MolochAlter @ MolochAlter @lemmy.world

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What fucking pathetic excuse for a union doesn't immediately negotiate a collective contract with prerequisites for termination and mandatory reporting of layoffs?

By what definition is this even a union if they don't take management to task and actually, ya know, strike instead of bitching online?

Frankly if this is what passes for a union in the US I am not surprised nobody fucking unionizes.

Oh I am well aware, I just wanted to call out this bullshit behaviour because it's frankly the major reason why the right keeps gaining support.

The left looks weak, disharmonious, and more preoccupied with adventist "after the revolution" bullshit than with actually explaining their ideas and more importantly their policy positions.

The average rightoid has very quick and snappy numbers and policies they can rattle off at a moment's notice, with (often simplistic or even incorrect) explanations as to how and why they will work.

Meanwhile I have seen so much fucking economic illiteracy about UBI and the labor theory of value and their relationship to scarcity and actual economics on this site it makes me want to jump out of a window.

Right wingers are at least able to explain a leftist point of view. Their explanation will probably be unflattering, but it will be more or less accurate. I have not seen a single leftist (and this is why I decided to poke here) being able to do the same. When faced with an unaligned or questioning person their only recourses are shaming/cautioning (like in this case) or condemning as already an enemy anyway.

I am a liberal, so depending on how far left you are, I am either already a fascist, or I'm a fascist in potentia. Believe it or not, I am neither, and would much rather the left do its part in contrasting the rise of fascism rather than enabling it by being a terrible at opposing it, which includes winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the people, which y'all are doing really poorly at right now.

If you're into pro wrestling, a lot of older wrestlers have podcasts and they're generally pretty conservative.

Chris Jericho keeps politics typically separate but has donated to the Republican party in the past, Matt Cardona is at least center right depending on where you sit, Undertaker has one too, Busted Open has a variety of hosts and some are definitely right wing.

All of these are first and foremost about other topics though, so the political leaning of the hosts rarely gets involved.

Sounds like you believe right wingers are better at persuading people than left wingers 🤔

I mean, warehouses cost money...

That's just not factual, at all.

• They have 2 successful e-sport leagues (DotA and CS)
• They made and maintain steamvr, and released the Index not even 5 years ago, which is fully cross-compatible with older hardware like the Vive.
• They develop Proton and Vulkan, which are open source, to boot
• They still support TF2 with content and balance patches.
• They're developing Source 2 and just ported CS to it.
• They released one of the best VR games on the market at the time in HL: Alyx

All of this, plus the steampowered ecosystem and the deck, and not counting all the R&D we know they do through interviews and articles which hasn't manifested into commercial products yet.

There are valid criticisms of Valve, but them not doing things with their money is not one of them and just betrays how ignorant of their body of work you actually are.

That would be incredible, doubt Sony would go for it though.

IKR, there was no saving anyone, except the dog I guess.

He was also quite clueless to the point of endangering himself and others, but yeah, he's probably not as bad as squall in retrospect.

Raising the floor doesn't mean raising all wages.if when raising minimum wage every other wage were increased by the same amount you'd see a very different pattern.

Also, nowhere tried UBI uniformly to every member of the country. The problem with UBI is that testing it with a subset of the population doesn't have any predictive power because these people individually exist in a society that doesn't have UBI.

Think about it this way: the lowest amount of money a person needs to survive is your break even point. Ideally, your minimum wage should be a little higher than that so people can save some money for emergencies etc.

For the sake of ease of use let's make that our unit of value, call it 1L for Life.

So, every person working (ideally) receives at least 1L, if you're not working you either have savings worth 1L for the span of time you won't work, or you'll have to incur debt or other hardships.

Now, if you took absolutely everyone, working or not, and gave them, say, 0.5L for free, this won't raise the floor, it'll mean everyone will.amke at least 1.5L if working, 0.5L if not.

This leads to either lowering of wages back to a level where the total is closer to 1L, or the increase of the minimum cost of living to 1.5L, or more likely a mix of the two.

The reason why money is valuable isn't random, it's because money is finite and scarce.

The amount everyone has is the null amount whether that is 0 or 100L, because it's the differential between your income and that null amount that gives it purchasing power.

Look at the effects of the covid stimulus and bailouts on purchasing power, and you'll see a much closer result to an actual UBI than looking at the european UBI trials which ended up being much closer to randomly giving welfare to people than actual UBI.

Doesn't change Squall being the worst main character in FF history next to Tidus, unfortunately.

That is an example of the "incredible craftsmanship" I mentioned.

Id software knows what they're doing, as much as you can hate zenimax/bethesda/Microsoft they do leave their subsidiary/partner studios alone to do their thing, mostly.

They literally can't afford to.

There's a huge budget bloat, which means having to play ever safer to maximize your audience.

The reality is that only small games can afford to be gambles and actually have an identity and a soul.

Big budget games need to be works of incredible craftsmanship like the Arkham games to maintain a soul while being unimpeachable in execution, and you can't just throw money at the skill problem.

You can however throw money at 10387 consulting firms to make sure you're aiming for maximum palatability, and inevitably make homogenised pap for babies.

For instance: it's really telling when even a game that should have been edgy as fuck like Suicide Squad had to lionize Wonder Woman, and only Wonder Woman, because apparently you can't humiliate her and unceremoniously murder her alongside every other beloved Justice League member.

Weren't they the people who hid threats in the code aimed at geohot?

This, publicly trading means your company is now the product, games are just a way to make the stock price go up, so they need to sell gazillions and have the broadest possible audience.

This inevitably leads to flavour of the month design by committee garbage gameplay, enshittified business models like "live service", and writing catering to "global audiences" with cookie cutter quips and insufferable millennial "humour".

All that or whatever the fuck cod writers are mainlining alongside taurine and the tortured soul of Chris Benoit.

Speaking as a huge fan of firefly, I'm not even gonna pretend that the writing doesn't have a very specific set of issues, and that cancellation might have saved it from becoming aggressively mid and boring.

If Serenity was more or less the intended ending to the season (specifically revealing the alliance actually created the reapers and are unequivocally villainous) I'm actually happy they didn't get to put that in the show.

Same for the Shepherd Book backstory comic where he was actually a brown coat double agent in the alliance, because god forbid we have to accept that your enemy isn't ontologically evil.

But the best criticism I've seen of Whedon is that all his dialogue has over time exceedingly forgone character voice in favour of funny quips.

So much of his later production's quotable lines are almost impossible to attribute correctly just from the lines themselves.

Yes.

Pacifism is a moronic stance as a rule, born out of coddled overprivileged upbringings. War and weaponry have been a cornerstone of humanity since the first time a guy brained another guy with a rock.

Not building weapons simply means you'll have fewer, nobody else will do you the courtesy of not attacking you because you were nice and didn't proliferate.

There's a reason the most peaceful country on earth, Switzerland, has most adults as trained members of the reserves, and everyone has access to state mandated weapons of war either in their homes or their local armouries.

Arkham knight has consistently had higher concurrent daily players on steam than suicide squad after like, a week from launch, and that game is ten years old.

It didn't even reach Avengers numbers.

Looking at the curator list, whatever the intent, it's actually a very handy list of titles with mid to astoundingly poor writing, a lot of which apparently even SBI seems to disown, since they're not on their website (but they are credited by the games themselves).

So yeah, I don't think I need it cause I already didn't waste my money on any of those on their own merits, but it's funny to see there's a common thread.

Bold implication he had any in him in the first place