I've heard a few different people argue that all of them are really just pride/greed. Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth are just Greed in different "areas" of life. Wrath and Pride are more similar, but could be seen as either Greed itself, or as a reaction to greed. Like, wrath as a protective reaction to one's greed, and pride as a reaction once greed has been achieved.

I think one of them even suggested its all pride, as Christianity largely sees pride as the #1 sin. To me it makes sense, because a medieval peasant could run this show better then god at this point. If the poors think they're better then the dumbass running the show, they might do something. Make even the thought of replacing god a crime and you got a self controlling populace.

The failure to denazify west germany by shooting any "solder" or "officer" and its consequences.

Seriously. These people have zero respect for you. Have respect for yourself.

What are they going to do, sue you for a 30 year old game? That no one at the company made? Really, it proves that the average software dev isn't a creative. They have 0 respect for prior work, even if its their own creation. And I say that as a dev. Like sometimes old code sucks and isn't worth the bytes. But a whole work? Gone because a company decided it cut into their budget by more then a dollar?

Rome total war has problems, but its still probably the best TW game. CA released a "remaster" that is... just trash. The original got a patch, and that patch completely broke it on windows 10. They pushed that patch onto steam, hid the original, and now only sell the remaster. Its a fucking joke.

Meanwhile I've see the source code for one of the original MMOs because the devs threw it out there, and people picked it up and got it running. Its impossible for me to follow (I wanted to pull the sprites because they're amazing), but I respect it because it was and is impressive for the mid 90s. Incredible to think that if these dorks were in charge, it'd just be gone.

Probably plenty? Because of diabetes. Or because they remember high school science/chemistry. Our education system sucks, and we suck at remembering shit, but there are some things a huge number of Americants remember because our system(s) forces us to.

Some are jokes at this point (Mitochondrion are the powerhouse of the cell), others are dangerous (Shit about the Slaving Fathers), others are just wrong ("Everyone" thought the world was small, because Columbus sucked at math). Sure average joe might not know what glucose exactly is, but even I sometimes mix it up.

I like mentioning chirality to people, but even I couldn't remember if dextrose WAS glucose or if it was an isomer the other day. The average American might have some trouble with THAT sentence, but thats because its been 20 years since they've had to think about chemistry.

Couple personal examples: We had a program about maple syrup, and the older (like 30+ older) understood me better when I said "carbohydrates, like sugar" versus just saying "carbohydrates". Neurons sometimes need to be reattached, but the ideas are still floating around our mixed up brain gunk.

Grandma and family knew what glucose was, because they actually were trying to not die from diabetes. They didn't understand the full complexity of shit like fructose, etc. But they did understand both are sugars and could spike their levels.

And honestly, good for companies putting what sweeteners they're using in bigger text. Having to dig into a giant block to figure out if this is "real" sugar, some crappy artificial shit, a decent artificial one, or stevia is fucking annoying.

Who knew the self reinforcing markov chain would do this?

Literally anyone with a brain in compsci 5 years ago? Nah that's "hallucinations".

Whoever came up with the whole "blame literally anyone, but especially the Soviets/Russians" bit needs a prize. Its gotten literally over a century of use. Once you notice it, you see it fuckin' everywhere. It goes beyond any historical level of "foreigners bad" because it really is just used for literally anything. Advanced xenophobia I guess.

Maybe if libs broke out of it they could actually see results, but nope, RUSSIA, CHINA, CUBA! for any little thing, nope can't be anything else, can't be domestic, can't be our allies, can't even be random.

Because a few movies did "tragic villain" decently, audiences liked the switch-up, and the talentless hacks took it to mean that ever villain has to be "complex".

What's really funny is that "Did not vote" has won basically every election in my lifetime. And yet when I decide I'm not voting for Kamala because I bit my tongue and voted for H-Dog and Joey the last two times and got screwed, its MY fault if Kopmala loses.

Can't wait for him to get the "felon" label officially applied, spend 2 weeks in jail, then get elected while in jail, pardon himself, send the judge and jury to the border camps, then the liberals to cry and do nothing about it.

Americans literally watched tanks roll down suburb streets in 2020. Liberals never will.

The dox is a great read on how they did it. . Lots to learn how NOT to erase yourself from the internet. Basically, don't spill yourself online, don't reuse names, don't use your real name ever.

If you want to skip MOST of the bad crap or just want the details of what they did: ctrl + f "Joining The Dots" on the accollective link in the OP.

Some key parts: Followed a BBQ place on both twitter accounts Mentioned he was at an 8chan event in New York on reddit. Was in a gab leak and used his first intial last name email Reused some bitcoin forum username to promote his comic on reddit Reused even more accounts for reddit and twitter (and boosted his comics with them) confirming the link. Did some weird shit that makes it incredibly obvious his name is "important" like: Remove his name from random obits, claim a bunch of websites with his firstname/lastname email, have his house censored on google, and botch some scrubbing.

Not related to the dox per-say but: Worked for a soy company in Nebraska and got 23 bitcoins stolen.

The only bad news is that this didn't happen half a century ago. ( 🦀 still )