Wow, I figured the notion that Harris having a good shot at the presidency would drive the MAGAs totally insane was silly. And yet, here we are! The conservatives do seem to well and truly be losing their shit about it.
This is still a business problem. The truth is, we solved basically all the technical problems that could be practically solved by the 2010s. We have all the technology, we know what people want and need. We could, and should, build a lifetime personal computer (phone form factor) for every person on Earth that provides for their communication needs, acts as a personal assistant and organizer, and more. And we've had those, dozens if times.
But how do you keep selling people stuff once you've met all their needs? You tear it all down and keep rebuilding and reselling it. You enshittify to squeeze money out, customers flee, so you encircle them with another capitalist enclosure and rebuild the same shit again. Repeat.
Software devs should basically all be making games and trying to teach AI to be smarter but instead we're replacing internet search (a problem we solved in the 90s!) with LLM enabled advertising engines that literally can't find info for you so they make it up. And we're iterating on the 10 thousandth version of an e-commerce site because all internet shopping is part of a giant global MLM now. Seriously, "drop shipping" is the latest iteration of the same old scam they used to run on diet pills and knives and magazine subscriptions.
But every college student with a fresh business degree can set up a Wix site to resell sunset lamps. It's uber for scams. The reseller takes on all the risk, sets up the e-commerce site with a builder, firehoses ads all over their social media, and does all the work. There are multiple industries now entirely supported on conning desperate people into being your salesforce, workforce, advertisers, and customers all at the same time.
Our current obsession with sequels and prequels is terrible. The thing about a good story, with good characters, is that it typically starts around the time The Most Interesting Thing is happening to the characters, and concludes around the time the Most Interesting Thing is also wrapping up. That's why the book/movie/game/song exists, to tell about this time The Most Interesting Things happened to these people. By definition then, a prequel tells some lesser story that leads up to the MIT. If the prequel was the most interesting story, then it would be the story, not a spinoff.
Same shit with sequels. You've told the story, the characters are done. If there was more, you should have finished telling that story. Now obviously, there's long stories that have smaller arcs and take place over several installments.
Like Lord of the Rings. 3 (technically 6) books that tell one overarching story, a very interesting one. Each book has a story, but the whole set also has an overall story that wraps up nicely. The Hobbit, the OG, also tells one whole interesting story. Note how LotR isn't also Bilbo's story. Now note how the movies fucked this up by turning the Hobbit from its own story into a LotR prequel, as though actually all these films are Gandalf's story, or something like that.
The current trend of grinding every iota of money out of any idea, based on Lore and not characters or big ideas, has sucked all the meaning and import out of these things.
I once walked into a golden orb weaver's web. It was across a trail, just above my eyeline but low enough to catch my forehead. I basically fell backward (from being clotheslined) and proceeded to panic jump back to my feet, spinning in circles brushing at my clothes while my hiking buddies helpfully told me it was on my back still (it never left the tree). Their webs are super strong and very beautiful (from a considerate distance!)
I could compromise and start with 1 day a month. And yeah, obviously election days are extra democracy days that everyone gets paid time off from work to vote.
What kind of unserious country would force people to work slave's hours to make ends meet and would then hold elections during the work week at times where millions of poor laborers would be unable to vote? That sounds like a fake democracy.
People of all ages have a lot to do and very little extra time to devote to things like understanding political issues or learning about candidates. What America needs is "democracy day off."
I think every Monday should be a demoncracy day: like the Sabbath, we keep it holy and do no work that makes a person or company money. Instead, everyone is required to pick one of a few available activities: meeting with local councils to discuss issues and vote, reading up on laws and candidates and issues (hopefully to report to a council about it), or civic improvements like park cleanup or elder care. This isn't comprehensive, just trying to give the flavor of it.
Maybe if Americans finally learned how to do actual freedom we could let people choose their democracy day to spread it out through the week. The core idea is simply that we need to mandate and regulate that so many hours per person per month will be devoted exclusively to the project of maintaining our society.
I'm just poking fun that the fundamental type in JS (Object) is an associative-array/hashmap. Technically it has some fancy under-the-hood handling for pure arrays and primitive types. This is also exactly true of Lua, and a little true of Ruby and Python.
Really, most programmers would do great to start with a hash map or array list and only specialize out further when the problem calls for it.
Overly fawning and positive tone when the terrible examples speak for themselves. I did laugh loudly at the "black man eating spaghetti" when he goes to take a second bite which transforms mid-flight into a wine glass and smooshes his face. As an unintentional comedy generator, B+. As a useful tool that isn't built on the stolen labor of millions of youtubers, F.
Being from Louisiana, it was interesting to spend some time in Berlin. Germans treat Turkish people a lot like we treat Black people: love their food and culture, but keep them in ghettos and don't let them have any real power!
I feel like this would be similar to America protecting the word "Cajun" in food, which shitty fastfood places love to slap on any food they've added a half-gram of cayenne powder to. Honestly, all in favor of restricting "cajun" or "döner" or any other food designation for which being regulated would enforce a higher quality standard and greater authenticity.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung was asked by reporters during a rally on Wednesday whether the former president has said anything about Harris’ possible running mate.
“There is a short list of governors and senators. They are all interchangeable,” Cheung said. “It doesn’t matter.”
Imagine being this flippant about your job to try and defeat another political party in an election. "Yeah I don't care who she picks we're running the same hate campaign either way."
There will never be reckoning enough for the owners and operators of private prisons, especially in LA. I wish hell existed so I'd know they were gettng what they deserve.
Guess they're upgrading to Windows 95 and getting some new features in the process!
I hate them removing open seating though, which airline experts have found is basically the fastest, easiest system for boarding planes. Obviously just to allow per-sest pricing, the bane of travellers everywhere.
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Looks like BEANS are back on the menu!