For what it is worth I am not trying to dunk on being awkward, introverted or neurodivergent in a way that makes it hard to be confident in “normal” social situations (i.e. a normal defined by people with a brain entirely unlike yours). I don’t mean that kind of computer geek.

The thing is, there are plenty of hot people who would think you are hot for being exactly that precise kind of nerd, or artist, or just different person with a different brain it’s just that interesting and different people are usually shy because of how people treat them for being interesting and different and so it is hard to actually find that other hot cool weirdo and get into a conversation with them. Once you do, you are off to the races into some weird kind of sexy nerdy wonderous relationship and all this incel nonsense collapses in one moment of looking into their eyes.

The losers I am talking about never get to that point because they are never nice enough to a woman long enough to have them gaze into their eyes like that and a whole lot of them went into computers or business…

The people I am attacking are too narrow minded to understand that the reason nobody they are attracted to wants to talk to them is the way they treat the people they are attracted to in moment to moment social interactions and also in political ideology and values.

Computers are cool as fuck, computer people are great, we just need more cool people to dilute and displace the toxicity of this kind of ingrown toxic male masculinity that permeates a lot of video game and computer circles. It isn’t just bad for women, it actually erodes the capacity of the men in these circles to critically think, in otherwords this shit is brainworms.

TL;DR Make Computing Great Again a.k.a. bring it back to it’s roots a.k.a. make it queer, feminine and militantly focused on fighting oppression and totalitarian ideologies again

I mean I take your point but again you are just describing the technical details of localization. The little fiddly bits that can be automated and neatly dealt with by a computer or person with an accountant’s mindset for making sure little things plug neatly and cleanly into other little things. Any concept of “localization” that does not include careful consideration of the vast territory of nuance that surrounds the much easier technical details seems useless to me in the context of solving any actual real world problem.

When it comes to the actual hard parts about localization I am fairly certain almost every computer professional I have ever met or talked to does not understand them. The more successful a computer person is in their career the more they tend to think everything in the world functions like computers and thus they don’t need to try to understand alternate systems or phenomena that don’t adhere to their narrow tool belt of critical thinking strategies that can’t handle even a homeopathic amount of ambiguity or subjective nuance.

These types of people spend all day thinking in programs and then go home and play factorio and they think they are the smartest people in the entire universe, and they are idiots. Very very skilled idiots.

I am disgusted and I think I hope I will be disgusted for the rest of my life because shame on me if I let the memory of this atrocity committed and facilitated so closely by my government fade from my mind.

Burn in hell Genocide Joe, Trump is going to be so much worse but you had to insist on setting the table for fascism in the most pathetic and violent way possible didn’t you?

Let me point out before any pro-Israel people respond (Do y’all still want to have an adult conversation or did most of you fall silent as more and more images come out from Gaza? Don’t worry we won’t let you quietly step away from the conversation, this isn’t how it works : ) ), this is catastrophic for the jews living in Israel. I don’t know what the form of reactionary violence and consequences will be, or how the mechanisms of rot function precisely in a population that has been radicalized into genocidal beliefs that eat away at all that is beautiful and kind about that culture… but I know the potentials for now mercifully only recorded in grief or expressions of emotion will not simply remain potentials.

Shame on us all and may the way the victims of our violence deal with the trauma we have caused be more merciful than the way we dealt with our fears and traumas…and may we also never forget how cowardly it is to only realize how desperately we wanted this to be true after the severity of consequences from our willful blindness became apparent.

Not to tech bros, they were to hungover from their sketchy frat bro ragers full of men hoping to get lucky and commit sexual assault to pay attention in that one humanities class they took freshman year.

Language studies are an obsolete profession to them, the future they have built is bullshit all the way down, there is nothing left to study other than the language of utter incompetency and proud willful ignorance steeped in chauvinism which they eminate like a 2005 vintage Abercrombie & Fitch mall store eminated vapors of shitty cologne.

I think you meant *a more palatable explanation.

While centrists might have difficulty differentiating the two concepts, nobody else does.

If you don’t see the point it is because you don’t hate women enough.

