Enkrod

whispers look up “Vintage Story”

i’m hooked

Yes it’s technically possible but WAY harder than in the US AND it IS frowned upon.

Bernie ran on medical issues, Zohran ran on cost of living and housing. https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform

And it’s getting harder to distinguish. I mean… look at Jasmine Crockett, since Mamdani’s win, liberals have started cosplaying as progressives. You can tell, because the only thing they do is point out the problems, but never propose a solution, while people like Bernie and Mamdani didn’t stop with pointing out “healthcare and housing are expensive”, they ran on actual solutions like medicare and rent-freezing.

Really? But he’s basically a progressive dream come true? Maybe because his Trump visit? But he really did great there too.

It’s the BEST! Project Zomboid is in my humble opinion the definite Zombie Apocalypse Survival Game with nothing else coming even close. Especially when modded, but even without mods. Had my Server running for 2 years and played with my friends, it was an absolute BLAST! It ended when we were sieged in our fortress by a horde a screen wide and somebody decided to throw Molotov cocktails at them… because burning zombies set everything they touch on fire… that includes wooden fortresses.

I specifically had told everyone that the only thing more dangerous then a horde is a burning horde. But did they listen?! Nooooo…

XD

It was such a fun ending though, the Zeds breaking through the south wall and us fighting them with everything we had until we were stranded in the garage and the doors were breaking down… so we toasted to having survived that long with bleach and died before they got to us.

My teenage self is in this image and I don’t like it.

“I don’t want the maybe-nazi, so let’s capitulate to the definitely-nazis.”

If one believes in the supernatural (which I don’t) Karma and Samsara don’t stricly need agency. They could be emergent properties of underlying supernatural laws/processes.

They absolutely are incompatible with a rejection of the supernatural, but not with the simple rejection of the existence of a god (as in: a supernatural force with agency)

Dude. No. My atheism is a rejection of a proposition that god exists. Nothing more and nothing less.

My strong/gnostic atheism is a rejection of the concept that gods could exist, based on my rejection of the concept of the supernatural based on my conviction of the intellectual importance of methodological materialism and scepticism in everyday epistemology.

But atheism does not have to include ANY of the second paragraph, it is NOT identical with scepticism, nor with the rejection of everything supernatural, even if those often coincide.

And you are muddying and diminishing atheism by "no true scotsman"ing it here.

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I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.

The problem with the 40k universe is that “not surviving” doesn’t necessarily mean an end to suffering.

My lesbian friend giggled uncontrollably at this.

Minor contra point. Many police in the UK do not carry guns on their person. They have access to guns and the state monopoly on violence is very one-sided in favour of the state, but community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen when the societal level of gun violence is low enough.

Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal

To quote Tim Minchin:

Isn’t this enough?
Just this world?
Just this
Beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of
Cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
If you’re so into your Shakespeare
Lend me your ear
“To gild refined gold
To paint the lily
To throw perfume on the violet
Is just fucking silly”
Or something like that
Or what about Satchmo?!
“I see trees of Green
Red roses too”
And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way then whatever, that’s ok
But here’s what gives me a hard-on
I am a tiny
Insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon
I have one life
And it is short and unimportant
But thanks to recent scientific advances
I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses
Twice as long
To live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
Of sharing curries and getting shitty at good-looking hippies with fairies on their spines and butterflies on their titties

I know it’s about superstition, new-age nonsense and “spirituality”, not other planets. But it’s just so on point to me for everything where we fail to appreciate this wonderful world around us.

THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS!

Also
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Honestly that was my read too.

We know AI won’t replace us and if it does we’ll come back for more money than before.