UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on wish 13 hours ago:
Or Myanmar.
- Comment on wish 13 hours ago:
Everything boils down to your economic cohort. Being upper class in Korea and Japan is fantastic. Being upper class in the Philippines is pretty great, all things considered. Just be born rich. Anywhere, really. Even being a rich Ukrainian or Syrian gets you a lot of extra mileage, globally. And the spread between rich and poor in a country like Dubai or South Africa, right now? Astronomical.
- Comment on The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developers 16 hours ago:
Listen, I think its cool that people are following their dreams. But I can’t imagine looking at the modern world and thinking “The thing we’re really lacking right now is new video games”.
What I would love to see is the existing pool of video game developers enjoying more labor protections, shorter working hours, paid sick leave, and guaranteed housing/health care benefits. Because, as someone who has seen the industry chew up and spit out really talented developers, that strikes me as far more important than just learning to code or getting networked into the crunch pipeline at EA or Microsoft.
Walles says: “My favourite example of someone in our cohort who has work experience but is trying to break into the games industry is this young man from Nigeria. He’s a home builder, he’s project managing every day, building houses – and he codes. He wants to take that project management experience and become a producer in video games.”
This is such a bleak read, knowing how many people - both inside the gaming industry and out - who are struggling to find affordable housing.
- Comment on PM Starmer is driving the U.K.’s China policy into a quagmire: London doesn’t know how to respond to pressure from Beijing. The aborted China spy trial feels like a turning point. 16 hours ago:
Starmer has never seen an issue he won’t cave on.
He’s running to the right of the Reform Party because he’s scared. He’s running to meet Trump on foreign policy because he’s scared. He’s running to turn over his country’s water rights to AI companies because he’s scared. He’s running to embrace the St. George’s Cross, ffs.
Why would China be any different?
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 19 hours ago:
It hasn’t taken any jobs
Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI
Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Tesla’s layoffs hit Autopilot team as AI develops
A lot of these bozos are drinking their own Kool-aid. They’re laying off internal teams in droves and pivoting to “Vibes Coding” as a presumably more efficient method of internal devleopment.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 20 hours ago:
what matters is if they will uphold their duty to serve this country or be cowards and do whatever Trump says and serve him
They seem happy enough to Just Following Orders their way into Portland and Chicago.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 20 hours ago:
Like Tiananmen square, the regime stopped using local troops in an attempt to flex their authority and instead brought in outside military with no attachment to the area so they would have less trouble being ordered to fire on civilians.
One minor quibble. To date, I am not aware of any US cities where residents are actually rioting. To date, no one in ICE has actually been injured by protesters. Certainly nobody has died. No property has been destroyed. Nobody is really fighting back.
Let me know when someone in Portland actually sets an APC on fire. Image
The closest thing to Tiananmen in America in physicality was J6. Then maybe the Chaz Protests in Portland in June of 2020 or BLM in Ferguson and Baltimore. Nothing like that is happening now. Even the anti-genocide college protests at Columbia and UCLA don’t really come close to what Chinese protesters managed in Beijing.
Americans are largely passive in the face of their own oppression.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 20 hours ago:
When Texas sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 1 day ago:
Seems like something you could accomplish with jailbreaking. Or perhaps a bit of soddering.
These devices aren’t magic. Stealing and shipping phones at this scale halfway around the world seems inefficient to say the least.
But I guess organized criminals and their clients aren’t always that smart.
- Comment on [Rec] "REDLINE" is one of the best and bizarre animated movie I have ever seen. 1 day ago:
Peak anime.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 days ago:
I cannot fathom why so many Israelis are acting so evil
For starters, their media is genuinely worse. The politics is just as bad.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Palestinians_as_animals_in_Isr…
Rehavam Ze’evi, at the time Minister for Tourism, once referred to the 180,000 Palestinians working in Israel as a cancer, “lice” Israel must rid itself of.
So that’s the baseline of discourse, and it goes downhill from there.
I actually don’t know a single Jewish person here that supports the genocide.
I’ve got family up in NYC who continue to insist it’s not a genocide and who will point to Oct 7th any time Israeli war crimes as mentioned.
Of course, this same family will complain about how many fat black women there are on the subway and tell me how they’re having too many kids.
So…
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 days ago:
There’s been anti-war protests in Tel Aviv every weekend for over a year.
Sure. And you had people handcuffing themselves to the White House fence protesting the US invasion of Afghanistan as far out as 2012. But these have been a tiny, vocal minority. They’re in no way representative of the public (much less the Israeli media or their corrupt plutocracy).
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 days ago:
Sorry, that’s illegal now
876.12 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way.—No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state.
It’s part of the big campaign to disrupt criminal anarchy, treason, and other crimes against public order
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 days ago:
Unfortunately, the polls in Israel aren’t nearly as generous. If you think the US is drowning in fascist, the Israeli press is a tidal wave of unchecked genocidal vulgarity. People straight up calling for the total extermination of Arab peoples on air and being greeted with applause.
- Comment on Scientists Just Made Light Speed Visible. The Images Will Break Your Brain. 2 days ago:
Least click-bait popularmechanics headline.
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 days ago:
One of the new tricks Trump’s DHS has been pulling is to embed right-wing journalists behind the ICE goons busting through major city centers.
Even setting aside the deluge of AI slop, there’s a ton of staged photography and engineered content intended to shape public perceptions. As more of the national news media gets gobbled up by right-wing tech billionaires, we’re going to see news coverage sync up with the photo-ops and public opinion bend with the propaganda.
- Comment on *squints* 2 days ago:
Plenty of people will still be horny for this.
- Comment on mobile gaming 2 days ago:
Busy Box for senior citizens.
- Comment on Ad companies should just cut out the middle man and pay me to watch their ads 2 days ago:
I think we should simply bring back Pogs. Every time you watch an ad, you get a Pog. You can collect them, trade them, and even redeem them for mystery prizes. This will become the foundation for a new American economy.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yeah, its a really weird way of deflecting from the context.
“Haha, I was just sleepy, UwU silly little me just being a smol bean oopsie!”
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
Reminds me of the double standard with teacher sexual abuse. Male teacher abuses student, pedophile. Female teacher abuses student, “wish I was him”
That was a transition from the 70s/80s to the 90s/00s. Sexy teenage girl desperate to hook up with the handsome clueless professor was a chronic trope of GenX media. Then social mores changed and the male teacher became an insidious predator, rather than a clueless schmuck. But we still wanted to tell the old story, so it was time for the sexy teenage boy to be Hot For Teacher instead.
The morality play in both instances teaches us that chastity is a form of maturity and responsibility, while horniness is comic relief. But neither really lay out the idea of consent or the bureaucratic power of a teacher over a student. Everything is played up for drama or for laughs. A parent’s concern is merely a trope to be inserted to advance the story. Scandal is about raising tension, not defining proper behavior. The taboo exists to be broken.
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
Being sexually harassed by two people who refuse to respect boundaries while peers, friends, and school administrators look on and laugh was the “comically terrible” situation in 2006.
The awkwardness of high school sexuality played up for comic effect was generally a setup to a morality tail in the closing arc, where the producers punish the sluts/horn-dogs and reward the chaste conservative trads.
Given the content of this meme, nothing has changed
TV in the '00s was Britney Spears waggling her butt and saying “Why do boys keep chasing me?! I just want to have a nice Christian marriage, but I’m being assaulted by these savage infidels who think thigh-high school girl outfits are sexy!!! Oh, whoa is me!”
TV in the '20s is Zendaya luring two tennis playing men into kissing one another while she jills it in a corner.
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 3 days ago:
Man bits lizard, which is just what that karma chameleon deserves.
- Comment on Does anyone know? 3 days ago:
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 5 days ago:
imagine if the scenario was flipped and you called german fascists MAGAs.
It’s semantics. The German and American fascists all pull from the same ideological and rhetorical playbook.
Veneration of the national security state. Zealous religious orthodoxy. Obsession with loyalty oaths and ethnicity sorting. Reflexive xenophobia. Institutionalized quackery.
It’s all the same shit. Same as Apartheid Africa. Same as Kuomanting China. Same as Pinochet’s Chile and Milei’s Argentina.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 6 days ago:
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better
Ah, so you’ve never met one of those kids that just likes torturing animals for fun
- Comment on Truly 6 days ago:
All of these people will vote to have “drug addicts” executed.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 6 days ago:
The people who have an issue with that, don’t have an issue with Rafael Cruz making up a white name.
Nobody is mad at Ted for changing his name. Folks are mad at him for pulling the rope up now that his family is here “legally”, then trying to white wash his identity so you don’t question him on it.
You’re implying transphobia is a common view.
It absolutely is. And it used to be a lot worse. Took a lot of people coming out at risk of their lives and livelihoods before we reached even this level of support for transgender civil rights.
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