RegularGoose @ RegularGoose @sh.itjust.works

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Are we really pretending EA doesn't do this to every studio that shows a hint of profit decrease? It's been a major part of their business model for a decade or more.

Civil wars generally happen because someone cracked down.

Maybe more practically, it’s just hard to argue America wouldn’t be in a better place right now if it wasn’t for Fox News and Facebook/Cambridge Analytica.

We absolutely would be, but not because they make people stupid. All they do is exploit vulnerabilities in our shitty brains that have always been there.

Don't worry, in a few decades that's where we'll all be, you included. Assuming we survive the corporate-induced famines, anyway.

The "sea people" weren't a bunch of starving refugees, they were well-supplied and organized military invasion forces, but sure.

We're well beyond the point of industrial activity being done "more safely." Either it stops entirely, or everything collapses before the turn of the next century.

Carbon offset isn't real.

You're not wrong, but it's not likely that a bunch of moneyless people from third-world countries are going to come over and genocide us.

Next lesson: Oops, there aren't better employers.

The fact that "don't work off the clock" and "don't do work you aren't getting paid for" are genuinely needed bits of advice rather than absurdly obvious common sense should radicalize all workers.

Funny how their "flagship" planes look like the shit that big boy grownup militaries have been using since the late 70's.

Most of the "solutions" sold by companies are for artificial problems created by companies.

Television and increasingly digestible media is turning our brains to mush.

No it isn't. Global connectivity is just putting a spotlight on the the fact that most people are and always have been fucking stupid and/or dangerously undereducated.

I stopped reading when you said the goal of tech companies is to solve real world problems. The only goal of tech companies is to create products that will make them a profit. To believe anything else is delusional. That's kind of why our society is crumbling and the planet is dying.

Some are afraid, others don't know how, others feel like there's no use in trying. A whole lot buy into the American exceptionalism propaganda that gets shoved down our throats from birth and think there's nothing wrong with this country and that the people who are suffering deserve it, and that the people who want to make it better are literally trying to destroy it for Satan, or for the Jews, or for the reptilians.

I do support that, at least morally. In practice, a bunch of disorganized, untrained, and poorly equipped people who are already struggling to get by day to day are not going to win a fight against human history's most powerful police and military force on its own home territory.

Because that's not the government works. The populace doesn't choose who the candidates are, introduce legislation, or (with relatively rare exceptions) vote on it directly.

I think you're vastly overestimating how well-off "average" is in the US.

6 years ago was a different decade.

Anecdotes are not "personal opinions" and they certainly aren't valid or valuable in the context of evaluating scientific claims.