not punished first, no one who gives a shit gets anywhere near the levers of power.
So really it's "I'll be a nice guy about it, but only once everyone stops getting in the way, and I'm not above intimidation to get there."
As always: "States' Rights to do what?"
They only support giving the states the right to choose about it if that stance stops a federal ban on what they want. They see no hypocrisy in banning bans, because that also serves to give them what they want.
In short: Fuck American KKKonservatives.
Meanwhile no one is actually acknowledging the economic downturn, and all of those 5-digit layoffs are hiding serious structural issues that are frankly going to bite us all in the ass, even as it's driving some people homeless.
The industry is REALLY healthy, guys... /s
Oh, but the velocity looks *great* - especially if you put in all those review and bug fixes as separate tickets. SOOO much work gets done, and management sees so much kanban movement!
...shame that none of that actually means that anything good is getting done, but it certainly looks good to higher management!
Every recent study about actual use and efficiency puts AI as slower than humans.
The humans even self-evaluate as 20% faster, but they're actually 20% slower.
The problem being that they can push so many features, but at some point they still actually have to roll up their sleeves and evaluate the code, then correct its issues - and Vibe projects have so much bloat that it takes so much longer to get the prompt correct, iterate, evaluate, and correct than to do it yourself.