By society they mean the veneer on brutal capitalism that allows them to do whatever the fuck they want while we get hosed

Really thought the pussy comment was it, but mfer just doubled down.

Yeah the amount of powerful and stinking rich people incriminated in Epstein’s files might’ve actually motivated a modicum of competency for once.

Interesting hypothesis! I wouldn’t put it so boldly myself, but there is a type of person who relishes in holding authority over others, and given that most people are just happy to go along and get along, it makes sense that those who are motivated to boss people around would kind of monopolize positions of power and do everything they could to hold on to them.

Woke literally means aware of systemic injustice, right? I mean originally. And SJW literally means someone who will fight for social justice (equity).

These are all objectively good things.

I think their only hope is to go with a small, small story that only hints at the larger world. If they try to go epic then the movie universe begins and ends with this one entry.

I don’t think they can resist the trap of going for the obvious epic world-stakes kind of story though.

Yeah I’ve got to say it is a very positive sign that I don’t know either of these actors. Also helps with suspension of disbelief.

Always has been

Oooh I hadn’t even thought of that. I was treating this movie with a sense of dread, but I am excited to hear new music with the motifs of the games.

Yeah I finally made an account and there is more than enough here to satisfy my mealtime watching needs. Still not a lot of content when compared to the mainstream platforms, but that reminds me of all the fediverse offerings a few years ago.

I feel like it’s only a matter of time before there’s enough on peertubes to keep me off the mainstreams almost entirely.

The spirit is there

Death rattle

They don’t deserve the luxuries of life that a doctor has, however.

I see your position, but respectfully disagree. I appreciate that we may want to incentivize people to be doctors, but the gifts of civilization have been hard won by the labour of all workers over the years, and IMHO on paper should be available to all. It’s not about deserving.

Now, in practice is a good doctor more likely to enjoy the charity of the community, and occupy a special status because of their critical role? Undoubtedly. IMHO in a world where creature comforts are guaranteed, these specials perks would be a huge boon.

And besides, I think most people only want lots of money because it helps insulate them from the ravages of our current system when they’re old and unable to work. If we didn’t have to worry about how to survive after our working years I think collecting excess wealth would have a lot less appeal.

PS. Personally I think there are enough people drawn to medicine that it wouldn’t be hard to fill those spots with free education. But we may have to really incentivize people to work dirty jobs like sewage.

PPS. for incentives, maybe it’s something like fewer weekly hours, or your time counts 1.5 to double towards your pension, so you can retire earlier.

There are rich people incriminated in it, and they don’t much care what flavour of neoliberal is in power, as long as they get to continue their affairs unmolested.

God, always. Nothing about our current calendar is working for me.

You’ve got to suck really hard to leverage surface tension while fisting.

Pro move but it can be done

Dogs must look at you like 🤤

God that would be so itchy. I shaved everything once for drag. Never again. Now I peer pressure women to stop shaving instead.

The “marketplace of ideas”

We had that. It was called internet and your communities were mailing lists and webrings

Hello, I would like to “subscribe” to all my “#follows” on one single website.

They have played us for absolute fools.

/meme

But yeah I agree. Although personally I think you get all that “real ideas” virtually for free if the purpose of the platform is the community, rather than attracting enough users to monetize.

I had a similar experience, but unfortunately I did see enough trolling in the gaming communities to convince me to leave. I thought sticking to the indie scene would be enough to avoid it, but the casual misogyny somehow kept getting in my feed. People in the scene would become trollmouths through their exposure, I guess.