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An amazing read. I can’t imagine being in that situation. This is the sort of ordeal that movies should be made of.

Everyone’s focused on 1111.

Me: Twelvedy Twooty Two

“Public companies…legally have to put shareholders first.”

I thought this too, but it is apparently a myth.

"There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize corporate profits and “shareholder value” — even if this means skirting ethical rules, damaging the environment or harming employees. But this belief is utterly false.

To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

I was curious about why this guy had such beef with a worm. Does he think Sesame Street is left-wing propaganda or something? So I did some digging.

I found two fairly long threads on reddit, where 95% of the thread is finding ways to explain why Jordan Peterson has penis envy, psychotic break, etc. And the remaining fraction were quietly, downvotedly, pointing out that it’s an edited tweet from an account who’s been applying some of his tweets to look like they’re against sesame street.

https://twitter.com/marionumber4/status/1704665509747126311?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

https://twitter.com/junlper/status/1704587155362783524?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

https://twitter.com/junlper/status/1704522516494954733?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

This seems to be the original “Go To Hell”.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1704190095190864010

Yeah, it seems we agree. My stance was only ever that I can understand why some people would’ve wanted to remove political controversy from their escapism if it made them uncomfortable and added nothing to the gameplay itself.

There’s no difference between a movie casting a woman/black man as the main character, compared to casting a trans person?

Whether or not it should be, isn’t LGBT issues political/controversial?

I dunno, being a man, woman, or black person isn’t political. Trans, non-binary, etc is, and normalizing it is political, regardless of if it’s right or wrong. I think that you’re correct and that it seems like something done as ammunition in the Culture War; normalizing identity politics rather than a design decision done out of a necessity to improve the quality of the game apart from that.

My earlier analogy was about having a pro-life/pro-choice option forced on you, but I guess to make it more accurate it would be more like the game just telling you that you’re pro-life as part of your character settings? Because it’s not just putting the politics in the game, it’s taking a strong side. Again, rightly or wrongly, I can see why some people would resent that in their escapism.

I mean, I sorta get it. Identity politics are political and often divisive, and some people don’t want it in their escapism.
It’s not a perfect analogy, but if a role-playing game had a mandatory character-selection choice to choose if my character was pro-choice or pro-life, I could see myself mildly resenting it.

I see…and why is it the thumbnail on an article for a piece of computer hardware?

Okay but why is the thumbnail an erotic underwear model with her bush out?