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But that is, without a doubt, an election losing position!

This isn't gonna get the attention it deserves.

damn. wouldn't it be crazy if organic intelligence were to build systems of sufficient complexity that, at some critical bottleneck or regression of baseline stability and collective intelligence, resulted in a series of system crashes and cascades where aforementioned life couldn't stop the loop

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

I'd definitely give it a read. I love grabbing more weird little rpg books to stuff my shelves with.

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

This just begs the question for why so many men are like this now.

Self-deportation is what the colonizationists wanted free black people to do in the 19th century. And white Americans tried to make life so difficult for free black people that they would choose to leave. But most free black people rejected that option because the US was their country, too.

What is a core game loop? Exploring the concept of a "core game loop" in tabletop board games and roleplaying games, why it benefits players, and how it can become a compulsion loop.

What is a core game loop?

That's the topic of today's Skeleton Code Machine. What are they? Why are they good for players? And when do they become a "compulsion loop"... something a bit more complicated.

Read it here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... #ttrpg #boardgame

as you get older you realize that sex is like, whatever, but the intimacy and human connection you get from sharing yourself with a loving partner is also like, whatever

They’re saying we require more vespene gas, they’re saying we require more pylons, and folks we’re going to be getting them in a very big way and we’re going to be doing it very soon

Those books are so good. The show, as good as it is, doesn't begin to do them justice.

Wife: "The Doge is ruining everything." Husband: *turns the calendar to reveal Constantinople 1204*

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How can you be this naive? Still. In 2025. The man has never in his life cared about a law unless it helped him. If you want to give people a reason to not worry about this it'd be more intellectually sound to just point out he's old as hell.

Hey if you're suddenly an unemployed CIA field operative and you're feeling like you got a raw deal, DM me I have a couple ideas I want to run by you

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What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

You useless sack of shit.

But George Lucas did, lol. Amazing.

the NYT needle but for the mandate of heaven, or lack thereof

my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country

Hopeful. Pretty sure it'd require a military coup and a cultural revolution. 100 million resentful, stupid, provincials.

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

This is what Trump wants to take from you.

Exactly! There was that clip toward the end of the campaign of he and his team sitting around watching Fox News while he dictates tweets to them. It's always just that.

Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down

until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive

The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance Where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.

You should.... probably read this.

www.thebulwark.com/p/influence-...