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But you mirrored both the genders and the way responsibility flows.

Some men and women are assholes who prey on the inexperienced, some men and women are naturally more confident than most, and give others a false impression, mostly or entirely unintentionally.

You don't seem to accept that some people can accidentally lead people on without actually trying to do that, that one person's obvious flirting can be another person's just trying to be friendly, that one person can never explicitly say that 'this is a committed, serious relationship', and another person can hear that anyway.

How about:

Many men, and women, and every other kind of human, often mistake confidence and decisiveness ... for competence, reliability, trustworthiness, responsibility.

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This is by no means totally specific to a sex or gender, it applies broadly, in all kinds of social situations, business relationships, etc, between all kinds of genders and sexes.

This innappropriate or overweighted heuristic tendency also tends to lessen with age, as people gain first hand experience and knowledge that this heruistic, this intuition, this assumption... is actually often not accurate.

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Anybody with decent charisma, which a huge component of is an above average, but not overwhelming level of outwardly displayed confidence, stands a better chance at convincing most people of basically anything, intentionally or unintentionally.

Lots of overly confident people bulldoze into a situation, legitimately believing they were well equipped to handle it in an ethical way, only later to realize... oh, I am in way over my head, I fucked up.

Lots of overly confident people also just know they are full of shit, and intentionally bulldoze through, and then either gaslight about how they did nothing wrong, or just fucking vanish.

This again works beyond just interpersonal romantic relationships:

For every bonafide grifter con artist (crypto for dudes, cosmetics MLMs for gals), there is a well intentioned new boss or manager who basically accidentally fucks up the entire department out of inexperience and hubris...

And both of those are often aided by their natural, above average levels of confidence and charisma.

Well I'd ask you to prove you're an asshole, but apparently you don't believe you could?

=P

I've been saying this for years, because it has been true for years:

There is nothing technical that makes AC impossible to implement on Linux, a smattering and then growing number of games have done this for years.

Almost every single prominent third party AC system explicitly supports Linux, most AC systems in general have at least one game that showcases that they work on Linux.

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

https://news.itsfoss.com/easy-anti-cheat-linux/

Yep, thats almost 4 years now that EAC and BattleEye have officially supported Linux/Proton.

It literally just is most devs/management don't bother to implement Linux support.

It is by no means impossible, and it has never beeen impossible, despite what hordes of mis/uninformed online 17 year olds have been screaming for years.

Also, kernel level AC is a scam, and it is also a paradigm that is likely on the way out.

After MSFT not reviewing the code of their 'trusted partners' to be able to directly fuck with the kernel, and this led to CrowdStrike pushing a shit tier update that functionally took down 1/4 of the world's computers...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-is-trying-to-get-antivirus-software-away-from-the-windows-kernel/

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/27/microsoft-evicts-antivirus-from-windows-kernel-after-2024-crowdstrike-outage-xcxwbn/

MSFT is now working on a new paradigm where AV, and presumably also AC software... will have much less direct, low level access to the kernel, instead having to use essentially an API from a higher level...

...because, as those of us who have been critical of widespread kernel level access for anything have been saying for years:

That paradigm is indeed far too great of a security and system level risk.

Turns out, a dev can indeed push a shitty update into production, the figurative call can come from inside the house.

Imagine losing your own family because they chose to do that.

Oh wait, I don't have to, went no contact years ago.

ORF ORF ORF

Yeah this is basically just a dad joke.

And this is being told to us by a drug addled, serial conman, with an insemination, but not actually breeding kink, who lies about his prowess in video games for attention and validation, and just released an interactive AI girlfriend/boyfriend simulator...

Who is also the richest man in the world.

Who paid for the person he is now mud slinging at, to become President.

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We live in a fever dream, or fan fiction level attempt at a cyberpunk novel from the 80s.

Fuck it, maybe simulation theory is correct, and us running a whole bunch of AI bullshit inside of it is just actually collapsing the narrative generation capacity of the simulation.

Damnit.

I've now made the fever dream even more ludicrous.

Learn the ways of OSINT, follow only the rules you want to.

On that note, may I interest you in a free, interactive instruction plan that teaches ethical hacking?

I was gonna ask, was this... that ball pit?

Ughhhh...

I know that as of 2024, its about 10 to 15% of Americans with a negative net worth.

More debt than savings/investments.

So... thats your floor for literal debt slaves.

But uh, hah hah HAH,... the housing market is now crashing.

And the vast majority of Americans have a their house as their largest... investment/debt liability.

So... yeah. Probably gonna be heading closer to 50%.

Oh right, and then also every one behind on their student loans is now getting sent to collections, grace period over...

Yeah its all fucked, so fucked I don't even think anyone has a holistic view of all the precise data, at this point.

I hear you that you don't want a full point by point debate, so I'll just respond as succinctly as I can.

A credit score is not, and should be construed as, a measure of responsibility (I see this line of thought a lot!) It's simply a measure of how risky it is to loan you money based on your established history of being loaned money. (You and I would probably fully agree about it being inappropriate for credit scores to be used for anything outside that scope, however!)

I... guess we agree on that last sentence, but you have to know that credit scores are routinely used for all sorts of things other than lending people money, that an entire data economy exists around this.

Most notably, in country where fewer and fewer people have no option but to rent a living space... If your credit score sucks, you don't get to live anywhere.

Companies soft pull your credit score before they decide to interviee or hire you.

Credit scores just are the social credit score all the rightwingers in the US are terrified of China for having, but they're controlled by corporations instead.

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Calling credit card use "going into debt" feels similar to saying that wearing a seatbelt is "tethering yourself down".

Two different, domain specific meanings.

I am focusing on the most literal and technically accurate one.

You are focusing on the colloquial one, which implies an onerous quantity of debt.

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As to credit unions being imperfect... yep.

They're not as competetive in many ways, because they do not have an exceptionally wide array of accounts to spread risk over... they are in my view, more representative of realistic local credit conditions.

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In general, you ignored my broader, main point of a totally financialized economy leading to a less equitable society... so... yeah.

Credit isn't a tool you can voluntarily use or not use or use in a different way.

You have direct control over a hammer. You do not have direct control over your credit report and score, it is abstracted, obfuscated behind layers of bureacracy.

You also have no choice but to use it, if you want to be an independent adult.

Its easier to live in the US without a car than without a credit score/history.

It is not optional if you want to participate in normal society.

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Welp, I did try to be succinct. I did not do a very good job, apologies for that, lol.