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- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 days ago:
Wow, what a thorough answer, thank you! The summation was almost poetic, in a beautiful and somewhat horrifying way. The whole system laid out like that almost seems a bit dark and dystopian in kind of an indescribable way. It sounds like a sentient, Lovecraftian rat’s-nest of wires running the whole world.
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- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that seems to align nicely with the instincts I outlined in my comment. No need to apologize. Thanks!
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 weeks ago:
From what I googled, it’s especially bad when you pair “man” and “female” together, which makes sense to me.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 weeks ago:
No stupid questions time: This kind of lurks in the back of my mind and I sometimes find myself hesitating to use the term “female” to refer to female figures in any context. I don’t have to do that, right? Like, would “woman lawyer” be better than “female lawyer” in contexts where specifying gender might be relevant? I would conversely prefer the term “male lawyer” in the same context. Am I overthinking this?
- Comment on In the JFK Files 5 weeks ago:
No need, it already exists as the intro to Nazi Zombies in COD: Black Ops
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 1 month ago:
Indeed, Chinese cops laid siege to various universities during the Hong Kong protests, which were strongholds of organization, just like American universities have also been under siege at times for their Palestinian protests. Cops never change, though I will say that American cops seem to be especially trigger-happy. It seems to me that cops in most other countries are able to neutralize threats with non-lethal force most of the time. I never seem to hear about German cops, who I believe also carry guns, shooting a neighbor’s dog or unloading into a guy failing to follow conflicting instructions being shouted at him. I can’t claim to know much about German cops, though.
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 1 month ago:
The Hong Kong protests, though… I’m not saying that’s any better than American police, but I have little reason to believe they’d be much better, either.
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 2 months ago:
Seth hasn’t been writing for Family Guy since like 2006
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 months ago:
It’s true, but intelligence and counterintelligence is kind of their whole thing, isn’t it? They’ve certainly had a long list of laughable fuckups, like their many failed assassination attempts on Castro, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Iran-Contra, etc., but they’ve also successfully toppled governments in South/Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, etc. Apparently they’ve made at least 70 attempts at regime change since the end of the Cold War, according to Wikipedia. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the CIA as a non-threat, personally, especially if they’re going to be following the malevolent orders of a Trump loyalist. I fear the CIA will turn more inwardly to our own country and use their efforts against US citizens (more than usual, that is), specifically against those who would oppose a Trump regime.
We already saw FBI agents engaging in 60s-and-70s-style surveillance of BLM activists in 2020, where they and other feds went around in unmarked vans snatching random activists off the street and traded literal baseball cards they made about different individual activists for fun. Those feds were also sent in at the express direction of Trump. With that in mind, I have no doubts the CIA would do the same in heartbeat. I know they already conduct domestic surveillance operations, but I’d predict a substantial increase in that under the current administration, especially given the ways things have been going after only the first couple weeks with Trump demanding absolute fealty throughout the government and vilifying all opposition. It’s just frightening that Trump had a ready-made intelligence org that was so easily converted to his agenda and seems poised to be his personal secret police. I think that’s probably even scarier than the CIA of old. At least for right now, I might somehow prefer a CIA that says, “Sorry, Mr. President, but we don’t follow orders.”
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 months ago:
CIA, too. I thought they kind of did their own thing and kind of aren’t really beholden to the president. People think the CIA is such a rogue organization that some people have suggested they killed JFK because he sought to shrink the org and make them more accountable. Whether that’s true or not, apparently all it takes to completely take it over is just to change around some personnel, though.
Like, my head cannon is that the new leaders would be figureheads only and that there’d be someone secretly chosen to keep things running behind closed doors and pulling the real CIA strings to resist such changes (and maybe have an encore, pretty please?), but that’s based on nothing at all. I’m no fan of the CIA or anything, but I do fear what such a shadowy government org might do when wielded by Trump cronies even more than the stuff they usually get up to.
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 3 months ago:
Forgetting how it works and having to relearn it again
- Comment on Steal Her Look 5 months ago:
Also, despite what some mushroom books will say, it’s not the 🤮😵 kind of poison (except in rare cases)
It’s the 😵💫🤤 kind of poison