kautau @ kautau @lemmy.world

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it’s social media algorithms that got us here

Definitely, but those that were pumped with money for fake ads to convince idiots to vote for destruction

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

It was the combination of hyper-capitalism and the Russian playbook to destabilize the west that got us here.

It’s always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Great read, thanks for sharing. The specific permalink for those confused arriving at a page of links:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others

Or realistically on Mac. Mac Catalyst is neat but you’re basically building an iPad UI and afaik that’s all that MAUI supports still

Eh, not if you’re already rich. gestures broadly to the wealthy that do so and suffer no consequence

No different than any other conservative playbook.

"I know nothing about project 2025"

meanwhile https://www.project2025.observer/

"The trans people are abusing our kids!"

Meanwhile, page 50: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/2/2221200/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-50

Edit: Latest: page 55

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/24/2312324/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-55

"They're spreading misinformation!"

Which is always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

The projection is the only thing consistent

Wouldn’t surprise me if the names are changed. It is the globe and mail after all, not Reuters or the associated press

Lol it was the idiot solo who woke himself and everyone up. The rockerboy just always avoided conflict and made a wildly dramatic exit. But the events in motion had us all crying laughing while my brain scrambled to plot the continuation of the story as the group rolled to destroy my cool narrative

I ran a cyberpunk red campaign as the GM. I set up a storyline where the group was captured by Arasaka using an experimental “flashbang” that would shut down anyone with neural implants (the whole group). The dumbest of my group attempted to escape that. He rolled a nat 20 and I had him literally commit ego death inside his mind to “wake up.” Inside the AV they were all trapped in was my version of the head of arasaka security. Basically an undefeatable t-1000.

He rolled a nat 20 again and woke everyone on the av up with advantage. Then the fucking rockerboy convinced the head of security to save him rolling his own nat 20 while the others worked to override/crash the AV before it could land at arasaka

So I ended up having the rockerboy being wrapped in a big hug by the head of security and jumping out as the av crashed (the tech lowered the speed). So the rockerboy survived with like no damage, the head of arasaka security was fucked up, the team survived, and never made it to the entire narrative I had planned.

10/10 would GM again

Sure, though colloquially as Merriam Webster points out it’s

a plan or program of action, especially a crafty or secret one

Usually if you don’t mean that it’s secretive you’d just say plan

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scheme

United States

4 weeks of vacation

Lol

If the employee “works” every day of the year they earn -$26000

Same with Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp, etc. but the response usually boils down to “I like to communicate with people on [platform] and since they won’t leave I can’t leave”

*The Art of the Grift

Yeah “blood boy” Thiel and Palantir and the like are the “deep state” the right witch hunted for so long. Pretty sure https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Engerraund_Serac is partially based on him with the “I’ll control the future of the human race and swim through the blood to get to the ending I think is best because I’m rich”

As sad as it sounds, we'll also have to watch his 13 specifically IVF male children, which he calls "legion", to see what they do with pieces of his fortune as they grow older. He reads dystopian sci-fi media and wants to build that.

I'm keeping Vivian Wilson out of that nonsense because she has publicly disowned him and is awesome.

Have to darkslide so you grind a little slower and also get more points though

I mean mostly it was destroyed by

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

Being executed very well through social media companies that cared about nothing but profit, but yes, that led to the strategy you’re describing

Google will be slammed for this what do you mean

I feel like there are two versions of nerds

1. The version that internalizes the stories, realizes the value of empathy and sympathy and the destructive power of authoritarian control
2. The version that sees a fake universe but they have to win in it no matter what because “winning” is all that matter because their dad told them that they wouldn’t get the trust fund otherwise and so that universe doesn’t really matter as long as they’re winning