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- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 week ago:
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that most people haven't been buying cars.
My car is starting to get older, and my plan right now is to continue maintaining it because compared to the cost of replacing it the cost of keeping it is so much lower. And I'm not doing that bad. Most households are doing a lot worse than I am, and so they're probably looking at the astronomical prices of vehicles post covid and making the completely reasonable decision not to get anything.
So it's easy for 90% of the vehicles sold to be electric because most of the vehicles being sold are luxury items for the rich rather than things that individuals need to live day to day.
- Comment on Square Enix Has Set Up A New Policy To Go After Harassers 1 week ago:
Won't someone think of the poor, poor, global megacorporations?
- Comment on Have you watched/read/played anything in the Fate franchise? 1 week ago:
I'm so old I watched the first anime and remember that archer made us gar.
- Comment on The real reason OS/2 flopped shaped modern software 1 week ago:
Their ad campaign for warp was memorable. I still remember the Germans nuns going "aus too varp"
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 2 weeks ago:
Yes actually, it's almost humorous that they've made good changes alongside the stuff that's just meant to give people who aren't paying any attention warm fuzzy feelings.
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 2 weeks ago:
How exactly are you going to progress if you're just being lied to all the time?
Hey great news, my house is 100% renewable now.
(I didn't change the damn thing, and oh by the way I just forgot to mention this that I heat my home with natural gas)
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so it's powered by coal, natural gas, and bullshit & lies.
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 2 weeks ago:
Oh yah?
Pretty cool running all the heat on solar at night in January.
- Comment on Winter 2025 release calendar 2 weeks ago:
Lots of fun anime trash this season. I read some of receuited salaryman and greatest alchemist, and there's a lot of other fun stuff this season as well as continuations. The fruit master one looks like my kind of trash.
- Comment on Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic with Android Auto support, now with continuous playback, new codec support and more! 3 weeks ago:
Nextcloud music Also supports subsonic as a protocol, so clients also can be used with that.
- Comment on Winners of the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards 3 weeks ago:
I know I went to see the lists and saw most of 2024s anime wasn't there so I didn't vote.
Maybe for the best because I'm a trash anime enjoyer.
- Comment on Former President Jimmy Carter, celebrated champion of human rights, dies at 100 3 weeks ago:
He seemed like a legitimately nice guy. It's always a shame when the world loses a legitimately nice guy.
- Comment on How many of u only use lemmy bc of the lemmy apps ? 3 weeks ago:
I'm not even necessarily on lemmy all the time.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
I picked up scribblenauts unmasked for like 90% off, I've always loved the series (though I find unlimited has fewer puzzles...)
- Comment on France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas 3 weeks ago:
Non-compliance can incur annual fines of up to €40,000 ($42,160) until resolved
Whelp, guess a lot of car parks won't have any solar panels then!
- Comment on What are your most played games? 3 weeks ago:
Across different systems, probably Chronotrigger..... Maybe civ 1. Not bloody 3, not bloody 5, 1.
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- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 month ago:
I don't always even know if I agree with myself when I'm trying to figure out stuff that's outside the edge of my own understanding, so regardless of whether you think you're right I appreciate the constructive engagement.
One employment lawyer I heard an interview with once suggested something similar to but subtly different than what you're talking about, that "woke" is actually a scheme by the ownership class to divide the working class by getting us to attack each other so we don't work together to get better wages or working conditions from them.
It's definitely a multi-faceted issue.
One of the keys is definitely that "woke" isn't all progressive thought, it's a very specific point, so to criticize the piece isn't to necessarily criticize the whole.
On the matter at hand though, the fact that the accusations against Musk are very specific and in a very specific order really speaks to the fact that it isn't really the author's personal thoughts. There's lots of things you can go after the guy for that aren't in order "racist sexist misogynistic homophobic transphobic". Much more relevant to the article would be that he often claims he'll be able to do things he can't, or he sets timelines he can't possibly meet, or his whole fortune is based on a ponzi scheme where the world's smallest car company has a market cap that dwarfs any other car company even when those other companies have entire product lines Tesla isn't even involved in. Most people who play video games don't play a game engine. Most people agree that once John Romero left id the company really wasn't the same, and while Quake 2 is a technical marvel it isn't nearly as fun to play or atmospheric as doom or quake. Doom 3 was also a technological marvel, but most people don't remember it as a classic the same way they remember doom or quake. Doom 2016 was the first time in decades that id really hit the nail on the head hard, and it was thanks to real creativity and bringing new ideas into the franchise and in many ways into the genre as a whole.
