If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn’t know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.

I know I told you my vulnerability to being accused of things I didn’t do, but this tendency doesn’t apply to internet comments. I don’t expect to have good faith conversations with anonymous strangers. I wish you the best with whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

I don’t think you understood what I wrote. You are offended on my behalf and I’m not offended. If you have difficulties with emotional regulation as well and are offended for yourself, that would be perfectly legitimate.

As a qualified cptsd haver, I am in no way offended by this accurate portrayal of my defensiveness when I feel like I may suffer damages over something I’m not guilty of. I assume others get upset about this as well.

Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

It could, or it could be decided the same way every war the US has waged for decades has been decided. It has been well established for all the world to see that even though it is not possible to outproduce the US’s military industrial complex, it is possible to win anyway if you don’t surrender for as long as it takes the US public to stop tolerating throwing away their children’s lives for nothing. The US military’s logic that weapons are all it takes to win a war has been tested over and over again it and it’s proven false very consistently. Iran can only lose if it surrenders. We have no victory condition again so we can’t win.

The police show up at your door. They tell you they need to search your house. There’s a group of them so there’s no way you would be able to watch all of them while they search your house. You have no idea why they would want to search your house. Would you feel comfortable letting them search your house since you have nothing illegal? Would you trust them?

Better yet, would you be comfortable allowing them access to search your home at any time with or without your knowledge or consent?

Is there a major difference if the police’s searches are only of your digital devices? Do you trust everyone who seeks the job of warrantlessly probing through the private documents of strangers?

I like how we have reached a world economic stage where we have way more people than jobs available and the proposed solution of multiple governments is to increase unplanned pregnancies.

If Google had released an AI skinner-box geneation tool, publicly traded video game companies would all collapse over night.

This but actually. Dnd is not the best system to live out the group’s actual fantasy of social revolution, and that’s what my groups tend to want to do.

Come to think of it, can anyone here suggest a good rpg system to simulate working people siezing the means of production from the bourgeoisie?

Addicts. They were/are in a vulnerable place and a religion took advantage of them nurturing their vulnerability and dependency to profit from them. It was this or heroin basically. It would be nice to live in a world which doesn’t traumatize people and then profit on their trauma-driven trigger responses.

It is racist. I hope one day you will undersand why it is instead of becoming defensive about it. Just know that regardless of your intentions or understanding, when you say this word other people will correctly interpret that you are being racist.

There are some cogent points in there, but the author fails to realize that the problem with capitalism is the capitalists themselves. The issues they complain about are the inevitable consequence of allowing capitalists to own the means of production rather than the people. Capitalists care less about being patriotic and doing good deeds than they do about their capital holdings, and an investment in corruption and cronyism is one of the safest bets capitalists with sufficient power can make.

Even though the view you expressed is a joke, there are people whose real life politics are a joke.

Living paycheck to paycheck in the US often means working over full time hours across a few part time jobs and still not always being able to pay all the bills every month. No one should be ok being a wage slave no matter where they live in the world.

You nailed it.

Here specifically is where consumers have drawn the line with the Postal series, a game series about doing mass killings for fun.

The nerve of CNBC to use the word “hoarding” and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.