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  1. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 20 in ~society

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    No you're right, it's definitely pretty mask off. It just seems like there's enough vagueness for them to say "well of course we didn't mean that" if pressed

    No you're right, it's definitely pretty mask off. It just seems like there's enough vagueness for them to say "well of course we didn't mean that" if pressed

  2. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 20 in ~society

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    The whole thing is pretty vague - I suspect that's intentional to give them just enough cover to dodge specific accusations if needed while still appealing to techno-feudalists and conservatives....

    The whole thing is pretty vague - I suspect that's intentional to give them just enough cover to dodge specific accusations if needed while still appealing to techno-feudalists and conservatives. There's some language that seems to me to be trying to build more bridges between social conservatives and the tech right, which is troubling to me.

  3. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 20 in ~society

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    Yeah I've been seeing a lot of chatter about reinstating a draft coming from the right recently, which is deeply concerning to me.

    Yeah I've been seeing a lot of chatter about reinstating a draft coming from the right recently, which is deeply concerning to me.

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  4. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 20 in ~society

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    Given the sentence about free email pointing toward silicon valley, and other places in the post where they point toward a perceived need for silicon valley to take more of a lead in defense and...

    Given the sentence about free email pointing toward silicon valley, and other places in the post where they point toward a perceived need for silicon valley to take more of a lead in defense and crime prevention (plus prior knowledge of the kinds of thought these yahoos are immersed in) I feel pretty comfortable with my reading of that section. Could be that I'm wrong.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 20 in ~society

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    I wasn't sure the most appropriate place to post this article about Palantir's Manifesto that was posted over the weekend. There's nothing particularly surprising here if you've read much about...

    I wasn't sure the most appropriate place to post this article about Palantir's Manifesto that was posted over the weekend. There's nothing particularly surprising here if you've read much about Thiel's particular brand of Yarvinite madness, but it is surprising in how mask-off it is about a number of things.

    1. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

    This statement isn't the most extreme or specific, maybe, but it was the most surprising to me in that it seems to state plainly the feeling of this group that they are the "ruling class" of America.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Bluesky is down (at least for me) in ~tech

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    They posted something saying they are having some intermittent outages and pointed users to their status page: https://status.bsky.app

    They posted something saying they are having some intermittent outages and pointed users to their status page: https://status.bsky.app

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    Haha, yeah Bilmuri do be like that. His earlier stuff blends in a lot of modern pop production and electronic elements (plus the saxophone) with thickest metalcore riffs, and the country elements...

    Haha, yeah Bilmuri do be like that. His earlier stuff blends in a lot of modern pop production and electronic elements (plus the saxophone) with thickest metalcore riffs, and the country elements in the newer albums work well for some reason. His previous album American Motor Sports is genuinely one of my favorites of the last few years.

  8. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    Oh also, I stumbled into it a few years ago and saved it because I thought it was funny - there's a sax solo in the middle of this tech-death song. Burial in the Sky - An Orphaned City I wouldn't...

    Oh also, I stumbled into it a few years ago and saved it because I thought it was funny - there's a sax solo in the middle of this tech-death song.

    Burial in the Sky - An Orphaned City

    I wouldn't really call it good, the whole section sticks out like a sore thumb and it's pretty fucking weird, but it definitely made me laugh...

  9. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    Bilmuri has a lot of sax solos and tours with saxophonist Gabi Rose, so his live stuff tends to have even more sax. Here's a few examples: BILMURI - 2016 CAVALIERS (Ohio) Ft. Knox BILMURI -...

    Bilmuri has a lot of sax solos and tours with saxophonist Gabi Rose, so his live stuff tends to have even more sax. Here's a few examples:

    BILMURI - 2016 CAVALIERS (Ohio) Ft. Knox
    BILMURI - POSTALMONDCLARITY

    He's actually just dropped a new album but I haven't had a chance to give it a good listen, so I don't know how sax heavy it is - he's been leaning more into a country fusion sound for the last couple of albums.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted with molotov cocktail in ~tech

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    The other piece of the puzzle that folks haven't mentioned is that people are connecting this guy to Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating a heal insurance CEO

    The other piece of the puzzle that folks haven't mentioned is that people are connecting this guy to Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating a heal insurance CEO

    3 votes

  12. Comment on ‘Metal Gear Solid’ movie in the works from ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ duo as they ink Sony first-look in ~movies

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    I dearly hope they get someone to help with dialogue. The dialogue in Death Stranding made me wish for death it was so bad.

