I'm a programmer, I help people clock out and go see their kids. Just for context - In the US, SW Missouri currently.
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Last Notes npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0hde The computer always does exactly what you told it to do. The gap between what you thought you said and what you actually said is why programming is a profession and vibe coding is not. LLMs still follow this rule, they just don't allow you to communicate as precisely as code. It didn't go rogue, you just didn't know that's what you told it to do. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…87m8 Even minor vassals are part of the problem. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…gj0l Eat the loss and learn the lesson. That's the only way forward. When the rich (even the micro-rich like the small businesses) actually feel consequences for their actions is when we're on the path back to healthy society. Pay humans a living wage to run your business or don't run a business at all. That's the solution. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 On further reflection, it's just that the GOP is using "1984" as their model and the Democrats are working from "Brave New World". npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Same ownership, slightly different approach. Republicans - The lower class must be brutally released. Democrats - We don't think it needs to be *brutal*. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 "I know commercialization of everything, industrially corrupted food supplies, unavailable inferior healthcare and brutal workloads are killing people now. Is there any way we could speed it up though?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y The fact that they won't unify behind a genuine oppositional coalition is a party-wide failure. Having exceptions among them who are fighting without the support of party leadership is more damning, not less. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y The Democrats had "control" more than once and allowed the GOP to still obstruct nearly everything. They're not even trying to employ such tactics now that they are the minority party. They are content largely to grumble and promote dominating the midterms beyond the ability of Trump to rig them as the only solution they'll consider. They aren't doing enough to be considered a real opposition party. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y I have no idea how we're going to keep ourselves fed after Trump destroys our global standing and foreign investors dump all of our bonds. We can lose *everything* by ignoring justice and the rule of law. Justice and affordability are aligned. The Democrats are either completely in thrall to the same monied powers as Trump or they're idiots setting themselves up for extermination. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…gfcd People believe Trump is only going to seize imperial powers over the US, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba... And then just stop? This one is for *all* the marbles. Now that he knows that even the Epstein Files can be nullified, he's got nothing personally left to fear from Bibi or Putin and he's got the presidential bunker to save him physically if it comes to it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…8u43 Does anybody in the wider media establishment understand that it's too late? We need education how to survive the fascist takeover rather than palace intrigues about how fucked we all are. Nothing will come of this either. The GOP is all in on human extinction for profit and will not be deterred by anyone or anything. The Democrats can't be moved to adopt any pro-humanity platform so even if they did get power it wouldn't save us. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Oh goodie, another town hall. In almost as many words, they said "Yes, there are ethical questions about LLM resource consumption and training but we need to set those questions aside and just use the hell out of it". Then they handed off to somebody else who said more or less "We're doing this as cheaply as possible and because Capitalism, that automatically means we're doing the least impact" - set aside that the entire industry is in Loss Leader mode. #ai #corporate #bullshit npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…jljv Similar to Twitter, Meta is never going to get better. Their core values and culture are anti-human. They will never make the pro-human choice without duress. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…u0qu They stole her wedding ring? What possible justification do they have? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6zuf You screw a company out of existence often enough, people stop hiring you to manage their stuff. Executives shouldn't get to be executives forever based on seniority or whatever. They need to prove they can get results without abusing the public, the employees and the shareholders. The LLC as currently conceived is morally and ethically a dumpster fire. Executives should be legally liable for anything happening on their watch. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6zuf Capital punishment for corporations. Dissolve their charter, liquidate all assets. Pay back in this order - customers, non-executive employees, other creditors, shareholders, executive employees. When the money runs out, it runs out. The investors who talk so much about taking on risk should be the ones taking losses and executives shouldn't get anything at all from failure. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…syqt I'm a fan of cranberries generally so I feel the need to infodump a little. Cranberries are one of the highest fruits for pectin content. They will gel with no additions, just cook the fruit. Nothing dubious was necessary to make the canned stuff solidify. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…d9d3 A trucking company in town offered on-site daycare for employees. They had a credible bomb threat, found a (non-functional) device above a drop ceiling and only kind of mentioned it in passing at pick-up. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…7e7l A little boy lived across the street from my grandmother in Koblenz and played outside every day until one day he just didn't anymore. Everybody knew the answer but nobody said it out loud. