SuddenDownpour

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SuddenDownpour,

As much as we can accuse ethicists of living in the Moon, if there’s one thing worse than being an ethicist is not considering ethics at all. If you haven’t put at least a basic effort into rationally justifying your ethics, you end up choosing right or wrong based on vibes, including but not limited to positions such as “well life begins at conception so abortion is murder and always wrong”, “this moral flaw may have been minor but that person is CREEPY and that confirms my suspicion that they’re a MONSTER” and “noooo you cannot have a gender identity/sexual orientation that I don’t understand, you must be a deviant and a pervert”

SuddenDownpour,

Plenty of countries would have been capable of forcing themselves into the situation, if only they weren’t legitimately afraid of Israel retaliating and the US backing them in their retaliation.

SuddenDownpour,

Reading this was constant pain.

SuddenDownpour,

I’m fairly certain you especifically are not contributing to the problem, if it makes you relive bad memories, so don’t feel bad for not finishing it.

SuddenDownpour,

More Jews live outside Israel than in Israel. Being against the Israeli government doesn’t make you an antisemite.

SuddenDownpour,

Murdering tens of thousands of natives in North America to build plantations to make money to build factories in England.

I think this is the kind of violence history books often frame as the “unfortunate side of progress”, so I guess it’s okay ¯_(ツ)_/¯

SuddenDownpour,

EU4

SuddenDownpour,

I’m pretty sure the comment was a jab at Texas.

SuddenDownpour,

The father is blind and his daughter doesn’t yet know how to tell him that she’s been on HRT for 2 years now.

SuddenDownpour,

Learn to block communities or GTFO

SuddenDownpour,

Should be irrelevant even more often.

SuddenDownpour,

Small nitpick, but you shouldn’t mix “usted” (“se ha desmayado”) with informal “tú” (“te estamos deteniendo”). Also a cop isn’t going to be so polite to a drug trafficker. Not one they’re detaining at least.

SuddenDownpour,

Local family sees first surplus in the bank account in months after they get evicted and begin sleeping in the streets

SuddenDownpour,

Only three genders? They need to get with the times.

Israel says it will launch Rafah assault if hostages not freed by Ramadan (www.theguardian.com)

A member of Israel’s war cabinet has said the country will launch its threatened ground offensive against Rafah, the last place of relative safety in Gaza, if Hamas does not release its remaining Israeli hostages by the beginning of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in just under three weeks....

SuddenDownpour,

I’ll just note that Israel is using the million and a half innocent Gazans currently in Rafah as a bargaining point.

SuddenDownpour,
  1. Agree
  2. Agree sarcastically
  3. Agree with a coarse tone
  4. Disagree, but still go along with it because the storyline requires it
SuddenDownpour,

QUICK, delete this before an executive with brainrot decides to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a motorized supermarket.

SuddenDownpour,

“Let’s agree to disagree”

“Fuck you”

SuddenDownpour,

Triple win, even

SuddenDownpour,

You fool! You poor ignoramus! Why did you think witches always have a cat!?

SuddenDownpour,

NO! So that proper seasoning is always available!

SuddenDownpour,

I wish the left was more about doing that and less about social media drama.

SuddenDownpour,

Characters with big breasts must be inherently sexist, or else we can’t explain why characters who used to have big breasts now need to have them toned down.

However, it’s perfectly okay if the supposedly feminist prequel you’re going to release has references to the female player character being about to be sexually abused if you lose, because nothing speaks about female empowerment like threatening the player with turning their character into a SA victim if they don’t play well enough.

SuddenDownpour,

I’ve had enough of “Never meet your idols”. It’s time to tell the even more important guideline of “Never meet your fans”.

SuddenDownpour,

I’m no longer sure I should have gotten up today.

SuddenDownpour,

An 18+ emoji would make more sense tbh

SuddenDownpour,

How could you say something so controversial yet so true?

SuddenDownpour,

Milei, the “anarcho-capitalist” president of Argentina, is now trying to outlaw abortion. This guy is pretty much against certain civil liberties.

SuddenDownpour,

Anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina on his way to outlaw abortion

SuddenDownpour,

Not really. If the average “date a man” experience sucks, a lot of heterosexual women aren’t going to actively seek a guy to date, which makes dating not easy.

SuddenDownpour,

The moment you say a word is a slur because it refers to the characteristic of having low intelligence (of some sort), someone is going to push for all of its synonyms to be considered slurs as well. It’s just stupid.

SuddenDownpour,

BRB, on my way to withdraw all funding for an UN agency with 30.000 employees because 12 of them have been denounced by Israel.

SuddenDownpour,

Put it in safe low-interest investments and you’ll likely still be making far more than $50/month

SuddenDownpour,

There are some sites so extremely annoying that I just get a mirror from archive.org or archive.is. I’m doing this with some news sites that will only allow me to browse them if I accept their cookies.

