I think he tends to fall in love with ideas then refuses to let them go, even if he can't figure out a way to make them make sense. Like a civilization that lives in underwater tunnels and has orgies because they're all infected with nanocomputers and their orgies are a way for their nanomachines to perform a calculation with each other. Or a guy locked in a cell being forced to decrypt a message, only he deliberately has it output the wrong answer, and signal the right answer to him via one of the laptop's LEDs in morse code. This is a cryptography expert and can't think of a better way of receiving a message secretly than morse code through a LED? And the people who are watching everything he's doing think all the lines of code about manipulating the capslock light are totally normal? Or an electronic book which trains a bunch of young girls to become a fighting force more effective than the actual army. Or an MMO where you can watch people going into valhalla and you get points for stopping trolls from entering, only the people entering correspond to actual people going through airport security in real life, which a computer is representing as fantasy characters, and the trolls are the people you're supposed to stop, to help provide actual airport security... only for any of this to work, the computer can obviously detect the terrorists without the player's intervention, if it's representing them as trolls in the first place. Congrats on reading about "gamification" somewhere, but your idea is dumb. He obviously reads a lot about technological advances and interesting ideas people are coming up with, but his fictional execution of them is often just not plausible, either because the ideas themselves are more interesting than realistic, or because he doesn't really fully understand what he's writing about, or because they're just hugely more complicated than a much more mundane solution which would be less interesting to write about. This problem is probably amplified by a writing style where he deliberately dwells on the details, so you can't help but think about them yourself.
As far as wokeness goes, at a bare minimum, he is very fond of female characters who are outrageously competent and generally perfect, particularly given that he tends to write about things that are almost exclusively dominated by men. To be fair, several of his men are also outrageously competent, but I'm fairly exhausted of reading or watching fiction featuring huge numbers of perfect women excelling in fields which, in real life, they barely enter at all. I believe the author himself is also fairly woke, but I can't remember what gave me that impression. Checking what he said about sad puppies would probably be a place to start.
Second, do not publicly apologise for making reasonable scientific assertions or expressing one's personal opinions in good faith. Indeed, this piece of advice is supported by two recent studies (Hanania, 2015; Sunstein, 2019). In the 2015 study by Hanania, subjects read a brief passage of text describing Larry Summers's controversial comments about the under-representation of women in STEM, and were then assigned to read either one of two further passages: one in which Summers was described as having stood firm, and one in which he was described as having apologised. Hanania found that subjects in the ‘apology’ condition were about 8 percentage points more likely to say that Summers should have faced negative consequences than those in the ‘no apology’ condition.
When I was forced to live in men's prisons, I was terrified I wouldn't make it out alive. Those memories still haunt me." the transgender woman, identified in court papers as Sonia Doe, said in a statement last year according to DailyMail.com. "Though I still have nightmares about that time, it's a relief to know that as a result of my experience the NJDOC has adopted substantial policy changes so no person should be subjected to the horrors I survived.
"I was treated like a man, and it was fucking terrifying. No one should have to be treated like that. Well, except men I guess, but they're basically subhuman, so who gives a fuck."
We should all identify as women. The left will never allow men to advocate for themselves, they actively hate men unless they're black, and there are no men's lobbyist groups. The right is only slightly better in that instead of actively hating men, they merely don't care about men. Large numbers of men identifying as women would have one of two effects: Either those men get the benefits women get, or the trans movement is destroyed to stop that from happening. There is no downside.
Asked by Nolan what exactly it is that “hurts” him regarding transgender individuals, the successful TV writer confidently replied, “because it hurts women.”
“This is a war on women,” Linehan declared.
“How absurd and how censorious, how anti-female, how homophobic this movement is,'” Linehan told the BBC host.
He then recalled, “And then I just said, ‘no, hang on a sec, stop calling these women ‘terfs’ [and] stop sending them abuse. Let them speak,’ and for that they destroyed me.”
“I feel happy in myself that I’ve been one of the people standing up and saying “no, this is wrong”, despite everybody telling me not to do it,’” he continued. “The thing I can easily see happening, because I’ve had experience with these type of people already, is someone in a changing room, a man walks in, absolutely no indication that he’s a woman in any way.”
