we can tweak it, it's fine

They tell me this place got its name when a night watchman discovered an oil field on the outskirts. His money let him take the whole place over. Fancies himself an ancient king, complete with a harem. No one warned me before I rolled into town, so now I'm trapped in this Gatelight gasboss' girlkeep

I watched benedetta and it will help my career as early as tomorrow

thinkin about ecosystems again. maybe I should implement replay takeover

I don't think they're on this website but I really like the remarkable paper tablet mostly but the keyboard features they added for their special keyboard are super janky and don't mesh well with the rest of their ux. Like I should at least be able to move the text box?

I have the worst timing, like my brain is screaming "Get organized!" and everything is shutting down because the inexorable crawl of winter holiday season is inescapable already

not it

Advances in antivirals somehow paradoxically causing an uptick in infections. Problematic phage gap

As far as I can tell, this is about 70-80% of the propaganda strategy that rules america right now, and various public intellectuals have been talking about it for like a decade, but no one's developed effective counterplay. I hate to say it, but we need a balance patch here

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

guess it didn't take long to get used to the cold again

Colonial powers are incapable of producing functional societies. Incentivizing conquest fundamentally marginalizes every form of prosocial behavior. Tolerance of this only produces fractally self-similar collapse that takes down every good thing produced within it eventually. It is societal cancer

Only the Democrats could watch a series of elections resoundingly go their way and then, less than a week later, loudly announce that they want to fold on the shutdown. Absolutely worthless party of cowards and hogs. Stupid, weak, useless.

90% of the worst queer discourse is driven by people either in the closet or otherwise terrified about what committing to their authentic selves means for their lives, and while we should be patient and loving to these folks we need to stop taking them seriously

thinking about how fiction treats all-mercenary cultures in the context of [(looks around awkwardly, shrugs)]

In contrast to all the european languages I've encountered, the thai language genders first-person speech, and this is often optional. Japanese does the same thing to some degree, but it seems more connotational and sometimes less clear. I think both intrinsically make things palpably less awkward

companies should not be this big, ever I know it's an ice cold take but it keeps coming up

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

an ocean requires different solutions than a desert for example: I think I actually save money in aggregate by preferring buying things to involve IRL quests. I probably get worse deals this way but buy drastically less stuff

overcoming bias is truly the televangelists of neoliberalism

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

To be a centrist pundit is already to spend all your time representing an incoherent imaginary position that consists entirely of rhetorical hedges against every practical or ideological demand popular at a given time. There's been no point at which it needed to ground itself in reality whatsoever

“Fuck man, we’re about to win. There must be something we can do to stop this.”

why does this town shut down at night?

every time I travel internationally there's an adjustment period coming to the US where I have to remember that nearly any significant system I interact with here is actually a scam designed to entrap me in some financial or legal way

Compromise is something you do to preserve mutually beneficial relationships. Trying to do it with opponents, let alone enemies, makes you a sucker at best and a traitor if you have teammates. Anyone who wants to compromise with fascists is a pure liability to a coalition opposing fascists

mark cuban making a surprisingly aggressive pitch for eliminating billionaires

o yea right hi pdx

slept thru halloween, jetlag got hands

If youre a trans woman youre a bougeois decadent, if youre a cis former wehrmacht guy with a deaths head you are a necessary part of the coalition

social media sucks inherently. however, social media sites are self-evidently not unbearable. clearly many bear them. I would even say far too many

people still on twitter trying to @ me with their bullshit mainlining the tragedies like clockwork orange cultists sure I'm old and jaded but that place is just for roaches supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

AFAICT this is the baseline interaction of fight for sport. Fightsport that claims not to have these dynamics underlying it either has no real scene or is lying for the benefit of the pervasive cowardice that is discomfort with intimacy. Also, fear of intimacy is just another facet of that intimacy

Ended up at a catholic mass in bangkok and my skin didn't even burn maybe the pope really is woke

Hard agree. Thailand is the country with the best claim to being a "melting pot" and it's not even close

huh cool

It's even dumber than that. "Cancel culture" simply rebrands a core feature of media discourse: Public moralizing about things one dislikes in a way that sometimes results in effective censorship. The American right simply disliked that there was a brief period in which this ever worked against them

The most concise word for a traditionalist who favors free speech is a liar

I guess I'm not like ultra far along but so far silksong seems really similar to hollow knight in the challenge curve but with an initial kit of tools that I find a little more fun

always be choosin'

Yeesh I just got jumpscared by Gemini trying to activate itself because my thumb got too close to the bottom-left corner while trying to scroll. The corner is unmarked, mind you. I thought we had hit rock bottom but phone interfaces somehow manage to keep getting worse. Tech innovation baby!

Freedom of expression doesn't require lionizing people for their speech, just allowing it. Right now, the government crackdown on critics of Charlie Kirk is much more obviously a threat to freedom of expression than one of hundreds of shootings that happen in this country are

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

fascism is not something to be reasoned with. it is bottomless cruelty unleashed upon the world with nothing to stop it but force. they don’t want to live in a civil society with you, they want to kill you.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

I think if we can learn anything from silicon valley it's that being the CEO of anything is the most significant risk factor for paranoid delusions

When I was a child, a mormon sunday school teacher explained that the freedom we so treasure in America is the freedom to do as god commands. This is, to me, how one should understand the idea of freedom as presented by any "conservative": The freedom to do what they think you should do

An underappreciated aspect of what right wing media is trying to do here is create a chilling effect on people coming forward with information and reporting it accurately. Notice that they've chosen someone who cooperated with the investigation to start spreading false rumors about