Draegur

@Draegur@lemm.ee

Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Friendly neighborhood shameless degenerate. Winged caniform synthetic biped techno-lich. Mostly Harmless™. He/It

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Draegur ,

broke: praying the job will get done by the consensus of several million people.

bespoke: knowing the job will get done by the impact of just a few little bullets.

Draegur ,

Make up excuses, ruin other people's work, take credit for that same work when it survives their meddling, bang hookers and hit ketamine all day, and lie constantly.

Draegur ,

Granted.

Your body is now an inanimate statue shaped like a Tibetan (a "peak" human.)

Draegur ,

gee if you hate it so much how'bout you fucking LEAVE, CLARENCE.

Draegur ,

ISO-8601 FTW

Draegur ,

dd/mm/yyyy is broke
yyyy-mm-dd is B E S P O K E
ISO-8601 FTW

Draegur ,

glad you made it to lemmy

i won't hold my breath but i still hope you will feel better

Draegur ,

All my nearest, dearest loved ones of the past twenty years used to be randos on the internet :D

i'd like to think that you'll find a ton of people who are into the same stuff you are and they'll become your found-family just like it turned out for me

Draegur ,

In the 20th century, the "Roaring Twenties" ended with the great depression.

In the 21st century, we're in the "Screaming Twenties", and I hope it ends with a manic frenzy of plutocrat cannibalism... But I doubt it will have a catchy name or be called "great" by anyone.

Draegur ,

if those fucking bastard pigs keep this shit up abusing protestors, someone's bound to get over it and learn to eat some bacon.

Draegur ,

cartoonishly evil scumbaggery using literally evil cartoon characters as their proxies. incredible.

in-
fuckin'
-credible.

Draegur ,

and he's red and black which is obviously way cooler than blue.

Draegur ,

i wish the lesson could be "stop existing"

Draegur ,

"never ever be biased except in these subjects we want you to be biased about, and always be controversial except about these specific concepts about which we demand you represent our opinion and no others"

These fucking chuds don't deserve oxygen.

Draegur ,

This is why you have to calibrate your time machine to track the relative gravity well.

Draegur ,

experiment proposal:

a population of crows in a shared space.

one crow is selected and brought to another area where the rest cannot see or hear what happens.

In the other area, the crow is placed into a box where a distinctive sound plays, and then a spurt of cold water sprays. Alternatively, something that is not injurious, but annoying and unpleasant.

The crow is then removed from the box and marked non-invasively somehow, such as with nontoxic washable dye.

The crow is finally put back into the same space with the other crows.

Another crow is then selected from the population, ensuring that it is not one that has been marked, and the process is repeated.

IS THERE a point at which the crows begin to respond pre-emptively to the distinctive sound that foreshadows the unpleasant stimulus?

If so, how long does this change of behavior take to manifest in individuals who did not directly experience the unpleasant stimulus?

The goal is to see if a crow will TELL the others about its experiences and what to expect, which requires the ability to communicate abstract and hypothetical information.

i would expect that if we performed this experiment on cats and dogs, etc, we would never actually see individuals from the general population learning to anticipate what's coming via abstract communication from their peers... but I do expect that such information WOULD eventually be taught to the entire community.

has such an experiment already been performed?

Draegur ,

yes this is actually a pivotally important detail

the idiots who made this sub were so fucking cheap, useless, and incompetent that they even opted for what amounts to the 'great value brand' of FUCKING INPUT DEVICES.

Draegur ,

It's a transaction:

Your privacy for access.

Quiet part out loud.

Draegur ,

yeah holy shit that looks so good i'd almost be willing to pay twenty bucks for it. Fuck.

Draegur ,

the only "self-check-out" system I have ever liked is:

  1. I have the store app on my phone.
  2. I scan the items with my phone app as I grab them off the shelves.
  3. I then tell the app, "ok, i'm ready to pay for these"
  4. it runs the charge digitally.

no waiting in a queue,
no 'place the item back in the bagging area',
no stuffing bills into slots,
no 'follow the instructions on the pin pad'.
I'm already done!