“The woman challenges it, the man says, ‘No, I’m sorry, I’m a woman, this is my female beard, this is my female penis, and you’re guilty of hate speech,'” Linehan concluded. “If you don’t think that’s going to happen, I don’t know what world you’re living in, because it’s already happened.”
This guy is obviously the biggest white knight piece of shit on the planet, so fuck him. Every example and every problem he listed is about a woman. His only problem with trans anything is that somewhere a woman might be treated as badly as we treat men on a daily basis, or might lose protections that are only offered to women. He IS a TERF, and TERFs don't dislike trans because they're sane or acknowledge biology, they dislike trans because they hate men, and the existence of trans lets a small number of men gain the tremendous benefits society gives to women.
I'm still somewhat surprised how incredibly successful the left has been at achieving compliance on effectively redefining such fundamental words. You have to go to incredibly fringe websites to see anyone referred to with the correct pronouns.
Sure, but how information is used is distinct from how it is gathered. A cop who sees you on the street shooting a guy should be able to arrest you, a cop who sees you on the street wearing a MAGA hat should not, but cops shouldn't be stopped from being able to see because of fear of the latter- the problem with a MAGA hat arrest is the reasoning behind the arrest, not that the cop wasn't blindfolded. And twitter posts are if anything MORE public than what you do walking down the street.
The death of meritocracy. Don't judge people by the content of their character, judge them by the color of their skin.
Also, WAPO writers should be required to only ever see black female doctors and surgeons, and black female lawyers, and black female mechanics, and send their kids to schools with the maximum number of black students and teachers. Because it's equity first, right?
"EFF previously urged DHS to abandon any such vetting program because social media surveillance invades privacy and violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and allowing the government to target and punish people for expressing views it doesn’t like."
Things you post online are literally the opposite of "private". They are public. If you're violating the terms of your visa and you post on twitter that you're doing so, you deserve to be deported. Note how they assert that the government must be deporting people based on their opinions without evidence. Might as well outlaw police being able to show a recording of someone admitting to a crime as evidence, because that would have a similar "chilling effect" on the speech of people who admit to their crimes in front of a camera.
Calling ICE reading stuff you post publicly online "spying" is doing a disservice to people who have a problem with all the actual spying the US does. The EFF is just angry the US doesn't have completely open borders and occasionally enforces immigration law. If this were investigating the social media accounts of <insert right wing cause here>, this article wouldn't exist.
There was an article a while back comparing number of mentions of various scandals in canadian media to number of mentions of Trudeau's hair, and it came out about how you'd expect. Mentions of his socks and beard were also more numerous. This isn't in some moron's twitter feed either, it's actual news coverage. The difference between canadian journalists and teenage girls writing in their diary is minimal.
Speaking of Title IX, women now outnumber men at college more than men outnumbered women at the time Title IX was passed. So the same gender imbalance that was a national emergency when it favored men is now something the left is outright proud of, and considering the imbalance of gender based scholarships and programs, they think it still doesn't favor women enough. So remember that the next time the left is proposing more affirmative action or reparations or some other explicitly racist or sexist program: It will never end. There will never be a point at which they say it's enough, that enough wealth has been taken from white men who earned it and given to people who didn't. Even if whites and men were the least wealthy, least successful, most impoverished group, they'd still want to take more. Because they've already shown exactly that when it comes to men going to college.
It's not like it being easier to win at sports is the only benefit to being treated like a woman. Hugely more scholarships, affirmative action hiring, affirmative action promotions, any man criticizing you is automatically considered sexist and wrong, preferential treatment if you're starting or running your own business, people including the police are more likely to come to your defense and believe your side of the story in basically any conflict, an endless supply of simps who would happily pay for you to live at home and do nothing, pro-woman groups and programs at every level of society, and of course all the left wing assholes who can't decide whether you're more stunning and brave because you're a woman, or because you're trans. Aside from having to live a lie and triggering every normal person's uncanny valley response, there are a lot of good reasons to pretend to be a woman. In the right situation I'd definitely check that box on application forms if I thought I could get away with it.
