I have a slow drain so the shower ends up with a shallow puddle by the end. So, no, I don’t like standing in a puddle of my own pee.

But otherwise, pipes is pipes. No judgement here.

I don’t think I’ve ever been more disappointed in a politician than John Fetterman. I didn’t even have very high hopes for the guy, but that’s how much of a shitbag he’s become.

Ok, but if you learned later that the guy was trafficking and raping women and children, and was selling them to other rich people for sex, that might color your perspective a bit? And if you looked back on that moment and said “I saw nothing strange or suspicious” I would think you were a liar.

Oh, man, that sounds like a lot.

If we’re talking old games that hold up, I would put Rogue (1980) and Nethack (1987) on that list. Rogue is like the basis for 60% of the gaming industry, and Nethack is still being actively developed.

Him, Epstein, and four girls who he claims were college aged. Epstein, the human trafficker and child rapist, and another middle aged man, having a party with four “college aged” girls.

But nothing weird or suspicious.

Oh man, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until I read the content of his email.

First he says that he didn’t see anything that would suggest sex crimes, then he says he met Jeffrey and “the girls” who were 4 young women introduced to him as students, and says they were very hospitable.

Lol no. It means you pay a subscription fee for everything individually. MicroTransactions, only this time they have your files hostage.

That was the argument in favor of bombing hospitals, and it wasn’t a valid argument then, either.

I mean, I also don’t care about cheaters because I’m not a competitive gamer. So this isn’t for me, anyway. Games should be fun and relaxing, and if you’re playing for money, then it should be on the people selling the product to monitor player behavior, the way any other pro sports league does.

Well exactly, there’s not even a plausible pretense. But that should be the story, not the collateral damage to a historical site (although that part is horrifying, too).

What could possibly be in Arg Square that would justify bombing it? It’s an open air tourist attraction.

Feeling’s mutual, I’m sure.

If you need kernel access because you don’t trust me not to cheat, I don’t really want to play your game.

Conservativism isn’t an ideology based on principles. It’s built on the identity of the conservative as the good guy. You cannot apply rationality to conservatives, because they aren’t holding rational positions. Whatever they say is good because they are the good guys. Anyone who opposes them is the bad guy, and anything the bad guy does is bad because they are the bad guy. If the good guy conservative and the bad guy progressive do the exact same thing, the conservative believes that it is good when the good guy does it and bad when the bad guy does it. It’s not hypocritical because it isn’t a conflicting viewpoint, it’s just an entirely subjective viewpoint that changes based on where the conservative is standing. Like imagine playing NFL football with a team that has defined the end zone as wherever they are standing on the field. Wherever they are, Touchdown! Because touchdowns happen wherever they are standing. If you take the ball from them, then it is no longer the end zone because they don’t have the ball anymore. If you push their defense back, you still can never score because the end zone moves with them.

That’s the game Conservatives play, and that’s why you will never convince them they are wrong. You cannot compromise with a conservative, and you cannot show them the flaws in their positions because they have no positions. If they realize they were wrong, they will simply move three feet to another position and decide that they were justified in their false belief at the time they held it.

That’s why you see so many leopards eating their faces, but you never see them grow or learn from the experience. It’s why they can condemn abortion and then demand an abortion when they want one. It’s why they can support violence against immigrants while being immigrants, because they believe themselves to be “the good ones.” It’s why they can insist on small government when it comes to their industry or lifestyle choices, but they will insist on regulating and taxing into oblivion anything they don’t like.

Imagine how comforting that must feel, to be playing a game where you’re always winning because you are defined as the winner. As long as you remain within the identity of the in-group, and support the same delusion in others, you can never be wrong. It’s seductive and easy. You don’t have to learn anything, or question anything, or prove anything. Your goodness insists upon itself, and everything else is evil trying to knock you off your game. You’re not selfish, you’re conservative. You want to preserve and protect the “good” which is coincidentally yourself. You want to change the “bad” which is conveniently anything uou don’t like.

It’s a pattern that always results in fascism, oligarchy, corruption, and oppression.

And they would put some fucking flat earther in charge of the project, resulting in some additional ecological disaster of epic proportions.

What the fuck are you talking about?

What the fuck are you talking about?

Foxes warn Coyotes are eating all the Hens.

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