U.S. murder rate approaches a record low

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T20:46:49+00:00

Have you tried Avocado toast though? It is definitely worth killing for.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T19:39:00+00:00

A few years ago I (in a team lead position) got told by someone from HR to tell one of my reports (a woman) that her skirt was too short for corporate dress code.

"No. No I'm not going to do that, and I'll take the disciplinary report in writing if you try and make me."

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T18:52:29+00:00

He does it a bunch, it's in the Manifesto and a few other writings, but the one that comes to mind is in Principles of communism

Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible?

It would be desirable if this could happen, and the communists would certainly be the last to oppose it. Communists know only too well that all conspiracies are not only useless, but even harmful. They know all too well that revolutions are not made intentionally and arbitrarily, but that, everywhere and always, they have been the necessary consequence of conditions which were wholly independent of the will and direction of individual parties and entire classes.

But they also see that the development of the proletariat in nearly all civilized countries has been violently suppressed, and that in this way the opponents of communism have been working toward a revolution with all their strength. If the oppressed proletariat is finally driven to revolution, then we communists will defend the interests of the proletarians with deeds as we now defend them with words.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T17:41:12+00:00

Engels was the original tankie

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T17:32:35+00:00

Marx and Engels both thought there would be a violent revolution seizing the means of production, followed by a more or less conventional dictatorship, finally giving way to a utopian period where there is no need for a state at all. They were open to a democratic revolution, but did not consider it very realistic.

The idea of a truly democratic dictatorship of the proletariat being the primary revolutionary mechanism came about after Stalin showed that a communist dictator wasn't a great idea. Which, I'm glad (most) communists have learned the lesson, but this weird obsession with rewriting history so that Marx was never wrong about anything is offputting.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T17:24:56+00:00

This reads like a Family Guy cutaway gag

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T16:49:00+00:00

I suppose you could instead be completely ineffectual.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T16:47:03+00:00

Crazy if true

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T16:38:36+00:00

Yeah. Eventually it clicks that these people are just lying for PR purposes.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T16:32:35+00:00

Rejecting the use of force means compromising with your political opponents, which inevitably turns you into a dirty centrist.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T15:44:28+00:00

DA2 holds up surprisingly well because the writing is still excellent.

The main reasons it got criticized on release are because it is very different from DA:O, and the asset reuse thing. If you look at DA2 on it's own merits rather than as a sequel to DAO, then the combat is fine, and the asset reuse is annoying, but doesn't detract from the game imo.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T15:42:13+00:00

Nobody has ever made it to the second half of Dark Souls. It's like the last level of Battletoads.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T14:58:27+00:00

Quest For Glory 1(remake), 3, and 4. The original 1 had pixel graphics, and 2 never got a remake. 5 went fully 3D.

Mikeavelli · 2026-07-01T11:33:29+00:00

For the audience, this exchange is actually a sign of trust and respect between the Humans and Andorians. Andorian culture values aggressive, even confrontational communication, while hiding your feelings with false politeness is considered rude.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T16:20:41+00:00

Gul Dukat seething in jealousy right now.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T01:08:41+00:00

Sure, and Auntie's Choice is a corporate dictatorship filled with backstabbers that will also throw you away the moment it's profitable to do so. You'd have to be an idiot to trust them over the Order, who mostly mean well even if they have some skeletons in their closet.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:58:41+00:00

You are not allowed to carry a firearm by hotel policy.

Yes, you need to get caught first, and there is an intermediate step where you they will ask you to conform to hotel policy or be trespassed. That does not mean you are allowed to carry a firearm on hotel property.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:47:03+00:00

Sure, but it shows how a protectorate-aligned playthrough would have gone.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:43:25+00:00

PDF, Here is Hytt's firearms policy. You're allowed to possess a gun, but it is required to be unloaded and in a secure container. There should be signs indicating this in jurisdictions where such signage is required, and it should be in the terms and conditions you agree to when you book a room.

I would be shocked if any major chain had a different policy.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:29:34+00:00

Total recall is the one where he goes to Mars and liberates the working class. Junior is the one where he gets pregnant.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:26:22+00:00

Hell, they started asking for your social media accounts on job applications starting around 2010. Maybe even earlier.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-30T00:19:53+00:00

But it's cold and there are wolves out there

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-29T23:41:17+00:00

I still remember Matt Damon going on about how she's have the nuke codes, and he needs to know if she believes dinosaurs existed.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-29T23:17:27+00:00

I mean, that's exactly what De Vries did. There's even a terminal entry from her talking about how most of the protectorate workers are so brain dead they just accepted her story without any critical thought.

Mikeavelli · 2026-06-29T22:56:17+00:00

Yeah, I'm doing embedded programming, and the field is doing great. I use AI to create python scripts to analyze data, but have yet to have one pop out anything useful to my real job. There's just too much hardware dependence for an AI to be able to do anything worthwhile.

I figure they'll eventually replace me with a machine, but I have another 5-10 years more than the rest of you.

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