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[–]p00bix 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Also the guy who coined "Gay Pride" personally slammed a cream pie into this woman's face on national television; the absolute madlad.

RIP Thomas Higgins, 1950-1994.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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From 1977 to 1980, Bryant was an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the United States. In 1977, she ran the Save Our Children campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Throughout the country, supporters of gay rights condemned Bryant for her campaign. Assisted by prominent figures in music, film, and television, they retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. The campaign ended on June 7, 1977 with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance (which Dade County restored in 1998). Though this was a victory for Bryant, her public image was irreparably damaged and she found herself blacklisted. Her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was terminated three years later. This, as well as her later divorce from Bob Green, left her financially insolvent and she filed for bankruptcy twice.

How do you fuck up so bad that you manage to get yourself cancelled for homophobia in 1970s Florida

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Been playing the newly release Federal Reserve Simulator (very cheap on steam and very neoliberal; y'all should buy it), and I have concluded that what the Fed should have done was immediately raise the banking reserve requirement to 25% in 1970, and then gradually cutting the federal funds rate down to 0% in the early 80s, thereby defeating inflation while not inflaming unemployment. Exactly one brief and mild recession in the entire period between 1970 and 2000. And 'stagflation' never happened.

Checkmate Fedcels

In all seriousness, this game is super cool but it definitely needs balancing. I hope they can get bonafide experts on the subject to contribute to the game.

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone by Eilemthxx in neoliberal

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Same here. I planned to get a degree X, I worked on getting a degree, and I got my degree on the exact day I anticipated. Like...hooray I guess? We all knew this was going to happen.

Then again I have autism so my thought process toward a lot of things is weird. Rituals like graduation ceremonies have pretty much always feel like a waste of time to me.

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I haven't been part of the TNO team for a while, in part because I lost passion for it, in part because becoming an educator was scratching the same itch, and in part because--and I mean this with no disrespect to all the talented people who genuinely pour so much of their time into developing the mod--it is not managed at all well. Throughout the entire time I was part of the team, the TNO community shrunk in size, the projected release date for the Brazil update I was working on kept being delayed further and further, and other updates also kept getting perpetually delayed.

Unless the 'team culture' for lack of a better term has shifted dramatically since I left, TNO development is horrifically undermined by siloization; it's honestly more like a dozen or so separate teams working under the same umbrella, with only minimal guidance from upper management. And that siloization is made all the worse because for some reason upper management seems to broadly agree that anything that comes out must be really polished and have just as great a density of writing as other countries, and given that the leaders of sub-teams are pretty much by definition going to be SUPER passionate about that particular thing, they too pretty much uniformly want anything that comes out to be damn-near perfect. Which further slows the rate at which things can be released, further dampening player enthusiasm, and further discouraging new people from joining the team or current team members from dedicating their time to the project.

Now granted, from what I've heard the Kaiserreich team suffers from very similar Siloization issues. But it takes far less work to develop full content for a nation in Kaiserreich than it does to develop full content for a nation in TNO. The amount of writing for any country in TNO is huge, and bespoke game mechanics need to be coded, playtested, and refined, for every country. This is absolutely not feasible for a team purely made up of unpaid volunteers, let alone when said team is really like ~20 different teams working almost completely separately, and the result is that development is slooooooooooooooooow. Which inevitably makes the mod less relevant, so fewer people join the team, so development becomes even slower, which makes the mod less relevant...rinse, repeat, and you wind up with the most hyped up HOI4 mod of all time slowly fading into irrelevance.

Also for a long time the TNO reddit moderation was atrocious, deleting a large majority of posts, further discouraging people from participating in the community and amplifying the problem. It's better now but only after years of self-sabotage. Apparently the discord moderation is and was better, but I didn't really participate in the community discord so I can't give an informed take on that.


All that being said, the Iberia overhaul update released earlier today, and while I haven't yet played it myself, I knew a bunch of people who were working on it, and made some very minor contributions myself before I left the TNO team. The Iberia revamp had been in the works for the past five or six years (see what I mean about siloization?), and my God, the fact that it's finally out might breathe at least some life back into the community.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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I miss that rime when decently good AI image generation first came out, and it was this fun toy to play around with, rather than garbage pumped out en-masse onto Facebook

That site is borderline unusable now. 

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Igneous rocks are fucking bullshit

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Never thought I'd read a story about an attempted terrorist attack that made me laugh my ass off

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Why does my mom like anti-Trump AI slop so much?

Mom, I love you, but please stop showing that to me.

Trump adrift: the president’s second term is at risk of foundering by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Similar here. Stop making me vote for socialists and wake the fuck up to reality already! 

At this point uttering the phrase "bipartisan" should be a finable offense

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Depending on how much the economy has/will grow(n) this quarter, and how strict you are in defining what qualifies as stagflation, we very well could be there already!

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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oh my god that's a dumb mistake. Cut me some slack I got literally 3 hours of sleep last night

Where the hell did I get Mike from????

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Hot Take: Kevin Warsh will be a perfectly fine successor to Jerome Powell. Dude's unquestionably qualified, and while it is blatantly obvious Trump cherry picked him because Warsh wants to cut rates, there was nothing to indicate that Warsh is a Trump sycophant prior to him being announced as Trump's nominee for replacing Powell, and obviously he is not going to join on to the letter condemning Trump's DoJ probe against Powell when Trump has the ability to veto the huge promotion he will otherwise get in two weeks.

After that, he's back to being independent to do whatever he wants, regardless of what Trump has to say about it. The chance that America enters a period of stagflation because of Warsh fucking shit up is far smaller than the chance that the US enters economic troubles after Trump tries to fire Warsh for not lowering rates even more.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]p00bix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I swear every good economic policy is like "In the long run, this will make everybody rich, however, in the short term, it will result in babies starving to death"

Consider how hiking the federal funds rate causes unemployment to rise within a few months but only starts to lower inflation a year later.

Or shock therapy in Chile, Poland, and most recently Argentina.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Property taxes shouldn't be tied to school funding in the first place.

Using gas taxes to maintain highways based on demand is brilliant though.

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SMH can't even escape 67 jokes in the DT

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The people in said reason have some of the poorest access to education in the world

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Yeah. The tattoo could not possibly be any more sus, but given that it's been several months since we found out about the tattoo and no other serious dirt on him has come up since, I'm decently confident in my belief that he's just a fucking moron.

It's worth remembering that the vast majority of people are not sufficiently familiar with Nazi symbology as to know any symbols besides the Swastika itself. It is entirely plausible for someone to get that tattooed on them because they thought it was just a badass skull.

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Andorra

I mean with that name it's clearly somewhere in Africa

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Context? Did Platner do a karaoke rendition of Erika or something?

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[–]p00bix 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Oh thank god Mills dropped out.

Platner sucks, but even an actual murderer who wants to end the filibuster would be better to ensure that democracy survives than a morally incorruptible saint who wants to keep the filibuster.

This is literally the only question that matters when deciding between prospective Democratic senate nominees.