Personally, I believe we should talk about the payment corporation censorship in the same terms as Net Neutrality. Make it Payment Neutrality. Payment providers should not be able to discriminate based on what the payment is for. Ever.

my friend wrote a book and it looks really cool. i've ordered it already.

the more llm "ai" is pushed on me the more i understand the bad guys in a lot of science fiction about robots who *are* people. like those stories are all about how we should be treating people different from us with understanding and respect (good!), but the robots we got actually deserve the bad.

incidentally adobe is now trying to convince people that acrobat's llm can read a legal contract for you and give you insights. please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

“every time you fuck up and then fix it, thousands of people will remember the fuckup forever as evidence that you’re fundamentally evil. fixing it will be forgotten instantly and retconned into someone else’s moral victory over your fundamental evil” sure is an incentive structure of all time

James Talarico flips the script on MAGA

ok i just found out that my ffxiv free company (guild), which was never really active, just a few friends of friends for the past few years, is now... uh, mine. level 30 fc, just... mine. i may need to learn how airship and submersible missions work now. and possibly do something with it?

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

asdfasdf they turned the pretty back on in living memory after the 7.3 story! okay, ffxiv, this patch is officially good.

ffxiv expansion lessons heavensward: holy war sucks. stormblood: wars of colonization suck. shadowbringers: reactionaries who want to control people and return to the past are wrong. endwalker: even when it sucks, you can face despair and choose to smile. dawntrail: ai really, really isn't people.

literally every day i just think "no seriously if we had just fucking listened to black women (and other multiply marginalized people) as a whole we'd be much better off." maybe that's my roman empire.

if they want to not be thought of as an evil that must be opposed, perhaps they could cut the whole "secret police" and "demonizing trans people, immigrants, etc." games. i'm against violence here, of course, but i'm against *all* violence. *including* ice's. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

clever, ffxiv. "it's been a trial, hasn't it" just after finishing a trial in the msq. well done.

those letters wouldn't have worked for the nuremberg defendants, either. "just following orders" or "just doing my job" is actually 'just' an admission of guilt.

this! you do not need to have "fans". you do not need to be the center of attention. you just need to be a good person. care for and about others. help those less fortunate how you can. connect with other people. be a part of a community. revere ideals and principles, not idols and princes.

i see people talking about kimmel or stewart for president in 2028 and i gotta be honest, i'd be a lot more comfortable with someone who hasn't been chasing ratings their whole professional life. not to say that they'd necessarily be bad, but i'm skeptical they'd be the nationbuilders we need.

2025: haven't played it yet but it'll probably be co33 2024: metaphor refantazio 2023: baldur's gate 3 2022: horizon forbidden west 2021: ffxiv endwalker 2020: hades 2019: ffxiv shadowbringers 2018: into the breach 2017: horizon zero dawn 2016: pokemon go 2015: i didn't play new games very much

being a hateful son of a bitch ages you. i'm 43 and have been confused for late-20s as recently as a couple months ago. and then there's paul rudd. or ryan reynolds. or cobie smulders.

yes, i believe that black men routinely hang themselves from trees in mississippi. surely there is no other likely explanation for his body being found there that has, say, long historical roots. i do not have proof but let’s just say this claim should be held to a higher evidentiary standard.

"ai is the future", huh? an evidence-free claim if ever i heard one.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

it's worth noting, amidst all the other notes of "conservatives see hypocrisy as hierarchy and virtue" and accurate labels of fascism, that those of us who oppose that kind of hierarchy were primed to avoid claiming it. what's your reaction to "oh, you think you're better than me?"

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

I'm gonna staple this onto all y'all mfs heads. It is not hopeless, we have not lost, the entire intent of the actions of the Trump Administration is to seem stronger than they really are. The firmer that we, the people, stick with one another, the harder it will be for them to do anything.

we always thought they were saying they want free speech. and joked that it was "freeze peach". but the centrists would have been right this time because the truth was in the middle: they were saying "freeze speech".

i laughed so hard i cried a little. c is definitely for cookie.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

a funny thought apropos of nothing: a draenei pirate, male, much bigger than almost everyone else nearby, poking at someone with a cutlass as they walk. "yarr. favor the plank walked by few."

there is a basic principle that has never steered me wrong: if someone tells you what kinds of people to hate, they are manipulating you. if someone tells you what *ideas* or *policies* to hate and more importantly *why*, that's worth interrogating.

"Long COVID is a mystery." No, sis. The only mystery here is why the hell you think that in this, the year of our lord 2025, five years into this pandemic. That's a you problem.

orange wins for me but damn this is actually close. i have no experience with what most light blue food would be or it might be even closer. my guess is a lot of seafood though, so i'll pass.

“no dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. there is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand... though it take a thousand years, we will be free.” youtu.be/pJmuHNDcXLQ

i think part of the problem with d&d 💿🐴 is that too many people see alignment as a thing mold yourself to fit. when it's actually a way to mechanically reference which of a few bins your complex character is closest to. it's not supposed to be just one or another. this post is about gender.

when i die, i would like nobody to ever comment on my fashion. at least not the first hundred years of it. just talk about robert redford's fashion again or something.

what a surprise.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

i'm not even going to use sarcasm here. murdering people that i hate does not make me like you. it doesn't make me like them more either, but it doesn't make me think you're cool or valuable. it makes me want to see you locked away as penance for your crime. sincerely, every decent human being

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part of me thought he would genuinely outlive us all. rest in peace, sir. you were a giant.

here's what i wish for the folks stoking the fires of bigotry and hatred: a long miserable life seeing people they hate being safe and happy. i wish them free healthcare. i wish them affordable housing and their kids a world-class education. and for them to step barefoot on every single lego.

Not for the first time, I find it grimly funny how all these people have sworn loyalty to a guy who does not give one shit about anyone except himself.

We are in a massive Covid surge right now. No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative. Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections. Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.

can someone explain to me why so many right-wingers use the term "democrat party" when the group in question calls themselves the "democratic party"? is this just a petty earflick and a flex on cultural language control, or is there some deeper meaning?

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

sometimes several good mechanics that are both elegant and fun combine into an experience that's... not great. i'm probably like halfway through metaphor refantazio and the last time i loved a turn-based rpg this much was crystal project (which i rated a solid a). so far metaphor is an a-. why?

If Bill Kristol can come out and make public statements like this, shouldn't we expect at least as much from 100% of our elected Democrats? Shouldn't we expect at least as much from Gavin Newsom?

I can accommodate anybody who doesn't want to stone people, burn down their houses, and forcibly convert any survivors to the One True Faith. Unfortunately, that leaves a dismayingly large number of Americans out.

Someone posted this again today and I cannot believe how it’s just the skeleton key for like 75% of American politics

i think leftists who can't accomodate people of faith into their politics are really really making a profound mistake