Chile has some stories you'd find useful
👍 makes sense
how embarrassing
alt text: Elon Musk doing his X dance with his belly hanging out in front of that ugly flag they hang everywhere in the colonies. Meme text: "Imagine personally being the guy who set off the kessler syndrome and great filtered your entire species"
Listen if you think greentext culture is benign, you're getting played by bigots and a lot of people don't want to share your vision of moderation. The mods here have good instincts and I appreciate the environment they curate here on beehaw.
RFK Jr is more of a blow to morale than anything.
Calling the network of private and state hospitals in the colonies a vast healthcare system, as though it is something that a fed secretary can directly control, is a wild mischaracterization. Under Trump 1, the CDC failed so miserably that it meaningfully damaged the social contract on the continent and it stayed broken.
Because my family needs specialist optometry sometimes, and my region's healthcare system was already so crumbly, we found affordable optometry in Ontario. Not only was it cheaper near the Universities towards central Ontario, the care was better quality. Out of pocket care was about 20% cheaper in Ontario than in bordering states in the colonies.
Obviously this sort of travel is prohibitive for many, but depending on what your needs are, it may be a better or the only option.
One thing that many more people in the colonies can do is learn how to source drugs from safer places (like Ontario or Chile).
People who read should already have been aware of this but it is useful to have confirmation from an official about what has already been reported. Too late for justice but the truth still matters.
wonderful essay by Zimmer
nice find OP
This essay seems relevant to help more fully frame the question.
But in fact, gender is maintained by constant effort from everyone in society. Imagine what a truly genderless society would look like: no he/she pronouns. No seeing a stranger and thinking of them as male or female. No such thing as being gay or straight. People of all body types wearing pants or skirts as they please. The vision I’m describing isn’t a fantasy based on some fundamental change to how the world works. It would happen if tomorrow morning we all got out of bed and decided to stop paying any attention to gender.
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[There are people who...] do care about gender. They have an internal sense that they need to look, dress, and act a certain way that conforms to their society’s idea of their gender. If they aren’t recognised as their gender, it makes them uncomfortable. These are the people who made our language have he and she pronouns. They’re the people who feel satisfied and fulfilled when they get addressed as “sir” or “madam”. They are where gender comes from.
Cascading into a shitty field 😜
Here's an image of the guy they let flood their server with bigoted greentexts flooding /greentexts with bigoted greentext
Listen, I didn't join a better server to sit around debating with people about why the server is better, if your mods are trash come to Beehaw where they are good
that's not going to work for them at all, everyone knows you need Samus to counter Luigi
Just saw @silverspookgames@wandering.shop talking about their game on Masto, which is currently on sale, and it sorta seemed like it would have a bunch of cross-appeal over here. Right? "an anti-capitalist indigenous-made cyberpunk game"? C'mon.
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Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals. The art, writing, programming, music, and audio are made by one person, Christian Miller, also known as Silver Spook, with the exception of 50% of the voice acting.
Synopsis:
2033 - We create AI. Sentient robots arrive, but not as our Terminator overlords or our Singularity saviors -- conscious machines are humanity's unwanted bastard children. A few are geniuses who design flying cars, beat cancer, invent teleportation, but millions of defective prototypes roll out of factories -- mentally challenged, motivationally-challenged, criminally-inclined. Legally conscious, but unhirable, these "Defectives" are shuffled through public housing and welfare assistance, straining the already overburdened back of the meager social safety net. The robots who don't end up in prison are dumped, as a last resort, into a massive landfill known as "The Pile".
Humans engage in perfection of their species -- or at least the powerful and well-connected -- genetically engineering children with human and animal DNA. The failed eugenics experiment "Frankenpeople" are discarded into "The Pile" as well. The new dynasties, 'Neofeudal Lords', live in towering neon glass castles, shuttle around in pristine nanotech-enabled pods, minds and bodies full of cyberware, spending most of their time taking selfies and "optimizing their monetization schemes". A race of supermen concerned only with their own status, their prestige, their success. Where machines have become all too flawed and human, people have become flawless, perfect, cold machines.
