I’m sick and tired of this bullshit “factoid” Americans use to justify accepting fuck-ass outcomes. Capone served 8 years, and his criminal enterprise was even more violent and successful after he went away. If, and big fuckin if, Hegseth gets more than a slap on the wrist, he’s going to get book deals and media appearances the rest of his life. What broke the actual criminal hold on Chicago wasn’t “tax fraud,” it was repealing prohibition. Almost like locking figureheads up does jack shit, and actually legislating away systemic issues does infinitely more. Go figure.

The thing that sucks is every time I tell someone this shit in some circles I get flamed to hell. We need to fucking excise the prudes from the left.

No no no, op, you’re completely missing the message. JUST vote. Nothing more. Just vote.

Because the IPs fuckin suck under the studio. Nobody cares about Anthem. Andromeda was a mid cashout of Mass Effect. Lord knows wtf they were going to do with Dragon Age. Few, if any people, like these IPs as they are; you like the promise they once held, because you forgot the one rule to responsibly engage with fiction: Good stories get to end. The games still exist. They’ll always exist, or at least as long as you or I are alive. Thus the IP always exists. What goes away is the studio, which, OK, bye

“Omg the digits of pi contain the binary digital code of an mp4 of me taking a shit this morning! Circles are seniient”-ass language

If god is reflected in all of us, then definitionally he has every kink known to man.

Enforced by explicit law? No, we don’t have segregation anymore. In schooling, the work force, housing, literally all forms of resource distribution? Pretty much yes.

I don’t get why people carry this neoliberal obsession with individual atomization into non-liberal ideologies. I’m not going to assume the commenter is a liberal; I’m going to assume that they have strong convictions against the capitalist ownership of art. That’s a sentiment I agree with. But you don’t dismantle systems through individual action. It’s like that NYT columnist that thought she alone could dismantle racialized educational outcomes by sending her daughter to a poor school. No wonder her daughter couldn’t read until 4th grade, or do long division until 9th. Or this fash prick I work with who is in 6-figure debt to a hospital because he “thinks health insurance is a scam” and didn’t get any. It’s funny in his case, but also, like bro what are you doing?

Or boycotts, Jesus Christ. People I agree with won’t shop at target because it pulled pride merchandise, and I’m like, did you tell target that? Because the point of a boycott isn’t that you don’t shop there, its that you have an organized resistance against a store. BDS wasn’t effective because some people independently decided to not buy Israeli goods, it was effective because it had militant media presence to advocate and pressure people not just out of buying Israeli goods but into discussing the ethics of even accepting Israel as a state. It was so effective that multiple governments had to pass legislation banning institutionally boycotting Israeli goods, so-called anti-bds laws. If you want to boycott Starbucks then be my guest, but unless you’re also out there with a picket or donating to people who are, you’re just missing out on some (ass) coffee.

Right? I’m a swe, happily partnered up, and the times I was single, easily partnered up. The problem isn’t being a tech bro, the problem is being a fuckin wet noodle of a person. I’ve got the same hobbyist servers, the same half-finished coding projects I’ll never get done, the same 40k models, the same flab. I just also stand for good things and act on those beliefs, and live every day demonstrating that if you’re fash or fash-adjacent, you’re not safe here, and if you’re anti-those things then I’m great.

Damning you say. Despicable, even. Would be nice if anyone did anything besides write think pieces. Would be nice if those words meant anything from MSM.

Capitalism will make vegans of us yet.

… Claude make an app based on this post /s

For real though, as someone who bit the bullet and ended my relationship, it’s hard. I wish them well, and after they moved out I still fear one of us isn’t going to make it. Having a way to find a decent roommate easily would be nice.

Funnily enough they couldn’t stand the gun violence, lack of educational standards, or racial disparities

What I’m about to say, I say only as an alternative in conjunction with fighting legislatively: It’s time many of us alter our behaviors to accommodate these crackdowns. Not as a matter of subservience, please don’t think I mean it that way, but as a matter of practicality and survival. Make cash withdrawals when possible to pay for goods and services. Transition back to paper bills. Separate from computers where you can, while also understanding that the places you can’t, you’re just going to have to deal with the bullshit. Resist where practical, if only for your own sanity.

Easy. SBF robbed rich fucks, and they stole from us to recoup it. Luigi didn’t leave downstream issues.

I’m not gonna compare two bad bitches

What you have to understand is that these AI fucks are using AI to grade their product. I’m sure Claude gave this person some code that produced results that Claude said meant they could near predict people’s orders.

Buddy, kids fly supervised all the time. What’s the difference between the USPS and Delta? Take my 8 year old to the desk agent, they escort him to the gate, employees on the plane watch him, then an agent at the destination escorts him to grandpa. Let me know if I’m describing USPS or Delta.

Miss me with the pro-privatized corporate slop. Where my public service homies at?