HopeOfTheGunblade

HopeOfTheGunblade , 12 days ago

You're missing 1.5: Make it impossible for people who every professional medical association of good repute says said medication help, get the medication by prescription.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 14 days ago

I think that, so long as work is mandatory to basic survival, it will be degrading. When people have real options is when that changes.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 20 days ago

Well, shit. That's going to put a little tarnish on my next FNV playthrough.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 19 days ago

Well yeah, but I'll know.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 23 days ago

I mean, it's possible to have a happy, healthy, 24/7 D/s relationship. Not that you're wrong about the rest of it; the people who get into the tradwife thing think "consent" is a dirty word.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 26 days ago

You don't think nearly 1/6th is statistically significant? What's the lower bound on significance as you see things?

To be clear, it's obviously dumb for their generative system to be overrepresenting turbans like this, although it's likely to be a bias in the inputs rather than something the system came up with itself, I just think that 5% is generally enough to be considered significant and calling three times that not significant confuses me.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 1 month ago

So for the 99% there is an abolishment of private property, leaving only personal property and public property, everyone has an equal share, and the state has been dissolved?

Because if not, at least one of us doesn't understand communism. It's entirely possible we both don't. Would you be willing to clarify the term as you understand it?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Revolutions, on average, make things worse. Seriously, the outcome of the median revolution is pretty terrible. Things need to be incredibly bad before it's an improvement in expected value to do a revolution, instead of trying to improve the existing system.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Seems to be working for the Nordic countries. I genuinely think that if you try a revolution in America, what you get will not be socialism. If you're lucky, you will fail and get violent government rerribution. If you aren't lucky, you'll get full on authoritarianism, with mass bloody purges of undesirables of all shades. The rate of revolutions leading to good outcomes sucks. Mostly you get various flavors of dictatorships. Often with state sponsored mass murder.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

How would you do so nonviolently? Would you get your people into office? That seems like the nonviolent way to seize control of the state, but if there is another, I'm interested to hear it.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Wasn't familiar with that term, looked it up. That looks like reform within the system rather than seizing the state. To do "through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership," you need to not get shot when you strike. Trump would absolutely hire the Pinkertons of old to kill strikers and union leaders. Biden has been an outlier in how good he has been for unions, and capital is trying to use the captured supreme Court against him in that. So, I'd prefer that he stay in office and keep doing that, while yes, absolutely, 1000%, organize and do strikes and generally fight harder from within the system than just casting a vote every four years. Just don't flip the table or encourage others to rather than do these things, is my perspective, and that's what revolution means in my understanding.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Biden being less terrible doesn’t make him a force for good.

No, but him being adequate to not dragging leftists out behind the barn and having them shot is a necessary basis for any sort of improvement.

What do you think Revolution is? Bombing everyone?

Bombing everyone seems inefficient to the goal, which in a revolution is overthrow of the existing order. I'm not aware of any peaceful overthrowings of existing orders, can you point to some?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

What would you say was the least violent revolution that succeeded, by whatever metrics you use for those words?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Well, if my options to get dragged to the camps is either right now or in a few election cycles, I'm on the side of it taking longer.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Well, I voted Biden in 2020, and here we are four years later and I ain't in a camp yet. Kind of seems like that's an inaccurate prediction, and you would be served by considering the chain of reasoning that led you to this pass, to see what improvements might be made in your process to enable better predictions in the future. Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Trump and the rest of the red team are loudly and proudly proclaiming that they want to and moving that way in territory they control.

