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Cake day: January 15th, 2026

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  • Sure, but which movement are you drawing a parallel to?

    Two of the three, one of which you didn’t describe and is raking this indie studio over the coals and trying to destroy them. I’m concerned about the tech bro cult who think they can fire their human employees and have AI make brakes for airplanes without human supervision. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be used at all.

    I’m a solo dev working on a boomershooter and there are brutal screams I want from the monsters when they burn that I’m just not going to get from human voice actors off of Fivver, with my no-string budget. I stumbled upon some AI videos with the screams I want and see it as a possible path to fulfilling my vision. But with this raging Butlerian Jihad, looks like I’m going to have to give up on that vision and settle for something much much much less.

    There needs to be a level headed middle way of thinking about AI but the world today is constantly being divided into a false dichotomy, a black and white Manichean battle between good and evil. Judicious use of anything, including AI, is possible.

    In this instance, the game gets hate because it’s a product of a technology we consider harmful. We don’t want to encourage use of that technology. Is that what you mean by Jihad?

    Yes. Because the tech isn’t harmful. Just because there’s a bunch of psychos who kill people with hammers doesn’t mean people who use them to build houses should have their construction company financially destroyed. That’s mindless and cruel and it’s the wrong hill to fight for.


  • Tell me you don’t know Dune without telling me:

    Tell me you know Watsonian Dune but don’t know Doylist Dune without telling me. To catch you up:

    I was being satirical. And so was Frank Herbert. The Butlerian Jihad and resulting mentats and navigators, groomed from childhood by what are essentially cults and turned into things either barely resembling humans or not resembling humans at all, using endless amounts of drugs like spice and sapho juice along with other ghastly techniques because it was now morally wrong to use computers is a critique of overzealous revolutionary movements that turn into religions.

    The Dune universe is a grotesque dystopian future. And the Butlerian Jihad forced humanity to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. I see the same thing happening today with the current jihad against the machines bubbling up.


  • It’s eligible because it’s food. It prevents starvation. Plus it’s hard to micromanage what poor people eat. On top of that, poor grandmas with diabetes can use it to prevent a coma if their sugar is dangerously low.

    In Texas, candy bars aren’t eligible. Neither are soft drinks, including uncaffeinated diet drinks, but ice cream, cake, pies, and chocolate milk are still eligible for now. But they’re planning to take that away from poor people too. Also “luxury” meats like steak.

    After that I imagine they plan to make poor people eat out of dirty buckets filled with offal and rotting vegetables.





  • everyone except me is hiding the truth about what they really feel, but I know the truth!

    This is a strawman.

    in the face of everyone correcting you

    The Fediverse isn’t everyone. Everyone on the Internet is not even remotely normal and the Fediverse is pure distilled weird from the weirdest people on Earth. Yeah, I’m sticking to my guns.

    You think you’ve found a gotcha, but you’re still just outing yourself.

    You’re the one going for the gotchas and the dunks. I’m just defending myself. You know I don’t need therapy. You’re just insulting me.

    If I believed you capable of long term romantic relationships, I’d pity your spouse.

    I pity the hetero cis male who truly believes that his wife always loved him for his intelligence when she dumps him because his doctor can’t prescribe him Viagra and Cialis. Nobody’s hiding shit. We all know the truth. There’s a good reason why these meds are important and covered by insurance. Impotence destroys relationships and whole families.

    Man, this thread perfectly illustrates why women despise “intelligence”. You try to tell an intelligent cis hetero man it’s 10pm and he tells you you’re a fucking moron who needs therapy because ackchyually it’s 10am in Banda Aceh and 6pm in London and 2100 hours in Milan. Nobody wants to be around that much less have it jizz in them.



  • No, they will.

    No they won’t.

    You unilaterally claimed that nobody is attracted to intelligence, that everyone is just pretending and they’re really only attracted to physical appearance. Even as hyperbole, that is a wildly unhealthy thing to believe, and you absolutely called yourself out.

    What’s wildly unhealthy is loving the person you’re fucking in the same way you love your mother and sister and grandma. I’m not the one calling myself out.


  • You’re not even trying to understand why everyone disagrees with you.

    That’s fine. They’re not even trying to understand what I was saying.

    In fact, you’re refusing to even acknowledge that you could be mistaken in your premise that people aren’t attracted to intelligence, and instead lash out. That is why you need therapy.

    Are you being serious? Or just attacking me like the other person? Because I’m pretty sure if I go to a therapist and I show them these exchanges, they’re not going to say that I’m the one who needs therapy.