WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]

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  • They’re both beautiful in different ways. I agree that satisfactory radiated my DNA and changed my destiny, but I 100% see the appeal of factorio.

    When I was delivering water via drone and had mk 4 conveyor belts to optimize the just in time plastic + recycled bottles to make sure my nuclear power plants didn’t go down I was in the fucking avatar state.

    Now my dream job (and I have a dream job) is in data engineering and I’ve done an open source project for databases.







  • Personally, I don’t like her streams. Like Hasan, they do a lot of chat interaction (Pausin’ Piker tromp ). She’s light on the video games so it’s not for me. She’s really good at amogus and did those streams where she brought her friends over and did mafia IRL which was cool. I always rooted for her in offline TV.

    She had a product flop because she giga overcharged for cookies one time. I think, in terms of her most unearned weirdness, she decided that she had made enough money and so capped her donations to $5. So while it should be a solution to weirdness, it sort of cast her as a sin eater for the concept of trying to get parasocial donations (a no doubt gender charged issue anyway). Second to that is probably her connection to Hasan which gets her second-hand, fedposting inspired hate.

    Her most earned criticism is having connections to Hasan and Valkyrae while not, to my knowledge, being caught up on One Piece. There’s no way they haven’t encouraged her to watch it. So that resistance to the greatest story ever told is damning imo.








  • I think very famously if you move to a new place with a new culture it’s hard to make friends writ large. You’re an unknown unknown and getting to know you is not the path of least resistance.

    I was at a foreign MMA gym one time. I attended a striking class for my first day nobody paid me any attention (I’m a mediocre striker). But after the grappling day, because I’m a BJJ brown belt, everyone wanted to know my name, where I’m from, and they were impressed with my knowledge of the language. I come back the next day and the front desk person asks “you’re the brown belt, right?” I don’t think they were basally curious that a foreigner was there, but the second I showed that I was exceptional at this hobby they had it was, by some mechanism, enough to want to talk to me. I’ve rolled with a visitor at the gym only to find they were a UFC fighter and only at that point wanted to learn more about them, so it’s mutual.

    But here’s the thing, I think if you want to do something and you can then that’s reason enough. Even if your motivation is silly. Even if you get BTFO, nobody likes you, it wasn’t a max win, and you have to move back moving abroad is a romantic and adventurous thing to do. If you tell me that you moved to China because you’re a leftist, you saw a cool postcard, and you weren’t doing anything important in America I’d think you were rad.






  • I think it’s a fool’s game to say that better technology isn’t better. If you’re getting a knee replaced and it’s an outpatient procedure you do in an afternoon that’s a really cool and good thing.

    The discussion had by learned people regarding climate change, to my understanding, is that we’ve crossed over the event horizon for catastrophic damage from climate change. It’s in a similar vein to pollution in the ocean and the like. Something to the effect of suggesting if we had 0 emissions from today onward we’d still experience repercussions. I don’t have a good citation nor the will to seek one out, unfortunately

    So it’s not like easily built housing, renewable energy powered technology, and easily grown food to sustain climate refugees while an effort is made to un-desert their home is a bad thing or an unworthy goal. I have a sneaking suspicion that “technology will save us” is a way of misunderstanding the situation the same way someone might think you’re perfect to date if only you weren’t a communist. I doubt every climate scientist is a Luddite. But they’d probably groan if you suggest carbon capture will reset the clock like it’s a novel idea.