• Sailor Sega Saturn
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    5 months ago

    what the heck EA forum doesn’t have a block feature? That’s just… ew.

    Also how long have all these people been obsessed with “woke” and “the left”? Because it’s been really obvious and over the top lately.

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      135 months ago

      what the heck EA forum doesn’t have a block feature? That’s just… ew.

      You don’t need a block feature if you’re as insufferable as the average EA /j

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      95 months ago

      Because they’re the wealthy or at least believe in wealth’s ability to do good. A basic interpretation of EA would say that you should start a company, and maximize profit even at the expense of worker compensation so you have more to give to charity

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        They approximate by forming private companies that they then talk about as if they’re 501(c)3 charities and pay accordingly, or less - see our friends such as Kat Woods at Nonlinear here for a previous worked example.

      • David GerardMA
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        115 months ago

        nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest

          • David GerardMA
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            yeah, I have posited previously that the California Ideology traces in a straight line through science fiction to Rudyard Kipling.

            • @blakestaceyMA
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              “And a waifu is only a waifu, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

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            In the first Foundation story, there’s a weird mention of applying symbolic logic to human language that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. Campbell insisted upon it because

            he felt in our discussions that symbolic logic, further developed, would so clear up the mysteries of the human mind as to leave human actions predictable. The reason human beings are so unpredictable was we didn’t really know what they were saying and thinking because language is generally used obscurely. So what we needed was something that would unobscure the language and leave everything clear.

            Clear being a fortuitous choice of wording on Asimov’s part there, given, well.

            TESCREAL and Scientology don’t just share methodology; they both descend directly from “Golden Age” science fiction. In this essay I will

          • @froztbyte
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            95 months ago

            Ah, I do believe I now see a bit of an extra in the reason for the makeup of the story in that one writer/writing episode of DS9

        • @froztbyte
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          85 months ago

          you’re so much more graciously subtle than I’m feeling tonight, but then I did clock my brain out after this fucker of a week