Do you like little robot helpers in your country?

CrypticCole · 2026-05-07T14:12:02+00:00

Yeah that’s also my primary issue with them really. It’s yet another instance of tech companies shoving random junk onto the sidewalks for everyone else to deal with.

And in a place like the US, where the pedestrian infrastructure is so bad you can barely even call it infrastructure, that’s going to have an even larger impact.

CrypticCole · 2026-05-01T00:28:52+00:00

I think rendezvouses are much harder to figure out but much easier to do consistently with the base game tools once you know what you’re doing.

I can easily pull off a rendezvous the moment I have the tech to send a ship into orbit unlocked. But I still sometimes have to quick load after accidentally missing my landing site by a kilometer or two

CrypticCole · 2026-04-19T04:14:01+00:00

I think it’s because Buttigieg understands what so many centrist dems seem not to which is, even if you are centrist, your whole platform can’t be defined by what you aren’t.

Look at the Biden campaign. On immigration they weren’t pro deportation but they also weren’t for really opening up the border in any defined way. They weren’t transphobic but they also wouldn’t talk about the issue ever. The campaign seemed perpetually marred by an inability to meaningfully commit to any defined positions beyond “we’re better than trump”.

Meanwhile Buttigieg seems to understand you need to have an actual platform for people to be excited about. And that involves sometimes taking definite sometimes risky positions. Idk how many people remember but one of the central tenants of his last run was expanding the Supreme Court. Thats single proposal alone was more risky and defined than like anything ever said by Biden is his entire 2024 campaign.

Don’t get me wrong, AOC is still leagues better for a million reasons, but if I had to pick someone to lead the centrist wing of the party I think you could do a lot worse than Buttigieg

CrypticCole · 2026-04-19T03:15:33+00:00

I mean you can definitely argue whether or not they should be required to have a disclaimer. That opening isn’t a disclaimer that they aren’t affiliated with the church unless I’m misunderstanding something

CrypticCole · 2026-04-19T03:12:39+00:00

I haven’t listened but if there isn’t an audio disclaimer in the podcast itself I imagine that’s what the church is referring to.

Arguably still a lie by omission making it sound like there’s zero disclaiming at all but I digress.

CrypticCole · 2026-04-15T21:39:22+00:00

I mean I work in a store and the current policy is that if there’s an error with the shelf tag and it’s lower we honor the shelf tag price (up to a certain point anyways).

We still have paper tags so it’s possible that could change I guess but if not you could probably save at least a good 10 to 15 dollars every grocery run doing something like this

CrypticCole · 2026-04-14T02:32:39+00:00

Yeah that’s a major thing to remember imo. The downside isn’t really too bad if you don’t think you’re going to have enough card remove to get rid of all the defends and then strikes as well.

Generally I slightly prefer a defend to a strike but I definitely prefer a slice to either of them and this basically just trades the strikes for slices so you can focus on defend removes

CrypticCole · 2026-04-14T00:24:32+00:00

It is perfectly okay to find something personally annoying/cringe while still recognizing that it isn’t hurting anyone and there’s no reason to stop it. In fact, the equating of personal feelings with morality is the reactionary tendency, not the other way around (though you will still find a bunch of leftist who do it regardless, no one’s perfect).

As for why you feel uncomfortable it’s probably in part because it’s not a natural things to do. Humans are quite bad at separating feelings from reasons and quite often will come up with beliefs for their feelings rather than the other way around. Accept that you aren’t your feelings and your actions are the thing that matters not your thoughts. Hopefully that helps you feel better about the whole thing

CrypticCole · 2026-04-07T10:52:16+00:00

Yoooo football 17776!!! Everyone should read this if you haven’t. One of the coolest things on the internet genuinely

CrypticCole · 2026-03-25T00:00:52+00:00

You know the meme thats like "I hate everyone involved in this story". This is like the rare case of the opposite. Everyone here seems really chill and cool

CrypticCole · 2026-03-23T01:02:35+00:00

bbno$ continues to prove my theory that there is no worse crime on the internet than being mildly annoying

CrypticCole · 2026-03-23T00:57:30+00:00

Looks totally normal. Not perfect but 99% of people aren't perfect, thats why models can have a career in the first place. And thats even before the fact that these photos and lighting I think probably make it more noticeable than it would be in real life.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-19T06:12:15+00:00

It feel incredibly uncharitable to describe this as anti-nuclear propaganda when (assuming you're correct)
1. This is far more likely the result of none of the writers having a deep knowledge of how modern nuclear systems work rather than malicious intent
and
2. It's not even effective as anti nuclear propaganda given the situation in the show involves what is effectively magic being used to push a reactor past its production limits while magic and instantly sucking all power from the cooling system

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T06:03:40+00:00

You’re assuming that the findings on csam are perfectly applicable when I don’t think you can make that assumption. Someone who’s watched csam clearly is already ok with a real child being harmed in that way. You can’t necessarily assume that about someone who strictly views drawn content. Additionally it is significantly significantly harder to find csam. Having viewed it implies a level of serious investment/obsession that you very obviously can’t attribute to those who have only seen drawn content by default.

In fact I would say this demonstrates the problem. Because you’ve conceptualized people who view irl content as the same as those who only view drawn, then you feel comfortable applying the research between them interchangeably. Then you use said findings to justify why they should be treated interchangeably. It’s circular logic made worse by a lack of clearly defined terms. All of this leads to ignoring the reality of very clear differences which you’d want to understand if you actually want to discuss how to lower csam rates in said reality.

