I probably should have, looks like Elon “Free Speech” Musk must’ve purged the post from the site as I can’t get it to load this morning. Apologies for the omission.

It appears to have been a white dude. He was also wearing a T-shirt from some YouTube channel about guns apparently. That’s all I’ve heard so far.

Edit: someone on Twitter has pictures of the suspected shooter

Not like it really needs proving. When Marx writes about “revolution,” he means bloody, violent revolution.

Anyone advocating revolution needs guns to back it up or else they’re just full of hot air.

Steam satisfies only your third point, though. Otherwise, no. You don’t actually own your Steam library, Steam itself is DRM, and it doesn’t have everything.

Tax cheats who bought the votes that put us in power, and to whom we are completely in service.

Before 2016, for example, we used to ignore a lot of conservative blustering as just political posturing or not worth attention because they could never do anything about it. Then Trump takes office and suddenly everyone with these shitty beliefs feels empowered to act on them.

People who have shitty beliefs are just waiting for those beliefs to be validated by someone in power so they can quit masking and act on them.

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Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish.

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ogmios@sh.itjust.works investigated for comment containing “assassinate Biden” in the body.

You can turn that error off and have it load the image, just look for the setting shown in this screenshot.

Ah I see, the special “Japan-only” hardcore mode.

I think this is the sort of film that benefits from a rewatch with time.

For example, when I was younger, it was easy to watch this and be like “Lady Eboshi and Iron Town bad, forest spirits and nature good.” But as an adult, with more context to watch it through, the nuance changes a lot.

Eboshi, for example, is an antagonist but not a villain. Taking a step back to look with a wider view, she is a woman who rebelled against the patriarchal standards of the surrounding empire to establish her own egalitarian society where women who were once exploited as prostitutes and servants are offered respect and positions of authority alongside men. She cares for the sick and dying, who are unable to care for themselves. And her motivations throughout the film are strictly about protecting her village and ensuring the best possible quality of life for her people, giving them a home when no one else will. It’s just that it comes at the cost of the surrounding environment, which she does not properly understand the consequences of.

And on the flip side, we initially sympathize with the wolves and other nature spirits who are, in turn, protecting their home from the danger posed by Iron Town, but the film also depicts nature as callous and unfeeling. The wolves try to murder Ashitaka when he is weak and helpless because it is in their nature to do so. The boars refuse to listen to the humans who are trying to help because they are outsiders. We see that the forest spirit is as much a god of death as it is of life. And though Iron Town is destroying the surrounding environment, so too are the forest spirits trying to destroy Iron Town, which only escalates the conflict further.

It’s a good depiction of a conflict wherein no side is truly good or evil. Every character has sympathetic motivations, which is what makes it compelling.

I feel like this describes the “upper 50%” of any generation, though.

I’m a millennial, and myself and plenty other millennials I know are still riding the struggle bus. But it’s easy to pop on social media and see people you went to school with in photos with their happy families and big houses and nice cars that they earned from their successful corporate jobs, because those jobs still exist for anyone who has connections.

And it is millennials by-and-large who are responsible for the neocon movement that helped put Trump in power, fashy groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers or whatever other flavor of the month domestic terrorism group, all of the “free speech absolutists” you see on Twitter and Reddit, and Silicon Valley techbros who pretend to be progressive in service to the almighty dollar.

No generation is free from bad eggs, because eventually enough people kowtow to the ideological apparati of the ruling class and perpetuate the endless cycle of “haves” vs “have nots”.

Like, imagine getting into this stuff and you merrily contact local politicians and talk about how bike lanes would help cyclists and help the city, if that goes through you might think you’re going to see massive improvements and then you’re given a slap to the face when you see that they just… draw a line of paint on the roads…

And in the US, it’s even more malicious than that in reality. That painted line on the side of the road with a picture of a bike that the city says is for bicyclists? Yeah, people will still park their cars on it. And also now that you have a “bike lane” that you’re supposed to use, the city makes it a crime to ride bikes in pedestrian spaces.

So you, as a bicyclist, are riding along the road and see that someone parked their truck in the bike lane. You have two options: ride into the same lane as motor vehicle traffic and pray you don’t become one of the roughly 120 bicyclists injured or 3 bicyclists killed by cars in the US each and every day, or you switch to the sidewalk and live another day. You play it safe, choose the sidewalk (since there aren’t many pedestrians anyways either) but oh no! There’s a cop, they stop you and issue a fine. And if you ask why they haven’t ticketed the pickup truck for parking in the bike lane, they say it’s a matter of police discretion.

I think you’ve got the right idea, but may be overthinking it just a tad.

The golden rule is just a proactive step when meeting and dealing with new people. Since you can’t know how others want to be treated from your first interaction, you fall back on the golden rule. So you offer to help someone, they tell you they’d prefer to be left alone, all good. Now you know.

Basically, it’s not just “If I were in this situation, I would want to be helped, so I’m going to keep offering to help.” It’s “If I were in this situation, I would want people to be understanding and gentle, so I’ll listen to what they have to say and, if they ask for help, do whatever they need.”

Where people get caught in the weeds though is often the difference between being “good” and being “nice”, so you’ll never have an objective answer to the best course of action. Just this general guideline to hopefully steer you in the right direction until you can figure the rest out on your own.

Google Assistant/Google Now (RIP).

My phone 10 years ago used to have a component called Google Now on Tap which would show me useful information like where I parked my car, when my next appointment is, what my commute looks like, what the weather is going to be, etc.

It was so context aware and good at predictive algorithms, I never really had to do more than swipe left to get what I needed. But of course now that’s in the “Killed by Google” graveyard because it didn’t enforce enough “engagement” with apps and services that could feed you ads.

In general, I find Google Assistant to be less helpful overall and worse at understanding what I am trying to do. It used to be a daily convenience for me, but now I can’t remember the last time I ever bothered with it. Not to mention every time you use it these days, it has to throw in a “By the way,…” suggestion that just feels like an ad for itself, because it is never related to anything I want to do.

I still feel like I am missing a lot of context but it was a good sip of tea.

Pokemon for TV, movie would probably be Laputa.

Which is a bit silly to me, in that any religious person could simply explain evolution away as the mechanism by which a god or gods created humanity (to iterate on form until creating their supposed “perfect image”).

God being a human who was also his own father is fine, but the suggestion that evolution could be part of god’s plan is where we draw the line?