@justalexoki maybe if you had said "blessed" there'd be less controversy
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Seedy Jonze
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Seedy Jonze
@SeedyJonze
Second-rate data scientist & corporate haruspex. #1 producer of Tech Debt three years running.
Katılım Mayıs 2017
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this seems to have made a great deal of people mad for some reason. i just said i'm lucky to be here. what exactly is it that you all are so mad about
taoki@justalexoki
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
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@Pathless110 @LiteralSheridan Ya, but then the Irish wouldn't have been able to partake in suppressing a breakaway rebel state with force of arms.
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@SeedyJonze @LiteralSheridan Yeah, the division of Africa was badly drawn, but mostly because of how it _didn’t_ evolve organically out of sociopolitical sorting. If anything the “correct response” would be for the world to let African borders re-sort, even if it meant a lot of violence/disruption.
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@Pathless110 @LiteralSheridan my takeaway was "huh, guess the euros did a pretty decent job then"
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@LiteralSheridan With the exception of divided France, this would unironically be a pretty functional map, and resembles several historical eras of European borders. There are political parties in most of those countries explicitly centered around creating that map, more or less.
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this post is getting torn apart in the comments, but it’s just giving me flashbacks to trying to lead an underemployed friend to water & getting an earful from the guy I referred him to after the interview
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@Duderichy Imagine how many school lunches we could buy if we just liquidated all that capital
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@paul_hundred Abundance libs be like “what if we raid our nation’s investment capital to pay off ever more public sector employee union members and negative margins utility NGO workers?”
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@SaladBarFan @paul_hundred Imagine how many school lunches we could buy if we seized Musk’s shares of Tesla and did a fire sale!
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Counterpoint: S = I
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But conversely, while there is nothing wrong with building a great business and becoming extraordinarily wealthy there *is* something wrong with hoarding that wealthy for personal consumption or to pass to your kids. slowboring.com/p/the-real-pro…
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@MartinSkold2 The recent Star Wars & Odyssey twitter discussions somehow merged in my mind so now I have a mental image of Aristotle getting into arguments with Cypria & Little Iliad defenders in Athens.
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A lot of the problem with the franchise has been trying to re-create a wonder that could only happen once.
If you want to create more wonders, you can’t intentionally copy the last ones.
See also: Moon landings.
Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1
The original Star Wars movies were so loved because: -Spaceships and laser swords are cool. -It's WW2 in space mixed with a Western in space. All-American tropes like gunslinger and fighter pilot, but in a space opera. -It has a religion that is real. Yes its kind of cringey 1970's California Buddhism but it's still in there. Plus the religion assists with laser sword fights. -The setting has a delightful archaeo-futurist tone. It's after the fall of a cleaner, better civilisation ("an elegant weapon....from a more civilised time...") and it has a mix of hard sci-fi tech and scrappy junkyard tech plus all kinds of aliens that just exist as a kind of backdrop. -The acting is fine, the pacing is excellent, the dialogue has just enough exposition to let you figure out what's going on but not too much to ruin the mystery. -Nothing like it had ever been made. It felt genuinely new. And the scale of the story was so large, it felt impossibly epic. For the 70's it really did blow people's minds.
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Please do not choose a major based on desire to learn "the skills to be successful on the LSAT."
If you want to prep for the LSAT, practice the LSAT. It's an aptitude-focused test with no knowledge component. Major has close to zero impact.
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh
And I have to patiently explain to them a) you will not learn the skills to be successful on the LSAT in an economics degree program and b) unless you are exceptionally good at math you will also probably tank your GPA.
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@PNACstreetgang I remember hearing the head of the DEI Alliance in college talking about how we needed to cultivate white racial consciousness to make whites be better allies & immediately realizing they were incapable of imagining first order effects much less second order ones.
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@SeedyJonze It’s funny because they never even talk about actual Millennial social psychosis like 2010s gawker feminism (they were in diapers and everything political began in the year 2016 for them)
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The zoomer obsession with millennials is insane. At least the anti-boomer critiques will touch on some perceived social/political excess, and they’ll critique gen-X for being nihilists, but with anti-millennial sentiment, it’s just “Uhh…you’re corny.”
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@PNACstreetgang There's a good critique to be made about obliterating load bearing social norms for no good reason with wokeness/fake rape crisis/etc, but the economic stuff is a joke that's completely ignorant of how terrible the labor market was from 2008-2014.
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At most, I’ve just seen vague and unfounded allegations from young antisocial zoomer males that millennial men ‘pulled the ladder up behind them’ (whatever that really means) and are preventing them from being successful somehow
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ok so we've definitely crossed a line. this looks disney enough for me. if you told me you worked in animation and your team made this I'd believe you. animated video is solved
Marko Slavnic@Markoslavnic
The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your story! Made in @runwayml in a few hours and a handful of gens.
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@SpecterVonBaren @shoerface @Patbacknitro @ChristinaTasty The obvious red herring unexplained blackouts plotline was way more egregious than the shenanigans the game gets up to with the killer's identity where a lot of players won't even hear the lines that are explicitly lying to you.
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@shoerface @Patbacknitro @ChristinaTasty I fundamentally do not respect it for cheating with its mystery. If you have to lie to your reader to make your mystery function then it's a bad mystery.
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Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):
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@random_eddie While also giving the player enough outs that you basically had to intentionally try to get the ending where the killer gets off Scott free.
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@random_eddie failstates, but certain mistakes could cause story repercussions be it missing a vital clue or a character dying. It gave the Saw-inspired trials & late game action scenes a real sense of heft since there were stakes involved.
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@atlanticesque the country has a massive under-incarceration crisis
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Conservatives don't want to pay for new jails. NIMBYs just don't want new jails near them. But leftist opposition is really sinister. They fight construction and maintenance of jails, so as to lower inmate capacity, which forces softer sentencing.
I want an abundance of cells!
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It's time for JIMBYism.
A major cause of this sort of street mayhem is that jails and prisons are overcrowded, so they release guys like this. We need to build more jails and prisons!
Many oppose building new jails. NIMBYs, leftists, tightwad conservatives. We must overcome!
New York Post@nypost
Parolee with 7 priors busted for throwing stranger onto NYC subway tracks: cops trib.al/emATPog
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@peterrhague "Ahhhh! Oh nooooo! The metro I live in is on an economic upswing ahhhhhh!"
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I'm sorry but believing that roads spontaneously generate cars is like a medieval peasant believing that meat spontaneously generates maggots.
Steve Magas@OhioBikeLawyer
Boom - nailed the N+1 Lane theory
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@ChrisExpTheNews I preferred COD4's campaign from the storytelling/narrative standpoint. Felt more Tom Clancy inspired, while MW2 was basically playing a Michael Bay movie.
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Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.
Disparu@disparutoo
@The_Epic_Mike Some of the best hybrid movie games I think were the first few cod campaigns. It was all through gameplay but story told through action and immersion. Very different style to metal gear solid with cut scenes everywhere. VERY few games can pull that off.
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