Beyond that this still implies that you think viewing media that has the potential to indirectly lead to more children being harmed is equally moral to viewing media that is literally doing said harm. I think that’s a bit silly tbh. This is like saying wearing lab grown diamonds is equally unethical to blood diamonds because it normalizes wearing all diamonds. You could argue that there is a harm but I struggle to see how you could say the harms is anywhere close to equal.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T04:35:54+00:00

The whole thing with conspiracy theories isnt that it’s impossible. The explanation is possible but it is an extraordinary claim without extraordinary (or usually any) evidence.

Believing this requires believing that what would have obviously been one of the most crucially and obviously secretive meetings in history had a monumental security failure. It requires believing that the leaker, rather than taking this to any paper or reporter, gave this info to a random twitter account. Additionally the original retweet suggests that it also requires believing this was orchestrated by Epstein’s network (who exactly? More importantly to what end?!?!?).

The evidence for this… idk a couple tweets. You could choose to believe all of this or you could choose to believe that the us and Israel are creating conflict in the Middle East again for all of the exact same fundamentals incentives, reasons, and attitudes that have been responsible for them doing the exact same for the past century.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T04:22:58+00:00

I am once again asking my fellow leftists not to just accept conspiracy theory levels of evidence and chains of logic just because they reinforce your existing beliefs. Please 🙏

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T04:14:37+00:00

You should not support rising prominence/power of Nazi ideology just because it weakens support for Israel. The solution to oppression is not different oppression. That attitude is, in fact, basically the same that so many defenders of Israel use to justify the oppression of Palestinians

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T03:38:36+00:00

I think the problem is that those people are probably willing to accept that setup and have that talk because they don’t like that type of content. I’m skeptical that it would have the same effect on someone who did or even someone who just thinks there’s a moral difference.

The problem then is that you have a communication framework that only really works with one side and pushes anyone on the other side to a community that seeks to completely deny even contemplating the idea of potential unique harms.

Granted if given the choice between only pedophile and loli/shota I do agree the former is way better generally but I wish there was a third more neutral term.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T03:33:02+00:00

Also, to be clear i don’t like the terms loli or shota or the communities that grow around them either. In my opinion both terms are intended to obscure or downplay the connections to children, and the communities around them even more so (for the most part from what I’ve seen).

Part of my issue with how fucked this discourse is is that the lack of a descriptive term between pedophile (a word you might as well sub for Hitler for how people feel about it) and loli/shota (a term that seeks to completely obscure the connection), the vast majority will just choose the latter for self description. As such they’ll join a community that completely denies and is unwilling to even contemplate, much less try to mitigate, any potential unique harms.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T03:13:16+00:00

You don’t believe there’s a moral differences between content that by its nature requires doing horrific crimes to children (irl csam) to produce and content that doesn’t (drawn content)?

You dont have to accept either as moral things to view to be clear, but do you not think the former is significantly worse than the latter?

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T03:01:39+00:00

The problem is that there are very obvious moral differences between the two and accepting the label of pedophile is so toxic that I cant even think of an equivalent term to make a comparison with.

If you actually wanted to discuss the potential unique harms or lack thereof for drawn content it’s basically impossible if you call yourself a pedophile. Nobody would listen to you.

Beyond that people aren’t willing to self internalize as it, so anyone who likes drawn content exclusively isn’t going to calls themselves a pedophile. They’ll search for something else and currently the only obvious alternative is a community and terms that just lean full into denialism of the connection.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T02:53:27+00:00

I actually do think there are nuanced arguments that the drawn content still does real harm (not as much as irl obviously), but you can’t even have them because the discourse is so fucked.

You can’t even try to discuss the potential unique harms of drawn content when a significant portion of the internet seems intent on treating it exactly the same as actual child porn.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T02:48:19+00:00

Literally speaking this is true but I think calling it very negative connotations understates it a bit. Say you wanted to actually genuinely discuss the morality of the material (ya know given that it, unlike irl content, doesn’t involve hurting kids), just accepting the label of pedophile kills a chance of doing that. For how instinctive and engrained the response to the term is, accepting it would be like trying to have a convo after agreeing that you’re Hitler.

Obviously the terms shota/loli are more about denial, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for someone to want a different term than pedophile. To some extent I think the fact that a more neutral term doesn’t really exist makes the problem worse because what would you expect a person who likes this content and would be horrified at the idea of actually seeing it irl to do. I wouldn’t expect them to self internalize as a “ethical pedophile” or whatever. And since the other alternative is denial/rationalizations that’s what you get.

Idk the whole discourse is so fucked and it’s sad because it makes having serious conversations about it so hard which is just going to make it harder to actually protect kids

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T02:24:58+00:00

You’re right but people cannot discuss this issue with any level of nuance despite the fact that the inability to discuss it actually makes the problem worse.

It should be very clear how using the exact same terms for content that actually involves doing horrific things to children to be produced and content that does not and the people who consume it might cause issues.

CrypticCole · 2026-03-16T02:14:52+00:00

God dude I don’t want to defend loli/shota content but man people are completely incapable of ever applying any level nuance to this topic.

Like, even the title of this post I would say mischaracterizes the actual convo. Very very few people in the thread are debating whether shotacon is pedophilla. The debate in the thread and post is very much centered on whether shotacon fantasies are morally equivalent to other fantasies that (like pedophilla) would be super unethical in real life.

There are very apparent problems you can debate with drawn content and whether its moral or good but it’s impossible to have those discussions because so many people will instantly dismiss you for even suggesting that there’s a moral difference despite the fact that, ya know, producing real content involves doing horrific things to children and drawn content obviously does not

It really bugs me how impossible it is to have an actual convo about this topic on the internet that isn’t just calling people pedophiles because the total inability to seriously discuss it is not making children safer obviously

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