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Why is Neuromancer so hard to get in to?
  • Just accept that it's wiggy at first. You're being dragged along on a very high level heist with experienced professionals in their field, and your primary pov is a drug-addled hacker who struggles to differentiate meatspace from cyberspace. They're not going to stop and explain anything, but you'll understand the vibes.

    If you're still hot for it afterwards, give it another read. A lot more makes sense once you have an understanding of the bigger picture.

  • Democratic-controlled cities are finalizing plans to oppose mass deportation
  • I'd like to see them fuckin try. The Republicans keep calling these liberal cities warzones, I know Chicago and New York would be happy to bare their teeth and show just how accurate that moniker can sometimes be.

  • This needs to be said more often.
  • I'm not really sure when it happened, but I'd say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There's a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.

    The problem is that we didn't really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we've embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.

  • Joe Biden announces ceasefire deal to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
  • They're not in the hurry you seem to think they are. They've been exterminating the Palestinians for decades. Israel will tighten the noose, shrink their available land even further with illegal settlements, rest and re-arm their army, until another attack comes.

  • Masochism
  • remember, as a man on the internet you're not allowed to have opinions on something, even if they're formed by your own experiences and you clarify them as such. your opinions exist to be mocked and ridiculed for sport.

    oh, but it's also a real mystery why far right incel groups have seen a massive upsurge in membership, no way to logically connect the two.

  • Masochism
  • It's wild how everyone loves to wax poetic about a mythical auteur developer that breaks from the industry mold to make something unique, but every time that actually happens a massive group of people comes out and says it needs to be like everything else. Pathologic 2 is another example that comes to mind.

    It's gonna be very hard for videogames to ever take themselves seriously as an artistic medium if the majority of purchasers prefer committee-designed slop.

  • BACK IT UP
  • It would suck for the rubes who can be fooled into taking poison, but it would be kinda based if RFK just legalized everything. Reality might turn to shit, but at least we can get high however we want!

  • People simultaneously seem scared of AI automating jobs, and of there being too many old people for young people to look after as they'd be too busy with jobs. Wouldn't those cancel each other out?
  • This is gonna blow your mind, but the staffing issue has very little to do with populations available, and significantly more to do with funding. I'm aware of the shitshow elderly care has already become in the United States, but people work dogshit jobs all the time. The problem is that CNA pay and benefits are ass, and the reason is because elderly care is often subsidized by the federal government, and the feds can only pay so much.

  • CunkPosting @lemmy.world djsoren19 @yiffit.net

    Cunk on Dune

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