Draegur ,

Egret

Draegur ,

it only hurts them, cannot actually incapacitate or kill them. you have a torture device. task failed successfully?

Draegur ,

what's the time frame on this? how far back are the records we're looking at? is this JUST fiscal year 2022 or something? is it global, national, or regional?

Draegur ,

so it's possible the numbers are even more damning and egregious than they look even here

Draegur ,

gods i hope so

i also hope it could be true for us yanks on this side of the pond.

good luck, UK!

Draegur ,

"Is that me?"

It is now, sister. Finally: it's you! <3

Draegur ,

Taco Bell profits tremendously from this phenomenon as well. Exact same ingredients; different shapes.

Draegur ,

GOOD GRIEF WEAR A HAIRNET

Draegur ,

the idea that destroying the machines that are trying to kill us all is "violence" is itself, from the very beginning, hostile rhetoric implanted by the parasites with an interest vested in those machines staying operational.

I am going to put my foot down on this, and I'd like to see if others might as well:
It is not violence if it is not injury being inflicted upon a PERSON.

If people suffer from the collapse of harmful machinery, it is the fault of the machinery.
No one would have collapsed it if it was not harmful.

Destroy the tools of abuse. It is not violence. It is corrective force.

Draegur ,

Not all machinery is harmful. As you have indicated yourself.

Motivating people to construct less harmful systems would be a healthy selective pressure.

Nobody in their right mind is interested in destroying someone's wheel chair, crutches, eyeglasses, or dialysis machine.

If an apparatus is used to violate the social contract and deliberately harm others obviously enough for us to actually casually perceive it happening without even looking for it specifically, it's fairly obvious that it needs to be disassembled with extreme prejudice.

Draegur ,

the one reason I joined the instance Lemm.ee was because its mission was to avoid defederating and be the widest firehose nozzle of lemmy content available.

even i would prefer for lemm.ee to defederate threads.

Draegur ,

Projection.

Carville is the preachiest bitch of them all.

Can't wait for history to be rid of his FILTH.

Draegur ,

i'm sure you could do it all day.

Draegur ,

Sweet Baby Inc CEO Kim Belair at Game Developers Conference 2019:

"If you're in development and you are part of like that dominant voice, you're like a cis hetero white dude or just adjacent to that, do not wait until the end to call your consultants. Bring them in at the beginning. And instead of asking them, ‘Hey, is this very racist thing we did very racist? Or is this deeply offensive thing, offensive? Are you hurt by it?’ Ask them what they want to see. Ask them what would thrill them, what would bring them joy. And if you have a Team Lead put that request to them very, very early.”

"If If you’re a creative working in AAA, which I did for many, many years, put this stuff up to your higher-ups. And if they don’t see the value and what you’re asking for when you ask for consultants, when you ask for research, go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what’s going to happen if they don’t give you what you want.”

“Because they have to consider (I say that out loud as a joke, but it’s actually very, very true) because if you start to consider the people who are player[-facing] and audience-facing and you have to deal with mitigating harm and with keeping the sentiment around their game and their project positive there’s like a genuine value that you could impress upon them both ethically and financially. You could say this is important,”

“It’s also a valid discussion to have because if you’re working with a thin narrative budget and you work in AAA, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised or dismayed by the amount of money that marketing can give you.”

Once again, deliberate hyperbole spoken in a comedic spirit is twisted into a threat:
The consumers who enjoy gaming took her words, "terrify them", and RAN with it.
No context. no nuance.
"She wants to 'terrify' US?" they ignorantly assume, "Well turnabout is fair play."
And now they feel entitled to 'terrify' Sweet Baby Inc 'back'.

When in fact all Sweet Baby Inc was ever trying to do is twist the arm of out of touch c-suite douchebag fatcats who still think rape jokes are funny.

Kinda based of them.

But they REALLY didn't help themselves here. See, they ironically fell into their own trap.

