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SuddenDownpour

@ SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works

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  • This one will anger both tankies and liberals. Alas, I'm unburdened by such concerns.

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  • Yeah it's a Sociology 101 take. By today's standards, at least.

  • What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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  • And here you have it: the serf mentality of the median American. Speaking out against your in-group, lest things could ever become better? Madness, better tell everyone to shut up about the fact that the ship is sinking, at least we're not directly ingesting arsenic. If things ever become better, thank the heavens that they happened to fall down that way, because that behavior leaves you at the behest of whoever is leading the chorus, even if that person had been clearly screwing up for months, with no hope of ever influencing it yourself.

  • What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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  • My more liberal friends haven’t liked Biden basically since the start. He was just the only option against Trump, whom they hate (a wonderful position our duopoly has put us all into). I will never be a fan of anyone that cheerleads for politicians though. It’s cringe to me. They work for us, not the other way around.

    By "hardline dems" I don't mean "more liberal" or "more leftist", I mean the "You criticized the official party line? Behold, I will immediately misrepresent what you said and paint you as an enemy". They're actually preventing their own party from becoming more effective.

  • What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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  • Plenty of people on Lemmy immediately attacked you if you mentioned that Biden was going to tank the election or that he had mental health issues, and even though they became a little bit less aggressive after the debate, they still insisted and would call you a Trump supporter if you even suggested that the Democrats should have someone else run. Now that Biden is out of the race and Kamala is projected to have a much better chance than him, they've been proven wrong, but none of them will apologize for having denied reality.

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    This one will anger both tankies and liberals. Alas, I'm unburdened by such concerns.

  • What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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  • I can forgive someone for being disconnected from reality, but when that someone goes and berates others for stating that a person obviously suffering from age-related issues does, in fact, does suffer from age-related issues, insists that it's impossible for anyone else to compete against Trump, and has the knife ready at their hand ready to jump at you with accussations of being a Republican for raising very reasonable concerns, that's a pretty heavy issue, and plenty of Lemmy users have done one or several of those things to the point that, frankly, discussing politics on this site has been just almost as unbearable as doing so in Reddit.

    I'm not going to receive apologies and I'm not expecting them, but I'm at least going to ask you to take a long time (weeks, months) wondering from time to time if you're suffering from cognitive biases in your opinions. This is not an insult, everyone suffers from cognitive biases, I did suffer from pretty heavy ones a long time ago, but if they're provoking harm (and most specially, doing political damage), you should at the very least take a look at them.

    On a side note, I have to say that I didn't expect much from Kamala other than having a reasonably better chance than Biden of preventing the US from further falling into fascism, but she has surprised me positively by confronting with Netanyahu as soon as she got a bit of spotlight.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

  • Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO

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  • Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO

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  • What did you say? 100% income and capital gains tax specifically for Kinjil Mathur? Where do I have to sign?

  • Sanders Pushes Harris to Pursue Agenda That 'Speaks to the Needs of the Working Class'.

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  • Biden managed to get a bunch of unions to endorse him for the elections, both due to negotiations and his policy. Given that Kamala was in his team, the only thing she needs is the will to declare that she will continue along Biden's lines.

  • Far-right trolls have launched a racist crusade against Kamala Harris

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  • This is unironically good for Kamala's chances. The average person in the US is racist, but not racist enough to not to feel second hand embarrassment from such overt comments, which may, ironically, make them a little bit less racist and make them think twice before voting Republican in 2024.

  • Before it's too late!

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  • How would they react if they were told that they're using the colors of the trans flag?

  • Before it's too late!

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  • I for one support him on his gender affirming medical procedures.

  • Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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  • For all of y'all anxiety-pilled people: this is great news. Biden was stuck in negative momentum because his health issues had been exposed and were not going to stop resulting in terrible headlines, which is a problem whoever comes next is not going to have, unless the delegates are somehow stupid enough to pull another dinosaur from below the rug.

    More interestingly: now that Biden has pulled out because he's patently too old, as it was a concern for plenty of voters, this is a golden opportunity to put the focus on the other candidate whose age is a somewhat less obvious but still noticeable issue.

  • Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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  • Plenty of other countries' electoral campaigns advance far faster than Americans expect theirs to move, and US media is talking about politics all the damn time. If the Dems don't do a massive screw up somehow, I think they'll find out that switching the candidate will be far easier than they were expecting.

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    BIDEN DROPS OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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  • This would have been much less of a clusterfuck if they hadn't hidden that Biden's state had already been declining for a long while now, or if he had been consequent with his declared intentions of being a one-term president from the very beginning, and there had been real primaries.

    The very obvious good news is that whoever is chosen now will have much better momentum than Biden, even if only by virtue of being capable of reaching out to low information voters, while Trump's less obvious cognitive decline is going to become far more evident now.

  • Italian journalist fined €5K for mocking PM Meloni’s height

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  • Disciplining the civil population for verbally expressing their opposition to a fascism sympathizer. I hope we all know what the end goal of this is.

  • Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized

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  • On that, I agree.

  • Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized

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  • This will be great for the workers, but I don't think it will necessarily fix the issues in Bethesda's organization when it comes to game development (and it won't make them worse either).

    Given what we know from Starfield, Bethesda is really lacking when it comes to planning: they aren't doing a good job at establishing a compact vision for the final product which also results in having issues to establish an agile workflow to get from start to finish. In the best cases, this results in ludonarrative disonance where the story isn't really supported by the mechanics of the game (example: Fallout 4's story incentivizes the player to hurry up and look for their son, but they assign a lot of resources into making sandbox mechanics such as those related to base building); in the worst cases, this results in teams returning the ball to each other all the time because they aren't properly coordinated to build things in the way other teams of the studio needs them, which loses a lot of time and becomes even more glaringly obvious the larger the project is.

    The silver lining is: this problem isn't so noticeable when the designers have the template of Oblivion in their minds and they're making Skyrim, but it was going to be completely exposed when making the jump to a new IP (and thus a new universe), with a new engine, with some large design jumps such as ceding ground to dynamically created areas; so ES6 doesn't have to be as much of a low point as it has been Starfield, as long as they're conservative in their design choices. I'd vastly prefer the leadership of Bethesda to be completely reorganized, which would allow them to innovate by taking well measured risks, but I don't have much hope for that scenario.

  • The future

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  • Don't ask what's it like for our remains in the future.

  • Jesus rule

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  • Plenty of Conservatives wouldn't be so terminally angry about women dressing immodestly if they didn't also think that masturbation is wrong. You ought to learn to surf the flow of the horny.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour

    www.theguardian.com /politics/article/2024/jul/05/jeremy-corbyn-re-elected-in-islington-north-for-first-time-as-independent-mp
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia?

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    "So will your party join The Left or The Greens in the European Parliament?" "Yes."

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues

    koreajoongangdaily.joins.com /news/2024-06-03/business/economy/How-to-fix-Koreas-birthrate-Put-girls-in-school-earlier-controversial-report-argues/2060371
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Netanyahu won’t agree to hostage release deal unless it polls well for him, Israeli families say they were told

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/israel-hamas-war-hostage-deal-netanyahu-polls-families-rcna154841
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Party crash in Azeribarule

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Is this discrimination?

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    "I would never bully someone for being autistic!"

  • Atheism @lemmy.world
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    Study suggests up to 1 in 5 U.S. adults currently suffer from major religious trauma symptoms

    www.nbcnews.com /nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/millions-lgbtq-americans-religious-trauma-psychiatrists-want-help-rcna135728
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Macron calls for 'lasting ceasefire' in Gaza (plus others)

    www.tbsnews.net /world/macron-calls-lasting-ceasefire-gaza-766014
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What is a GPG signature? Does it help us stay protected against deep fakes misinformation, and if so, how?

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    The problem with liberation groups in monster-taming games (Pokemon, Palworld)

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    World reacts to ICJ interim ruling in Gaza genocide case against Israel

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2024/1/26/world-reacts-to-icj-ruling-on-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Don't read classical philosophers, they're cringe

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Let's discuss monotropism

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Madoka Rule

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’

    www.science.org /content/article/spain-wants-change-how-it-evaluates-scientists-and-end-dictatorship-papers
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’

    www.science.org /content/article/spain-wants-change-how-it-evaluates-scientists-and-end-dictatorship-papers