Shiggles

joined 2 years ago
[–] Shiggles 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

“Our software is a bloated mess” is not the defence they think it is.

[–] Shiggles 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

…because if it got better, you don’t know about it?

[–] Shiggles -2 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, the game is only really fun when you’re playing with friends, and we only played a bit before going back to our current “thing”.

[–] Shiggles 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It can simultaneously be dumb for him to trust the company and for it to be the company’s fault that he was fed something he specifically asked not to be served.

[–] Shiggles 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If a transmissions company tried to spend money preparing for a disaster like this, their shareholders would sue them into the ground and lobby to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of the sun.

[–] Shiggles 1 points 5 days ago

The american constitution still being in effect is less of a “impressive feat” and more of a byproduct of “constitutionalists” using it to strangle progressivism. That’s not to say it’s bad that it exists, or that it’s not something say, Trump, could change easily (though him being in office alone is clear evidence it never mattered in the first place).

But it was always meant to change and adapt to the times. Militias made sense when we didn’t have a standing army and fighter jets. The issues of “states rights” is a long and storied tale of southern mouth breathers trying to find any way possible to make non whites lives miserable.

[–] Shiggles 13 points 5 days ago

I do wish I shared their optimism that the police care.

[–] Shiggles 4 points 6 days ago

You might not need to hear this, but somebody else might.

“Being happy alone” doesn’t mean that being isolated is supposed to be a healthy or pleasant experience. We’re social creatures by nature, but you also can’t fixate on romantic relationships as the only way to “complete” yourself.

It’s harder and harder with the death of third spaces, but really, find something you enjoy in the real world and find your local community based around that thing. Make friends. Make enemies! Talk to people. Certainly understand your limits - about four hours into talking to new people, I will pretty much always need to crash afterwards, less if someone’s abrasive in some way. It still helps infinitely more than staying isolated in a funk.

[–] Shiggles 23 points 6 days ago (5 children)

This isn’t the equality any of us wanted ;-;

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Nuremberg Trials (en.wikipedia.org)
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One of the most interesting details about the Nuremberg trials, which I only learned from the ever excellent Robert Evans on a podcast, is the controversy over how many of the crimes Nazis were executed weren’t really “crimes” - international law wasn’t really a thing, and they weren’t really illegal under German law.

Yet we hung the Nazis anyways, because they were the fuckin’ Nazis. I find this a comforting thought in these times.

If you’re in need of additional fortification, the article on John Clarence Woods might help, the hangman who very incompetently and thus painfully executed nazi leadership - there is also a Behind the Bastards on him, possibly the one that discusses the trials iirc.

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