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Game dev in my free time.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

This is a superficial and ultimately destructive way of framing the problem.

Women deal with the profound biological burden of reproduction: menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. That is real, costly, and non-negotiable. No serious person denies it.

But the complementary burden that has fallen on men for the entire history of our species is equally non-negotiable and far more lethal.

Men have been the ones who die in war — by the tens of millions. Conscription, combat, and the obligation to stand between the tribe and existential threat have been almost exclusively male responsibilities.

Men occupy the overwhelming majority of the most dangerous occupations on the planet: commercial fishing, logging, mining, roofing, heavy construction, oil-rig work, long-haul trucking. The workplace fatality statistics are not subtle. Year after year, 90–95 % of occupational deaths are male.

Men also take more physical and psychological risks. That is why they invent more, explore more, and die younger — from accidents, from violence, from suicide. The male suicide rate is not a minor footnote; it is a catastrophic and chronic reality.

These are not interchangeable complaints. They are complementary sacrifices. One sex carries the primary cost of creating new life. The other sex carries the primary cost of protecting that life and extracting the resources necessary to sustain it from a dangerous and indifferent world.

To reduce the entire male side of this ancient division of labour to “what do men deal with?” as if the answer were “nothing of consequence” is not compassion. It is a deliberate refusal to look at the hierarchical and sacrificial structure of reality itself.

The proper response is not grievance. It is gratitude for the complementary burdens that have kept the species alive, and the individual responsibility to carry one’s own share of them without self-pity.

[C̷A̷T̷W̷I̷T̷H̷A̷F̷I̷R̷E̷A̷R̷M̷🏴‍☠️ @MeowMixMRE]

@pyt_tericaaa I can't stress this enough to non gun people...

POINTING A GUN SHAPED OBJECT AT SOMEONE IS A GREAT WAY TO GET SHOT BY A REAL GUN

If you're in a situation dire enough to need to point something gun shaped at someone, then you need the ability to end someone before they end you

[Community-Adjusted Analysis @CommunityEBITDA]

@pyt_tericaaa If you’re in a situation that you need to pull out a fake gun.. you need a real gun

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.

An American immediately said, "I got a guy."

He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.

I asked who the guy was.

He said, "Just a guy."

He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."

That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.

I asked how he found this guy.

"My brother-in-law used him."

I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.

He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."

The house is still standing. That is the entire review.

Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.

I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.

Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.

He came at 1:40.

He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.

Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."

I asked when.

"Couple years."

I asked what I should do.

He said, "I'll give you a guy."

He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.

Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.

I have been given four guys since.

I have a guy for trees.

I did not know I needed a guy for trees.

I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

[ruivinha @samaissc]

"não pode pirataria"

então vc vai mesmo ter a coragem de vir aqui olhar nos meus olhos virtuais e dizer q vc realmente pagou 3 mil reais nesse seu the sims 4 completo?

[LoganoPiano🇬🇧 @LoganoPiano]

13 year old me: “Eww I don’t wanna touch your anime slop games!”

20 year old me:

[fried @FriedHardt]

é incrível o quanto está normalizada a xenofobia e o racismo quando se fala em imigrantes

fala-se em criminosos, estupradores e terroristas toda vez que há uma crise de imigração

nem todo imigrante é terrorista, pessoal

apenas os muçulmanos

[Toby 🛩️ @303SnowWolf]

This. When I was younger, a friend wanted me to build a robot to wash dishes. After a few iterations of designs, the obvious optimal design was…. A dishwasher. The humanoid robot fad is idiotic because humans are never the optimum machine for any one task.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1958 the Chinese state worked out that sparrows were eating the grain, and organised six hundred million people to kill every one of them.

It did not take bullets. Villages, schools and factory units turned out with pots, pans, drums and gongs and made continuous noise so that no bird could land anywhere. Nests were pulled down, eggs smashed, chicks killed. The sparrows flew until their hearts gave out and dropped into the streets, where children collected them and the totals were reported upward as achievements. The toll ran into the hundreds of millions.

The arithmetic was sound as far as it went. A sparrow eats grain. Fewer sparrows, more grain, more people fed. Nobody in the room was wrong about what the bird took.

They were wrong about what it did.

Sparrows eat insects, in enormous quantity, and most of all in the breeding season when the chicks need protein. Take them out of a farmed landscape and the locusts and grain borers they had been holding down are handed the whole country. Which is what happened. Crop losses to insects rose sharply, and by 1960 the ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng had made the case well enough that Mao ordered sparrows struck from the list and replaced with bed bugs.

Far too late, and never the whole cause. The famine of 1959 to 1961 was principally a policy famine, driven by collectivisation, grain requisition and the diversion of farm labour to backyard steel furnaces, and the dead are counted in tens of millions.

But the sparrow campaign is the purest thing in the episode, because it is the reasoning stripped to bone. A committee looked at a living system, isolated the one animal it could measure as a cost, and calculated the gain from removing it without ever asking what that animal was holding up.

Now look at what is being proposed for grassland.

