The idea that the fediverse is filled with modern rednecks and hillbillies makes more sense than I want to admit.
No kidding. When they show a game at a trade show, it's just like "ok, great. So I can buy it, right?" "No, but you can pre-order it in 2 years!"
god damnit game industry...
god damnit game industry...
Governments around the world need to get their damn fingers out of the Internet.
Unfortunately, we hit that iceberg long ago so it's just a matter of time until we're all in the freezing ocean.
Unfortunately, we hit that iceberg long ago so it's just a matter of time until we're all in the freezing ocean.
Ended up trying Nextcloud's deck app to set up a kanban board to manage tasks.
It's incredibly good. So straightforward, so you can set up a card in 5 seconds, and you can drag it between zones in 1.
It's incredibly good. So straightforward, so you can set up a card in 5 seconds, and you can drag it between zones in 1.
A lot of these companies think that VR will be the new smartphone, but that I think really misunderstands why smartphones are so popular. Nobody wants to wear something that blocks out the world and makes them sick.
Is this what those retards in silicon valley are looking at?
Because if they are, then they need to get their heads out of their asses. A "conservative" estimate for the monetizability of the metaverse would be zero, not 15% of all online interactions! Not every new technology ever makes money, and the so-called "metaverse" has existed in one form or another for 30 years and didn't take over the world at any point.
Because if they are, then they need to get their heads out of their asses. A "conservative" estimate for the monetizability of the metaverse would be zero, not 15% of all online interactions! Not every new technology ever makes money, and the so-called "metaverse" has existed in one form or another for 30 years and didn't take over the world at any point.
Continuing to push for more is doing it just like the boomers.
Frankly, the boomers in my country balanced the federal budget for 10 years.
Frankly, the boomers in my country balanced the federal budget for 10 years.
It's worse than government spending my money. It's my kids money, and my grandkids money. It's specifically not my money.
When we take out debt we never intend to pay back, we are enslaving our descendants tomorrow so we can have stuff we don't need to pay for today. Previous eras understood this and government debts often got paid down. Unfortunately in our age of supposed moral enlightenment, enslaving babies and the unborn is considered just fine.
Millennials in particular are such hypocrites. They're the ones who coined the phrase "fuck you, got mine", but apparently we just coined it so we could use it on future generations as we've accused the boomers of doing to us.
When we take out debt we never intend to pay back, we are enslaving our descendants tomorrow so we can have stuff we don't need to pay for today. Previous eras understood this and government debts often got paid down. Unfortunately in our age of supposed moral enlightenment, enslaving babies and the unborn is considered just fine.
Millennials in particular are such hypocrites. They're the ones who coined the phrase "fuck you, got mine", but apparently we just coined it so we could use it on future generations as we've accused the boomers of doing to us.
https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/19830
I made a copy of the post here.
Some of the community moved to exploding-heads.com
I made a copy of the post here.
Some of the community moved to exploding-heads.com
I mean.... Lots of people complain about it. My feed is filled with folks from across the political spectrum upset with the status quo, and there's constant protests. The reason it keeps happening anyway is corruption and the fact that they can spend a little bit lobbying and get a lot of bang for their buck. Who cares about thousands of voters when one guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money is so much more effective?
It's terrible. You suck money from working Joes (most tax money comes from workers and most inflation comes out of their pockets and paycheques) and choose winners based on who the biggest bag licker is.
It's not even just corporate welfare which is bad enough but at least we can see it. The more insidious thing is regulatory capture. By having your man in Washington helping guide regulations, you can end up in a situation where you get to choose what regulations happen. Then you can choose regulations that aren't particularly going to harm you, but could potentially act as a barrier for entry to other people into the same industry, preventing competition. This is particularly insidious because at the same time you're getting what you want, the politician gets to act like they just did something crippling and deadly to you.
Which really comes up to the saddest thing, we're just regular people. We have jobs of our own, we have lives, we have families, this isn't the only thing we do. Meanwhile, these companies hire people for whom playing politics not just in Washington but in broader society is all they do. Not only can they go to Washington and get whatever they want from there, they are experts at figuring out how to pit us regular people against each other so that we're fighting each other instead of them.
It's terrible. You suck money from working Joes (most tax money comes from workers and most inflation comes out of their pockets and paycheques) and choose winners based on who the biggest bag licker is.
It's not even just corporate welfare which is bad enough but at least we can see it. The more insidious thing is regulatory capture. By having your man in Washington helping guide regulations, you can end up in a situation where you get to choose what regulations happen. Then you can choose regulations that aren't particularly going to harm you, but could potentially act as a barrier for entry to other people into the same industry, preventing competition. This is particularly insidious because at the same time you're getting what you want, the politician gets to act like they just did something crippling and deadly to you.
Which really comes up to the saddest thing, we're just regular people. We have jobs of our own, we have lives, we have families, this isn't the only thing we do. Meanwhile, these companies hire people for whom playing politics not just in Washington but in broader society is all they do. Not only can they go to Washington and get whatever they want from there, they are experts at figuring out how to pit us regular people against each other so that we're fighting each other instead of them.
They called us stupid when we warned that there would be severe global consequences to continuing the lockdowns forever. How long until we see a civil war in places like Laos?
I keep coming back to this video from youtuber whatifalthist that I feel really helps contextualize a lot of what we are seeing in cities and throughout western politics right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKBMRkFIdm0
Like many of the examples given in the video, our society has a total disconnection from the reality of how we live. A 12 year old with clear mental issues stomping her feet and demanding genocidal policies RIGHT NOW is treated as a hero because people don't think anything bad can ever happen by doing "the right thing".
People think the food just ends up on the shelves, they don't think about where the shelf came from, where the building came from, where the street came from, and so on and so forth, so they don't think about how that could be disrupted and how the shelves could come up bare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKBMRkFIdm0
Like many of the examples given in the video, our society has a total disconnection from the reality of how we live. A 12 year old with clear mental issues stomping her feet and demanding genocidal policies RIGHT NOW is treated as a hero because people don't think anything bad can ever happen by doing "the right thing".
People think the food just ends up on the shelves, they don't think about where the shelf came from, where the building came from, where the street came from, and so on and so forth, so they don't think about how that could be disrupted and how the shelves could come up bare.