Someone should've consulted THEM about "the possibility of what's going to happen if they" generalize 'cis het white dudes'.

Chiefly, calling out 'cis het white dudes' is, well...

it's like spilling sugar on the floor. Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
Except instead of ants it's stochastic harassment from people with literally nothing better to do.

Draegur ,

i wish i could spray some buckshot on the thatcher statue

Draegur ,

i can't wait to impound this fucker and charge him $19.85 per foot of crash wrap to cover over his smashed window. And knowing my guys, they'll use five feet very sloppily and overboard with lots of useless excess.

if we assume optimal conditions, as in, this dipshit is arrested within 2 miles of one of our impound yards, the very least amount this will cost him is $324.87, and that price goes up by $35.00 every rolling 24 hours.

if he doesn't pay to get it back within 90 days, we'll get a salvage title issued by the state registry of motor vehicles that transfers the ownership of the vehicle to us, then we'll "auction" the vehicle off (which oftentimes means "selling" it to someone we like for dirt cheap) and subtract whatever meager chump change a secondary buyer was willing to pay sight-unseen from the outstanding bill and send the rest to collections. then he can rant about his sovereign citizenship to the collections agents that will be following him for years and years thereafter :3

Draegur ,

alas, we legally cannot 😭
the towing and storage rates are set by state law where we operate...
if it were possible to crank the price higher and get away with it, especially for fuckers who really deserve it, we would.
as just and right as it would be to no longer honor the protections of law over individuals who reject the law, it is not up to us.

Draegur ,

And that is why, the next time your car is in a ditch due to unforseen road conditions, you can expect to wait at least 4 hours before someone bothers to winch your car out, and charge you over six hundred dollars for the trouble.

If you were a pal worth helping out, maybe it could have gotten done faster. Maybe it could have been off the books. But hey. You shat that bed, you can lay in it buddy.

Or you can avoid trouble by staying the fuck home during inclement weather and keeping your insurance, registration, and license up to date so you never get arrested either and we never have any reason to interact with you. That way, we'll all be happy. :p

Draegur ,

don't make me hope ;_;

i have been dreaming of this,
pleading for this.
but i never dared to consider it might actually happen
i can't afford enough copium to sustain it

Draegur ,

Sunday:

The booth is closed because the product has sold out.

He tracks the artist down at another event and demands to buy a comic for cheap.

"Oh, sorry sir, I already sold all of them. It's on back-order. The price plus shipping is $15."

Draegur ,

We should rebrand critical race theory as "race realism" which is something awful that chuds are in favor of but that we don't actually want children to be indoctrinated with.

So we usurp the place it would have come to occupy in their minds, and whenever any of the chuds try to tell them about it they will argue against it with facts, figures, and evidence.

Draegur ,

I seriously thought this was a setup for a joke, OP XD

"... then I am below average, just like they always told me I was."

Senate passes $95 billion package with aid for Ukraine and Israel, setting up showdown with the House ( edition.cnn.com )

The Senate passed a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill with assistance for Ukraine and Israel in a vote early Tuesday morning, setting up a showdown with the House as Speaker Mike Johnson has criticized the legislation....

Draegur ,

i for one would have preferred a bill that only funded ukraine. or funded ukraine and palestine, as they are both indigenous populations desperately struggling to fend off invasive, malignant, foreign, imperialist powers. but oh well. ain't up to me.

Draegur ,

i was looking for numbers though. specifically how crime in 2022 and 2023 compare to BEFORE the big spike that happened in 2019 and 2020. If crime is still higher than it was in 2018, then this local minimum isn't going to matter as much.

Draegur ,

i truly do not understand just exactly what the hap is fuckening here

Draegur ,

based and redwall-pilled

Draegur ,

i am unfortunately a playa x_x

i deeply wish to befriend the fuck out of as many bogs as possible tho

Draegur ,

i disown and disavow all millennials who give zoomers a hard time

zoomers are fucking priceless

gen-α needs the strongest possible start and the best support we can offer

let's NOT act like those FUCKING BOOMERS.

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