So this one isn’t necessarily about the poverty and struggle, but it definitely feels like a character in the life of the main protagonist: Blue Ruin

(action/suspense film, but mc lives in a car)

You can swear on here. Stop censoring memes, it’s fucking dumb.

I’m a bit paranoid about neighbors stealing it. I live in a place where most people vote the way I do, but I’m still anxious about people just being assholes, or thinking I look like a conservative (I get it, I kinda do) even though I’m not.

I still mail mine in though, I just try to put it in my mailbox an hour before the carrier is gonna arrive to pick it up. Plus, I am subscribed to an email system that tells me when they get it.

Who’s getting therapy, is that the kid from Home Movies?

I’m ambivalent about this in some ways but what you’re suggesting isn’t really incompatible with what I would ask from them. If they’re going to have a central directory, moderate that directory: that’s one instance. Let others put up their own directories and moderate those; those are just additional instances. If the tech can be deployed to multiple instances, then it’s federated by default.

I didn’t say I wanted capitalism and American neoliberals, I said I wanted moderation or I won’t put my identity and work and face next to people who want me dead. The app you’re on, the community you’re posting this comment in have moderation. Do you think the mods who receive reports about this thread are the Saudi government?

Cancel culture isn’t real, grow up. The people who made the term up want you to demand that all conversations be treated equally, that all viewpoints should be able to shout down all other viewpoints until the internet is full of trash and we’re all completely isolated. That’s how fascism works: piss and shit into the discourse until nobody wants it any more. That is why X is becoming trash: because the person who owns it made it his first priority to start shitting into every progressive conversation until none of them wanted to be there any more. Taking away the ability to block and deplatform people SUPPRESSES minority voices, because that environment only rewards whoever shouts the loudest, and if you have a majority on the platform, you are shouting the loudest.

Everywhere is “beholden” to some person or organization that made the place and controls it. The stream directory of this app is already beholden to the people who put it up; their lip-service code of conduct suggests they don’t want to platform nazis. The only thing I’m complaining about is that they aren’t taking any concrete steps to ensure they’re kept out.

The whole thing is dumb if you accept a premise of “infinite monkeys”. An infinite number of monkeys will type the works of shakespeare immediately, because an infinite number of them will start with the very first key they hit and continue until the end. (So it’ll be complete exactly as fast as a monkey can type it, typing as fast as simianly possible, with no mistakes.) You don’t even need the infinite time.

It only becomes interesting if you look at the finite scenarios.

And BTW, the lifespan of the universe is finite due to the eventual decay of all matter, including the monkeys and the typewriters. There’s no infinite time.

What about moderation or controls over the directory? I don’t want to host a stream and be published next to nazis. Is anyone keeping them out? I do see a sort of lip-service “no tolerance” statement with no details about what fits that criteria and no claims of active moderation; without those two things it’s toothless and the whole place is at risk of nazi bar syndrome.

The question is, did Cartumante go to the Bad Dragon website for references or just… look over at the shelf.

I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time

This seems like irony but if you think about the number of humans killed by bees and compare it to the number of bees killed by humans,

Is it? If ChatGPT wrote your paper, why would citations of the work of Frankie Hawkes raise any red flags unless you happened to see this specific tweet? You’d just see ChatGPT filled in some research by someone you hadn’t heard of. Whatever, turn it in. Proofreading anything you turn in is obviously a good idea, but it’s not going to reveal that you fell into a trap here.

If you went so far as to learn who Frankie Hawkes is supposed to be, you’d probably find out he’s irrelevant to this course of study and doesn’t have any citeable works on the subject. But then, if you were doing that work, you aren’t using ChatGPT in the first place. And that goes well beyond “proofreading”.

Just let it succeed. But don’t give me any candy-ass “serve the summoned entity forever”. They should be digested forever.

I mean come on, how many times do you have to have to hear “there are worse fates than death” in cosmic horror? You know exactly what to do.

This is exactly what it is. When everything you believe is made up, it’s easy to accidentally make up the wrong number and then believe that instead.

I’m mostly just impressed at whoever came up with a plausible-looking and fairly professional icon for it.

Maybe, I don’t know enough about him, but I will say this: Nobody fits my definition of “people who work hard” better than Euler.

When someone says “He’s an unbelievable genius,” I now understand that the person speaking is either a con artist or a gullible idiot. Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist, there’s just specialists, people who get lucky, people who work hard. So if you’re saying someone is such a genius, either you have no metric by which to measure genius, or you’re selling something.

“I think Cullen made the Satoshi accusation for marketing. He needed a way to get attention for his film.”

Cullen is absolutely selling something: he’s selling his documentary.

The various denials and deflections from Todd, he claims, are part of a grand and layered misdirection.

Smells 100% like bullshit. I had no take on this documentary one way or the other before, but now I’m very skeptical.

I have a very cynical reason. If you look at what most religions say about it (against), you have to wonder why they all agree on it and it seems to me that if you off yourself, you’re not supporting the team. When there weren’t many humans, you really needed a bunch of team players on your religion making more babies, and the dead ones can’t carry out your crusades.

Now we put capital above religion, but it’s the same thing: we need workers for our factories. We need babies to become workers for our factories. Dead people can’t make cars or babies.

Alternate suggestion: be tall and wear regular platform boots. Tower over me.