Do you have a suggestion as to what I should do that isn't accelerationism or removing any power I have to influence outcomes by turning to fantasy as a solution?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

I agree that that's fucked. Giving the red team power means that number gets bigger, faster, and that no improvement whatsoever takes place. Perfection isn't on my political menu, do you have a suggestion that isn't accelerationism or not influencing the situation at all? Because "vote third party" sure doesn't seem to have "sent a message" in any way I can recognize. It just enshittified the country faster. Looks like harm reduction is the order of the day in politics while encouraging improvement via other means.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

I'm not sure why you think that letting the Republicans win by voting third party does anything but make things much, much worse, than not letting them win. First past the post elections are in part a keynesian beauty contest, and if you can't recognize how that is the case, I don't think you have a lot to correct me on.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Hi. I voted uncommitted. In the primary. Also, I advocated for others to vote uncommitted, in the primary. There, it's a useful signal. In the general, it's handing the country to people gleefully proclaiming they want to round you up, and who openly and blatantly showed their disregard for your continued existence by letting a plague run rampant on the basis that cities vote blue and are more crowded so would suffer more death.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

pays a subscription

Subscriptions don't work

Little confused by this one, but yeah. I can't afford subscriptions, and I also can't afford the products and services the ads are for. Ads are just pollution in my consciousness, so why should I reduce my QoL for no benefit to anyone? If a creator says that if you use adblock, don't watch me, I won't. Site blocks adblockers, I don't use it. What else am I supposed to do, when I make less than a living and don't really have better options?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

And at the same time, are loudly proclaiming that trans people are doing exactly that. It's truly stunning how good at prediction, "It's always projection" is, as a heuristic.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Right up there with Fox calling "people getting paid more" "wage inflation" and saying it'll doom the economy if it isn't stopped.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 2 months ago

Having a business has the damnedest way of making people forget that you can't shear sheep you starved to death.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

I read one of those as "Depraver". Having looked more closely, the future is now less interesting.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

The one on the left looks so surprised that the one on the right leaned in.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

This is the way.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

Wait, people actually pee IRL from those? I have bladder pressure induced "looking for a toilet" dreams ever, but I've never actually let go, I just wake up near to bursting.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

I can happen to you!

...am I being threatened?

Typo jokes aside, I actually have a minor issue with my pelvic floor that makes peeing a little harder, it takes some effort to go, so hopefully it neither gets worse nor goes that way.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

Not to mention a diaper obsessed Nazi.

Also his pick, either an idiot or a liar. John Oliver just did a segment on how absolutely fucked it is that people can buy Supreme Court justices, like Clarence Thomas. He then offered Clarence Thomas a pile of money to retire, just like he's getting from Harlan Crowe to stay on the bench, and Walsh tried to say that Oliver should be arrested for that. You dopey fuck, are you saying that Crowe (a noted collector of Nazi memorabilia) should be prosecuted for actually bribing the guy? Or are you saying that it should be illegal to do so but isn't? Or are you disingenuously lying, like you did in your propaganda piece, like Ben Shapiro flatly admitted to for their "comedy", is that it?

I hate the way he can push me away from being the best version of myself because he is so infuriating.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

He had a couple of his friends wrestle in diapers (one of them had a swastika tat) and he was selling a plush with his head on a baby's body for a while, because his fans are the "sweet baby gang".

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

I always joke that I'm such a bottom I got a special surgery to make me better at it.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

Wait, our left or their left?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

I happen to talk to a bunch of queer people in the area, who have gone from recommending this place to "fuck that place", so great job whoever actually made this decision. Not every queer person is pro union but I'd bet we run higher than the population average for it.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 3 months ago

AGI is AI that can do anything a human can do. Consciousness is not a requirement, and is likely unethical.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 4 months ago

Listening to Peter talk about GPT as if it was an all comprehending oracle when he was interviewed on Hannah Reloaded was unsettling, because I know he's not alone in thinking it's (paraphrased) "a pattern detecting intelligence, that can see things we can't" my brother in Christ it is a better Markov chain engine.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 4 months ago

I'm just saying, I game on a Windows 10 machine, use Firefox for a browser, and have never ever had this problem.

HopeOfTheGunblade , 4 months ago

So how many guys have you fucked?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 4 months ago

Hey, I wasn't asking how many men, I asked how many guys. Since the person I asked said it's not gendered, why are you making it gendered?

HopeOfTheGunblade , 4 months ago

Nobody, monkeys included, deserves to die the way those monkeys did.