tbf, GTA has always had politics within it to an extent. GTA1 had parts of itself that suggested a certain worldview even.
But the difference between the past and today is that in the past, companies tried to make a good product first and they'd pepper some politics into a product that was good. Today they start with the politics and don't concern themselves with building a product anyone likes.
But the difference between the past and today is that in the past, companies tried to make a good product first and they'd pepper some politics into a product that was good. Today they start with the politics and don't concern themselves with building a product anyone likes.
I finally finished TSUKIMICHI which finished in late June. I enjoyed the comic somewhat, but the anime turned out to be wonderful, and there's a 3rd season coming.
Watching Airplane from 1980.
You know, you'd think a comedy from 44 years ago wouldn't be able to surprise me, but it gets me now and again. Pretty entertaining.
You know, you'd think a comedy from 44 years ago wouldn't be able to surprise me, but it gets me now and again. Pretty entertaining.
Ah, I get you.
Yeah, just saying big words doesn't mean anything when your actions are completely different. At least say "I hate you" and help a brother out.
Yeah, just saying big words doesn't mean anything when your actions are completely different. At least say "I hate you" and help a brother out.
Do lots of people who aren't Fhqwhgads tell people "I love you" out of nowhere?
Classic Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lml_AKkhCVY
Classic Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lml_AKkhCVY
Exactly what I had in mind too.
In my mind, part of the problem of corporations is that it's designed specifically to make sure they can be super big and mitigate the stuff that can limit the size of businesses. I mean, the guy who started Crowdstrike was in charge of Mcafee when that company took down half the Internet in 2010. If you were in charge of two enterprises that did such a thing, why are you still allowed to have your fingers in half the Internet? Because everything is set up to be compartmentalized enough legally that everyone can avoid consequences even when the worst possible outcome occurs.
(Editing since apparently my brain misfired on both company names)
In my mind, part of the problem of corporations is that it's designed specifically to make sure they can be super big and mitigate the stuff that can limit the size of businesses. I mean, the guy who started Crowdstrike was in charge of Mcafee when that company took down half the Internet in 2010. If you were in charge of two enterprises that did such a thing, why are you still allowed to have your fingers in half the Internet? Because everything is set up to be compartmentalized enough legally that everyone can avoid consequences even when the worst possible outcome occurs.
(Editing since apparently my brain misfired on both company names)
I think most people's financial situation is worse than their 401(k) suggests. Debt loads are extreme and growing. Real wages are dropping. And while a minority of people might be on track to pay off their homes by retirement, many have homes so expensive they will die with a mortgage, or they'll be stuck renting in a world where rents are rising much faster than income.
There's rumors that Joe Biden is in hospice care right now. Now I don't need that to be true for the point I'm about to make: if he dies today, he'll die essentially at work, his last days on earth being work. A lot of us if we're not careful are on track for a similar existence. I think that's something that should terrify people. Your work is not your life and it certainly should not be your last act before death.
A lot of people will say that we don't have a chance as younger generations, and as a bloc that may be true, but individuals are not the bloc they are a part of. Individuals can make decisions that aren't normal, such as choosing higher paid but unpopular fields, or going to unpopular but inexpensive places to live, or many other choices that aren't the same as your cohort but could help you succeed nonetheless. What might those be? It's really individual. If there was one answer everyone would have done it already. Pick your hard.
There's rumors that Joe Biden is in hospice care right now. Now I don't need that to be true for the point I'm about to make: if he dies today, he'll die essentially at work, his last days on earth being work. A lot of us if we're not careful are on track for a similar existence. I think that's something that should terrify people. Your work is not your life and it certainly should not be your last act before death.
A lot of people will say that we don't have a chance as younger generations, and as a bloc that may be true, but individuals are not the bloc they are a part of. Individuals can make decisions that aren't normal, such as choosing higher paid but unpopular fields, or going to unpopular but inexpensive places to live, or many other choices that aren't the same as your cohort but could help you succeed nonetheless. What might those be? It's really individual. If there was one answer everyone would have done it already. Pick your hard.
I don't like the American use of the word "liberal" to mean "far left". There's nothing liberal about socialist mass violation of people's rights.
Tbf, it doesn't matter which OS you're running, if you open the gates to a Trojan horse your city will be filled with Greeks.
The practice of giving another company full ring 0 access to all your business critical machines is nuts, and the fact there's only massive problems every couple years is only by pure luck.
