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This isn’t throwing shade on other games or anything, but something I really like about dwarf fortress is that infrastructure projects are hard. In something like city skylines, you just build a bridge with the click of a button and spend money. That’s fine, but even building a castle or aqueduct in dwarf fortress requires planning and organizing resources and workers which makes it feel a lot more special
Yeah this is one of the best thing about DF. Like, in order to build down, you need to excavate each layer otherwise the whole thing collapses.
keiko fujimori is president of peru
It’s so wierd being like “okay so I believe that all the problems are caused by capitalism but still you are horrible at managing your finances” to my family.
You shouldn’t have to be “good at managing your finances” in an economically just world. You would have all your basic needs provided for at no cost. Money would only be used to buy things that you want but don’t need. The worst you could do if you were “financially irresponsible” is squandering the money you get for spending on leisure and recreation, on things that don’t fulfill you. No one could go broke because there would be no bills to pay. Oh, and gambling would be banned of course.
If you apply for a UK visa they ask you if you ever committed a genocide like who will answer that with yes
They’re asking so they can provide VIP treatment to those who answer yes /s
I used to scoff at this idea, but I really think European liberals might be more racist than American liberals. American liberals have a special kind of ignorance simplistic world view, but my god, interacting with some European liberals and so many of them are just overtly racist
That’s not a hot take at all. Europeans as a whole are lowkey probably more racist than Americans.
We actually have a continent-wide leaderboard for rasicm. Balkan countries are usually at the top. Racism isn’t a small thing here, it’s the norm for everyone (that isn’t Romani) While Romani people live on the streets, unable to earn enough to eat, we call them slurs and act like some sort of superior beings and treat them like human garbage. It’s disgusting to see.
Balkan countries are usually at the top.
I’ve travelled all over Europe and i can’t say i fully agree with that take. I mean, yes, you’re absolutely correct about the Balkans being extremely racist toward the Roma, but the Balkans hate everyone, especially each other. And at least they’re direct about it.
But when it comes to general racism my experience has been that Scandinavian countries are actually the worst and where it’s most insidious, precisely because they pretend to be all progressive but in really they have a massive superiority complex.
And they have by far the worst islamophobia problem, even compared to the Balkans where they fought centuries of wars with the Turks it’s not as bad as what i encountered in Denmark or Sweden. And then you take a look at the kinds of parties they elect and the whole “progressive Nordics” act really falls apart.
I don’t know if the following is much of a thing in person or more an internet thing, but it reminds of some years back seeing some Europeans on reddit talking about the Romani people in a way that was extremely similar to how racist Yankees talk about black people, and upon pointing this out, I remember there being a sort of a “how dare you” reaction to the comparison being made. But that was a clue to me, I guess, of like, yeah they’re not exactly squeaky clean over there. It may be the principal difference is just that US policies tend to be worse for the country’s own people than (some parts of) “western” Europe are for theirs, but from things I hear, this is in decline.
and upon pointing this out, I remember there being a sort of a “how dare you” reaction to the comparison being made
You were lucky. The reaction i got upon pointing out the same thing was, and i quote:
“Well if the blacks in America are as bad as our [Roma] then it’s no wonder they don’t like them over there.”
Except they used a slur instead.
Yikes, wow.
So, honestly I think i might have paedophobia. I don’t hate children (in fact, id really like to be a mom theoretically), logically i get why they do things they do, but everytime I’m around a child or infant i get a nearly paralyzing level of fear. I dont really know why either
I definitely used to feel this way, because interacting with kids is a whole different level of socialization. Plus if a kid is violating a boundary of yours, it’s especially hard to know what to do.
But then I became a father and honestly it’s way different with your own kid. I can’t explain it other than you either unlock an entirely new set of tools you didn’t know you had or you instantly develop those tools out of necessity
"Dark and violent imagination spiral gang rise up
(Laying on my bed now)"
This was said in my previous comment down below.
I try to combat all this with wry humor but maybe it’s not serving me.
I’m glad that I’m thinking positively again. But I realize now how much work needs to be done. At least there’s a way out of this mindset.
