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I cannot believe the revenge genre is still going strong in Korea

A source has just given me this photograph depicting Elon Musk stepping out onto the balcony of the SpaceX launch center.

People made fun of my “quantitative feminism is the political science wave of the future” prediction, but the international political economy people are getting a real time experiment to see how many billions of dollars getting to grope your secretary is worth to the men who run the global economy.

the nazis, like famously, could not figure out how to get nuclear tech going what are you talking about lmfao

Terms of Service

There was a trend for a bit to include consumer-friendly explainers (I think either the CCPA or FTC took a favorable stance towards them), but that never really took off.

Riot Games actually has a pretty good example of once: www.riotgames.com/en/terms-of-...

readers added context:

"Australian" is a calque in multiple southeast asian and east asian languages that means "incredibly racist and unmanageable sex pest tourist"

I’ve said it before but a lot of people who are very smug about their contempt for “liberals” actually have just mistaken “liberals” for “women.”

anyway its an odd silver lining i guess. paved paradise, now parting it out as a loss. eating themselves in a sense

also, isn't the overhead way higher in stem departments? english lit depts don't need to purchase and maintain autoclaves and microscopy equipment

like it's either i use chatgpt or look up the fifth variation of "analyze" because the client automatically flags "research" in the narrative billing

everyone mad in her replies needs to go work in the email mines for a year writing semi-routine-but-not-automable administrivia before talking about the intrinsic beauty of the written word

mildly disturbed learning that his nick is the ophite and not Theo-phite

right! lina khan accomplished nearlyh nothing to reign in Big Tech! i work on issues she regulated and only occasionally looked up from my desk to figure out what it was she was doing.

going through my internet history so i can accurately log my billables is genuinely one of the most humiliating things. like, why was i googling Faust at 5:30pm on a Tuesday instead of going home

liberals telling me i have to hug the flag: "fuck this country, americans are lower than dogs"

conservatives telling me the usa is a degenerate nation: "i will beat you to death with an american flag"

i think that people making the argument that my fellow citizens are not citizens should get punched in the teeth and if they repeat the argument they should get punched until they stop

cryptography (n): the study of replacing whatever problem you have with a key management problem

If Trump has ICE raiding churches and shit for sheltering immigrants I hope it at least ends with half the supreme court excommunicated

And, like, yeah, you can make critiques of how terra nullius is depicted and used in certain video games, and if you're going to do that, relying on previous interpretative lens like colonialism might be pretty useful!

If X and Y are subsets of A, and I characterize X as P, does an example of Y being P disprove my categorization of X?

man it would not kill you guys to more critically examine the industry

do you think i was referring to league when i mentioned cute indie games that i love

rito pls make more weird shit like bard and reksai

that's fine! Moira's crit was obviously directed at gunslop and such that make up a vast vast majority of the ecosystem.

i have a lot to be thankful for video games, and LoL is a big reason me and my high school buddies still keep in touch every week, but capital G Gamers are the worst class of people

okay i am a LoL addict, but moira is unequivocally right here lol. mainstream video games are sexist, violent slop at worst and gambling for children and cellphone users at best

cute indie games (which i love!) are, like, a rounding error in the environment

i have experienced joy playing against him once, and it was because the enemy team picked an ad mid and jungle too so i just locked in rammus" and OK'd my way to a W

you mean you don't like playing "let's flip a coin to see if he gets enough crits to win level 1 and figure out who's going to be miserable for the next twenty minutes, and even if you win, you have to manage a braindead splitpusher" instead of playing league?

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

how is that even possible