The practice of giving another company full ring 0 access to all your business critical machines is nuts, and the fact there's only massive problems every couple years is only by pure luck.
A lot of people are so caught up in their deep hatred that they can't see anything else. It's frustrating because people doing that aren't all bad people, some are otherwise quite lovely, and it's really annoying that they are so blinded.
Oh, I know. A trillion dollars of debt my son is on the hook for, and nothing in our lives got any better.
When that American first called Canada Soviet Canuckistan back in the 90s or 2000s we laughed, but nobody's laughing anymore since it's increasingly apparent it's true.
I don't think it'll be a popular opinion amongst the people that I tend to chat with, but I actually wanted the Democrats to lose the last election so they can win more elections.
I didn't want them to lose because they necessarily have to lose because I'm a Republican partisan, but because the Republicans absolutely destroyed themselves after 2007, and that led to the Obama presidency as well as a supermajority in the Senate and a healthy majority in Congress.
That destruction ended up leading to a period where they were trying to figure out a new way to be that was actually going to win the elections again, and eventually that led to Donald Trump, who is far palatable than the neocon strategy of the George W. Bush era.
I have a sneaking suspicion that they all know what's about to happen now, and what I had hoped would happen back in 2020 just took a few more years to play out -- they know that they're about to get their shit packed in, and in the same way that the Republican party was schizophrenic for a while there because they couldn't figure out a winning formula, the Democrats just don't have a winning formula. They're going to keep on trying different things until they find something that sticks, and as much as everyone thinks that it would be something that worked in the past -- woke environmentalism was a winning strategy in 2007, but it isn't 2007 anymore and woke environmentalism has run its course just as neoconservativism had been a winning strategy but had also run its course.
Woke environmentalism will of course continue to exist, (Nikki Haley is still in government for example) but it isn't going to be the same driving force it was, something new and more palatable will become the thing. What will it be? No idea yet. But if we're being totally honest, I think that there's a lot of stuff on the progressive side of things that can still draw voters without pissing them off. If you think about it, a lot of Republicans are using a lot of terminology from occupy Wall Street before it went woke, so I think that there's a lot of Andy corporate stuff that they could step up to. Of course that doesn't look real right now because woke environmentalists are the establishment, but if Trump drains the swamp like he's saying he's going to then it could be that by the time the next generation of democrat strategy comes to pass it will be against an establishment that is largely Trumpian.
It doesn't feel possible in the moment that people could possibly want to go back to the democrats, but on the other hand in 2008 for a lot of people it didn't feel like anyone could possibly ever want to support Republicans.
I didn't want them to lose because they necessarily have to lose because I'm a Republican partisan, but because the Republicans absolutely destroyed themselves after 2007, and that led to the Obama presidency as well as a supermajority in the Senate and a healthy majority in Congress.
That destruction ended up leading to a period where they were trying to figure out a new way to be that was actually going to win the elections again, and eventually that led to Donald Trump, who is far palatable than the neocon strategy of the George W. Bush era.
I have a sneaking suspicion that they all know what's about to happen now, and what I had hoped would happen back in 2020 just took a few more years to play out -- they know that they're about to get their shit packed in, and in the same way that the Republican party was schizophrenic for a while there because they couldn't figure out a winning formula, the Democrats just don't have a winning formula. They're going to keep on trying different things until they find something that sticks, and as much as everyone thinks that it would be something that worked in the past -- woke environmentalism was a winning strategy in 2007, but it isn't 2007 anymore and woke environmentalism has run its course just as neoconservativism had been a winning strategy but had also run its course.
Woke environmentalism will of course continue to exist, (Nikki Haley is still in government for example) but it isn't going to be the same driving force it was, something new and more palatable will become the thing. What will it be? No idea yet. But if we're being totally honest, I think that there's a lot of stuff on the progressive side of things that can still draw voters without pissing them off. If you think about it, a lot of Republicans are using a lot of terminology from occupy Wall Street before it went woke, so I think that there's a lot of Andy corporate stuff that they could step up to. Of course that doesn't look real right now because woke environmentalists are the establishment, but if Trump drains the swamp like he's saying he's going to then it could be that by the time the next generation of democrat strategy comes to pass it will be against an establishment that is largely Trumpian.
It doesn't feel possible in the moment that people could possibly want to go back to the democrats, but on the other hand in 2008 for a lot of people it didn't feel like anyone could possibly ever want to support Republicans.
