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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

You have to admit it's pretty funny for game journos (who we've all accepted suck at video games) to be told to write game guides (guides presumably on how to not suck at video games)

I mean.... *no* exceptions?

I feel like you could come up with some exceptions.

"Laddie, we're gonna burn down this castle next week because it represents an oppressive patriarchy for some reason, enjoy it while you can"

Isn't that the reason everyone's so worried about threads.net federating?

(though I don't think any of us have anything to worry about -- The corpos won't likely federate with the wrongthinkers)

If I had to spend the night in a haunted house or live in NYC, I'd spend that night in the haunted house. At least the spooks in the haunted house don't have government authority.

So what you're telling me is that the uncancellable gym membership can be easily cancelled by saying men shouldn't be in the woman's change room?

No wonder their stock is tanking, uncancellable memberships is their whole business model!

Everything out of the corpos is dead. Next step is trying to do anything else.

"Wait a minute, this certified letter is just various ethnic slurs! Oh wow I didn't know about #17"

Seems to me the case should be the least of her worries. Better to lose the case than destroy her career, and I think that's a very real risk the moment she's no longer a useful pawn.

Going back to the old testament, the Israelites weren't told to go with the flow and do what they were told by the government or the people around them. Kings fucked up and failed to be virtuous, people fucked up and failed to be virtuous, populations fucked up and failed to be virtuous, even Moses and the Israelites routinely fucked up and failed to be virtuous (Moses was cursed by God to never see the promised land because of his hubris), and as a direct result of that, unnecessary suffering was brought upon those people.

Even the new testament which is substantially more chill than the old testament has a strong message of not just conforming to the pressure of whatever society you're in at the moment. Jesus could have just said "yeah, the Pharisees are totally chill and correct" and not gotten himself crucified, but that's not what happened -- he had a vision of right and wrong and pushed for that vision regardless of what the Pharisees said.

Now all that being said, I think it's a false dichotomy to say that self-sacrifice and hard work don't work when you're doing it in a certain way so it doesn't work period and you should throw yourself on your sword to spite your masters. If working for corporate overlords isn't working, then it's time to change strategy, but that doesn't mean hard work and sacrifice aren't a way to get ahead, it just means you need to direct your hard work and sacrifice towards something that'll actually be beneficial, even if it's not something beneficial to the powerful people around you. If you can't do better by being a good corporate drone, then you do better by betting yourself, your family, your community. It's a matter of faith of course that if you pay into the future that you'll have a better future, but when the alternative is just self-destruction it's not a bad gamble.

The sad thing is that many of the people in the street don't give much better answers than they might have before public education.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to dig up the source, but someone did man on the street interviews like this before public education and the answers were surprisingly similar to anything put out today.

I get the impression that there was an "arc of literacy" where there was a point most people were completely ignorant of most things not immediately in front of them, and then there was an era where the common man soaked up books as a primary entertainment source, and lately we've been almost back to where we started with most people never reading anything other than text messages and being pretty limited in their engagement with the outside world.

Unfortunately I can't find any real data to back any of this up. I could be totally wrong and maybe everything's fine.

I love these idiots "We need to be inclusive, so you're no longer included"

Seems like some Old testament shit to me. Like, you need to have faith in doing the right thing even if you're being punished for it because even if they cast you into flames your faith in doing the right thing will be rewarded, and if you lose faith in doing the right things then that sin will be passed down to your children whether it seems fair or not.

I've always wanted to get into video game development. FBXL still hosts a lot of my video game projects, and I still have a repository sitting in my nextcloud for a game engine I've been working on, but the reality of game development is that if you're hoping to get into it to become less burned out, everything I know about it suggests you're barking up the wrong tree.

Cuz the thing is, I suck at making video games, but I'm just one of many kids who grew up hoping to make video games like the ones that they saw on their super Nintendo. So you got basically every bright kid out there wanting to get into the field, and you need to be at least as marketable as all of those people just to get in, and once you're in you can be replaced by any of the legions of people who want to make video games, so you're probably gonna have to deal with lower wages, worse benefits, and serious crunch.

Now you could be talking the indie scene, which is certainly different, but in that case it's just as you say -- until you really get the revenue going it's not a way to make a living. It's highly competitive landscape and putting stuff out for yourself is always a gamble -- it can make a bunch of money but it's shockingly likely to basically make nothing and be a hobby.

The left thinks blacks love crime. What blacks actually think (in my estimation) is they don't like being railroaded by the cops and the courts. Now there's a politician being railroaded by the cops and the courts, of course they're starting to go "Wait a minute, is this our guy?"

Important question: Do you get paid in GDP?

The answer is no.

You get paid what you and your employer agree to have you work for. That number isn't necessarily correlated to GDP.

Would you rather be the average person in China, or the average person in Japan? Well, the GDP of Japan is less than that of China, but the quality of life is overwhelmingly higher in Japan.

I don't really see the Americans having much standing to complain. They were attacked and they invaded two countries that didn't even have anything to do with the attack.

Honestly? It looks to me like there are now generations of people who were never even shown what hard work looks like, or would sacrifice looks like, or would deferring gratification looks like. They've only ever been told how to consoom, and now they've consoomed as hard as they were told and they're not sure why they're deeply in debt, miserable, making no money, have no family, working a shit dead end job.

And in the suffering that is produced by completely eliminating deferred gratification, they think that that is work because it is hard, and it is true that their lives are hard don't get me wrong -- but their lives are hard because they've already taken their reward, not because they deferred gratification to receive a greater reward tomorrow.

Anyway, I'm just sounding like a grumpy old man.

It seems to me that reality is much scarier than the narrative would suggest.

The reality is that it doesn't really matter how good or bad Russia is, they are a symptom of the reality that this world order is breaking down, and tensions that previously were held in check by the overwhelming power of the United States are quickly simmering over.

The future will be violent and there's nothing we can do about it, and Putin is just one messenger.

It's a miserable mindset. Pretty much everyone with that mindset is going to be dead without any descendants within a generation.

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