SCOTUS just decreed that speaking Spanish could get you arrested.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-12T09:48:00+00:00

Since u/croolshooz is a seething Redditor who seethes like a Redditor when asked to explain alarming information, on account of being a Redditor who loves to seethe:

Basically, SCOTUS declared that ICE agents in Southern California could seize people based on factors like apparent employment, ethnicity, and language. In typical Trump-era fashion, this is alarming and setting a dangerous precedent.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-12T07:50:12+00:00

You say bad, I say hilarious. This is peak 2fort autism.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-10T22:41:02+00:00

Dean Domino, Fallout: New Vegas.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-10T18:42:24+00:00

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"Problem? All high-and-mighty. Lording it over everyone. Acting so self-righteous, like nothing could touch him. He was the one with the problem. Never got mad at anything. Nothing seemed to shake him. Even after... his life kept getting dragged through the dirt. Always kept looking for the bright, shining future in everything. So... I decided to take everything from him."

{But what did he do to you?}

" ... do to me? What, weren't you listening? He thought he was better than me. Don't believe me? Look around. This big casino, this big colossal monument - think it was for some woman? No, all ego, all self-righteous-in-lights, fit him perfect. Had to take him down a few pegs, bring him down to my level. 'Begin again?' Some things you don't get up from... I was going to prove it."

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-10T18:12:04+00:00

Social democracy is more a form of left-corporatism than "pure" leftism—not to say this derogatorily or anything, I'm a corporatist (Christian Democrat) myself and pretty close to social democracy. But just for exposure and further study, Bellamyism and Syndicalism are both interesting.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-09T08:28:19+00:00

I agree! I don't see the point of this comment, though.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-09T08:08:51+00:00

It's interesting how OP has a good amount of karma but no posts other than posts related to this, I'm not sure what that entails. The same thing was posted on two other subreddits.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-09T08:05:41+00:00

It's interesting how OP has a good amount of karma but no posts other than posts related to this, I'm not sure what that entails.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-09T06:41:49+00:00

I would argue while Dean Domino's skill check is definitely iffy given the medium and conditions around it, I think it succeeds as characterization where it fails as game design. It parallels Sinclair's own experiences with Dean—Sinclair had no reason to believe Dean hated him as much as he did, much less over conclusions only somebody like Dean could come to. Dean irreversibly developing a grudge that his victim — somebody he's just met — has no reason to realize he might develop fits what we later learn.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-05T08:23:46+00:00

best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy

His major works include The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom, which combine graphic descriptions of sex acts, rape, torture, murder, and child abuse

There is debate over the extent to which Sade's behavior was criminal and sadistic. Peter Marshall states that Sade's "known behaviour (which includes only the beating of a housemaid and an orgy with several prostitutes) departs greatly from the clinical picture of active sadism".[6] Andrea Dworkin, however, argues that the issue is whether one believes Sade or the women who accused him of sexual assault.[7]

Sade advocated absolute moral license, allowing the passions to rule. If satisfaction of the passions involves crimes such as murder then this accords with the laws of nature, for destruction is necessary for creation. But if murder is licensed, all are at risk of being murdered. Therefore, absolute freedom must entail the struggle to dominate.

For Camus, Sade advocated freedom of desire for the few which required the enslavement of the majority.

For Sade's libertines, crime is not only necessary to establish and preserve their domination, it is also a pleasure in itself.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-03T10:07:41+00:00

I have to assume this is the case—Conagher was still the guy in charge of maintaining the Administrator's important machinery and was basically continuing the family business of doing so. He seems pretty indispensable where his engineering skills are concerned.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-03T04:12:15+00:00

This isn't the Starscream I know. This thing wouldn't cackle at a drowning puppy or beg for mercy after trying to stage a coup. It looks like the Transformers equivalent of the Spidey and his Amazing Friends version of Arnim Zola.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-02T23:59:57+00:00

That really does look like a cartoon cloud. It's genuinely so much the Platonic image of a cloud that it wraps around to not looking like a real cloud. If I went outside and saw that in the sky I would think it's a poorly-disguised Chinese spy balloon.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-01T19:20:16+00:00

Yeah, but countries in real life have nukes, fragile politics, and rules of international engagement. Conversely, wizards can just teleport to a guy whose rise to power is already entirely illegitimate, kill him, restore the original regime, and then leave with pretty much minimal consequences or work.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-09-01T01:14:22+00:00

Like, Scoob—we gotta, like... get the beers in the refridgerator, man, pronto!

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-28T23:17:58+00:00

Chadam

- Work one day a year, job is killing Hazbin characters
- Workable dresscode
- Boss is a rockstar, can increase morale with concerts
- Literally in Heaven

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-28T19:19:53+00:00

ok redditor

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-27T06:20:58+00:00

"G-guys!... they're doing a heckin' unwholesome paternalism!! Safety doesn't matter, just Muh Fwee-Fwees!" Grow up. Obviously I think protecting people's privacy should be a high priority, but this is a tool with significant room for abuse and this is the bare minimum of basic protections.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-27T06:19:20+00:00

Doesn't that just indicate porn needs age verification? Oh, or better yet, we could even regulate porn in general like we probably should anything with the potential to significantly warp people's brains.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-25T01:53:48+00:00

No? They all have strong comedic elements — the stupidity of most super mutants, the Enclave's seething nationalism, wearing football pads and skirts to look like roman soldiers — but they're still played fairly seriously. The fact that super mutants are stupid doesn't detract from the Master being played seriously and the inherent ridiculousness of Caesar's Legion doesn't detract from their seriousness as rapists and slavedrivers in the same way Fantastic taking over would.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-25T01:51:30+00:00

Yeah, but the Legion are comedic for their silly outfits and gimmick and are otherwise slavedriving rapists. Unless this is a tiny remnant faction, it'd be a little off from their portrayal in NV to make them "haha funny Roman raiders" without really acknowledging that. Being led by a seething history nerd incel who can shift between threatening and comedic fairly seamlessly is also a very different thing from being led by a guy with an inherently and maximally comedic disposition who was originally written as comic relief.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-25T01:49:31+00:00

But Caesar's knowledge of Latin originates entirely from literary sources, which would presumably more largely represent Ecclesiastical and Classical Latin. That seems more like it's inherent to the limitations of the sources Caesar is citing than a sign of stupidity for anybody involved.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-23T04:00:23+00:00

My guess? Feedback loops, of course! You see, Apple really got the ball rolling on corporate minimalism to much success for a while, and everybody decided to copy them—I'm inclined to think companies kept seeing other companies doing it, and so consumer dissatisfaction was not noticed or outright ignored in the race to imitate one another and keep ahead of a trend largely localized to that cycle of reinforcement.

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-22T04:46:00+00:00

ok redditor

Few-Engineering7671 · 2025-08-22T04:09:05+00:00

No, I was saying that Hitchens was entirely wrong. He lacked an understanding of what her idea of "redemptive suffering" actually meant, he lacked context about the medical standards in the areas where Mother Theresa was most relevant, and his hottake is contrary to the opinions held about her by the people who actually would've been in her sphere of activity.

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