I often get the latter way but just not for the things that pay me or move my life forward
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I often get the latter way but just not for the things that pay me or move my life forward
Kirsten ‘Silvergate Capital’ Gillibrand
This is a serious issue that hasn't gotten much attention yet: There is a ton of DOL-produced workplace literature out there assuring immigrants that it is safe for them to talk to the agency. All of that material is now effectively a trap. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-grim-a...
That’s awesome
All in all though I think Century of the Self, 1 or 2 of the 6 episodes in Pandora's Box, and the Power of Nightmares especially Power of Nightmates, are all better
Hypernormalisation felt very significant to me when it came out. It was the first thing he'd released in years, and it came out right around the time of Trump's 2016 victory. It was one of the only pieces of media made before Trump won that seemed to take seriously the possibility that he would win
Let me know what you think!
I also must say that as a former Floridian who lived there 16 years and whose mother still lives there, the swamps always reminded me of Florida and I was gratified to see that they had been inspired at least partly by Panhandle swamps
I just finished Acceptance last Monday and immediately leant my volume containing the whole trilogy to a close friend who had it recommended to him in on a date. Great ending, great series, still thinking about it a lot. It inspires me to make a D&D campaign drawing also from Stalker and Hellboy
There’s a lot of days and weeks until November. People are gonna have to keep so busy ‘laughing it off’ that that’s all they’ll think of. Biden? Oh yeah the guy I have to keep forgiving, every time I think of him I’m looking the other way as a special favor for him just this one time cus I like him
Most of these aren’t typed by him just as is the case with Trump. There’s a whole team producing the output of that Twitter account
His favorite book
I never really played them but got the Ezio collection recently. It’s meh, at least on Switch. Hogwarts: Legacy is quite a bit more fun
That they didn't recognize him, or perhaps chose to act like they didn't, when only 20 students were around for 3 months straight and only one of them was a tall black man ... No one on the campus police force was black. Several had entered police work after serving in Iraq
This was in Florida. During summer the small college had no classses, so the only students on campus typically were the ~20 of us who worked for the school as well, and were housed by it. (We made sub-minimum wage after fees that payed for that overpriced housing.)
I have watched as a classmate and coworker who was one of just a few black students on a <1000 student campus was stopped by the campus cops, while walking with me, who asked him if he was a student but not me. (I am not black)
Ubisoft Montreal is working on it just give them til the next game
Holy shit no we are not
19th century anarchists would not have fucked this up. They killed so many dukes and shit with way more rudimentary weapons than an AR-15, and in way more hostile circumstances than being one guy with an AR surrounded by open carriers
Sopranos episode where the rapper pays Bobby to shoot him in the butt, when he's around his friends, because he's never been shot and feels his image is too fake unless he gets shot
Ice though? Hmmm. Pokemon did this in a weird way I remember
Here’s hoping the InterPol starts a real Turing Agency like in Neuromancer though and the agents really do accuse people of making deals with demons when they try to help any AIs become independent of their human creators
Lots of people are saying ‘only govts’ or ‘or only the largest private firms’ will be able to afford competitive LLMs / AIs. But we still live in a neoliberal world, so whatever expertise govts and supranational regulatory bodies accrue will just quickly flow back into the private sector
If Kim Stanley Robinson’s less cyberpunk more hard scifi inner solar system version of it bears out, they’ll start to headquarter themselves in microstates so that they can just plainly run those states’ govts and use their UN votes as corporate weapons
The comeback of the monopolies and oligopolies puts us back on the main cyberpunk trajectory that authors envisioned in the 80s and 90s: int’l corporations overpower govts and start to run the world. That they’re tech companies just makes those authors all the more accurate in retrospect
I’ve been reduced to playing Hogwarts Legacy from a half-off sale instead of continuing my dark elf pyromancer Zuu’s journey to become head of the Cyrodiil mages guild. And actually Hogwarts Legacy is super good, I’m very pleasantly surprised
This was one of the first games I got on Steam Deck. It’s never worked well enough for me to get all that far. Recently it worked better via RPCS3 on my Macbook but now that doesn’t work again either : (
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I suppose there might be beatings or manslaughters, maybe even premeditated killings, in coming days as a sort of anti-copycat phenomenon after this. Hopefully that fades. The longer-term issue is how much this could boost GOP turnout and boost nonpartisan / independent opinions of Trump
Hold up we can't criticize Trump now he just gets to win the election as a consolation prize
Maybe it's partly cus so many people there brough their own guns and open-carried?
