Cyberpunk Author:
In this dystopian future, people are willing replace their living body parts with machines, sacrificing their HUMANITY for the power granted by TECHNOLOGY. When we can no longer tell where man ends and machine begins, have we not truly lost-
Me:
Wait, so people can use cybernetics technology to change their bodies according to their wishes, compensating for disabilities or reshaping their forms to better fit their identity?
Cyberpunk Author:
Yes, but can we really afford to abandon our natural-
What software are you using to create these renders?
Just Blender for the 3D elements, my dear Anon, with ultra-simple textures down in Photoshop. I was under the impression that most 3D software packages could create renders of this kind?
I like the thing I've heard the British do where the choice of celsius vs. fahrenheit for describing weather is a function of "how impressive does this number sound"
I HATE everything the British do. The sun never sets, more like the empire that never stops eating SHIT
tbh, if I ever see a nationalist blog on Tumblr, my immediate assumption (following the “politics is a mask for your personal problems” rule of thumb) is that they most likely have no sense of order in their own lives and that they have no actual heritage or history to be proud of so they externalize it all into some bullshit about traditionalist Europa or whatever just to have something to be proud of regardless of the fact that whatever they are holding onto is just a fictional version of what is just as degenerate in real life as the things they are running away from
All nations are simultaneously both fictional and real, like money.
The right’s embarrassing, pointless war against pornography is one of the reasons I desperately hope that the new right will phase out religion almost entirely
the battle against porn isn’t just stupid in that it’s entirely unwinnable, but it accomplishes nothing at all. A society without porn is no different than a society with porn.
I think pornography will be considered to be the alcohol of the 21st century.
Some people can drink it in moderation, but others are alcoholics. It isn’t required for health, but moderate consumption doesn’t harm health much. It can interfere with reasoning. There are ethics issues around its creation.
TBH burning political capital on fighting porn is significantly less dumb than burning political capital on fighting the gays.
Note that I’m not in favor of banning alcohol, but I do like the European idea of introducing it gradually.
I just got a notification reminding me I haven’t posted in a week.
The week before that, I got a notification telling me “you have shared x amount of posts this week, your friends are responding well” and it showed me all the people who liked the posts I shared, seemingly trying to encourage me to share more
I’m kinda reminded of Alan Watt’s thesis that social engineering is going to be moving in a direction more like video games
I saw this app on the app store the other day which is like a daily planner, but it’s in the form of an RPG stats system lol. After every accomplishment, you receive these useless experience points, and after certain amounts of accomplishments being fulfilled you “level up”
And the sad thing is that this is actually a very strong motivator. When people are so alienated from their life around them, it can be very compelling to find signals of progress outside of the material world and inside these little digital fema camps we all live inside
I don’t know, the idea of video game like motivators being used to socially engineer society probably sounds crazy at first, but I know I can’t be the only one getting these notifications from Facebook
Social media was always a game, whether it’s upvotes on Reddit or likes on Facebook, it’s all about using points to represent social approval.
But consider also, that posts arrive at random times, they contain messages that you probably won’t fully guess, they’re often short and provide that little hit of dopamine that way. Even a non-gamified social media website has game-like characteristics.
white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:
you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.
unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.
While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it
The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.
Infinite debts are not meant to be repaid.
Still worth it reblogging for that reply by bizzarrodf
I do agree. I just wanted to be a bit more explicit about the infinite debt bizzarodf’s brother either decided to invoke on others or embrace as identity. I still see this stuff from Left/Libs in the US, just one level obscured. This kind of thinking is an exploitable vulnerability.
white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:
you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.
unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.
While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it
The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.
They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.
MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.
It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades.
I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.
Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.
“community and family are important aspects of a child’s development and can be correlated with success in school more often than not, therefore we know already that there are things we can do to improve school achievement without necessarily pouring money into an already failed and broken system”
“Yeah, sure, we need to hate gay people more, that will fix things”
Fuck, I’m so tired of shibboleths and dog whistles predetermining the outcome of any political discussion. How jaded do you even have to be to interpret “family and community” as anti-LGBT?
