beebarfbadger

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Indeed, they could simply choose to bunker their wealth in a tax oasis and just keep taking and taking without ever giving anything back. And according to studies they do exactly that.

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Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes, the precipitations that they do decide to shower those beneath them with are then obviously worth their weight in gold. A golden shower, if you will.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Where’s all that left wing rhetoric inciting violence?

I think we can all agree that not enthusiastically agreeing with every stupid thing Trump says is exactly the same as calling for violence. In fact, not rolling over and letting Trump have whatever he wants is the greatest sin and makes the (insert bad descriptor) Left the REAL fascists!

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren't currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

CyberTruck comes with a lifetime warranty.

Warranty lasts as long as cybertruck is working. After that - your problem.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The joke is basically: "How can you claim to be hungry when there's a perfectly nice hot dog lying on the pavement right in front of you?"

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nine out of ten people with enough money and power to steer the system to massively favour them think that things are perfectly fine as they are. Now carry on, peon.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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Aw, you made a typo. That's two more days of memes.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's a cute sentiment. I applaud your enthusiasm and confidence. However, you're not the first one to try to engage people who've gone full nazi on a discourse-level. At the stage where they can be encountered in a legal environment by discussing their worldview with them, appeasement and discussion have historically not been effective means to dissuade nazis themselves, even though attempts were not lacking.

The reason for that is that, in order to logic someone out of their worldview, they must have adopted that worldview due to logic. However, being a nazi is not the result of weighing the scientific pros and cons and then deciding, that yes, the particular race you were born as is objectively speaking indeed superior to all others and thus your race is perfectly legitimised to send other races to their deaths because the nazis happen to have the right hair and eye colour and their victims don't; no, that opinion is exactly that: an opinion that is used to justify atrocities commited by people who just really want to commit atrocities and will use any fig leaf of an excuse to actually do that with impunity. Their goal is traditionally not convincing anybody, but rather biding their time and growing their influence until they no longer need to talk to reach their goals.

Historically speaking, the gist of attempts at discussion has been running along the following lines:


"I believe nazis should have the right to murder whomever they please because we are better than everyone else."

"I disagree, you should NOT have the right to unilaterally murder people at a whim because you're not, in fact, better than everybody else."

"Yes we are."

"No, you aren't."

"Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. Let's continue this discussion at a point in time where we've amassed enough support and power that we could -hypothetically- round up any and all dissenters and murder them wholesale, if -again, purely hypothetically- we chose to do so."


Allowing this cancer to fester until it's good and ready to seize power violently or at least without further resistence - as is the very goal of the ideology - just means giving them more time. If they confess to being nazis, their playbook will most likely not suddenly switch to wholesome and legal aspirations. The nazi endgame is well defined and well-known. The nazi ideology is firmly defined in terms of content, it has no leg to stand on from a scientific point of view and at this point in time, believing that it is in any way, shape or form "correct" or in need of discussing its merits, is simply inexcusable.

Allowing such well-known notorious destructive groups to plot unhindered would be just as irresponsible as throwing guns at people who are obviously not responsible enough to be trusted with them and then just sitting back to see what happens. And then, when it happens, repeatedly, being surprised, every single time. Nobody would do that, right?

Right?

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If lying, restructuring my entire identity by throwing all my values overboard, or undermining the foundations of democracy in order to gain more power is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You may be surprised to hear that the situation is a bit more nuanced than that because freedom of speech is not, in fact, an unlimited freedom. Wherever different rights and freedoms overlap and endanger each other, every society must weigh them against each other and sometimes give preference to one freedom by limiting another. That means that certain ways of using free speech are not protected. One layman's example that one keeps hearing would be shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Certain calls for violence can be criminally prosecuted because they would endanger other people's right to live, for example.

The reason behind these limitations to freedom of speech is the so-called "paradox of tolerance". In essence, it says that a democratic society that tolerates even attempts to overthrow its core tenets will be upended by destructive ideologies unless active steps are taken to prevent that. While the absolutely tolerant society is basically a buffet to slaughter and usurp for authoritarian ideologies, a democratic society that wants to survive needs to be a defensive democracy that limits attacks on its core values. And there's an excellent case to be made that the nazi ideology is in its very core not compatible with a democratic society, so much so that in multiple countries like for example germany, it is illegal to shout "heil hitler" or use one's freedom of expression to further the nazi ideology. And they are speaking from experience.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

everyone should have the right of their opinion an no one should be silenced or eliminated

You are contradicting yourself. Tolerating nazis literally means allowing a group that sports the core dictum that they are justified in silencing and eliminating whomever they deem fair game. The topic has been discussed and the result is settled since 1945. We had a whole war about it. The group of people who think they should get to kill everybody they say is inferior to them does not get to participate.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Honestly, how else could it be explained that she is up-to-date and ready to coherently speak on current topics, such as may be asked during a presidential debate? STUDYING? PREPARING, you say? What lunacy is this? Real presidential candidates spend their days golfing and rage-tweeting from the toilet!

 
 

That's like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying "so I have good news and bad news..."..

 

Say what you will about the pacing and stuff, but this show FINALLY gave me a complete force muggle who had no mystical legendary bloodline of famous force space wizards behind her, no cloned mega-space-emperor midichlorian legacy shenanigans that made her the super-special chosen one and she STILL got to use the force through sheer grit and training and determination! Sabine Wren is what the broom kid could have been.

No, you don't have to be the spawn of the force-elite with a meticulous pedigree and breeding to get all forcey, you can do it all on your own! Go get that coffee mug, you can do it!

 

Seems like it should and the result should be one. Does mathematics agree with me on that?

 

I just played a session and noticed that saving didn't work properly anymore - I would enter a save name and hit save, but afterwards, the save would not appear in the list. When I tried to reload the last appearing save in the list, the game told me it detected save corruption and could not load it. After the initial wailing and gnashing of teeth, I noticed that the last save in the list, the corrupted one was right after some milestone. I reloaded the last working save, played up to the part where that corrupted save would have been and noticed that it was right after some cutscene where the game would have been autosaving WHILE I initiated the quicksave. It seems that you can royally screw yourself if you cause overlapping save procedures, so for the foreseeable future, I will make sure that the only one initiating saves is me, no more autosaves here.

tl;dr: If you save while an autosave is being made, your save will risk being corrupted. Generally don't overlap saves in progress.

 

While there is no at-will cantrip that directly heals, the unlockable illithid power Transfuse Health lets one heal another character at the cost of half one's current hp. Now you'll be thinking, "that's not infinite", and you'd be mostly right - except warlocks can create 7 temp hp at will with the eldritch invocation Fiendish Vigor. The neat thing about transfuse health is that it does not transfer the healing character's hp to the healed one - no, it subtracts the amount of half the character's current hp and then heals the other character for that, BUT, it starts subtracting from temporary hp! This means that as long as you have 15 hp and 7 points of fiendish vigourous temp hp up, the seven hp that make up half your current actual hp will be subtracted from your temp hp and not touch your real hp, leaving you with 15 perfectly fine and untouched hp. Reapply fiendish vigour and repeat as often as necessary.

It may not be the fastest way of healing, but it is repeatable ad infinitum on other group members and only leaves the healer at 15 hp + 7 temp hp.

 

When will the patches be stable enough that one would -with a reasonable degree of certainty- no longer expect save corruption anymore in the process? Because I will not, can not, do the first couple hours yet again at this point. I may roll another character when things have settled down and any further twiddling will be mostly cosmetic, but right now, no. BG3 is on hold for me now.

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