Car-centric infrastructure, baybee! Better have those credentials or you might get shot or imprisoned! Or both!

Care to defend those claims or are you just making noise?

Yay or dismay

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It’s still fun, though. I think it has a cohesive look that I would call “visually distinct for gaming purposes” rather than specifically beautiful.

Yet it’s neither a web nor a forum. Curious.

Like putting speakers in monitors.

And every death is feeding, every missed callout is feeding, not playing support is feeding… No TP? Believe it or not, feeding.

Not only that, but there are so many variations and ways to modify your equipment that it takes a while to really figure out. Every time I go back out of curiosity it ends up being the same colors and numbers game, so I get frustrated and quit.

Is there anything you feel strongly enough about to protest like that?

In trying to look at it from the perspective of “what could make me do that” I can only think of some downright heinous shit. To get to the point that you’re willing to stand in front of cars and have people hate you for preventing them from living their lives? It’s pretty hard to imagine.

And on top of that, to know that your actions are going to ruin you in some way or another; that you’re facing jail time, bodily harm, or extreme financial burden? Either they’re being both sensitive and stupid or they’re so fed up that they feel like there’s no other recourse. It’s insane to me to think about being pushed so far that that seems like a good idea.

But then I think about how they must have gotten there, and the things that would get me there, and they’re not so different.

Do you mean like, “in the situation of?” For example, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Otherwise I’d say that since they’re both prepositions–dealing with the relationship between two or more things in space or time–it sounds like somebody was just a little confused about how to explain it.

Where people use them interchangeably you’re likely to find non-native English speakers.

When people get too old, the next step is death. We are now older than we have ever been!

I don’t think having additional parties is enough of a change. Two or ten, there could still be a stalemate, and without a good way to keep things actually representative, we’ll just revert to the status quo.

Definitely a skewed signal to noise ratio, which at this point feels intentional. Politics felt far more boring in the before-fore, but I think most of that was me not paying close enough attention.

I had a casual conversation with ChatGPT a while back about how this level of political division is unprecedented in the country (I guess I conveniently forgot about the civil war during this), and the response was basically “Everybody says that in every era,” so I wonder if I just have too narrow a focus. I should look into that…

Okay, so participating in the system is feeding it. I understand your point, but it feels like you’re completely dismissing the momentum our current system has. I don’t think slowing it down is a possibility right now, especially since the mechanisms in place specifically prevent extreme policy changes from one administration to the next–namely, our country’s 70+ years of hard-line support for Israel–so the next reasonable step to take is to steer it in a better direction.

Unfortunately, the majority of people are already steering either right or left. Refusing to engage or trying to push this massive machine in a less popular direction is, for now, like screaming into the void. So, I push with the others, hoping to create breathing room until we can change the way we do things and allow for better political representation in our democracy.

“My” alternative is to not treat every human interaction as transactional maneuvering to curry favor. It’s an incredibly strange commodification of immaterial concepts that rejects or ignores the complexity and nuance of human emotions and motivations. It’s simply an inadequate theory.

That’s an unnervingly cold, reductionist, cynical take.

I was so apathetic in my early voting years, so I guess I’m doing my weird political thing in mid-life.

What does it mean to feed the system? Participate in it? Are there reasonable alternatives?

I find your choice… Acceptable.