It sucks for everyone but the people in charge are too stupid or apathetic to change anything.
I applied to an internal role like 2 months ago and they’re just ghosting me. Like, I see them on teams. I send them follow up messages. Nothing. Bunch of AI brained assholes.
They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.
Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.
The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.
I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though?
Enforce hierarchy
I remember once on a forum a big cis het guy was saying that he’s never seen cat calling on the street. Never him, and never at any of his friends. Someone pointed out that since he’s a big dude, he’s probably not going to be catcalled, and other shitty dudes are likely not going to bother people near him because of patriarchy.
To everyone’s surprise, he came back and was like “ok that makes sense. And I asked my women friends and they told me a lot of stories”
Rare to see someone change their mind like that.
I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism.
I mean, there’s no limit to how stupid people can be. But I think a lot of conservatives like to say that the racism of the past doesn’t matter anymore. That a family that was enslaved 160 years ago (just beyond living memory now, but potentially someone’s great-great-grandparent), and then subject to Jim Crow and other cruelties through… generously the 1960s but realistically the 1980s, that family has no long lasting effects.
But really it’s important to remember that conservatives just say things. They don’t care about facts or truth. They care about power, and their emotions. So even if you proved that racism was systemic and had measurable effects (eg: The Color of Law), it won’t matter. They don’t care about facts. They care about feelings.
This is funny because many conservatives say things like “facts don’t care about your feelings”, but it’s well known that conservatives project more than movie theaters.
Desktop: 0. It’s off. I close the browser when I’m done
Phone: the number says 64, but only 25 “active”. I should probably prune.
A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of
The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.
I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.
Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.
I don’t think they learn or understand the world very well. That’s why they’re the way they are.
Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.
Competitive markets are hated by private business owners
A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.
I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.
I did not intend to claim my college dinner conversation was a flawless political system, heh.
It may have come from the idea that in firing squads, some of the executioners have blanks.
But you’re probably right, its probably simpler and fine not to have fake voters. Though it would be funny to have some honey pots…
I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)
Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”
Rich people don’t want to give anything up.
Assholes don’t want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.
Many people don’t know shit about fuck, and they’re just trying to get through the week.
My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business,
Anyone who sincerely believes that is too fucking ignorant and or stupid to be taken seriously. They’re a hazard to themselves and their polity.
Management are assholes and idiots.
Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.
But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.
Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office
If work paid me a fair wage, provided decent health care, paid for holidays, and didn’t reward AI usage as its own isolated metric, maybe I would work more. Maybe. It’s not like I get paid more for working more. No matter how much I produce, I get paid the same. The owners keep any excess profits.