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…yjf2 @nprofile…n7x3 I am not good at that but I have been pretty consistent about saying that just about everything we were taught to hate about the USSR or China was about the authoritarianism rather than the economics. Nothing about our economy protects us from the abuses inflicted on their people, it's only our democracy that did that (not particularly well). npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl If you ever want to see a neurotypical person lose their shit at work just imply however lightly that their ego-driven, authoritarian and imprecise communication style is the problem. They really don't want you to engage unless it's to be deferential and polyanna. #corporatismKillsHumans #bullshit npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…03hd "Retail Therapy" let's us feel in control in some small way when nothing else feels that way. "At least I can still have a nice thing" feels better than "I'll try to go see what good is left in the public domain after the book bans, bathroom segregation, lynchings and gestapo..." npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…rqac *Needing* to bioengineer superfood for an animal already only one step up the food chain feels a little concerning. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0ta0 Figuring that Microsoft stuff would play well together, I asked CoPilot to break down an overly huge spreadsheet for me. It immediately gave up and told me I could write a Python script to do it instead. I'm underwhelmed. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…r5mx It's a predatory thing. You don't spook the herd as much if you just take the prey at the margins. As the herd shrinks, the margins move in and you pick from the new list of targets. Modern humans have sadly turned into herd animals. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…qz4x The rich do tend to close ranks if they can see us coming. There's some subtlety required for us to get those wedges in place but it's definitely in our favor that they consistently underestimate the non-rich. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…ywea I will not voluntarily sleep without mine. The two overnight blackouts we've had since then were brutal. By the numbers, the first 90 minute nap I took with mine was equivalent to 2 weeks of my "normal" sleep. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…qz4x "If you're not eating the seed corn, what are you even doing this for?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…f0x4 Why vote for the isolationist when you're dependent on international trade? American businesses all got so self entitled in the last century, they believe they have some right to success and profits regardless of the treatment of their customers, employees or properties. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…evae I don't think ADHD is inherently painful in any particular way. Any pain experienced in relation to my ADHD is about trying to square the way my brain operates with the way other people expect it to operate. Among "my people", it's not a thing I notice at all. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0g46 I liked the idea of micro transactions way back when. I don't want a subscription to a paper for whatever per month for 2 articles I actually want to read, still massively plastered with ads and the like. Let me throw my nickel in the cup and read my one article. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9vf2 But when the studios want to use AI trained on everybody else's stuff to replace actors, animators, voice actors, etc. Who's going to then defend the randos on Deviantart and elsewhere? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…tsg3 @nprofile…jewt I overstepped but I did mean that Americans in general are fine with the credit system because we accept the monetary systems are all out of our control and we consider that proof of some intrinsic or objective fairness. We don't consider the Chinese system objective because it's not monetary. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Just watched a presentation at work that explained how instead of form validation and UX rework, we're going to deploy an AI to detect incomplete forms and attempt to guess the answers in new job applications. I am aghast and yet still powerless. Nobody with any power cares that it's all wrong. #corporate #LLM #AIMonomania npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…jewt We only dislike the Chinese system because it's not entirely about money and classism. Anything goes in the US as long as there's money attached. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0tvd In some ways it's weird that this crash didn't happen in other industries. When woodworking CNC broke out into the mainstream, it wasn't followed by the entire world suddenly firing all the woodworkers and accepting shitty amateur furniture as the new permanent industry standard. It's kind of amazing that people treat the craft of software so differently given how important it is to everybody at this point. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…n92f I am constantly irritated by the people who pretend they couldn't see this coming or that everybody who did was just being alarmist. We warned them about a thing before it happened so they could prevent it from happening. They refused to act because it wasn't happening yet. Now it's actively happening and they're somehow shocked and *still* actively trying to marginalize everyone who warned them. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nm3g I kind of love the inherent silliness of "Can anybody tell me which movie I'm in?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…5rrm @nprofile…0r3q @nprofile…5lc3 That's the interface as it's designed, not that there's any redemption to be found in it. Working with CoPilot is like having a pair programmer who is wildly insane, didn't read the project documents and may or may not be a spy. The syntax is usually solid, it's the logic and design that's absolutely bonkers. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Demo yesterday explicitly told us to turn off GitHub CoPilot any time we're working with PHI, PII or any other kind of officially sensitive info. My work is *entirely* data driven. There is no robust test platform, no dummied up claim data, nothing to support us in avoiding real data for testing and development. If I can't use it for sensitive work and all my work is sensitive, WTF am I supposed to do about being required to use it? #corporate #ai #copilot npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…hunl Those are the ones that bother me the most. Not only could we see this coming, we *did* see it coming, hollered about it, did everything we could to convince people to change course and ran headlong into the problem anyway. Short of violent revolution to seize control, everything was done to avoid this outcome. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9vf2 The only upside to the deregulation mania in play is that it lets projects like this exist. If you can't make or service your wheelchair without paying tribute to some oligarch, that's an unreasonable barrier. