Someone in another thread recommended the book “dying of whiteness” and it’s absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They’re happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.
I’m not here to watch a movie. I’m here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.
I’m sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That’s the bulk of the content.
Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.
I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.
Personally I’d rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.
EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.
Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”
This is basically it.
I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you’re going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.
Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it’s like mixing your food up on the plate and that’s just wrong!
They really are like children
I tried so hard to get things done at work at first. Everything just grinds along through meetings and “research spikes”. Things that should take 30 minutes take months.
So, I guess that’s what they want.
Except they also want us to use AI to go faster. The problem isn’t generating code too slowly. It’s the numbing void of meetings and “process”.
People may have heard of these things, but I don’t think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.
why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?
I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.
Americanism? Force them to say they’re anti-american? On the other hand, they say they’re anti-anti-fascism, so maybe that won’t work.
But I think there is something to the idea of taking progressive ideas and wrapping them in a thin layer of american exceptionalism to get certain kinds of people on board. Don’t say “recycle to save the earth”. Say “only in AMERICA can we turn trash into COOL SHIT. FUCK YEAH! AMERI-CYCLE YOUR SHIT”
Imagine if wage theft was treated the same as petty theft. Some sweaty fuck looking shifty at an excel document, and then three cops kick open the door. “ON THE GROUND STOP RESISTING HE’S GOT A GUN”
BANG BANG BANG. BANG.
Newspapers all like “The manager was no angel…”
I’m optimistic that they’re more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.
They’re just so… unimaginative. There are so many things other than coal and mining people could invest in.
I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like “I’ll use chat GPT to reverse this list” and I was just like my guy we’re working in Python that’s a one line expression.
Easier to link directly to the different sizes, probably, done like this, too
I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of
create_user("Bob", True, False)
it’s
create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)
JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.
Right?
It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.
Sure, and many some things are more easily conveyed in text.
There’s also a mass illiteracy problem. I expect that’s part of why youtube et al are so popular - many people can’t read well. I think many of them don’t even realize they’re semi-illiterate, and think reading is just uncomfortable, and they don’t know why anyone would do it on purpose.
For very visual things, video can be understandable. “How do you do this jumping sequence in this game?” or “how do you assemble this doohickey?”
I am probably the weirdo but I absolutely do not want video on as “background”. I don’t dual-screen, either. I’ll put music on when cooking sometimes.
People think “violence is never the answer” even when violence is being done to them. People are stupid.
I like to think in the future maga-hats will be fodder enemies in video games like Nazis. You can just kill them without remorse because they are scum.