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- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 1 week ago:
Alright stop, collaborate and listen
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 1 week ago:
Do office workers actually work? No, but they make coffee, collaborate, and network.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 week ago:
I agree, but it could also be that PalWorld is a bigger target because it is kinda like a Mickey Mouse horror film: it runs counter to the brand of Pokemon to have a game where you shoot them with heavy weaponry.
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 1 week ago:
Yes, and they do.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the recent movements in company structure have been away from selling things and toward rents (i.e. away from capitalism and toward neofeudalism). That is why everything has become a subscription service (even things that you used to pay once and be able to use as is until you wanted to “upgrade” like, for instance, Adobe Photoshop). AWS is another example of this.
Doctorow explains the difference in this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Tl6yIsCoY
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
This country has lost its fucking mind is the only conclusion I can reach.
I remember the summer of 2016, when I was playing Pokemon Go in the parks and people I had never talked to or knew they lived nearby were playing it next to me. We were all celebrating when we caught a pokemon when we were after, and comparing which ones we’d caught with each other.
At the time I thought…who would buy Trump’s conman routine? Who actually thinks that the country is in a terrible enough place that we need to elect this person who seems to actively hate the country and seemed to want to set the entire thing on fire?
I left my Californian home and went back to my original state to visit my family. We went to several different areas of the state in fall of 2016 because my wife was from a rural area and I originally grew up in a slightly more suburban area. I saw the signs in the yards, I saw the discontent, and I saw how people did not seem to be reacting the same way to his craziness. I saw how casually they would put on his rants in the background while talking about other issues. I saw how some of them were amused by his antics. It had been a couple of years since I had last been back and it once again struck me how much worse the area appeared to be from the last time I was there. I was in a rural area when the “Access Hollywood” tape dropped. People seemed to visibly shrink at even the mention of the news. I thought he was done for, and that this was a bridge too far for his supporters to cross. That people would vote third party, or not vote at all.
When I came back to California, people were talking about the debates. It was sunny and nice out, and people would talk about the projects they had going on in their houses, or they’d talk about work related affairs. People were sometimes amused by Trump’s antics, but everyone uniformly thought it was impossible for him to win the election. Having seen what I had seen in the weeks prior, I was no longer one of these people. “They’ll never let him win” one of my co-workers said. I was stunned…who are “they”? Does the rest of the country actually believe this?
It turns out quite a few of them did. Many people thought there was just simply no way that Trump would win, because either the system was already rigged against him and would not allow him to win, or because the country was just not in dire straits enough to elect such a madman (as I once thought).
Hindsight is 20/20 but when I thought it was bizarre that he was even a viable candidate at one point in 2016, and I saw the decaying state where I grew up, I thought “if he wins the election, then we are in a much worse state as a country than I thought”. And we undoubtedly are.
Of course he won, but the reason that I have this somewhat rambling response to this question is that the answer to “why is he still in the race?” ultimately comes down to the overall state of this country.
He is in this race because this is where we are as a country: barely able to imagine a possible future that is brighter than the current one, because we are still caught up in degenerative non-sense that keeps us thinking that our broken down towns, and our poor social bonds are caused by some horde of “others” instead of their true cause: our ever-widening wealth inequality and our ever-decaying moral responsibilities to each other as well as our national instinct to absolve ourselves of our responsibilities by claiming it is correct to be forever self-serving, that even the idea of altruism is a facade.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 weeks ago:
At some point, companies completely absolved themselves of a large part of their purpose…which is to provide employment.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 weeks ago:
Totally track with the fact that the eventual destination here isn’t capitalism, it’s actually worse than that…it’s fucking neofeudalism.
They don’t want to produce a better product than the competitors, they want to extract rents from anyone unlucky enough to need to use the tools or knowledge in their fiefdom, and they want to use those rents to buy up more tools and knowledge to charge rents on.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 weeks ago:
The American public also elects them to office so they get to run your entire life.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 weeks ago:
Working from home isn’t really the problem. The job is.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 weeks ago:
So you’re saying a niche platform with a lot of tech guys who are actively facing layoffs daily isn’t representative of society overall? I’m super surprised.
But relatedly depression levels have risen in multiples across society over the years, it’s gonna impact the posting.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 3 weeks ago:
Windows server is notoriously terrible compared to using Linux on a server. Most tech people (even those who begrudgingly run Windows on their desktops) know this.
The parent’s comment isn’t about “Windows bad” or “this is the year of the Linux desktop” it’s about a group of people cosplaying as tech wizards when they use laughably bad software to run their business because they lack technical expertise.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 3 weeks ago:
Why didn’t they just make it a fucking animated movie?
