One good outcome of generative LLMs is that more people know what Luddism is actually about.

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Even on Lemmy (and also PieFed), they’re officially called communities.

I use mbin and we call them magazines fir some reason.

It takes place after 3H in a different setting.

I like Rayman but I cannot in good conscience let Ubisoft have my money.

I actually feel the opposite. One of my gripes with Three Houses is that the default routes are so similar, especially if you recruit everybody on every run, that a lot of it end up feeling like padding for a small amount of extra stuff. (Crimson Flower is radically different to the others, but doesn’t give anything you won’t get on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow). Three Hopes and Fates, for all their flaws, give more unique experiences in each route.

So we’re seeing Dagda. Cool. I would have preferred if this game was roughly contemporaneous with 3H so we could see where Shamir came from, but it looks decent nonetheless.

I got my degree in 2008. All my exams were handwritten (but fortunately I didn’t have to write 10 pages per question, which is good as I physically can’t write that much in the time allotted). I did at least get to type my undergraduate thesis.

Of course he isn’t. Kings have way less power and authority than the POTUS.

Honestly, I think it would be best for everybody if we just let Trump be an actual king. Let him wear a crown and sit on a throne while the prime minister actually runs the country.

How do you know this isn’t a dream?

I’m so handsome and charming I shouldn’t be in the same room as 90% of women and 10% of men lest they become so overcome with insane list they rip their clothes off and have hours of hard, passionate, energetic sex with me. I just couldn’t bear to break up every non-lesbian couple I meet with my incredible animal magnetism, so for the good of society, people must only be allowed to admire me from a distance.

Christians have their own flag?

Tylee Durden is am allegory for toxic masculinity. He talks a big game about individuality and self-determination, but Project Mayhem is even more strictly conformist and anti-individualistic than the corporate culture it’s rebelling against.

People like Andrew Tate watch the movie and think Tyler Durden is an example to be followed but they don’t even take on his critique of capitalism.

Like. In his speech at the start, about how your possessions own you, he’s not wrong about society. But instead of offering a real solution, all he does is gather men with social issues into a rage-fuelled terrorist cult which he can’t even control. Much like the One Ring uses good intentions to corrupt its wearer to evil, so Tyler Durden uses genuine feelings of dissatisfaction and disaffection men feel in the late 20th century to pointlessly destructive aims, ultimately reproducing the very power structures they claim to fight against.

No, Bruce Wayne us the scientist, the monster is Batman.

NCR?

I would make it illegal to buy a house if the buyer already owns a house which is unoccupied for at least half the year.

Patents expire if six months pass during which the patent holder does not make any products which use that patent. The countdown dies not reset if the patent is sold or traded away.

Companies must publicly post everybody’s wages once a year.

All job ads must include wages offered and all benefits. Candidates can try to negotiate higher wages if they wish, but they at least know where the floor is.

Any digital product sold or “licenced” with DRM must be patched to remove the DRM if the verification server goes down (Stop Killing Games is actually making some solid progress on making this into EU law).

Sex workers sharing a home out of which they both work shall not be considered a brothel.

Living off the proceeds of a prostitute will be legal as long as there is no coërcion. The existing law mostly makes it illegal for sex workers to rent homes or support disabled friends and family members, while pimps simply ignore the law.

Also the euro is worth more than any dollar right now

Thank you!

No, I’m actually quite big.

There’s quite a bit of racism here. The majority is directed by white people against other white people: Gaels against Poles and Settled against Travellers especially, and even Ukrainian refugees. Oh, and a lot of complaining about Brits, but they started it.

But yes, we also have our share of anti-black and anti-briwn racism. In two separate Rose of Tralee pageants, black finalists were faced with massive, aggressive harassment just for being black. If a black or brown person does a violent crime, there is a predictable chorus of people calling for stricter rules on immigration which doesn’t happen when, for example, an Italian immigrant does the same thing. Anti-immigration protests are a semi-regular thing; “Ireland is full” is a popular slogan despite the entire island having more more people on it than it did in 1845.

Islamophobia is surprisingly mild here; people are more likely to have a problem with Protestants than Muslims. There is definitely some Antisemitism, but that is frequently conflated with support for Palestine.

We even have our own fascist parties, Aontú and Independent Ireland. They are doing disturbingly well. People more politically adept than me correctly bring up that the fascists receive most of their funding and support from abroad. Nigel Garage, Steve Bannon, and to a lesser extent Vladimir Putin really want the fascists to take power. But I need to stress that foreign far right agitators didn’t create racism here, they just aggravated something that was already present.

Indeed, the global far right movement is really interested in Ireland despite us being a pretty small, weak, militarily neutral country. It’s because of soft power. For one thing, Ireland is well-regarded all over the world, except for in Israel. America in particular has a lot of people who are proud of their Irish ancestry, to the point that every presidential candidate since at least Kennedy has to make a bug show about how close they are to Ireland, and no other country’s prime minister gets an annual one-on-one meeting with the POTUS (even Israel doesn’t have such an arrangement). So if Ireland goes far right, we would influence other countries to move right.

Moreover, Ireland is unique in being a majority-white country in the Global North which got colonised, and whose people were already mostly Christian before the colonists came (though the colonists did later try to convert the natives to a different type of Christianity). Thus if Ireland was to massively embrace xenophobia, it gives other racists a powerful rhetorical tool: “Look, even the people who got colonised don’t want immigration because they know it’s a problem!” It’s similar to one of the reasons Antisemites love Israel so much: “If The Jews get to have their own country, why not white people?”