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All of this began with Steve Bannon and his WoW guild. I can’t believe how far they’ve taken it.

https://www.thewrap.com/how-world-of-warcraft-propelled-steve-bannon-to-the-white-house/

Being able to feel controls instead of having to look at them while driving is key, but some of you take this to Luddite levels.

Holy shit, what dirt does Putin have on Elon?

Why isn’t this system air gapped from the internet?

Their values are aligned, theirs strategies are aligned, and so their efforts are aligned.

Ender’s Game was prescient text, regardless of Orson Scott Card’s personal beliefs.

Locke and Demosthenes are now armies of manipulative bots (but often real humans), shaping political discourse throughout the world. The Internet gave mind control powers to people with money, ambition, or both. We saw it with the Bernie Sanders and Trump movements in 2016 on Reddit, all too clearly for those who lived through an era where bullshit detection was a critical skill.

I was once fairly defeatist on this subject: the bad guys won, got Trump elected, and kicked off a new era of 80s conservatism that demonized progressive values like environmental conservation, freedom of choice in a number of matters, and equality.

But now, I’m starting to see young people stand up to their boomer relatives at Thanksgiving and bring facts and logic to social media discussions. And I have regained some hope that we will once again find a way to make the progressive “line go up“. Our society seems to swing like a pendulum between the right and left, over decades, and it feels like the Trump era was a swing too violent for most of us. It’s time to swing back.

Isn’t Asmongold one of those GamerGate dorks who hates “diversity in muh games”?

I’m gonna play this game. I don’t care about the negative GG/anti-Sweet Baby reviews.

The Red Rocket sends his regards.

This game appears to have been pretty entertaining.

Hexbear moment

Why do you need an adapter? I thought the Tesla superchargers had CCS adapters you could attach.