HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 41 minutes ago:
I uh, I hate the be the one to tell you this.
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Slavery never went away, it just needs an extra step. It's why Republicans criminalize "being Black," why they love to criminalize lots of things they don't like. In fact they probably would love to keep the 13th exactly as it is because it gives them perfect cover for the rubes. "We're not racist, we just don't like criminals!"
As for the 14th, they don't have to burn it, they just have to constantly reinterpret it around White Grievance politics. See the redistricting fight currently happening today. Drawing voting districts to accurately represent minority populations in Congress is "akshually racist against white people."
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 1 hour ago:
A case still had to make it's way to them. They will drop that pretense soon enough.
They'll just reveal "the Willard case", a 6-0 decision, that the 19th Amendment to the Contitution is Unconstitutional. It cites the Pragmatic Sanction, a foundational text to our Republic, as the reason that women are not allowed to vote or hold property.
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 1 hour ago:
Inconceivable!
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 11 hours ago:
You're thinking of Tay, yeah.
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 11 hours ago:
I wouldn't be surprised if this SCOTUS starts handing down "rulings" for Null v Null cases - completely unsolicited and unprompted bans and overturns of settled precedent. In other words, literally lawmaking from the bench, the thing that fascist conservatives have been disingenuously railing against for years.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 4 days ago:
logged out YouTube to a single row of recommendations and a button to login
I got this update on my smart TV, and I don't think Google realizes how much of an improvement it is. It's unintentionally the best thing the app has ever done.
Finally, no more fucking clickbait clutter all over the screen. I already just search for the channels I want to watch anyway. I love it.
- Comment on What anime pleasantly surprised you the most? 4 days ago:
Bocchi the Rock!
I don't know who decided that a 4koma should get some of the most inventive and expressive animation of this decade, but they're a fucking genius.
I only learned about it from seeing a webm of the Blender scene, and I thought "ok, this is kinda hilarious, I gotta give this a shot." I was watching happily until episode 5, when I thought "wait, are they gonna play the whole song? They are aren't they. Wait a minute, this song fucking rules." And every single episode after that was banger after banger. One hilarious bit, stylish animation cut, and kickass song, one after another.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 5 days ago:
If they do, that includes them. Decision makers at all levels, nobody gets to say "hey I didn't make Mastercard act this way." Because the status quo would have been to carry on processing video game payments, even in the face of a minority faction like Collective Shout.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 5 days ago:
Unless MC and Visa are run by people who already agree with Collective Shout and are just using them as an excuse to enforce this policy.
- Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse 2 weeks ago:
They're so desperate to make the real-life Snowcrash, Ready Player One, Matrix, they haven't even acknowledged how hard metaverse flopped. They can't stand the idea that what they really made was Worse Second Life 30 Years Later.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 2 weeks ago:
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
Did Guillemot not hear about Andor? The costs of a Disney Plus subscription vs a $70 game aside, that show respected the viewer's time and intelligence in all the ways Outlaws didn't. But I'm not surprised the heads of Ubisoft lack basic retrospection. Regurgitating past successes is all they know how to do, and how could they be wrong? Must be the rest of the world. :/
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
everything up until The Prison is REALLY rough.
I'm very curious why you think the Aldhani raid was rough. Also, season 2 is already done, and I think it in some ways surpasses season 1. Have you seen it?