You have to think from the perspective of a J.D. Vance who women (and men but especially women) react with repulsion and disgust towards because thankfully women have better options to get laid than loser bigots (what is the point? just get yourself off at home if you are horny, JD is gonna just blow his load in 10 seconds and fall asleep leaving you there to finish the job yourself anyways), and being rich or powerful doesn’t really solve the problem for pathetic, feminism hating incel types like JD because like, even if you are a woman who desperately wants to have access to money and power you still have to know on some level that having sex with JD Vance would be crushingly boring and unfulfilling.

People like JD know this on some level too, they were the kids in school that when popular kids made fun of them for being weird the other kids would look on not with a pity or a blank neutral gaze but with a recognition dawning on their faces that though bullying is bad, this JD Vance type incel being bullied is dangerous and slimey.

They just want to hurt women for laughing in their face when they try to lecture them about how they are objects, it truly is that dumb and pathetic.

Objectively the Ukraine invasion and war is far far worse on a global emissions and climate change scale.

Climate change and fossil fuels do not stop counting in wartime despite the fact that centrists unconciously assume they do.

I used to love Rock Paper Shotgun but I feel like they kept letting go of the talent that defined the place.

Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…

No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/210854/the-world-of-bonfire-the-background-story

https://hallgames.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-world-of-Bonfire_web.pdf

I think it isn’t just about the algorithm of moderation not being perfect, the nature of the moderation problem itself demands an answer of a fuzzy type.

Any single moderation system can never create an acceptable and stable solution. The distortion from edge cases, trolls that exploit them and outside bullshit inveitably leads to toxicity and centralization under a harsh group think (censorship of palestinian voices on bluesky being one example).

Any real solution to the problem must be of an architecture of diversity, with many different moderation policies and authorities that 99% of the time agree in spirit (until they don’t and then sometimes a difficult parting of ways occurs).

It is much more difficult to prey on a community as a nazi troll when every damn fediverse instance seems to draw the red line differently and not only does that make being a toxic edgey boi much harder especially if you have no functioning moral compass left… but also somehow even with all that disgusting lack of conformity every single progressive community immediately recognizes you for being a nazi.

I mean this isn’t actually that complicated, we just live in a moment where we have materially disempowered artists and creatives who understand this kind of thing implicitly.

My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.

Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.

What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships…

looks down at the unfolding mass extinction

nothing to talk about here but electric sheep…

Tell it to Kira’s face, I dare you

I wish they hyped that as cool too, I never even tried to run it lol

Why not just kick kids off their parents health insurance and then jack prices up on children’s healthcare to the point that all play is risky play for a child because at any moment an injury on the playground could put them in life destroying debt?

It saves money vs more complex solutions AND better prepares kids for the world their parents are gifting them.

I think centrists - especially older more cynical ones who are less idealistic and more transactional in their politics in a selfish way are ignorant of how being too afraid to fight, or to have solidarity, or to draw red lines in the sand about GENOCIDE is the reason fascists took power.

Young, idealistic progressives who are willing to actually fight to defend what they love are our only hope and if you are an older jaded centrist, keep your mouth shut and listen, you have a lot to unlearn and not much time left to do it before the violence y’all helped normalize consumes us all.

The only reason it seems absurd is we haven’t been taught to hate climate refugees as much as homeless people yet.

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Which is why Wolf Of Wallstreet is the most honest 'murican love story ever written

My favorite low spec gaming setup is to load Xonotic on the shittiest computer I can find just to see if I can actually find a computer low spec enough that it actually starts struggling with framerate.

I am not sure it is possible without resorting to some old ass computers or a raspberry pi (which still might run it ok lol idk).

edit yes the pi 5 can apparently run Xonotic fine, I honestly find that hilarious for how insanely good of a fast paced pvp shooter Xonotic is, it doesn’t seem probable or even possible and there may be good reason to think humans could have never developed such sophisticated but minimal technology, perhaps suggesting not only Alien Arena was developed by ancient aliens but also Xonotic

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/19aqrj4/so_i_finally_started_playing_around_with_box64/

Also during the periods I haven’t had access to a computer that I could play actual games on I end up playing a lot of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead because it is one of the most amazing games ever and it will run on any computer period. Like… CDDA is so damn good utterly and encompassing as an RPG I end up enjoying those periods of gaming just as much.

Mulholland Drive blew my mind the first time I saw it in how willing it was to not explain every bit of itself.