Multiple genres of games are about doing mass killings for fun.

You know that bit when you get bored playing some open world game, go around killing everyone, then reload? Postal is That: The Game. Just without the reloading.

Or that was how i thought about postal 1&2.

North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don’t think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.

Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.

You gotta say “nor-nor-east” instead, that’s a blast.

There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.

This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.

I guess i don’t really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge’s potato? (“I just think they’re neat”)

I was careful to say perminant heirarchies for that reason. Bao Jingyan said that power originates in the contrast between the weak and the strong, and the cunning and the naive. I’m inclined to agree.

But we can have social institutions that break up and flush out these natural channels of inequality, rather than institutions that metastize them into heirarchies.

Aristotle discussed a then-current idea to redistribute all personal wealth above 5x the poorest citizen. We could tax all inheritance above say 500k at 100%. Eliminate all personal debt every 7 years.

There’s a lot we can do to make heirarchies more temporary.

There are lots of ways to organize people that aren’t heirarchical, or that dilute or limit power rather than concentrating it.

Directly voting for laws, appointing officials by sortition - like being picked for jury duty, pushing decisions down to neighbourhood councils, consensus decision making, a culture that always permits insulting the successful and plenty else has been suggested.

It all comes with drawbacks of it’s own, of course. And having grown up in a heirarchical society, it can be very hard to imagine anything else, until you read about all the times and places where people have organized themselves differently.

There’s a lot of neuroscience showing that social power suppresses empathy in the brain. Status, privilege, wealth, etc. make almost everyone less able to consider the pain of others.

Most of us can be reasonable with people we know. But the socially powerful are making most of the important higher-scale decisions, and they are neurologically the least capable of making good decisions on behalf of others.

Or that’s how i see the problem.

While i too yearn for the downfall of capitalism, pre-capitalist societies were still responsible for environmental distruction, slavery and genocide.

As long as individuals or a small elite have enough power to enforce their needs over the needs of everyone else, we’ll always have capital-b Badnesses.

We have to usher in the collapse of perminant heirarchies, whatever form they take.

Tiny states use pointless votes like this as a chance to curry favour. Sure, china or the us, we’ll vote however you want on this purely symbolic question that will have zero real world impact. Now about that loan…

Edit: i didn’t realize the watermark completely obscured the word conundrum 😭

Love is the ultimate painkiller?

Oxytosin? Not sure on the spelling

loudly talking about the anal sex with a trans person they had over the weekend.

Oh that sounds lovely.

If you say it was problematic in context i have to believe you, but i would happily take that over the advice a psychic gave them, obviously made up trauma dumps, or how the eastern orthodox church is the one true faith - all real examples from my current coworkers.

She doesn’t really go on about it though.

There’s a kind of terminally online identity-yelling that’s easy to spot and definitely a red flag, but she rarely talks about her personal life at work, other than mentioning samhain and yule.

I found out who she claims to be from coworkers who use mainstream socials and stalked her.

I work in residential mental health and my boss is a progressive queer wiccan. I thought we’d get on great.

But then she started using an HR mistake i told her about to falsely bill medicare, and lied about not knowing in official emails. She tried to force me to pay for a company parking ticket and acted shocked when i wouldn’t.

When a staff was punched in the head by a resident in the evening she took hours to arrive on site, told the staff they had to finish their shift before going to the hospital, then let them drive themself after a possible concussion, and tried to get staff to reclassify it as a non critical incident.

Not truly evil, but sociopathetically dishonest in her dealings, and about who she is.

As a child we had a play tunnel that devermiculated for easy storage.

While we’re discussing things sideshow bob was wrong about, actually plenty of ancient cultures could well have considered chief hydrological engineer a calling.

Elaborate gardens or fountains and the complex hydro-engineering they required have been a symbol of power from ancient assyria to las vegas.

Water and it’s storage and control seems to have had religious dimensions in both the mayan world and angkor.

Water control, flood control and canals were major imperial projects in china.

It’s super believable to me that any of those groups might’ve considered a dangerous, difficult, educated job with religious or elite association might be a calling.

Also, i dont think anyone would use the c-word to describe cappadocia.

What kind of head leaves you thinking afterwards, “i would pay for that to have not happened. But i’d only pay $4”?