uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 day ago:
Parents’ Divorce betrays the irony, (Though speaking of my parents divorce, my presence and neurodivergence certainly figured into the escalating contention between them. That’s a different – probably TMI – story.)
I’ve grown up with sincere propaganda with similar sentiments, and it appeared to get worse at least through the aughts. I think millennials saw them as ironic. Zoomers appear to find them as laughably absurd as the you’re neighbor may be a terrorist propaganda. My Alpha grandson is taking it seriously at 11. Alphas are figuring out early that it’s all a myth to cover up they have nothing to hope for ( at least until revolution goes hot).
In fact, I’d say the serious versions all the signs that we are, in fact, in a YAF dystopian coming of age model, where the society is trying to mold us into replaceable, expendable laborers and soldiers to be expended on billionaire vanity projects (which often appear as nationalist military action or corporate commerce). Your story as a kid is to find a way to escape the paradigm, either to join the Rebel Alliance, or become pirates and hackers…
…oh wait, unless you get abducted by ICE / Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS and stuffed into a concentration camp to be disposed of later. Then you’re just fucked.
If you don’t escape the paradigm as a kid, then welcome to the resistance. You’re one of the isolated rebels like Winston Smith in his corner out of sight of the telescreens, keeping his journal. Also like me. Still working on that. Not sure if I’m going to go Weiße Rose or La Résistance
You may be held responsible for all these things, even if you’re often not to blame for them or had a way to actionably evade their harmful consequences. Seventy-seven million Americans voted for a regime that is going to have a far greater impact on our lives than many of the typical personal life choices we make. There Are No Rules Any More. Mired in the Rot in Denmark, to thine own self be true.
In this fucking world, I do not begrudge anyone their tequila, or cigarettes, or their crack pipe, or their poor diet, or their ten terrabytes of pornography…or their arm full of scars.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 2 days ago:
You know, make it and I’d join it. Lets see if I can find my last (based on current events) writing prompt:
The Disciples of Eris, a super-powered anti-villain team that specifically targets ostentatious billionaire (or VIP) events like weddings and birthdays, first to arrange for scandalous exposure and then to wreck the eve. A signature golden apple is typically discovered post-hoc by the cleanup crew.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 2 days ago:
At start, she’s the roommate that is the stable income for the household (different characters who have their protagonist moments), and is the one they can depend on to make sure rent is paid, and there’s bad pseudo-Chinese food to eat.
Then she does get her promotion, and gets in way over her head, having to compromise her values to stay employed, and eventually to live.
This is a very similar story path of Sam Lowry in Brazil (1985), though he leaves his perfect job it to chase after his (literal) dream girl.
- Comment on It’s the little things 2 days ago:
The water would react similarly to alcohol. Yes, the puddle would be bigger but it would evaporate faster.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 2 days ago:
A character in my cyberpunk dystopia novel I’m not quite writing yet, (working name Garden Gnome ) has realized that most of the clerical staff are bullshit jobs or the general clerical pool doing bullshit assignments, and realizes everyone’s just courtiers or garden hermits, and so develops a run of performance routines (running to the copy machine just as it’s finishing a job; standing on her tippy toes on the stepladder to access the high files, not getting jokes but saying something even funnier, etc.) as way to meet-cute her way into the upper-management secretarial pool.
If you’re not in the office for actual work, then (for good or ill) you’re there for your character.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 2 days ago:
This sounds like the kind of flirting I’d expect after seeing '80s and '90s teen angst movies. In retrospect screenwriters just don’t understand how humans interact, or rather they just don’t care and go for madcap antics instead.
I’m way neurodivergent, and was completely unaware of human interaction, so I was looking at Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire (etc. etc.) trying to decipher how all that works.
I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction. (Note that I matrix-dodged a barrage of incel-to-fascist pipeline bullets thanks to some amazing strokes of fortune.)
After the fact, in recollection, I realized then that a lot of women in my young adult life were signalling me and I never knew.
I also realized my aunt was totally hitting on me when I was sixteen. That’s all sorts of awkward to reconcile.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 4 days ago:
This meme illustrates by example one of the key failures of capitalism:
Upper management doesn’t see itself as responsible for overseeing staff to maximize their productivity via data-driven methods (e.g. let them have human lives while they work)
Upper management sees staff as their courtiers and garden hermits there to emphasize how important the execs are.
Hence RTO mandates rather than letting them telecommute or giving them sweet workspace at the office.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 week ago:
Well this just wrecked my evening.
But this is an ongoing, recurring story. Thief 2014 was a mockery of the original titles.
- Comment on Mages be like: 1 week ago:
Meanwhile 77 million Americans really let the Djinni out of the bottle in November.
Maybe every story is Pandora’s jar.
