Way, way back in the day I worked at GameStop, and we had to give a spiel about a survey and stuff when checking people out. I had to create an internal script for it so I could do it consistently, and it became rehearsed which meant I could do it quickly. Customers found this entertaining.

So far, the best use case I've seen for AI is that it enables bigots to more readily out themselves, since they're not constrained by what they can convince others to participate in. That's an incredibly cold comfort.

And took up space that could have actually gone to someone with that identity and experience. Your worldview is one that seeks to justify your paternalism, and you’re too busy patting yourself on the back for being “one of the good straight white folks” to see it.

You’d think “it has to be a bit.” But no, there are really people who think assuming a marginalized facade is tantamount to having that marginalized identity. In reality, it’s cosplay, and it’s offensive. It’s taking the platform of someone who actually has that experience. You did it for ego.

If you are criticized by a non-Israeli Jewish person in a discussion or on a matter that has nothing to do with Israel and you: - Bring Israel into it, where it doesn’t contextually fit - Assume they’re a Zionist with no evidence Not only are you an antisemite, you’re doing an ad hominem fallacy.

I have to wonder how many of the people still trying to make this a discussion, rather than a disavowal, are thinking about their own past “Nazi phase.”

So, as much as I’m enjoying this game, some cracks are starting to show. Mostly, Platinum doesn’t seem to grasp how to design their action games around a soft-lock system. They’ve included a hard lock-on (a first for this series), but the game is too fast-paced to make it workable.

Not that there’s such a thing as a smart Nazi, but even by Nazi standards, Platner is pretty pathetic.

I’m enjoying Ninja Gaiden 4 so far. It has enough of the weight and lethality of the older Team Ninja games that it feels connected to the series, but there are some Platinum hallmarks in there that elevate it, such as the perfect guard, perfect dodge, and aggressive parry.

I’m glad Hell isn’t real, because even the people theoretically condemned to such a place wouldn’t deserve having you inflicted on them.

Folks, I do believe that is what you call “a ratio.”

It is literally ALWAYS white Christians who, when presented with pushback for explicit and unequivocal antisemitism, try to pivot to Israel, regardless of whether it was at all related to the conversation. Pathetic, fragile egos.

Just a weird, slightly out there reminder about the significance of tattoos RE the Shoah: Beyond just Nazi symbols as signifiers of Neo-Naziism, or white supremacist sympathies, tattoos were used DURING the Shoah. Just, y’know, on prisoners the camps. This gets a lot of media representation.

Of all the groups to try to lecture Jews on supposed shared cultural culpability for the horrors of colonization, I’m pretty sure Brits should be the absolute last.

People need to learn that someone is not obligated to argue against your position using the premises you’ve predetermined for them, and trying to repeatedly project that premise onto them isn’t going to make their points weaker, it’s just going to make you and anyone you associate with look foolish.

You haven’t responded to anything. You’ve quoted me, then argued against an unrelated point you wanted me to have made. Pathetic show.

Marc “Why Would I Read Past the First Post” Boorhstein, everyone.

You still aren’t even engaging with my original argument, only with the offshoot response in which someone else, on YOUR side of things, specifically focused the conversation on Israel. You really don’t have any reading comprehension.

You’re taking a response I made to someone who responded to my more general statement about ethnostates with one about Israel, and acting like my secondary response was a primary response to your original post. This is a disingenuous take, Marc.

I also want to call this out, because this is one of the first substantive arguments he’s made and it’s a wild false equivalency. Individual laws that focus on one race, as an example, are not categorically bad because their focus isn’t, unilaterally, the demographic dominion of that race.

Everything in a category being bad does not mean some things in that category aren’t worse than worse. Your entire tactic is misrepresentation and flattening of what you’re addressing. It’s purposeful obfuscation.

I didn’t imply anything, except that it being on someone else’s land made the creation of it more egregious. You INFERRED that this meant I’d be fine with it if it were on unoccupied land. Developer/10 reading comprehension and rhetoric. As an editor, I thank you for the job security.

Sure, because you disagree with white supremacy, you can look at their arguments and see that they’re trying to create a discriminatory system. But if you just follow their literal language, they’re claiming they want to create an even playing field. That would favor the existing majority.

I never said that would make it fine. I just added another aspect of the situation that makes it particularly egregious. Keep your pancakes/waffles-ass arguments in your pants.