There's a definite elephant in the room here, and it's kind of disturbing he doesn't make it the actual topic: All the negative examples are women. Mulan is amazing in combat because women can't be portrayed with flaws, especially not if those flaws make them inferior to men in any way. Wonder woman rapes a guy and is portrayed as a heroic victim because she's a woman and women raping men is literally impossible as far as the left and most of the right is concerned. The authority figure the pilot guy got punished for mistrusting- even though she was a complete idiot- should have been blindly trusted because she was a woman and he's just a stupid dudebro. Fat asian girl crashing into affirmative action hire and thereby dooming the galaxy is portrayed as heroic because women thinking with emotions instead of reason is just great. Actually, this is the only one that might be played a similar way if the genders were reversed, but it's still probably not an accident it was a woman making the emotional "heroic" decision. Scarlet witch gets to do whatever she wants because she's sad, because our sympathy for women suffering is set at about 10x what it is for men.
Literally every example he gives of a character being spoiled, or overly perfect, or selfish, is a woman. Does he seriously not make the connection that maybe that's not an accident, and that a lot of the planet considers it sexist to imagine a woman with flaws? Or is he afraid of coming off as too right-wing or getting banned from youtube if he actually names the problem or something?
Mark Dickinson, general secretary of the Nautilus International union, which represents seafarers, said: “The news that P&O Ferries is sacking the crew across its entire UK fleet is a betrayal of British workers. It is nothing short of scandalous given that this Dubai-owned company received millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money during the pandemic.
A union pricing it's labor out of the market, a company replacing it's workforce with foreign labor, a government that bailed them out to rescue them from a crisis which they created themselves, I don't know which side I like less.
In the middle of the night, the U.S. Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA).
Men make up the huge majority of victims of violence in general, and by honest measure the majority of victims of domestic violence too, but remember, women are a special, protected class that we care about much, much more than men. Violence against men doesn't count, everyone knows they're asking for it.
That's the game that changed a bunch of women's outfits cover up more skin and changed a bunch of the characters to black for the NA release, of course they're woke. You're dealing with a company that hates whites so much they edit an already made game to take them out, then see that they look like they're made of plastic now, and say, "Well, at least they're not white. Job well done."
Everyone on the left says diversity is strength, but when they need heart surgery or a second opinion on a cancer treatment, suddenly they're checking doctors for the best possible track record. Even the left knows diversity isn't strength when it's their life on the line, but when it's only other people's careers or education that are being sacrificed, they pretend not to.
Same place I'd send women who don't want to fight but think they still have the right to vote, in places that have the draft:
Everyone takes a physical test, if they fail, then they are required to work in a factory or do some hard menial labor for the war effort, for which they are paid less than minimum wage to make up for their lack of real danger. If they refuse, they're thrown in jail like someone refusing the draft. No free ride for women or, in this case, mental cases. If you're sane enough to vote, you're sane enough to work in a factory or go mop floors or go weave "war baskets" or something for the government to sell to finance the war.
In the US, the 26th amendment lowered voting age for men to 18 largely on the argument that it's unfair for a man to be old enough to be forced to fight and possibly die but not old enough to vote, establishing the link between voting and the draft. Except women also got their voting age lowered at the same time, because the world is full of simps.
Equal rights without equal responsibility is just blatant female supremacy.
Largely a meaningless article. There are a lot of people in China, I'm sure I could find just as many quotes saying that Putin is from Mars. Maybe a significant number of Chinese actually support Russia and maybe they don't, but this article is likely just the article the author wanted to write, then she looked for quotes to fit her position. What I absolutely guarantee she didn't do is sample a million random comments, filter out all the ones not about Putin, then fairly sort them into pro or con values.
Every time they censor something stupid from a remake, you've got to wonder about the absolute mountain of stuff that must get censored from games being made today, because the bar there must be much lower- with this stuff, the content is already in, and they have to go to the effort of taking it out, and they know they'll be caught and at least some people will complain. But with stuff that's never released, who will ever know? It would be nice if there were insiders leaking how much good content gets removed or never gets made for games being made today, but I can certainly understand why people would be reluctant to do so, since they'd almost certainly be found and have their careers destroyed for wrongthink.
I use jdownloader 2 for those sorts of sites. It automates downloading multi-part split archives from multiple sources, automates the download wait most of those sites have, and either automates the captchas or presents them alone in a little window for you to solve, so you don't ever have to even go to the filehosting websites at all. Just ctrl-C the download links from gog-games and it pretty much handles the rest.
Don't give money to people who hate you.