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demonquark,

Holy shit. I completely forgot about download managers.

demonquark,

🥰

demonquark,

Latinos for the win, bruh.

demonquark,

Tell me about it. I keep trying to get my coworkers to organize, but they’re all a bunch of corporate cocksuckers.

demonquark,

Is there really no downsides to eating the rich?

demonquark,

Tbf, every moderately old software product is a collection of built-up stupidity.

demonquark,

But the bacon is the best part. 🤤🤤

demonquark,

When it comes to human scale natural beauty, Germany is one of most beautiful places on the planet. It feels like it was made for people to live in.

demonquark,

Go for walks in the middle of the night. Like in a residential neighborhood, or an industrial district. It’s just so peaceful.

demonquark,

Thanks. For a moment I thought Pennsylvania wiring was a real thing.

demonquark,

Removing the picture is not going to stop impure thoughts about Picards

demonquark,

Out of my league means that there’s a high chance I’m going to get rejected. How do I know? It happened to me. It happened to my friends.

Does this guarantee that I will be rejected? No. Does mean that I’m putting the person on a pedestal? No.

It merely means that being rejected sucks. It’s not fun. And to avoid that sucky feeling I’ve chosen to avoid pursuing people with a high chance of rejection.

This behavior is not putting people on a pedestal. After all, if people of my league were truly that amazing, it would be worth it to pursue them. Kind of a high risk, high reward approach. Instead, it’s generally true that a relationship with of an out of my league person is just as fulfilling as someone in my league.

Tldr: out of my league means high risk, low reward

TIL about Moonbow: Nature's Rare and Beautiful Phenomenon Similar to Rainbow (upload.wikimedia.org)

A moonbow is a rare and stunning natural phenomenon that occurs when moonlight is refracted and reflected off water droplets in the air, creating a colorful arc of light in the night sky. Similar to a rainbow, moonbows are formed when light is dispersed into its various colors, but they are much rarer and more elusive, as they...

demonquark,

Isn’t that just a rainbow. I mean it’s the same effect. Just with a different light source. Seeing as the light source is not specified in the word rainbow, I don’t see the need to a different word.

What do you think is a good required completion time for video games? What examples come to mind of games that felt just right?

I used to like open world games that would take 50+ hours to beat but I feel like as I get older these games can be intimidating to even start and I often get sidetracked with other games frequently only getting half to three quarters of the way through....

demonquark,

I love RPGs. But I inevitably spend more time planning out my character class, organizing my inventory, keeping track of quests, etc. Then I actually spend “playing” the game.

It’s an enjoyable play style, I mean I’m choosing to do this. But, it means that every RPG game I see immediately becomes a massive time sink. I’m too employed to ever really enjoy an RPG. :(

demonquark,

I think the only reason Super Mario bros earned that much is because … kids. People in general have grown tired of reboots, remakes, cinematic universes, you know, just the blatant milking of IP.

Then again, Barbie fits in that category. So I dunno.

demonquark,

I always assumed neelix was a slut.

demonquark,

No spicy prince?

demonquark,

Serious question: how will this impact funding (non-religious) services for poorer parents / single mothers?

The article mentioned a woman who was provided shelter and diapers for 5 months after the birth of their child. I do think that there should be facilities to help women like her. Preferably non-religious, without the anti-abortion misinformation.

demonquark,

I love cpt Fubard

demonquark,

Representative parliamentary. If it’s a large country (both population and area) or geographically diverse country (eg an archipelago) it should be federal, if not unitary.

Proportional representation based on party lists. Getting on the ballot requires evidence of grassroots support. Silly example: you must have video evidence of you engaging with 5000 unique constituents in a 5 minute one-on-one conversation on the issues in the last year at their residence. The video must end with the constituent explicitly endorsing you. That means at least 5000 5 minute videos with 5000 unrelated people. That’s a lot of physical legwork were you must meet the people. There are better ways, this is just a simple example.

Choose a voting system that favours coalition building.

Elections should be publicly funded. Don’t ban political parties, do ban explicitly anti-democratic people. Antidemocratic ppl can’t work via proxies. They’re, justifiably, afraid that their proxy will steal the power for themselves.

Completely separate head of state (who should be powerless) and head of government. Lots of pomp, ceremonies, frequent press coverage of the powerless head of state. Let the portion of politics that is effectively a dog and pony show focus on him. Let people get emotionally swept up about him wearing a tan suit or sleeping with his secretary or get super proud about how totally not old he is. The head of state can be a show. The head of government should be a boring bureaucrat.

There’s more, but this seems a decent start.

demonquark,

I’m genuinely interested how Napoleon 3 used proxies.

My thinking is something the lines of:

In democracies, demagogues don’t get truly dangerous until they gain some form of state power. They used that little bit of state power to both fund their allies (state capture for capitalists, government hand outs for the people) and undermine their enemies (breaking down/stymieing democratic institutions)

Eventually, they accrue enough state power to take over the state, either internally (think putin, erdogan) or via an old fashion coup / fake crisis (hitler and erdogan again)

In my mind that real power is necessary to overthrow democracies. I have trouble finding good instances of demagogues putting themselves in a situation where their proxy has more real power than them.

I’d appreciate some examples that undermine that logic.

Note: I’m excluding cases of real popular revolt. I.e. you have more than 50% of population’s support.

demonquark,

Okay. That tracks. I remember him mumbling into the presidency and then just taking over.

So, my logic of proxies being a bad idea, because the proxy will double cross you, still holds. However, despite that, people are still dumb enough to push a proxy forward. And that proxy can turn out to be demagogue as well.

Fair critique.

demonquark,

Hey! My blob is quite morphous; thank you very much.

demonquark,

This is giving me serious Alex Schaefer’s Bank’s on Fire vibes. And I’m here for it.

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