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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve Luigi’d the boss.

  Words aren’t likely going to change minds anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. You can’t pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.

  Harm reduction has a place but it’s not the whole solution

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The left went too far - time to move things right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good I was remembering that video but couldn’t find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The left went too far - time to move things right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that capitalism curve needs to start at 0 and stay there for a bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I see this I think about opportunity costs. What got skipped in favor of this dubious effort?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually a brief “I just read/played/watched such-and-such”

  If they know it, we can chat about it. If they don’t, and they’re interested, we can chat about it. Otherwise, the conversation moves on and the social rite is concluded successfully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in New York City and have no desire to move to the suburbs or countryside. It’s great here.

  • I can walk to most of my needs. Several grocery stores, pharmacies, a big park, bars, restaurants. I don’t need a car.
  • there’s a thriving music scene. I can go see live stuff of many genres every night if I want
  • a deep dating pool. Lots of people. Lots of queer people too, if that’s your jam.
  • I like there being people around. The empty streets of the suburbs feel spooky and hostile to me.
  • more people means it’s easier to get group activities going. Join a soccer team. Brass band. Bird watching group. Knitting community. There’s everything. Usually more than one, in case a particular group isn’t your vibe.
  • stuff is open later.

  Some of the things people imagine about cities aren’t really true

  • it’s not constant noise
  • I typically can’t hear my neighbors
  • people don’t typically interact with you on the street, but if you need help someone will usually step up
  • it’s not shoulder to shoulder constantly. People seem to imagine it’s always times Square on NYE, but it’s just not.

  While you’re not unseen like you might be in the countryside, no one really cares that they do see you.

  Some people want “more space” but I don’t really know what for. A one bedroom apartment is fine for me. What would I do with more rooms?

  If I had kids, I wouldn’t want to put them in the suburban hell cage like I had. Nothing to do. Can’t get anywhere on your own. Don’t like the few dozen kids in your school? Well that’s your whole pool of friendship options. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could just get on the train and go to the beach, or go skating, or go to a punk show, or whatever. I had to beg my parents to drive me anywhere interesting, and usually they didn’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Even the rich are worried': Experts warn of 'scariest' signs amid 'stagflation' fears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t want bad outcomes, they should stop promoting people who are campaigning on bad outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok ban loses momentum as fewer Americans view it as a security threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of want to live in a world where people stop using tiktok because short form video like that seems bad for your brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barbecuepie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are more or less followers, but we all have it to some degree. You’re more likely to believe a trusted source than someone you’ve never met before. If your best bud tells you a game is good, you likely give it more credit than some random guy on the street, or a guy wearing the t-shirt for a sports team you hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barbecuepie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I say this a lot, but all humans are heavily biased towards believing their in-group. For some people that’s basically all that matters. I feel like authoritarians, right wing authoritarians, are especially prone to this. Facts and figures don’t matter. It’s the emotional core of “fit in with the group” and “outsiders BAD” that’s driving it, and all the justifications come afterwards.

  I don’t want to say anything like they’re like animals or subhuman, because this behavior is extremely human. We all do it to some extent. It’s just for some people it’s so dominant, and their in-group is so dangerously stupid, it’s a real problem for all of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any plan that depends on “and then the common person develops discerning taste” is doomed to fail. Especially considering that even people who are usually picky might enjoy something basic from time to time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say something similar to that too. Specifically, the consolidation of power means there’s less smaller companies taking risks. You’d think a big company with Disney money could afford to be weird and experimental, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

  I say this despite enjoying superhero movies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have touched on this but this also feels downstream from the capitalist hellscape. Most people don’t have a lot of spending money. Movies are pricey and a bad money:time ratio.

  I bet if wages were up, more people would go to the theater. I don’t want to spend $40 to watch a movie and eat popcorn, but I’d consider it for $3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I think about the billions of dollars of wasted productivity caused by Outlook being so bad at rendering email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also frustrating: how end users don’t care. You can explain how Uber mistreats employees or Airbnb causes rents to rise double digit percentages, but they’ll just be like “oh but it’s convenient”.

