raze2012, raze2012@lemmy.world

And I’m saying that’s a bad faith statement, as if you know every single person who didn’t boycott pledged to boycott or even know of the boycott.

but the vast majority of end users are more neutral on the subject.

Not in the last 9 months or so. Even if people ignored everything else, data centers have been awful PR since that is only adding to the affordability crisis on people’s energy bills. AI sentiment in the West has completely turned around in the last 2 years.

As an indie dev at the scale of “not even getting 100 dollar paychecks” , your audience for the few few dozen reviews (the most important) are more likely to be these niches who are looking to try smaller stuff. And who’s more sensitive to slop than the mainstream. You gotta be careful with your PR, especially in your writing and art.

Labor laws, whatever you want to call them. Main point is that it’s not normal for companies to layoff 10, 20, 50% of its workforce while reporting record profits.

Can I believe Japanese companies resisted that? Sure. But something had them lose out compared to the US’slobbying.

That’s not true.

It’s much simpler, this tweet from one dude won’t have the reach to really make any impact. Awareness is the problem more than willpower, and it’s werid that we think anyone who “broke” the boycott was even aware to begin with. Or cares.

He turned on W. Bush because he had a weak handshake. I can’t in any realm imagine that Hank supporting Trump.

But then again it seems like the newer seasons try to avoid the wider national politics. Not that the original run did that much to begin with, but it’d do it a few times.

Yeah, Hank just wants to live a simple life in his corner and isn’t actively trying to look for ways to make other people’s lives worse. He has his culture clash moments for sure, but he’s not looking to get outraged.

Even 8k for me would help me get out of my current gutter. 80k would be life changing money, even if I still would need to keep job searching.

The more outspoken ones are left leaning. Which honestly doesn’t say much these days. The right leaning ones not being directly paid off know that Trump II (hell, even Trump I) ain’t good PR. The ones left leaning probably need to defy their PR to speak out to begin with.

Overall, being rich means the system works for you, which tends to boost nationalism. Nationalism without actually giving back to your country is a surefire road to fascism. It’s just too easy by that point to isolate and not create empathy in that scenario (the best preventative measure to fascism, and most kinds of prejudice in general).

If he said something in that ballpark, it’s stupid either way. Especially if he broke that anyway because he had to be concerned about “woke culture”.

I guess I’d need more context, but The Rock isn’t exactly someone I feel is being constantly prodded on politics, at least from interviews he chooses to take.

And term limits are a bad idea

We really shouldn’t have appointees from freaking Reagan still on the courts. They proposed 1 term 18 years, which sounds fine ( rounded it up to 20 in my head). That’s an entire generation of service that can’t be ousted by the electorate nor representatives (unless convicted).

Why not add some post term conditions to prevent SCOTUS from being a jumping off point to “consulting”? I’m fine with that.

I like your ideas too, but

Random assignment of cases to justices, the randomness provided by an independent body not answerable to the court.

How do we begin to enforce that kind of concept? Just make the federal courts assign cases to justices and put them under the same rules as SCOTUS. If one federal judge seems to be assigning cases to the same few judges that be grounds for audit.

If they fought half as hard to protect existing children as they do the unborn ones, we’d have the full Epstien files by now.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sadly, our fascism is a really, really stupid form based around a teenager’s fantasy of a dictatorship. Trump doesn’t care about the potential of large private corporations usurping the throne so he let’s then run free as long as they kiss the ring.

If this managed to extend to decades instead of years (and somehow Trump lived that long), it’d be such a predictable ending for him.

Itch is right there down the street. GoG is generally decent too (but has the same cut).

But these kinds of things are never about litetal options, it’s about market capture.

I know he means “without the use of LLMs.”. That’s the big thing being forced down People’s throats that they don’t like.

I doubt people are rebelling against reinforcement learning for physically based animations, or prediction engines to forecast the weather

Man, I’m a laid off dev too. You really should know by now how scrutinous people are about AI anything.

You’re not even getting the 100 dollar monthly payments off steam. Forget “just use google translate like pre-AI”, why not just focus on one language and look into localization later if this game catches on? Now instead all languages will be scanning your game with a fine-toothed comb.

The issue is the low information voter isn’t hearing the reasonable thing at all. The media will spin Mamdami’s point ("mamdami hates jews!"), then top it off with this quote. So Tubeville sounds “strong” and “defending America”. They won’t ever mention Netanyahu at all, nor the genocide.

Low information voters won’t ever look farther than the spin anyway.

Fascism is heavily contradictory. Maybe Joe’ shop is watched carefully for making gay cakes, but WalMart will do whatever they want as long as they donate a ballroom every few years

They really will do or say anything but their job, huh?

If we’re being real, Mamdami hasn’t even gotten his big plans rolling yet. He passed an easy tax (for people owning houses that don’t even live in NYC) and fixed some potholes. His biggest win was bartering with the state government to get more support (instead of the dreaded “tax the rich"). The rest was normal stuff with good PR aimed at the 21st century. That’s it.

But these relics spent decades minmaxing for cable news and can’t look human on social media at all. They are used to saying words then doing nothing. The bar is that low and they are scared at a dude bending his knees (he hasn’t even jumped yet).

At least they are finally breaking their fake decorum and sayong the quiet parts out loud. Makes it so much easier to tear down in the long term.

6 dollars a minute to talk about politics on the phone. And then complain why no one wants to cuck them politically (and maybe literally in bed) while being a meek submissive woman in public. Truly a mystery.

Definitely a new lens. I’ll admit even then I was surprised reading about someone treating leftism as a kink, as if Tue idea of agreeing that the gig economy is unsustainable in a public setting is an absolute taboo.

On men’s porn sites—including gay porn sites—there is a complete absence of any kind of explicit politics. The only exception is the rare importation to support free speech.” Though there are far fewer female-targeted sites, the authors say the ones that exist contain an abundance of messaging around issues like inclusivity and feminism.

I guess that’s not surprising. Unless the site itself is in danger, it’s not very “sexy” to care about politics. And sexuality should (but definitely doesn’t) run on a different axis to political philosophy. Everyone wants love in some form.

But alas, that was 2012. So much changed so quickly.