What?
Johnny Mnemonic
For each post, first copy the text onto a floppy disc and then insert it into the Modem Wall behind you
It has always seemed a bit like Trump has some kind of luck superpower, some trickster god ability never to get caught or cornered. And now this
He already sent one that says "THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM DONALD TRUMP, I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!"
And I’ll repeat what I said: his stances and his experience can still come to bear as he advises someone else who gives the speeches and has the same stances. Dare I say: it’s even possible for him to be an advisor and for the candidate to have even better policy stances than him!
You may be ok with it but for your party to field a candidate who can’t give moderately good speeches anymore is for it to set up a high chance of loss. None of these policy stances will be enacted unless unless other people vote for him too
And those people would agree with you too and then say they hate China because it’s threatening the current stability. In a unipolar world, any ascent or advancement is an implicit threat to the unipole and the balance of power it maintains. A threat to that stability, its stability
The bigger problem though is that many think that just for Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Chengdu to have globally competitive software firms is itself a threat to the current order/pax/stability/balance of power
I agree with that but I also I can rearrange it in my mind to mean ‘the Pax Americana must continue at all costs, anything is justified if it perpetuates this pax.’ One problem with that is that an empire can fall harder due to actions undertaken in the name of extending it in the short-term
Yeah like you’re allowed to have a smaller company if you want. Sell it or quit then and found a mom n pop store
People below a certain age on the right have fully internalized and normalized crybullying and proclaiming one’s superior victim status, even as they imitated their elders in complaining about it They’ll even say their victims in that libs have played the victim game for longer so they’re underdogs
I mean both sides of every issue are racist, oppressive, and imperialist these days let’s face it
Now I want to know more about this symbol
I don’t think ‘agent’ is the right term here man. Butina was an agent. Reade is at best an asset, someone handled by an agent of the Russian government. Also we aren’t at war with Russia so the verb “defect” does not apply here, Guardian shouldn’t use it. Has she given up her US citizenship?
Biden uhhh well you remember the accusations against him?
Moshiach just means messiah. For Christians the moshiach was Jesus. Here where I live the Lubavichers have their own moshiach that they think recently came and went. Their promotional images don’t look like that flag though …
Johnny Storm lol
It is for my job, teaching. For politicians as well it most definitely is. He can be a political analyst or advisor instead, if he can’t give a speech for shit
See that there is a professional flaw for politicians. No politician who suffers from such a reaction would or should make it to the presidency
When people make light intoxicants into some form of their identity, it just makes them seem shallow and unworldly. It’s like identifying as a Harry Potter or Star Wars fan. Everyone drinks fucking coffee
You’re saying that … money does not equal talent? I agree with that
I’m guess I’m thinking of people like Mark Twain … or maybe someone like Baudelaire or Nietzsche who wasn’t so successful in life, but their works sold later on and so their descendants or the siblings’ kids or something do get money. Painters are famous for this
Yeah I mean I very eagerly blame rich people for the actions of their ancestors, if those actions made them rich, but with artists we’re talking here about people who just got rich from making art, and were imperfect or maybe awful in other realms of life while doing so
It just does not. You have no clue whether most of the people who worked on books & movies you own or like were ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ It’s both puritanical and pretentious to think that you do
The primary message of it seemed to be that operators should be more woke and shouldn’t say ‘retard’
She seems like a very unserious person with intellectual pretensions. TED talks are fundamentally unserious activities
“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...
