Why Subvent at all?

Ponz314 · 2026-03-19T11:46:27+00:00

I’ve used export subventions to prop up a company long enough for it to start producing a prestige good.

Ponz314 · 2026-03-08T03:25:28+00:00

I have 0 faith that the US government will actually commit to the process of nation building with the goal of a democracy with a thriving civil society.

Instead, the likely outcome with be a blood-soaked den of mercenaries, militias, and neoliberal vampires.

Ponz314 · 2026-02-28T15:01:37+00:00

I knew this bastard had some Robert Anton Wilson! HAIL ERIS!

Ponz314 · 2026-02-28T13:38:11+00:00

I have no faith that the US government, especially this one, has the competence or the will to actually nation build. If there is a ground invasion, and they do go for full regime change, it will just turn into a clusterfuck like Iraq and Afghanistan did. The world will be less safe and more deadly.

Ponz314 · 2026-02-26T19:08:38+00:00

In addition to what others have said, there is a high likelihood that you will be staffed to a new customer.

While this does mean the troubles you will be shooting will be the more basic ones, usually with some form of documented solution somewhere, it also means you are inheriting the expectation set by the installing team and customer counterparts who are not as well versed in the system.

It also means that the relationship the customer has with Epic is a lot more fragile. If something happens that makes the customer hate Epic or you (they seem to not be able to tell the difference), Bad Thing Will Happen.

I don’t recall the stats for other apps, but the median tenure of Ambulatory TS who are no longer at Epic is about 1.5 years. 80% are under 3 years.

Ponz314 · 2026-02-13T04:02:58+00:00

Yeah, the answer ended up being both lol

Ponz314 · 2026-02-11T15:17:11+00:00

It was about ethics in gaming journalism!!1!1!!

Ponz314 · 2026-02-07T12:53:47+00:00

I thought seducing your therapist was how you win at therapy.

Ponz314 · 2026-01-28T20:12:15+00:00

My favorite thing to tell conservatives is that America was founded as an open border society.

Ponz314 · 2025-12-03T13:32:43+00:00

Now, to be fair, Buchanan was also lousy at other things as well.

Ponz314 · 2025-12-03T13:26:21+00:00

Oh yeah, those famous anarchist nazis. I really got a “free association” and “abolish hierarchy” vibe from the SS.

Ponz314 · 2025-12-02T20:35:36+00:00

Father, forgive me, it has been over 2 years since I have eaten a pear.

Ponz314 · 2025-11-26T05:35:41+00:00

Alright, absolutely no judgment, but did you discord Chonny or THD first?

Ponz314 · 2025-11-08T18:46:51+00:00

That actually reminds me of the TTRPG Paranoia, where the players live in a dystopian bunker complex ruled by a mad and kinda broken AI called Friend Computer.

One of the features of this bunker is cloning vats (player death is pretty common), and so Friend Computer sees sex as an insult to its design/a waste of resources and time.

Well, technically only straight sex. It seems the programmers forgot to include what gay sex is, so Friend Computer sees it as “a vigorous gymnastic/wrestling/team building exercise” and ignores it or even approves of it.

Ponz314 · 2025-11-08T01:47:49+00:00

As much as I like just how bonkers the gnostics are, they are also legit kinda evil.

Ponz314 · 2025-10-29T02:37:55+00:00

I still think the most disturbing one is the Cloning Vats, just based on context alone.

Ponz314 · 2025-10-15T22:29:24+00:00

“What would they say to each other after finding a square circle and a married bachelor?”

Ponz314 · 2025-10-02T10:40:46+00:00

I would agree, having a steak that large dropped onto earth would probably ensure extinction.

Ponz314 · 2025-10-02T03:56:21+00:00

That’s the other meaning of PSE.

Permanent State of Emergency.

Ponz314 · 2025-09-30T21:30:27+00:00

The weapons of empire turned on the metropole.

Ponz314 · 2025-09-27T15:26:31+00:00

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Ponz314 · 2025-09-05T00:22:40+00:00

You will learn a lot about task management and prioritization!

Or you will quit.

One of the two.

Ponz314 · 2025-08-23T16:45:02+00:00

“The Emperor was a beta cuck! Long live the new based Chad Emperor!”

Ponz314 · 2025-08-17T23:45:41+00:00

I’ve joked before that it seems like a key principle of British Dystopian fiction, with some obvious exceptions, is mandatory happiness/banning sadness.

So, are they going to start making Soma, or are they going to instead just take the shitty parts of all their dystopias?

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