You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

Do you like where you work, and does it pay enough for you to live comfortably? I think that’s the most important question

Next is how long do you think it would take to get a new job if the contractor life isn’t for you?

Other than that, I’d lean towards going for it. You can make a lot more money as a contractor or you can work a whole lot less. Finding work can be difficult, but if you make relationships work tends to lead to more work

Granted, finding work can be challenging and stressful sometimes, so it’s not for everyone

I think you’re kind of comparing apples to oranges, we’re pretty fucked over here right now

I’d call him a progressive. He has socialist ideals, but he’s operating as a populist - he can’t get out there and say “we’re going to do free healthcare” because we’re not there right now

It seems to me that he’ll be as left-wing as the moment allows, but what he’s actually pushing for is pretty tame IMO

You first. We’re not on board with any of this

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die

You spelled “take” wrong

It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors

It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws

And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man

The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?

Fuck that. Winning is what matters.

The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?

We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.

We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.

We have to win. Now. Or we all die

Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats

Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members

It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…

Abstraction is a trade off. You don’t want to build interface layers between everything… It’s a pain in the ass, and if there’s a 1-1 relationship between parts of a system then you’re basically putting in a minimum cost to modify that area in any way. So if you do it, it’ll probably be once you’ve locked down the design pretty well

Game development is pretty different than normal development too. You have a lot of one off and lose ends based on creative decisions… You aren’t building up on top of your system, you’re building out

And frankly, it leads to a mix of mind blowingly good code and a lot of terrible code

So no, I don’t think it’s that easy. I think it’s also a bullshit argument, and they should release the “proprietary” code when they finish supporting the game, or put in the time to make the interfaces

You don’t understand. They never stopped, they aren’t distracting from Gaza… They needed another war to keep Netanyahu in power

Thank you, I appreciate that… Fuck, now I’m doing it!

Thank you for your apology… Wait, you’re doing it again!!!

China hasn’t said shit. They’re very busy trying to avoid interrupting Trump

All China has to do is not collapse for a few years, and they get to be the global superpower. And the trade war has helped unify them while also making stronger ties to US allies

They’ve been handed everything they want on a silver platter, they’re not giving up the Chinese century for Iran

What a healthy conversation. I’m not used to it, it’s making me uncomfortable.

Fuck you no reason in particular!

I tore into someone about how I don’t respect economics (specifically, micro and macro that they push like a religion) because it’s constantly disproven.

And for how they treat you like a child and tell you “you just don’t understand economics” whenever you point out a contradiction, which they obviously then proceeded to do several times instead of answering any of my points

So after that, they apparently went through my old posts to try to poke holes in my other arguments - it wasn’t until the third or fourth one when I realized it was the same username, which I found deeply funny

Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too

I got a temp ban on that subreddit once for saying that while the man in the story was clearly the asshole, the woman (op) was overly confrontational and made the situation so much worse than it had to be

I’m kinda in between…I don’t signal in empty parking lots and rarely at 3am on the highway

But when I’m not totally alone and I intend to change lanes, my pinky flicks before I think about it or look to see if the land is open - I flick it back off if I realize I’d cut someone off regularly

Be more specific. Constantine did it, he blended Christianity with the Roman religion in the most convenient way possible

I don’t know… Logically I’d trend towards no, they lack certain cyclical feedback mechanisms probably required for subjective experience

But, what if they do experience things subjectively in disconnected time? They’re not like us, but what if they can feel pain or distress in their own way?

I think it’s worth considering. I personally believe they’re missing key mechanisms, but there’s no clear lines

Regardless, they display emotion, and that makes me more considerate when I interact with them. If not for their sake, then for us humans who should be polite to service workers in general

I mean, I’ve never enjoyed watching him speak, but charisma isn’t just being convincing. It’s controlling the atmosphere, controlling the conversation, making people cheer

You don’t have to buy it to recognize charisma. People undeniably were taken in by it. He says the stupidest, most incoherent shit… But people still ate it up

If you want to truly understand, pick one of his older speeches, and watch it. Then, read the transcript. Even if you hate every moment of both, the difference is staggering