infinitesunrise

It's called staying away from venture capital. It really is as simple as that. Because Valve has a lucrative business model they have no need or desire to raise capital from outside investors, therefore there is nobody to squeeze them for value at the expense of their customers.

If you watch Cory Doctorow's talk where he coined the word "enshittification" he explains how the process works, and it starts with outside investment. Enshittification is just a catchy term for value extraction, from the perspective of the customer.

I mean calling someone gay when they identify as straight isn't the most respectful thing to do, then again neither are the things I get the urge to do with a skinny little twink every now and then soooo

That makes sense, I always just assumed that most christians took it literally, ie humans physically looking like their god, a sort of patriarchal egoism. Thus paintings of god in the form of a human man.

Mine were too, zero cavities at 37 years old with mediocre tooth care, I didn't even floss. Then I moved somewhere they don't fluoridate the water and I also went vegan. No fluoride + low calcium = 3 cavities in less than 3 years. Needless to say I now floss, brush with a fluoridated toothpaste, and take calcium supplements.

Give this guy a wood block!

I call it the numbing hour. It's only scheduled as a half hour but it always runs for nearly an hour. I never speak for more than two minutes, I just stand there as my motivation to do literally anything for the rest of the day burns down to zero. Sometimes I wake up 110% motivated with a list of stuff I can't wait to get done, fortunately the numbing hour is first thing everyday ensuring that I am always fully neutralized.

Richard Dawkins is a schmuck but that one time he dissected a giraffe on TV was pretty fucking cool.

Well then what the fuck is meant by that

Walt Gisney

As a cis man with two herniated discs in his spine from years of people singling me out to lift their dumb heavy shit, this is a powerful angle on the dilemma I'd never considered. Take a Two Strongmen Shaking Hands meme and several head pats from me.

I imagine your view of the white male identity is informed by your own personal experiences. All the same, this is abuse of identity politics. Though I know it's not intentional, as misunderstanding of idpol is systemically propagandized.

Actual identity politics seeks out the white men who leverage their privilege for the benefit of others and champions them as examples. It seeks to show other white men how they can leverage their power in a positive fashion to accelerate a movement without coopting it and encourages them to do so. Most importantly, it demonstrates how white men are an important piece of a holistic, synergistic, all-or-nothing social force called the working class, which is exponentially empowered by and relies upon the diversity of all it's social identities. It - We - Cannot succeed unless all are included and considered, and when all are included and considered we cannot lose.

The disfigured and toxic identity politics promulgated by the democratic party is an individualized one that very intentionally begins and ends at the personal level. The history of class oppression and struggle is therefore replaced by a zero-sum history of identity oppression and struggle. Class resentment is swapped for personal resentments. There is no holistic synergy of identities. If society is bad it is because the privileged identity is bad, and revolution ie fixing all our social problems looks like simply replacing them with a different identity. It is ultimately compatible with racism, sexism, ageism, and classism. It is a misunderstanding of the nature of power and the history of social classes. It hurts us all.

Sorry for the infodump, I don't mean to sound overly critical I just write a lot.