Ah, all the radicals who hate bipartisanship have left. Clearly, every voter who still votes for us wants us to work with Republicans. We must go further right.

I saw some other discussion on hexbear about people asking why the USA loves israel so much.

I think it’s a multitude of factors. The geopolitical one you mentioned is probably the most significant, Israel destabilizes the middle east and terrorizes Arab nations without any Americans being put at risk. It’s very convenient.

There’s also the religious factor for fundamentalist Evangelicals, which is a non-insignificant fraction of Republican lawmakers. They believe that Jews returning to Israel is necessary to start the rapture or something.

Then you have the ideological factor of racial supremacy. Israeli settlers are overwhelmingly white. They support Israel because it’s whites against browns and they believe white people have a right to take from lesser races as they please.

And lastly, corruption. AIPAC turns US support for Israel into a self-perpetuating cycle. The US government gives money to Israel and lobbyists pay a fraction of it back to individual US lawmakers so they keep voting to send Israel more.

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One of the biggest online personalities is literally “Mr Beast”

I live in a town with more hair salons than people but when I need a haircut at 4:30 pm everything is either closed or appointment only wtf

The game is just too big for its own good imo.

It’s linear in the sense that you have a sequence of scenarios and the game is pretty much completed afterwards. You don’t have different factions, randomized starting positions or random events to add variety to your campaigns. It’s all pre-determined. Think of it as a story-driven singleplayer game which you play through once or twice and that’s it, rather than a game like SimCity or Civ.

That comment is misrepresenting it. Frostpunk is not a sandbox city builder, it is a much more linear game based on the question of “How much of your humanity are you willing to give up to survive?” Picking the fascist options does make the game objectively easier, but the game will effectively tell you that your victory is hollow at the end.

For example: There are 3 people outside your city, asking to be let in. Their limbs are frozen and need to amputated, so they can’t work. They will purely be a drain on your limited food and medical supplies. Many of your people (though not all of them) will be against taking them in too. There is little to no in-game benefit to taking the 3 people in, it makes it more likely that you will run out of food and everyone will die, but the whole point is that you’re supposed to take them in anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

They literally have nothing except “We’re not the other guy”.

Why is Elon so against the bill?

It’s been 4 months now since I started going to the gym. First 2 months I went every other day, since then I’m going 5 times a week. I don’t understand how or why I’ve been able to stick to it so dilligently because I’ve always struggled with long-term projects and delaying gratification. I still do, in fact. But with this, I can still count the days I’ve skipped the gym on one hand. I’m not even passionate about fitness or anything.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of myself and there’s a noticeable change in my physique already, but there’s this nagging thought of “why can’t i be this consistent with literally anything else in my life”

Edit: Today it’s gonna be 35 degrees Celsius. Usually I always go later in the day, but this morning I looked at the weather forecast and thought “Oh, I better go early in the morning before the temperature hits 30 degrees” and then I actually did that. I can’t overstate how unlike me this is. Doing a difficult thing with no immediate rewards sooner rather than procrastinating it to the point where you’re more likely to skip it altogether. Actual discipline. I’ve been stumbling through my entire life thinking I was simply incapable of discipline, why can I do it now and only for this??

But they’re both on the right

That comment came off as more confrontational than intended mb

ban people for disagreeing with them

This phrase is my personal pet peeve. The mods then weren’t great but they didn’t ban people because they hated disagreements as a concept, they wouldn’t ban you if you disagreed with them on your favorite pizza toppings or about the best Star Wars trilogy.

They banned people for the substance of their opinions just like the hexbear mods do. Hexbear mods will ban zionists not because they can’t stand anyone who disagrees with them, but because they can’t stand zionists. Let’s not pretend like hexbear welcomes opinions from the entire political spectrum. We just differ from the r/cth mods in what exact opinions we deem banworthy.

Edit: To be clear I do not think this is a bad thing. I support the mods banning people with terrible opinions.

Generative AI is not an inherently evil technology. If I had any trust in Western institutions whatsoever I wouldn’t have as much of an issue with it.

Oh, you’re a gamer? Name every racial slur

as a former Asian kid

Are you a hispanic kid now

If I post like this when I’m 40 I expect one of you to put me down swiftly and decisively.

Children will make any LLMs their bitch. They are creative, ruthless and not cooperative learners. Within 5 minutes your chatbot won’t be able to say anything but peepeepoopoo.