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twenty thousand years ago a whole bunch of wild grasses invented serfdom and their subject peoples have only recently begun to break free of their tyranny
it’s great and cool and fun to grow food but “grow your own food” as a response to a crisis when literally the entirety of civilization has revolved around the provision of food will never not make me think less of you
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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With these kinds of stories there is sometimes a temptation to judge. "How could they not know?!" is a reply we see a lot.

Fight that urge. The truth is..

people.com/woman-tells-...
Woman Tells Family Her Dryer Isn’t Working — and They're Shocked When They Figure Out Why (Exclusive)
Kailey Bradley and her husband Rane went to help her sister Delaney Neal figure out why her dryer wasn't working. Then, they discovered years' worth of lint.
people.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Categorizing liberal self-censorship like they're folklore fragments. There's "villain with reasonable demands suddenly murders civilians for no reason." There's "People are angry but we can't mention wages or labor." There's "The real problem isn't political or material, it's this fictional tech."
CYBERPUNK 2077 suffers most from the AAA games effect: CDPR wants to tell a story which, to be effectively told, requires more radical politics than CDPR is allowed to have, or indeed has
December 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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“Requires 32% of your attention to watch”
December 28, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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December 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM