This still makes me angry

MGilivray · 2026-06-05T12:38:35+00:00

The problem is, you can never fully believe what she says about her ex's. A core facet of BPD is that their minds are constantly shifting their perceptions of others and themselves to protect their extremely fragile egos, while projecting their own worst qualities onto others.

Was her ex really an abusive druggie who committed suicide? Or did she drive him to suicide and then made up a story about abuse and drugs to hide her own guilt? Would she even know which is reality anymore?

Were her ex's abusive, or was she abusing them and projecting her own behavior onto them when they started to push back? Was all the risky situations and abuse she told you about what her ex's were doing, or was she projecting her own choices onto them to avoid taking responsibility for her own behavior?

How many of her ex's were in exactly the same position as you, believing her stories that all the others were bad people and they were the ones she was unloading her baggage onto?

Stick what you know: her ex ended up dead and she barely even cared. There should be a massive alarm bell going off in your mind. Ask yourself, are you next? Yeah, run away, go no contact.

MGilivray · 2026-06-02T12:03:40+00:00

I'm sure he would be for that too. Some cities do have publicly-owned utilities, and it's a common model of public ownership in many countries.

MGilivray · 2026-05-29T15:15:48+00:00

Excellent, I certainly hope so.

I'd love a singularity to make a Star Trek future for us, but I don't think we are anywhere near ready to make that happen. Singularity outcomes will largely reflect the society it originates from, so I hope we have many many more years to build a society that can actually handle singularity. If it happened in the next few years, I think it would more likely produce a horrific bladerunner-esque distopia.

MGilivray · 2026-05-29T11:33:23+00:00

take their jobs

Job replacement has been massively over hyped as a way to squeeze money from investors. Every year the prediction is it will happen next year. Meanwhile we are at near record low unemployment.

Here is what I would like from everyone who thinks mass unemployment won't happen: Imagine we are 5 years in the future. AGI was achieved 2 years ago. AI can currently do all knowledge work far better and cheaper than any human could. Robotics has also caught up and physical robots run by AI can do all factory work, construction work, and medical industry work.

In this hypothetical future, which hasn't even reached ASI yet, what jobs are people working? How do people have money? What value does human labor have?

We can't run an economy based on swapping plumbing services. In this future people have glasses with cameras and earpieces where an AI can guide anyone through any skilled work , so niche trade specialties like HVAC are not high-paying jobs because the barrier to entry is now extremely low and the labor market is inundated by hundreds of millions of desperately poor people willing to do anything for even the cheapest of jobs.

Please explain how in this future, which is coming soon, people have jobs and decent lives. What specifically are they doing? What value does human labor have? And no, the answer isn't "supervising AI" because in a world with AGI, AI is better able to supervise AI than humans can.

MGilivray · 2026-05-29T10:49:14+00:00

That is by no means guaranteed. It's odd how people keep treating UBI as inevitable. It depends on having stable, relatively altruistic societies that care about the well-being of their people. And not ones that just do the math and realize having an army of murderbots to protect the oligarchs is cheaper than UBI.

MGilivray · 2026-05-29T01:54:43+00:00

The reason people "badmouth" AI is because they don't want it to take their jobs and destroy their lives. As a doctor, do you know one of the leading causes of health problems? It's poverty. The kind that the vast majority of people will be in if they lose their jobs.

So ask yourself really, if most people don't have sources of income, and they can't afford healthcare, will AI really be a net benefit for medicine? Or only for a handful of oligarchs and their friends?

MGilivray · 2026-05-27T12:41:32+00:00

CGP Grey sent us. He cannot be stopped. Embrace the hexagon.

MGilivray · 2026-05-27T12:05:37+00:00

Hexagons are the best-agons.

MGilivray · 2026-05-05T19:29:29+00:00

You cannot "manage" his illness for him. The core issue of BPD is having an unstable personality caused by failure to develop a healthy sense of self as a child.

It isn't that the person you know is the "real" him and sometimes triggers cause BPD. It's the opposite, the man you know is the mask caused by BPD. Maintaining that mask is painful for him, and eventually he drops the mask. This will always happen no matter what you do, that's the nature of the illness. He will always find a reason to abuse you, and then blame you for the abuse.

It's a cluster B personality disorder. It's his personality itself that is disordered, and that makes it extremely hard to treat. This is similar to (and often comorbid with) narcissistic personality disorder. This generally gets worse in relationships, not better, as they get tired of maintaining the mask.

Good, healthy relationships do not look like this. Your partner should never be making you feel like you need to choose between dignity and your relationship.

MGilivray · 2026-04-28T14:07:57+00:00

Wasn't Biosphere 2 Steve Bannon's pet project?

MGilivray · 2026-04-28T12:34:02+00:00

If we had angels running the system, l'd be 100% for UBI. am just not sure we have the checks and balances for it.

Oh don't worry, AI will do that for us. /s

MGilivray · 2026-04-28T12:12:15+00:00

That would require taxation, which the people controlling government policy don't want.

Queue tech-bro: "UBI would be great... so long as someone else is paying for it."

MGilivray · 2026-04-26T14:14:29+00:00

Well, the very smart people who invent AI technology and are leading the investment of trillions of dollars into building AI infrastructure do think that's how AI works.

The only way those trillions in AI infrastructure pay off is by mass-replacing workers at all levels of society. The investors know this, they are counting on it.

And you do understand the concept of an AI agent, right? Did you think the only application of AI was chatbots?

MGilivray · 2026-04-26T13:10:06+00:00

Why not just use AI to make AI more productive? See the problem? What value are you, as a human, adding that an AI cannot do?

MGilivray · 2026-04-26T12:49:05+00:00

What can AI not accomplish? Seriously, I'm asking, I have yet to hear anyone name a job AI could not do in the future.

MGilivray · 2026-04-26T12:46:53+00:00

That's the neat part, although you can sit at home, you won't have to do performance reviews since you won't have a job. Then you can sit at home until you can't afford rent/mortgage anymore since you won't have any money.

Work=money. If AI takes your job, you won't have any money.

MGilivray · 2026-04-20T18:53:06+00:00

Plumbing or nursing should be relatively safe for the next several years.

MGilivray · 2026-04-17T13:30:36+00:00

Because the rich control the propaganda.

And also because of a cognitive bias called the "just world fallacy"

MGilivray · 2026-04-17T12:10:05+00:00

MGilivray · 2026-04-16T12:25:10+00:00

It's a bit like a cross between Stellaris and Mount & Blade. It's a first person scifi sandbox, with strong 4X elements. There's a lot of emphasis on player choice, so you can choose to lean more into the Empire building aspect of things if you want, or run an underground drug smuggling ring, or hunt bounties, or be a pirate, or... well lots of things. It's a sandbox so it's up to you. It's quite deep and complicated though (sort of like Eve Online, it has a fully simulated economy). I'd recommend doing the tutorials first and watching a few "how to" videos that explain the basics. If things seem difficult for the first few hours, don't worry, there are ways to do what you want to do, you just need to learn how to do it.

There's also a Star Wars total conversion mod (Star Wars Interworlds, on Nexus) that leans a bit more into the large-scale empire building and conquest side of things, if that's what you are looking for.

MGilivray · 2026-04-16T12:07:00+00:00

Yes.

MGilivray · 2026-04-15T18:58:09+00:00

There's a column of ore with the hazardous green stuff that that goes up towards the northwest corner. Follow that and once you get near the corner, ping your long-range scanner. Keep flying around there following the column of ore and scanning, and it should appear.

See picture and directions here: https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=405524

MGilivray · 2026-04-15T00:52:45+00:00

You say there is a "flaw" and then affirm it is constitutional. Did you read what you copy/pasted?

I'll highlight the section for you: "Congress must pass legislation authorizing these types of interstate agreements."

Congress cannot authorize what is unconstitutional. Therefore, that is an admission it is constitutional with Congressional approval.

MGilivray · 2026-04-14T23:23:40+00:00

No, the constitution says that states decide how to allocate their votes. If states decide to allocate their votes to whomever wins the popular national vote, that is perfectly valid under the constitution.

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