    I dearly hope they get someone to help with dialogue. The dialogue in Death Stranding made me wish for death it was so bad.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 30 in ~society

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    People I grew up with in evangelical churches would have been - earnestly, literally - calling for blood if Obama had posted this on Easter (or probably any other day). It is mind-blowing to me...

    People I grew up with in evangelical churches would have been - earnestly, literally - calling for blood if Obama had posted this on Easter (or probably any other day). It is mind-blowing to me that those folks are, presumably, fine with this shit.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk

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    Yeah I've rarely seen such divided opinions about a book so it kind of feels like I'm going to have to try and tackle it at some point.

    Yeah I've rarely seen such divided opinions about a book so it kind of feels like I'm going to have to try and tackle it at some point.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk

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    I have a question about House of Leaves if you don't mind giving a (non spoiler) answer - how horror is it? I've been really interested in the formatting and some of what I've heard about the...

    I have a question about House of Leaves if you don't mind giving a (non spoiler) answer - how horror is it? I've been really interested in the formatting and some of what I've heard about the surreal nature of the story, but I'm not much of a fan of horror. It's one of the big disappointments of the whole Backrooms microgenre, to me, that in the beginning it was just surreal and any horror came from the liminality and the breakdown of physics, but pretty quickly it turned into pretty typical (monster movie) horror stuff.

    One of the reasons I love Piranesi is that the House isn't good or evil, it's just there and it has this sense of wonder and dread about it, but it's not any kind of horror movie trope it's just weird and impossible to understand.

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  16. Comment on 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV series lands at Peacock in ~tv

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    I mean, good is such a subjective thing, lol. They're not going to win any literary rewards, but they're a lot better than they sound based on that description, IMO. The name/cover design/blurbs...

    I mean, good is such a subjective thing, lol. They're not going to win any literary rewards, but they're a lot better than they sound based on that description, IMO. The name/cover design/blurbs haven't really been doing the series any favors over the years. And they books definitely have some things to say, they're not just mindless entertainment.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on What is your favourite shark? in ~talk

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    The Georgia Aquarium is incredible. The fully transparent tunnel where you go through their big Ocean Voyager tank is legitimately mind-blowing.

    The Georgia Aquarium is incredible. The fully transparent tunnel where you go through their big Ocean Voyager tank is legitimately mind-blowing.

  18. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    We have, in fact, had a few discussions that came quite close to debating the pros and cons of eugenics. It's been a few years, and I don't really feel like going digging, but it has happened more...

    We don't debate the pros or cons of eugenics, for example, because making that a debate implies that there are points in favor that deserve consideration.

    We have, in fact, had a few discussions that came quite close to debating the pros and cons of eugenics. It's been a few years, and I don't really feel like going digging, but it has happened more than once that folks here though it would be fun to "devil's advocate" eugenics.

    13 votes

  19. Comment on No Kings protests live updates: hundreds of thousands rally in cities around the world against US President Donald Trump and his administration in ~society

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    Oh wow, it was in the 80s where I'm at today. Turnout was really good for the deep south, too.

    Oh wow, it was in the 80s where I'm at today. Turnout was really good for the deep south, too.

    11 votes

  20. Comment on Interesting material types for fantasy resources/macguffins other than crystals or metals? in ~creative

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    I think there's probably more of a core mystery that you're unravelling in each book that feels like it is resolved in a satisfying way, like: spoilers for Locked Tomb books Book 1. What the...

    I think there's probably more of a core mystery that you're unravelling in each book that feels like it is resolved in a satisfying way, like:

    spoilers for Locked Tomb books

    Book 1. What the actual hell is going on
    Book 2. What the actual hell is going on, and also what the fuck?
    Book 3. What the hell is going on, and who the fuck is the protagonist of this book, even?

    It makes them feel like complete stories that do still have events that move from one into the next, and a bigger metaplot, but they don't just feel like smaller chapters of a longer narrative in the same way that lots of fantasy series do.

    3 votes