Fuck me. If that isn’t cold hard evidence of sociopathy/psychopathy, I don’t know what is. Yeah, blood and wounds can be gross, but your empathy is supposed to override that in the moment. These quotes read like there’s zero of that going on - it’s just vulgar biology to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Criticism

In 1934, Roosevelt defended himself against those critics in a “fireside chat”:

[Some] will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it ‘Fascism’, sometimes ‘Communism’, sometimes ‘Regimentation’, sometimes ‘Socialism’. But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical… Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty. Answer this question out of the facts of your own life. Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice?[279]

At the same time, there was an actual (failed) attempt at a fascist coup on Roosevelt’s watch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.

So, yeah. Fascists hate this stuff and will do anything to fight it, from name-calling to revolution.

TL;DR: viable last-ditch option would resemble Highlander 2 in terms of putting one corporation in charge of “protecting” the planet.

Okay, so I was keeping the idea of using deliberate “global dimming” in my back-pocket just so it wouldn’t worm it’s way through the zeitgeist. It’s a viable last-ditch option, but it comes with steep drawbacks. But since we’re here now, fuck it.

We already know that, thanks to requiring shipping vessels to use low-sulfur fuel, cloud seeding can actually reduce solar gain. The problem is that it also blocks out a lot of the light needed for photosynthesis. So this approach punches down on the environment in a completely different way. As for people, while global warming will absolutely impact agriculture, so would less sunlight.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/

So we could just use airplanes and cloud-seeding. Or we could increase particulates in the atmosphere. Or, as Elon suggests, fly satellites to do the job. The tradeoffs here are awful: disrupt where rain happens, raise lung cancer risks globally, or catapult one man into multi-trilliionaire status while they charge every government on earth for the privilege. Plus, each of those options are more or less forever if we never get around to carbon sequestration that actually works.

We should seriously considering doing anything else first.

Edit: I know I didn’t invent this idea. Rather, I just didn’t want to add to any consensus around it.

It’s exactly the same game.

This is what kills me. There’s so much squandered potential in AC with this kind of thinking. Instead, Ubisoft just wants to be EA by re-selling the same game every year, but doesn’t have the sports licenses to pull it off.

After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.

Exactly. I don’t know what I expected, but that was my experience as well. The game more or less told me this:

“Hey, did you enjoy the first chapter? Well guess what? We’re going to throw that at you x20 with the occasional plot beat thrown in for variety. Have fun!”

For the obvious boatload of cash poured into Odyssey’s development, I feel like half as much game done twice as well would have been a better experience. Instead, we get something that is seemingly padded for play-time, in the same way a 4th grader adds extra blank lines to hit the required page count on a book report.

Seriously. Why stand, miss, clean up your own piss (now or later), then repeat all that every time? Also: standing causes splashing - it NEVER all goes into the bowl.

When I used to watch commercials¹, this shit would just register itself in my brain, lurking silently for when/if it comes up. I’m not even a “car guy” by any stretch of the imagination, and credit this mostly to the insidious and brain-worm-like quality of car advertising. For a while there, I could identify most cars just by seeing the shape and position of the headlamps at night. It is/was the most useless superpower, and I’m still a little spooked that one can be low-key programmed like this.

I suppose it’s possible to come by this while racking up commuter hours, since the make/model is usually right there on the back of most cars, but that doesn’t explain the headlamp thing.

¹ - I will leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how one might dispose of most advertising when watching shows.

Blood Dragon?

The sheer genius of both Hades games is that dying is absolutely one of the best parts, since the hub-world is full of fun things like this.

Hypnos: My list says you got killed by a REDACTED. What’s that even mean?

A few deaths later…

Hypnos: REDACTED got you again, huh.

Classic Doom even razzes you a little bit on the difficulty selection screen, with “I’m too young to die” as the easiest one.

I don’t recall Heretic or Hexen giving you guff for quitting, but I could be wrong.

Portal and Portal 2.

GLaDOS’ constant mockery of your person, your ability to navigate tests, and general spite pretty much make both games. It all even manages to provide a lot of world-building without lore-dumping. 10/10, would get roasted again.

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Medical fetishists are a thing. I think it’s due to kink play with speculums, sounding tools, catheters, and other (gendered) medical instruments.

Given the level of unchecked malice we’re facing at the hands of said government, I expect more edible magnets to suddenly become available.

With respect to Lord Humongous, maintaining that kind of muscle-mass in the fucking apocalypse is an S-tier flex. Like, “I get access to all the best nutrition, which is in very short supply and always dwindling” kind of flex. Is it all looted, or does he eat people? Also, it takes lots of free time to spend on just working out to keep things that way. No matter how you slice it, his physique is a monument to a terrifying level of power in this scenario.

Also the more I get into languages like Rust, the more these doubts are increasing and leading me to believe that most of it is just dogma that has gone far beyond its initial motivations and goals and is now just a mindless OOP circlejerk.

There are definitely occasions when these principles do make sense, especially in an OOP environment, and they can also make some design patterns really satisfying and easy.

Congratulations. This is where you wind up, long after learning the basics and start interacting with lots of code in the wild. You are not alone.

Implementing things with pragmatism, when it comes to conventions and design patterns, is how it’s really done.

Fashion Police indeed.

You say that, but it’s unclear if the paste works as an actual thermal junction or not.

Although it does read like peanut butter would be a better option.

isn’t sure or approves

I know it’s not you, but those really need to be different categories.

Boy, is Trump gonna be mad when he finds out that Trump beat his ratings.

Yes, and I’m sorry. I’m also right there with you.

Also, don’t forget to take your medication this evening.