  Twitter is a Nazi bar but “it has such good memes!”

  If people cared just a little more, things could be so much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  every American worker pays into the social security system as a tax on income.

  One irritating note on this: there’s a limit to how much social security tax you pay per year. So if you’re making a lot of income, you just stop paying this tax partway through the year.

  This is pants on head stupid and regressive. It should be the other way around. Your first, let’s say $10,000 should be exempt from the tax, and it should get steeper as income goes up.

  Rich guy absolutely does not need the bump in take home pay from hitting the cap. Poor guy definitely could use the extra income early income not being taxed.

  I’m just so mad all the time about people licking the boots of the rich. They don’t need breaks! They’re rich! They’re going to be fine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read this and the other linked article about how bad musk is at poker and I’m so mad now. He’s such a fucking fool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should tech companies be required to report AI’s environmental impact, or is voluntary transparency enough?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think ‘voluntary’ is acceptable for anything important you want corporations to do, you have no business making decisions about real life. If it’s voluntary, they’ll only do it if it benefits them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apply it to healthcare, science, finances, and the world will become a better place, especially in healthcare.

  That’s all kind of moot if we continue down the capitalist hellscape express. What good is an AI that can diagnose cancer if most people can’t afford access? What good is AI writing novels if our homes are destroyed by climate change induced disasters?

  Those problems are mostly political, and AI isn’t going to fix them. The people that probably could be replaced with AI, the shitty “leaders” and such, are not going to voluntarily step down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a disingenuous take. Surely you can see how no one’s going to take that message seriously, and no one will be convinced?

  Taxes also pay for health care, roads, libraries, arts, and countless other things. Do you hate health care, roads, libraries, and art? I mean, maybe, but I wouldn’t be confident about guessing that based solely on your position on taxation.

  None of this is supporting your initial claim of “taxation is theft”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s not. Not paying your taxes and using public services is more arguably theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  things like this are why anyone saying the right wing is fiscally responsible should be laughed out of the room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a shared theme with like all of humanity’s woes: people don’t care that much.

  From pollution to injustice to shitty websites, if people cared just a little more the problem would be dramatically reduced or even eliminated.

  But so many people are just apathetic. Overwhelmed and checked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I realized admitting fault is kind of a power move. You can just be like “oh! I was wrong. Woops” and what might have been a like hour long argument about some unimportant minutia instead just wraps up. Nothing bad happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess

  • poor media coverage
  • media is explicitly hostile to protests and pro trump/right-wing-extremism
  • many people are living paycheck to paycheck + we have minimal labor protection
  • years of left-wing organizations being kneecapped (eg: the murder of fred hampton)

  A lot of people are angry but there’s not really much organization. As much as I would love someone to take 50,000 of their closest friends, march down to DC, and shoot every republican in the head, without years of organizing that’s just a fantasy. Unfortunately, the right wing has been doing years of organizing and it’s now bearing fruit for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know any republicans personally but I would not be surprised if, given a choice between admitting fault and feeling bad, or literally any other option including lying or violence, they won’t admit fault. If they weren’t emotionally stunted, they wouldn’t be conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am reminded again of how we need to organized. A few people here or there defaulting on loans or refusing to pay won’t make a difference. A lot of people not paying, but not talking to each other, is kind of a wild card. But if you and fifty thousand of your closest friends went to DC together to tell your reps this is unacceptable, and if they want to sleep at night it will change, maybe we’d see change.

  But organizing is really hard and I don’t know how to go about it effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it kind of funny how games are becoming more mainstream, but every once in a while I still meet people that are like “games are a waste of time”. But then again I guess people said that about movies and tv and still do sometimes.

  Also I’ve been playing guild wars 2 again. Base game is like 10 years old but it’s still fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big “y tho” response from me