LordGimp @ LordGimp @lemm.ee

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My favorite version of this is a farmhand running over a pig on his way to work and calling the farmer to ask what to do. He says no matter what he does the poor pig won't stop squealing. Farmer says you gotta put him down and he hears a gunshot. Farmhand comes back and asks what he should do about the flashing lights on the pigs motorcycle.

Native Americans curated bison populations for thousands of years. Idk where you're getting "almost drove the bison to extinction" from. In 1850, there were between 30 and 60 million bison on the plains. By 1870, there were less than 500 wild bison left. That's not native American hunting. That's white genocide. Don't get it confused. Some plains Indians even claim kinship with the Bison as their spiritual totem.

Look into accounts by settlers first traveling the America's. They often wonder at how the forests seem to have wild orchards of berries and fruits, or how certain woods seem to have been maintained almost as if by a forester. It's no coincidence. The plagues brought by the settlers killed 95% of my people, and those same settlers came and occupied the same space where me and mine had lived for eons. And then they had the temerity to call it divine providence. Filthy diseased savages tend to build filthy diseased societies, and here we are now.

Culling is not cruel or even morally ambiguous. It is morally and ethically right to cull out of control populations of animals for the betterment of the whole. Culling isn't even necessarily for the sick or weak. Sometimes healthy young animals have to be put down for the betterment of the environment. Look into native American hunting practice and land conservation methodology.

Modern farming is very much none of those things though.

Now THIS is pod racing.

If this isn't the purpose of mass communication, then I don't want it.

Yeah, but I want AI to make a picture of you as an astronaut but with two extra domes on the suit so I can see ur sweet tits at the same time.

Pretty sure possession of the body is supposed to pass to family. Honestly I don't see much of a difference here between shinking heads and something more traditional like cremation, but the big factor at play here is consent. Obvs trophies and shit are bad juujuu but the actual practice isn't really the issue imo.

This should be bread and butter of immersive gameplay. Show, don't tell. If I want a 1.5k word info dump I'll go to one of my stories on royalroad. Letting me make my own narrative will be more enjoyable for me 95% of the time.

It's about public access. If the public is generally allowed in a space, you have no expectation of privacy in that space. Anyone can have an eidetic memory, which is as good as having a camera in their hand. If they can hear it, see it, or reach it from a public space, you can't consider it secure.

It's more like when you work for the government, you're allowed to say what in a personal context. Once you start throwing around a title linked to the government, you're no longer speaking as yourself, youre speaking as the government. The government can tell you what the government is allowed to say.

It's the difference between an employee of the coast guard joining Greenpeace vs. That employee publicly saying the United States Coast Guard is joining Greenpeace. The coast guard can't fire an employee for their own political beliefs, but they can totally fire a guy for saying shit the coast guard doesn't want while representing the coast guard. Public speaking and seminars and shit like this have explicit rules about who can say what and when as a government employee in an official capacity.

New fort same as the old fort. I like the cut of your jib cully.

Blood money put to good use is still a karmic negative. Amazon dehumanizes people. Israel dehumanizes people. At some point the excuses aren't enough anymore.

The civil suits that only have standing when there is criminal conduct already involved? You don't get one without the other. The only practical difference to a member of the public is the legal standard needed to prove guilt. Seeing as the criminal justice deck is already stacked in the favor of protecting their own enforcer, the difference is moot. It remains one of the only legally viable defenses where ignorance of the law is an acceptable excuse.

That's literally the basis of qualified immunity. If law enforcement gets a pass explicitly due to ignorance of the law, why wouldn't their financiers? Further, if the punishment for the crime is a fine, then the law can only ever meaningfully punish the poor. The concept of law is working exactly as intended in this country.

Ayyyyyy this might just be the push I need to actually invest in the series. Thank you fellow gross enthusiast

Is it a dildo? Please tell me it's a dildo lmao

I've been trying to make myself get into malazan for a long time but I'm too busy with everything on royalroad rn.

I didn't have to look far to find the cremposter

That's kind of every industry though? Kpop is particularly insidious but it's right along the lines of child pageantry, game development, and teaching in the US for exploitation. Just because someone else tells you that you have to work yourself into the ground to achieve success, it doesn't mean you have to actually do it. 9/10 times you're working harder to make up for mismanagement and being gaslit into thinking you're the problem. Parents, bosses, whoever thinks they're the authority, they're all trying to get you to forget that everyone's superpower is the power of choice. Someone else can always force your hands but nobody can ever make you choose to do anything. You must agree to be truly complicit.

Also I saw baby metal the other week. They're pretty neat and vaguely kpop inspired so kpop gets a pass for now.

I just watched a whole Astrum video about this. It's less about one being hotter than the other and more about the seasons being more extreme. The orbit of our planet is actually a little egg shaped, and the closest we pass to the sun happens to be in early January. In the north, due to our tilt, it happens during winter, giving us a more mild season. In the south, the opposite is true. They have hotter summers and colder winters than we do.

To be fair, Morrowind is just that kind of game. It's been many years since I've played it, but I remember it being one of the last truly open world experiences I got from playing games. The plot drops you off in the first city and kind of just let's you go at it. I remember hours of just wandering until I ended up at the city of vivec, which is the mess of floating pyramid temple lookin jobbies out on a lake somewhere. I didn't know shit about anything but it was awesome and that was enough for me. Elden Ring almost brings this feeling back sometimes.