- Comment on Saying "It is what it is" when it is all that it is 2 weeks ago:
Obama campaigned on getting past it. ( Hope amd Change ) but then he didn’t. Corporations got their bailouts. OWS was cleared violently with the cameras off. BLM notice law enforcement kill a lot of people. The disposition matrix was a thing. The IWOT went on and on. The mass surveillance state was a thing. The economy was better but 88% of households were in precarity, and a lot of people were homeless.
And then Trump won by the EC.
So Ive been waiting for things to get better for a long, long time. I’ve just stopped expecting the suck to ever reverse, or even ebb.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 3 weeks ago:
I just use LGBT+ since it was LGBT for a long time (it was GLBT but the Ls earned their place at the front during the AIDS crisis) then it became LGBTQ, then a bunch of other letters were added while the community was recognizing is profound variety before it turned into LGBTQ+
Q+ has a nice ring to it, but since I’m an unusual form of NB, I fit squarely into the catch-all variety of Q.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 3 weeks ago:
Welsh?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 weeks ago:
Wait until automated freight delivery services (from trains and trucks down to little carrier bots) kill about a third of the jobs that exist.
In ten years people would be working less than twelve hours a week, but rich and powerful people will not give up a jot or penny of wealth and power.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
That is a good assessment. Yes.
In fact, the race between capitalist interests to bypass safety and get AI soonest is entirely about getting that power to be able to use it to hold everyone else hostage.
- Comment on It's the dream 3 weeks ago:
My management tricks (which came from being managed) included calling for a 90 minute meeting if I needed 45 minutes, and bring snacks.
Oh and when someone finishes an all day job in half a day, let them goof off for the rest of the day.
But then I believed that whole happy workers are maximally productive workers thing that, well, every serious management study reports.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
Courtesy of XKCD, long before we have to contend with unfriendly AI (we have committees of AI-techs working on this problem already) we’ll have to contend with someone like Musk or Bezos determined to own everything and capable of creating an AI-controlled army of killer robots.
We’re not sure how rogue AI is going to manifest. We are sure rogue power-seeking humans exist all the time, and positions of power are commonly filled by them. (That’s the primary argument for election by sortition, or by lottery.)
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
Whatever made that crater was an ELE. Bigger than Chicxulub.
We have plenty of great filters to navigate:
We end war, or we die.
We restore the atmosphere and rebuild global ecology, or we die.
We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die.
Where are all the aliens? Fermi asked. The first question is, how do we navigate our way to becoming a space-faring, world colonizing species, ourselves? It’s turning out to be pretty difficult for the common hominid.
- Comment on Future aspirations 3 weeks ago:
The… Crowmistress? Queen of Corvids?
- Comment on Future aspirations 4 weeks ago:
From the witching community, you’d have pretty good luck befriending the local murder of crows with cheap bread. Upgrade the bread as the shinies they bring you improves.
According to the meme, pretty soon you’re a Batman villain.
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 4 weeks ago:
Sacramento Police department has a helicopter, Air One, that the department is super proud of. I live in a not-rich neighborhood where Air One likes to hang out and help which sometimes includes shouting inaudibly on the PA. Air One has its own webpage which is sometimes current about what it’s doing, but not always.
Air One also likes to fly low enough that we can hear the thumping of the rotors through our apartments. At 11pm on a school night. We know it doesn’t have to because the rescue choppers zing by quietly on their way.
And lately Air One has gotten, whinier. This loud screeee! that wasn’t their before that makes me thing something in the rotors is not sufficiently oiled, or something is about to fall apart. I wonder if Air One is soon going to make an unscheduled landing in my neighborhood.
- Comment on Just be that way 4 weeks ago:
Well, I needed an example.
- Comment on But but but 4 weeks ago:
I may be thinking of the July Revolution of 1830, in which case you’re right. They’re not the same, just related.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 4 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to elaborate on both. I can’t imagine a far-right opinion I agree with.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t know what, in a meme format, differentates a shitpost from a non-shitpost.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Saw it after I posted it.
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- Comment on But but but 5 weeks ago:
The French Revolution took about a century to fully process through. There were several instances of guillotines and piles of heads. We usually know about the first one (and the second one for those who’ve seen Les Misérables. ) During the post 1789 process there was also a weird cult thing that looked a bit like MAGA, until even the cultists got tired of Robespierre’s bullshit.
Marie Antoinette was a perfectly serviceable princess / queen and fielded charities and smiled at the commoners and all the things ambitious feudal ladies are supposed to do. She never said Qu’ils mangent de la brioche but the rumor of it was current, and sped her way to the guillotine. She was also accused of sexual perversities, including The German Vice (lesbianism) most of which had to be explained to her so she could deny having doing them.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 5 weeks ago:
Looney Tunes did it first.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 5 weeks ago:
I presume the point that you only need one methane source connection for two appliances that use it heavily.
So, an appliance for low-drag homesteads.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 5 weeks ago:
My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.
It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.
