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Looks like TRU isn't going to part severance.
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Halloween Jack posted:We should have done this decades ago. Then there wouldn't be any extreme poverty, because there wouldn't be any poor people, because there wouldn't be any people. It's perfect. the idea that nuclear war would be the end of humanity is fake news pushed by russian propaganda robots for literally decades. more likely, a few population centers would be targeted by remaining submarines but overall it would be a sustainable blow, and arguably the citizens of cities like DC and wall street are a net drain on the country anyways. free from their manipulations, the new nation (ruled by the largely untouched technocrats in the west) would flourish
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Mar 23, 2018 20:20
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I didn't know techno-Posadism existed. This is such a cool day.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:24
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Caganer posted:the idea that nuclear war would be the end of humanity is fake news pushed by russian propaganda robots for literally decades. more likely, a few population centers would be targeted by remaining submarines but overall it would be a sustainable blow, and arguably the citizens of cities like DC and wall street are a net drain on the country anyways. free from their manipulations, the new nation (ruled by the largely untouched technocrats in the west) would flourish Yeah man silicon valley running things wouldn't wuicly devolve into literally what we have now but on the other coast
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Mar 23, 2018 20:28
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Yeah man silicon valley running things wouldn't wuicly devolve into literally what we have now but on the other coast democratic socialism didn't bloom in europe until post wwii. people don't do good things on their own, you need to remind them every hundred years how bad it can get to get them to be good to each other. otherwise the hedonic treadmill makes them get as aggreived about not getting into a tier i school or whatever as ppl in the past got about having to eat their dogs when the currency was worthless
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Mar 23, 2018 20:29
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Caganer posted:democratic socialism didn't bloom in europe until post wwii. What does that have to do with you basically espousing Justine Tunney "Google should run America" nonsense
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Mar 23, 2018 20:32
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:What does that have to do with you basically espousing Justine Tunney "Google should run America" nonsense i was thinking more like mozilla actually. or the tor guys.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:34
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A PirateBay Utopia.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:37
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DC and New York are both cool, fun, diverse cities whose general populations certainly aren't a drain on society by any metric. I don't see how wiping out all of them to get at a few assholes could be read as a good thing.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:39
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I honestly didn't even know they still made physical copies of PC games. Even console games are moving towards massive downloads and internal HD's right?
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Mar 23, 2018 20:44
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AFAIK, Blizzard still makes fancy physical box copies for all their games but they're kinda the exception. And even they have a pretty robust digital distribution service that they've been pushing pretty hard lately so who knows how long that will last for.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:50
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Pretty sure Blizzard, and the other publiahers like them, will keep it up at least just for their collector's editions because those come with figures and other things. But the rest of it will continue to be online only.
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Mar 23, 2018 21:05
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Baronjutter posted:I honestly didn't even know they still made physical copies of PC games. Even console games are moving towards massive downloads and internal HD's right? No. Outside of indies, they're letting the market take them there naturally. Microsoft tried to force the issue in 2013 and it went rather badly for them.
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Mar 23, 2018 21:41
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Baronjutter posted:I honestly didn't even know they still made physical copies of PC games. Even console games are moving towards massive downloads and internal HD's right? On consoles, it's an option. Physical discs are still available for most games, although at this point they're DRM/ for bad or capped internet, since the discs install the full game to the hard drive.
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Mar 23, 2018 22:04
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skooma512 posted:Best Buys PC games section is literally mostly game codes now that I think of it The spot for gift cards and codes for varying online games and vendors has several times more space dedicated to it.
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Mar 23, 2018 22:07
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The great thing about discs is you can rent them from the library for free
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Mar 23, 2018 22:23
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Caganer posted:i was thinking more like mozilla actually. or the tor guys. That didn't answer my question which is why do you think a technocracy is inherently a good thing
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Mar 23, 2018 22:28
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mastershakeman posted:The great thing about discs is you can rent them from the library for free That's called borrowing you idiot
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Mar 23, 2018 22:29
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Star Man posted:That's called borrowing you idiot see how locked in I am to the consumer mindset!!
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Mar 23, 2018 23:20
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:That didn't answer my question which is why do you think a technocracy is inherently a good thing i don't? i'm for democratic socialism, i think most of the obstructions would die if dc was nuked
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Mar 23, 2018 23:49
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Caganer posted:i don't? i'm for democratic socialism, i think most of the obstructions would die if dc was nuked Ok why do you think that garbage tech culture center of the world would be the place that causes that to happen then
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Mar 23, 2018 23:55
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Ok why do you think that garbage tech culture center of the world would be the place that causes that to happen then ?_? i think you're reading more into it than i meant. i just meant the west coast wouldn't be nuked, and government would probably be run from there in the future. there's more to west of the rockies than silicon valley
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Mar 23, 2018 23:58
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quote:free from their manipulations, the new nation (ruled by the largely untouched technocrats in the west) would flourish This is what you said, and I'm disagreeing with the notion that a nation ruled by technocrats in the late 20teens would flourish or really be anything but a hellscape You can try and say oh well I actually meant but this is what you said, don't tell me you didn't say these words
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Mar 24, 2018 00:09
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There's basically no technocrats in Silicon Valley. Nearly all of them would poo poo themselves if all human beings received a strictly equal share of all the wealth and production of their world or even their continent. And they sure as poo poo don't support 4 day/16 hour total workweeks, they seem to get pretty mad when their staff is only working 16 hours a day.
