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  • qarbone@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldOur Future
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    2 days ago

    I was speaking aspirationally, as a member of the species. If we could just get our priorities right (as a species) maybe we could outsource pointless, painful, dangerous labor to robots. Instead of throwing foreign children at it by the handfuls because it’s cheaper, where the lucky children get to survive the mine collapses that killed their sister and friends.

    This ire isn’t pointed at you, as the person who prompted the response. It’s just peeled the skin off an abiding and yet aimless bitterness. I can only really be angry at the worst of human behavior, and that’s not something I can kneel beneath a guillotine.



  • These decrepit fucks think all “real” jobs are easy money, so of course they don’t care about making retirement a feasible option. They just fall asleep in an air-conditioned hall, rarely stirring awake to thoughtlessly vote down opportunities for citizens – young and old – to have a manageable life.

    If you forced some of these antedeluvian ulcers in our government’s guts to depend on the services they legislate on, then those services might actually become serviceable. Instead, they collect an easy paycheck until they die in-office. Using active office like it’s a pension.




  • From what I’m seeing, Christians ruler did control the peninsula but in the “loosely-aligned polity” sense that was the style of the time. Perhaps joined together by local Iberian culture under the Visigothic Kingdom, rather than Spanish “nationality”. But I don’t think that’s subverting or undercutting any truth to a rulership that cranked the “default” back to “Christianity” by re-conquering the Iberian peninsula from Berber Muslim ownership, like an angry dad with the thermostat. I do see how fascist would love to use the term to further other-ize people but I don’t like ceding anything to fascist especially not language.

    I’m also not a historian despite what my access to Wikipedia might fool me into believing. I guess if the shift is just dropping “Re” from the term, then that’s reasonable. I just am sleep-deprived and leery of (not saying this is you) self-identified “scholars” who want to claim discourse space by misinterpreting the past under the guise of “recontextualization”. To be clear, I’m specifically not saying that is what you are or was your intent, but that sort of miscourse is insidious. I’m being more literal because I’m tired and won’t really double-check what I wrote to ensure my writing was well-crafted to properly impart “intention”.


  • It’s because FO4 isn’t that beloved a modding landscape, mainly being inhabited by equal parts “photorealistic tacticool gun enthusiasts”, “tight-clothes, pose gooners”, and “people that like – and want more – Fallout 4”.

    It’s because expecting that is hoping to siphon a percentage (people that want to install a whole other game on top of their game to mod/play mods on) of a percentage (people that mod video games at all) of gamers.

    It’s a similar reason to why Enderal, a fantastic RPG that completely provides a much richer canvas to mod on in terms of “immediate” story, has barely any mods beyond visual replacers, compared to Skyrim. Expecting, and not idly hoping for, deep modding support was unrealistic.


  • Huh.

    This reads to me like a soft invitation to avoid using the term. But I’m not seeing why you’d need to revisit or challenge the word “Reconquista”. Will it be updated to the “Bad Reconquista”? It was a conquest, which is not a generally nice word. If anything you’d want to challenge the feelings of the Reconquista as a positive event.

    Unfortunately, dragging the US into the conversation, it’s as if USists were proud of the Indian Removal Act because it helped solidify the country’s hold of lands east of the Mississippi River. Sure, it lead to the formation of the country as we know it but it wasn’t a good event. Sure, the Reconquista was a historical event necessary to the formation of the nation we know as Spain but you shouldn’t be really proud of what occurred.