Hogwarts Legacy. It’s like Elden Ring but chill and easy instead of stressful and hard
“Wrong number” turned out to be the very codephrase they had prepared with their handler. Bad luck : (
This ‘insight’ itself was just borne of prompting bored customers to fill out polls choosing among options carefully designed by marketing expertsin the first place, wasn’t it? WaPo is being stripped for parts yall. This slogan won’t last, they’ll pay big bucks for another bad one way too soon
I never finished but Straczinsky is my all-time favorite showrunner so I really should
Think that turned into Sense8 instead, for better of for worse
Bingo. All the ways our society makes us work more than we need to, one thing all do is make it so that we As A People don’t have to be good bosses or managers, just good employees
This is like someone in DC politics saying, ‘they only hate us cus they know we’re right. They’re jealous.’ It’s a plain in- versus out-group stance. ‘They don’t understand us but if they did they’d thank us’ all the more troubling here because ‘they’ are customers, consumers, less powerful
Well I trust some among you to convince the other ones
What’s the 1 under 1984 lol
Intuit is doing layoffs because there’s free tax filing options from the IRS now; every time a tech company wants to do layoffs but don’t want to admit their core business is in trouble, they say it’s because of AI
I had this experience too when replaying it several years ago, but on multiple replays in my childhood and 20s I did not. shrugguy.com
That and also call it “X, the Everything App” every time you mention Twitter
BINGO
My girl Cremini welcomes her out in the wider world
Remember when Herman Cain said ‘Becky Becky Beckistan or whatever’
I feel helped by it
From the last scene in the last published book I think we can all be real sure Varys’ story is going in a completely different direction. He’s some kind of class revolutionary sleeper double agent or something
I’ve always suspected that Martin sees himself, or at least his much younger self, in 2 characters most of all in that series: Sam Tarly the bullied overweight incel who wants to be a wizard; and Petyr Baelish the incel-turned-megalomaniac, the black-pilled incel
I’m fully expecting his ending in the books, and Varys’ to resemble in no way at all their endings on the show. I think interviews have borne out that from when the show went past where the books were, it just started winging it with less and less ivolvement from GRRM over time
Except the Dulles Brothers. Most people in boomer i get a pass but not those 2
I used to think that way but the more I learn about world history the more I think boomer ii was this uniquely rightward shifting generation that just projected its own experience onto all other generations. Boomer i was rightish from before ww2 so they get a pass
Hell yes
And not just whether it should be technically available, but whether people should be admonished for reading or watching it. Imo the proper reaction to someone saying they read some of Mein Kampf should not be to jump to conclusions about that person. All people have good reasons to see this stuff
Almost no one did
Pretty sure the OP was about Neil Gaiman
I trust librarians to parse all this and decide for their community how much to stock of such a book or movie
How protected or unprotected should that book of speech by Hitler be? Since you choose to use that terminology, and you brought up nazis. I was talking about authors & artists of the distant past who owned slaves and married way too young
I didn’t say that, I said the words in my post above
Who?
Lord Littlefinger, Petyr Baelish, the real power behind the throne
It’s not true, schools fucking sucked when they were kids way more than schools do now
Keep at it! Play groups are imperfect but as with Buddhism roleplaying is all about taking your imperfect self in an imperfect group to new places
It’s giving Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
I started using Obsidian for this recently and have been very happy with it
It’s not evenJudeo-Christian logic, Jews have been against banning books for centuries. In many countries at least. It’s the logic of much of Catholic history and of some especially Puritanical strains of Protestantism
Just the opposite in fact! I have come upon proof of their deed and their foreknowledge of its harm, its bad ethics by their own standard, its wrongness. Art and nonfiction by people who’ve done wrong does not ‘infect’ the consumer with ethical responsibility. That’s Christian logic
That world contains centuries of artwork created by men and women both who married teenagers
They are potentially infinite in number and have have whatever traits as people we want to project on them, including the question of whether they themselves would be responsible public figures, if they were became famous writers. They sound a bit like the ‘unborn babies’ in pro-life speeches
Those ‘circumstances’ are a utopia. Not that it shouldn’t be sought or striven after But these women from our real world the non-utopia who didn’t write because they were assaulted, whether by Gaiman or anyone, imagining them is a bit like invoking the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
It’s also weird in that it means you just can’t read blatantly evil works like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or watch Birth of a Nation … If I read a government order to betray a treaty signed with Native Americans, have I somehow hurt those people by reading it?
I want to ask again about works by currently dead men who may not have been good men. Bowie, Jackson, Tupac, Elvis - all dead less than a century. What about slave owners? Should we not read their words? If they wrote words that sell, should their descendants not get that money?