utopia deferred

hey siri Youtube “warhammer 40k every legion horus heresy” set sleep timer 30 minutes thank you siri

can confirm that slay the spire II will become a problem

Although it would be doctrinally impermissible to assert definitively that any particular person is the anti-Christ, he is an anti-Christ.

what a year, huh

i mean, honestly, how much worse could it possibly get

not to be alarming but it's friday again which, for those not keeping up back at home, is typically the day he does something extremely bad

Hate it when someone chops my arm off as I reach the top of the siege ladder. Ok I guess I’ll just tumble screaming into the throng of attackers below ?

Jeremiah Wright, Obama got in big trouble way back in the day when Republicans discovered that he had attended his church a few times. It's was pathetic then and now it's just sad now.

*not hear: the whisperings*

yeah sure okay

yeah sure okay

yeah he really did not miss. not a single shot. all bullseyes.

time to report a bug to the devs

i will never forgive myself for doing this

why am i debating ai i was supposed to be playing slay the spire ii and drinking beer

it's a chicken and egg problem except for political economy. i really think it's insane to expect the masses to ingest yet another social technology in grace while only hating the owners of the capital when it is the owners of the capital who stomp on us from underneath that social technology.

And so, on this precise measure, I also think we have a lot to be afraid of such that the repeat criticism of focusing on who controls it bleeds into the background because *we don't have any means, presently, to do anything whatsoever about it **because** of the owners*
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Alright well I do it plenty, I think. I don't think it's the only reason to criticize it but I do think it's a major factor.

which, when you think of it, really doesn't sound too off anymore. the % of people who make up the ruling class of tech coming from monied families and societies—Sam Altman from STL as an example, no less—is yet another factor in identifying our present relationship to tech as one of oppression.

so when I say that this incidence of technology is bad precisely of the moment and mode that has produced it, I say this thinking about how, at the time, industrialization was also quite bad and evil. Because it was controlled, owned by tyrants of aristocracy turned industry.

like the returns on productivity, for the masses of the western world, were not really seen for about a century and a half. and that was, in large part, a result of bloody revolutions of class.

I just want to be very clear: you do know that industrialization actually worsened the average quality of life for the lower classes for about a century and a half, correct?

FINANCIAL TIMES Let me get all of this straight in my head. They want their allies to join in an ill-thought-out war of choice with unclear aims and an uncertain chance of success for any of the myriad aims stated so far. They want everyone else to just absorb any of the externalities like influxes of refugees, disruptions to shipping, higher oil and commodity prices and maybe even some incoming missiles. And then they also want to tariff everyone at 15%. I'm not sure they can keep pushing at everyone all at once indefinitely. There seems to be an inability here not just to anticipate second and third order effects, but even just to model a response from any other party, much less every other party.

It's Time

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Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

beers and sts II time

told my gf i was just going to thug it out but then she told me to check my email for a steam gift