elouboub @ elouboub @kbin.social

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Tbf, it's difficult to break programming. If your whole life you're raised in a society that measures your worth by your "hard work", then accepting that you don't need work to be happy is difficult for most. Most will continue voting against their own interests until there's a watershed moment. My bet is on unemployment hitting 30% due to AI.

If 30% of the population has to be on social security and can't be hired anymore, it would surprise me if nothing changed. Unless of course they blamed immigrants and minorities. They always serve as good scape goats.

3% incidence of cardiovascular disease compared to 1.5%. 95% increase sounds like a lot, but 3% isn't that terrible, honestly.

Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it

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He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.

That lie is about the same level as kid caught with their fingers in the cookie jar. "No, I wasn't going to eat the cookie, I was saving it from you eating it in the future!".

My Lord, I had the distinct displeasure of being granted access to a few pre-mades. Not to be repeated

Why would you stop population decline though?

Did you read the article?

Free diarrhea you say?

How can the UK get rid of their first past the post system? The other side seems just as bad.

Appropriate reaction honestly

Peak USA

If you want to explore the most toxic community on the internet, install Dota 2.

Signed: somebody who understands nothing about taxes

Mozilla, please stop aping Chrome. Copying is rarely the way to win big.

Yes! Please. Firefox devs should fork and make an org that focuses on Firefox alone. Make it a true competitor to Chrome/Chromium. Innovate instead of copying. Be something different and get rid of your management with fat salaries. It could be much better used on development and improving the web.

Which country is having a housing market crash right now?

"I think you're objectively wrong"

It's nowhere near "good music doesn't exist anymore". They are the same old plotlines with that double crescendo bullshit. The only thing that really changes are the characters and setting. Sometimes they add a twist here and there in order not to be too obvious, but if you watch enough stuff, they feel the same.
Trailers have genres themselves. You can watch a trailer and know nearly the entire plot of a movie plus what the genre is. The colors also give away so much about that: blue - technology, dark tones - horror, greenish blue - techy sci-fi, colorful - probably art-house, etc. there are entire pallets dedicated to genres and their subgenres.
The way the cameras move, the chosen audio effects, scenes that unnecessarily capture a specific object or center an unknown thing, a few frames of a look, and so much more.

Writers and the creative personnel have been hamstrung by the focus on ROI. Remakes and sequels are the biggest investment these days. There's very often some attempt to build a franchise or continue one.

Music has changed massively. Outside of mass media, you can't take a song from now and say "wow, this sounds like something from the 80s". The red hot chili peppers, black sabbath, metallica, and other bands used to be considered metal, but that's unrecognizable as metal nowadays. Maybe rock?
Music has mashed together so many genres that you can go and type nearly any genre in a search engine to find music of it.

A rust-based DE. Kinda exciting.

Video? Not just screen resolution?

I have a RPi3 and can't play anything above 720p.

Another board that can't play 1080p? Fantastic!

Let's be honest, TV shows and movies nowadays are dogshit storywise. Video games have way better stories because they actually have to engage the audience to want to discover it. TV shows just need to grab attention for a season, get cancelled and move on to the next season long trailer.

Mass Effect made a game with a Sci-Fi story better than any Sci-Fi show that has come out since then. WarHammer 40k did a pretty good job too.