StuCity 3000

If you are making a weird indie game and you have a demo you need to let me know.

i can't watch tv shows unless they directly teach me, a grown adult, important lessons about being nice and getting therapy. this is the sole purpose of art and entertainment

walter white should have looked directly into the camera and said "cooking meth is bad"

*punching wall later* stupid, stupid, stupid! You should have called it “Blighto”! You’re never good enough! This is why she left you!

Panty and Stocking homaged this panel in the revival

Ah, the question every redheaded guy must one day ask himself: Am I content to be a mere fetish, or do I want someone who loves me for me?

I feel like Veronica and I would have nothing in common.

If our present, and the last century or so, constitute the "best of all possible worlds" - that it's impossible and insane to imagine or try for anything better - than honestly we might as well push the big red button right now and give them cockroaches their turn at the wheel.

(Peaceful to the extent that powerful, developed nations don't bomb and invade others nor is there a particular expectation or fear that they might)

The peaceful, socialist world is not a utopian ideal, it's a sensible approach to obvious problems. The future it imagines is one still rife with conflicts, problems, mismanagement, human fallibility, stupidity... just not to the outrageous extent that we today accept as "normal".

The end of poverty, brutal mass exploitation, genocide, major wars, all these shocking yet routine horrors - this is not a wild utopian dream. It's a realistic expectation for a technological, global civilization of thinking, feeling beings. Mere absence of dystopia is not utopia.

Oh don't get me wrong we should also have regulation! But that has limited efficacy (or could even be exploited as a sales pitch - the medicine the government is keeping from you because it's too good!) without addressing the problems with medical practice and provision.

The popularity of quack medicine *is* a product of the failures of scientific medical practice. Not from a scientific efficacy perspective, but at the level of provision and application. It's a social failure, based on an industrial model that treats people as interchangeable widgets in the machine.

You'll walk away with a massage and some herbal supplements that do little or nothing -- but you'll feel heard, cared for, and respected. The emotional security, validation, sense of having taken action, (maybe therapeutic massage or whatever) and placebo effect will make you feel good.

Meanwhile a holistic naturopath whoever will see you promptly, sit patiently, nod at everything you say, and be very empathetic and provide (dubious but) intuitive seeming explanations. They'll never tell you you're wrong, imply you're a hypochondriac, or force a treatment you don't want.

You often come away from dealing with medicine feeling frustrated, confused, ignored, belittled, shitty (sometimes even because the medcine is working!), dehumanized, broke, befuddled by bureaucracy, having lost hours of your day to waiting rooms and forms...

Also I think probably no one doctor, no general practitioner, can probably handle & retain the full breadth and depth of medical knowledge and research.

Now add all the costs and price gouging (even in a semi-public system like Canada's) and you have a recipe for public distrust & dissatisfaction.

That and I bet a lot of doctors are kinda autistic. And all that dovetails with having to deal seriously, about serious matters, with intense time/resource pressure, with a public who is very emotional, scared, not well educated in the subject, and confused by bullshit from tv.

There's I think a kind of arrogance, elitism and fixedness of mind that can correlate to certain technical professions (see also engineers) - ones who deal with technical knowledge but mostly in the realm of settled-seeming issues (vs research scientists). Also their class composition.

I've had mostly good experiences with doctors, but I can kinda talk like one, and usually offer my self reports and hypothesis with a lot of caveats and deference -- eg not "I saw online I have this" but "I think this is possible, I read x and yy, but I'm not a doctor, what's your expert opinion?"

And probably a lot of people are not very good at communicating what or why their situation might be atypical, either. Not in a way that's clear and logical, much less sounds sensible to a doctor.

Of course, I imagine doctors do deal with a lot of hypochondriacs and cranks, and they're stretched thin and time crunched, and the diagnosis and treatment they're offering is correct (given available data) 80% of the time - so it's like "I'm the fucking doctor jesus christ just take your medicine!"

There's a tendency to play to statistical averages and use one-size-fits all diagnosis and treatment, and for anybody who's got a non-average experience, it's pretty frustrating. Their own self knowledge or experience is treated as ignorant hypochondria or crankery.

Everyone I know who favors "alternative" med has had experiences with doctors/hospitals that they found to be dehumanizing, disrespectful and/or confusing. Often it involves getting a default diagnosis or treatment for an atypical disorder or context and suffering as a result.

Quack medicine thrives almost paradoxically because of it's unreliability - this forces practitioners (whether con artists or earnest cranks) to develop great 'soft skills' to thrive in that market. People like holistic woowoo types because they make them feel respected, heard, or even indulged.

essentially the entire problem with doctoring is that two totally different professions— medicine and care— have been combined into one, and people who want to do medicine broadly resent the expectation to perform care, to disastrous results.

Boggles my mind that people are capable of seriously thinking like this

@ernstrohmSA: nothing worse than watching your day 1s get clouted and switch up! iykyk

the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims

It isn’t generative AI. It’s trained on cinematography to help with editing, by pointing out when there are errors in things like lighting and lack of continuity, and to assist in producing dailies.