melpomenesclevage @ melpomenesclevage @lemm.ee

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You looked up a book. Therefore you know its contents.

Okay.

Literally the worst decision makers. I'd trust chatgpt trained on fantasy novels (with no MBA's in them to poison the data set), a literal child, a schizophrenic monk from the 13th century who (because of the 13th century thing not the rest) cannot stop screaming, or a 12 sided dice on a table of the dumbest things youve ever done in an RPG, before I'd trust an MBA to make good decisions.

I'd trust harry dubois/tequila sunset, or the characters in IASIP to make better healthier more prosocial decisions than anyone who's ever been to business school.

Like, my confidence in someone drops straight through the earths crust when I hear 'business school'.

But if youre banning people based on operating system, of what's now the only viable consumer operating system, youre basically sacrificing 100% of 'keep the game fun longer' for those players.

So if that's the philosophy, it would be wildly counterproductive to even put that on the table.

Strong moderation? Shadow banning habitual cheaters to cheat leagues?

I remain skeptical. But you do you.

Misotheism.

Miso as in misogyny, misandry, etc. Not as in the delicious fermented paste that makes a lovely soup.

Its 'god(s) exist(s) and can absolutely go fuck itself/themselves, possibly for the following reasons...'

I know right? Completely ruin geology.

To be fair; pretty common.

Helps not die. Not so much heal.

Okay yeah that wasn't my finest statement.

I did this yesterday.

I'd honestly take that. Uh, is there a remind function? If I assume this will be here and I'll have an account in ten years?

So, the beach thing. Why does it happen, and why does it 'not happen anywhere else'?

Have you read 'a paradise built in hell'?

Did you read my point about believing in the existence of, but not favoring spontaneous organization. A deliberate but headless structure is possible! They're actually really cool! Good thing too, because strict hierarchies are wildly inefficient and trend towards flattening the territory to match the map, which tends to lead to fascism.

And if I believed it was only a fuhrer or a grand wizard, I'd fucking kill myself and take as many as I could with me. Thankfully I've seen (and executed) proof to the contrary.

How do you know if someone has never eaten a vegetable? They won't shut the fuck up about vegans. Same for windows fanboys, etc.

I was commenting after thatthat had been done. Youre arguing with the wrong person, regardless of how I feel about your points. I'm going to be the bigger person and leave now

Then come back, after a cup of tea, and write this part.

You can be all manner of shitty without religion, but religion as a framework is generally (and they're not all the same) a tool for getting people to accept and do awful shit-partially, I admit, a (violent) selection pressure, but when you believe blatantly magical bullshit, you're more easily manipulated against your stated conscience and general interest, and the people willing to do that tend to be the biggest bastards. Its also a mostly static model of reality youre very emotionally attached to, with no or problematic adjustment mechanisms, and those are always dangerous, even when they're as or more accurate than other options (which none of the big ones are).

Religion doesn't determine good/bad, but it's got its finger on the needle. That's not to say it hasn't produced things I respect; Spinoza, Hegel, guy whose name I can never remember how to spell who wrote 'pedagogy of the oppressed', but I'm not sure how much any of those are attributable to it, and a lot (most? One is too many) of those holy wars (including the worst ongoing genocide I'm aware of at time if writing) serve(d) little/no material interest, of anyone.

So I'm only saying this because you basically walked up and asked me. But also I'm queer and it makes me feel very unsafe. Its a kind of volatility, if someone is, say, any of the abrahamic faiths, that they can just... Turn, almost instantly, for reasons I can't argue or persuade or accommodate, for no real reason, against my very existence. Ive lost a lot of people to that. And it fucking sucks. No nonreligious person did this to me until ~2016. It took fascism, which I would argue is a (particularly bad) religion.

Doubt.

Oh. Shit magical and spontaneous? So there's nothing other than a master with a whip and a fucking wizard?

Its not what i favor, or what im proposing, but spontaneous organization does happen. Youve never been in a disaster, or started digging a hole at the beach, have you?

So you don't deny any of it? Just deflect abd reassure yourself that 'I have my shit together, so it can't happen to me'

In a cafe? No. In a video game lobby? I played way too much StarCraft.

What would you bet that it will never happen?