sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
16hr ago
That's basically the gist. The rich own all the resources just like they do now, but as the AI becomes more and more capable, the rest of people can't even offer their labor in return for resources because they can't compete.
sun_the_second
1d ago
The article is not edit protected as far as I can tell. Go ahead and add that section, if you believe it true. As far as I could tell by reading the edit history, there were no such passages reverted by devious ideologically captured admins, yet (although there was one user aptly named EndWOKENESS who replaced the article with "lorem ipsum" twice and was reverted).
"Article is one-sided because no opponent with IQ above 80 ever bothered editing it" is not the same as "ideologically captured".
sun_the_second
1d ago
‘the only other post-revolution president didn’t have enough of a power-base to pull it off‘
Or, you know, a war of conquest being waged on his country and half of it being occupied territory at the moment of supposed elections.
sun_the_second
2d ago
Responsible for much of the current year difference from The Way It Was Always Done, perhaps. I see no reason to believe the dysfunction comes from some law of nature, rather than us being unadapted, for now, to the differences.
sun_the_second
2d ago
But as long as you have learned to cook ribs, how hard can it really be to learn a few more recipes? As long as you have the general knowledge down, so to speak, I don't think it would be that much harder to keep up with two casual hookups' preferences than one, or three rather than two.
sun_the_second
2d ago
How prevalent male infidelity really is? I assume most men do fuck their wives, for as long as the wives are convenient about it.
I doubt any men who own a harem are going to agree that theirs is not a true harem because they do not aim to have children.
If you want my opinion, then if you want lots of sex, have sex; if you want lots of children, have children. In the era of IVF, there is little need to mix the two once you've hit the "harem" scale. Musk got the right idea with his sperm bank sugar mamas.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I think you heavily overestimate the amount of (mental) effort required to fuck the harem in this hypothetical. I don't like to talk to the cashier either and I can envision having to talk to the harem girls even less than I have to talk to the cashier.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I don't know which liberal Russians Bill Burn polled, the ones I've heard from were unanimous on "Russia gotta stay the fuck out of Donbass with their 'polite green men'".
sun_the_second
3d ago
I'm giving it a whirl. I must say, so far the repetitive exposition and tell-don't-show doesn't feel like it respects my intelligence as a reader.
I want to once again shill Pale if you don't mind that the shameless will-shock-you villains are not the main characters of that story.
sun_the_second
3d ago
Perhaps I'm just not fed up on Western works enough, then. When I see an amoral protagonist, they bore me. There is no wondering what they'd choose to do, just pick the most effective option and author willing they'll do it, or fail and come back 100 chapters later. If everyone can only be evil or stupid (or stupidly evil), they all blend together and can only be indeed differentiated by cultivation ranks and sect hierarchy position.
On the other side in Pale which I shilled a few times, there are various evil characters - some more successful than protagonists, some less, some get their comeuppance and others don't, but the facets of evil make them interesting. Although I concur that the protagonists of Pale are probably way too saccharinely self-righteous by the standards of the average ruthless MC enjoyer. But then again, they're regular teens, not ones isekaied into by their 500 year old variants (another Reverend Insanity cheat that already begins to grate on me in the first chapters).
sun_the_second
3d ago
I blame Pinyin, you have to get certification to intuitively read that stuff. "Oh yes let's make 'q' represent the 'ch' sound" - statements made up by the absolutely DERANGED.
Is there an elevator pitch for Reverend Insanity, or is it one of the "anything would be a spoiler, just read 30 chapters" ones?
I see you read a lot of xianxia, so actually it would be interesting to get a pitch on the whole genre. From what I heard of it, it's... I wouldn't like to say "powerslop", but it has the reputation, you know? "Ascending through universes" this, "ruthless MC that"... isekai so you don't have to figure out an in-universe backstory for the MC, "ruthless MC" so you don't have to write the struggle between personal scruples and the next tasty powerup, 100 gorillion chapters because the author didn't bother thinking of any containable scale in favor of numbers going ever up... along with the Jumpchain genre, it feels like not so much "literature" as "concentrated trope fentanyl to inject directly into storyteller brain". (I wonder if the Chinese who were brought up on xianxia think Western fantasy is just "herojourneyslop".)
Of course, the above is all an impression gathered by osmosis rather than reading one of those doorstoppers that make Worm look like a leaflet. But I did play Tale of Immortal. Please tell me how wrong or how correct I am.
sun_the_second
7d ago
a feminist promotes equality between men and women, the end.
If that's the entirety of the definition, why aren't we calling them masculinists instead? It would be same difference.
sun_the_second
8d ago
I highly doubt male feminists, whether genuine or fake, are more prone to acts of sexual misconduct. Off the top of my head, even if I recall specific accounts of sexual misconduct, most of them would not mention that the perpetrator was a male feminist in any shape or form.
In addition to "it's more surprising", it seems to me that most women writing highly public pieces on their experiences of sexual misconduct are feminists, and their social circles mostly contain men who pay some lip service to feminism at least.
sun_the_second
10d ago
The particular disreputation of Hitler is not just due to his evilness, but also due to the fact Germans are Western. Communism gets to largely write Khmer Rouge off its reputation because most people don't seem to care about third-world Asians (Chinese less so, but also, owing to how numerous they are) massacring each other. As the meme goes, "emperor Ching Chuang Hong declares minor border war, 100 millions dead".
sun_the_second
11d ago
But... starting wars and forcing ideology on others is what stood the test of time. Lockdowns were also a thing, from what I heard. It's not like every time someone started a war they were smitten by lightning from on high.
sun_the_second
13d ago
And Baldur's Gate 3 shows us that people, including the white Gamers, love it as long as it's a good game.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Not terribly concerned about either all these years or today. I would expect the guy I replied to to have been concerned, though, which is why I asked.
sun_the_second
13d ago
What was "based" about Hades 1?
sun_the_second
13d ago
From what I heard, they don't let you just sit on your phone or otherwise occupy yourself. You have to stare at the screen where nothing is going on. Otherwise, I doubt it would work on the Japanese either.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Ok, but which Indians did the kid mean and which Indians are the guy's wife? If I believe the comments of our resident Indians, there are goodsmart Indians and badstupid Indians, and the former don't have a lot of ethnic solidarity with the latter.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Would you trust a leftist who extensively posts acab, protect trans kids, stale pale male etc. content to do an unbiased job in the government?
sun_the_second
14d ago
The poll could be rigged. He owns the website.
Yes. Sometimes also there are Western works where protagonists have a moral system that's not the modern Western morals. I'm specifically dissing the explicitly amoral sociopath protagonists like the one Reverend Insanity is advertized for.
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