The Quuuuuill

10 years ago he published a game that went viral for being a specific addictive form of frustrating. Some people bullied the shit out of him so he divorced himself of his game and out the whole thing behind him. Fast forward 10 years, because he divorced himself of the game he didn’t really think about it when his IP protections expired. This had consequences when unscrupulous motherfuckers published a clone of his original game as a crypto scam of some sort (I haven’t looked into the specifics yet). So now he has to think about his old game again and tell all us he’s not scamming us

One phone call and a literal act of congress…

Which is why I don’t get when tankies stick up for him. He’s not on your side bro. He doesn’t want to decolonize the world. He wants to plunge it deeper into colonialism

i think its a real and genuine concern honestly

You don’t get to control a church via the state and then complain when another country says that church is controlled by your state and is a threat to national security, especially not when that another country tried to be nice about it for 2, 10, or 15 years depending on how you want to think of this conflict.

No I know. That’s most of everything he has ever done. But the fact is is that his net worth is mostly propped up by cronyism and he’s been heavily invested in crime and he does own and control these companies, which is the dangerous part

And no one is surprised… And here’s the thing. With Musk being in this deep with this many criminal enterprises, it compromises all his work. Tesla, Starlink, Space X, Neuralink, xAI, OpenAI, Boring Company, are all compromised. Doing business with them is doing business with criminals

Do you mean UI? Because the UX of Debian is “here’s a menu to pick all your things on install. Get used to picking all your things all the time because this distro is a baked potato”

Personally I love that UX and its what draws me to systems like Debian and Arch because no one knows what I like better than I do, so why should I be using someone else’s vision of what a good UX is

And they’re not a bunch of country farm idiots fighting alongside western forces either. The high tech advanced weaponry is being operated by Ukrainians. Russian soldiers are discovering for the first time who they’re actually fighting. They were told it was NATO forces and some Ukrainians. Turns out its Ukrainians with some NATO equipment. That itself must be kind of… Unsettling. It raises question for the Russian soldier about what’s really going on. Entering the Kursk region was a huge shock to the world, but I don’t think anyone realized the propaganda value of entering Putin’s sphere of misinformation with truth.

We let kids join the army at 18. We don’t let adults rent cars until they’re 26

These are the words I’ve been looking for. Going back to Russia after surrendering to Ukraine is going to be such a weird experience. These are people who have grown up their entire lives being tortured by their government. These are people who have tortured their POWs in an act of theater to make them fear being captured because they know how awful being tortured must be because they’ve seen it. And then they got captured and experienced… A brief reprieve. What will they experience when they go home? Will anyone listen to them? Or will the friends and relations they return to be too stuck in their ways of their thinking and think that these former POWs were brainwashed by the Ukrainian therapists who are helping them navigate the disorienting nature of not being tortured?

And the thing is… No matter what, these are still the seeds of something because a few people will listen, and suddenly the Siberian, Ukrainian, and Chechen separatists and anarchist terrorist cells will seem less like fringe groups bent on destruction, and will seem more like the only reasonable people around. I don’t think it will all happen fast enough for Ukraine to be who dissolves the Russian Federation, but the people who will are fighting alongside them now. They’re in their POW camps. They’re people who aren’t of fighting age yet, but whose fathers will come home and tell them what they saw in Ukraine

Ukraine made it clear to Google that siding with then was more likely to be beneficial than siding with Russia. What changed is Ukraine successfully invaded Kursk

Did not know there was a BtB about Vince McMahon. I’ll have to check that out

Iirc Macho Man Randy Savage was also instrumental to unionization efforts and the company turned him heel for it. The result? Everyone loved Macho Man Randy Savage as a heel more than they ever loved him as a face. There’s something extremely relatable to all of us about a guy who tries to speak up about injustice but doesn’t get the traction and has to go back to making the magic our companies don’t deserve

Key to maintaining the kleptocracy is maintaining a stance of “well everyone does it”

Its grim that this indicates that the signs of mass suicide in Kursk would have involved mutiny first…

Motorcycle troops are pretty universally advanced scouts. Decent chance they launched the drone attack after this scout was spotted gathering information they couldn’t afford to lose. I’m not saying this is a glorious kill, as there’s no such thing, but letting an advanced scout get away is about one of the most dangerous things you can do. Which is also… Really sad because advanced scouts are also generally individually some of the least dangerous troops. Its part of why comic book artist Jack Kirby wrote the way he did: he was an advanced scout and experienced fist hand that it’s one of the most dangerous jobs there is with some of the highest consequences for success and failure

And did a genocide with it

Ever since college I’ve always worn a cheap watch on my wrist least for the same reason my grandpa stopped keeping a pocket watch: its more convenient to check on your wrist for the time than your pocket.

Granted we’re getting way off topic here since except for a few years its ways been a digital watch. Asserting analog watches are more numerous in models when digital watches are more numerous in sales, therefore reading an analog clock is a useful skill is odd to me. When I was wearing an analog watch for my allergies it was a flieger because the mental tax of making the hands turn into a singular time was a frustration.

I learned, though, from this that how you present time changes how you perceive time. Kids who grow up with digital representations of time consider “the current moment” in a much narrower and instantaneous scope than people who grew up thinking of time as being a spectrum on a dial

its not in their standardized tests and that’s the only thing that determines funding. Its a nightmare …