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Cake day: June 27th, 2022

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  • STEM folks having low comphrehension of the world around them is very near the bottom of the west’s problems. A much bigger issue is most people specialising in history, philosophy, economics, international relations etc. not having a clue about their field. One can spend decades studying this or that monetary theory, but without reading the foremost critics of the system of economics, or even realising this system isn’t a natural thing given to us by a metaphor-god, it’s absolutely worthless. Studying history without a proper understanding of materialism is like building a brick wall, making massive holes and then filling them with foam.

    Worst of all in my opinion is that westerners can’t differentiate between theory, conjecture and speculation, regardless of education. Something’s only true or false based on one’s preconceived notions.






  • Their approach to game design is as simplistic as their approach to politics or ehatever this moron was thinking. The top 4 best selling video games are as follows:

    Minecraft: Enemies don’t direct you towards shit, they spawn in every direction.

    GTA5: In level design the claim sort of holds up but normally the enemies are pigs and again, they come from every which way.

    Tetris: No ”enemies” to fight.

    Wii sports: You don’t move around so moot point.

    #6 is Mario and that feels like it might be true but then again, the game forces you to go in that direction and shortcuts aren’t advertised by enemies.

    This isn’t my list of best games or anything, but to take a small level/dungeon design concept and to generalise it first to all games and then to life, vaguely, isn’t clever. This isn’t theology dear fellow, your starting position with a western education, some games and 0 books doesn’t grant authority for shit. I know this is just the musings of some kid, but most westerners are uneducated idealists who approach the world this way, and I’ve lost patience for it years ago.



  • Indeed. The article is pathetically low on details, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Stewart actually cut ties because they didn’t want him doing an hour of sissypea bashing on the flimsiest horseshit and he didn’t back down. I’m sure he’d feel all smug and self-righeous about it too, the hwite hero of a billion and half oppressed chinese.

    Stewart’s pet project is defending the emergency service workers who participated during WTC attacks. If he really gave a shit he’d be speaking out against usian military endeavours at every turn so that such an attack wouldn’t happen again, yet he’s nowhere to be found.



  • My favourite part of the holding your baby fee story is that whenever the photo makes the rounds on reddit or wherever, people try to explain the situation, i.e. relay the explanation the PR department of the hospital issued. The “explanation” is that the regular procedure is to take the baby away immediately for medical reasons I don’t remember. Either the hospital is lying and this was a bullshit charge people with a newborn couldn’t object to, or they really have an inhuman procedure that charges a new mother for one of the most human things she can do. I don’t even know which would be worse.




  • You? Apparently not. But to the best of their ability people answer honest questions here. “If capitalism is so great and a shirt travels the world 5 times before getting to the shop why’re there tens of millions without access to sanitation and clean water” is a fair question.

    Also, the high estimates of the famines in socialist states are measured exactly in the manmer you decried. If you could read the bottom text, you’d underatand this is intentional.