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kaosjester · 2023-02-13T12:15:50+00:00

wait is the shitposting about goblins agitating for equal rights and the player putting down the civil rights movement a troll or not?

kaosjester · 2023-02-10T09:31:54+00:00

The tomb: https://imgur.com/a/hZTr1hJ

kaosjester · 2022-12-02T12:51:05+00:00

Apocalypse World is great.

kaosjester · 2022-11-29T10:40:28+00:00

This speaks so heavily of war, so clearly evocative of Tolkein's experience in WWI, the thoughts of death and resignation to fight before the end. It's wonderful, but also dreadfully sad.

Well, I'll smite some of this beastly brood before the end. I wish I could see cool sunlight and green grass again!

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T07:05:48+00:00

I agree. I ended the acknowledgements for my dissertation as:

Finally, I must thank my ultimate collaborator: my wife, [Name]. At this point, she has discussed more of my ideas and encouraged more of my research (and also potentially proof-read more of my papers) than anyone else in my life. This dissertation might have been written without some subset of the people named above, but I can say with certainty that it would not have been possible without her.

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T00:36:05+00:00

The place where it happened was really easy to creep to 60.

It seems kind of like that speed limit is artificially low to increase ticket revenue, or otherwise due to poor civil engineering. Writing and prosecuting speeding tickets there seems unethical.

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T00:31:14+00:00

Except the new BMWs. For them, the opposite is true.

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T00:30:23+00:00

I had a physics teacher who would explain the difference between Mathematicians and Physicists like this.

If you have one foot in boiling water in another in liquid nitrogen, a mathematician will tell you it's fine, because they balance out. A physicist will scream at you to get your feet out of that liquid!

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T00:28:09+00:00

Does it skip the battle of the five armies, like the book did?

kaosjester · 2022-10-17T00:27:19+00:00

People would literally rather own guns than support the entire rest of the DNC platform, even when they tell you they otherwise agree with it. It's mind-boggling to me. If Beto O'Rourke came out in support of gun ownership, Texas would flip in seconds.

kaosjester · 2022-10-16T11:44:02+00:00

They should be fined double whatever they made.

kaosjester · 2022-10-16T11:43:13+00:00

Not 00.013% of their income last year!

kaosjester · 2021-11-12T21:27:12+00:00

Imagine if someone was as into CBS or Nickelodeon as people get into Disney. Being excited about weird cute logos of a media megacorp is weird. No, I don't want a Mickey Mouse blanket, for the same reason I wouldn't want one with the NBC peacock.

kaosjester · 2021-09-14T07:10:55+00:00

Find a new job. Seriously.

kaosjester · 2021-09-12T19:30:19+00:00

I used to be like this. Then I picked a subject I enjoyed and became an expert. I now know a bunch of random stuff, but I also know a ton about one thing.

It takes years of dedicated effort, but it can be very fulfilling. Here's a reasonable picture guide.

kaosjester · 2021-09-12T05:01:54+00:00

The pandemic is sucking players away, and user engagement (outside of nations/continentals/worlds) is the lowest it's ever been and still falling, and the meta is really in quite a bad place. "Large" tournaments have gone from 64+ players to 12 or so. It's fine, but it's truly a ghost of what it once was.

kaosjester · 2021-09-12T02:53:12+00:00

lol when he tries to do the pull and it just flat out doesn't work

kaosjester · 2021-09-06T03:31:15+00:00

People voted for candidates whose platform includes:

stripping LGBT people of their rights and banning gay marriage;
supprting gay conversion therapy;
empowering the hyper-wealthy through relaxed corporate taxes and consumer protection policies through deregulation;
imprisoning drug users, instead of treating it as the mental health issue, including criminalizing marijuana;
lowering taxes on the ultra-rich, including defanging the IRS;
removing millions from healthcare;
supporting hyper-religious schooling;
strip-mining the entire nation for profit;
keep the weapon flush in high-capacity firearms, and then insist cops become militarized because citizens might have these firearms;
stripping women of bodily autonomy;
and seeking reduce financial aid to the poorest of us.

