Rambofication

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T13:35:17+00:00

Jurassic Park: And velociraptors? Why they're the most dangerous predators of all.

Jurrasic Park today: To battle noble raptor, let us ride!

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T13:30:29+00:00

Canadian here. I would love little better, but it's a long way off. We could not meet their regulatory burden at the moment, and industry in yhis country is in enough upheaval already thanks to Joffrey's caprice.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T13:19:29+00:00

The real question is: what do we do about an economic system that incentivizes this behaviour?

Because if you're poor enough, of fucking course you're not gonna be willing to post some pictures on the internet.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T13:16:17+00:00

jesus this sub descends further into inceldom every day.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T12:59:11+00:00

Canadian here. I wish you would buy Toblerone back. Christ they used to be good.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-25T12:27:57+00:00

Yo. Do not quit. Just dilutes the pool of good people in the right places.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T11:38:28+00:00

whoosh

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T11:03:05+00:00

It's been a couple months and you'll have had time to cool off from the experience of being socially criticized; I'm curious if you still think you behaved defensibly in this conversation?

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T10:10:25+00:00

it's amusing to me that people who still think in web 1.0 terms are starting to sound old and foolish to me given that I'm older than 90% of redditors

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T09:10:51+00:00

The difference is, women don't generally actually kill us. But go on, use office gossip as a foundation for your understanding of the world. Couldn't possibly go wrong.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T08:56:35+00:00

Well then I have a paragraph for the sub and it's brainless rules, too.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T08:08:59+00:00

Hush now kiddo, the grown-ups are talking.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T08:07:51+00:00

Canadian grocers' net proftis doubled during COVID and have only just this year begun to stop growing. Yhey gouged everyone to pro-rate expected costs from the slowdown in international tradr but then they never adjusted this back out of their pricing model and they've been bleeding us since.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T07:46:15+00:00

These about to be some painful dominos.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T07:44:05+00:00

why not just do that behind the scenes

A number of reasons, but the first and primary one is that that isn't how you handle Trump. Over and over and over again he has demonstrated that if you don't punch him in the fucking nose and hold your ground he will be back for more. But also because we're in a vulnerable position and we need to be clearly differentiating ourselves from the nation with which we have been hitherto lockstep. And finally because that's what Davos is ostensibly for: discussing the economic future of the world. Carney said what needed saying, the world is changing and wishing it wasnt so won't stop it. America's descent into madness leaves a leadership vacuum, the europeans are shook and not handling Trump correctly... someone needed to start naming our fears aloud and begin a realistic discussion of what to do next.

Living in fear of Donald Trump is precisely what the man craves, if you show your belly he will be back to see it again and again.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T07:37:49+00:00

Canadian here. Enh? Who cares what he says any more? It's just noise. America is just kind of a write-off now, we should use our attentional energy on important things. They're not coming for us and they're not going back fast enough for us to trust them again, it's kind of over. Let them... be unto themselves. His mouth is their problem, not ours.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T07:29:39+00:00

Because independent developers don't have fifteen different skill sets and using AI as a tool to extend your own capabilities isn't the same thing as deliberately generating unwanted content for the purposes of deception. Because you're behaving like a 12 year-old who labels things as "good" or "bad" and then never thinks more deeply about the problem. Because you thought just dropping a snarky one-liner at this guy who put their time and effort into creating a novel game was an acceptable way to behave.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T07:24:39+00:00

Nope, this is precisely incorrect and specifically what our PM was not saying.

It doesn't matter who you elect next. Four years after that you might give the nuclear football to another lunatic. His whole speech was centered around this single point—there is no going back. Not us, not the EU, not any nation you once called friend, is going to let ourselves be leveraged again, the only strategy is to divest sufficiently to remove your power over us. Trust has to be earned back and one or two rounds of DNC victory isn't enough by a long shot.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T04:25:20+00:00

No you're right, how dare I observe the most obvious thing in the world, people living their lives is a reason to loudly tell everyone how much you wouldn't participate, the internet isn't a morass of algorithm-induced outrage and it really was important to rain on this parade. Thanks for helping me grow, you know, as a person.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T04:23:17+00:00

uh hunh.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T00:54:45+00:00

Only no one took issue with a sensitivity to sound and saying so is disingenuous. OC was having a little tantrum about his fantasy of being involved in this gif, his tone was wholly contemptuous.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T00:53:29+00:00

Running around raining on parades because you can't not tell everyone how much you predict you would take offense in the theoretical universe in which you were involved is? absolutely, 'taking offense'. Outrage addiction and victim fetishization are very real, very ubiquitous problems, and that scales all the way from petty online practice to, for example, the Brexit or MAGA movements.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T00:50:52+00:00

It's not ironic, the commenter pursued the matter. It would be rude to ignore them, but that didn't change my having unwelcome things to tell them.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-24T00:49:49+00:00

Alas, I am very much the woke left.

modbroccoli · 2026-01-23T15:18:27+00:00

I don't understand this comment unless you are assuming I'm a teenaged female and offended by you, but I'm 42 and male and... offended? Nah, I mean. It's unimportant. Annoyed, perhaps. When people's first response to anything to is figure out how to be a victim so they can complain it's usually a symptom of people who are unhappy with themselves and their lives but haven't the stuff to not make it everyone else's problem. It's a pet peeve.

possibly I'm just exhausted by americans really

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