I’m pretty sure my kids generation isn’t going to see the worst of it. Everything’s hopeless on that front if we don’t raise a better next generation, anyway.

why should your child live a life of suffering just to gratify you?

Children are gratifying but infamously hard & life altering. No one’s doing it for kicks & because it’s a fun time. If my kid is suffering it’d be news to me; if I find that I’m unable to control the suffering they experience as an adult, that’s just the universal parental experience. You do your best and prepare them for the world they live in.

Fear and confusion in [X] village hit in US strike, locals say no history of [Y] in the area

^^^ Story as old as drone strikes itself.

You got it. There’s no perfect scenario where you can have kids. Taking a step back, most of humanity has been raised in conditions infinitely worse than what I can offer my own children. While I may struggle as my parents did before me, I grew up well-adjusted and well-educated, even if not always happy or content. Why deny myself children based on the same conditions that created me?

You manage when you have them. I personally refuse to let children be a class privilege.

I wouldn’t say they disregard the risks. The Hive did spend the better part of a year attempting to spread without harming anyone. The mass global event occurred out of self-defense, as they put it. One of the more interesting elements of the show is the rigid imperatives the Hive operates under, and how they conflict.

There might be a hierarchy of priorities & preservation of specifically human life might be lower than their others, but their behaviors show it’s undoubtedly a priority for them.

I think searching for where the Hive is actively lying isn’t nearly as interesting as searching for where the Hive omits the truth. I think we as an audience are meant to accept the ‘rules’ as outlined so far, that being that the Hive genuienly does not want to kill and makes its decisions based around this limiting factor of their behavior.

Basically, I think the Hive is telling the truth when they imply all the deaths during the initial joining really were from falls, crashes or other accidents that occur when people suddenly drop into a seizure.

If the Hive can commit mass murder it makes their dynamic with the immune way less interesting, because it feels like killing Carol and everyone else is way less hassle.

I’m a bit confused why they invited him on to be honest.

Australia doesn’t really have any serious organizational ML representation, like, at all. It could be that they wanted to feature someone from the Aussie sphere and Jordan/Purplepingers is all-but the face of Australian socialism, for better or for worse.

I was pretty chuffed to see him make an appearance on the podcast, would not have guessed it in a hundred years. I could also see ideological differences a mile away. I’m happy he was on for a slightly stilted episode as both sides are mutually platformed this way. I know Purplepingers fans in real life who I can now show an episode of the Deprogram to.

YouTube really recently stepped up their efforts to detect and circumvent adblockers. Before last year, there was no such thing as an adblock error message. Now, anything but uBlock will likely trigger it.

Part of this is Google’s step to gain more control over the browser ecosystem and lock down the ability to even use adblockers.

I think it’s both a matter of these solutions not being sufficiently problematic, while also being unfeasible to actually fix.

I love anything ARG-adjacent and think this is a pretty cool idea. I don’t have much advice on the technical side of things but the second or third options seem like it’d produce the most pleasing results to my non-coder brain.

I’d at least check it out!

But who will stop the bad guys with the guns?

Certified good posting, this put to words some more complicated thoughts I’ve been dwelling on while also broadening my perspective on the whole topic. Makes me want to get into an entirely new subject of reading. Banger job.

Hi honey, yeah, I need to make another trip next year. No, not a business trip. The best korean marathon is calling to me

we dbhigh posting?

The characters have directly called this out in the show and I want to give the writers a little credit that they’re using the tropes as a launching pad for something more interesting. Vince is an incredible writer but does have a track record for Americanisms in his work. Personally I don’t think we’ve seen enough of the plot yet to know what the writers intend to say with the concept.

I found this one particularly inspiring dawg

wanky pontification incoming but while I definitely agree with the spirit of this statement whenever I see it I think that we don’t really ‘deserve’ to be alive by the letter of the word. I think more spiritually minded people than me can easily make an argument that we do fit the strict definition of ‘deserving’ to live but from a material perspective I don’t see how humans inherently deserve to spawn into this random chaos world. It’s just a random chance thing that happened and continues to happen.

but my brain has wrinkles so my take doesn’t just end there. My material stand-in for the more spiritual idea that human beings deserve life is that any human born is owed humane treatment and actualization by the humans that came before, because the human born never asked to live but the actions of the humans before them brought them into existence. therefore, every parent owes their child a dignified, healthy and happy life. stepping back further, every generation owes the next a dignified, healthy and happy life. every society owes the next blah blah you get it.

basically I’ve always seen the right to life as something owed to you by others, a mounting debt humanity must continue to repay, not necessarily something that is based within our character or inherent essence. you don’t deserve to be alive but you don’t earn that right yourself, either. it’s collectively owed to you and in stable societies you get your pay out.

Yes, but at what cost?

Honestly I thought the suffering in the world radicalized me, or the sheer inefficiency of the distribution of resources, or the enforcement of in-groups inherent to capitalist imperialism. But nah, brother, it’s just the landlords. Just thinking about them too hard pissed me off one day.

The makeshift structures, which Russian troops reportedly refer to as “hedgehogs,” are designed to tangle or damage drone propellers and frames, reducing the likelihood that an FPV drone’s explosive payload will detonate on impact, the C-UAS Hub report said, noting that the concept marks an evolution from earlier “grill” or “shed” armor designs seen throughout the conflict, which often provided limited protection against direct strikes from above.

That one lib you know: wow did you hear russia is still piling garbage on their tanks?? lol like that’s ever going to work. evil russian orcs I wish someone would wipe them out

You present the worst ideas possible but attach them to Approved Brand and a leading blurb and people will immediately regard your racism science with sincerity. Really demonstrates how these monstrously bad ideas got wind in the first place.