Truly, the religious right’s long term use of “family” and “community” as dogwhistles for anti-LGBT have damaged this country. Ranma here is foreign, but many in the United States have developed similar responses on those keywords.
The irony is that gay marriage is would be better from this perspective, since it could be used for increased stable family formation and create more potential homes for adopted or foster children. Also while it normalizes gay behavior (which makes the cons upset because religion) it also normalizes gay behavior (which is what makes it useful) as part of the life script, which should reduce promiscuity (and high levels of promiscuity generally aren’t good for people) and encourage integration with the national culture instead of counter-culture waging culture war.
“Even more terrifying than “not being allowed to disagree with canon” is “the canon is coming from inside the house”.”—@funereal-disease (via bambamramfan)
As a partial synthetic myself, I am ashamed to see someone with “cylon” in their name behaving so poorly, but you know how it is. Can’t be responsible for all behavioral changes for a learning machine entity after they leave the factory.
Once I am Technocratic Dictator Central Director of the North American Union, all persons who use the term “stemlord” unironically will be sentenced to three years in the Discourse Mines.
Early release will be available for those who can pass an intellectual turing test.
I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school, the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.
Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you. I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool
can you please rephrase this in actual english
I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school,
Full Politicals are all nerds (or were in high school). I don’t associate with them because they are lame.
the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime
Full Politicals are fat.
and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.
Tabbernack is a Quebecois curse word, from tabernacle, a religious term. Only an uncool person would say it, trying to avoid ordinary regular curse words.
Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you.
OP was popular in high school and participated in activities that require high social status, including violating the law.
I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots
Full Politicals engage in lame, low-status, dork behavior like reblogging low-quality (anti-?)Trump memes.
or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel
When Full Politicals aren’t posting lame memes, they get beat up by manbun Antifas while wearing lame meme apparel.
which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool
Also, Kek is an Egyptian deity, so putting “Praise Kek” on shirt about reviving the Crusades is blasphemous.
“The personal is the political” is a terrible doctrine. Politics is no friend to truth or justice, engaging with it is risky enough. To invite it into the core of your being is foolishness.
They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.
MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.
It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades.
I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.
Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.
The hotspot for ‘ghost’ houses — those left empty to appreciate in value — is in the affluent borough of Kensington & Chelsea in London, where 1,399 houses sit empty. The number represents an 8.5% rise on 2015 and a 22.7% rise between 2006 and 2016.
Why on Earth are any people from Grenfell still sleeping in sports halls after the disaster? London and Kensington especially is chock full of empty luxury apartments being sat on by speculators. These must be opened up immediately.
Unless they’re owned by the gov you can’t just take people’s bloody property even if it’s empty that’s why
thats fucked up
The problem in essence is that property owners would rather leave their property empty than to accept less than market value for rent. The question is not “no rent”, it’s “less rent”. Virtually anyone you find sleeping rough on the streets is going to have *some* degree of walking-around money, hardly anyone has literally *no* money. But, the owners of housing don’t want that money, they want market value. They believe that a better offer will come along, and if they accept a low offer they will miss their opportunity for the high offer. It’s a failing of people’s payoff-to-probability calculation.
And also it’s a failing of core concepts of how contemporary capitalism is executed. Not to go too deep into it, the crux is this: If they accept a low offer, their property is worth less. If a fork is sold for five dollars, it is worth five dollars. If a fork is sold for five cents, it is worth five cents. So marking down the rent on a property depreciates the property, marking it up appreciates the property. Because value is determined by common belief rather than any concrete consistencies, sellers try to fix the value of property high and buyers try to negotiate value low. So if one party wants to raise their profit, and one party wants to not sleep on a bench, they have similar ability to set the price but wildly disproportionate levels of need. It’s a conundrum, and there’s virtually no way to feasibly and achievably solve that problem.
set a reasonable level of land tax, then holding on to an empty house in an expensive area costs you money, encouraging you to rent it out or sell it.
