Found the Richard Dawkins :P

I wouldn’t say I’m ignoring it, but that I’m usually choosing not to publicly engage with it.

The net negative reaction my comment received suggests I’m not well-placed to respond to your question.

The problem comes in that there’s no clean way to promote a tainted subject. We aren’t out here talking about the (VERY) minor positive qualities in Hitler’s pre-politics paintings, or whether Ronald Reagan had decent acting chops.

There are plenty of other, less-massively-problematic comedians, artists, politicians, actors, and other public figures to promote and laud the work of that we really can just set aside the possibly decent contributions of otherwise bad people. It just doesn’t matter enough. Find someone cool who did a good thing and talk about that instead.

Someone who is 92 in 2026 was born about 1934. The Great Depression persisted (in the U.S. at least) until about 1940. So she definitely survived some early childhood years during the Depression.

But goddamn are we getting close to the point where the surviving elders are way way more likely to not have been around during the Depression than to have been.

We suffer from decades of society built up around the assumption that Cars Are The Way, and infrastructure/systems built around supporting cars. Zoning laws that separate business from homes, funding for supporting car infrastructure but not public transit, etc.

What we have, we have because people profited from ensuring cars were the solution most people moved to, then spending that money lobbying for numerous initiatives to ensure life was extremely inconvenient if you didn’t have a car.

The solution is neither “accusing anti-car people of having so sense of what’s going on”, nor “accusing car people of blindly feeding into a bad system”. It’s gonna take holding industries and lobbyists to account, and sustained action by many concerned citizens across multiple venues.

I’d say, they censor the smallest part you can, with the intent of leaving the meaning more or less intact while minimizing the offense that might be caused. “God ***" doesn’t really mean anything, but " damnit” does.

I just want, like, a bunch of new adventures using g the assets and rough blueprint of SMB3, Super Mario World, Super Matroid, and Link to the Past. I know there’s things out there people have done to the ROMs that are essentially this and I keep needing to go look for them and… not.

V, is that you?

Null set. No Nazi can actually be punk.

The social contract of tolerance doesn’t extend to those who are intolerant. They are outside the protection of Tolerant Society’s protection, and the Tolerant are free (and, in fact, strongly encouraged) not to tolerate them, because they aren’t covered.

Modem starts dialing up. Everything is going fine, attempting 28.8k negotiation… failed. Okay, now I’m listening to 19.2k negotiation… failed again? Ugh, ok, 14.4k… no? Jesus fuck. Please let me at least have 9600…

Edit: typoes