SuddenDownpour,

Should the government spend millions of your tax dollars to ensure every single home has uninterrupted supply of clean dihydrogen monoxide?

SuddenDownpour,

I’m adopting kitties ❤️

SuddenDownpour,

I mean, the fact that Pikachu, clearly not wanting to have Ash for trainer during the first episode, and yet still being expected to obey and tag along, is still very iffy, coming directly from the view that pets are property and must do as we say because we own them, rather than pets requiring human caretakers because we live in a world that doesn’t leave much room for them to live independently.

SuddenDownpour,

Generally agreed there. It takes a lot of commitment from a company to keep a franchise’s lore consistent through decades, and it’s rare for them to decide it’s worth it.

SuddenDownpour,

I understand the Pokemon fanboys who lash out against Game Freak after years and years of dissapointments. I understand the Pokemon fanboys with tempered attitudes who enjoy the new products when they get a little bit better and sigh when they don’t meet expectations. And I understand the Pokemon fanboys who will always continue playing Pokemon games, even when they have SwSh levels of quality, because fuck, it’s Pokemon.

The ones I absolutely do not understand are those who seem to think TPC needs them to go out and just straight out fabricate lies about a game that apparently competes against the franchise they like. If they like a monster-taming franchise, shouldn’t they be glad the genre is getting more popular, even through different avenues? What’s the point in lying for the sake of a corporation that doesn’t care about you?

What’s even worse, is that after taking a look at the new, incipient Palworld communities there’s also a loud minority that turns their apparent enjoyment of the game into disproportionate vitriol to spout against Pokemon. It’s a shame, because both Pokemon and Palworld benefit from having large communities to discuss them with, but I’m absolutely not in the mood to sort between people worth listening to and emotionally dysregulated children.

SuddenDownpour,

When we mentioned the desire to automate this, so we could automatically deploy eg nightly builds, MS sounded like that was an interesting idea they hadn’t heard of before. WTF.

When you receive a request for a feature that you know would be good, but for whatever reason you can’t implement it (perhaps there are other things you need to pay more attention to, or perhaps there’s an idiot manager establishing dumb priorities), giving the response you received is one of the least anger-inducing ones. It’s likely they’ve been repeatedly asked to make the process less painful, but whoever is in charge of managing devs doesn’t care.

SuddenDownpour,

Pokemon Arceus had a little innovation. The thing is: a little innovation after decades of doing the same thing is like a textbook example of “too little, too late”.

SuddenDownpour,

They don’t even have a legal case to go against Palworld anyway, unless the conspiracy-brains at Twitter are somehow correct about the devs ripping Pokemon models.

SuddenDownpour,

Palworld developer Pocketpair has insisted Palworld is more akin to survival crafting games such as Ark Survival Evolved and Valheim than Pokemon, but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to hit out at the game.

And even if Palworld was a monster-taming-battling game, so what? There’s Digimon, Temtem, Monster Hunter Stories, Medabots, and so on and so on, and many have existed for decades. No company can own the IP to a genre. Ultimately, the people claiming that Nintendo/Game Freak will do this or that are a tiny minority, but journalists and youtubers thirsty for clicks are giving them a megaphone.

SuddenDownpour,

People comparing Piplup and the penguin pal and I’m like: they’re PENGUINS. They’re small PENGUINS, how the hell do you want them to not to look like each other!?

SuddenDownpour,

The problem is determining what from that period constitutes “Ukrainian” or “Russian”. The old “Rus peoples” were a lot of relatively different yet also similar groups, that homogenize and heterogenize across time depending on different political and social conditions, which at a certain point in time during the modern age some intellectuals try to categorize and end up reaching some sort of consensus with “Russian”, “Byelorussian” and “Ukrainian”.

In the end, forgetting this kind of nuance invites people who are a little shaky on the head to come up with pan-nationalist narratives that justify some sort of anachronistic imperialism. It’s already bad enough that Putin’s Z-morons are trying to appropriate Ukrainian identity as a breakaway of their own to justify ethnic cleansing, let’s not have some Ukrainians that try and do the same but in reverse.

SuddenDownpour,

Guys, I thought I had finally managed to uninstall it, but then THIS appeared on my screen? I can’t make it go away??? Please help.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f94fa48a-3c6c-4333-ad68-8f2fd96603f6.png

SuddenDownpour,

As a landlord, you can hire someone to handle reparations, disputes, enforcement of contracts and rent collection. Therefore, being a landlord is really not actual work. It’s like the difference between being the owner of a company and its CEO: it sometimes goes hand in hand in smaller companies, but the owner isn’t pocketing the company’s profit because they do management work, they get the profit because they’re the owner.

Because for housing to exist there is an inherent risk that somebody has to carry to guarantee the mortgage is paid for and that it will not go up in flames.

So just build public housing, which can actually be priced attending to the real cost of building it and maintaining it rather than market speculation.

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