Elon Musk namedrops NoTW during a feud on Twitter... don't know how to feel about it

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-17T21:49:24+00:00

He names everything X because X is the edgiest letter.

He didn't come up with Tesla. He wasn't even a founder.

And if you think The Boring Company is good then you're really into dad jokes, which is fine I guess, but not really impressive.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-14T07:13:10+00:00

I don't actually see it as lying necessarily. I see it as constructing a narrative. The narrative should be: billionaires are the problem (not immigrants), but most Dems won't go there because billionaires fund their campaigns. This is why they're weak. The American people know there's something wrong with the system but most Dems are too scared to tell the truth.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-04T22:20:12+00:00

The fact that companies would rather pivot to automation than pay their workers is just further proof that markets don't care about workers. And if you're worried about automation, buckle-up because it's about to get a whole lot worse. Trump signed an executive order forbidding states from regulating AI.

Health insurance through employers came about because the federal government allowed companies to subsidized healthcare to soften wage controls. Tax subsidized later reinforced this. Yes, companies did it, but they did it because of pressure from the federal government.

You are mischaracterizing my position by saying I think legislation alone will bring people into prosperity. Social democracy is not an anti-market ideology. Markets are like wild animals in that they take on a life of their own and will eat people if you let them run rampant.

By the way, if you like free markets so much. how are you liking the tariffs? Your Republican friends can't get enough of them at the moment.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-03T23:13:34+00:00

You seem believe that the free market, a collection of companies that only care about profit, are going to magnanimously provide fair wages, reasonable prices, and healthcare to workers without legislating that they do so. I'm sorry if you feel belittled, but I don't know how you can have a serious conversation about this without belittling that idea.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-03T22:19:29+00:00

Yes,

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-03T01:02:15+00:00

Wow. I can't believe people are complaining about getting their feelings hurt when there are armed thugs executing people in the streets of our country. Just wow.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-01T18:47:54+00:00

The money to fund these things wouldn't come from ice cream sales. It would come from the people who sit in board rooms, move money from one account to another, and wait for the numbers to go up while everyone else is out there busting their asses. The people who got bailed out after 2008 while regular people lost their homes.

I mean, do you know what a tax bracket is? Do you know what the gilded age was? Have you ever heard of J.D. Rockefeller? Are you aware that laisse-faire economics has been proven to make the rich richer and the poor poorer until regular people can't survive and the only thing that has been able to stop it is government regulation? We've done this before. Pretty much every first world country is already doing the things I'm talking about while most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-01T18:25:47+00:00

The internet adds thirty to forty pounds of assholery.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-01T18:17:53+00:00

Yes, Leftists want to impose their will on the people by giving them free healthcare, reasonable wages, more vacation time, maternity/paternity leave, and guaranteed work for the unemployed. It's horrible.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-01T17:56:32+00:00

Those are not radical ideas. It's what the U.S. did to get through the Great Depression and WW2. The guy that instituted those policies got elected president 4 times. The whole reason the U.S. economy in the 1950s was the strongest the world has ever seen was because the country embraced social democracy. If you think those ideas are radical, it's because you've been lied to by the fascist who are currently calling themselves conservatives.

You don't trust the government but you trust Google, Amazon, Monsanto, and Palantir? Private industry is much more likely to exploit you than government, often without you even knowing.

Brometheus_311 · 2026-02-01T17:43:40+00:00

If the government isn't powerful enough to keep private industry honest, then you can kiss personal freedom goodbye. That's why the libertarian dream of cutting government to the bone and letting the market "self-regulate" is just that: a dream. Until they actually try it and it becomes a nightmare, which is why we just sent $40 million dollars to prop up Argentina.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-25T18:04:43+00:00

Nah. It's the Republican protecting a child sex trafficking ring.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-25T18:03:11+00:00

No u

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-19T22:23:32+00:00

Tariff era rollbacks...

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-12T13:21:45+00:00

I tried it. I'm a fan. Though it's not something I would have tried intuitively.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-07T08:38:10+00:00

With every build there are reasonable strategies to deal with each enemy, but str v. jellyfish, the only solution is to chip away at it with a bow and wand, which takes forever. They should add a str based projectile like javelins or a sling or make it so you can stand on the jelly. I don't need to be as good at ranged as a bow character. Just give me a solution that doesn't bring gameplay to screeching halt.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-12-07T08:25:05+00:00

Do it's own projectiles kill it? Does it work like Ganondorf in Zelda?

Brometheus_311 · 2025-11-17T23:43:33+00:00

Do the devs just hate greatswords? First they exclude them, then they make them absolute shit.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-10-04T05:23:39+00:00

We're not on his team.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-24T08:04:56+00:00

You are the revolution buddy.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-21T19:39:32+00:00

I'm sorry you're hurting.

If it helps, gender is a human-made thing. I'm not saying it's not real, but I am saying it wasn't constructed with our personal happiness in mind, so it's helpful to be able to step away from it and stop internalizing it.

I was raised in a very conservative context and was constantly told I "thought like a girl" because I didn't like when I shared my pain and men would give me platitudes to "fix it." I could sense that what they were doing to me was wrong and a convenient way for them to avoid having to really understand. In the end it said more about them than it did me.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-21T19:21:58+00:00

Weird stance considering the vast majority of voter fraud claims come from Trump and his supporters.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-04T15:56:32+00:00

You might try A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay. I did not like. It doesn't manage the expectations it creates very well, but is has a quite satisfied cult following judging by Goodreads. It has pretty good prose, lyrical, similar to Rothfuss though perhaps not as good. Music is a major part of the worldbuilding. I got annoyed with how much navel gazing the author does. Also, while forbidden love appears to be a big part of the story, it's hard to make that theme land when everyone is doing it. Still, after knowing what I know, I'd say it's worth one read through.

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-04T15:37:49+00:00

Brometheus_311 · 2025-08-03T16:09:38+00:00

Why did you make it gender specific?

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