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the most propagandized place in the history of humanity

Sorry, that’s pretty ridiculous. Even with all its flaws, Americans still mostly have freedom of speech, and they use it. They still have access to real news if they seek it out. Trump is becoming more like a North Korean style dictator, but North Korea already has one of those.

Americans can’t think about the rest of the world, meanwhile roughly 1/3 of all foreign aid comes from America.

I think UBI would give us a lot more artists.

More than that. He accidentally replied with another account once: https://lemmy.world/u/UnderpantsWeevil

(He has also used that meme as a reply from his other Beep account, so that’s definitely him.)

My Minecraft survival world is awesome, but I think in this context “productive” is usually referring to, you know, farming and stuff.

That’s how I feel. I’ve got three small kids and a handicapped wife. Getting myself killed or arrested isn’t an option. When there’s a tipping point, I’ll be on the right side of it. If there’s a way to get to that tipping point faster, I’ll do that too. But sacrificing myself and my family just so I can tell some internet tough guys that political ideals were more important to me than my ethical ideals? That’s dumb.

This is a great joke. It’s absurd, unexpected, and relatable.

I’m not judging the arguments. I’m continuing to judge the person. If it were a different person - almost any other person - then I’d have more grace. I agree with your position in the majority of cases. Liz Cheney, for example. Hell, even Dick Cheney.

But some cases are so extreme that I think it’s ok to keep expressing doubts even as we agree with them.

Yes, I’m saying that there’s a difference between “incorrect” and “wildly incorrect and insane delusions”. She was so far away from reality that we shouldn’t give her the benefit of the doubt any time soon.

Personally I think Ass World is overrated. Don’t

The fact that one person can hold a variety of correct and incorrect views should not be this surprising anymore

I think the phrase “incorrect view” is about to hurt its back with how much heavy lifting it’s doing in this case.

It’s one thing to disagree about how the government should be run or to hold outdated views on social issues.

It’s another thing to claim that the California forest fires were started by Jewish space lasers, or that the US government controls the weather, or that a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders was a false flag.

Her taking a stance on the Epstein files is commendable, but isn’t it kind of mitigated by the time she said that anyone who voted to confirm Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is “pro-pedophile”?

I’m not saying she should be silenced or dismissed, at least not while she’s on the right side of history, but let’s not pretend this is just any old Republican suddenly spouting reasonable takes.

When I went to France I remembered enough high school French to ask for directions, but didn’t remember enough to understand the reply. Luckily everyone spoke English anyway.

Do you steal artists’ work on your main account too, or is this just a gimmick account?

The worst part is that the unattributed versions are out there now to be shared. He’s creating hundreds of images that will continue to spread, ensuring that the artists never get credit for their work. It’s a real piece of shit move. This guy needs to be banned.

“Did you sleep good?”

“No, I made a couple of mistakes.”

- Steven Wright

That’s a completely tangential thing. They failed in their lawsuit against Afroman, but they’re not in any way being held accountable.

Were you lying on purpose or did you really not understand what that lawsuit was about?

And we have the court system to ensure that cops who don’t follow the rules are held accountable.

And you think that’s what happens?

Grinding can be fun. Grinding with a combat system as archaic as FF1 is unfun. There’s not enough there to enter a flow state. Art is subjective, but that grind is as close to objectively boring as possible.

This discussion always makes me think of Super Meat Boy, which is a perfect case study for how punishing difficulty can be incorporated without poisoning the experience for the player. SMB is hard as fuck and demands impossible precision from the player, but there’s no punishment for failure. You die, you try again immediately. It makes the two second door animation in Mega Man feel like an eternity.

And when it came out, it felt strangely innovative. Like, it’s obvious in hindsight, but just reducing the punishment to 0 turns it from an exercise in frustration into a game that trains the player to perfection without holding their hand.

I did get it! Also most of the other UFO 50 merch on that site, like the t-shirt and the pins. Great t-shirt. Better fit than the Tunic one I got from there.

I was slightly disappointed that the guide didn’t reveal another layer of the meta-narrative like I’d hoped, but it’s still a neat object and very well made.