EnsignRedshirt [he/him]

Jordan Peterson is also a published professor. The bar isn’t that high.

Don’t. You’re free now. Take the W.

Other countries also have American soldiers in them.

Bring back old school matchmaking. People don’t know who they’re supposed to like, and they often make poor decisions. Maybe you could crowdsource matchmaking somehow, turn it into a game/hobby for busybodies. Can’t be any worse than what people are already doing.

I’m with you on this one, stopping at Berlin was unforgivable.

True roguelike fans know that there are no roguelike games.

Tom Dull

“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!”

This guy would shit his pants if he found out about FM radio.

By “generally legitimate” I just mean that they’re awarded to scientists for real things, as opposed to, like, giving the medical prize to RFK Jr. It’s still a shit institution.

Most things are named after pieces of shit. Being a piece of shit is the number one way to get something named after you. That’s not to say the Nobels aren’t a sham, but conceptually there are more offensive things than a prize that’s supposed to go to someone who contributes to humanity. Impressive that the system so effectively coopted them to do more shitty things. Important lesson there.

The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.

It’s like someone is constantly playing mean little pranks on you except that person is also you. “I’m going to make a medical appointment for future me and not tell him. They’re going to call him and he’s going to be so confused, lmao.”

Thanks for the reminder, I’ve been meaning to go to the pharmacy to refill my prescription for days. I just ran out this morning but still forgot until this moment. Best of luck, may we both end the day having completed literally one small task.

Reddit banned all the subreddits I actually enjoyed so I stopped participating altogether. It’s helpful to recognize that reddit’s structure leads to total stagnation in the content. I haven’t been active for years, but I still end up on a reddit thread from time to time to get answers to questions that Google should be answering (that’s another topic altogether) and I see the same stake jokes being made, the same arguments being had, the same mediocre insights from the same dull people, and it makes me so glad that I left. I don’t begrudge younger people going through the process of figuring out how to engage with the world, but I also don’t want to participate.

Not enough people mention Donella Meadows when bringing up theory, which I think is a missed opportunity. Systems thinking is very complementary to socialist theory, and Meadows’ book Thinking in Systems is quite approachable. It’s a good recommendation for someone who wants to learn more but still has some liberal brain worms.

I wish we saw more (good) mobile ports of those old games. 4X/management sims are great on a touchscreen device, and the lower resolution isn’t a problem on small screens. There’s so much mobile garbage that isn’t as good as games made 20-30 years ago that are essentially abandoneare now.

I’m not even sure it’s really parasocial. There’s nothing to have a relationship with. This seems like something else, although I don’t know what you’d call it. It’s more akin to getting addicted to a video game.

But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I’m not getting it?

I have heard zero people object to this extremely narrow definition of AI. This is an extremely fragile straw man that has no relationship with reality.

Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”

Well I’ve got bad news for you, that’s the only thing that the AI industry gives a shit about. That and pretending that they can replace human labor to justify wage depression and layoffs.

Also, you didn’t mention the excessive environmental impacts, or the fact that the industry is hemorrhaging money with no clear path to viability.

If you can’t think of at least a few reasons to be speculative about the current state of the AI industry then I’d go take a closer look at what’s actually going on.

I’ll be sincere here, the issue that this is clearly a forum for ADHD memes. People are here to have a chuckle and commiserate about shared experiences. Everyone here is aware that these aren’t good or useful behaviors.

It’s not about normalizing these behaviors, it’s about contextualizing them. If someone has been struggling with these things their whole life, there’s a good chance they’ve been told over and over again that they should try harder to not do these things, but without any compassion or accommodation or treatment. They’ve heard “oh, you should be able to control those things” from people who don’t have trouble with these things, and your comment is basically indistinguishable from that sentiment.

People know these are unhealthy behaviors, they know there are ways to work on them, and they are probably already doing that work. It’s unhelpful and tedious to point out that these are bad and you can work on them.