Woah. Is that actually a callback to when w said it wrong and we all had to learn how to pronounce it correctly?

I still think about that every time I think or say nuclear.

Back to the 90s, where in games you’d add in some AI opponents

Christ this is dark. I’m not a parent and I feel like this.

The Internet used to be such a neat place. Why is it so shit ever since like 2020? Or is that just the whole world? Since 2017 maybe.

I had a thought yesterday: it sucks that after you die, you can’t come back. AND that time just keeps flowing for everybody else after you’re gone. What a great gift to be alive, at all, though. Why do some people feel the need to make it as shitty as possible for others?

Racism is a real thing. Culture is real. Nationality is real. Ethnic heritage is real.

But race is not, in the same way that my made up category of “things that i think are bad” is not real. Yes, it exists, I guess for some people. But as a universal concept that is solidly definable, no.

Wanna try? Define me a race.

Indeed.

See, the thing is, though, this stuff is poison. It’s locker room bs at first, but, fundamentally it’s tribalism and deviancy division between in-groups and out-groups.

The more you dig and learn about psychology, sociology, and history, the more you ☹️ because you realize… It’s us.

My partner and I were just talking about deviancy theory earlier today, and were discussing whether or not technology has moved too fast. Yes = our brains are lizards and the internet is amplifying our current weaknesses as a species. No = ?

People end up hating/rationalizing people being bad because they believe they believe people are different races.

Hating and differentiating people based on race is pretty rational as long as you believe race is a real thing. That’s kinda why it’s called race-ism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

An MMO I play just started their yearly Halloween festival in-game. There’s a dungeon/zone where you roam around an area in groups of players, and the area is filled with enemies and occasionally floating ghostly doors that, when you interact with them, monsters appear and drop candy.

I played some of that for about half an hour earlier when I realized that the whole idea of trick or treating is… Not really a thing anymore. And that’s weird to think about. Because somehow, the event of Halloween is now basically entirely about the candy getting? Like, they eliminated the door-to-door at night thing. So now it’s basically a car show with kids getting candy?

As I stood there, in-game, knocking on doors and trick-or-treating and fighting mummies, spiders, and ghouls, I was just so confused how they took the traditional aspect of a weird and quirky but harmless and fun holiday away in favor of… just candy.

Like… No more spooky, no more pranks, no more mischief. Just “here’s your cheapass candy”. Maybe I need to go to one of these to understand it or something, because I can’t imagine it.

Like nightmare before Christmas but everybody’s a lobotomized eunuch.

So their windows… Open?

Am American.

…What?

Embrace moderates, get Republicans.

Do other, big countries that have substates that insist upon slavery do it that way? Or is moneyflow also a massive political nightmare and fragmented because part of your country insists on doing it THEIR way? I wouldn’t think most countries had majorities of areas that were only founded solely on slavery and so never really evolved efficient or moral or coherent government or people./s