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To which I have to say... good on them for using AI porn in the least bad way? (IE realistic fictional characters instead of real people that did not consent to the depictions being made of them).

fully agreed, it's cause/effect taken backwards. They think they are becoming toxic because they can't get laid... but really they are having trouble getting laid because they have a toxic view of the world.

and yeah agreed with the right money, connections, looks or maybe even just luck of who's around, people with those toxic viewpoints can still get laid.

Of course Tate himself... it's hard to really even judge him... From what I've seen of him I'd say while he hates women... I think he's just a con artist in general. He see's everyone in terms of what can he exploit from them, how can he get money, power etc.... including/especially the fanboys that worship him. He doesn't view them as people he respects, or that he wants to help get their lives together like he thinks he is. He thinks they are suckers that he can get to give him money on every one of his scams, and he knows what to say to keep them viewing him as some big alpha dog. of course like all exploiters, his goal is to let them feel powerful while bowing down to him, by convincing them there is someone below them on the food chain (IE women).

To my knowledge that's a lot of how domestication winds up being.

What I found interesting was a study when they tried to domesticate silver foxes for the fur industry (because basically they didn't take to being raised in fur farms well). So basically they were selectively bread for not being aggressive to humans.

Which worked, but the drawbacks were effectively... all of their childlike traits remained. IE their ears stayed floppy, and they stopped growing the silver coat that was the whole reason the fur industry wanted them.

Basically I think it could be said that effectively... most domestication traits are more or less, keeping childlike mentality for life in animals.

No it didn't... it just, stopped being tracked as that data is totally inefficient and fraudulent. I mean what's more abusive, than calling out abusers.

I mean the logic isn't entirely wrong... though at least familiarize with snippits. I mean I don't have to read Mein Kamph to say Naziism is evil.

Of course, there is a huge difference, even in snippits and small amounts of information it's quite clear that all nazi followers, support racism.

While modern marxists do not call for violence etc... and specifically is calling for changing of things that, are not physical traits that require bloodshed.

On the whole, yes typically they will call a manager, run the counterfeit pens etc....

Some places will even say they can't take bills that large. Though that is getting less common now that your typical grocery run is pretty consistantly over 200. But yeah if you are buying anything under $50 worth with a $100 bill, it's going to annoy people.

Well, it really is hard to explain to someone

Trump is very trump.

Cannary M Burns... (IE a point in the Simpsons, Mr Burns reveals that his companies are on paper run by a canary (Designed to take the fall in the event that his horrid abuses to the environment and safety for his staff, resulted in trouble with the law).

Good news is, the sound of blowing the assailant away will draw the police to you.

and if you are white, they will say you defended yourself. (Results may vary if you aren't... you may be held for murder, or shot on sight).

So... in short, we have bird flu... more disturbingly on bird flu... among it's potential jumping metrics are cows milk...

(while our HHS guy is pushing for unpasturized milk).

we're anticipating a new branch of covid.

The president's boss is one most against at home work, and really all measures that helped reduce the spread of the last virus.

We're really shaping up for one hell of a health disaster.

The average player is not playing 100% optimally with full sight of RNG outcomes and an undo button… this is so beyond the realm of “just git gud scrub”.

Yeah, I would say "playing 100% optimally is at least fair to look at, but if by known RNG, you can know things like say what joker will be negative if you take the skip blind, or what what will show up if you reroll the shop or open a pack, then that's such a huge advantage it doesn't even deserve to be part of the comparison. IE making zero mistakes would be a fair comparison... IE if you always take the move that has the highest odds of success with the information a player has, but counting decisions based on avoiding something with a 99% chance of success because the player knows it will be in the 1% is crazy bad way to grade something.

Ironically the far right is borrowing playbooks from the USSR.

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

In really lazy simplified version... they politicized how plants should be grown, and imprissoned biologists that said "plants don't work that way". In short... nature doesn't give a shit about politics. The weather doesn't care if you believe in climate change, and you can't teach plants to work collectively.

I'd second this... IMO it's probably good for the students to moderately hear about... but it just takes one curious student to ask follow up questions, and one super conservative triggered parent to blow everything sky high, and tank your career. So IMO... probably not, unless you are looking to get out of teaching and want to do some good on the way out.

Honestly while none of us can know the full scenerios, IMO I think it's more probable than not that some kind of mutually assured destruction is in place for both of them. IE both have commited enough crimes that, they could destroy eachother.

Maybe that’s why I enjoyed it, but wasn’t blown away by it.

I think you and I are probably similar in that. I'd say I really enjoyed about 20 hours of it, then played an additional 30 hours where I was hoping things would start getting fun again, but it never came.

Ignoring the video Slots scoring, and poker themes. I would still say luck is so much stronger in balatro then on any roguelike I've played. To the extent that the best "strategy", is basically to start going all in on a certain playstyle, that requires 3+ things to be viable, and then die or reset if the necessary components don't show up before the ante outpaces you.

In short, psudo-gambling mechanics are IMO largely what hooks people in the game, which I also have to say the PEGI group may actually be if anything slightly underestimating the risk. IE the game is 100% not gambling, but it draws on everything in the brain that gambling does. "Maybe next game will give me cooler jokers that will get me further". I mean yes all games have some extent of these, there's a reason why there's such a large overlap. As well as why basically all mobile app developers, and a good portion of big corporate monstrocities turned their games to build on gambling mechanics.

Balatro IMO leans into all of the hook on gambling tropes, just avoiding the last step of exploiting it to get users to continue to pay them money. It's actually a pretty reasonable question to ask... does it put kids/teenagers into a mindset that will make them more vulnerable to a less ethical game developer that takes that last step.

Point is fair, edited my original comment. It's not as much making up bullshit as attempting to interpret a vague order, and more or less giving it how most the media has interpreted it.

Valid point, though still key point is... They are getting the US government to buy tesla's... which helps take some of the load off needing consumers to buy them.

I mean that's still pretty big. Why did the advertising campaign exist... to remind and encourage people to get flu shots, I'd assume they started doing that because... it helped with that. So what's the expected effect of canceling the campaign, Less people getting vaccinated, and more people dying and going into the hospital due to either themselves chosing not to, or being unable to do so, and herd immunity being less.

IMO the gambling themes are the selling point of balatro. Hell ignoring the poker half, the dev's themselves basically said the whole scoring theme etc... was made to be slot machine style gameplay.

To be honest I think that's a very large percentage of it's popularity, is just that viewpoint making it accessible to, non gamers and non roguelike fans. I don't think it would be a top seller if done as a "slay the spire", or done with a theme that doesn't have appeal to non-gamers.

Also I would say, balatro is like 2 or 3 very minor changes away from easily being a "suck crazy amount of money from gambling addicts" game. IE if someone took balatro, released it on mobile platforms as f2p. Only differences being to slightly increase the speed of the anti score. and say start each game with 2 optional joker packs (for $1 chose between one of 3 random negative jokers), for $2 chose one of 5 negative jokers). (obviously replacing the dollar amounts with purchasable in game currency). You'd easily get into top mobile apps and make a killing.

My question really, who is buying tesla's these days, and is that even a noteworthy percentage of musks income these days.

Honestly it looks to me like musk is just adapting to leaching off the government anyway. Also throwing in the pivot of basically getting trump to commit to buying (Edit due to incorrect information:) Vehicles from tesla for military use. I mean yes absolutely don't give him the extra stream of income... but, but I can't help but feel this is rather toothless.