misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

the other day i got into one of those arguments with someone who "supports trans people" and says "obviously people who misgender you on purpose are assholes", but also "they should be allowed to be assholes because it's their opinion"

this was in the fantasy strike discord, and i've seen some Bad Shit come out of the fighting game community and competitive gaming in general. so when a developer of the game, who famously also wrote a whole book called Playing to Win that opens with a formal definition of a "scrub", started typing i was kinda worried

his exact words: "I'm reeling at the thought that trans people facing discrimination, bigotry and so forth is 'not a big deal'"

eat shit bigots fantasy strike says trans rights

Give a person software, and infuriate them for a day.
Teach a person to create their own software, and infuriate them for the rest of their life.

(Sung to the tune of your favorite bar song)

🎼 Oh you'll all love the story of Splatty,
The horn-mage who thought she could fly,
she studied all her spells a plenty
then lobbed herself into the sky!

But once she was there she grew frightened,
as she watched all the ground whizzing by...

well you know we all call the foal Splatty...

And now you can say you know why!

Feet.
The stuff leg ends are made of.

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"Explain Shell" - exactly what it says on the tin. :D :D

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@PentagramPip I'd go even deeper - the core concept of "people who perform better deserve more stuff" is unjust. There is no reason not to guarantee fulfillment and comfort to everyone when we have such abundance, and there is no one in the world going through their life like "gee I can't wait to underperform today, I love not contributing to things" - no hypothetical person *deserving* of punishment for the things they don't do

Laziness doesn't exist. People don't have control over their abilities. And even if they did, depriving people of their basic rights when they don't contribute as much still wouldn't be just

"Lemme see what you have!"

[Microsoft Sam Voice] (baby running past) "ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION IN CHROME EXTENSIONS"

"NO!"

50 years ago Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing

Being Kubrick he insisted on shooting it on location

Every DnD class has the Catch Arrow feat.

Monks just know how to do it gracefully.

so, USDA headquarters is moving to Kansas City (they're not sure which Kansas City yet, just one of them) and firing 2/3 of their researchers along the way. I think this is a good idea and genuinely necessary; the loss of research careers is an unfortunate but unavoidable cost because that happens whenever an HQ moves.

Washington DC is a terrible spot for the center of agricultural policy in the United States. It is not geographically or culturally near where agriculture mostly happens in the United States, and it has completely unrelated weather patterns.

I want the USDA right in the fucking middle of climate change. I want them right where crops are being ruined by year after year of extreme weather - droughts followed by mass flooding, mostly down the Mississippi river. Well, this gives the USDA a front row seat to the chronic flooding of the Mississippi River to levels thought of as something that would happen "once every 500 years", three times in the last decade. This gives the USDA a front row seat to droughts destroying the wheat crop. This gives the USDA a front row seat to seasons of rain that turn fields into swamps and make planting impossible. These are things they should have a front row seat to.

This puts the USDA somewhere geographically closer to the majority of agricultural work in the United States. It puts them closer to the best agricultural colleges and universities in the United States - real STEM degrees that are just too blue collar to take seriously on the coasts.

Mostly I'm pissed off at seeing an attempt to put some part of the Federal government in the region I grew up in taken to be unavoidably part of an evil plot to destroy science. No, that's not plausible; it is going to create science careers in an impoverished part of the nation where no such careers can easily be had, but there's an awful lot of on-the-ground experience and people trained for those careers. The "Brain drain" people are afraid of from losing people already working at USDA headquarters? That's already happened, much worse than could ever happen by moving the USDA, by keeping agricultural policy away from agricultural parts of the nation. It ensures that people who know what they're doing can't create a voting bloc or strong opinion in the Midwest, taking a bunch of trained scientists out of swing states.

Let "flyover country" have its say in part of the government. Putting the USDA in Washington D.C. is a historical accident; there's never a "good time" to move it but the move seems clearly warranted to me. Make the USDA live in the middle of where their policies land and their policies will improve because they get to see the results of their policies through some lens other than media and lobbyists.

Moving the USDA out of D.C. weakens the power of agricultural lobbying because it moves the USDA closer to real agriculture and farther away from Lobbyist Central. D.C. is not a real place, it's a drug-fueled collective hallucination created primarily by lobbyists, and decentralizing our bizarrely concentrated Federal government can only help.

🚫 convergent evolution in sci fi means everyone is a funny-looking humanoid

✅ convergent evolution in sci-fi means every sufficiently-complex society eventually achieves communism through public libraries consolidating all social services

If you boil a funny bone, you make a laughing stock