Meh [comrade/them]

Both of the elders in question deserve more abuse than can be applied in the short time they have left on this earth, but I sure wish it was done in a way that didn’t involve everyone else

That sure is a lot of words to say, “they are racist as hell”

same tbh

Being friends with the president

Shooting the president (in resident evil)

It’s so much smaller in reality than it appears in photos. Like, barely SUV sized. I’m not advocating for large vehicles, but if you’re so car brained that you want to get a truck, you wouldn’t want the clown car version. Really a who is this for? scenario

Based AMCA enjoyer. I don’t get the hate for the acolyte either and I agree that fine is the way to describe it. Much like a lot of star wars, there are a lot of interesting things floating around in the background that will not get the show’s focus like I would want. Meanwhile, the main mystery could be alright depending on how it casts the Jedi at the end of it all, but I’m expecting they’ll fumble it. (I haven’t seen the most recent episode yet, so it may have already gone off the rails for all I know)

Damn, it’s hella sick that ancient tree and dinosaur goo turned out to be a madness rune hidden underground just waiting for our dumb asses. Real rad that humanity as a species just speedran our way to Moderan in just a couple hundred years.

Wow, what if that

Ah fuck, I had scrubbed that shit from my mind. Death to Amerikkka

It’s the same thing with the internet. ‘Be careful of what you post online’, ‘Don’t believe everything you read’ were told to me repeatedly by my father and I took it seriously. Now I know that it was only because of a vague distrust of the internet that eased with time, rather than an actual understanding and respect for infosec, as now he puts his whole life on Facebook and guzzles from the insane right wing propaganda hoze he and all his boomer buddies hooked themselves up to.

That’s why you have a second chipper on standby

I’ve been playing Pillars of Eternity. Still early going, so I don’t have a feel for the overarching plot just yet, but I’m enjoying learning about the world and finding new party members.

Progressive getting radicalized while playing Disco Elysium

By that logic all of the Muslim world should convert to the Baháʼí faith.

Keeping it to themselves would be great though

This article seeks to explain why the majority of the population does not trust the government’s reporting on the health of the economy but assumes the metrics are valid without interrogation. Inflation is down, but a decrease in a second order derivative only means that things are getting more expensive at a slower rate. I’m not immediately sure what the gov actually looks at in this calculation but we’ve got the Krugman tweet kicking around about how great everything is going if you exclude food, energy, and housing costs, which are the bulk of people’s expenses and exactly where they are feeling that (now slower) increase.

Wages are said to have increased, but as always, those gains are not evenly distributed.

Unemployment being at a record low does not mean a great deal when the unemployment numbers are cooked. People who are unable to work or have given up looking are excluded from this metric and we remain in a pandemic that has cost millions or lives and left many more unable to work.

It’s not just that the government has erroded its credibility over decades, it’s that it still has no credibility and the figures it presents should not be taken at face value.

Well I think you hit the nail on the head there. The US clearly doesn’t care.