This is exactly why the BDS movement uses TARGETED protests. If you try to protest EVERYTHING related to an entity this deeply entwined in Western culture, you’re going to hit a point of dysfunction. That makes you more susceptible to concede. Better to hit them in just a few, very tangible, ways.

The discourse the last few days has had me realizing, and this will never excuse antisemitism, that Jews are struggling with something that we ask Christians to do all the time: acknowledge that there are systemic, structural issues in our community that are causing others harm.

Folks, it pays to remember that, for them and their supporters, the hypocrisy is part of the point. They want authoritarian rules to exist so that they can be above them.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: The developer wrote it.

In light of events in Manchester, I think this is an important reminder for anti-Zionists in general. If your advocacy is more focused on how it can hurt the Jewish community than on how it can help Palestinians, you’ve failed the “my anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism” litmus test.

I've been trying to figure out why, for so many formerly Christian atheists, that narratives about Jews in the Christian bible still seem to carry weight, and I think I finally have it. They buy into the idea that the Christian narrative is fantasy. As a result, the Jews of that time are, as well.

Havoot Hanash, all.

To add on to this point, I have an anecdote. Once, I think when I was home from college, the youth pastor from the neighbors’ church was dogsitting for them. She was out walking the larger dog when it suddenly collapsed. We lived on a cul de sac, so the whole neighborhood was out there immediately.

I feel like there is confusion about why Judaism and Christianity are different religions. It's this confusion that allows for Messianic Judaism (a branch of Protestant Christianity) and various Christian groups to make use of post-1st-century Jewish rituals and objects. A quick explainer.

I refuse to suffer this alone.

Coffee. Better grinders and brewing equipment available at more price ranges than ever before, beans processed and roasted in new ways that fit a wide spectrum of preferences, a stronger focus on ethical sourcing, and even cultivation of more resilient species of coffee plant.

Perhaps more to the point, the screenshot tied to this assertion doesn’t indicate what this “transgender” or “anti-fascist” ideology is. Just asserts that it’s there. In other words, if it isn’t an outright lie, it’s something authorities have chosen to associate with trans and antifa folks.

It’s the press outright lying about this man “in memoriam” that is getting to me. But am I really surprised at them peddling BS narratives? Nah.

I will be saving my empathy for those innocent people killed by the followers of this man’s cruel and dehumanizing ideology, not the perpetrator of said world view. You can’t live a life of hate and expect love in your twilight.

Whether or not you agree with physical violence as a means to a political end, you are not, in fact, required to launder the legacy of a reprehensible shitstain, one responsible for far more violence and death than we’ve seen today. Just thought some politicians and public figures should know.

It is blatantly obvious that no one on Apple’s current Find My design team has ever lost and had to find their phone.

Seeing Jewish mutuals I’ve generally respected reposting garbage that strawmans the arguments of academics regarding the classification of Israel’s actions is… Not a great feeling. Read through the entire argument before you repost parts of it that make you feel righteous.

I don’t get the people gassing up Newsom over his imitation of Trump’s unhinged behavior. Its only appeal on the left seems to be that it’s parodying asshole-in-chief, and the right doesn’t seem to give a shit that they’re being made fun of. Newsom just gets to be an asshole “ironically.”

Yes, this is outrageous, but we need to be very careful about how we engage with, and amplify, editorialized content like this. Because this is the kind of response it’s getting on Instagram, where users are acting as though the person on the right represents Palestinians.

Fruit of the whine: gossip.

To cut off “but Jews-to-Germans isn’t a one-to-one comparison,” I want my fellow Jews to think about how it feels when someone holds up the Nazis as an aberration. How it feels when they ignore the ways in which the rest of the West was complicit until the Nazis attacked them, too.

Today in posts I’m simultaneously impressed and infuriated to understand.

I could never be a Texan politician for many reasons. But an increasing concern I’d have is that, when I died, I’m pretty sure the only people mourning me would be my accountants.

I want to point out that I have been training martial arts for a LONG time, and that is an inherently group activity, and one that relies on a lot of trust with your partners. Martial arts and fight sports are also very popular right-wing spaces. LEO and firearm fetishism abound.

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound was already an absolute blast, but then I unlocked hard mode. Turns out when you design an action-puzzle-platformer, upping the challenge with more stage hazards is significantly more interesting than tankier, harder-hitting enemies. Good show, @thegamekitchen.com.

No cheating. Post your Lock Screen.