I think you have to definitely fight back against that impulse, that urge, to go into a dark, violent imagination spiral about yourself. It’ll influence you over time, I think. But regardless, it’s just not fun.
Woke up good this morning.
Can anyone help me remember a quote.
It’s something like: when arguing with the right they don’t need to adhere to logical consistency, all that truely matters is their position in the hierarchy of society.
It’s more eloquent than I’ve parsed it. Any idea?
Was it the meme Sartre quoute?
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
It’s a good one to keep in mind.
That’s a good one, but not the one. The point about the only permanent thing for the right is their view on hierarchy is strongly delineated.
I love how the football world cup unified everybody in hating Argentina
It’s also kinda sad because without Argentina it turns into a regular European Cup tournament again
Indeed, that’s why I hope they make the semifinals, but then I want Spain or France to demolish them
Dark and violent imagination spiral gang rise up
(Laying on my bed now)
Just had another dark spiral
Dark imagination moment
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12163954
Wish I still knew where it is
Got rejected from a job I applied for in a field I’ve worked in for years, asked for feedback and was told I missed a piece of essential criteria which I had definitely covered twice in my application.
Immediately responded with the excerpts and am awaiting their excuses about why the two examples I gave were not good enough evidence.
The kicker is this is a gov adjacent role in the UK and we have the “Disability Confident” scheme that lets disabled candidates get a guaranteed interview when you hit all the essential criteria. I opted in for that as a disabled person and conveniently (and this happens a lot!! At least 3 other times to me) I apparently don’t hit the essential criteria for a role I’ve done for like 7 years at a higher level than what I’m applying for, with examples that have gotten me jobs for roles at a higher level than the ones I’m applying for.
I love this period of economic stagnancy it’s great fun 🫠
economic stagnancy
Seems more like economic free fall.
But also, my sympathies, that is rough.
It definitely sounds like those companies are discriminating against disabled people. I wonder if you’d have better luck not telling them?
I think it’s less purposeful than direct discrimination, the application should have no sign I’ve ticked the box for the disability scheme, but I think that their screening process is just really poor.
I reckon they’re either using AI to batch shortlist and don’t really care about when it makes mistakes, or their shortlisters are having to wade through so many applications they’re not giving enough attention to each one and incorrectly scoring them. This then has the downstream effect of being indirectly discriminating, because they actually have to justify what essential criteria I have missed to deny me an interview, but for anyone else accidentally missed during shortlisting they can just lie and say they didn’t make the cut because there were so many strong candidates.
Having chatted with people recruiting in this area before, they’re getting like 500-1000 applicants for each role so their shortlisting has had to speed up to keep the process to a sane timeline. This has pushed them to make far more mistakes than I’ve ever had to deal with during the shortlisting phase. I used to get an interview almost every single time I applied for a role, and would perform well enough to be in the top 2 or 3 candidates if I failed to get the role. Now I’m just being screened out at the application phase.
Gotcha. So with the extreme application volume, they’re certainly not reviewing even most of them thoroughly. I haven’t done it often, but apparently feeding your CV/resume and the job description to AI can help if they’re using an HRIS, in case you haven’t tried that already. Best of luck, comrade!
So I was watching an ASMR video based on Helldivers 2 and as it goes on, I’m gradually going, “Wait a minute, this sounds like fascistic, imperialist stuff.” Then it starts reminding me of Starship Troopers.
When it’s done, I look up the game and sure enough, there are articles saying it’s heavily influenced by Starship Troopers. I’ve never actually watched Starship Troopers or read the book, nor have I played Helldivers, but I guess I picked up enough in passing about it and the themes aren’t exactly subtle.
The books were unironic fascist propaganda by a “libertarian” who idolized the military.
The movie was made by a guy who read the book, clocked it for what it was, and decided to make fun of its ideology instead.
Helldivers is a much less subtle mockery of the same ideas.
The movie was made by a guy who read the book, clocked it for what it was, and decided to make fun of its ideology instead.
Very based thing to do. Did the writer sued the director?
Heinlein was dead by the time the movie was made. But he likely would’ve hated it lol.
Oh, interesting.
