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Stumbled onto this shitty game trailer on youtube and instantly clocked it as ai art

Cant really put to words why exactly they're so instantly recognisable

Something about the wierd sharp lines and doll like faces

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Obviously it is not theory but as a piece of dystopian fiction what do y'all think of it. Is it as overtly propagandist as Orwell's works?

Edit: I'd also love to hear opinions on Grapes of Wrath which I did not read in 8th grade. Really I'd love to hear about Steinback in general, my great grandfather knew him in highschool (or so my grandmother claims)

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spoilerJk you all get an owl pellet

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Obviously, police and military monopoly of power is last resort.

What do, though?

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Genuine question. I was listening to shit about Facebook and made me think how much damage Harvard has done to the world just from that alone.

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I'm editing a story right now, and they use this construction with no speaking verbs a lot:

Rachel was finishing washing the dinner plates, “I know this will be hard on them, but Shelby needs to go on home."

I know you could replace that comma with a period, but I wonder if it's common to use a comma or semicolon to avoid slowing the reader too much?

This next one makes more sense to me because laughing could conceivably be a speaking verb:

Maddie's laugh was laced with sarcasm, “Mark, looks like you’ve got a friend.”

That one could even be a colon...

Am I overthinking this? Should I just replace them all with periods?

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I mean the dismantling of bourgeois democratic institutions and other such things. Fascism, basically

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...that do not require friends nor involve cabbages.

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I keep yelling at them to reverse it but they keep refusing too! Why does the evil Kabal of stock boys making $15/hr keep doing this to me???

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idk wtf I did but I woke up 2 days ago with this pain in my shoulder right inside where the shoulder itself meets my chest and man it hurts. It's so bad in the morning I can't lift my arm over my head. But as the day goes on (and taking some nsaids) it lessens a bit.

What did I do to myself?

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Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

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richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there's a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.

I'm sure there's some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something

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IG there's nothing wrong with matrix.org, just wondering how it works. I've run synapse before so I get not wanting lots of users on there.

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I'm planing on backpacking across Europe next year and I hate being the dipshit who only speaks one langue. I already have a small amount of german and spanish so those are the only two I'm interested in. I get the impression that outside of Spain spanish isn't spoken much but I do plan on traveling south america at some point too so spanish is going to be needed eventually.

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Finding myself out of my depth after accidentally stumbling into a leadership position like
lea-sweat

Trying to avoid any grifter nonsense, but I could definitely use some resources for how to deal with people so I'm not starting from scratch and only learning from my own mistakes. Thanks!

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Libs love bad faith arguments about housing. Even if they agree that more housing needs to be built - they never want to talk about how that could even begin to happen.

I had some annoying convos at Bluesky about housing. Sometimes I wonder why I ever talk to any lib online. Anyway - I guess I'll keep trying.

Do you have any articles or web pages...

  • About the pernicious influence of institutional buyers in the housing market. Related to this is lib tedium like "it is a myth that institutional buyers control a large part of the market."

  • That help me avoid any tedious, bad faith, lecture that "it is a myth that there are more vacant homes than homeless people". I want something I can link to so I can say - Look, I don't expect the number of vacant homes in the US to be zero but look at this.

  • And I want another this link to avoid lectures that "it is a myth that a meaningful number of homes are kept 'off the market' to raise prices".

  • [Whatever else I'm forgetting. Surely there are at least two more list items.]

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NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie is a social media lib darling. The following post is a thing of beauty that I discovered an hour ago. He managed to squeeze in a lot of these annoyances into a single post.

Anyway, it is a myth that there are more vacant homes than homeless people. It is a myth that institutional buyers control a large part of the market. And it is a myth that a meaningful number of homes are kept “off the market” to raise prices.

https://subium.com/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3kzcoa3xjsk2c

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