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That final boss fight song still gets me pumped up like nothing else. There's a reason UT's fanbase got so huge, and it's not because the game is mid.

The creator of Missile Command allegedly had this very same revelation while creating it, and suffered nightmares about nuclear annihilation. I like how the game just gets harder and harder, meaning that no matter how good you are at it, once the bombs start dropping then eventually every city will be destroyed anyway.

The ending of the communism vision quest might be my favorite moment in any game ever.

Motorcycle. If I'm going to be forced to drive to and from work, I might as well enjoy it.

Fractional BAB wins again. I like D&D 5 just fine but for stuff like multi-classing and creating really complex builds D&D 3.5 is the superior system.

I don't think it's possible without another Arab-Israeli war, or some kind of collapse of Israel's military command. Unfortunately I think that strategically this latest attack is going to go down in history as a failure, because despite showing Hamas' ability to win tactically unless something major changes I think the most significant political effect that this attack will have is galvanizing Israeli politics further against the Palestinians.

Now, that said, this could be just the first week of a new era of Palestinian resistance. If that's the case then the situation in Gaza is going to become not unlike Stalingrad in WW2, with open warfare between a besieged population and their attackers, and if it goes on long enough Hamas will pull concessions out of Israel eventually, but it's impossible to know whether that will be months or years down the line or whether it will be pro-Palestinian leadership that gets those concessions or some kind of collaborationist movement that arises and usurps Hamas.

Hey I went to a DOD school.

They're not like a top-tier ruling class kids' school, but they're on par with a public school in an upper middle class neighborhood or a decently sized Catholic school. Also despite what you might think the DOD is pretty hands-off with micromanaging the curriculum, so you actually get taught history which is nice. I remember parents complaining because they thought the Air Force's High School/Recruitment Center was too woke, lmao.

IMO it's a standard every school in America could live up to if they were fully funded, minus the recruitment center aspect.

It's also funny because he also denounced Hamas' attack even though resisting a military occupation/blockade is allowed by international law.

I have to think Bernie is smart enough to understand this, but American politics requires countless of these sorts of genuflections from those who want to be taken "seriously" by it. Can't talk about the Cubann blockade without being all "of course their highly popular democratically elected government is evil, but", etc etc.

I read the article and my main contention is that it doesn't establish why we must treat the performance of sex as morally different to any other form of service work. As I said in the other comment I believe that the way we are compelled to treat sex as "different" is a manifestation of patriarchal thinking - there is nothing fundamentally different between a woman who is coerced by poverty into prostitution and a man who is coerced by poverty into agricultural work, and the ways to solve the exploitation in both cases is the same: organization of the workers against the bosses, the abolition of bosses altogether and shifting control of that industry to the workers in it, and ultimately the abolition of the capitalist mode of production that incentivizes maximum exploitation of all who participate in it.

Why do you think it is okay to have an uneven allocation of money in a society so that those on the top can do with those on the bottom as they want?

Of course I don't think that's okay, don't put words in my mouth.

My contention is that sex is morally equivalent to any other form of labor, and I believe that the pedestal we put sex on as a society is a manifestation of patriarchy. It's no coincidence that for most of human history, sex work has been one of the few labor markets where women have an advantage over men, and thus controlling sex work has been one of the major tools at the patriarchy's disposal for controlling women's bodies. The impulse to control sex work is the same as the impulse to force them to wear specific clothing, the only difference is that in Western societies one of those forms of control has had a massive philosophical edifice built around it and the other hasn't.

Sex work is only inherently built around debasing and dehumanizing yourself if you consider sex itself to be debased and dehumanizing. It's a service profession like literally any other.