That's the actual problem with using AI to produce games, AI is an inherently conservative force -- not in a political sense, but in that it is fed data and does a great job of creating permutations of that data. AI is incredibly powerful for creating something like what has already come before it, but true creativity brings something new. Someone writing about a feeling nobody's ever written about that represents insight into the human mind, that's something a human can produce, but not an AI.
- Comment on Blizzard are delisting Warcraft I and II from GOG, so GOG adds a special discount and will keep them updated 1 month ago:
Of Course I already had these games on gog...
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- Comment on Don't watching Star Trek makes you depressed? Watching the adventures of people from a post-capitalist world when we have to live in a capitalistic hellhole? 1 month ago:
Why would you think that you'd be any happier under another economic system?
There's people who find happiness right now, today. They find love, they take on responsibilities, they have children, they make a life for themselves. There's more to life than economics. Community, family, friends, the adventure of life and the adventures you don't need a penny to achieve.
Instead of trying to change the world, why not first change yourself? Trek isn't about space communism per se. It's about a humanity who has strived to reach its potential, and individuals who are strong and capable enough that they'd succeed in any system (and in many episodes do).
I should point out that regardless of whatever economic system Trek exists under, starfleet is still a hierarchical meritocracy. Jean-Luc is captain because of his discipline, bravery, cunning, and deep ethics. Barclay is not.
Regardless of the material wealth available, there are things to be happy and sad about there too. Riker got all the alien girls, LaForge got a restraining order from the top researcher in warp field theory. Wesley Crusher got a chance in part because of his competence, but due to his lack of merit ended up kicked out of star fleet altogether. Life is still going to have its ups and downs, and your own personal happiness and success will be your own responsibility regardless of what economic system you're under, or what year it is.
Extreme poverty can make someone miserable, but a person who can post to a star trek fediverse page on the Internet isn't in that extreme of poverty.
Epictetus was a slave who could barely walk, but his stoic philosophy gave him power over himself and commanded respect above his station in his world. He taught us to control what you can, accept what you cannot, and to focus on virtue. His path is just one that an individual who is even a crippled slave can find happiness and inner peace.
You can't change the entire planet. But you can change what's in your own head, and you can change yourself, and you can change how things are around you. If you make those changes, then it might surprise you how much of a utopia you can come to live in.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 month ago:
Actually, I came up with a much better definition that I think fits.
"I found a paradox, that in a lot of ways wokeness is deeply, deeply conservative. There's an orthodoxy, and all that matters is that you follow the orthodoxy. Everything outside the orthodoxy must be rejected and silenced, and anyone who isn't strictly following orthodoxy must be rejected and silenced regardless of their alignment otherwise.
If progressivism is truly about challenging norms and fostering dialogue, then an orthodoxy should not exist. Instead, the rigidity undermines progressiveness by creating a new form of conservatism: a defense of the orthodox beliefs and existing hierarchies within the movement itself.
The foolish justification for this behavior they came up with of Popper's paradox of tolerance relies on answering a paradox with one answer or another without realizing that the nature of a paradox is such that there is no cut and dry black and white answer.
My criticism here of paradox also applies to the paradox I recognized, by the way. You can't change anything to resolve it in a simple black and white manner because the components that make up the paradox are required to have the thing in the first place and thus the question is complicated. Without some form of orthodoxy, progressive ideology that questions societal norms would immediately have to start questioning the societal norms it successfully installed, potentially just resulting in paralysis.
I wonder though if this framework helps explain the difference between "progressive" and "woke". The former is a spectrum that most westerners are somewhere on, the latter is where you reach a highly dogmatic, highly self-assured spot on the spectrum.
