I believe in scientific socialism and historical materialism. I sympathize with the Communist struggle against forces of imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, fascism, racism, ableism, transphobia, and other oppressive structures.
What would be your periodization of the “golden age of gaming”? Mine would start at the introduction of the consoles like the N64 and PS1, and the release Windows 95…then it would end with the coming of microtransactions. So that would be 2006 with the introduction of that horse armor in Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
This is not to say that I don’t enjoy any games released after that though :p I built a gaming pc in 2011 mostly so I could play Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
I work in remote medical admin and one of the most soul-destroying aspects of this job is knowing that I do administrative busy work which benefits health insurance companies and keeps some of the worst people in the world alive longer.
Case in point, one woman born in the late 1940s and educated as an academic came in to the office complaining about how she couldn’t go on a cruise ship because her restless legs syndrome and sleep apnea were acting up. And then she casually mentions that her husband was a sergeant in the ukr volunteer legion in Bakhmut. I looked up this parasite on LinkedIn and found she is a manager at a real estate company. I knew then that I had no fucking business in this dead-end low level job in an industry which is essentially a giant money laundering scheme. I hope her husband got his fucking head blown off and scattered to smithereens, and I hope she never wakes up from her sleep again.
I’m transitioning to an outdoor industry where I can learn about the natural environment and get in touch with the land, not stay trapped indoors forever with nothing but the voices of arrogant Baby Boomers for company.
The US’ actions can sort of translate to those of an abusive single father.
Wait till they hear about Project A119.
I’m really hoping they might someday build a space-borne solar power station at the Sol-Earth L1 Lagrange Point. Or a telescope on the far side of Luna. Anything’s possible when you don’t have the brainworms of neoliberal capitalism holding you back.
I have no interest in talking to them. Their proper place is to keep their mouths shut and their wallets open for my perusal.
There is always that one lib who downvotes 😆
We see you, dude!
They are sad creatures. Don’t worry about them. Their opinions are wrong.
I don’t bother. Our time is better spent figuring out legal ways to take as much money away from them as possible, not “engaging” in “discourse” with them. 🙄💀
Lift so hard that the world itself trembles.
There are so many redacted things that redacted could have done so long ago, but then the redacted would not have redacted enough of their redacted. And thus here we are today.
They cannot grasp the post-scarcity mindset and that is pitiful. We have the technical means today to live in a mostly nuclear-powered world supplemented by sources such as solar and wind.
A crowd-sourced app that maps all of the homeless people and tent encampments in every neighborhood of your city. Like snapchat.
Adult supremacy is a real thing. While it is very prominent among American Baby Boomers, it can afflict people of any generation. I believe we as adults have a responsibility to guide and protect youth, not forcefully shape them into some predetermined mold.
Frankly it infuriates me when I see somebody of my age (early 30s) acting just like a damned Boomer and complaining about “kids these days”, when those kids are just responding to pressures of a world that adults have forced upon them. The only kind of youth I truly dislike are the alt-right kind.
I cannot speak for any other country, but the US public school experience is designed to beat the kids down until they accept their place within the capitalist system by the time they’re 18 years old. Any education that happens in those places is incidental. They’re primarily meant for schooling, not education.
After 9/11, the shittiest people in the world called me the T word for being brown and having a foreign-sounding name. In the subsequent years they hated me for my obvious neurodivergence, my lack of misogynistic tendencies, my refusal to accept the alt right, my insistence on wearing an N95, and now my identity as an nb trans person. This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Every year they get more mad and I only have more middle fingers to give.
It’s not looking at them that’s the problem, it’s the obsessing and worshipping part.
LLMs have their uses, but just like any technology they are not a magic wand.