Carmakazi

joined 2 years ago
[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 82 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

It doesn't need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The short version is even the seemingly well-meaning ones are making or alluding to promises they just can't keep.

The key problem with cryonics is that water expands into ice crystals when frozen, and the human body is 70% water. Tissues, including critical brain tissue, are destroyed. Dessication before freezing would also cause damage. Some firms say they have the secret sauce or are close to it, but nobody has answered this question AFAIK.

And then there's the longevity. These facilities claim to be able to run decades or even centuries, without failure, but that is an extremely high bar regardless of how much money you throw at it. Power fluctuations and equipment failure take their toll. There are already stories of cadavers turning into soup in their care.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (7 children)

No different that any other cryonics grifter. They even tend to operate as morticians to avoid legal scrutiny.

Why steal from living people when you can bilk their estate when they're dead?

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Personally I'll avoid sending any Western money to the Russian economy that I can. BSG has been able to weasel out of political controversy thus far...but it's a milsim, the devs are probably more pro-Russia than not, they're just smart enough to keep their mouths shut and keep accepting Western patronage.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You got me, officer. I'm a coward who's all talk, I would never do anything I described.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I believe in proportionality. So long as their current actions stay in damaging inanimate symbols that's where it should stay. If they were to Remove places significant to LGBT+, then I'd consider it. If they were to start straight up shooting LGBT+ people, well...

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They've been riding their train of manufactured victimhood and rage for decades and found great success, they don't strictly need a reason to abuse people.

Staying your hand because your enemy might get angry and retaliate is the mindset of the battered housewife. People should stand up for themselves even if that means violence in the end.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 207 points 2 weeks ago (31 children)

So long as conservatives continue to exert exceptional effort to try and erase LGBT identity, people should attack Christian identity in equal measure. Tear down billboards with gospel on them. Deface publicly displayed crucifixes. Burn bibles in public.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Base World and base Rise both had quite weak endgames as well. Rise was literally unfinished at launch. It only really takes off as a complete experience once the paid expansion comes out (not title updates).

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I remember playing Ghost Recon (no tagline) back on the Gamecube, probably not the appropriate game for my age.

It was definitely a slower and more grounded game back then, or at least as much as a mainstream game could be back in the early 2000s. And first-person.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because when people write manifestos, they are often trying to convince the reader that they are highly intelligent more than they are trying to plainly explain themselves. They are usually a product of mania.

view more: next ›