Back to the 90s, where in games you'd add in some AI opponents
Christ this is dark. I'm not a parent and I feel like this.
The Internet used to be such a neat place. Why is it so shit ever since like 2020? Or is that just the whole world? Since 2017 maybe.
I had a thought yesterday: it sucks that after you die, you can't come back. AND that time just keeps flowing for everybody else after you're gone. What a great gift to be alive, at all, though. Why do some people feel the need to make it as shitty as possible for others?
Racism is a real thing. Culture is real. Nationality is real. Ethnic heritage is real.
But race is not, in the same way that my made up category of "things that i think are bad" is not real. Yes, it exists, I guess for some people. But as a universal concept that is solidly definable, no.
Wanna try? Define me a race.
See, the thing is, though, this stuff is poison. It's locker room bs at first, but, fundamentally it's tribalism and deviancy division between in-groups and out-groups.
The more you dig and learn about psychology, sociology, and history, the more you ☹️ because you realize.... It's us.
My partner and I were just talking about deviancy theory earlier today, and were discussing whether or not technology has moved too fast. Yes = our brains are lizards and the internet is amplifying our current weaknesses as a species. No = ?
People end up hating/rationalizing people being bad because they believe they believe people are different races.
Hating and differentiating people based on race is pretty rational as long as you believe race is a real thing. That's kinda why it's called race-ism.
I don't call them Nazis because I dislike them, I dislike them because they're Nazis.
If you give your whole life of working hours to a business, the compensation should be a bare minimum of all of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Period.
Right? Imagine if you said that about the rights for like black women or something? Like, come ON. It's 2025, we KNOW these behaviors are bigoted, rules are way too chill with letting shit like that fly, and is part of the reason it's so prolific now - it's not being treated like the hate speech that it is, and people in power in certain places are like "no I'm not sure we need to discuss it again". It's just gross and horrible and makes me feel so fucking helpless sometimes when a space is dominated with shitties like that.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...
The title made me think the attacker couldn't be charged with a HATE crime... Which is dumb and shitty and makes me want to revolt.
But they aren't charging him with ANY CRIME.
What in the actual fuck
Woah. Is that actually a callback to when w said it wrong and we all had to learn how to pronounce it correctly?
I still think about that every time I think or say nuclear.