(Your takes are strange enough to me that I don't even recognize the incidents in question, but never let it be said I am not a friend even to my hatereaderdom.)

You want cerebrate.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy now that schelling.pt has gone away, and the writing is/will be over at index.eldraeverse.com.ap.brid.gy‬ .

Not meaning to necro a 4 month old thread, but if you want it, that's where you can get it as of now.

(So good luck reading the drives you remembered to take, guys.)

If my impression of the FBI's competence hadn't already sunk to the bottom, this would not enhance it.

InfoSec Twitter seems to have decamped to Mastodon en masse.

(I mean, say what you will about the Romulan Star Empire, but getting their entire homeworld blown up didn't make them start committing casual genocides left and right and keeping skulls in trophy rooms.)

...I now want to see a plotline in which the villain? has noticed this pattern and concluded that while they may be nice NOW, these humans are just too dangerous to keep around.

Inasmuch as any time things stop going their way, they turn into complete assholes.

Enter fortuitous rock, stage right.

then I believe it is not unfair of me to conclude that your distaste for poncing about in jackboots is entirely situational rather than principled.

We may still have to fight the neo-Mongols or the Tamerlane Recreationists, but at least it won't be so embarrassing that our nemeses are a pale imitation of what was a shitpile to begin with.

If you're going to throw all ethics aside and try to recreate the glory of some historical culture complete with the nasty bits, at least pick one that *succeeded*.

Confederate apologists, neo-Nazis, tankies, you name it, these fuckers just love cultures that were complete and utter failures from failtown riding the failroad to fail city.

I'm still going to take a moment to observe that something that pisses me off is that a certain type of people always stan the cultures that were complete and utter losers at what they tried to do.

(If you don't know that, please stop reading immediately, unsubscribe, go home, and rethink your everything.)

(Smells like Dark Kantianism, but is probably just our special kind of literally incredibly stupid.)

Incidentally, yes, obviously it is also an ethical abomination. But you know that, I know that, and everyone reading this knows that, so there's no point in repeating it.

You definitely *don't* if you're a Confederacy apologist, because their form of slavery excelled at cruelty, malice, and general fuckheadry while simultaneously being pure goddamn shit at the actual exploitation part.

But I then say "So pick a different substitute character that doesn't have any syntactic significance in filenames so it can be freely auto-replaced with merry abandon."

Tilde. Logical not. Butt-scratching emoji. Non-breaking Unicode general fuckery character. I don't care. Just not the period.