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The unchecked, uncurtailed, ceaseless and boundless of expansion of the surveillance state due to 9/11 doesn’t get talked about enough. I don’t have a joke here, I am just saying it sucks so much man.

Agreed on all counts. Work as is it currently exists is a racket build on slavery and fascism dressed up in pretty words from academics who try their best to bend all of understanding to justify its existence. It all sucks so much. It's all alienation all the way down.

I swear we going to be a Halloween/Christmas mode the day after labor day in a year's time. I already saw the "holiday" peppermint flavors of things in my local big-box grocery.

As an American I think our general lack of knowledge of Hawaii is just plain sad. We just told in school "...And Hawaii is a beautiful collection of islands that became a State 😇✨🇺🇸✨".

Being totally honest, prior to like 2018 I had like ZERO knowledge about the real history. Other than the vague knowledge that the government and a handful of MEGACORPS have done every native people dirty. It's just so pathetic not knowing the truth about native people and history of Hawaii. All and any reference to native peoples is just erased from our education. This sucks so much.

It’s also super frustrating that these STEM dweebs have have lucrative skillsets that the “Mark€t™️©️®️ “ “values”. Because of this they can’t justify to themselves why they should go into the public sector for the betterment of the people. STEM dorks across the board would be so much cooler if they were used for public welfare and social good.

I totally understand why a regular non-CHUD publicly educated STEMheads would go private sector. They have bills and debt and all that jazz, and sadly the public sector jobs can’t give out those sorts of attractive salaries and benefits.

All of this further perpetuates the cycle original post was talking about. Nerds get their education in the public then leave to private sector which hallows out the public sector. It’s just a vicious and vile cycle.

I'm always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.

Agreed! Anyone who uses tries to use math to justify why a bad thing is a good thing goes to super hell. The one where the Doom Slayer just goes buck wild. That's where they go.

I'm in the same camp as you. When I saw the trailers I thought "Yo this looks kinda dope" but as I watched them I didn't quite understand what the game was or was meant to be. I kept hearing "it's a Bethesda game" and then I got kinda confused because I can't really define a "Bethesda game" like could define a "Arkane Studios game" (excluding Redfall i guess) or an "id Software game" or even a "Yango Gameworks game" to compare against their Bethesda softworks peers.

Even the official steam description doesn't really tell me anything if I don't already know what's going on with Bethesda.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

All that just makes me say "Okay cool, you guys have been in the game for 25 years and you made two heavy-hitters. Cool! What is this game though?" I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything, I'm not even being a hater. I'm just saying as a player I don't know what you're selling me. Part of me feels like they are making it too abstract so you can't get mad at them. Like if the game can be anything or everything, if you don't like it you're doing something wrong.

If you go further down in the game description it says

Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.

Again, I'm just thinking "Cool you made two award-winning games, that's tight. What is this game?"

I love that sort of late golden-era Sega Arcade game look. It's like peak "Video game-y" (in a good way) to me. I love it. I think it was 1997-2001 era.

It's wild we can't even do the basics of our purported values. We can't even do the basic fundamentals of democracy without utterly borking it and making it worse. Super simple stuff like "The people who live in a place should shape the laws of their place." we can't even do that.

Right on. You good bro. 🤝

JID has is that sort of storyteller rapper I really love. Great flow, very unique wordplay, very unique and fresh sound overall. He also seems like a good dude, which I think is needed in hip-hop. You don't need to be the baddest kat out there, you can just gotta be real. If the real you is a poet/storyteller be that. I think OGs like Yasiin Bey prove that point, to directly link to the song you posted. :-) .

I don't quite understand this reference. Care to explain to the uninitiated?