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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the AI backlash has turned violent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, 100% agreed, no notes. GenAI ain’t the problem, it is but a symptom of a fucked up system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually have a plan after Trump and clean up? Try as he might he's not in there forever. Can we be allies again with old ones while trying to stregthen ties with new one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, it’s hard to say. It’s still a bit early in the presidential cycle to ask if anyone has a plan for post-trump. You won’t really see that rhetoric popping up until early 2028.

  Is it possible/likely the next admin will be able to repair America’s reputation abroad? Again, hard to say at this point. Anyone telling you we’re all fucked forever or whatever is a silly doomer. Even someone worse than trump couldn’t dismantle the kind of influence/power America has diplomatically irreparably in such a short time. However, to help inform us of how things might look in the future; every region is the world has pivoted to moving to be more isolationist. Distrust and tensions are and will probably continue rising. Corporate capture is continuing to be a major worldwide problem. Conflict due to climate change is also on the rise. Many conservative movements, strongly encouraged by corporations, are doubling down on old tech in energy infrastructure and strongly pushing a [kinda] traditional nuclear family. Now without consequences, corporations are jumping hard into enshittification. Polarization in American politics just keeps getting worse and so much more stupid. I think these are many of the major issues that the trump admin has been directly responsible for either creating or making worse.

  Many of the elements that are currently changing the political landscape because of the trump admin really falls into two major categories: alignment of foreign powers and the problem of domestic corporations. NATO is likely to survive as-is. However, Europe is not only talking about becoming more independent militarily, they’re already actively making it happen. NATO will still be the primary military alliance for the foreseeable future, but if the American government continues to prove unreliable and the EU military reorganization is successful enough, I don’t see NATO continuing to be relevant. As for the trump admin cozying up to dictatorial states, I don’t think those relationships are sustainable due to their very nature, let alone the kind of attitude a Democrat administration would have toward those countries. More neutral countries are finding the increasingly unstable nature of American politics as a kind of vindication. While they aren’t exactly running into China’s arms or whatever, they’re certainly using the time of trump’s second term to ‘play both sides’ and are building some economic goodwill with China. Optically, China is looking pretty alright right now. It’s nothing that will guarantee China true superpower status that the ccp seems to be so horny for, but they can be kinda comfortable with their current position. Their aggressive rhetoric and economic practices will continue to hold them back in the eyes of the rest of the world, though. Russia/Putin? lol.

  So, all these things considered, America losing superpower status is extremely unlikely still. The dollar still reigns, the American military is still oversized, and American political influence is still very strong despite being weakened. Life in the west is still too comfortable to shake up the world order. While the trump admin is really fucking it up, the infrastructure to leave American hegemony is still fairly nonexistent. China is still not trustworthy and just not really built right for the task. It seems American allies are kinda holding their breath for the next admin to be more cooperative because they don’t have much of a choice. However, for Europe being put in this kind of position, it seems as though it was enough of a wakeup call for them to seriously make an effort to build themselves an exit. Canada is kinda geographically and economically stuck with the US. And Australia? lol, their government officials are basically just as unhinged as their American counterparts. While the political rhetoric of traditional US allies has been pretty vocal about permanent loss of trust in the US, it’s far from being so irrevocably broken as to kick the US out, less so because they don’t really want to leave, but more so because American power and it’s resilience tends to be underestimated somehow, realistic and desirable alternatives don’t exist, and the amount of damage trump can do/has done is usually blown wayyyy the fuck out of proportion. American hegemony isn’t under existential threat, but it has been weakened. Less like “THE CRACKS ARE SHOWING” and more like HP is at 95%. I’d keep an eye on how things develop over the next two years, but the needle only just showed it’s ability to move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they still offer shadows to shadow their work and learn a trade you want to try? Or is that the old days? I thought it would be neat to be an Electrician.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I worked as an apprentice for a bit doing commercial work. It’s pretty easy to hit up the local union to work as a wireman to get into the apprenticeship program. You’d be working full time with good benefits while getting all your classes in. Not sure how involved you’d be willing to get to “try out” electrician work. You might call one of the local electricians around to see if they’d be willing to let you job shadow. Some master electricians run off to run their own business once they get their hours and pass the test, so who knows what they’d be willing to consider, although I imagine a majority probably wouldn’t be too comfortable with the liability risk.

  Either way, you could probably call the local union to see what they have for those curious, might let you sit in on a class or something, I dunno. I can answer some questions as well if you’d like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy | RPG Site⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoo boy. My favorite FF. Considering how specific many of the design and aesthetic elements were, doing the game justice won’t be easy, requiring an amount of effort that I’m not confident will be honored. I’d love to be proven wrong, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These RAM prices are out of hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s almost TWICE what I paid for a fucking RTX4090 last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🥶🥶🥶🥶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, this will make a fine addition to my collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches disturbing footage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so ready to fight you with that first half, not gonna lie. I’m very much so in the camp that Charlie Kirk no longer being alive is a good thing, however, I do think the way he died may be a bad thing in that it kinda makes him a martyr. I think one huge mistake that people make with things like this is to not recognize that truly evil people were indeed still human. The most evil humans to ever live in Imperial Japan’s Unit 731 needed to die by any means necessary, but they were still human.

  I think that the belief that all humans are good or that all humans are bad is something that fundamentally distorts how we think about others, especially in political spaces. Humans aren’t innately morally aligned, work is put in to align anyone one way or another. People change, and, again, work must be put in to do so. All that to say that someone deserving death for how evil they are isn’t something easily determined, neither is it so black and white, nor can you ignore the potential for change. I think Charlie Kirk is a good example as I’m not really convinced he was reasonably unlikely to change versus someone like Nick Fuentes. However, the damage he has done to political discourse would be something difficult to overcome and can’t be ignored due to the scale. While I agree that him being dead is a net positive for humanity, I can’t agree with anyone saying it’s an easy slam-dunk determination to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caw caw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda figured I wasn’t the only one to think Gollum when I initially saw this, but it’s good to have it confirmed with poetry such as this.