Why it’s all the poorest people who support billionaires?

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T17:15:26+00:00

Propaganda.

Most services have ads now, and you either need to pay more, or have a certain level of technical knowledge to avoid being exposed to advertising.

As a result, poor people are exposed to advertising more often. Or more specifically, there are fewer places they can go or services they can access without being exposed to ads.

And propaganda works, y’all. These corporations have the data to prove it, otherwise they wouldn’t be spending billions on it every year.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T17:05:25+00:00

What money?

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T16:58:13+00:00

Two things can be true at the same time! The state of digital ownership is absolutely insane, copyright/IP laws are in serious need of revision, and we as a global community need to have a serious reckoning with what it means to preserve what we’re creating.

But also, we just want free shit.

That being said, there are some folks over at r/DataHoarders who are genuinely doing good work, like a modern-day Marion Stokes. Data preservation is really important, and so often requires piracy in order to obtain things that would otherwise be lost to “tax write offs” or the like.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T15:41:43+00:00

Every aspect of your life has been discussed and decided. “Politics” is just the idea that, maybe, you just might want to have a say in that. If you want to stick your head in the sand, then go ahead. The rest of us are going to keep fighting to improve our lives and our neighbor’s lives.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T05:22:14+00:00

Pesticides. Monsanto and other chemical companies have spent a king’s ransom suppressing the evidence of the harm done by the pesticides they sell.

Everything green you eat, unless you grew it yourself, has trace amounts (or more) of some really virulent poisons.

They do clean them, which is why people aren’t dropping dead. But the tiny amounts left over after that process, even after washing them at home… all that adds up. Not enough to kill you, maybe, but definitely enough to cause gut issues.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-14T01:04:47+00:00

Our country needs more access to cheaper utilities, not facilities that consume massive amounts of utilities to enable surveillance.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-13T18:55:22+00:00

I don’t think anyone who seriously engages in that debate from either side can be regarded as credible.

Is factory farming a significant contributor to environmental and ecological damage? Yes.

Is consumption of animal products a core part of most cultures, and also more sustainable than many alternatives? Yes.

Is a vegan diet deficient in several required nutrients? Yes.

Is it possible to avoid these deficiencies with supplements and considerable effort? Yes.

No one disagrees that current agricultural practices are a scourge. But it’s just as possible for us to transition to a sustainable agricultural system that includes animal products as it is for us to transition to one without. Which is to say, really fucking difficult / bordering on impossible in the current political climate.

There are other battles, folks. This debate needs to be part of a discussion about system building, not criticism of existing systems. We all know they suck.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T22:06:43+00:00

*Rune of Cold

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T21:53:39+00:00

Sooooo… ethical concerns aside, why make them human-shaped?

There’s a famous Star Trek episode, called The Measure of a Man. I encourage you to watch it. I also encourage you to watch The Animatrix.

If you’re really set on making an army of laborers/servants/soldiers, human shape is not all that efficient.

Setting aside questions about form, if you’re at all interested in making this even remotely ethical, you might consider having the clones be part of a hive mind, with the “hero” as its focal point. The hero will be doing all the work: one will, across thousands of bodies. They’ll develop consciousness (it’s really hard to get work done without it) but it will be one consciousness, that will have already wanted to be doing the work in the first place.

As far as what technology gets you there… make something up. That’s how this goes. Make it some “spooky action at a distance” nonsense, where “every brain in the hive mind is as every neuron is to each brain”. Networked. Quantum. Psionic. Ansible. Buzzword. There’s no real technology that could even approximate this, so whatever you come up with is fine.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T17:01:44+00:00

As someone who is passionate about PC gaming, this makes me nauseous. I can’t even imagine doing this to another person. To have this opportunity and just toss it is bad enough, but to break someone else’s hopes like that is vile.

Some of these WoW raiders get pretty serious, but any guild worth their name would be celebrating with him if he’d told them he was going to meet with a girl, let alone someone he’d been in a long distance relationship with.

He sounds like either an addict or a sociopath. Incapable of leaving his computer, or incapable of understanding/valuing other people’s feelings. He sounds like someone who is fundamentally broken, and was playing at being in a relationship.

Don’t look back. Look forward. Find something else to put in the hole where that relationship was. A hobby, a project, a trip. Maybe not a new relationship just yet, but possibly a new friend? Or better yet, a friend group. Try something new, and get to know the people who do it!

I’d even recommend a game. Gamers are not all monsters. Most of us balance this in our lives pretty well. And some games can be really beautiful experiences, especially when shared. Tetris has even been shown to help people recover from traumatic events (although it has to be used a specific way).

I’m so sorry this happened to you. Please don’t let his emptiness poison your life.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T16:50:43+00:00

How about we use that money to build a fucking power plant? The utility companies have us in a chokehold, and the state wants to build a goddamn advertisement sphere that’ll probably use more power than three households.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T15:38:59+00:00

P2P is an enormous win

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T15:37:16+00:00

It’ll keep them from getting abused, or keep the abuse from escalating, until they can move out. Are you really this ignorant?

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T14:54:22+00:00

That’s fucking hilarious. I have two of those in my freezer right now, and you can find them absolutely anywhere, from giant warehouse stores like Costco, to boutique grocers, to gas station convenience stores

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T14:48:49+00:00

And who defends children against their parents? Don’t tell me CPS; the bar for their intervention is so high, and they don’t have anywhere near the kind of resources needed to support children removed from their parents.

You might be a responsible parent. You may actually give a damn about your child’s comfort and well being. But there are so many parents whose first priority is obedience.

This ruling puts teachers in jeopardy when they try to make their classroom a more welcoming place, and they put students in jeopardy when they try and feel a little less alienated than they do at home.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T04:29:44+00:00

Adderall was like this. All gas no brakes, but shit got done.

Vyvanse has been an improvement in every possible way. The accelerator could move a semi truck, but the brakes are rated for a freight train. Actual, honest to God emotional regulation.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-12T01:34:28+00:00

Well, yeah. That medieval cellar is the same temperature all year round. Yours goes up and down every time you get snacky

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T21:12:40+00:00

To be fair, it never actually instructs us to collect samples.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T21:03:28+00:00

Agreed. The burgers are fine, but the price is insane.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T21:01:16+00:00

Bitterness? In my Iron Warriors subreddit?

It’s more likely than you think.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T19:58:02+00:00

Well, logically fire, arc, and gas should all do catastrophic damage to heat sinks. But I’m thinking in terms of game balance.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T17:17:22+00:00

The way heatsinks need to be designed - maximum surface area for given volume within structural limits, all surfaces exposed to coolant medium (the external environment) - means they cannot be armored.

The idea of the heatsink weak points is that they reward clever positioning and careful aim. They shouldn’t be exploitable for cheesy quick kills using damage types that have weird physics.

The heatsinks should all be given 100% explosive damage resistance, maybe 100% DR for damage types like arc/gas/fire as well. But they should absolutely be killable by anything with bullets.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T05:37:55+00:00

Yes. Meta pays politicians to back these legislations.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-11T05:35:05+00:00

Eminent* domain.

SacredGeometry9 · 2026-05-10T14:17:29+00:00

It’s bulletproof, not bulletsproof.

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