As … immensely ironic and basically ideologically cruel as it is, we should absolutely emulate this attitude, learn from them.

They get starved and blockaded, we get flooded with hypereffective digital marketing, insane overproduction of single use garbage, horrendously overpriced cars full of more factory defects than a t34 from 1942, that is half illegal to repair on your own … while almost no one makes anything built to last any more.

Again, very ironic, but this actually results in a very similar situation for most normal people, at least once all the credit cards stop working.

… I am quite sure they will call me ‘some sort of crazy person’.

Ok so you’re fine with paying money to Google.

Got it, you willingly fund an immoral corporation that’s on many different boycott lists of many different organizations, for many different reasons.

Sure, ok then.

I on the other hand value my moral nonhypocrisy more than you do.

Guess we just have different preferences.

Thank you, but my writing ability, in this sort of way, is nothing in comparison to… Charlie Chaplin.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-The-Final-Speech-from-The-Great-Dictator-

I still cannot watch or even just read this without being moved to tears.

We need a new story to believe, now that the ‘American Dream’ is so thoroughly broken.

We need hope, placed in the right direction… in ourselves, and in each other.

Now this is unironically what I think of when the tiny, near-dead embers of patriotism in my soul get a whiff of oxygen.

Great Depression 2.0 is here, what did we do back during the first one?

Well, lotta people fuckin’ starved and died, got terrible diseases, died before the age of 2, or in child birth, etc.

But, we also formed co-ops. We took a random sad sack of broke and broken people, and their stuff, people with no proper wage work available to do, got em together and said ‘anything useful you can do, for anybody else, is better than nothing’

We talked to those people. We commiserated. We built solidarity with others, face to face.

We fixed shit, we jerry-rigged shit, we made things that were completely broke into things that were only slightly broken.

We took shotguns to local foreclosure auctions, and not so subtly implied to anyone other than someone who’d promised to just gift the home back to the homeowner, that the shotguns were loaded.

Nowadays… call it recycling, upcycling, right to repair, what the fuck ever… stop wasting your money on stupid shit that won’t last a year or even ever be used by you once.

You don’t know how expensive food or fuel is gonna be in a month, 3 months, etc. Could triple by next year, who knows.

Build your life around trying to plan for that.

You got a storage unit full of shit? A walk in closet full of stuff you ain’t worn in a year?

You don’t need it.

Somebody else probably could use it. Figure out how to find that person, and get it to them, with as few or at least as fair middlemen involved as possible. You get a fair price, or maybe even a haircut or week of babysitting, fuck, a pound of flour… they get some barely used clothes.

Every random plot of possibly usable garden space, make it bloom. Fuck your yard of useless grass that literally is a traditional offshot of nobility having so much land they could show off making some of it not productive.

HOA in the way? Learn their bylaws and just investigate them by way of malicious supercompliance. Chances are high they’re doing some kind of money laundering or fraud.

… We’ve done this kinda shit before, our grandparents at least.

Most people actually get joy and purpose not from accumulating wealth, but from feeling like they’re actually some kind of important, in the service of others, in some kind of real and tangible way.

The system has failed us, in every possible way…, it will eat us alive if we do not build our own.

In the words of Adam Savage:

“I reject your reality, and substitute my own”.

We do not have another choice.

Good attempt at a lesson, terrible actual chain of logic.

The attempted lesson here is presumably that things require regular maintenance and attention, in order to keep working well, working as they have been.

So… ‘wash your bedding once a month, or after a spill or accident’… or … ‘clean your room once a week, so that it doesn’t get so messy that you lose things or trip over stuff’ … or … ‘try your best to clean up dishes and cookware and put them away soon after you use them, so that the next time you need to use them, you can usually just assume they will be usable’.

A made bed?

I mean yeah, it can be useful as a simple routine for the sake of establishing any routine, or as regular mild excercise.

But an actual bed that is unmade… being not tidy does not make it more liable to degrading over time, unless shit is literally strewn across the room.

Or… unless you have some kind of very particular linens of something, where being crumpled will ruin their structural integrity…?

I’m trying to be generous here, but I think this is just an aesthetic preference masquerading as somehow … actually functional.

Keeping your sheets and blankets clean, yeah that’s functional.

Keeping them super tidy?

OCD pretending to not be OCD.

No, it wouldn’t, just ask them to offer lower donation amounts/tiers, if the existing tiers are too high.

This really would not be much harder than managing an RSS feed.

If an adequate amount of money goes to doing the math to divide what would be donations equally, after Google’s cut of course… then you are being lazy, and are fine with giving Google money.

Would you give to a charity that had the same ‘admin overhead’ to ‘actual money put to use’ ratio as Google takes in their cut?

