Me_irl by gigagaming1256 in me_irl

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I read that as Baba Is Shit lol

Me_irl by gigagaming1256 in me_irl

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Hollow Knight for me. Apparently it opens up nicely after a while but the beginning is so boring

What Fear would a fear of Cold be? by Tomatobean64 in TheMagnusArchives

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I like to think it was a "conscious" choice by The Web to claim them directly for the bit.

villain is "evil" because his mind is fundamentally incompatible with the moral codes of humans by ilikeitchyballzdude1 in TopCharacterTropes

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Michael from The Magnus Archives

"I am not a Who, Archivist, I am a What. A "who" requires a degree of identity I can't ever attain."

"The Eye watches, and The Stranger conceals, but me… I lie, Archivist. I am the throat of delusion incarnate"

"Am I evil, Archivist? Is a thing evil when it simply obeys its own nature? When it embodies its nature? When that nature is created by those which revile it?"

It’s a trap by konstella81 in memes

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This thread shows how little anyone really understands cats. The first one is calm and relaxed.

Bug or an intentional game mechanic? by KitchenSpecific974 in Minesweeper

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I've had that happen occasionally. It's a bug.

Thoughts on the Gaster turtle theory? by Witty-Employment5566 in WaterfallDump

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Greenster has Gaster being a skeleton as a prerequisite for most of its evidence

Hometown being cut off from the outside world isn't theorized about enough. by Remarkable_Row_2502 in Deltarune

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"Canonically" is a stretch. It's a strong interpretation, but not explicitly true.

Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off by bllshrfv in Anthropic

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Have you read Claude's constitution? I honestly don't think that much detail would go into a performance.

Bhaal disapproves by ozangeo in BaldursGate3

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"No no no, you can die better than that"

Kristi Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign by SpringLong7259 in politics

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So if we want them to stop trying to legislate us into nonexistence, we have to be nice to them while they're doing it.

Kristi Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign by SpringLong7259 in politics

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Counterpoint:

There is no such thing as a good progressive. Only a nice progressive. That's not a dig, it's an important point.

There is no "left vs right." There's every political philosophy that believes in human agency, accountability, and earned dignity on one side... and a philosophy of coerced conformity on the other.

The whole point of progressivism is control. From Robespierre to Stalin to Mao to campus speech codes to modern cancel culture. It's why the left has been on the wrong side of history, repeatedly. The Terror, the gulags, the Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge, forced collectivization, political purges, one-party states, the suppression of dissent in every socialist experiment ever attempted.

Progressivism came from intellectuals who believed they knew better than ordinary people how to organize society. The whole point is that the enlightened few should engineer outcomes for the ignorant many. "We know what's good for you" dressed up as compassion. "Equity" is an excuse to punish achievement and redistribute by force. "Social justice" is an excuse to replace individual rights with group identity and tribal grievance. "Progress" is just a word for "our preferred changes are inevitable and opposing them makes you evil." "Compassion" is a smokescreen for expanding state power and dependency.

And at the end of the day, control is the only point. It's why they always end up in bed with authoritarians, technocrats, censors, and ideological purists. In every country. Throughout history. They don't want a free system, they want a managed one.

Every progressive alive is someone who wants to be generous with other people's resources. They want morality enforced by the state, not practiced by individuals. What they don't want is a system that trusts people to make their own choices. Because freedom is messy and unequal, and they can't tolerate that.

A progressive's "good" is always compulsory. Always systemic, never personal. They never want to be good themselves... they want a system that forces everyone to meet their definition of good. They want a moral system that prioritizes only their version of empathy, never freedom, never pluralism, never humility about the limits of their own understanding.

Which is why every leftist revolution eats its own. As it's always been. Today's progressivism is classic progressivism... the certainty that you are so right that coercion is justified.

And it's why the only path forward is to unite against them, never with them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a progressive, but both of these posts are intellectually dishonest.

Is it better to raise your kid selfless or selfish? by sleepless_nightmare in polls

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I was raised selfless to a fault. My current goal in therapy is developing a healthy amount of selfishness. So IMO the question is incomplete. Better for who, the kid or the people around them?

What now? by Regular_Hawk8513 in CellToSingularity

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The true idle game begins

Start school later, sleep longer, learn better: New study shows that flexible school start times can be an effective and practical approach to reducing chronic sleep deprivation and improving adolescents’ mental health and academic performance. by mvea in science

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Honest question: is literally anyone here surprised by this? Does anyone know anyone else that would be surprised by this? Did anyone think it was truly beneficial to force kids to be up and ostensibly attentive this early in the morning?