You might not think it satisfactory but I’d hardly call it “nothing”.
do you remember what this looked like four years ago, and then in 2021, and then 22, and then 23? lol. I would call what they have all been doing worse than nothing. So I suppose you’re correct.
Whatever. I don’t care anymore. I’m done speaking to walls and arguing with people who haven’t thought about disability once in their entire lives.
The medical establishment being clear on what is real and what is not Is good for preventing these abusive or coercive situations from occurring.
They are not, though, because they are the medical establishment. The medical establishment also says Covid is nothing, and the CDC in the US specifically ignores anything to do with avian influenza currently. I am not sure what to say to anyone that is still propagating any of this as a reliable source of truth a priori. The fact of the matter of Lyme is inconsequential to the broader point: “trust the medical establishment,” (or “science” as is frequently used as proxy in these types of discussions) and given what I have lived through and know, I will be selective with this trust. More people ought to be.
VPNs are used, but that is beside the primary argument. The west also censors the internet. Remember when DDG said it would hide “Russian disinformation” from its results? Twitter likes were made private because the owner could not stop from being racist and didn’t want anyone to see, lol. Pretty much everyone everywhere censors everything more or less. It’s a moot point.
have you lived with a chronic illness before mate. it isn’t that “science is wrong” it is that medicine as an industry is hilariously abusive, coercive, and fueled by eugenicist ideology from the onset. If you didn’t already know this then you’re probably part of the problem. Lol
What’s that got to do with anything they said
Parasite Eve immediately comes to mind for me. But I’ve only played the first game. As far as I can tell it’s a more loosely-based interpretation with different characters and it was not done with the author’s approval, but I still really liked it.
I am not convinced he isn’t dead, unless there’s been another public appearance since AF1 I am not aware of.
The entire administration spent the last 3 years telling us that Covid is mild and that it’s over. Why would they try to fake something they’ve said is not a problem anymore as if it is a problem now? Why not just say he has a cold like the last time they did this? What is the interest being served here? You people make no sense. You do not think.
either it is not real anymore and thus not newsworthy and esp. not enough to give biden any excuse or it is real enough to be taken seriously as political kayfabe. which is it? which angle have we been hearing nonstop for several years? use your fuckin heads!
Why on earth do people still think that they faked Covid to give Biden an excuse. Who would buy it? Covid is over. It’s not a big deal. You can’t get time off of work for Covid anymore, why would people accept it for the president? This thought does not make any sense. It is the most transmissible virus in the books and is passed thru the fucking air y’all have been raw dogging every day since 2021. Like be real. Use your brain power. He almost certainly did get it. You’ve probably got it right now.
Still not off the table
The man is dead unless we see him in public again.
All of America is bloodthirsty. There is no helping this place. Someone here said it best that the likeliest way this happens is through a generational forgetfulness basically which I am inclined to agree with. There has to be enough distance between whatever emerges from this hell and the hell itself or there will be room for the hell to slip back into public conscience, and you’d better believe it will.
I have been a type 1 diabetic for 20 years. When it comes to this point I am jumping over that counter and raiding that itty bitty refrigerator back there. There is nothing stopping me. If someone does, then good, do us both a favor and put me out of my misery. But I am stealing those vials. After ~48 hours without insulin your body starts failing. You will go into a coma.
I have spent an embarrassing amount of time in this game. It is inevitable in multiplayer games and especially in such time-consuming ones as MMOs that the real world blends with the virtual one. The connections we make in-game can be as important and meaningful as any in the real world, and I want to cultivate a space where I know my values are shared.
The “Zero-COVID Hydaelyn” Free Company (XIV’s equivalent to guilds) on Seraph is my attempt at making an explicit space of players who are still COVID-ing and will, hopefully, be free from the inevitable heartbreak upon discovering our raid group friends just don’t care all that much about the plague. If you play in any capacity, casual or hardcore, and you have an interest in joining, please let me know via DM, response to this thread, or in-game mail or application. I’d be happy to have you.
If you play on another world/data center then I also have a Cross-World Linkshell available. There won’t be the same perks as being in a Free Company but it acts as an extra chat channel of sorts and further means to connect and coordinate.
P.S. if you are wondering why the name looks a little goofy in the screenshot, it’s because that’s a zero and not an O. For only Free Company names, “COVID” was deemed a “forbidden word”. Thankfully this censorship was pretty lazy, lol. As far as I am aware it is not verboten in any chat channels in-game (or in the FC’s information field, as you can see from the screenshot…)
I am sick of playing social games for people who do not care. I know what it means; I don’t care. Say hello instead then.
again, why would they announce or go through the effort to fake something that they’ve de-legitimized? By their administration’s own admission if he has Covid…so what? it’s just a cold, jack. it’s over. No big deal. Why even bother?
