Even though I think overpopulation is real, maternity care is something that I've always cared about. The deaths of women and children isn't the solution to overpopulation. Human populations tend to overcompensate for casualties. When death risks are low, population growth slows.

When speaking to the world at large, it's a failure of imagination to imagine everyone will agree with anything you say.

I have one follower who makes me very aware that they read everything I post, and I feel greatly honored by this. Remember, when you like posts, you're offering a form of encouragement. Like promiscuously, for it costs little and can cheer much.

Be happy in compassion. Let nobody shame you for caring. Take pleasure in helping others, so that there will always be a surfeit of help in the world, and then all burdens will be shrunk. It is not ghoulish to be happy when others are unhappy, so long as your happiness is to their gain as well.

The world is all bad news lately. If I knew where to put money down to profit from it, I'd be trying to move my investments to profit from an imminent global famine stemming from Trump's decision to attack Iran. I think it'll happen, I just... don't know what to do with the information.

I would be very 'hurray get 'em!' about organized crime prosecution cases if we'd legalize drugs. Without drugs, the remaining crimes are stuff I really care about, but when I hear a guy smuggled drugs into a country, I think, "Don't you cop types have sexual predators you're not prosecuting?"

I really want Count Binface to win. Make the right choice, Clacton! The international prestige of the UK is at stake! Send Farage where he belongs — to the trash can!

I don't actually find Youtube's algorithm tending to feed me bigotry, but I accept and believe others complaining about this. It is a complaint that has been made by many credible sources.

4,520 words today on my avali story. I intend to publish this when it's done! It's at 43,779 words so far. I am not sure how long it will be when it's done.

I'm sort of chewing on something with my character Vima, and with my reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This work is rich with grandiosity and appeals to narcissism. It is done pretty well, but it's a bad thing to do. My Vima risks that, too. Already she is in discord with her friends...

This world is so disappointing. I just want a safe space in a creative reality. A world of fellow creators, and nobody striving for dominance.

I'm starting to think some of the people decrying "antisemitism" today are actually antisemites trying to poison society's ability to take antisemitism seriously so they can do antisemitisms unchallenged in the future.

If a nation has sociopathic leaders who see the public as pawns to use up and dispose of, and it has a hollowed-out industrial base that nobody knows how to bring back to life, it has neither life-preserving nor industrial-superiority reasons to use drones, and drones are suboptimal for it.

The internet would be a better place if everyone online had at least one international friend. Some people would still be jerks, but fewer of them.

Good times create strong men. Strong men create hard times. Hard times create weak men. Weak men create good times. Kill the great heroes; they are the harbinger of the turning of the wheel towards tragedy. They bring misery in their wake, as do those who worship them.

My Project Silverfish character is once more trusted by all factions simultaneously, and has paid off her debt. Go Vulture! She's going to escape the zone with cash on hand.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social I bet my sentiment score is negative!

I tried to listen to an old book about aesthetics and I think I know why conservatives might be drawn to aesthetic "philosophy". It lets them launder their biases into "objective", or at least supposedly universal, claims about what is and isn't beautiful. I want reasoning, not a catalogue...

When a company selling games discloses AI usage in a game, I do not buy that game. I do not reject the developer forever. I consider that I will likely buy from them again when the AI bubble pops and they go back to making games for real. If they use AI without disclosing it, I blacklist them.

When people are so deskilled they can't do anything without AI and so alienated they no longer have friends with working brains, it will be time for the harvest. The AI will be their own intelligence sold back to them on a meter, and they will not escape a trap of working for what once was free.

I like the sharp ears on most shark anthros.

I think the mere existence of atheism constitutes a challenge to conventional ideas of divinity. If god exists, is omnipotent, and wants to be worshipped, how is it POSSIBLE to deny his existence? Atheists imply a flaw in omnipotence by their mere existence.

Gavin Newsom would be the perfect candidate for the Epstein class to mock the public with, suppressing Democrat votes hard with the sheer horror of a right-winger like Newsom being presented as the Dem candidate. That way an even-more-preferred far right candidate would probably win.

Pronoia bait: people are deliberately creating an unsustainable hero culture around bigoted celebs so that when they die off there's no infrastructure to recruit a next generation of monsters. Sadly I don't actually believe this prospiracy theory.

I think high speed rail is most economically beneficial where populations are quite high. This means that it is much easier to find beneficial routes in China than it is to find them in America. I am not convinced that national high-speed rail would cause economic growth. HOWEVER.

Is managing pop happiness and stability supposed to be completely trivial in Stellaris, or is that just me? In every play I do, almost everyone is 100% happy. It's always a fantasy of utopia for me. Am I not expected to treat amenities satisfaction as the #1 priority of my entire empire?

Audiobooks are a simple pleasure. Too simple. I find it very hard to seriously contemplate what is said within an audiobook. Reading something engages my mind far more deeply than hearing something, and I cannot easily play back in my head the recent content of an audiobook.

Blindfolded avali dominatrix. She doesn't need her eyes to keep control of you. She can hear your every breath, and even sense the air displaced by your movements. Your body is her soundscape.

Nietzsche strikes me as atavistic and common. A crass and awful anti-philosophy, not a philosophical cry so much as a cry against the art itself. To think measuredly and reflectively seems to be deemed to be the art of the last man, and I daresay that the sheep need no shepherds for their freedom.

Conservapedia is a parody site, right?