Apathy Tree

Probably would have worked better if she hadn’t abandoned the metaphor and swapped to another one.

She went with whatever she felt would be most impactful for the message portion, rather than the whole thing.

It seems disingenuous because it is. It’s not a coherent thought. At best it’s a bunch of unrelated thoughts crammed together. Probably based on what she thinks will hit. As sound bites.

So don’t feel bad not trusting it; it’s not even internally consistent. Even if you agree with part of it, a stopped clock is right at least once.

Also know that, as I live there :)

I think this wordplay just doesn’t hit for me. That’s fine.

If that’s it then I did get it, but it still feels like I’m missing something.

Maybe this one just doesn’t hit for me :)

I feel like I’m missing something. I get the wordplay, but I’m confused about the damage roll aspect.

When they all get out to swarm one person but leave the vehicle running, just get in, drive it several blocks away, and leave it there. :p

Call me crazy, but I say we try to get rid of political dynasty bullshit. Fuck the daughter who’s trying to protect her own election chances. Purge them all. Start fresh with better options. Whole party, with only a few notable exceptions which really prove the rule, is worthless.

Just like a pool with a ranked vote or individuals for districts or…?

Genuinely curious how that works

I’ll play with you.

Seriously.

I haven’t before but I’d love to. Last dnd I played was 3.5. I won’t touch anything else, except pathfinder and other non-dnd games.

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The best part of that show is how it grew with the times, while approaching difficult topics.

If you buy the old seasons on dvd, they come with content warnings saying they aren’t really suitable for children anymore. But back then they were so hugely progressive!

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Welp.

I watched several videos in addition to those and feel both better and not, I do understand the simplified analogies in the linked stuff, and they are helpful, as were some of the related content.

I kinda sorta understand the technical stuff, sort of. I’m not in a tech field or anything…

I’m going to keep it there regardless of the negative hype because you never know when I’ll need others to do the same. Im not doing anything wrong so it’s whatever.

I’m up to 10 :)

Thanks for this!

Well I spent the time between when I posted and when you replied looking into various things related to tor, legality, and snowflake more specifically, as well as a bit after your reply since you gave me a couple extra things to look into… (like if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin, I didn’t find anything about it so I sort of assume it’s fine…?)…

I didn’t see anything overly bad other than if you yourself use tor, maybe, so took the plunge and… have had a whole two connections already, so yay, I’m a snowflake!

I feel slightly better about myself, like when I started using BOINC crowdsource computing for research in the early noughties. :)

Oh idk about that… parents are willing to pay an awful lot in treatment in hopes of keeping their kid alive…

I think they need both, short and long term profits, you know?

I’m willing to do this but frankly tor intimidates me big time. I don’t know anything about it other than……. Yep that’s it.

I read through the mastodon post, and the project page, and cumulatively I didn’t get any answers that, like, make me feel better.

I assume this is a dark web node sort of thing? Is it safe for me to run the browser extension (idk shit about docker and don’t really want to learn rn), like I’m not putting a target on myself or anything? If yes to question 1, but no to question 2, what does put a target?

Funny, that… you’ll be shocked by the reason!

This reminds me of a minor plot point from “if I pay thee not in gold”, a book I read many many years ago that helped form some of my moral framework. Imho, go read it, it isn’t -that good- as it’s rather superficial and they could have done a fuckton of more interesting shit with the way that universe works, but it also isn’t that long; couple hundred pages in big font like my copy, and it’s about women with magic! But only conjuration magic. And only women, for very specific, logical, and understandable plot reasons that don’t make a person want to hurl! And it’s largely about personal growth due to sex with demons!

Anyway, because they can conjure things and then dismiss them at will, the poor quarters bars are all conjured alcohol, so if any problems arise they can instantly sober up their patrons.

There are two types of people who survive decently in the military. Those who can find every loophole and can maliciously comply, and those who allow themselves to be completely broken and reshaped into perfect compliance by the system.

Many people believe the second group is more common, but it’s really not, since those people tend to be in lower ranking positions. Bullet catchers and the like.

I don’t normally upvote shit like…

But this, I upvoted everyone because I saw the whole fallout afterward and I like the interaction.

“Oops no fr I fucked up not indicating I was joking”

“Oh cool that’s all? Nbd.”

I’m here for that shit: if that’s what Lemmy was as a whole, the world would be a better place, legit.

I’d love to see that… it would make other rich people really nervous, I think…