I logged in to chew out some asshole in the comments in here and the comment isn’t there now. Good job past me.
anyway death to all minimizers and that means you too, joe
TF2 came out when I was almost graduating high school. This is just going to keep happening, huh.
They’ve all had Covid like 12 times and have no interest in not catching it further they’ll keel over before the first pitchfork is raised
To figure out some skin issues a while back I shaved off all my then-long hair. Now it’s grown to a noticeable length again and there are giant patches and streaks of gray coming in everywhere. I’m only 32. There is too much stress in the world. My mother didn’t gray until her late 40s, same with my grandmother I think. Guess it’s time to own that young grandma drip for the Mad Max future
Listen, you all have got this emoji shit locked in. They are the best part of the website. I know it's just image markdown, and I have a bunch of them saved locally, but they all appear Embiggened when I do it. Is that supposed to happen? How do I fix it? I am not that educated on markdown syntax.
This is admittedly not that big of a deal I guess but it drives me nuts how often modern games describe themselves like: a zelda-esque soulsborne roguelike metroidvania- or something equally indecipherable to anyone outside of the entrenched Gamer demographic. I am thoroughly "search action"-pilled...we really gotta use words better!
That’s it! I am putting it on the record. I know some things, but not enough, and my crappy doomscrolling habits combined with my much less crappy posting habits get in the way of due diligence. So I’ll make a belated resolution to read at least one piece of captivating communist or communist-adjacent literature a month; more if I am feeling it.
I plan to start by capping off March with Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell- this has been a sorely missing piece to my analysis that I am very thankful for discovering has a well-regarded fit. I am living my disabled truth more and more in the years following 2020 despite having this affliction for more than half of my life at this point, and I have never felt a good foundation for a synthesis of my life and my principles through Marxist thought, nor have I found satisfactory answers through community, not really. I hope following this helps me become a pillar for others like me, our disabled comrades and comrades-to-be. After this, my wife found a very loved copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States at a local bookstore being given away for free. I have been meaning to go through it for years, and thus a freebie lands in my lap; it is destiny.
That said, recommend me the good shit! The year is still young, and I am pretty much this IRL: !
I love this game. It has completely enthralled me. Since starting a couple years ago I have probably thousands of hours sunk into this 8-person DDR MMO. The story is one of the best of any FF game, too. I just started getting into Endwalker EX fights & Savage raiding and it’s a blast. Let’s get a polycule cadre going or something!
Seriously, all of these things are massive. Just looking at them gives me carpal tunnel. Nobody needs phones this big. I certainly don't. In fact, I want a very small phone, relatively speaking. The size what we had before we apparently learned better, and there doesn't seem to be many convincing options.
Ideally, my perfect smartphone went extinct with 3.5" displays. I do like reaching the All of the screen without contorting my thumb like some kind of mathematical instrument. I know modern OSes try to work around this by letting you slide or squish stuff around but i don't care. This is a regression, a fix that never needed a problem!
Ironically, Apple's iPhone SE seems to be the closest modern technology I can muster to those halcyon days sans deformed digits at a comfortable 4.7", but those .2 imperial nonsenses do matter, slightly, and regardless I am not keen on Apple's ecosystem. My wife has one of these and I kind of love it anyway. Android at least ought to have some options...? Well, sort of. I have done some digging ahd found a few models that might be OK. I know small beggars can't exactly be big choosers but I am determined to find my glass slippers, damn it.
Cubot Mini/Pocket:
Oh shit. This is perfect! A 4" screen, be still my heart...! However, I am led to believe this entire line of phones won't work in burgerland because this country hates everyone and everything. What?! !angery
Unihertz Jelly Star:
Love the enthusiasm, but maybe this is a bit too far in the other direction... also, this thing is just kind of ugly. I do have a fondness for that y2k transparency; maybe if it were in a few other colors, but I just can't get into it.
Palm Smartphone:
I genuinely had no idea Palm was still making phones. This actually might be the queen of the crop; 3.3" and from what I can tell, it fits my use case quite well.
And...that's basically it. Everything else that exists won't function with US carriers, near as I can tell. Am I just being a smartphone boomer? I can't be the only one who wants flagship specs on sensible real estate... !copium
