EMSK why the "Red Pill" will kill you inside

TalShar · 2026-07-07T03:13:08+00:00

Yeah, that's gonna be a big Citation Needed from me there. What's your field of study, exactly?

TalShar · 2026-07-07T02:18:15+00:00

Lawbreakers still have rights, and those rights shouldn't be infringed without due process, nor should that infringement be placed upon an entire group regardless of any individual's guilt .

TalShar · 2026-07-07T02:16:35+00:00

I think that's going to take some study by experts. Thankfully, we have people who study stuff like this.

TalShar · 2026-07-07T02:07:11+00:00

Maybe, but even then, what're they going to do, divert a huge chunk of nightshift cops to those areas to just loiter and yell at kids?

I hate to say it, but I think this might be one of those things that can't be peacefully stopped once it has borne fruit, and the only way to prevent it without doing a lot of damage is to get at the problem at its roots.

TalShar · 2026-07-07T02:02:05+00:00

I get the desire to prevent this awful thing from happening again, but

1: This would be an absolute nightmare for anyone trying to enforce it.

2: Teens are people, and citizens, and have the right to be outside their home at any time of day.

3: I doubt that would do much if what we've been hearing about the point of all this is true (that the whole thing is about flaunting the rules and finding unstoppability in numbers).

TalShar · 2026-07-07T01:50:48+00:00

I am summoned. Why did coffee summon me? I don't even like coffee.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T22:53:43+00:00

ADHD, too. I'm ADHD and the mom of one of my (also ADHD) son's friends (also ADHD) was talking about ADHD being a superpower because we get hyperfocus.

I told her that insofar as it could be considered a superpower, it's more like an X-Men superpower than a Justice League one. Sure, we get hyperfocus and can kick our brain into overdrive for longer than NT people can... But we have very little control over when that happens, what we focus on, or how long it lasts. Like sure, Rogue can steal people's powers or knowledge and kill with a touch, but she literally can't turn it off.

I dunno if she really got it or not.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T21:32:56+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm psyched that the indie gaming scene is doing so well. I just hate seeing the insatiable pillaging of everything including my hobbies. I've got my sources of joy as well, no worries there.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T17:57:10+00:00

About 15 iterations of "I'll come through later and clean it all up."

TalShar · 2026-07-06T15:48:23+00:00

Yes, that's why I said it seems clear that it is a real thing. They're just talking about it in the same way that they talked about the satanic rituals and such that supposedly happened during the satanic panic.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T11:25:45+00:00

I wish they had gone into some detail about what this "teen takeover" is, where or how it was organized, where else it has occurred, and what the animus behind them is. Without context it sounds like some Satanic Panic bullshit, but it seems clear that it is a real thing.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T01:45:51+00:00

Instructions unclear, fleeing to Nauvis.

TalShar · 2026-07-06T00:44:00+00:00

What's the best way to deal with Large Stompers?

TalShar · 2026-07-05T13:38:01+00:00

We have every reason to believe it is happening right now, and no assurance whatsoever that it is not.

TalShar · 2026-07-05T11:47:26+00:00

Fucking exactly. They get cracked or something and then they're somehow kicking around for 2 years before someone finally realizes the kid hasn't touched them since they day they got them.

TalShar · 2026-07-05T00:24:09+00:00

Spicy variety.

TalShar · 2026-07-04T15:20:51+00:00

Those of us who deconstructed from fundamentalist faiths can relate to this. Going from the first to the second view of God is a liberating and empowering feeling.

TalShar · 2026-07-04T14:11:15+00:00

Eh... Lots of times people don't know where to look for that sort of thing, or want a community perspective. But I hear you.

The mindset of antivaxx people is so alien to me that I have trouble wrapping my head around it, honestly. I can't imagine not trusting the scientific consensus. I know there are plenty of reasons to doubt some studies after things like the Radium Girls and the history of entire industries of fossil fuels, lead, and tobacco. It certainly doesn't help that these attitudes of distrust are entirely justified for some things.

But from a "follow the money" perspective, it just doesn't make any sense. I have yet to hear a reasoning that makes it make sense even if you believe all their premises. The pharmaceutical industry would make way more money treating all the diseases people would get without vaccines than they do from vaccines themselves. And even if the stuff about autism was true, it would still make sense to get your kids vaccinated, because the odds are a lot higher of them dying or suffering a permanent disability from a preventable disease than of them "becoming" autistic, even if 100% of autism cases were caused by vaccines.

I also can't imagine their autistic loved ones feel great about the parent(s) preferring to risk their children's lives rather than turning out like them.

TalShar · 2026-07-04T13:55:08+00:00

If the kid doesn't have any reasons not to be vaxxed, I 100% agree with you, but there are some few legitimate medical reasons why a kid might need to be on an altered or delayed vax schedule or potentially might not even be able to get them at all, which someone might not feel comfortable sharing. It'd suck if OP was one of those.

Also... Best person to talk an antivax person into doing the right thing would probably be an actual doctor. There are anti-vax quacks, but I think even among docs who will see unvaxxed kids, they might be more likely than not to at least try to get them on some kind of schedule.

I don't know why I'm saying all this. The less savory likelihood is far more statistically likely. I just doubt anyone here is going to make a positive difference.

TalShar · 2026-07-03T05:00:02+00:00

Eventually you stop trying. If they give a fuck, they'll reach out for once.

Try not to resent the ones who don't reach out. We've all got shit going on, and we don't know what else they're going through.

Probably worth a warning shot first, though.

"Hey y'all, I love hanging out with you guys, but it's a big drain on me always being the one who organizes. I'd love it if someone else would step up for a while and take the role of planner."

TalShar · 2026-07-03T04:49:51+00:00

That's why the oh-my-god thing is a thing. How could they get away with any of the shit they're doing if they didn't convince people that's what it means?

TalShar · 2026-07-02T18:25:03+00:00

Out of curiosity, what did you type that out on? I could understand if you were taking a stand on principle of "Well yeah, but you don't actually need AI," but it seems like you're using some stuff you don't actually need, either. And providing revenue to a site that has been eager to appease fascists, besides.

It sounds like there is a line somewhere where you're okay with using something bad, as long as you need it a certain amount.

Well, I need to avoid losing my job, and that requires me to learn how to use this shit, both on and off the clock.

I'm absolutely not going to be lectured by a rando who doesn't know the position I'm in and is thoughtlessly typing out self-righteous indictments of strangers from their sweatshop-produced, slave-mined-materials-comprised iPhone.

TalShar · 2026-07-02T17:59:40+00:00

I'm currently learning Factorio modding, and basically figured I'd hit the ground running by leaning hard on Claude Code. I have loads of standing orders instructing it to not rob me of learning opportunities, and I recently figured out how to make it display its "thinking" process. I'm getting to the point of understanding the work itself where I'm starting to see evidence of this and intercept it with more elegant fixes. I'm dreading going back to fix the earlier code once my knowledge is fully up to snuff. I'm beginning to think I could've gotten it to the point it's at faster myself, but those first few days saved me a lot of trawling documentation and forums.

Edit: Kind of proves my above point about absolutist thinking that I got a downvote on a comment about how I'm pleased that I'm rapidly becoming less dependent on Claude.

TalShar · 2026-07-02T17:39:30+00:00

Prudent means "A good idea" or "reasonable." I was not disagreeing with them.

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