I would prefer peace. But let’s be frank, that isn’t likely to happen, because the Trump Regime consists of people who don’t value a peaceful, kind, and just world.

Discrediting the rule of law, as proven by Merrick Garland and the general apathy by Biden.

Canada and Mexico should make a mutual defense pact. Being pinched by land wars would make things much rougher for the US.

GOG should be more proactive in order to fulfill its mission.

1: Officially make a Linux client.

2: Pursue indie series. Project Moon, Touhou, and more.

3: Commission remastering projects. Thief 1 & 2, FreeSpace, King’s Quest, Vampire Bloodlines, and so on. Optionally buy these properties to make sequels. The IP holders don’t really do much with them, it would be relatively easy to buy them.

4: Get more serious with companies like SEGA and Kagura Games. Shin Megami Tensei V has been out on PC a long while, but Denuvo makes me unwilling to make a purchase. A DRM-free release would easily net my $40. Ditto goes for perverse games.

5: Create a joint project with Valve, the EU, and Japan, to create a payment system that doesn’t require the likes of MasterVisa. They are enemies to culture, and if America descends into civil war, an outside transaction processor would be needed.

Sartre’s bit about how fascists want to be anything but a man, also cleanly maps onto ICE traffickers.

JEAN PAUL SARTE

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

[The anti-Semite attributes] all or part of his own misfortunes and those of his country to the presence of Jewish elements in the community, … proposes to remedy this state of affairs by depriving the Jews of certain of their rights, by keeping them out of certain economic and social activities, by expelling them from the country, by exterminating all of them …

It is not unusual for people to elect to live a life of passion rather than of reason. But ordinarily they love the objects of passion: women, glory, power, money. Since the anti-Semite has chosen hate, we are forced to conclude that it is the state of passion that he loves.

[The anti-Semite] fears every kind of solitariness… however small his stature, he takes every precaution to make it smaller, lest he stand out from the herd and find himself face to face with himself. He has made himself an anti-Semite because that is something one cannot be alone.

[The anti-Semite is afraid] of himself, of his own consciousness, of his own liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and the world – of everything except the Jews. [He is] a coward who does not want to admit his cowardice to himself.

Anti-Semitism, in short, is fear of the human condition. The anti-Semite is a man who wishes to be a pitiless stone, a furious torrent, a devastating thunderbolt – anything except a man.

Supply chains would be the biggest issue, methinks. Gotta figure out what hardware you need to adopt, maintaining the stuff you already have without American dictation, and so on.

I recommend this metroidvania, if you like puzzles and riddles. La-Mulana is an experience.

I am trying to decide whether to buy a chassis, because I am not sure if this style would be around when DDR6 is released. The Thor Rosewill V2 went extinct, so I might buy the Thor NAS.

I wish that there was a Thor V3.

It is never the technology at fault. When it comes down to it, evil people want to exercise the power of their crown, damned be the consequences and injustice.

AI is just the latest excuse to be a remorseless dickhead.

Unlike ICE, the mafia has recruiting standards.

When you become ICE, accountability and legality is for everyone else. ICE cosplay is a Temu away.

I am expecting them to join ICE, and go to town on MAGA. No better place to attack a titan, than from the insides of the beast.

Personally, I think it would be a contest of raw strength vs endurance. I think that the EU has healthier trade and diplomacy than the USA, while the US starts out with lots of hardware and troops - but the logistics chain would start snapping within a year or two. Militaries are not just the possession of assets, but the regeneration and growth of them.

Kinda like how Ukraine with economic support has been able to confront Russia.

It is going to take at least five years before local AI is user-friendly enough and with performant hardware circulating, that ordinary folks would consider buying an AI machine.

I have a top-end DDR4 gaming rig. It takes a long time for 100b sized AI to give some roleplaying output, at least forty minutes for my settings via KoboldCPP with a GGUF. I don’t think a typical person would want to wait more than 2 minutes for a good response. So we will need at least DDR6 era devices before it is practical for everyday people.

That metric can said of just about anything regarding beliefs. The important thing is reducing the number of MAGA to levels where their beliefs can’t really propagate anymore. The keys to that lies in eliminating the 1% as a class, by reducing wealth gaps and maintaining them at lower levels as an institution. This would require huge reforms, along the lines of the Magna Carta and the American Constitution, but for economics.

The 1% wield immense political power, because they hoard dynastic wealth and influence and can use it as a club against society. That is why they are the lynchpin of conservative projects, and so they must be removed as a factor, if a better society is to be fostered.

This is where I am at where MAGA is concerned. It would be a crimson lining to a 2nd American Civil War, where I and others can free our society of Nazi kindred for good. IMO, the 1% of America are very likely to sympathize with the Confederates, because they believe that slavery of the poors is the natural state of things.

Good. 🙂