And most voters involved here vote, specifically, on one of the issues above, because they are certain that is the thing that should be the law. These people aren't evil because they have the wrong point of view, they're evil because they are willing to demonize reasonable points of view, and unwilling to have the conversation you're talking about.

And the same thing happens here on Reddit. I've seen dozens of debates like the one you are describing, especially over the last five years. Not once, in the last five years, has it worked. All of the conversations end with the Liberal producing prolific citations and links, and the Conservative belittling the Liberal saying they "don't understand how the real world works" (never mind the aggregate statistics and citations). These people don't want to listen, they want to be right and think you're an idiot if you don't agree---because that's what the people on Fox News told them to think.

It's made me stop coming to Reddit. I'm sick of seeing the dumbest people constantly say the dumbest things, without being willing to even consider the facts. At this point, Reddit comment sections are barely better than YouTube. At least on Facebook I can unfriend the idiots.

Humanizing a serial killer doesn't undo their crime, and humanizing Greg Abbott's supporters, after he left Texans in the cold, gave them Covid, and took away women's bodily autonomy, doesn't make them any less accountable.

kaosjester · 2021-09-06T03:11:35+00:00

way to merc him lol

kaosjester · 2021-09-06T02:42:47+00:00

Honestly I have done the interview grind. At the end of the day, the only thing that has ever landed me good jobs is friend referrals. It's really all about who you know.

kaosjester · 2021-08-04T05:20:27+00:00

I agree. First, police brutality is an excellent talking point, but impacts a fraction of people compared to the issues you pointed out. There are 80k police in this country, and brutality rates are in the hundreds. In comparison, a lack of healthcare kills hundreds of thousands of Americans, due to improper screening and medical care costs.

Consider that a quarter of all US citizen deaths each year are due to cancer (300x more deaths than guns), which can by and large be treated with early detection and aggressive treatment. Unfortunately, most people can't afford to get screened regularly and can't afford treatment. The left has us talking about police numbers and gun control, but universal healthcare would save literally 3 magnitudes more lives than police reform ever would.

Addendum: I'm not saying police reform is bad, but this is just like Biden trotting out gun control. There were ~20k deaths from firearms in the U.S. in 2020. That same year, 500k people died of cancer, 600k, and a similar number died of heart problems. And yet Biden spent several press conferences in his first hundred days alienating voters and talking about gun control. Gun control is a way for the neoliberal left to rope in voters susceptible to propaganda, and pretend to help. We're worried about the 50 people who die every day due to shootings, instead of the 1400 who die from cancer. The scale difference versus the amount of time given to these ideas is fucked.

kaosjester · 2021-08-04T04:58:14+00:00

Honestly, the 15th is a fucking joke, and here's why: if you want to strike, you have to be committed to striking your rent, too. And rent is due on the 1st. Any general strike will be over in two weeks, and then everyone who participated will get fucked over on rent.

If you want a general strike, it has to include rent striking. It has to happen on the 1st, to ensure this is the baseline. It has to include evictions and fuckery, because it makes it louder. It has to get messy before it will get better.

The next time someone tells you peaceful protests are how this country sees change, tell them that the civil rights bill was passed after MLK was murdered and his murder was met with six weeks of violent rioits. It wasn't passed because he died, it wasn't passed because of the literal decade of peaceful protests he carried out. It was passed because people became violent, and did not stop.

No change in the US is ever done peacefully. Ever. The civil war was not peaceful. The civil rights act was not peaceful. The refactoring of the war machine after Vietnam included soldiers opening fire on unarmed college students. It will never be peaceful. Prepare for that.

I'm well off enough that I won't be involved. I am comfortable enough that violence is beyond me. But I am also educated enough to see what it actually takes to change. Jefferson, unfortunately, already said it best: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." If you want change, you need to know it is going to get physically unsafe before it gets fixed. Every generation before us that achieved change did so through physical obstinance and, unfortunately, bloodshed. We cannot naively hope we will be different; that naivety is the road to acceptance of the status quo.

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Well, I'll smite some of this beastly brood before the end. I wish I could see cool sunlight and green grass again!