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please read this thread of fake ads for a magical private military company

When filling out the background of Phantasm Arm a thing I really enjoy is making up fake ads. The loose theme of the thread is 'reading through a magazine you might find in the setting.' This was the first introduction for most people:

confronting creative challenges (too many titles for not enough songs)

honestly I was not

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

every JP keyboard setting has a romaji mode that is identical to a standard EN keyboard except some special characters are transposed, and I have it per-window so have to flex on the fly

at least one and possibly more orders of magnitude better than the present iirc

I shouldn't be surprised that ecofascists have no idea how machine shops work, since ecofascists don't work lol

i think something that has become extremely clear is that the way we communicate with and about each other online has gone way off the deep end. the degree to which folks claim moral superiority yet talk about others with absolute disdain and disregard is not a good indicator of where we are going.

this has been a thing I have thought about after the first 'AI psychosis' stories, that up until now the only way to get that kind of sycophantic boosterism is to be rich and powerful, and we know what that can do to some people

Water is wet, fire is hot and private entities collating government IDs to hastily comply with age verification laws are bad, exhibit #9999.

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I dunno, I'm waiting to see real results on the international stage

whenever this quote pops up I'm fascinated by the 'smart founder/scientist' construction, which means to imply deep knowledge while letting 'smart' filter out anyone without the speaker's naive enthusiasm and 'founder' smuggle in people with little actual technical expertise

'the government tolerates a giant cyberpunk slum in the capital and is threatening to send a child to a prison colony on venus for brawling, but is basically stable'

Some good friends are in a tough situation and could use some help. This is the kind of hole that can be hard to get out of on your own, so please, if you have anything you can spare I'd appreciate it if you gave them your consideration.

'Gee, I can't wait to get into upper bilewater and explore that area!'

'PMC' in american politics is just standing in for the british perjorative usage of 'middle class', why on earth would you try to reimport it

ok I guess I need to see this after all

basically this, there's a lot of arguments about these that may or may be fine on their own terms but which assume a level of good faith that simply can't be granted until the sitting government and all plausible near-term successors are gone

*any* change to bureaucracy is a threat vector right now

remember how politicians and journos just lied and lied and lied about trans healthcare and created the space for doubt by talking constantly about the need for clarity as if the science weren’t settled already