Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1hr ago
Horse!
Mule!
Horse!!
Mule!!!
HORSE!!!!
MULE!!!!!
(Fiddler on the Roof, referenced by Slate Star Codex, March 2016.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
She was a sugar baby, not a streetwalker, there was an actual relationship there, albeit not a great love story. The moral equivalent is to taking a teenager as a mistress, not seeing one working at a brothel.
SteveKirk
1hr ago
Yes, that's the party line I'm talking about, thank you. It's an effective consensus enforcer, I'll give it that.
campfireSmoresEaten
1hr ago
The mobile app costs half what the game costs on steam. Hmmmm...
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
Show me an example of a woke person advocating for "basic human decency" for someone who they consider privileged.
WhiningCoil
2hr ago
You ever have the same argument with a family member over and over again for decades? To the point where the moment they slip in an oblique reference to your deep seated differences in world view, all those negative feelings come rushing back in. Especially because they give you a look when they do it that says they know exactly what they are doing? And yeah, the people who don't know might look at your (possibly restrained) anger towards what you know is a direct provocation like you are being over sensitive. But your antagonist knows exactly what they are doing.
It's like that.
What do you have against basic human decency? What it looks like is exactly the same as wokes getting triggered by a nonmixed heterosexual family because it's a dogwhistle for fascist racism or something.
And if I were, in fact, aiming to manipulate, it's not like I would be cowed by you declaring that you're immune to my manipulations.
This is just the "what does it matter to you that we support Basic Human Decency, seems like you're the problem" gaslighting trick everyone's seen a billion times. It's manipulative and vile, and weird to keep using on someone who's immune to it.
sun_the_second
2hr ago
I'll be frank, this does look like deliberately seeking to be offended by woke, given that phrasing "male/female" as "body type" is about one of the least intrusive things ever. Are you "exhausted", or are you hypersensitive?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2hr ago
Have you already read A Wild Sheep Chase? The two books are mildly connected.
2rafa
2hr ago
See I care less than I did a few years ago. My politics haven’t changed, but I think I’m probably less afraid of these people than I was, so I’m more willing to accept it in the “weird quirks of a foreign culture” way.
jkf
2hr ago
We over-regulated general aviation and so froze it in time.
I was amused to discover that the only source of new parts for caveman-carburetor attached to the 500lb cast steel straight-six lump powering some farm equipment I was working on over the summer is FAA-approved general aviation parts suppliers -- this stuff is still in production even though it was considered inefficient at powering tractors circa 1965, because many of the approved engine designs for commercial light planes date back to the 1950s.
The bad news is that a new carb from these suppliers would be in the same price range as a whole tractor, due to government enforced certification monopolies stringent manufacturing tolerences; the good news is that it's a fucking caveman carb without even any jets to clean, so I scraped the goo out of it as best I could and made a new gasket from a Cheerios box; now it runs just fine.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2hr ago
Yes, though you also can't see a person's latest tweets from their profile page. So mostly you have to be linked to a tweet to see it.
WhiningCoil
2hr ago
Well, like I said, depends what your threshold for bullshit is. I'm so fucking exhausted by it, I nope out the moment I see "Body Type" instead of male or female, or if a game lets you pick your pronouns. Is that petty? Perhaps. Am I missing out on otherwise good games? Once again, perhaps. I just fucking can't anymore. I'm tired. And yet those are increasingly standard features across AAA and indie games. Even a lot of those Switch games being held up as standout titles in a world of AAA slop are getting that nonsense.
doglatine
2hr ago
My intuition is that films and TV have dropped off a lot more in the last 8 years than videogames, with some incredibly vivid and memorable successes very recently. While the Sweetbaby stuff has definitely tainted a lot of AAA games, the kind of games most affected are those that were mass-market slop anyway. I can’t think of many titles where it’s true to say “this would be great were it not for the DEI nonsense”.
WhiningCoil
2hr ago
I generally agree with BurdensomeCount, but I don't think he's trying to say there is literally nothing made after 2012 or 2016 that is worth your time. It's just that so much of it isn't, that the juice isn't worth the squeeze attempting to sift through it. Especially when you can just pick virtually anything that was considered "good" prior to 2012 and not find it offensively ideological. Compared to today where even the "good" games are often full of marxist or gender ideological talking points in degrees from "I can roll my eyes at this and get on with my day" to "My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined".
Rosencrantz2
3hr ago
So the second one sounds like an example of a conspiracy theory – it's not just an exaggeration but implies a shadowy cabal who's really in control. Unless the speaker just means Trump is a 'Russian asset' in the minimal sense that his existence is of value to Russia (rather than in the spycraft sense).
The others seem a bit more like rash overclaims than complete fantasies to me though it really depends on how the speaker elaborates on what they mean when questioned. Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, for example, but it does not appear at all likely it made a significant difference to the outcome.
daguerrean
3hr ago
When I read the first sentence I thought you were going an entirely different direction with that. Either way it’s based
Stellula
3hr ago
My experience is of course the opposite.
I see way more discussion about "real" topics like engineering. Twitter used to be mostly pop culture and culture war nonsense. Not it seems a lot more like real human beings having actual, real discussions (well...not really discussions. I still think that twitter/X are the wrong format for conversation).
doglatine
3hr ago
At the risk of sounding like a pervert, I associate that peach fuzz with some pretty good memories. In particular, a couple of my more innocent exes had some light fuzz, but because they were relative ingenues they hadn’t absorbed the cultural messaging around hair removal. So I associate it with a certain kind of wholesome unaffected young womanhood.
Rosencrantz2
3hr ago
What is the patriarchy or whiteness except the ultimate in shadowy central planning?
Depends on how it's cashed out and elaborated on. I believe it to be patently obvious we live in a patriarchy that has been making slow-motion improvements, but that this fact is just a reflection on millions of people's net behaviours over time rather than something anyone has ever nefariously discussed in a group.
I'm familiar with TGC. They can sometimes serve the same purpose.
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