Nor do I have a forklift license to lift that saggy ponch that likely completely obscures it. Nor do we have archeological dig rights to go searching in the first place. Lol

“Big Beautiful War”

Yeah, it made me feel kinda sad. I’m trying so hard learning to code games and I’m a 3D artist still trying to learn to draw traditionally, only using “AI” for nothing more than “Hey can you explain the relationship between classes and objects” or something…

And if the constant slop-replacement of the Internet wasn’t bad enough, it’s a constant uphill battle of mockery and harassment from these chucklenuts.

It’s so discouraging. Like if we do succeed against the odds, jerks like these will be cheering on the robots ripping us off.

… I’m glad seeing this crap downvoted to oblivion though. :)

Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”

I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”

I would sympathize with this one, honestly.

I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that’s specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I’d imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)

The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it’s quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can’t even do anything about.)

The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.

Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.

For real though I seriously wonder.

Outside of the bigger cities I’ve lived it’s like, people are working fast food or gas stations and other service labor or like, really niche stuff like oil industry (yuck), or some other industrial or farming occupations.

I know lots of people live in rural areas, dunno how many commute or how far, and I always was just like “Okay but what does everybody do?!”

I wouldn’t mind living somewhere less dense-urban, but geeze, I feel like it’d be even harder to find a fit than in the city, and it feels like it’d be a trap where you couldn’t make enough to move away.

I’d love to be wrong, assuming we’re not talking about the top 10% of programmers that have a lucrative telecommute contract via starlink or some crap lol.

Like stuff an average person is capable of without requiring a ridiculous amount of luck or extremely niche in-demand education.

I get where you’re coming from, and I anticipated a response like this, but also there’s some realities I respectfully believe you’re at risk of over-generalizing.

In the modern world armed forces are often positioned as a way out of poverty, or to a fulfilling career, because they’re one of the last jobs that will actually train you. (Especially if you can’t afford college.)

I have my own opinion that swearing oaths to a state that can tell you “Go kill them or else” is a bad idea, but I can only control me.

Regardless, a mixture of people join up: Many of which wanna just do their 4 years and leave. Most of which never see combat. Many of which do incredibly valuable work like weather monitoring! But also few really get a choice where they’re deployed.

My point being: These are human beings killed. Those on the other sides are human beings killed. This is a net negative. For all we know, these U.S casualties were the base cooks. We don’t know if they ever aimed any weapon at another living soul. We don’t know who these people are.

The kneejerk reaction is to say “They had it coming” because we don’t like what’s happening, but that thinking will swiftly rot our humanity.

The puppetmasters that are pointing these human beings at each other for their own sick games are the ones that should be punished and destroyed. NONE of these people needed or deserved to die.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

–Bertrand Russell

. . .flip it off very intentionally.

Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”

I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.

But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.

We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.

Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.

Ow, geeze. “Thought as a service.” Ew.

“Yeah uh, EVERYBODY was at my party. All the cool kids. You should’ve been there! I’m throwing another one actually, if you want an invite… we’re gonna go set fire to a school if you’re not chicken.”

I see this as no different than the bastard lobbing a frag grenade at the neighbors and then hiding behind these kids as human shields.

The Mad Child-Raping Wannabe King is killing people’s children again, and he doesn’t care whose. Never has.

I figured Jesus would be the last person Trump would want to meet.

6 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

Given this entire administration’s relationship to children, and their hijacking and warping of the Gospel and manipulation of naive belivers to create a doomsday death cult, I’d say we’re far overdue for millstones to go up in demand as much as RAM has.

That’s so weird. Maybe it’s just my generational experience but I could never picture the guy even so much as jogging. I just see a little rotund orange child pushing everybody over and trying his damndest to see up his classmates’ skirts, getting caught repeatedly and never facing consequences.

But who knows, maybe at a certain point in the past that’s unfair to a child ruined into a monster by every responsible figure he encountered.

Imagine that, approximately 8.3 BILLION human beings on this planet. Of those, most of which know this waste of DNA exists, of those, I imagine the majority of which wish he and his ilk would just keel over sooner rather than later.

Too bad “vibes” can’t be measurably sent. Guy would’ve been melted by the world’s collective ire by now.

Maybe the “nuclear war is terrible BTW” part just fell out of the chat’s context window as the simulation went on. Lol

I kinda wonder if that was the point of this test, basically a “proof” that this is obviously a Bad Idea because you cannot program morality into a what amounts to a fancy Markov chain autocomplete.

Do you think the 9-11 hijackers ever thought they’d have a much easier time if they just screamed “federal agents!” instead?

Where they started Nunya Business, which is obscenely wealthy. However, there’s a fantastic opportunity where they need an enterprising foreigner like yourself to agree to handle a bank transfer processing fee and hold on to all their assets before the government takes it all and. . .

From a pragmatic point of view?

“In a time of dragons, raise dragon slayers.”

Those fighting for a better future now will get old. Thankfully, so will those seemingly-immortal bastards ruining that future.

We need future generations, educated and supported and prepared to take up the mantle.

As Bruce Lee put it: “Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to overcome a difficult one.”

We need to come back around to the idea that we are here for a bigger purpose than to be comfortable and happily wither, as even if when we are victorious, someone needs to maintain the solemn responsibility to keep evil at bay, because it will try again.

We all want our children to be happy and healthy and safe. But we also must prepare them to bear the same responsibility we do. Part of resistance and war against the principalities and powers and forces of darkness in this world, is to make sure righteous ideals live on.