But I know that no one is PRO genocide.

I mean I understand wanting to see the world that way but whole entire societies of people can become genocidal. That is precisely what causes the atrocity of genocides like the palestinian genocide in gaza to grow out of control.

Once the centrists in a society accept the rightwing framing of the ideology of genocide they will treat it as the status quo and resist anyone who threatens it. This is what is so fucking terrifying about blind centrism, the substance doesn’t matter at all to the ideology, just tracking the most commonly accepted “facts” which inveitably ends up in centrists bandwagoning behind an authoritarian.

This is the stage of fascism Israel is deep into and the US is not far behind in and it quickly obliterates in you any doubt that people actually can be pro-genocide.

We all have the potential to be, it is our choices and our empathy that give us agency to resist becoming so.

Sure but also ugggh

They will break the internet as much as they need to in order to accomplish this.

The third part is youtube keeps implementing more sophisticated ad blocking to the point you can’t block ads…

In order for this to be accurate, the building plans would need to encoded so only the building designers have any clue how the building works and how safe it is.

Also moving around random mundane objects in the building like a picture frame on an office wall not infrequently causes a cascading and horrendous displacement of all the other objects in the building.

To open the breaker box involves operating two sets of panels, first the building tries to get you to use the new updated breaker panel interface but it was designed by the portion of the company that was told to sell more “cloud rooms” which are tiny and full of cameras that monitor residents and serve ads to them over a preinstalled intercom, so the first panel hides all the normal rooms and you have to find a latch and a set of 30 screws that when removed allows you to access the old breaker panel with all the other rooms. Every single time you open the breaker you have to repeat this process.

There is a building supervisor that used to be at least somewhat helpful when residents had questions but they got replaced by a new person. The replacement confusingly advertises nearby chain stores to you when you call them up to ask about a plumbing issue and answers specific questions about the building they are in charge of oddly, as if they were questions about buildings in general all over the world.

I feel like I am missing some key things here, but this is at least a somewhat accurate starting point for a microsoft word building.

“Narrow nothing, kink is fine, but it isn’t appropriate in public. You just want to subject people to your kink against your will (which btw flies in the face of safe, sane, consensual.)”

I agree heterosexual cis gender white men have a huge issue with not getting consent! They should really keep their creepy kinks (like for example domestic abuse or racism or making creepy unsolicited comments to women… and girls) out of public spaces.

The hilarious thing about your argument is that it applies to cisgender heterosexual white men better than it does to furries.

Not that it was a good argument in the first place, it seems like you are unable to confront how narrow your view of the world is.

“I’m not that old, but I remember a time when people wouldn’t generalize and stereotype each other based on political leanings.”

I remember a time when people had to band together to fight back dinosaurs in order to stop them from terrorizing villages.

Want to write a history book with me?

We could call it “Bullshit That Clearly Never Happened”

To be honest I dont see anything productive to this insight, you are just talking through your own silly meaningless prejudices where you can’t resist sexualizing the totality of an identity in order to rationalize your disgust for it, nor can you resist casually associating said identity with the potential for violence.

It is a bit like picking your nose in public, no one is really interested in seeing it.

When Jupiter or Saturn finally wins some competitions are they going to get their medals in the form of precious metals aersolized into a vapor and stuffed into a mason jar?

Oh thanks! I didn’t even realize factorio wasn’t real!

facepalm silly me

Thank you for the thoughtful response

It’s also kind of interesting to consider the impacts of the biters themselves, they aren’t really a life form, they’re more akin to a bacteria, just on a macro, insect scale. They literally only do something productive for themselves once you get in their way. Their entire evolutionary lifeform is predicated on you being a negative influence on their environment. They consume your pollution, and use it to grow and become stronger. However, left to their own devices they seem to spread across the entire planet, almost like a cancer, just without the consumption of life that is typical, because biters seem to be magic?

I mean I would accept magic, but anything less of an explanation of the biters behavior seems like a problematically reductive view of life.

Even the behavior of bacteria is complex and more nuanced than a cancerous process.

I get that it is a game, but I think these things do matter, especially for computer minded people who want to understand everything as a computer programs and recklessly ignore the reality of the environment around them. Media like this severs the salience of the surrounding landscape to people, and contextualizes it simply as a resource to exploit.

Idk, I mean factorio is amazing, I totally get why people love it, and I know the focus of the game isn’t on this but still…

The Sea Will Claim Everything

https://store.steampowered.com/app/337720/The_Sea_Will_Claim_Everything/

I like factorio but the game never even asks the question of whether destroying an entire planets ecosystem just so you, one person, can get home is ethical or right.

I don’t know, it is a small thing, I totally get why people get addicted to factorio’s gameplay loop not disputing how amazing that is it is just the basic premise of the game makes me uncomfortable in it’s disinterest in the planet you are on being anything but a resource to conquered and consumed or in thinking about how you are actually the villain in this situation from the planet’s perspective.

edit ok I was wrong here, I understand what people disagreeing with me are saying

The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.