Karl Carbon is an ex-cop, dishonorably discharged from Coastlandia PD for disobeying an order to shoot an unarmed sentient humanoid. Karl is exiled to "The Pile" as a lowly social worker. There he counsels gangbanging foster-kid robots and confiscates chimera-children from deadbeat half-wolf parents. Till one day a case goes horribly sideways and Karl is drawn into a sordid conspiracy that could threaten the strained fabric of Human-Robot-Hybrid civilization -- or save it.
FEATURES
-15+ hours of gameplay.
-An original dystopic sci-fi world and story that will (hopefully) make you question some of your core beliefs. Or at least my sanity
-Tricky yet satisfying, point-n-click detective work, interspersed with tense action shootouts.
-Handpainted, uber-gritty, noir futureland. Makes Mad Max and Rick Deckard crap their pants.
-Endless bombardment of witty one-liners from hardboiled cyberpunk.
Looks fun and funny. There's a demo and here's a trailer.
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After a whole afternoon at home with your sibling, the kitchen’s a mess, your room’s in disarray, you haven't hung the laundry: a normal day. SUDDENLY... you see on that phone notification that your dad will be coming home early - you hear the garage screeching and opening and... RUN!! DAD'S COMING!!
Meet Bob, the goofy, clumsy brother who’s panicking thinking of the horrible things might happen to him if dad finds out they made a mess - like not playing video games for the rest of the night. Terrifying!
Kate, on the other hand, was born for this. She's had years of intensive training: putting everything away and pretending she's asleep as soon as she hears dad in the hallway on the way to her bedroom, never once being spotted! And this time it won't be different.
But be careful! Your adorable cat Jack won't stop knocking things over!
And many other challenges! Cooperate by throwing objects between floors!
Be careful not to break windows or fragile objects like grandma's urn - your dad won't be too happy if your grandma bites the dust twice!
Keep an eye on Jack, the siblings’ cat! He is always messing around and knocking things over.
Use the means in each house to be even quicker, such as service elevators!
Watch out for blackouts in blizzards! Sometimes you will have to reactivate the circuit breaker!
And much more!
Considering the Switch 2 (with those pretty joystick well covers to protect from drift, omg) and the Ryzen Z2 Go announcements, the low cost and availability of Steam Deck & parity level APU machines for purchase now, and the giant 1080p gaming install base represented by current gen consoles, it sure seems like low spec & 1080p gaming is going to have a pretty sunny future. I am hoping this gives small and medium sized development teams a chance to show up what is left of AAA gaming.
What are your favorite low spec gaming setups right now? I'm enjoying a 5700g APU system the most these days. Mainstream wise, I've been playing Elden Ring and Injustice 2 and Vampire Survivors. The last Indie I played is this beat-em-up / horde survival game An American Werewolf in LA which was pretty cool.
Surprise this meme was another plug for retroachievements
What's retroachievements? Basically it adds XBOX Live style achievements and global high score tables to retro emulation platforms. This added layer of social gaming and community driven accomplishment hunting really builds on the retro games emulation experience. The best part is you can get it running on pretty much any platform you emulate games on, your phone, your deck, your weird android handheld, HTPC, even your lappy-5000.
Since RA adds score and achievement tracking, those of us who game at decisively higher levels and compete for the most glorious prizes imaginable like to use it to track our games. Now is a great time to get it set up, so when the call for challengers comes to Beehaw, you can dive right in.
Here are some of the most fun achievements I have personally gotten.
Batman Returns
Castlevania 3
Arthur's Absolutely Fun Day
Felix the Cat
Anyway, this has been anarchist propaganda, toodles
I love the high bar of philosophy and taste being set by the discussions here about what is and isn't art, so please don't let this note distract from those.
Joints like Christie's and the stuff they sell is largely a money laundering operation. Without decrying what's coming out of the modern art scene, art collection is where a lot of the capitalists rinse their stolen wealth. There's an entire economy around this practice. Here's a company that will hook you up with the vaults, the lawyers, jewelry to swap, and travel accommodations.
So obviously generative output bots do not make art and- and- BUT ALSO nothing capitalists value is real, they only believe in their fiat. It's all always just money crime game to them. Always.