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Mar 24, 2018 00:13
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fishmech posted:There's basically no technocrats in Silicon Valley. Nearly all of them would poo poo themselves if all human beings received a strictly equal share of all the wealth and production of their world or even their continent. And they sure as poo poo don't support 4 day/16 hour total workweeks, they seem to get pretty mad when their staff is only working 16 hours a day. Almost like a country ruled by them would suck rear end
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Mar 24, 2018 00:14
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:This is what you said, and I'm disagreeing with the notion that a nation ruled by technocrats in the late 20teens would flourish or really be anything but a hellscape ok, and now i've clarified what i meant. you can continue reading only those words, or take in new information and modify your world view like a big boy
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Mar 24, 2018 00:16
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Caganer posted:ok, and now i've clarified what i meant. you can continue reading only those words, or take in new information and modify your world view like a big boy Maybe just say what you mean next time instead of backtracking and saying actually I meant something entirely different if you don't want people to hold your feet to the fire on your words
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Mar 24, 2018 00:22
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Maybe just say what you mean next time instead of backtracking and saying actually I meant something entirely different if you don't want people to hold your feet to the fire on your words For the second time: I did a poor job conveying. The magic of human language is we can clarify. Stop acting autistic.
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Mar 24, 2018 02:14
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Caganer posted:For the second time: I did a poor job conveying. The magic of human language is we can clarify. Stop acting autistic. i'm actually autistic, also nice ableism
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Mar 24, 2018 02:46
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Caganer posted:For the second time: I did a poor job conveying. The magic of human language is we can clarify. Stop acting autistic. Is your claim that the west coast is unlikely to get nuked also not what u meant to say? I hope so cuz that is a very obviously false claim. The west coast has huge population centers, naval bases, command and control, nuclear enrichement, etc. All prime targets. But I'm sure you meant something completely different.
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Mar 24, 2018 02:50
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For what it's worth, the West Coast's population is also significantly more compacted into a few moderate sized metro areas with a lot of empty space between - it's much easier to wipe out with a much smaller amount of bombs.
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Mar 24, 2018 02:57
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Almost like a country ruled by them would suck rear end Leadership = sociopathy + luck. All other factors are inert.
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Mar 24, 2018 03:21
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Caganer posted:This is why we should launch a total and overwhelming strike on Russia, China, Pakistan, and Pakistan. God, Pakistan!
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Mar 24, 2018 03:58
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JustJeff88 posted:Leadership = sociopathy + luck. All other factors are inert. "if you examine the economics literature you'll find it's society's fault for not incetivizing me not to kill millions of people" - corncob
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Mar 24, 2018 04:02
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Caganer posted:the idea that nuclear war would be the end of humanity is fake news pushed by russian propaganda robots for literally decades. more likely, a few population centers would be targeted by remaining submarines but overall it would be a sustainable blow, and arguably the citizens of cities like DC and wall street are a net drain on the country anyways. free from their manipulations, the new nation (ruled by the largely untouched technocrats in the west) would flourish Yeah I know the West Coast really enjoys thinking of itself as some sort of sole progressive forward thinking Mecca of the US for some reason. But if you glass the Northeast megalopolis I hope you enjoy your 1000 years of Republican electoral darkness.
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Mar 24, 2018 06:15
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Grape posted:Yeah I know the West Coast really enjoys thinking of itself as some sort of sole progressive forward thinking Mecca of the US for some reason. But if you glass the Northeast megalopolis I hope you enjoy your 1000 years of Republican electoral darkness. I suspect nuking DC might change the electoral system slightly
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Mar 24, 2018 06:31
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Vote for John Henry Eden!
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Mar 24, 2018 06:37
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Who exactly lives in this massive urban area, like demographically speaking? All these brownstones, apartment blocks, satellite cities, and so on? Stock brokers I guess.
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Mar 24, 2018 07:06
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I bought both the cataclysm and Pandariav expansions as digital downloads, what, two, three years ago?
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Mar 24, 2018 07:50
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anonumos posted:I bought both the cataclysm and Pandariav expansions as digital downloads, what, two, three years ago? Pandaria was new about six years ago, Cata was eight or so
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