Battlefield 6

Charity has always generally been considered a respectable activity though?

This would be an incredible comedy premise though. A friend group realizes that one of them has been using the others for market research for a decade and they were all carefully selected/guided to be representative norms.

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

I don’t know if it’s a good strategy yet, but I’m somewhat more favourably inclined towards the concept than lighting piles of money on fire on ads and doorknocking.

yeah I think this is something people mostly don't get: ships + cannon were *unbelievably* powerful. like, the classic outside context problem for most places but even in the context of European land warfare ships were incredibly strong. (Games very rarely represent this well, curiously)

The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.

thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible

to win this fight, we cannot limit ourselves to arguments based on competency or efficiency. we should attack incompetence where we see it, ofc, but we must be militant in arguing - ad nauseam - that the roots of this dysfunction & collapse are moral and spiritual. to do good, we must be better

we are living thorough 10 years of moral collapse. it’s happening everywhere but is concentrated in the US. we have given up on even trying to argue that there must be more to life, both individually and collectively, than bare materialism and power. we must rededicate ourselves to meaningful life.

I know Bluesky loves to celebrate this stuff, but uh, you guys aren’t going to love the stuff that’s replacing the churches.

He’s indicating that they intend to do things that would make liberal democracies consider the option

Literally did the meme lol

We’re also celebrating her:

Dean Martins real name is so cartoonish Italian, you'd think a klansman made it up

There’s banning and there’s banning. We have laws against a wide variety of anti-social behaviour, much of which we have no hope of ever actually eliminating.

I suppose Israel is our air craft carrier if our air craft carriers didn't work, cost ten times more than they already do, don't actually stabilize anything, cancel out soft power repeatedly, and divide the public on the issue of your statecraft's legitimacy

German energy policy and Irish neutrality are the two dumbest things those respective countries are smugly and stupidly proud of.

It’s possible that Germany should not have staked its economic future on cheap gas from a known terror state

As one does

I’ve been saying for years that the next wave of British republicanism will not originate on the left.

It’s not hard to understand why the post-OWS ended up the way it did when you realize that—however well intentioned—the idea of ‘the 99%’ was effectively an attempt to create class collaboration.

This guy was murdered by the government for absolutely no reason, and this fact will be lucky to get a fraction of a percent of the coverage given to dead squirrels and uneaten house pets.

i think that one of the basic problems is that most things promoted as true by those critics are either false or irrelevant. it is like criticizing Trump by asserting that he is a vampire who eats babies. he is worse than a vampire who eats babies, but he is also not that.

Important point that so many people miss. A billionaires tax, actually doesn't raise that much money. What it does do is put some control on the astronomical concentration of wealth, and therefore power, in the hands of a few suspect actors.

Imagine when this pic hits their group chat

That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked

im going to take a hard position here and say that getting married to "video games", a song about someone desperately in love with someone who refuses to give them the time of day, may be worse than getting married to "Every breath you take"

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They like Trump and want to help him rule us.

i'm going to go live in the woods with my friend and keep the computer in a room in a box and the only other electronics in my house will be a ham radio and an incandescent light bulb

you know what kills off Main Street? everybody having to drive 20 minutes to get there

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

What if we funneled the saddest asocial people who go outside very little onto one subject? Surely the conversation will be productive.

In general it seems like the issue is that everyone on all sides has relatively high standards on insignificant nonsense because that's all you can filter on since the real red flags happen later and nobody seems willing to acknowledge this, leading everyone to get increasingly angry and sad

Dating discourse on here reads to me as mostly made of people self reinforcing their own depression and it’s weird that people who are married participate by thanking the universe that they’re not dating online.

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

States wouldn’t have been able to incubate the tyranny that eventually ate American democracy without it though

demanding that the Danish return to their homeland (Iceland) and return it to its indigenous people (Basques)

the Falklands war was an act of imperialism by a European country (Argentina, 97% white) against the indigenous people (the English) of the Falklands and their suzerain, a country with substantial populations from the Global South (the UK, 86% white)

You can just say the measurement system you learned as a child feels better to you and drop the ridiculous pretext of objectivity.

People like to say that the system of measurements they grew up using is "intuitive." It probably feels that way to you, but this is because of your familiarity with it, not because of any objective property of the measuring system. I know this b/c the "system" below feels totally intuitive to me.

“Polyamory or refugee” is the funniest of these for me but “genocide or library” is close

Not wrong, but this is a real hotdog suit post.

A lot of you have inexplicably pivoted to this idea that it was not reasonable to expect that the kitchen fire would eventually spread to the rest of the house because the fire had been confined to the kitchen until it wasn’t.

there's been an instinct among elected liberals for the past ten years of "we can't risk escalation" and all it's done is allow Republicans to escalate to the point of armed insurrection *and beyond* without consequence

Trump represents a *breaking point*, but ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ was written in 1964. The series of beliefs and impulses behind MAGA are not new, and it’s been clearly getting worse for decades.