Oh yeah…they were the politicians.

From an efficiencies perspective, I really like the idea of high-performance compute being centralized and low-power devices at the edge.

Essentially going back to the dumb terminal method. Or like BBS’s. Local-ish but consolidated.

But the idea of pooling all that compute into the hands of a few giant corporations is horrifying.

I’d much rather have, say, a competitive marketplace of service providers in local datacenters selling a specific service. I.e., I could subscribe to a Moonlight service that some dude sells on a pool of high-performance gaming servers at a colocation data center/carrier hotel (the type of places where businesses rent space and can get really fast connections to internet service providers, because they have their hubs in the same building)

Essentially the same idea as, say, Xbox Cloud Gaming, or even Google Stadia (it was ahead of its time and honestly shouldn’t have even allowed wireless)…but less closed.

As a filthy casual, I don’t want the arms race of graphics cards. I don’t want to do 30 minutes of patching to play a game I only have an hour to play. I just want to pick up the controller and go with as little friction as possible.

You don’t have to go to Hollywood to start calling yourself Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler. You can just do that now, without even leaving your room.

Hell I can be Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, his name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, her name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler…we all are. One big Pickle Wiggler family.

It don’t matter. Somewhere back on your lineage someone just decided their last name is now Smith, or whatever. They just said it, and set your surname, hundreds of years ago.

Or some dude at immigration misheard your name so just gave you a new one.

Even your first name…your mom just decided that for you one day. She said “you’re gonna be called Pat and I’m gonna have your foreskin cut off” and you just said “waaa” and accepted it.

Either way. Names don’t matter. It’s all made up by someone. You can (unofficially) change your name anytime you want, but you can’t get your original foreskin back.

That’s the point of propaganda…

I said it below and I’ll say it again…

Most “self defense” trainers are conservative and implicitly have no idea how the law actually works and just expect it to be out to get them, specifically.

Part of the problem with the world is all the conservatives talking confidently and authoritatively out their ass.

Most “self defense” trainers are conservative and implicitly have no idea how the law actually works and just expect it to be out to get them, specifically.

Part of the problem with the world is all the conservatives talking confidently and authoritatively out their ass.

Now, wait just a minute. We’re twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville. Just tell us your idea and we’ll vote for it.

So these dudes antagonize her, approach her, and push her down.

She pulls a gun and doesn’t even shoot.

Alright I’m with it so far…

They run off…and call the cops?

And the cops arrest…her?

Drawing the weapon was clearly defensive. There’s no “malicious intent” if you’re in a marginalized group and carrying a legal weapon.

Had she not drawn her weapon she probably would been raped, or worse.

Not starving is the motivation.

I think the “race” part of it is somewhat necessary as long as we have a world that revolves around a handful of economic powerhouse nation-states.

It’s a conditional requirement of capitalism. If we were unified in working towards the advancement of humanity as a whole, money be damned…sure, that’d be great. Got a little work to do before we’re there, though. In the meantime, we’re competing towards pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. And yeah, that will always mean that the individual loses out, because dollars gotta come from somewhere.

But as long as we have a capitalistic society, we are always going to be at odds with the competition, i.e. China, which means no cooperation.

Furthermore, they seem to be way better at not giving a fuck about stealing IP than we are…if we make something, they clone it and make it cheap, but that never, ever happens in reverse.

Partly because they are a bit better equipped at this point for obtaining raw materials (to put it lightly) and they have a much less expensive labor force (to put it lightly).

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Counterpoint, America has essentially brute-forced its way into every major technical advancement it has made in the past 100 years.

Last game-breaking invention that didn’t adhere to this was probably out of the industrial revolution.

Atomic bomb? Throw some money at it.

Computers/Transistors? Throw some money at it.

Space race (and everything from it)? Throw some money at it.

Everything to ever come out of Bell Labs? Throw some money at it.

Honestly Bell is a unique case in industry monopolies. They put tons into R&D despite having practically 0 competition.

Point is, it’s worked well for us so far, and nobody seems to realize that the bulk of America’s success in the past 100 years was actually due to pure blind luck because the entire rest of the northern hemisphere was rebuilding from war. Why change now?

Plus it’s on switch so you don’t even really need shelter. You can play it anywhere!

Like a trucker convoy, but on rails?

$6 only buys you a month of shelter. $60 buys you a lifetime of entertainment you can pass on to countless generations.

American Gothic is a 1930 oil painting on beaverboard by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood, depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home.

couple

daughter

Hmm…

The fucking crosses, man.

You think Jesus ever would want to see another cross again?

Dude wouldn’t be able to take Public Transit in Boston.

If Jesus came back he probably wouldn’t even use the letter “t”.

Is the Nazi shit a distraction from the pedo shit? Or vice-versa? ¿O por que no los dos?

He didn’t teach yoda, he just chatted with him a bit and told him to go to Degobah to learn from the Jedi priestess.

Qui-Gon never completed his force spirit training, so I imagine it was quite difficult for him to communicate with Yoda in the first place, and he was meditating in a jedi temple at the time.

Oh and it was like the tail end of the clone wars by the time that happened, so I imagine Yoda was a bit pre-occupied before teaching Obi-Wan and by then there weren’t really many Jedi to teach.

Anakin gets a pass for being the chosen one, and then for his redemption arc/self sacrifice…and I guess that gets inherited by Luke and Leah?

Hell Leah is like a masterclass in retcon and deus ex machina in and of herself.

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