YouTube is also my main source of video entertainment.

I am very poor, but if I wanted to help fund Youtubers, I would just donate to their patreons or ko-fis or directly purchase a channel membership to them specifically.

You being lazy about how you support creatives you like is a choice, a choice that indicates your laziness is more valuable to you than you not giving Google money, so please don’t lie to me when you say you hate giving Google money, you obviously don’t.

Yeah, that they’ve even been going back and cracking older games that shipped with Denuvo, but had not been cracked around their initiap release date… suggested to me that somebody figured out some method that applied more globally to Denuvo itself, as opposed to particular implementations of it.

Ah ok!

I ask because well, I’m autistic, though I am the opposite of a picky eater, I’ll try anything at least once… but also I realize not all autistic people are the same.

Was trying to figure out if it was possible it was more of a texture/mouthfeel thing, certain flavor group, etc.

If I had to guess, based on all you’ve said, he doesn’t like spicy, and he doesn’t like … basically meat that is substantial enough that you have to actually tear through some tissue, while chewing.

If he’ll eat basically small chunks of meat… well pepperoni on a pizza, the slices are often large enough that you have to actually bite through the slices. So, maybe he’d be ok with sausage pizza, where the bits of sausage are fairly small?

That would be my main guess as to what the ‘inexplicable’ element of his tastes are… he can handle some hamburgers, because the meat patties are likely floppy enough that they’re not difficult to chew apart, but I’m guessing if you gave him a rare steak, he’d hate it.

It might be useful to try to see how he’d respond to just like, bacon, at different levels of crispiness?

Also that and he seems averse to spicy. I remember spicy foods being essentially just mouth on fire pain as a kid, but I eventually grew into having a greater appreciation and tolerance for them.

I’d say that even a cured meat like pepperoni would also be what I’d call at least very slightly spicy… whereas teriyaki sauce, in the US at least, is basically extremely sweet and not spicy at all.

But also, as you say, yeah it very much could be that he basically has a specific kind of ‘i want this kind of food / mouth experience today / now’ in mind.

… if possible, maybe ask him, try to do like a meal plan system, a schedule? At least one meal a day is some kind of known in advance? Just having the structure might be helpful, basically just so it isn’t surprising.

Welp, that would explain why seemingly every Denuvo game has been getting cracked, lately.

I suspected somebody(s) had just figured out how to bypass the entire thing, but hadn’t had that confirmed untill now.

Real answer has been posted, but my initial thought was that something like 2 to 4 m80s all blew up at the same time, with the person like pancaking or prayer-handsing them.

Fucking gnarly.

I’ve met more than one person who hand their hand ‘de-gloved’, in different kinds of industrial accidents, but both of them were lucky enough to get the skin put back on and not lose any digits, though they do of course have significant neurological issues.

We should just stop pretending to be neutral and call it ‘the war of southern treason’.

You sound like you got lost trying to go to a comedy show, ended up at the Mothership on Schaub night, and laughed because everyone else was laughing.

… people pay for youtube?

… you know you can just block the ads, right?

… and you don’t need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?

I think they are just some kind of microwaveable or quick bake, ‘instant’ waffles.

I think we have here another example of neurotypicals not getting the difference between adhd and autism.

Yes, they can coincide, but they do not have to, and they are different.

What do you think would happen if you walked him through the process of cooking a burrito?

Ground beef, some cheese, salsa/mild hot sauce, sour cream, shredded iceberg lettuce, soft tortilla?

It sounds like he actually has a fair acceptable range of flavor and texture profiles… the good thing with like a burrito is that you can just basically eat all the parts of it individually.

My guess would be that the salsa/spicy sauce would be the most likely to offend…?

Or maybe if a burrito is a bit much, more like a quesadilla?

Yeah, agree that this is not very accurate.

Don’t get me wrong, pizza is great, fried chicken is great… but I’m an autist and I’m the opposite of a picky eater, and if I want quick/no prep food, I will snack on carrots, have a salad, eat some greek yogurt, apples or grapes or pickles or something, maybe trail mix.

This is more a ‘I eat out of a microwave because I have no time or money or stress/planning capacity to meal plan and cook’ kind of thing.

If I want something like pasta, I’ll boil the noodles and fry up some jimmy dean sausage, toss the marinara into frying pan for the last few minutes, then grate a block of mozzerella over it.

Sure, I could just microwave some canned chef boyardee in 5 minutes… but it really only takes like 30 minutes to do it a bit more intensively, and it tastes waaaay better.

Well, I’m apparently not in charge of my … conditional synesthesia?

I figured it would be Metal Monks too, but I had to actually check the track names.