MasterBlaster

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The characters have directly called this out in the show and I want to give the writers a little credit that they're using the tropes as a launching pad for something more interesting. Vince is an incredible writer but does have a track record for Americanisms in his work. Personally I don't think we've seen enough of the plot yet to know what the writers intend to say with the concept.

wanky pontification incoming but while I definitely agree with the spirit of this statement whenever I see it I think that we don't really 'deserve' to be alive by the letter of the word. I think more spiritually minded people than me can easily make an argument that we do fit the strict definition of 'deserving' to live but from a material perspective I don't see how humans inherently deserve to spawn into this random chaos world. It's just a random chance thing that happened and continues to happen.

but my brain has wrinkles so my take doesn't just end there. My material stand-in for the more spiritual idea that human beings deserve life is that any human born is owed humane treatment and actualization by the humans that came before, because the human born never asked to live but the actions of the humans before them brought them into existence. therefore, every parent owes their child a dignified, healthy and happy life. stepping back further, every generation owes the next a dignified, healthy and happy life. every society owes the next blah blah you get it.

basically I've always seen the right to life as something owed to you by others, a mounting debt humanity must continue to repay, not necessarily something that is based within our character or inherent essence. you don't deserve to be alive but you don't earn that right yourself, either. it's collectively owed to you and in stable societies you get your pay out.

Honestly I thought the suffering in the world radicalized me, or the sheer inefficiency of the distribution of resources, or the enforcement of in-groups inherent to capitalist imperialism. But nah, brother, it's just the landlords. Just thinking about them too hard pissed me off one day.

You present the worst ideas possible but attach them to Approved Brand and a leading blurb and people will immediately regard your racism science with sincerity. Really demonstrates how these monstrously bad ideas got wind in the first place.

Absolutely, I just know lots of people are acclimated to cloud services and don't see building their own library as worthwhile vs just getting it online. You can totally have best of both worlds.

Google was perfect in 2006, nothing had to change.

US moves to primarily exporting slop, as is tradition.

It honestly takes very minimal effort to maintain a digital library for yourself. Swipe up an old office computer from a business auction for less than $50, install linux and start running that as a server from home. Store your media and books on it, set up remote access so you can stream it to yourself from any device. You can functionally replace streaming services for your media needs this way. It has the added benefit of being slightly more material than any cloud services you could access.

If you're new to this stuff, you can also should pick up a <$100 laptop and slap a user-friendly linux distro on it, and try daily driving linux as well as maintaining your server. Even the oldest, crustiest laptop runs Linux fine. You'll pick up so many great tech skills doing this and you can still keep a windows daily driver for work or whatever.

One of my first well received pieces was on Zomboid. Incredible piece of art

This made me weepy this morning :(

The puppy won't get any easier, it'll only get harder. It will get a lot harder before it gets any better. Honestly puppy training sucks. Are you a big dog person? Do you need to raise this dog? Why not home another older/well trained dog? Senior dogs are in dire need of homes everywhere.

That being said you will rise to a challenge if you set it for yourself. I know you probably don't resonate with that reasoning right now, but if you try to internalize it you'll find yourself fighting regardless of how bleak it all seems.