• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Honestly good satire. A lot of law enforcement tactics, statistical based policing, and psychoanalyzing is intentionally using high false positive rate tests (like something like this would be) in order to justify going after whoever they feel like.

      • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Oh absolutely. Honestly, the reason I wanted to make it clear was that I couldn't tell without searching the full headline

        As far as I knew, US intelligence didn't have that specific spying infrastructure, but I wouldn't have been shocked considering precedents like Cointelpro & Friends

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's entirely believable. Modern always online games record a huge amount of telemetry about what the player is doing at all times.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's amazing what you can predict when you don't care how high the false positive rate is.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Put everyone on a watch list and you'll get 100% of future sociopaths.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        2 years ago

        Just stick everyone that works for the ABC ghouls on a watch list and you'll have a 100% list of current and future sociopaths

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    2 years ago

    Imagine being the guy that has to comb through steam database logs to find out which players kill the most prostitutes in GTA or some shit and then having to cross reference their behavior with any of their online text communications or some shit. Having your job be to submerge yourself in the darkest corners of reactionary internet culture has to be an extreme form of psychic damage.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah but they were already selected for the job for being a psycho so I don't care

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        2 years ago

        Nah that's the kind of job that is given to some low level data analyst. They have just as much a chance as anyone else in government or law enforcement to have their mind shattered by peaking behind the curtain.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Me, who spent a non-insignificant amount of time wailing on Chickens in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: :jesus-christ:

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    1 year ago

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    • AlcoholEnjoyer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Gonna be honest, I side with the Stormcloaks purely because I don't like the armor on Imperial soldiers.

      • amyra [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I side with the Imperials purely because I prefer age of aggression over age of oppression

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          imperialism is more progressive than nascent isolationist capitalism :thinkin-lenin:

    • NotARobot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      if you think about it the stormcloaks are a color revolution

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    why does the pig have to have nice forearms :bawllin-sad:

  • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    So the fed’s premise is:

    behaviors toward NPCs predict behaviors toward other human beings in real life

    So the feds think that other humans are just NPCs in their lives?

    Who’s the sociopath here … ?!

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I cried when my brother was killing seals in Warcraft 2 so i can be trusted with nuclear launch codes.

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    2 years ago

    Please let the fact I adopt children and give gifts to them and good gear to my thanes and help the homeless make up for the fact I cast fury and necromancy on mudcrabs to make them fight each other every time I find them in a group. or use arvel's convection on weak enemies because I know they'll die faster than I will and the spell costs no magic(but only deals 1 damage per second.) Or just everything I have done in Markarth(cursed city). And everyone I have killed for Daedra. In all fairness, I did make my character drown himself out of guilt the last time I played.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      2 years ago

      Also I cast fury on NPCs I don't like so the guards can kill them for me.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    the players who turned all their npcs into bimbos getting raided by the FBI for alleged bimbofication plots

  • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    If they don't have a unique name, they're getting stealth killed and looted sorry. Gotta get NCR dog tags somehow.