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…qgrt The Port of Seattle is empty. We're like 2 weeks out from mass denial becoming virtually impossible. A month after that, we'll have people eating American-made cat food. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…ssyg I think it's notable at least that they're not paying full freight for their infrastructure. They've got subsidized water and power distorting their costs such that their pricing now can be safely considered a loss leader situation rather than being genuinely low cost. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…eqw3 @nprofile…4yw8 I hadn't yet but it's in keeping with what we've seen. Anyone who initially resisted Trump was smart and engaged, when they got compromised all of those assets turned into liabilities for the USA. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…eqw3 @nprofile…4yw8 Do we believe for a second that Rubio will be allowed to recommend anything else? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…60lz When studying business, researchers observed that failures were inevitable. Success came to the people who could sustain the most non-lethal failures over time rather than to someone who had a one-off lucky shot. It's not just patiently waiting, it's *surviving* that's going to matter. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…843t Mozilla's AI is still hungry, it needs new user data to ingest after Librewolf started eating their lunches. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6ezj The only freedom they ever wanted was the freedom to unilaterally change the rules in their favor. Literally nothing else matters to them now nor did it ever. They wanted guns to force their way, the 2nd Amendment was always just cover. The NRA suddenly DGAF about the government being overtly fascist and authoritarian because white supremacy was all they ever wanted to defend. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl In our town hall meeting this morning, an executive told us that they plan to give all software engineer jobs to Al. When asked what he might have to say of any comfort to us, he said there are still lots of projects to be done in the meantime. He ended the call by telling us he's uncomfortable with AI coding, knows that we're all uncomfortable with it, and that's exactly where he wants us to be. #capitalism #ai #wtf #executivesDGAF npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…wjfe "Not supposed to be asking that question" - that phrasing is astounding. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…lse8 We have kind of a lot of overseas workers doing stuff for American insurance companies and I don't know how we explain it to them. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…r5mx The point of crypto, to hear the Bros tell it, is that it's *not* secured, insured or regulated by any government entity. You avoid rug pulls exclusively by not buying crypto because the structure of the thing is explicitly built to remove all protections from rug pulls. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…r5mx Let's stop doing Putin the favor of calling it a "peace deal". The deal is "we raze your country of its wealth and resources, you agree to stop complaining about it". That's not peace. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…uxwl Send in all the DOGE employees with their laptops and their AI to fight the next big fire. Air drop them as necessary to get containment. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…s0v8 Any chance the living room power supply is sketchy? The only parts I've had fail on me were subjected, unprotected, to the vagaries of the local power grid. Adding a PiJuice battery backup has saved me even replacing an SD card since I got it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…sxdw It makes it so the government permanently has to pay "Mother, May I?" for all future planning and infrastructure. Texas tried and failed so now they're spending billions to buy back their own highways. I *thought* that would discourage others from doing the same but clearly I'm wrong. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zzxx @nprofile…qz4x Divvying up the spoils of the oligarchs' successfully waged class war. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…chpz He's just going to tell you the current budget minus Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, USPS and education line items. He doesn't want it to work and neither does the GOP or they wouldn't be asking for his opinions. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…093s I managed to do this the other way - the picture was what I needed and the description was just off from what I thought I was ordering. I chalked it up to translation errors or something. Instead of the HDMI-VGA adapter I thought I was ordering, I got Y splitters. Maybe I'll use them some day but I still needed the other things for my project. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub12e6…dtnq I really liked their software but lost track of them for a long time. Must recently I heard it has a Nazi infestation but I didn't go look into it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Every time an insurer fucks stuff up, it becomes harder to be their customers. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1v2s…mqq5 I suspect Trump is played out. The people behind him prefer Vance but can't make that happen overnight. Make him VP. Trump has some kind of collapse or dies and Vance inherits the apparatus without Trump's personal baggage. Trump is the name on the box but Vance is what's inside. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 It's not like this is a new problem. Why does Harris *in particular* need to have an answer for *everything* to get good press? Trump already was president once and did fuck-all about it. Let's see the headlines questioning why he should get another shot at it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Little kids accuse each other of lying all the time. I've had to repeat this a lot as a parent, didn't expect to use it as just a citizen. A lie is any knowingly false statement made to manipulate another person. Everything Trump says that is false and aimed at manipulating the electorate is a lie. Not a falsehood, not untrue, none of the euphemisms accurately reflect reality. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1grx…uxfe There's no credible consensual deprogramming regimen. Essentially, force reeducation is the only think we know works but we also consider it unethical and overly authoritarian. The whole idea of credible authority has been defeated, we burned the only bridge back to civilization. