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imo Daggerfall was the most special the series ever was. Morrowind was full 3d and had a lot of writing stuff around it, oblivion had some great visuals, skyrim was polished to a mirror sheen, but daggerfall was the one that felt the most to me like an entire world. There was so much in there I still haven't seen even a fraction of it. There's so much to do that I probably won't be able to do it all (and I'm not talking about individual places or quests, I'm talking about entire gameplay systems!) because it's such a broad world.
It was something really special in a way nothing before or after has been.
It was something really special in a way nothing before or after has been.
I know that the place I want to live or work is somewhere that takes an hour and a half to get up all the elevators.
A lot of dumb ideas aren't dumb, they're just made dumb because people turn off their brains and treat a narrow and specific idea as an entire life philosophy.
To train a dog correctly you have to understand the way a dog thinks. Once you understand how a dog thinks, you realize their way of looking at the world is completely different than the way humans look at the world.
Though I will say that some of the lessons I learned from learning how to train a dog ended up looping back and being meaningful for humans as well.
Though I will say that some of the lessons I learned from learning how to train a dog ended up looping back and being meaningful for humans as well.
Rage Against the Machine became Rage on behalf of the machine, but their music had a lot of good messages and a lot of good stuff back in the day.
"You may shoplift at will up to $900. but at $901, we send in killbot."
I can't imagine why they might have put the plan on hold.
I can't imagine why they might have put the plan on hold.
Been seeing some scary people coming over from twitter to our lovely little enclave, really considered blocking some people, maybe defederating some servers.
But then I went back to my guiding principle: "Am I your dad?"
And I checked, and I'm not their dad, so I don't have time to worry about what they may or may not post or what they may or may not see.
But then I went back to my guiding principle: "Am I your dad?"
And I checked, and I'm not their dad, so I don't have time to worry about what they may or may not post or what they may or may not see.
Well that's a big question man, like what even is trying to find child porn? Like, if you're trying to rescue your father from the belly of the whale you have to be a dangerous person, that's for sure. So am I going out trying to find child porn? Well I'm nawt, but I am seeking dangerous things so I have a child porn and know how to use it but this is the key -- I don't! (Cries)
Advertising companies found in surveys that 72% of millennials would choose a brand over other brands if it exposed a strong political opinion, no matter what that opinion was.
Now you've got a billionaire calling out a multimillionaire and a controversial legislator piping in. Mission accomplished.
Now you've got a billionaire calling out a multimillionaire and a controversial legislator piping in. Mission accomplished.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html
After they cover all this stuff about how Trump was treated, I'd like to see the reciepts about how some of the groups we know full well were protected were treated behind the scenes. We know that Twitter allowed everything from calls for violence and genocide to explicit child pornography simply by seeing what was allowed on the platform. I'd like to see the communication between internal folks that justified all this horrible stuff.
After they cover all this stuff about how Trump was treated, I'd like to see the reciepts about how some of the groups we know full well were protected were treated behind the scenes. We know that Twitter allowed everything from calls for violence and genocide to explicit child pornography simply by seeing what was allowed on the platform. I'd like to see the communication between internal folks that justified all this horrible stuff.
So I started a print for a friend of mine without looking at the printer first. Good thing it's a small print, because I'm almost out of filament! (Uh.... The white thing is the filament sticking out)
These people are addicts. The number of people that I've seen declaring that they're leaving Twitter who ended up staying exactly where they were is basically 100%.
Is ChatGPT a small car made in Yugoslavia in the 1980s?
No. No it is not. (But 500 words of that since you gotta get paid your 4 bucks)
No. No it is not. (But 500 words of that since you gotta get paid your 4 bucks)
Doctors are just doctors. Even if there was a medical justification for keeping the lockdowns exactly as long as they have been, the economic, political, sociological, legal, and moral justifications also play a role, and that's where you start to see a serious problem due to the long tail of lockdown after-effects.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
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I call them all "The Establishment Media" because they're not mainstream anymore, they're just the tool of the establishment powers.