I am not attacking you, I understand the knee jerk reaction, I am just pointing this out because I think it is true. I also don’t question that you are genuine in your concern, that isn’t what I mean.

To everyone else on this thread, especially if you are white/European or from the US and are white please don’t joke about the President of Mexico getting assassinated given the history with Mexico and the US (and by extension Europe). It isn’t funny, even when you are being sarcastic.

Just be happy for Mexico.

Do it, fucking go crazy, let all your weird fucked up dark fantasies out, as both a very chaotic person but also a very thoughtful and caring person, fucking now is the time to do it.

Linux has gotten really good, drivers are good. You can do it and your headaches will be so much less in the end.

Come over to the bright side.

Let your dark fantasies about doing lots of dirty things through the command line or whatever come true. Install a bunch of open source software and don’t even tell your husband.

It is 2024 do whatever the fuck you want, corporations have completely folded their hands and completely quit even playing the game of providing you (not rich person) with functional visions of products or even functional products. Why? I don’t even know honestly, I mean I am definitely a nerd about open source software and a raging socialist but it is truly astonishing how quick enshittification is in this late stage of 2024, it is the continual experience of standing im front of a massive glacier and watching square kilometer chunks calving and collapsing for no apparent logical reason.

“Bro there is nothing Biden can do more to stop the genocide of Palestinians. You want to risk the Orange man winning again in order to put pressure on Biden to save a paltry handful of Palestinians (what 60,000 people at most we can save?) if we lose it is your fault for Biden refusing to stop a genocide in a country that is entirely under the leverage of US military and political power because you wouldn’t do anything to stop the genocide. Thanks for letting Biden and the rest of us down you selfish prick. You are the reason Trump will win” —-centrist democrats trying to convince me to join into a coalition with them and vote for their candidate.

It really feels like this group of people learned precisely the wrong lesson from Hillary getting demolished in her presidential campaign, i.e. shame voters into voting for you.

Also it’s hilarious these people think Biden gives a fuck about the lives of innocent Palestinians and just can’t do anything to save them because of cold hard geopolitics. Like, those are US fighter jets dropping US bombs by pilots who have likely trained very closely with US fighter pilots, and the sorties being flown to slaughter Palestinians are likely according to training and direction of US military personnel. Not to mention the immense amount of money and political cover Israel gets as a blank check from the US.

It’s like, I’m sorry I hate to break it to you Biden voters but Biden isn’t against Israel’s genocide in any meaningful sense beyond empty rhetoric (remember how he said he couldn’t fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 because of the… parliamentarian…???) and he would rather risk losing the election than listen to the majority of US citizens who disapprove of supporting Israel in it’s heinous actions.

That is the sticking point for me, fuck the big orange guy, but if Biden thinks he can ignore progressives and other voices in the US clamoring to stop this awful genocide and still will this presidential election, I cannot support that kind of cynicism and structural betrayal of the progressive coalition with centrist democrats.

It is shocking how this tragedy exposes how the ideology of centrist democrats is founded on nothing other than an averaging function of people around them, there is no actual substance or beliefs, purely a cynical middle of the road calculation. Most of the time these people slip by fitting into the general conversation around ethics and politics almost invisibly, but the Palestinian genocide truly shows how little these people will ever listen to reason rather than just obsessively tracking what they perceive as the middle ground viewpoint no matter how insane or hurtful it is, even when it is leading to a horrendous mass killing that almost the entire rest of the world utterly condemns (who aren’t Allie’s of the US and afraid to piss us off).

I think this meme might actually be perfect

Wtf

I don’t know if Microsoft’s choices to drive windows into the ground are going to have an immediate impact on Linux adoption (though you certainly see some governments trialing Linux right now because of it) but in the medium term they basically demand that Linux increase in users by a massive amount.

I know business not gaming is where Microsoft sees the value of Windows (and there is wayyyyyy more money in selling software for business) but I think a strategic defeat is happening right now with the steam deck taking off and more broadly the association in computer nerd’s minds that windows is the operating system to stick with is essentially all but evaporated from the series of bogglingly condescending decisions Microsoft has made about the future development of windows.

They lost, this period will gone down as a historic unforced error of a tech company undermining the foundation of their profits to make a bit more profits in the near term. They could have kept linux gaming mostly a pipe dream indefinitely if they just made sure windows wasn’t ever tooooo shitty of an experience for gaming, but now the dam is broken and though it might not be a flood all it once, the people leaving windows are never coming back and the movement of users away from windows will erode the levee behind the dam, compromising Microsoft’s basic ability to hold on to users, for gaming or business.

It starts with a trickle, but before we know it in a blink of an eye that trickle is going to cut a channel and slips its fingers back under the dam and destabilize the entire thing, and then it will be a massive rush of users leaving that Microsoft can’t control at all because they ignored the issue until the process was way past a point of no return.