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1ffl…tv7d So Trump's bullshit about Republican states not receiving help might be true only insofar as Republican governors are stupid enough to refuse help. Same as they did with Medicaid expansion. Same as they did with school lunches. Same as they did with COVID. They need to be stopped. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub189n…satx Commercial success depends on a product that is just barely good enough to get the job done because investing anything more in it cuts into profits. No private tollways, power utility or hospital will ever approach the general improvements associated with the interstate highway systems, the rural electrification program or Medicare. Whatever their flaws, things built to work rather than to profit are better. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 The party of death owns the majority of SCOTUS. It's an easy question these days. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Particularly in response to Haitians, this is clearly straight up "they're gonna do it back to us if we let them!" racist bullshit. Haitian slaves took back their freedom and we've never forgiven them for it. The US even used threats of military force to make Haiti pay back France for the loss of its slaves and bankrupted the country. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1tvq…l6jk So the morons admit that "woke" studios focus on gameplay and story over technical novelty. I'll concede the point, sure. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Florida knows it kills old people more often than young, they're just clearing up real estate for the next generation of retirees. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1ffl…tv7d So he's admitting that Twitter is a weapon and negotiating as such? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 We start by putting them on him. He can prove it out for us first. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Trump's SCOTUS made it legal for Biden to assassinate Trump. Why would anybody bother to do this level of cover up of a legal act? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1qe5…8ugl They gave Hitler the same kid glove treatment back when. Their pro-fascism bent isn't new, it just found a new champion. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Moderators enforce rules. These bullshit complaints need to start by explaining which rules Harris got away with breaking rather than just whining that Trump wasn't allowed to get away with it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl We should ask ourselves collectively - if we *wanted* to spread #COVID, what would we be doing? Then we should do the opposite. If I were intentionally spreading COVID, I might ban masks for instance. I'd probably also find it really helpful if there were scary rumors about vaccines. If I really wanted to go for the brass ring, I might encourage or even mandate people to gather in offices, churches, sporting events and commerce centers. I'd definitely make sure there was no real monitoring. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 We've known about this for how long? To whom is this news? DeJoy is still running the show after intentionally, and openly, destroying critical infrastructure in service to his personal profit motives. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Debate organizers should provide as much cocaine and speed to him as he can possibly consume immediately before the debate. We really need him on his A game here! npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 He already admitted he lost. The media needs to make it impossible for him to take that back. He's incapable of containing himself to only telling the truth, the interviewers are supposed to do that for him. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Every step closer to American policies is a mistake. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1qe5…8ugl What successes? His was a historically unproductive presidency. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl I don't have the muscle memory for it yet but purling finally just clicked for me last night and today I took it a step further and realized that because I'm at least a little ambidextrous I can just knit the "wrong" way on purling rows instead of turning the work. I can just flip the direction in my brain instead of in physical space. #knitting npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 What analysis? He hates PoC and he hates women. All she has to do is *exist* to make him completely irascible. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Performative fake patriotism is wasted if nobody sees you doing it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1ffl…tv7d Too bad, official acts can't be stopped by the courts anymore, so said SCOTUS. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1su4…a0dw Just in time to rescue Trump's campaign, Facebook suddenly wants to remove all barriers to disinformation campaigns. Sounds about right. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 The movies made Meyer compromise her racism, is she going to get to keep her "only white good guys" vision for the cartoon? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Cops can catch *this* guy but can't handle a wellness check without murdering someone. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 No, it doesn't believe anything because it's not a person. The executives behind it believe that the Chevron case at SCOTUS empowers them to use business friendly courts to destroy consumers and labor. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 He's too busy planning how to ratfuck 2024? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Is a companion app *always* a marker for enshittification or is there a counter example anywhere? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Why are all of the Right Wing so keenly aware of this particular weird arcane word? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 What's shocking about it exactly? You knew who you nominated. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 A) He thinks that matters? B) JFC he's so wrong. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub186j…8z6r Yeah, why did we wait 50 years exactly? It was evident pretty much right away it wasn't working and wasn't going to. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub132h…f594 Okay, this seems like a weird take. The only reason to break up a monopoly is because it's good for consumers. It's not a side effect, it's the whole point of the thing. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1qe5…8ugl "He who pays the piper, calls the tune." When that became almost exclusively the advertisers, destruction was locked in. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @npub1su4…a0dw Because ads are evil and Reddit used to respect users who told them so. That's over and so should be reddit.