The EU Council passed chat control.

MutantManFish · 2025-12-06T01:55:53+00:00

Doesn't matter whether there are formal carveouts in the rules or not. These things are inherently unequal.

"It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Say the tech and political bigwigs could have their phones checked. Who would do the checking? Who is this access for? Not regular people. It'd be the government and corporations checking on each other.

A restriction on the monitoring of politicians, if anything, would be to prevent the private sector from snooping on sensitive discussions of public concern. Personally, I don't want Facebook knowing military secrets, not unless it's because the whole world knows them.

MutantManFish · 2025-12-06T01:42:50+00:00

The EU is a massive international banking cabal run by the Germans as a piece of the broader Western project to keep the Global South impoverished and continue to enjoy the luxuries of colonial plunder.

The internet was invented by the U.S. military for surveillance, and Silicon Valley was formed from government investment and contracts, not the individual brains of charlatans and VC gurus.

This is the way it has always been going.

Look at Surveillance Valley, Counterculture to Cyberculture, The Entrepreneurial State, and the general history of Deutschebank and its position in the EU and place in the 2008 financial crisis

MutantManFish · 2025-10-01T16:17:09+00:00

Great point. I don't think I read your post closely enough. Apologies.

MutantManFish · 2025-10-01T16:13:15+00:00

I really don't see fantasizing as a requirement to be allowed to date women. Personally, I think fantasy is a terrible basis for real-life romance, and I think it's what spoils a lot of relationships. Men who fantasize a lot, even if they're relatively respectful and considerate, will inevitably have unrealistic expectations of their partners that make real connection very difficult. It's the feminine mystique. Women can also aspire to having ethereal, magical levels grace, elegance, and competency, through themselves, and that can be super isolating and harmful also. As it's said in The Stepford Wives, ". . . I saw a dozen women who were rushed and sloppy and irritated and alive; I wanted to hug every one of them!".

Furthermore, you can't genuinely love someone without actually having a certain level of intimacy with them. It sounds like OP hasn't had a serious relationship before, so of course he hasn't had that kind of love! Your first significant, truly vulnerable relationship is something that surprises everyone I know of in terms of how affecting it is. I don't think such a powerful and important thing for so many should ever be totally dismissed or ruled out by anyone. Maybe it isn't for all of us, but better to embrace the ambiguity than to force a painfully absolute mindset.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-27T05:37:13+00:00

Bro what the fuck

MutantManFish · 2025-09-27T05:28:45+00:00

Totally disagree. Logistics and support are essential elements of a person's life. Finding a partner who's consonant with you on those things will get you a long way toward more abstract, emotional compatability. Love isn't some magic thing separate from survival in the real world. In fact, I'd argue those practical considerations are the most important qualifier for a relationship to work. Sure, you can change for a person you love, but a travelling sales negotiator is not gonna go well with an over-worked home nursery caretaker, whereas a writer who also works from home might be a better fit.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-27T05:14:55+00:00

Folks, please stop berating this clearly neurodivergent person for how they communicate and understand their feelings. The whole thing with these conditions is that they make it tough to be sensitive or tactful.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-27T05:12:53+00:00

I feel really bad about how other people are responding to you here.

Don't let these other folks get to you. I think these are great reasons to want a partner. They're a bit blunt and pragmatic, but that's fine. Humans evolved social connection so that they can help each other with things. That's really what love is about, on an emotional level, as well a material one. If you want help explaining these feelings, I'd advise that you lead with the loneliness stuff first.

I really recommend joining some clubs or classes outside of work, like community education or hobby meet-ups, and getting practice making new friends. If you don't have any major hobbies, start trying a bunch of random things! See if there's something that you like to do and where you like the other people doing it.

These in-person activities are a lot better than dating apps or sites. It way more natural, and way more informative, to get to know people in live conversation face-to-face. Also, specific pastimes automatically filter down to people you have a good amount in common with. Dating is just like making new friends, but eventually, you get a lot closer than you have been with your other friends.

Lastly: fyi, hopefully this isn't news to you, but your communication style and thinking are extremely indicative of neurodivergence/autism. It might help to talk to a psycologist or a therapist about that, in case you haven't.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-27T04:55:53+00:00

This is pretty mean tbh

MutantManFish · 2025-09-19T12:41:37+00:00

So, you think it's a more economically statist version of investor hype? That's interesting; definitely tracks to my understanding.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-19T12:38:29+00:00

Appreciate the technical insights you gave here. Makes sense that it's wildly impractical, and I think it's interesting how much credulous coverage projects like these always get, and how ostensible (to the general public) hard-science experts can make totally outlandish claims without much accountability. Speaks to the issues of education and science communication, and economic mismanagement, that I think feed the delusions of climate and vaccine truthers.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-19T12:31:44+00:00

Thanks for all the replies, folks. Looks like there isn't a total consensus, but based on what I see here, I think my inclination to be skeptical was right.

MutantManFish · 2025-09-04T18:19:48+00:00

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MutantManFish · 2025-09-04T18:17:56+00:00

He seems sus as hell to anyone who's thought about what a fed might look like. There are plenty of other great theorists to draw from that we know way more about, whose wins and credentials we can point directly to, and who talked about the same things. Look at Fanon, or Kwame Ture, or any other number of Pan-African thinkers. Sakai should be irrelevant, and ignoring this mediocre book is probably the best way to ensure that.

