I think another vital part is that they don't really want transgression per se. They want the protection from the murderous and torturous arm of the state for being assholes.
They want a world where depravity gets rewarded and the transgression of being ethical gets you turned killed.
It's too late for this person, but if any of you are longing for the frisson of transgression, can I suggest participating in ICE watch outside your local ICE facility?
It's true. America is unique in that we have enough armament to destroy the entire planet several times over and enough foolishness at the head of our state that we might consider it.
The other thing that makes America stand out is our excessive number of unprosecuted billionaires.
As much as they tell each other campfire stories about the hordes of regretful transitioners, they simply can’t show any proof when it comes to actual real people.
(I know you know. Just sharing this for anyone in your audience who might not know about this failed project)
It's unfair to avocados toasts by a few orders of magnitudes.
I hate this man so much, Just everything about him is such bumbling movie villain energy, but he's real and holds actual power. Fucking baffling the world is like this.
The military is conservative avocado toast
Trans people existing is more important than eating at chili's or watching Harry Potter on HBO. I have no problem throwing all these companies in the dustbin
Fuck 'em. There's literally half a dozen restaurants just like them.
Adjusted for inflation, I make approximately the same wage now, as a QA in tech on a crap contact, as I did at age 19 working part-time at a pet store.
You can't make deals if everyone knows you reneg on deals.
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
Plenty of people pointing this out, but it is actually important to remember that the strangling of student protest movements in the US happened in plain sight and it was Democrats who did it to try to stifle the outcry against the genocide in Palestine
A selection of "Canadian whiskies" sourced from American liquor store websites that I have never seen in my life in Canada. They have names like Canadian Leaf, Canadian Deluxe, Canadian LTD and Windsor Blended.
US liquor stores often carry lots of Canadian whiskies that, I bet they'd be surprised to learn, do not exist in Canada.
They're purely made for export, to the land of $10 plastic liquor bottles at gas stations. Cheap rye rotgut cashing in on a post-WWII US mystique of Canadian whisky as "premium"
"Anti-Wokes" gotta be the most deranged people on the planet. Motherfucker, I don't care this much about games that I LOVE, how the hell do you care this much about games you aren't even going to play?
Simply using the term “islamoleftism” should get you laughed out of any circle less conservative than the third reich.
Koremstsu v. US (1944) which upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment, and Buck v. Bell (1927) which upheld forced sterilization of disabled ppl, have never been overturned by SCOTUS.
GenAI is the *anti-compiler*.
It destroys the ability to reason about what a program is doing, it destroys the ability to construct a mental model of it, it hammers to absolute dogshit the ability to maintain and extend it.
Grace Hopper would smack these dipshits unconscious.
You've seen this video pop up all day, but no one has yet pointed out that this kid is 28 years old.
He is a full 28 year old adult.
If there are two mechanics that you need to focus, it's burst counter, it's simply to dramatic to ignore, and ki pulses.
About KP, it establish the tempo of combat and you can do sick stuff when you respect the rhythm. After that, you can shift stance and weapon mid combo.
There are many mechanics to learn.
These guys fundamentally don't see their victims as people but objects they can manipulate according to their whims, and are absolutely fucking baffled and enraged when the object malfunctions by saying "no" or using a drone to fight back.
One half of all television is urban fantasy set in a speculative universe in which police serve a positive societal function
I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while.
It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.
Also, I think that you can only cooperate so much with facists in a way that helps them cover their facists goals before people think that both parties are really facist.
One thing that happens when you see the rest of the world as NPCs is that you stop understanding that they will respond to the things you do in ways that are inconvenient and do not advance your personal agenda.
I believe that few things have been as poisonous to establishment liberals as The West Wing.
Americans are about to learn one of the things I was yelling about during the campaign: the US cannot produce enough oil to keep us from feeling the global shocks of oil prices, because oil is produced by companies who will just charge us more money if the supply goes down elsewhere.
