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Dr. Mechano

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · Oct 23

Starting a new story!

This is Dr. Mechano and the Gems of Mayhem, a comedy-adventure series starring a villain protagonist who goes on a misadventure for wealth and power!

Check out the first chapter! drmechano.com/book1-1

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

So yes, as with the USA, it should continue existing despite its establishment being founded on unambiguous wrongdoing.

But I also don't think Israel (or indeed any country) should be solely "for" any particular group of people. I oppose ethnostates. Non-Jewish Israelis are no less Israeli.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

My position isn't that it was right to establish Israel in the first place. It's that, since it already exists, it would be wrong to destroy it - as it would with any country, due to the human cost of it all.

Israelis living there now aren't responsible for what happened in the 40s.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

Every definition of Zionism I've looked at includes support for the establishment of Israel (which I don't agree with), and idea that it should be a "Jewish homeland" (which I don't believe; since I don't believe in homelands exclusively for *any* religion or ethnicity).

I reject the label.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

(And this is how I feel about the USA as well. The USA was founded on conquest and bloodshed and exploitation of the Native Americans - which is unambiguously wrong. But it's also too late to undo that, and it would be wrong to say "Alright, everyone has to go now." It's not tenable or realistic.)

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

This is why despite thinking Israel should continue existing, I'm not a Zionist.

It should exist because it would be immoral to uproot the lives of people already living there, since that's exactly what happened to the Palestinian people.

But it still shouldn't be an ethnostate. No place should.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

Non-Jewish citizens of Israel should be considered every bit as Israeli as Jewish citizens are. No country should be "a country for [insert any one particular group here]"

By law, they are considered equal. But social attitudes do often see Arab-Israelis viewed as outsiders despite being citizens.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2h

But I don't agree with that. I don't agree with the idea of any group of people having "a homeland of their own" that nobody else can live in as equal citizens, on the basis of religion or ethnicity.

This isn't limited to Jewish people, it's any group. I am against the concept of ethnostates.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, whenever a stranger follows me that's already following thousands of accounts, I always get a weird feelings. Like it's either a bot or - if it is a person - someone who can't possibly be that interested in what any individual they're following has to say, right?

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Da Dude @danintendude.bsky.social · 6h

Whatever happened to the big DK Head on DK Island?
This is my headcanon / speculative timeline.

#DonkeyKong

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, I agree.

They should be granted full citizenship (if they want it) and either get their exact former property back, or (if that is not possible) an equivalent value for it in today's money.

This still wouldn't make up for what their families lost entirely, but it is at least feasible.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 6h

And with Eggman presumed dead in movie 4, I guess we aren't getting a year of Eggman.

Man...

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 7h

My position is: It should *exist* because the damage of conquest is done (much like with the US); I want no more bloodshed. But it also must change the way it treats the Palestinian people.

I also think surviving descendants of Palestinians who lost their homes should get some kind of reparations.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 1d

People should absolutely curate their online experience.

I don't take it personally if someone blocks me. Whatever I'm saying and doing obviously isn't their thing, and they shouldn't have to look at it.

Likewise, when I block someone, it's nothing personal. I just don't want to see them.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 1d

The reason I dislike the blue shell isn't because it "balances" Mario Kart, but because it doesn't balance it at all.

The person in (or near) last place hits the person in first place and helps out the people in second or third place get ahead of them; meanwhile their own place hasn't improved.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever your feelings on AI, I don't think this is a realistic comparison or expectation.

Nobody used NFTs except tech bros with too much money/too little sense. Lots of people use LLMs.

I do think it'll level off and be less ubiquitous (ie, AI clumsily shoved into everything) eventually though.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

Music, of course.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if we could magically read minds and know for sure that someone is 100% remorseful and won't do it again (something we do have with fictional characters, at least sometimes), then there's a compelling argument that punishing them is pointless at that point.

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

Now, that strict consequentialism isn't for everyone. Some people need the bad guy to pay for their crimes for its own sake, whether or not doing so "accomplishes" anything practically. I don't agree but I also understand why on a base emotional level why many do feel that way.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like the purpose of prison is to quarantine dangerous people from the rest of society so that they won't hurt anyone else again. If someone already is remorseful, punishing them doesn't accomplish anything.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like Darth Vader's redemption is kind of in that category, but I do admit that I still kinda liked it.

He did unspeakably horrible things and helped destroy entire planets. His one act of goodness at the end of his life doesn't undo that - but it is better late than never, still.

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

Surgically removing Triforces

Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

Saying such-and-such character "doesn't deserve redemption" always floors me. What do you mean, "deserve" redemption?

To be redeemed you need to have been bad in the first place! Redemption isn't somwthing you deserve, it's something you choose to do. Forgiveness is something others choose.

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 2d

People are weird about redemption in media, and partially, at least in the US, it's because we're indoctrinated to be weird about redemption in general. People treat suffering as the ultimate form of atonement and can't reconcile the idea that someone can change but you don't have to forgive them.

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ewan(👻!!!!) @ewanthingdoer.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

I was typing "Dr. Andonuts" and my phone autocorrected it to "Dr. Ganondorf"

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Dr. Mechano @drmechano.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, he can agree to date her in Unleashed, and then Black Knight - the very next game - has Amy upset that Sonic stood her up for their date; a date Sonic never denies agreeing to go on.

It's like SonAmy was quietly and unceremoniously canonized in 2008 but they didn't make a big deal of it.

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