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if games like this are something you folks are a fan of, i guess i know where to post my next belt competition

So the student population around Stanford are gaming the study fee economy with Poe dot com eh? That’s pretty funny.

if this wasn’t copypasta, it is now

(edit: intended as a compliment)

why was there a sudden increase in building in games after minecraft

someone splain it

Oh so it sounds like we will be in good shape with some patches.

Sure. Here’s pair of examples as mentioned. Sorry if this bums you out, it bums me out.

Elon Musk article

RFK Transcript

STONE: It’s certainly a strange, almost dizzying moment for the public health field. Kennedy is well known for questioning the scientific consensus, pushing inaccurate information about vaccines. He’s founded an antivaccine advocacy group and is generally antagonistic toward mainstream medicine. As NPR has covered, he’s promoted unproven treatments for COVID and made other basless claims related to health.

At the same time, there’s no denying that on chronic disease prevention, there is some real overlap between what he talks about as his priorities and what you hear from scientists who work in this field. One of them is Barry Popkin, a professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He says, he would welcome meaningful action on nutrition and the food supply.

BARRY POPKIN: If it comes, I’ll support it, and I’ll be super surprised, and academia will be behind them and so on. But I do not see that. I fear the worst.

More RFK Credulity

AUBREY: RFK Jr. puts food- and diet-related policy changes at the top of his agenda, getting rid of a host of food additives and dyes and reforming the SNAP food assistance program, formerly known as food stamps. Kennedy says beneficiaries of the program should not be allowed to use their benefits to buy soda or processed foods, and points to the need for change. Dr. Mozaffarian agrees there’s plenty of room for innovation in this program.

MOZAFFARIAN: SNAP is one of the biggest handouts to the food industry, including for lots of junk food and unhealthy food. I think it’s absolutely critical that states are allowed to innovate and try new approaches and test them.

Sad that it has happened to Vice but I am more upset about NPR. They have Nazified so quickly it makes my head spin. They have posted fawning articles about RFK Jr and Elon Musk recently that are so credulous and anti-social it hurts to read.

Imagine trying to call up Chappell Roan for a tiny desk after you’ve become a propaganda outlet for a nazi government.

Saved to watch later, does anyone know what he covers in this video?

😭 its the funniest joke they have ever made

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• You are not going to vote your way out of this
• There is no just or reasonable way to govern a transcontinental slave empire

Oh okay I think we just disagree then.

I can see why you might read my post that way because what other context do you have. I don’t belong to the “us” group you mentioned. I spent 2015-2022ish doing direct service activism and it cost me a great deal. Part of the reason I sound disillusioned is because the fascists directly attacked and destroyed much of my work as I was performing it (especially in 2018 2019 when they were a little better organized). I did literacy and library access work for the incarcerated, primarily. My work was primarily volunteer so it seriously hurt my family’s economy, in addition to being undone in real time as paper bans and mail bans were put in place. People at the universities I “worked” for would provide verbal support, but that was all it ever amounted to.

Part of the reason I like Doctorow is because he gave a pretty accurate description of how literacy access within the prison system works in The Bezzle except for the part where he was using it to distribute LSD. That sounds cool but its largely based on a myth made up to protect prison employees who trade drugs inside.

You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

Not trying to call you out otherwise, how are you supposed to know

Heyyyy you’re right

fantastic post, I wouldn’t have considered that fan setting issue on Bazz…

wonder if one of the linux fans speed apps can replace that functionality to some extent

You know I think he actually uses the music producer example in his 2nd novel (The Bezzle).

Doctorow can write a great detective novel but he lives in absolute La La land. I’m glad he’s open about the fact he’s just distracting himself with this post, but the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

He has some understanding of that, I think? But like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

in about 201X I was having a terrible time trying to get through the thesis period of a master’s program

picked up some bundle of the OG 2DS (black & blue variant) and Pokemon X and loved it

a world where I could pick my friends, people were pleasant, my next career moves were obvious, and my work was rewarded? To this day, this is my escapist fantasy.