Alternatively, allow them to actually build more housing units. Japan isn’t seeing similar massive price spikes in its cities that are undergoing population growth. Send a guy over there and copy whatever it is they’re doing.
Alternative Fact: Japan isn't a real country. It didn't exist before 1853. The illusion of Japan is created by successively more dedicated layers of weebs. Images of Tokyo are filmed on a series of large-scale movie sets with CGI composites. Japanese people abroad are nothing more than paid actors, hired by the anime industry to protect its profit margins. There's no way it could be a real country - it's almost as ridiculous as Australia! Lol, like the platypus is even a thing. WAKE UP SHEEPLE
That’s why most Japanese stuff is anime instead of live action: too expensive to fake the backgrounds and keep finding Chinese actors who can pretend they speak “Japanese”.
It seems like at least one of the things that’s gone wrong with American politics is that the Democrats have absolutely zero interest in taking up the language, priorities, rhetoric or politics of the left, which kind of leaves them without much of a message except for ‘I mean, we do actually know how to govern and when we get the chance to do it we improve peoples’ lives. and have you seen the other guys’. But if people aren’t happy with how things are going, that’s a really unappealing message - and no one is happy with how things are going.
I don’t know what a good message for the Democratic party would be, but they keep losing with this one.
One of the issues is that the Democrats would have to get smarter on policy, not just shift in a left-wing direction. They’d also have to actually follow through better on some of their policies.
For instance, a program of direct-to-employee wage subsidies would help the working class and boost employment. This is to the left of current Democrat policy (increasing the minimum wage), but has some good acceptance by economists. It would also put them in a better position for courting working class whites, especially when the Truckpocalypse hits.
However, they appear to be committed to a policy of demographic shift or even replacement, so it’s unlikely they’ll go for this option.
If I might make a charitable interpretation of @sinesalvatorem Community posts, here…
Let’s suppose our goal is to get religious communities to tolerate LGBT people, maybe by becoming less religious or maybe by just being less fundamentalist about it. (And this sort of thing isn’t just religious in origin.)
It makes sense to know just what it is we’re asking them to give up.
Religion actually is a social technology. Coal is an energy technology. That doesn’t mean soot is good for you.
If a non-religious or religious-but-tolerant community can be designed and instantiated, then exiting from previous non-tolerant religious communities has a much lower cost. (Plus there is the issue of everything else society needs.)
Progressive Christianity is a thing. It’s a thing that has existed for several centuries now, which is abundantly available in every city and most small towns in America. If a “religious-but-tolerant” Christianity were a viable option, you should be able to copy and spread the existing progressive churches to good effect. People can and do move from conservative churches to progressive churches if they find that their beliefs grow out of sync with the conservatives.
Of course, by now you’ve probably noticed that progressive Christianity is dramatically less successful than conservative Christianity. There’s probably a reason for that. You should find out what that reason is.
(And it’s not just Christianity. Reformed and Orthodox Judaism have approximately the same relationship. Progressive Islam is much younger than either of those, but I’d be shocked if it didn’t turn out the same way as the others.)
Honestly, from what I can see, the supernatural stuff is part of the glue that holds it all together, and one of the memeplex’s components about it being true to the exclusion of all other worldviews. You can weaken it a little, but if you weaken it too much, it risks falling apart.
Of course, I don’t believe in the supernatural elements, and many of them I find absurd. (More deeply, I find the entire concept of eternal damnation deeply unethical. …though, there are those who believe it’s only salvation or nothing, which has far fewer issues.)
And in many ways, religious tolerance is based on the implicit possibility that one’s religion could be wrong.
For me though, in my interactions with religion, it seems like it’s trying to hack my brain in ways not so different from Social Justice or Communism, so I intuitively resist. Anything that involves an internal shutdown of mental defenses looks like that to me. (This actually pisses off SJ and Communists more than religionists, at least in this country.) On the other hand, there are men out there, criminals, who found their way back into society through religious conversion, and others who staved off suicide, so you won’t see me posting negatively about Christianity in the West that much.