Most people, even a supermajority of ideological conservatives, want social progress in some form. Anyone can see things aren't perfect and want things to be better. It's when you know exactly what needs to be done and it makes you a better person than everyone else and anyone standing in your way is the devil that it becomes (to use a bad term in context) problematic."
The dogmatic adherence to orthodoxy further fits with an analysis I did a few months ago about the movie Idiocracy. In that movie, the entire world is taken over by a form of populist, anti-intellectual idiocy. My criticism of the movie was that there are in fact multiple forms of idiocy. and today's predominant form of idiocy is in fact elitist and pseudo-intellectual. As an example, instead of watching "ow my balls", watching people watching "ow my balls" so you can point and laugh at the idiots watching the stupid show, as if that's any better. Under such a form of idiocy, the dull end up using the trappings of intellect to try to act as intelligent people, similar to the cargo cults of the pacific islands. From this point of view, the strict adherence to orthodoxy is a requirement because such idiots can't synthesize new ideas, they can only take ideas someone else created and pretend they came up with them, and any movement from that strict orthodoxy will not allow them to pretend they're smarter than they really are.
Ironically, the phrase "anyone that says anything I don’t like is woke" is part of the orthodoxy of wokeness. It suggests that the author of the parent post won't engage with my arguments in any real way, because they're just reciting pieces of an orthodoxy they've been given.
My post didn't call PC Gamer "Woke", I called it "Dreck". The problem with it isn't necessarily that it has even performative orthodox progressive values, it's that it has always been boring, lazy, and typically just an industry mouthpiece. I used to subscribe to PC gaming magazines, and there ere more entertaining magazines such as the legendary PC Accelerator, there were more engaging magazines that brought in industry experts like Ken Levine, there were more neutral magazines such as PC Games magazine, but virtually all of those magazines failed while PC Gamer continues on.
The fact that the article spends so much time in its introduction using orthodox buzzwords is evidence of what I'm talking about. The actual article appears to be "someone I disagree with politically is doing a thing. They are bad because I disagree with him politically."
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 month ago:
Yeah.... It's an actual shame that all the good magazines got shut down while dreck like this continues to survive.
- Comment on Is it more important to be educated or empathetic? 1 month ago:
Most of our problems today are people who are "educated" who think that makes them "empathetic".
Problem is, if you're being empathetic then you can feel why different people who disagree all have a point even if one group or the other is wrong, but if you're educated all you know is that your education tells you who is right.
A lot of educated people have been incorrectly predicting the world lately because they don't have an emotional connection to what they're educated on. Then they blame the subjects of their predictions for not fitting the model they were educated under.
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- Comment on "Uglymug, Epicfighter" Anime Adaptation Announced with Key Visual 1 month ago:
Some people are calling this one "reddit mod isekai", but that's only because the MC looks like a reddit mod. The actual story is much more wholesome.
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- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 months ago:
A lot of fascists don't realize they're fascist.
Mussolini once said "Fascism can be better described as corporatism, the combination of state and corporate power". Under fascism, everything and everyone is socialized under the state, and everything becomes a tool of the state. For this reason, some historians call fascism "State Socialism", contrasting Hitler's "Racial Socialism" or Marxism's "Class Socialism", each of which use a totalizing state to socialize everyone into one group. So a government official putting pressure on a corporation to silence speech the state doesn't like is openly fascist, and many people think they want that sort of fascism.
In my book The Graysonian Ethic, I talk about why people think they want fascism(though they might call their fascism something different because they want to pretend they're not calling for fascism) but they actually don't:
"The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination."
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 47] 2 months ago:
I binged "The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor" yesterday, I found it kind of cute. I like that the MC is the goddamned god of war (figuratively). It reminds me of "7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!" the light novel series (Apparently there's an anime of that one too but I've only read the LN), but it's cute, the story of two kind autistic people trying to lizard-person their way into falling in love.
- Comment on The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 8 discussion 2 months ago:
There's this one and "let this soul rest in peace" or whatever, and I thought the latter was going to be more like the former. I'm finding this series really entertaining.