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There’s no real point to nfts as licenses though. The only party that can authenticate a license, the creator, wouldn’t want to give up their control over licenses, and the wouldn’t want to resell used licenses because… Why? That’s a ton of work to implement when they can just sell a new license.

If we’re doing gene editing maybe we solve for shit like sickle cell before erasing neurodivergence idk

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Bad take factory. Opinion discarded.

Arms manufacturers want more $ and can’t get more $ if the stockpiles are full

Article seems to push the point that you can, in fact, buy a “last-gen” phone and it’ll be just as effective as the current gen. Which is true, since phone improvements are marginal or just shit that includes image-editing AI in the camera firmware since the diminishing improvements of hardware are really starting to kick the manufacturers’ ass.

Tom Morello was the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. Caleb Maupin is a sniveling, smug wet rag of a human whose claim to fame is attempting to form a sex cult from his in-name-only communist party, which itself is basically a status quo support party for the USA with themselves in charge instead, please, thank you.

Some people genetically just don’t smell bad when they sweat

Gabe was talking about the making of Half Life, back when you shipped your disc and that was that. And the game was, apparently, crapola.

Same kind of deal with the original Deus Ex. It was a spaghetti of poorly interacting systems until the devs were able to make it all click together.

Most countries that aren’t America aren’t inundated with anti-China rhetoric, so if someone starts spouting off about China (and especially Chinese civil rights, or uses the term “CCP”) in English they’re almost certainly an American.

Does China lag behind the west in terms of queer rights? Yes. We’re critical of that but also recognize the grassroots initiatives within the CPC to change that, and support those efforts. Does China pollute more in raw numbers than America? Yeah, but they’re also the global leader in green power production, so they’re clearly working to fix the emissions problem, which we support. China also takes a non-imperialist stance internationally, which is far and away better than anything America has ever done internationally.

Marvel is utterly bland capeshit with the personality sanded off by committee. DC is utterly bland capeshit with worse CGI and weird Randian undertones.

She sang Imagine at the start of the pandemic from her mansion during lockdown

D&D: individual poundage

Pathfinder 2: Abstracted Bulk

Lancer: Pick up half your mech or more if you get the right loadout

Man has the divine power to be unable to lie and tries to circumvent it for his career instead of becoming the greatest philosopher and source of truth to ever exist.

What a grand and intoxicating innocence to presume Marx did not consider these things

I’m sure it was revolutionary back in the day for warlords to learn that keeping your supply lines defended was important and also you shouldn’t fight a battle against an uphill defender with the sun at their back on muddy ground.

It’ll be fine. There’s always some cohort of people who take an actual interest in the magic boxes enough to want to learn compsci.

Probably if they decided to assertively solve the matter they’d provide free extermination services and temporary clean housing (for the day or two it takes to do a clean extermination) for affected households and use the data of which addresses have used the service to map out infestation sources and clear them.

Respect for human rights is when is when you make it mandatory to check a child’s genitals before they’re allowed to play sports, and not when you pass the broadest and most permissive queer-friendly legislation on the planet.

You’ll see a lot of disdain on Hexbear for how some academic circles treat politics and economics. Especially economics, since it’s a whole discipline essentially based on treating everything as a perfectly spherical frictionless object in a vacuum. No Marxist understanding (which we consider bad because Marxism is an economic theory which has been highly successful at making predictions). Similarly, academics that echo terms like “authoritarian” are approaching politics without even the slightest understanding of their bias, which Gramsci already described to great effect a long time ago.

None of the following is in any way a defense of Russia. The hexbear stance is as follows:

“Authoritarian” is a thought-terminating cliche because any time any state wants to do anything it must wield coercive authority to do so. Is it Authoritarian to force people to pay their taxes? Certainly nobody is coughing up tax money 100% willingly every time, they do it because it’s the law and if they break the law, the state will use its authority to punish them. Is it Authoritarian to use eminent domain to force you to sell your land so it may be used for some state project? Is it Authoritarian to draft all citizens into mandatory military service periods like many countries, including the Nordics, do?

“Regime” likewise just means leadership and is a thought-terminating cliche meant to be parsed as “leadership (bad)”. We like to joke about the Biden regime for instance. Or how about the Bush regime? Surely it’s undemocratic to present the American people with the choice to vote for a dynasty of the Bush family, yet we had George, George W, and Jeb ran as well.