Doubledee

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

It's especially funny because the Bible itself is clearly a self critical process of picking and choosing over time, the earliest writings are revisited and reconsidered in light of later events and subsequent authors explicitly point out the limits of the received wisdom they have available to them.

Modern fundamentalism has thoroughly fucked this issue so badly that they have skewed the terms on which even people who do not believe it have discussions about the text. It's honestly an astonishing accomplishment on their part

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

It's kind of encouraging how there's only like 5 people going for his bullshit at least.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're observing a problem of scale. There's basically no people in Nuuk relative to Rio. It takes a lot of resources to create dense efficient layouts, and those resources are easier to concentrate and more profitably invested in places with more people.

There's enough people in Rio for density to make economic sense. Space is cheap in Nuuk and resources are more scarce.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Right, isolating the US is good for everyone else, the more tied to us they are the more leverage we have over them and the worse we can hurt them if they don't do the evil things we expect of them. Weakening the US is critical to the freedom and dignity of humanity.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

I don't think this accounts for all of it (I think the other posts here have a lot of valuable insight) but one little note I'd make is that I think right-wingers tend to be very uncritical in their consumption of art and often have a very poorly developed ability to evaluate something as art. Art is often 'good' if it has a surface-level moral that is good, or if it is 'pretty' in a nondescript way. The point of art is to be didactic and AI can achieve that very low standard, so there's nothing to sound any alarms about how ugly or ridiculous the imagery actually is; that would require paying attention to the image longer than they are willing to think about it.

I think it's the logical conclusion of the same phenomenon someone like Big Joel is always observing in the media right-wingers produce. Art is shackled to their messaging and their messaging sucks. With rare exceptions this is the obvious result of that process. AI generated images take the amount of effort they would willingly put into their messaging to create.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People will literally kill each other if they cannot get an oven mitt for $3 a month after they ordered it. Americans are not well, this is going to be very bad.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Well now I'm confused. I guess you meant it was an impressive clown show?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Yeah like, this is the best they've got? Pathetic.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

... is it really yummy? Is that the problem? Americans just wanna eat a yummy apple treat?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I want to like Foundation. Ive made a couple bigger towns and I like the organic look of the paths. But it's hard now that Manor Lords is out, it's just outclassed in the "making a pretty city" department and doesn't have another draw really.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Got into a rhythm in Sailwind: get all my needs met, check the course is how I want, adjust the rigging for any wind shifts and then read my book until I need to do any of those some more. Nice way to get progress in the voyage and in the book at the same time.

Beyond that cracked DRG open again, lotta new stuff, bounced off of a bug where I didn't get the reward for my assignment, might go back might not.

Also looking at jumping back in Sulfur now that there's more places to explore and more guns and mods to try. Just gotta make sure I've got a spare set of good but disposable gear to test the new zones.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Who decides what is a "real job?" And why do people care so much about whether others have a "real job" or not? Your money isn't magically worth more because you made it working a construction job vs. me pressing a few buttons on an app.

I think it's a very rudimentary form of class consciousness, or at least a recognition of the illogic of the economy. People recognize that there is a disparity between the value of the work being done (hoarding children's toys to make money off of arbitrage, standing in a big building buying and selling stock) and the amount these people are compensated compared to the value of keeping trash off of the street or maintaining the sewer system or cooking food for people.

You're right that the system is basically unreasonable. I don't think it's weird for people to notice that and be upset about it though, even if they lack the terminology to say what they're upset about.

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