the nerds who built this stuff used unencrypted telnet sessions they had no idea what was coming lol

synthesis:

Worst part is I go on there find what I’m looking for and then this shit loads and hijacks the page with a dozen popups. Why are you slapping the product out of my hands at the checkout, I’m trying to give you money! Have they not heard never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake?

we bringing back I’m curious posting? cause I got one in the chamber

real heads just farm until they collapse and pay the fine as a cost of doing business

iirc I used to basically bypass it by just casting a custom spell that dramatically increased whatever the likeability trait was called for 1 second and then quickly initiate the conversation. The spell duration didn’t matter because no time passes while in the dialogue and it kept the mana cost way down.

I have not

it’s pretty alienating if you are forced to play at gun point with no clear reason how it serves a revolutionary society

You would choose your home from those available to you. What is available to you would be decided by a system attempting to balance the diverse range of requirements and preferences of the society that you are in.

You may notice that this generic answer describes both a hypothetical state-owned housing system and the private housing market that you are probably all ready in. The only difference is how and for whom that system works. In the hypothetical socialist society the allocation might be decided by a bureaucrat or it might be voted on or maybe some other way, who can say it is a hypothetical society after all.

The home you are in now though you chose based on your preferences but also what you could afford. Who decided what housing to build and how it should be priced? Who decided how much you should be paid? Who and importantly for whom decided what the laws regarding housing would be? You chose your home but you did not choose the conditions in which you chose it. These are the means by which a capitalist chose your home for you.

I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.

It would have been written by a heavily exploited ghost writer so it’s not surprising they’d throw some swipes in at the publisher when they can get away with it. There is an entertaining section of this video where the host both commissions a ghost written book and then later himself writes a self-help slop book under similar conditions to how this tie-in book would have been produced.

Synthesis: Coal Mining Simulator

is that not what leftypol is? idk I can’t stand the format

Do you have an epub version?

Also can you upload somewhere besides google docs which tracks anyone who clicks on the link (and is able to link to a real identity more effectively than any other host).

relevant xkcd

The History season 2 premiere? yeah I remember it.

all life forms eventually evolve into crabs and all self-training AI’s eventually converge on to implementing quantum bogosort

millennials are killing the food industry

Is this not just a selection bias where you are familiar with the accessible Chinese state media but unfamiliar with less accessible forms of Chinese private media?

I’m not sure even the greater market share ratio of public to private media in China is attributable to accessibility rather than simply the public media having been in the game longer.