Those who don’t desire to think will attend university to not think. Those who desire to think will put off studying to discuss ideas with friends, but like they’ll keep doing that shit for life.

I have a dogshit memory and paper exams were largely me extrapolating from fundamentals in the sciences or having to present clear lines of thinking and reasonable interpretations in the humanities

I think you should look at what the luddites actually were and not just how they were portrayed by capital

Neopuritanism loves to raise the age from adulthood to their new perceived adulthood of 21-25

I got married the month Clarence Thomas threatened it

Moussilini was an anarchist activist first. But yes, some fascists are fallen comrades, but others very much aren’t. The ones who really aren’t love to bait the left so we waste our time on them instead of others who are more dedicated to change than cruelty

You can’t radicalize a liberal during the worst fucking time to radicalize a liberal. Libs have their hearts in the right place but believe in the system, fascists understand the system is fucked and take the worst possible position in response. Fascists can be converted reasonably quickly but are much easier to convert back. Liberals need you to convince them, and it’ll be slow, and they’ll resist and they’ll probably stay where you leave them.

I don’t want the people more committed to radicalism nearly as much as I want the people more committed to ethics.

Yeah I only left my red state for safety. If you can safely stay and keep pushing your neighbors it’s valuable.

I agree completely and I’d like to add, when we call Trump a narcissist we should remember that what you described there is what narcissism is. It’s self hate manifesting as self aggrandizement.

The evolved form of spironolactone

Even if it had similar addiction profiles to opioids I’d be all for it. Opioid allergies are very common and those of us who have them also deserve to not be in agony after surgeries or physical trauma.

In fact, I worry that if its nonaddictive it may be pushed onto people who are allergic or nonresponsive to it similar to how nonstimulant adhd meds are. That doesn’t mean I’m not all for nonaddictive painkillers, I’m 100% in favor and if we had a few options that can cover our bases I’d be in favor of shelving the poppy juice into a last resort role, but I hope people don’t lose their sense of nuance in it.

The ultimate solution is likely the creation of small scale localized carbon capture that exists to manage summer overcapacity.

The current biggest issue with carbon capture is that it’s less efficient than not burning fossil fuels in the first place

Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.

Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.

So my mom asked if I was gay, I told her I’m only attracted to women. She kept trying to figure out what was up (she was nosy and I was trying to leave a coming out letter so I was acting sus af). Anyways eventually she said “well I know you aren’t trans” and I said “about that…” and came out. Lots of crying on both our parts later she was incredibly supportive, but I wasn’t worried as she had already been a vocal trans ally.

My father on the other hand attempted to talk me out of it then hasn’t really spoken to me since. That includes years of living together. Which, points for stubbornness I suppose.

Yeah, I don’t want a sequel for sequel’s sake. If you don’t have an artistic or consumer perspective vision on why a sequel is needed or wanted you should be focusing on something that can be justified like that.

Story and exploration games have this built in. Why do players want a sequel? To have more story, to explore more, to return to this world once they’ve tired of the previous game. Rpgs are expensive, slow, and risky, but you basically never have to justify your next game.

The games mentioned here struggle there. KSP does what it does well. Any sequel comes with huge questions of why people would want another space program simulator, and it’s clear that corporate just assumed that people would buy it because they loved the first one.

And that’s not to say games that don’t feel like a sequel is warranted can’t benefit from one. Roguelikes are about as anti sequel as city builders and there are two roguelike sequels I love. Rogue legacy 2 was the devs reimagining the concept of the first game and making a higher budget (especially in gameplay) game that doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. And Hades 2 is similar in many ways, but different enough to feel warranted and clearly made uncynically. It clearly exists because the leads felt there was more to do with the premise that didn’t belong in the first game.

And there’s the thing, I think that ksp probably did have a sequel in it. Something like a space colony sim where you’re a space station having to build and manage ships and colonies, or something else may have been warranted or good. But it would’ve come from a creative lead wanting to do it rather than what clearly happened of a corporation purchasing the game and deciding that since they owned it they had to make a sequel to use the ip

They chose to listen to the courts instead of the executive. That’s sadly pretty huge

Guns and Republicans

See the fact that you have that strength of character is why you don’t have to pull the stupid shit they all do.

I’ve been ugly, I’ve been hot. I’ve been unprincipled, I’ve been principled. I’ve been charmless, and I’ve been charming. Listen, I’m gonna keep aiming to be principled, charming, and hot in that order.

Being ugly sucks but you can easily get past it. Being off putting sucks, but people who know you know you. Being unprincipled seems great until your reputation is terrible and you have to live with yourself

“Attempted murder? What next? The Nobel prize in attempted physics?”

I think he might be speaking about 16 year old boys. He seems mad that they’re children instead of working father’s.