Community note: source is highly contested, rife with disagreement on interpretation, and generally agreed to be unfalsifiable

But when you do experience a home invasion they will blame you not installing Spyware on your front door for why they won’t bother investigating.

The ocean depths arent above innocent people’s heads.

Yeah I’m increasingly unwilling to put up with subscriptions that arent reasonable. If you’re selling a piece of software, I’ll consider paying for it. I love foundry for that, its a vtt that I bought and it just works. They update it, but I don’t expect or demand updates beyond keeping it working. And if they were to offer more features in the future with a new model I’d consider paying for the new model.

No it isnt

So reading what was posted my concern is that medical startups that sell it properly aren’t prepared for several decades of supporting it.

I’m quite supportive of disability assisting technology and the ability to use machines to connect the brain to the body or prostheses are things I’m generally in favor of (when the disabled are consulted and listened to).

Now, Elon’s cyberpunk nightmare version of this where minds and computers are swapping thoughts directly? No, I’m not on board with that. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the horizon.

Oh so we know punishment focused response doesn’t increase rehabilitation so the idea is punishment in a dystopian sci fi way?

We could like, try listening to the experts instead

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

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.

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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.

Yeah i oppose empire but support self determination. If the Greenland inuit want to be Danish that’s between them and Denmark

Guns and Republicans

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

Exactly. Canada is also facing a decent chance at an invasion

I’m an industrial engineer and while Mein deutsch ist scheiß, I’m still learning in the hopes that if I get to go to Europe as a brain drain or as a refugee (listen, if shit gets bad enough it’ll still be shocking if we’re let in) that I won’t just be some dumb monolingual American.

At this point I’m not against renaming it red square and dusting that suggestion off

It’s also important to note why Biden won. Trump was president and everything sucked. Four years later, dealing with long term consequences of Trump still and waiting for Biden’s longer term planning to kick in there was dissatisfaction and blame was thrown. People remembered how nice 2017 and such were economically and thought “well 2020 was the pandemic” and forgot that everything was getting worse in 2019.

So we’re in a precarious position and we said “let the clown run the circus again”. And so we got crammed into the little car and he drove us off a fucking cliff, just like he promised to.