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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • Incorrect, using Microslop’s Co-Worker Simulator you can send emails to a virtual AI version of your coworker, solve the issue and keep working!

    Go ahead, write your email and send it out! Microslop Offlook will automatically craft a realistic looking Virtual Email Response based on Microslop’s Identity Database information on the recipient and place it in your inbox, identical looking to a Manual Human Email! All without asking you or your coworker!

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  • One of the core reasons neoliberalism inevitability leads to fascism and collapse is as an ideology it is entirely negative about the possibility of systematic forces of evil having any kind of systematic solution. All we can do is try to individually be better individuals ourselves and do our part.

    In neoliberalism we are the noun and corporations, the ruling class, money, endless growth and unfettered greed are the verbs that change us. If we begin to organize and behave like a verb, neoliberalism acts with existential hostility and labels this “unnatural” in some way.





  • Not really though I get how the game seems like it might be like that, in fact what I like about Farm Together 1 and 2 is that they are very focused on the actual moment to moment process of a running an arcadey farm. It is almost like a realtime boardgame or simple economy simulator, which makes the core gameplay loop immediately salient to anybody. You can pick up a controller, jump in and start helping out on the farm, it is a very simple, relaxed and rewarding gameplay loop and it makes the perfect co-op game because of it. There aren’t long cutscenes and lots of stuff and context you have to explain, it is a pick up and play experience.

    It isn’t a shallow game either, while the game by no means “hard” in the sense that there aren’t really fail states, figuring out how to create an economy with your farm is a really interesting challenge and the wide variety of unlocks encourage and reward strategizing. The graphics are deceptive, there is a genuine engine building game at the heart of Farm Together 2.










  • But a canyon won’t echo regular speaking voices like a cathedral does

    …because a Cathedral echoes more than a Canyon does! Which is my point! When people apply the metaphor of the echo chamber they almost always use it in precisely the incorrect mapping and speak of mitigating the “echo chamber effect” by creating large, enclosed spaces with huge unbroken internal voids where even whispers cascade all the way across the volume in a cacophony.

    Conversely when people speak of systems of communication that are most like open celled or closed celled acoustic foam with many smaller spaces separated by manifold barriers and divisions, they are likely to refer to it as being prone to the “echo chamber effect” and I think it seriously hurts rational thinking on the subject.

    I have never seen someone criticize a human communication system with the structure of a Cathedral as an “echo chamber” while gesturing to the structure of a Canyon as superior in that it lets echoes proliferate but doesn’t concentrate them. Rather, it seems to be used almost without exception to argue in favor of making systems MORE like a Cathedral and less like acoustic deadening foam in structure.





  • This is exactly why the DNC and Democratic establishment was so incredibly hostile to Mamdani, figures like Newsom can only win in an extremely cynical environment where people openly accept corrupted, empty figureheads because there are no better options.

    Newsom can only win if the DNC’s corporate centrist thesis that progressive politics and socialist policies are just too scary for the US public to understand and this is an unchangable fact of nature remains unchallenged and becomes reified as common knowledge.

    All it takes is one example to disprove a rule, and Mamadani just did exactly that. This is an extinction level event for corporate centrist Democrats and Gavin is just too dumbly deferential to the status quo of the past to realize he is already a dinosaur and has been left behind in the dust by a new era.


  • Look I want kids to grow up and be able to pursue any passion they want, but we have to ask serious real world questions here about Austerity and I am starting to think we should entirely cut MBA programs and in general business education.

    I know that sounds extreme, but we have to focus on training kids on skills that will actually be productive, useful and lead to new breakthroughs. We clearly need to fund the hard stuff like art, music and theater or we are going to collapse as a society and continue to fall behind more competitive nations because we got distracted by fluff and empty ideologies masquerading as knowledge, MBAs being exhibit A.