Pynewacket
5mo ago
and the lovestory of the mod team with the idea of "increasing the participation of more Darwins in the subreddit/site" continues.
Pynewacket
5mo ago
And isn't golden rice exempted from patent enforcement anyways? The relevant patent holders have agreed to not try to enforce their patents against asset-free 3rd world farmers.
what is stopping them from changing their minds in the future when their situations change (revenue streams diminish, are acquired by a more aggresive patent holder, etc.)?
Pynewacket
5mo ago
Is your point that lots of partners early degrades whatever neurochemical method the human brain uses to pair bond, making you unable to fully do so when you'd want to?
my question was due to you sounding like you didn't believe pair bonding was a thing.
Pynewacket
6mo ago
well, they already named the system Sky, at this point it's just a question of linking several together and see what happens.
Pynewacket
6mo ago
welcome to Bonobo World, how you doin'?
Pynewacket
6mo ago
I'm not at all convinced that that "pair bonding" is a super significant phenomenon
How do you explain entire animal species mating with only one partner for life while other species don't?
Pynewacket
6mo ago
sorry, I will try to be better than this potshot, but when the OP reacted like the classical Progressive I couldn't resist the impulse to try to find if he was a troll or just part of the herd.
Pynewacket
6mo ago
this may sound out of left field, but How would you have felt if you didn't have breakfast yesterday?
Pynewacket
6mo ago
and I believe retains some fraction of it's original spirit
can you define its "original spirit"?
Pynewacket
6mo ago
Wasn't this how Facebook was conceived initially?
Pynewacket
6mo ago
Straight men having a lot of sex is praiseworthy
Because it's an accomplishment. The opposite is easy.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
What reason do you have to say that they aren't going to do it?
Pynewacket
7mo ago
"But GW isn't introducing female space marines. So that's a non-issue." is the "it's just a couple of kids in college campuses,..." of tabletop. Anyone paying attention to the hobby culture wars already knows what is the next step, especially after the "Warhammer is for everyone" message.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
the main conflict in W40K right now is female Custodes and female space marines. Black people was more an issue in D&D where the racists insisted that orcs were representation of African Americans.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
yeah, I forgot about it. Comics gate was so long ago I just remembered it now.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
My humble opinion is that they (the wokies et al) notice, and they will continue and double down and berate you if you point at it at all. They simply don't care if you watch or not, its their vanity project, but that is ok because they are making it better for their people (hint: not you). They are the middle management, the marketing people and the danger hairs with liberal arts degrees.
So far they have been getting their way because they were propped up by pension funds like Black Rock and Vanguard, but now that there have been significant outflows of capital there have been some purges, but it won't be enough. Looking for example at Hollywood, the writers guild's strike looks to have been successful in getting concessions from the studios (chaperoned AI [meaning, AI can only be used by the writers themselves, not the studios to replace writers] and a minimum number of writers in each writer's room of 5 I think).
Battlefields I have seen:
Hollywood
Videogames
Tabletop Games (W40K)
Novels (Nebula award)
Localization of Japanese Entertainment
Gundam Model Kits (This one I think is more a product of the imagination of the antiwoke people, as yuri is an staple of Anime/Manga)
CoC's in Software Dev Projects (This plus the ousting of Linus)
The push for Woke language in programming (example: the Master/slave controversy of a few years)
Marketing in general (Always mixed race or minority pairings, sometimes ads not even related to the product but for the purpose of browbeating their core demographics, the Budlight fiasco, the Gillete ad of "boys will be boys")
The point of it is trying to change the culture from the middle down (remember they are the middle managers and their minions, while some CEO's are probably true believers like the Ice Cream dudes Ben & Jerry, the majority are only looking up to enrich themselves and their cronies like with Bobby Kotick), and if you have any objection it just means you are an enemy and your opinion doesn't matter to them. Just look at the bruhaha that is happening right now with the female Custodes or the Blowback the Lovely Complex Localizer got for giving ammunition to their critics when he went mask off.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
He'd just seem very strange.
pre op. Post Op he would have a clear and visible signifier of his weakness(Virtue), easier to grind with costly signals than with just bend fingers and a grumpy disposition.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
The attitude "fuck, why not" goes completely against how the medical profession ought to operate and if followed by doctors in practice, it should come with professional penalties.
I think this is what happens when status and money is highly placed on a profession. After a certain amount of time there will be people that just want the associated benefits and resources that lack the mentalscape desired for the profession. Add to that societies of very low trust like India or Latin America and its a recipe for disaster unless you thoroughly vet your doc.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
it's just that I already had an example in mind for one of the points of your so called "illuminati theory", for the one that is the most outlandish at that. The others are results from the functions of the government, so I don't know why you think they aren't controlled by it, reports of WMD for war and lowering or rising interest rates through the federal reserve for the stock market and inflation. The only tricky one would be Pandemics, but as COVID19 shows, you can fund your illnesses abroad if the local laws prevent gain of function research where you are.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
The idea that "TPTB" can control literally everything, including ... social unrest,
well, according with that article, with the magic of a Zoom call they can. No idea why would you ask about it, unless you forgot that article.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
hmmm, my ingroup may consist only of me then.
Pynewacket
7mo ago
The only saving grace (excuse the expression) is that the internet has led to an explosion of amateur erotic writing, most of which is terrible, but which is at least more creative than most of the soft core era.
You may want to know that all the major platforms are clamping down on anything horny:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4P9yCMNpV-I
Sorry it is a link to a youtube video, but it looks like this more recent push isn't being reported on the news.
Pynewacket
8mo ago
thanks for the heads up, added another link.
Pynewacket
8mo ago
One of the big complaints about the modern trends in gaming is the disappearance of the "AA" game. That sort of middle-ground between budget/indie and AAA. I think Alan Wake 2 should have been an AA game.
I think that is more the realm of the Japanese and other Asian devs. Things for example like the recent Unicorn Overlord.
it's better to just report/downvote the troll, don't feed them.
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