ChristerMLB
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- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 weeks ago:
I guess ideally we should have an open standard for software “storefronts” that should allow for multiple stores to be plugged into the same app.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
could you give me some examples of that common usage?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
it does involve some judgement against said preachiness, I guess I see that
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
Given the state of the world, and the anti-elitist sentiment going around, the fact that there aren’t genuinely leftist parties getting 70+ percent of the vote in a lot of countries, is a fucking wonder.
Part of the reason for that, is the academization of the left. One of the problems that has brought with it, is a nitpicky focus on the correct use of language.
If we are to succeed, the vast majority of leftist will necessarily have to be people without the right university degrees, or who do not hang out in the kinds of circles where they get socialized into acceptable language.
Going all fire and brimstone because someone uses a bad word, often quite innocently, is an effective way to come off as self-righteous and preachy. Acting like that is the most important part of politics, is a good way to come off as superficial.
There’s a reason why conservative strategists grab on to this and amplify it – because they know that this kills the left. The left does not work if it is not broad and populist.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t all try to be considerate or strategic with how we use language - but save the fire and brimstone for the elites and the material issues.
The fact that you believe that there’s a middle ground where the definition isn’t an attack on minorities
What I believe is that this is what the word means to a lot of people. We might want to change that, but right now you’re doing it wrong
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
Alternatively, as I wrote: in some places, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style - and he wants to distance himself from that style.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
yep, it’s great to have a progressive message, but a progressive message is not an easy-button - you still have to do the hard work of making good art
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
because you are now playing into the toxic norms that already exist’
how? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist
…so the guy who directed a game where you can have a medieval gay romance, does not acknowledge that LGBT+ individuals exist?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
So what should be the word we use for “media that depicts positive social ideologies?” Apparently “woke” includes the definition “while being super preachy about it.”
For a lot of people it does, yeah. I don’t know if the best solution is to run away from the word, though – like you say, it’s good to have a word for this stuff, and a different word is just as susceptible to being tainted by conservative strategists.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
sry
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
In a lot of places, not just far-right assholes, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style.
Yes, that is not what the word “originally” meant, yes it is partially the result of right wing propaganda, yes “political correctness” and “sjw” have similar issues, but it is still a real thing.
What the man seems to me to be trying to say is that their goal was to do a medieval gay romance in a way that was not preachy or superficial – is that not good?
- Comment on Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs 3 weeks ago:
raising wages is what allows people to handle inflation - suppressing wages to fight inflation is ass backwards, even if wage growth created some inflation
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
Why are you writing in Polish?
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 weeks ago:
thanks, this is clever
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
ah, but I was just wondering what it means
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
saving this. It’s a good question. I’ve heard plenty of thoughts on how it should work on a small scale, but nothing about the larger scale.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
this sounds promising, but how do you tax one thing against another?
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
I guess you tax assets more and salaries less - and work internationally to make tax avoidance harder and less profitable by taxing capital flows and by cracking down on tax havens.
Unless you can get a political consensus on it, I don’t think an inheritance tax will be very effective. Tax planners will find a way to transfer the wealth before it gets inherited, helped by certain kinds of politicians whenever they have power.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 month ago:
stock android on a fairphone 4 - I do use Syncthing for syncing, though
my Raspberry Pis are all resting atm, but I really should set one up with pihole and syncthing again…
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 month ago:
I guess the big question is how customizable this will end up being - all the arguments against it seem to assume there’s just an on-off switch, and that seems pretty stupid as anything but a tech demo.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
cool
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
jada, det er noen av oss her :)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
“The data found 25 per cent of gay and bisexual men would vote for Reform, with 33 per cent of straight men also pledging support to Farage’s party.
By contrast, Zack Polanski’s left-wing, pro-trans Green Party was the second most popular choice for gay and bisexual men at 19 per cent. However, amongst the straight men surveyed, only 7 per cent support the Greens.For lesbian and bisexual women, the Greens were by far the most popular choice, with more than a third backing Polanski (37 per cent). This was not reflected for straight women, with just 11 per cent saying they would vote Green and the majority of their support going to Reform (29 per cent)."
I guess Reform is just really popular :c - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
may_be@thelemmy.clubOP•2h
fluent in both, I presume?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
jøss, det er tre av oss
god bedring, neidu
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
people converse in Sanskrit? :o
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Native Norwegian, fluent in English, can struggle through childrens’ comic books in German and sort of get by in Egyptian Arabic.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 2 months ago:
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oh, well in that case I’m not sure what they could have done
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 2 months ago:
“When the police comes knocking on your door, you can’t just blame Proton”
obviously, but the ideal we should be working towards is that privacy is the default, right? The more normal it is to have this kind of privacy, the less suspicious it is.
are they legally required to store the credit card information?
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 2 months ago:
Expecting everyone to be good at opsec is not a practical solution