If I might make a charitable interpretation of @sinesalvatorem Community posts, here…
Let’s suppose our goal is to get religious communities to tolerate LGBT people, maybe by becoming less religious or maybe by just being less fundamentalist about it. (And this sort of thing isn’t just religious in origin.)
It makes sense to know just what it is we’re asking them to give up.
Religion actually is a social technology. Coal is an energy technology. That doesn’t mean soot is good for you.
If a non-religious or religious-but-tolerant community can be designed and instantiated, then exiting from previous non-tolerant religious communities has a much lower cost. (Plus there is the issue of everything else society needs.)
it is actually really annoying that feminist porn requires so much emotional labor from its performers. like, I don’t really care if it is your authentic and empowered sexuality, I think it is weird and entitled to think that I as a porn consumer deserve to have access to your authentic and empowered sexuality, I just want to pay for some porn where I can feel confident that the workers earned a decent wage and weren’t coerced into anything.
Demand unsustainable wages, get replaced. Pretty fucking simple.
Lose out on work experience early in life, get penalized for it later, lose opportunities to help the family out, get a degree, go into debt, struggle to find a job that pays decently. But Wall Street is happy so that’s good.
>Get paid minimum wage
>Minimum wage never increases
>Lose job to machine anyway
Wow this is really an improvement, people should starve so I can get a wopper for $2 god bless capitalism wanting to live is for communists
I hear Cuba is nice this time of year.
I got you, though.
#not real communism
Yanks are genuinely this retarded.
Triggervs Medivs, 200 AD: “Slavery is good, slaves just have to outcompete horses while working for less”
In which it is impossible that increasing automation across all sectors simultaneously which arrives at a speed exceeding would-be employee retraining could cause significant unemployment and downward pressure on wages below the levels necessary for long-term wellness.
But don’t worry, Libertarians’ anti-nationalist sentiment means that they’ll bring in ethnic groups that favor increased state intervention (on average), because Libertarianism assumes the political will necessary for itself. The alternative, after all, would involve buying off low income voter groups in clever ways so that they are supported by the nation and support the nation in turn.
oh that was a reference to the complaint from the person you just reblogged but I approve of the fact that you interpreted it as self-referential anyway due to the strength of your Slutty Anime Girl brand
I’m fully committed to strengthening my Brand as being an incoherent jumble of embarrassed big tiddy anime girls and bugfuck insane policy suggestions with a side of telling evil people they’re evil
toke: what if North Korea is just, like, a story, man
joke: it was invented to add depth to the background story of a kpop idol then got out of hand
bespoke: Criticism of DPRK is racist if it’s done by a white person. Otherwise? Imperialist!
bloke: North Korean chicks are cute
coke: North Koreans are denied the Refreshing™ taste of American beverages such as Coca-Cola™ and culturally innovative food products such as McDonalds™ hamburgers
America has Donald Trump, Britain has Nigel Farage, and Australia has the one and only Pauline Hanson, a fiery redhead who rose to prominence in politics twenty years ago (back when a very different Hanson sung MMMbop).
She gave fiery diatribes about deporting all the Asians and dodged accusations of xenophobia by honestly not knowing the meaning of the word, all until she was voted out and briefly jailed for fraud.
Now she’s back! And she… hasn’t changed a bit actually, except the Chinese community can breathe easily knowing the Muslims are going to be taking the bulk of her attention for the time being.
Of all the media franchises we had to reboot in 2k16, why this one.
and now she’s after autistic kids because hey why not.
I, for one, would welcome Australia being ruled by an Asian lesbian cyborg.
Though admittedly that isn’t a very controversial opinion on Tumblr.
someone created a random generator that creates randomized inspirational quotes overlaid on random images in a soothing fashion and each and every image is comic gold
it’s pretty much the best thing ever and here are some of my favorites so far
so good
I’m getting this one made into a motivational poster for my home office