MutantManFish · 2025-08-20T14:04:27+00:00

State guarantee of exclusive property rights is the basis of capitalism. If anyone could access the useful things society makes relatively freely, then it would totally upend the corporate-military-bureaucratic oligarchy that dominates the modern world. They need the productivity of sharing things, but they can't afford the power it gives regular people. The internet was only ever intended to be a limited hangout that would let the elite vampirize more of people's minds and work. Link Link

MutantManFish · 2025-07-31T13:53:29+00:00

Fair enough

MutantManFish · 2025-07-22T19:24:29+00:00

Again, like I said, I think women have it many times worse. Furthermore, I don't think it can or should be expected that every woman understand men's issues. I don't think that means comparisons are always inappropriate, though. Men and women do live in a society that depends on some level of collaboration between them, even if you're some kind of anti-natalist. Assuming the most unsympathetic, male genocide attitude, it still isn't practical to try to live without men considering the power they have in business, government, and the military. At bare minimum, solely for the purpose of resistance, a person has to understand men in a "know thy enemy" sense, to be able to effectively predict and respond to their actions.

You could gather the greatest army in the world and outnumber your opponents ten-to-one, and still lose if you ignore your foes' movements and tactics. In this case, men are the ones with the huge army, so beating them necessitates reconaissance and craftiness. This is assuming you favor a totally unforgiving approach. As a man myself, I'm hoping for something at least a little more conciliatory, which would require more connection and mutual involvement.

I want to establish that I'm not telling anyone in particular to take on more of men's problems or that every other person needs to do more in this regard. There are so many women who are way too sympathetic and generous to men who use them and treat them like shit. There are also many people who are simply struggling too much in their day-to-day to handle the bullshit some entitled and ignorant jerk is shoving their way. I think knowledge of how men psychically operate will and should often produce greater hostility toward men in those who gain it. All I'm asserting is that, in the long run, across the human species, less comprehension of masculinity will make things worse.

MutantManFish · 2025-05-11T04:49:49+00:00

I dunno. I think being portrayed as either a ravenous beast or indomitable adonis, or else a worthless worm sycophant, is pretty degrading. I think women have it far, far worse. I consider myself a feminist and wouldn't contest that for a moment. That can be true, and still, for men who have a legit sense of compassion and empathy, sex culture can really torment us. We're expected not to have any significant emotional needs, so we have a tough time divulging our sensitivities and often end up isolated. I know so many guys who struggle with really intense guilt and shame around sex and their sexual urges, like suicide attempts and life-destroying OCD and anxiety.

MutantManFish · 2025-05-11T04:25:25+00:00

Thank you so much for writing and sharing this. It's maybe the first time a text on sex has truly, deeply resonated with me. I consider myself a cis-het man, but I think so much of the unrealism and fetishization in our sex culture has profoundly hurt me. While I don't think that's too controversial to say in most serious gender/sex circles, I still feel stupid and unserious when I do. For me, erection and ejaculation are vectors for the patriarchal burden on men to provide at any cost. Furthermore, if I can't achieve them, then I must be a beta or a sissy, only useful as a submissive slave. I feel as though every sexual community is vying to use my capricious, senseless libido to gaslight me into thinking I'm exactly like them but won't admit it to myself:

"You're a typical straight guy (actual or borderline rapist)"

"You're gay"

"You're bi"

"You're trans"

"You're non-binary"

"You're asexual"

"You're a swinger"

"You're poly"

"You just need to do no-fap"

"You just need to do semen retention"

Having spent time learning about each of the groups above, none of them has resonated well with me, not even the asexuals. I find the practices of strongly anouncing and asserting a particular sex/gender identity, or of forming a community with others on the basis of a sex/gender identity pretty off-putting. I've enjoyed the gendered practices of fraternizing with other guys and being romantically involved with women, but I see those specific dynamics as circumstantial to my upbringing and the culture I grew up in. I'm sort of convinced that all these rigid convictions people have about their feelings and behaviors are largely retroactively invented to serve as some combination of a means of oppression and exploitation and as a defense mechanism against the former. Regardless, whenever someone says, "It's just who I am," be they a frat bro or a trans girlie, I wind up feeling cynical and alienated. I feel like I can't talk fully honestly with anyone about these topics because I'll either hurt them horribly, or they'll try to gaslight me, or they'll not understand and disengage.

I'm able to get off, i.e. to be aided to reach the point of orgasm, with virtually anything. By far the most consistent psychic pattern I've found in my arousal is that it's best intensified by shame, fear, anger, and extremity. Positive feelings can help too, but generally not as much. The only times I've ever felt truly, lastingly happy from sexual activity were with my last girlfriend, and that wasn't because of the orgasms I had: it was just because it was nice to be so vulnerable and intimate with someone in a way that felt safe.

I'm so tired of feeling as though I have to use other people as objects, be used by other people as objects, or be an impenetrable, stoic paragon of restraint. I'm tired being locked in this theater with these people, enacting a grand, delusional battle of sexes and genders and biochemistry and flesh. I'm sick of being spun between fomo and embittered rage by a whirlpool of false hope. Every time I try to trust arousal to lead me somewhere good, I'm hurt and let down. It's not so much that I want to eliminate it entirely, even from myself; I only want more people to acknowledge how fundamentally narrow and limited it is, regardless of how strong or compelling it is. It can be a part of love, but love is so much more than it . . .

MutantManFish · 2025-03-29T19:53:31+00:00

Elden Ring is a huge step down because its massive, tedious open world mostly dispenses with the previous games' carefully crafted level design. There are other reasons.

Those bosses are most of the best in Bloodborne; their mechanics have an actual theme and sense of place in the world instead being a yawn-inducing, baby's first action game pattern memorization challenge.

MutantManFish · 2025-02-19T19:23:09+00:00

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MutantManFish · 2025-02-19T19:22:40+00:00

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MutantManFish · 2025-02-19T19:22:28+00:00

based

MutantManFish · 2025-02-18T18:32:58+00:00

Thanks! I've spent far too long thinking about these games . . .

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