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Hi, I'm Merc! I've seen a lot of these, so...
I like:
💀DbD
🦍Overwatch
🔧Engineering
📖Books
🇵🇸 Leftist politics
🎲TTRPGs
🔭Space
⚔️Souls games
👽WH40k
🥧Cooking (sometimes)
👾Indie games
🐈Cats
☕Coffee
🍃Weed
🗺️Learning abt other cultures
I've been having fun here, excited to meet you!
I like:
💀DbD
🦍Overwatch
🔧Engineering
📖Books
🇵🇸 Leftist politics
🎲TTRPGs
🔭Space
⚔️Souls games
👽WH40k
🥧Cooking (sometimes)
👾Indie games
🐈Cats
☕Coffee
🍃Weed
🗺️Learning abt other cultures
I've been having fun here, excited to meet you!
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I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.
The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.
It’s designed to make you quit.
The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.
It’s designed to make you quit.
May 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.
The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.
It’s designed to make you quit.
The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.
It’s designed to make you quit.
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How fast you’ll go from seeing friends 3-5 times a week to almost never will shock you. Enjoy it while it’s easy. And be sure to be proactive about this as you age— send happy birthday texts, nudge people to get coffee etc because it gets lonely very quickly!
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How fast you’ll go from seeing friends 3-5 times a week to almost never will shock you. Enjoy it while it’s easy. And be sure to be proactive about this as you age— send happy birthday texts, nudge people to get coffee etc because it gets lonely very quickly!
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it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
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In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
I say this for everyone who thinks that we just have to go along with what the public things: we don’t. The public can change their minds. They have in the past.
We can just do the right thing and then not end up looking like a horrific bigot in a handful of years.
We can just do the right thing and then not end up looking like a horrific bigot in a handful of years.
May 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
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I feel like capitalism being the driving force for the development of AI is like trying to grow a fruit tree from poisoned soil.
May 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I feel like capitalism being the driving force for the development of AI is like trying to grow a fruit tree from poisoned soil.
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if you use ai to speak for me from beyond the grave i will haunt your ass for all eternity that is my solemn vow
no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks
May 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
if you use ai to speak for me from beyond the grave i will haunt your ass for all eternity that is my solemn vow
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It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?
The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.
🚨ALERT 🚨ICE reported at 5300 South Dakota Ave NE in the last couple of hours. 4 agents and 2 cars confirmed. At least one person detained.
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
May 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?
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um hey if you liked rollerdrome but left a negative review because they shut the studio
thanks for your support! it means a lot!
but also, if you want more r7 quality games -
PLEASE CHANGE YOUR REVIEW TO POSITIVE
publishers see bad reviews and that's a dealbreaker? peeps can't get funded :(
thanks for your support! it means a lot!
but also, if you want more r7 quality games -
PLEASE CHANGE YOUR REVIEW TO POSITIVE
publishers see bad reviews and that's a dealbreaker? peeps can't get funded :(
May 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
um hey if you liked rollerdrome but left a negative review because they shut the studio
thanks for your support! it means a lot!
but also, if you want more r7 quality games -
PLEASE CHANGE YOUR REVIEW TO POSITIVE
publishers see bad reviews and that's a dealbreaker? peeps can't get funded :(
thanks for your support! it means a lot!
but also, if you want more r7 quality games -
PLEASE CHANGE YOUR REVIEW TO POSITIVE
publishers see bad reviews and that's a dealbreaker? peeps can't get funded :(
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im beginning to think its a bad idea for america to antagonize its allies while at the same time completely isolating us from the rest of the world both economically and militarily for no real reason and with no stated goal
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
im beginning to think its a bad idea for america to antagonize its allies while at the same time completely isolating us from the rest of the world both economically and militarily for no real reason and with no stated goal
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now? like, just now? they're just racist now recently?
May 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
now? like, just now? they're just racist now recently?
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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you need some schemes bro. bro it’s time to start plotting. you need some machinations. some mackies bro
February 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
you need some schemes bro. bro it’s time to start plotting. you need some machinations. some mackies bro
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its so funny how economists will be like noooo its not fair china keeps reinvesting its wealth back into its economies instead of giving it all to like 20 guys, thats cheating 😭
What if we took money from rich people and invested it back into research and infrastructure and our companies to compete with China instead of slashing taxes and cutting funding. That would be crazy right
May 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
its so funny how economists will be like noooo its not fair china keeps reinvesting its wealth back into its economies instead of giving it all to like 20 guys, thats cheating 😭
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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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an under discussed aspect of the “birth rate decline panic” is that young people keep voting for politicians and agendas that never win in america and feel like the world is doomed, while older generations keep reiterating that doom cycle and forcing agendas on younger generations that fuck us
May 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
an under discussed aspect of the “birth rate decline panic” is that young people keep voting for politicians and agendas that never win in america and feel like the world is doomed, while older generations keep reiterating that doom cycle and forcing agendas on younger generations that fuck us
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I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
May 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
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this is legitimately evil
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
this is legitimately evil
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Video game prices are increasing
Here’s what you do…
• Play indies and AA games.
• Wait for a deep sale
• Emulate for free
• Focus on your backlog instead.
Don’t let the companies control you.
You are the boss with this 💵, it’s your tool. Use it wisely.
Here’s what you do…
• Play indies and AA games.
• Wait for a deep sale
• Emulate for free
• Focus on your backlog instead.
Don’t let the companies control you.
You are the boss with this 💵, it’s your tool. Use it wisely.
May 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Video game prices are increasing
Here’s what you do…
• Play indies and AA games.
• Wait for a deep sale
• Emulate for free
• Focus on your backlog instead.
Don’t let the companies control you.
You are the boss with this 💵, it’s your tool. Use it wisely.
Here’s what you do…
• Play indies and AA games.
• Wait for a deep sale
• Emulate for free
• Focus on your backlog instead.
Don’t let the companies control you.
You are the boss with this 💵, it’s your tool. Use it wisely.
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Polygon was a great constant to have over the years, they did a lot of quality work and held themselves to a really high standard. Very frustrating to see sharp people with solid, institutional knowledge get tossed out like this.
May 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Polygon was a great constant to have over the years, they did a lot of quality work and held themselves to a really high standard. Very frustrating to see sharp people with solid, institutional knowledge get tossed out like this.
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one thing that became especially clear to me while working at the cemetery is that the moment people stopped being able to remember polio and smallpox and getting e.coli from unregulated slaughterhouses within their lifetime, they immediately started disregarding the seriousness of them
i feel like all the "just grow and preserve your own food" morons yapping on here are doing so bc they've never actually done either of those things, bc it is unbelievably easy to kill your family and yourself with improper food handling and canning techniques. you do not fuck around with botulism
May 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
one thing that became especially clear to me while working at the cemetery is that the moment people stopped being able to remember polio and smallpox and getting e.coli from unregulated slaughterhouses within their lifetime, they immediately started disregarding the seriousness of them
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I think people mostly just don't like the phrase "all art I political" because they think of politics in a very specific electoral way and not as a broad label for the conditions that shape our perspective, which funnily enough is very political
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I think people mostly just don't like the phrase "all art I political" because they think of politics in a very specific electoral way and not as a broad label for the conditions that shape our perspective, which funnily enough is very political
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Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare.
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare.
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How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.
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degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall
I've encountered a few people arguing that tariffs are good, actually, because they will force us to consume less and while I think our consumer culture is problematic in many ways, I don't think things such as 'food' and 'medical supplies' fall under the category of unnecessary purchases.
April 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall