Kiernian @ Kiernian @lemmy.world

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Yeah, I saw "Gay student says coach" and went "oh no, not AGAIN?!?!" Then saw "Tim Walz" and was briefly all "fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck" until I read the rest.

How bad is it that headlines about terrible abuse are so much more common than positive stories that my brain just went to bad first thing.

One day I want to see news as something other than filler to grab ad revenue.

I'd like institutional reform in the athletic sector too, but I can't decide which is less likely to actually happen.

People in the throes of full blown addiction don't typically donate to rehab non-profits?

Or not, I dunno. I guess they might when they're rich and don't have to worry about how they're going to afford their next baggie they probably don't freak out about where their money is going as much. Shrug

I don't believe so.

As I understand it, he was an actually recovered addict, so it would be "fueled by the damage drugs had already done to his brain before he quit".

And I think it was crack.

Not to defend the guy, but for a while there pre COVID, while I was doing some volunteer work, I heard from a connected volunteer that Mikey was donating cases upon cases of pillows to rehab locations in his home state, which, speaking as the bleeding heart liberal that I am who wishes we provided more for services like mental health and addiction, is pretty awesome.

A tax write off is possibly just a tax write off, but for a while, at least, it's possible he might not have been totally reprehensible.

I mean, he also professed to be Christian and there was a stink about him not paying employees like four or five years ago too, so since the Bible has specific things to say about THAT behavior too, it's pretty easy to draw conclusions but even people who behave like shit bags can perhaps sometimes be nuanced.

Suffering is completely normal and a true necessity if you are striving towards any sort of development of "self".

Most of what's commonly referred to as "western" society does not typically see things that way, though. That's part of why I personally think normalizing therapy by suggesting it regularly to people, even ones who don't currently have "serious" problems is so important.

Many of us did not get the "tools" necessary to deal with simple normal every day parts of life like suffering (in any degree) from either our parents, from people around us, or from society at large.

That also means stuff like

A therapist, really?

Might deter someone who could otherwise benefit.

The word that's the first four letters of a country's name is that serious of an insult now?

I'm a yank so I'm pretty out of touch on this but I was under the apparently mistaken impression that it was no more serious than calling an Irishman a mick or a paddy (neither of which are awesome but don't approach the derogatory ferocity of the T- word for Roman Catholic Irish).

Huh.

Maybe it's just the games I play, but I mostly hear people in MMO's ranting about steam and swearing they'll never use it (or never use it again). At least some of these people have seemingly zero personal issues with Amazon gaming, arc, epic, gog, and a few other steam clones.

I realize that by the numbers, steam is probably still the biggest, but unlike that early half-life debacle, most games are on multiple platforms now. Steam being bigger isn't what I'd call monopolistic anymore, it's just good sales on games and inertia.

Given epic's often BETTER sales, despite the fact that I really dislike the layout and functionality of the epic client, most of what steam has going for it is the deck and inertia.

Wow. That's the first time anyone has managed to explain whataboutism in a way that makes sense.

For years it's been all "fallacious logic" this and "counter-argument" that. "Reductio", "partial tu quoque", "changing the subject", and a myriad of other things that say lots while describing little.

Thank You.

Seriously.

Like, the Democrats finally learned ONE EFFECTIVE THING with "weird".

It would be super cool if we didn't ONCE AGAIN torpedo the ever-living fuck out ourselves by saying PROVEN STUPID SHIT THAT ALWAYS GUARANTEES THE SAME RESPONSE.

We have at least ten more years before talking about gun control will have the opposite effect it does now.

Currently even mentioning it does nothing demonstrable FOR the person who says it (because it's typically hand waving instead of problem solving) but it sure as hell drives up ammo sales and gun afficianado panic levels.

It's a footgun, not a soapbox.

Right now they're just waving fistfuls of money in Trump's direction and he gets to pick up whatever falls out of their hands as they're waving. It's definitely big money that he's getting, but it's ultimately castoffs to the people who attempted to BUY GOLF ON A PLANETARY SCALE just because they felt like it.

Right now any mumbling about climate change is status quo for them.

Drawing direct ire would be an INCREDIBLY STUPID CHOICE right now. Get into office FIRST, then go after the oil barons.

Publicly call out poorly designed cities, under funded public transportation, and corporate resistance to working from home.

Do not publicly call out the oil barons by name.

Not right now.

Do not summon what you cannot banish.

You've ruined your own lands, you'll not ruin mine!

Fahhhhk, thank you.

I swear I remembered dog people from 2nd edition and was super confused when I started playing DDO and they were some kind of dragonkin. Then people who started with 3rd were telling me kobolds had always been lizards.

Somewhere my old 2nd edition books are still around in a box, but damned if I know where.

Yes, but they have to keep associating "person of color" with "poor" and therefore "crime". If they don't keep lumping all non-white people in with other "undesirable" things, some of their followers might look around and realize that non-white people can achieve things on their own too, and that makes non-white folks start to resemble actual human beings a bit too much for their liking. If she was single, he wouldn't be lauding any of her achievements. The unspoken belief is that women are as incapable as non-whites when there's no husband involved. The dehumanizing and belittling narrative has to be constant with them or some of their followers might start thinking for themselves.

For those wondering about the upswing here:

If the age verification movement goes unchecked, it's possible that you could be forced to tie your government ID to much of your online activity, Gillmor says. Some civil rights groups fear it could usher in a new era of state and corporate surveillance that would transform our online behaviour.

"This is the canary in the coalmine, it isn't just about porn," says Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group. Greer says age verification laws are a thinly veiled ploy to impose censorship across the web. A host of campaigners warn that these measures could be used to limit access not just to pornography, but to art, literature and basic facts about sex education and LGBTQ+ life.

I mean, the lead up to the tea party's core ideals was already there with stuff like that Imus wanker openly calling the WNBA "Nappy-headed hoes" on his national news show in like 2004-2005. The current hard right, isolationist, bigoted downfall has been going on since rush limbaugh hit the airwaves in the late 80's. Before the rush era, there was some serious bullshit, but that was the start of not stowing the hoods UNDER the pickup seats anymore. Saying the bigoted parts out loud, in public, and nationwide with blanket tacit approval from roughly half the country really grew legs with that fucker. I think that was 87. Pat Robertson running for president and everything.

The concepts of "us" and "them" started getting real widespread traction with otherwise middle-of-the-road people when rush hit.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Corporate culture is a malicious bad actor.

Corporate culture, from management books to magazine ads to magic quadrants is all about profits over people, short term over stability, and massaging statistics over building a trustworthy reputation.

All of it is fully orchestrated from the top down to make the richest folks richer right now at the expense of everything else. All of it. From open floor plans to unlimited PTO to perverting every decent plan whether it be agile or ITIL or whatever, every idea it lays its hands on turns into a shell of itself with only one goal.

Until we fix that problem, the enshittification, the golden parachutes, and the passing around of horrible execs who prove time and time again they should not be in charge of anything will continue as part of the game where we sacrifice human beings on the Altar of Record Quarterly Profits.

When did they start bundling candy crush? Xp? Or 7? That was when the enshittification started.

Not due to that app itself, and it was a slow start and it took a while, but that was when stuff started being "pushed" instead of merely "present", like, say pinball or solitaire.

That's the official state rifle of the school shooter TODAY! Anyone who's seen a gun enthusiast magazine knows they have MUCH more ridiculous stuff in the pipeline.

No, nor should they try, nor should they stick with their current seemingly nonsensical policy ideas about guns.

The "gun problem" as it stands is really more of a symptom of our mental health crisis, our ridiculously confrontational "news" cycle, and a number of other HUMAN factors that aren't going to be solved by banning a particular model of gun, though and no one seems to want to hear that.

Screeching "Ban the right's favorite model of toy" right before an election is beyond tone deaf, and an incredibly dumb move politically that won't do squat except mobilize the NRA voters to vote the other way, which we DO NOT NEED with democracy in this country at stake.

I can personally count multiple handfuls of coworkers and acquaintances who might have voted for him that will now vote trump or stay away from the polls over this.

Holy deep fried frankenfuck will the Democrats NEVER LEARN?!?!?!?!

AFTER!

You talk about guns AFTER the election!

What in the actual pogostickingpopejohnpaul is he THINKING?!?!?

The optics are 1000% awful here.

Uvalde wasn't enough, but a potshot at the planet's most notorious living felon is?

I accidentally wore a wolverines starter jacket around Columbus for a week one winter while I was on a business trip. Couldn't figure out why the waiters were all so curt with me until one of the locals made a comment on the job site.

In retrospect it's a miracle I didn't get accosted by a season ticket holder.