Yer not makin Christianity better, yer makin anime worse!

the trope common in bad anime art where the only way to tell characters apart is their hairstyle/clothes

The player count was below a thousand on opening weekend and Sony dropped it like a deadly scorpion. It’s kind of a meme now - all of the “limited edition” Concorde controllers are on eBay for like $200 last time I checked.

Felt the same way about both of these episodes when I watched them. The High Ground was such a disappointment, even as a lib when I first watched it I was appalled at how obviously morally superior the resistance was and shouting at the screen why the Enterprise wasn’t helping them. Picard is uncharacteristically naive when he says that shit about political power - just in this season alone Picard himself has solved about a half dozen problems using the implied threat of the Enterprise’s weapons to enforce his diplomacy!

There are a bunch of other episodes that provide better templates with how this conflict could have been approached, too. Maybe the Enterprise crew recognize the moral superiority of the resistance, but their hands are tied by Federation neutrality and they have to find a clever way to save Crusher without helping the space cops. Maybe the Enterprise crew arrives on the planet having only read propaganda about the conflict, but realize over the course of the episode that the resistance is completely justified. Maybe Picard comes up with a clever solution that doesn’t technically break the rules but also massively supports the resistance. Anything but what we got damn.

The Lal episode hit me hard too and I don’t have kids. The show approaches the subject matter so earnestly, even if some aspects of it are goofy you really can’t help but be strung along on Data’s emotional roller coaster. This was the episode where I realized that Data definitely has feelings but he’s convinced himself that he doesn’t.

Space Transportation

It would be so funny if China worked out a SABRE engine and just never told anyone after Europe has been trying to crack that nut for like thirty years.

Yeah I looked into it a bit more and they’ve never actually revealed how ownership at Valve is structured, it’s just their management which they keep as flat as possible (though perhaps it was too flat for a while).

Hmm okay so from what I can tell they’ve never released info about who owns it and everybody is just speculating or citing one Forbes article that says that Gabe owns “50% or more.”

What I was thinking of was something Yanis Varoufakis said in an interview with Hasan Piker, where Hasan asked if Valve was a still cooperative and Varoufakis said “not really… Valve today is very different to when I was there in 2011/2012,” so maybe it was at one point or maybe it never was and Hasan was mistaken too, I dunno.

If I’m not mistaken Steam is cooperatively owned by its employees, which is why it’s far from the worst hegemonic online distribution platform.

I was mistaken, see below.

“I don’t like Trump” (despite voting for him three times)

like come the fuck on

You’re saying that you’re TRICKING other Magic players into playing against fake cards every week?

I got (most of) my hydroponics stuff! I’ll be posting about it when I have something to show.

Even John Stewart reacted to the Cheney endorsement by telling him to fuck off. Perhaps if Kamala would show just a little aversion to being lumped in with right wing ghouls she wouldn’t get lumped in with them so easily.

I watched one of his vids on Mulan ages ago and it sucked. He misrepresented major plot points from the original Disney film in order to pretend that a 90s kids feminist icon wasn’t “woke” (and of course he didn’t engage with the original poem at all) and all of his analysis was just surface level engagement with the material, no deep thoughts whatsoever.

Left Reckoning has a recent episode where they talk about this, here’s a relevant clip. Apparently even though FTX has gone down the crypto industry has figured out that they can effect policy by holding a sword of Damocles over politicians’ heads and saying “don’t screw this up for us or we’ll spend this money on your opponent.”

Anyway I bring this up because I think that this is the whole reason the Kamala camp came out with this in the first place. They’re saying to the crypto industry that they intend to play ball and not to drop that money on a bunch of ads two weeks before the election.

Imagine if you could tax internet drama directly to fund your socialist state.

Damn the Wikipedia entry on that subject is tiiiiiiny. The first page of other internet results on it include an askhistorians thread that doesn’t have very much to add, a Trotskyist article that says a lot but very little on the tax system itself, and an archived article on jstor from 1927 (!!) that I’d need a school account to read.

Maybe I should read the book that the wikipedia article cites? Or maybe I should pick a more recent book on the subject. I’ve got a lot of books on my list already, some which overlap on this subject, so it’ll be a while either way.

Imagine how many jobs in the smuggling industry Trump would create if he did this lmao. If he wins the election I might have to buy a boat.

I used to work for my city’s Parks and Rec dept, specifically in aquatics. They’ve got work across multiple fields, whether you just want to man a desk checking people’s pool passes or if you want to be a maintenance person or even if you want to climb the ladder and be a manager, and at all levels the vibe I got was very chill. You’ll probably be underpaid and underappreciated, but maintaining public spaces is an unqualified public good so you’ll get to go to work everyday knowing that you’re not making the world a worse place, which is great.

I did this job full time while also attending school full time, it was minimum wage but it worked out great since I was able to do homework “on the clock” for most of my shifts, since generally I had a bunch of things to do when I showed up and then a few things before I left and I had a lot of time in the middle where I wasn’t doing much.

Shoulda took those language lessons more seriously.

Well you see, Kamala has said she will be more right wing than Biden, and these are the people who think that sounds great.