Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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Didn't think he sniffed cocaine but instead injected it?

Is it? I went to a state college to take advantage of in state tuition, commuted because gas for my Geo Metro 2-seater was cheaper than a dorm room, etc to cut my costs down to where I wouldn't need to put myself in debt and got a small scholarship/grant (that in turn came with an in-state work commitment that shaped my choices after graduation). Other people my age made other choices related to college that landed them in massive amounts of debt that I avoided.

If I had known that I could borrow as much as I wanted and expect someone else to pay it off instead of being stuck holding responsibility for my debts, I likely would have made different substantially less frugal and less restrictive choices.

Tell, you what, nix an equivalent amount of my debts, and we'll call it a deal. You don't mind paying off my mortgage, right? Just because you didn't take out a mortgage doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for mine, right?

What's the best way to do that, presuming I already have access to a Usenet server but that's really all I know?

I mean I've used Usenet before, but that was back in the late 90s using Netscape Communicator and I was mostly (but not exclusively) reading text groups. Most of my piracy back then involved trolling IRC channels to either find DCC bots or get access to FTPs. And even then was limited because, well, dialup.

Given the time frame, that would track. Intensely shitty mobile game made by a trans woman that couldn't stay off Twitter for five minutes if you put a gun to her head...yeah, you're probably right that sounds like the type that would be caught up in gamergate. I think it says something that most games at PAX either leave a positive impression or are forgettable. That one was so awful that ten years on I still remember getting to try it at that booth, and not for good reasons.

In case anyone was curious what game she was behind, I looked it up to verify I was thinking the right dev. It's called Revolution 60, and apparently there's a windows port of her iOS game available on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/350200/Revolution_60/

If I remember right, that was the same year that Actual Sunlight had a booth that was just a sign, a guy, and a single computer where you could demo the game. It stood out in the hall for how utterly sparse the booth was, and the game was amazing. It's a short (around an hour) RPG Maker title about a man with depression. It has one achievement, for completing the game. The description text for the achievement is "Thank you" and that really stabs at you if you see it from the voice of the main character. My favorite review for the game is a single sentence: "I came for an easy achievement, I left with emotional damage." Seriously, play this game, it's the other big one that stood out to me from the Indie section of the hall at PAX East 2014 and unlike Revolution 60, it was for good reasons.

Hey, now, she's a Democrat. Even ran for office as a Democrat, even if she never got past the primary. Just because she's shitty doesn't automatically make her a Guardian Of Pedophiles, even if most of them would accuse her of grooming if she got within 100 yards of a child.

I had no idea who Brianna Wu was until I read your post

I'm old enough that I remember her as the game dev with the intensely shitty mobile game I tried at PAX one year.

She is quite important in contribution to the society, but when we talk just about working people, we overlook her.

...even then, since her contribution is to her own household should that marriage collapse society decides that not only is she owed a share of their produced assets to date but also a share of his future production for her part in enhancing it to date (alimony), including the requirement that he must continue to produce at that level at a minimum (aka alimony is based on what a judge believes you can earn, not what you actually are earning). Sometimes this also includes a share of any future retirement income as well.

Everyone should be able to live without poverty.

Ultimately, what you would consider living without poverty requires the labor of some number of people to maintain, and eventually the question of why they do that labor for people who don't do that labor will be asked, by them if not by you. Usually the answer is that those people are doing other labor which benefits the first group, usually abstracted out to some generalized representation of debt (aka money).

mitochondrially challenged?

I know you're just memeing on his previous statements, but mitochondrial challenge is a real thing. Like inflammation, it's something that's real and causes problems, but is not remotely as common as claimed by quacks, responsible for remotely the broad spectrum of problems that quacks claim, cannot be treated in the fashion quacks claim, and cannot be identified as easily as quacks claim.

It's the grain of truth you build your skyscraper of a lie on to make it seem just a tiny bit plausible to people who don't know better.

Not in quantities sufficient to feed any kind of significant population. You could at least get to the end of the first sentence before you reply.

This corny meme implies that philosophy majors become flat-earthers, etc.

No, most philosophy majors still believe in gravity. While flat-earthers cease to believe in gravity once they realize that a flat earth is incompatible with gravity. They replace it with this notion that the earth disc (and the rest of the system) is accelerating upwards through the void at 9.8 m/s^2.

Though I've come across some interdisciplinary studies types who would probably argue that gravity is a social construct because we describe it with language.

The set of all primes is the same size infinity as the set of all positive integers because you could create a way to map one to the other aka you can count to the nth prime. Reals are different in that there are an infinite number of real between any two reals which means there's no possible way to map them.

ghouls with more remaining brain cells.

Heritage.

...they're the same picture.

Those things are fantastic. Just make sure you get ones rated for the proper weight.

Like, most kids in the US had Tylenol. Most kids don’t develop autism.

Except the claim being studied is that Tylenol might cause autism when administered to the mother while pregnant. There are a lot of drugs that will cause a problem to a fetus when administered to a pregnant woman, but do not cause that problem when administered to someone outside the womb. Building a human from scratch is a fiddly process.

Not to defend RFK, but this argument is dumb.

People from everywhere it doesn't natively grow developed cancer long before they had access to tobacco. That doesn't prove tobacco use doesn't cause cancer, it just means it isn't the only potential cause.

Female streamers don’t have that fake obnoxious rage yell/scream the guys do.

Eh, guys with the fake rage scream are about as common as the ladies who see Twitch as essentially a starter camsite/way to advertise their OF and are trading on boobs more than anything else. There absolutely are streamers on Twitch that are exactly what OP suggests, but they're far from a majority and probably not the one used in the picture.

Was going to be my second pick after the considerably more niche VR.5. Which involved the MC entering the minds of people via modem because it was 90s scifi about virtual reality. It also tended to be trippy as hell in a way that is just amazing. Also basically impossible to find without sailing the seven seas, and not easy even then.

Was going to throw Kindred: The Embraced in as a third choice. Also considerably more obscure than Heroes, it was basically a White Wolf Vampire: The Masquerade TV series.

Nobody has direct evidence of the shooter’s motivations or political affiliation today. Nobody.

From the texts between him and his roomate that have been publicly released. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/charlie-kirk-shooting-prosecutor-utah

“Roommate: ‘Why?’ Robinson: ‘Why did I do it?’ Roommate: ‘Yeah."’ Robinson: ‘I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out."

So, we have his direct statement to his transwoman roommate as to his motive, either you can take that at face value or claim it's some carefully crafted lie intentionally meant to deceive us as to his real motives. You do you.

Likely based on his texts with his transwoman roommate.

You started with a rejection of "you have to work if you want to eat", my whole point was someone has to work if you want to eat, and if that someone isn't you they probably need some kind of incentive for why they are working so you can eat.