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 weeks ago:
I think something that is missing in the minds of all the “but you could just…” is that the mindset of the OP doesn’t always come from laziness or the inability to navigate how to pack a sandwich, it sometimes comes from crippling or barely functional depression.
I work from home and the thought of even making a sandwich most days in the middle of the day is just too much. I don’t want to make a sandwich, and I know how to make a sandwich. I want to go back to bed for eight to ten years.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 weeks ago:
I find you can’t even get a sandwich anymore for less than $15.
(Fast food may be slightly cheaper, I wouldn’t know because I don’t frequent fast food chains.)
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 3 weeks ago:
Tech company management loves the idea of ridding themselves of programmers and other knowledge workers, and AI companies love selling the idea of non-productivity impacting layoffs to unsavvy companies (tech and otherwise).
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 3 weeks ago:
The existing ages system seemed really bad in some of the games I played. You’d have like nuclear warfare while neighboring countries on the same continent hadn’t developed agriculture. I know countries develop at different rates, but like India didn’t have to research and upgrade its way through multiple ages in real life in order to have cities and technology companies.
- Comment on Dayuuum 5 weeks ago:
So she decided to verbaly assault him?
A) Not verbal
B) Not assault
- Comment on Go already 5 weeks ago:
This is trains but worse. The HOV lane also does not do much for traffic. It’s slightly less miserable to sit through a traffic jam at times, but often is similar speed wise to a regular lane.
Source: myself, driving in and around LA
- Comment on Many such cases 1 month ago:
jQuery is performant in modern browsers, and when being delivered compressed and minified is tiny, so if you want to use it, go for it. Anybody who criticizes you or tells you “you should use [x]” for your online store or website is a JS elitist.
I was huge into jQuery but the “modern” frameworks seem like a complete dumpster fire full of poo to me.
All of this MVCC non-sense, and components and services and shit, and still I see the pages developed with Angular making 4 or 5 calls for the same fucking bit of information from the backend.
- Comment on obesity 1 month ago:
I forget what comedian said it, but if you’re discussing two words and you cannot even say anything except the first letter of one of the words, that’s the worse word.
- Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool? 2 months ago:
Swim laps ya maggot!
/s /drill instructor
- Comment on The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 2 months ago:
Hamburger music starts playing
Good jaaaaab good jaaaaaab
- Comment on AI is ruining the internet | Drew Gooden 2 months ago:
I’m not usually one for these types of videos but this one had me laughing pretty hard throughout.
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 2 months ago:
It’s funny how similar AI generated images are to “what are ten things that are wrong with this picture?” questions in an IQ test.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ll remain ignorant because I didn’t read some poorly composed wall of text written by some random stranger on the Internet.
You know what, you’re right after all. This is a great community. I can feel the sense of belonging already. 😆
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 months ago:
I ain’t reading all that.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 months ago:
That seems like the problem and what’s creating the perception making you agree with this.
No, you just personalize everything.
Again, I’m not making up the statistics. I’m not writing the books or doing the analysis. People who spend their whole career doing this stuff are doing it, and you find it easy to dismiss all of it because you agree with the “criticisms” section of a wikipedia page, have a confirmation bias, and you like the little tech bubble you live in…so it must not be a problem overall if it doesn’t affect you personally.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 months ago:
I’m sorry you’re struggling with loneliness, personally I’m definitely not and I can’t say I know anyone who is.
It has nothing to do with me personally. I’m a bit of a hermit myself. I’d say my social needs started to not be met around 2022 (after approximately 2 years of near total isolation due to COVID) but now I’m completely back up to baseline again.
It has to do with the country: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone.
The data also doesn’t tell the story you’re telling anecdotally here: wgbh.org/…/loneliness-most-prevalent-for-bisexual…
Yes, it’s possible for people in marginalized communities to reach each other digitally using the Internet, it’s also possible for them to encounter more hatred and bigotry online than they used to in real life (albeit with hopefully less dire consequences).
Sounds like we’re just measuring mental health awareness, plus the rise in boomers using the web and often exposing people to their alienating rhetoric.
I don’t think I’m “just measuring” anything. If you want to plug your ears and pretend that I’m not talking about real problems, that’s all fine and dandy. Go ahead about your day and enjoy your dating apps, but social media isn’t all roses.
There is research indicating that, for one thing, these platforms cause real harm to girls in adolescence specifically: noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-…
- Comment on Ironing 2 months ago:
We’ve got a collective fetish for being lightly choked all day while in an air conditioned space and attending meetings about “north star visions”.