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  • Brace is... a decent writer with unique insight, and more importantly, the ability to self-reflect and process outside criticism, which is pretty important as a former drug addict.

  • We are literally in the middle of a terminology identification crisis in ethics, with both deontology and utilitarianism being identified as 'maxim driven ethical frameworks', with utilitarianism just becoming a subsection of deontology, wherein the ethical maxim focuses on the result, but is still technically a deontological formulation. And these kinds of ideas are being sectioned off from behavioral ethics, which is the study of how humans actually make ethical decisions, which itself posits that ethical frameworks don't actually exist as a way to make decisions, but instead are a way to justify decisions that have been made. Meaning that we are all, for the most part, just post-hoc deontologists.

    And this is just general ethics, not even specifically about the morality of specific actions.

  • There is the parrot called Apollo on Youtube that will probably get pretty close to that if not accomplish it. They are like only three years in and the parrot is pretty damn good at categorizing things, even things he hasn't seen before, into categories based on its color, texture, etc. but like everything held above your head is a 'hat' so like true comprehension isn't there.

    Edit: you already referenced him lol

  • Oh lol, yeah she's a clout-chasing plant for sure.

  • What's even worse is she probably doesn't even know which apologist she is getting her bullshit from. At least back in the day the fundies were able to point you to a preacher to source their bullshit.

  • Obama is just the most convenient example, I've seen dozens of progressive politicians do the same thing as Zohran here, and it usually ends as the gravy train of speaking gigs for non-profits and universities. This type of person is what San Francisco was built on.

  • IANAL. Pure hypothetical guess is that it might constitute a higher degree of ownership of the rights for the ability to transform said characters. Idk though, copyright law is some spooky shit. IBM literally had my dad put his name on an attempt to patent the concept of having something move in an oval to reduce stress. It stood until it was challenged in court and he knew it was bullshit but they paid him so he did it anyway betting on it failing. But like imagine trying to patent physics concepts.

  • What worries me is that in this fake ass economy, the PR alone would make it worth it for these bloodsuckers.

  • Why endorse at all? Why not just do what he promised, just keep his mouth shut and focus on his plan for running the city?

    Obama 2.0, that's why. Dude is already planning for the future.

    We'll see if he is able to convert into something for anyone other than himself, but right now, by centering everything around purely himself without anything to show for it, without even honoring a vote, he is setting up the political machine to be around himself and no one else, which is mighty dangerous for someone who is supposedly challenging the system. Even Lenin at least entertained a pretense towards democratic decisions within the party, even if he liked to stack the deck. At this point DSA is literally more 'authoritarian' than the Bolsheviks.

  • Despite this, idk if the American empire has never really felt more precarious. Their willingness to just completely discard complete systems of control of is a sign of arrogance and disregard, not strength imo. They may not pay for it today, but it will bite their successors hard in the ass.

  • But but gulags.

    I genuinely hope they get out, move somewhere else and write their equivalent of gulag archipelago.

  • If they do not have a Mechanicus faction I will literally blow a gasket. Omnissiah willing they will eventually have access to Titans, similar to the large ships that they introduced for the undead in WH2.

  • I will always love Tzeetch no matter the setting. Pretending everything is going according to plan while you are really just rolling dice and pulling strategems out of your ass will never get old to me.

  • Nah, that would be 30K if they did that. Possible expansion if anything.

    My money is on them being released later or being part of a larger end-game crisis condition like they were originally in TW:Warhammer, then playable for the players later after a bunch of DLC, updates, and possibly even a second game.

    Edit: This also fits in neatly with Abbadon's Crusades which were pretty much the driving plotline for most of early 40K before the nids were introduced. Nids as an endgame crisis would really sell the game for me.

  • So were they just waiting for Machado to get the Peace Prize? If so lol damn.

  • Wow, who would have suspected this giant public movement that primarily existed on a Western public app, that totally isn't just teamspeak but run by people connected to U.S. intelligence, would have been behind this primarily consumer identity deiven 'revolution'?

    I mean, for fucks sake, they named it 'Discord', it's about as on the nose as 'Palantir'.

  • I would have been fine with it if I was allowed to transcribe it onto a computer. I've just never been an ordered note taking person outside of a computer, but even my file storage was immaculate as a kid. And we never did them ever again to that degree of anal-retentive behavior in school again, so idk what she was on about.

  • Oh hey dude look it's Cool Adam!

  • We'll all be fine as long as only Cool Adam shows up.