The ruminant is measured the same way, on one ledger line, the methane it emits and the land it stands on. What is left off the ledger is everything it does. The grazing that keeps grassland grassland instead of scrub. The dung that feeds the beetles that feed the birds. The hoof that breaks the surface so seed can take. The mouth that removes the standing dead matter which otherwise cures into wildfire fuel. The manure that returns phosphorus and nitrogen to the soil so nobody has to mine it and ship it in.

Grasslands and grazing animals co-evolved over tens of millions of years. Remove the animal and you do not get the same field minus some methane. You get a different system, and it will not be the one on the spreadsheet.

The men who ordered the sparrows killed were not stupid, and they were not cruel. They had a number, and the number was correct, and they were praised for acting on it decisively. It took two years for the second half of the equation to arrive, and by then nobody could put the birds back.

We are eighteen months into the herd reduction schemes.

The grass has not sent its invoice yet.

[Nekaishi ✟ Kitsune VTuber 🦊🦋 @nekaishi]

You know, this is meant to be a meme but it actually genuinely hits hard, and it's so often true

The amount of stories I've heard of "abusive" or "narcissistic" male exes, or dads that kids are forbidden from seeing… who weren't at all. Who did everything to try and see their kids, but the mothers refused. Mothers who lied about child support to try and make their children hate their dads. Mothers who lied to their children and told them their dad hates them, that he left them. Mothers who deliberately tried to make their children hate their dads in general when the dad was actually a good person

It's really messed up, and I hate how it's treated as politically incorrect to talk about. There's this false idea that women are always just and good, never lie, should always be believed, and that men are always the abusers. But one thing I've seen a lot of is men being lied about constantly, and so many women deliberately sowing hatred and fear in their children toward their own fathers because the mother hated him—because the mother was the bad person

That needs to be talked about more, honestly

A majority of violent criminals in prison grew up with absent fathers/were raised in single-mother homes

[Larpo Túlio @LarpoTulio]

nunca gostei de larp nunca vou gostar

E não gosto de larpista

se achou ruim?

se achou ruim?

Come abóbora

Come abóbora

Come abóbora

que passa

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our data center costs have spiked by 400% in the last 6 months.

The board hired an external auditor to figure out why we're consuming the energy equivalent of a small European nation.

The auditor asked me what exactly is running on the isolated quantum mainframe.

I looked at him with disdain and said it was our localized disaster recovery matrix.

It isn't.

I'm using our enterprise cloud infrastructure to simulate a 1:1 scale digital replica of the Roman Empire.

I have 14 million AI citizens currently fighting a civil war inside our AWS architecture.

When the marketing department tries to upload a video file, it takes 40 minutes because Emperor Tiberius is actively sieging Gaul on the same processor thread.

The auditor pointed out that the data flow was completely unstructured and erratic.

I told him he was looking at an asymmetrical neural mesh designed to confuse foreign ransomware protocols.

I asked him if he wanted to be the guy who disabled our only defense against international cyber terrorism.

He immediately closed his laptop and approved the budget increase.

Tomorrow I'm diverting 50 terabytes of RAM to invent gunpowder early.

[Dr Phoxotic @Phoxotic]

Guys I think I found out a way to get rid of racism for good.

My idea is to put all of the Japanese people in one place, all of the Indian people in another place, all of the Irish people in another place, all of the French people in another place etc.

That way there would only be one race in each area leaving nobody with the opportunity to be racist.

We can then call these zones something like 'countries' or 'nations' and give them corresponding names like Irish-land and Japanese-land.

[L. @mombaque]

Se você parar pra pensar é meio genial coletar todo delinquente do país e jogar em um lugar onde todo mundo tá doido de ideologia relativista, porque nem reação vai ter. Parabéns ao rei do Marrocos

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

The difference between Mac issues and windows issues is that when windows breaks there's a million ways to easily fix it
When a Mac doesn't "just work" it is a nightmare to solve, because it's never supposed to break and there's no tools to help so you're on your own

[Memes Que Vão Te Levar Pro Caixão⚰️ @Memesdecaixao]

Velhos tempos que não volta mais

[Steel @ErwinHugger]

If there isn't $100 mil in my bank account after pressing it, I'm tracking down whoever got hit by the 95% and having my way with you ngl

[E daí? Lamento. Quer que eu faça o quê? @AQUELECARA]

@opintomarcand0 Lembrei do finado “Porra Mauricio” mas isso aí já virou o CARALHO MAURICIO PUTA QUE PARIU

[ZoK3R @ZoK3R]

La Casa Blanca ha publicado 500 páginas de un estudio que dice que lo más probable es que el COVID-19 fuera creado en un laboratorio en China.

La distancia social no estaba basada en nada.

No había evidencia de que las mascarillas funcionaran.

Y lo más duro, el confinamiento destrozó no sólo la economía, sino también la salud física y mental de millones de personas, sobre todo jóvenes, que eran los que menos riesgo tenían de sufrir las consecuencias de la enfermedad.

El confinamiento del COVID pasará a la historia como uno de los atentados más grandes contra la libertad individual, nos trataron como basura, obligándonos a elegir entre una vacuna que no sabían si era segura o el ostracismo, encerrándote en tu casa, no permitiéndonos entrar en establecimientos, viajar o incluso trabajar en pro de un 'bien común' basado en unos datos que aún no existían.