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Even republicans don’t want fascism.

They don't? How can you tell?

Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn't seem to matter to him

The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a "Can I go downstairs?" instead of "Can I play video games?" when I knew they didn't want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.

I do feel like protests need to transition from "We're here with signs" to "No more labor until these problems are addressed," but I don't know how to get from here to there.

Are there protests? Are people lining up in DC? I feel like the left is just broken and disorganized and losing on every front.

As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by "strict".

My parents were "strict" in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.

But I've also read about "strict" parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares

There are too many headlines where the first half is exciting.

Trump hit by bombshell

Iranian leader slaps trump

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/126076-and-for-an-instant-she-stared-directly-into-those-soft

Like the torment Nexus tweet, I feel like some rich idiots read stuff like that and think it's a good idea.

The mods here are a disappointment

Well, yeah.

Maybe if you own the business and keep a big chunk of the profits. But for the standard "you get a salary" job? Yeah you're being robbed. That's capitalism.

"A worker pulls into the parking lot at work, and the boss pulls in right after in a new sports car. The worker says, 'wow what a car! How did you get it?'

The boss says, 'Tell you what. You work hard this quarter, hit all your numbers, put in some overtime, and I can buy a new one next quarter.'"

Is this an age thing? I'm about 40 and I never had instagram, barely used facebook, and didn't use any others really. I don't think I've ever had a problem where someone backed out because I didn't have instagram. But I also don't have a big group of casual friends, and maybe that would be harder.

Discord sucks, but I've noticed a lot of social groups use it. A couple meetups I go to all use it for communication. Maybe that's more bearable than instagram?

"Whoever told you that is your enemy"

I need that meme where in one pane, the gymnast is like flipping over spikes and flames and stuff. Label that one "being creative in D&D". The other pane is the gymnast just walking across the mat. Label that one "Games that support creativity" or something.

I don't accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.

Many jobs make the world worse. I'd rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.

Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another "AI" company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into "the metaverse"? Waste of time and resources.

That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That's a bum deal. But there's a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you'd likely get more people working.

Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should -- wait, he's southern baptist? The "we're going to split off because we want slavery" sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.

I get the vague impression that this is meant to subtly influence western society into believing that the masses aren’t truly people

Tinfoil hat theory would be that the evil leaders of real life (the ceos, the billionaires, etc) are planting the seeds so that if their plans fail and a revolution comes, they won't be summarily executed

I read a book about startup stuff at the request of the CEO of my old company. Some of it was at least superficially interesting, but one part stood out as haunting. It casually mentioned how a "founder" at Zoom was trying to get money, and the investors thought it was a stupid idea. It was a "solved problem" that already had big players in the space. But they were personally friends with the guy, so they gave him a few hundred million dollars.

That's not something to be proud of. Nepotism and bro-driven-investment isn't the ideal.

But these rich assholes pretend they're such visionaries. Gatekeepers of the future. Fuck them. Fuck them all. The climate is a disaster and they're pouring billions into "Cats in the metaverse"? Crimes against humanity.

I feel like some of this is fundamentally wrong. Like it says such and such saves money, but cutting that program costs untold amounts as a consequence.

Like you can save money by not paying your phone bill, but then you don't have a working phone.

So the nyt probably sucks by not making that clear to readers.

I really like Awakening but it's hard to find players for it.

I had a group for about six months once, and it was pretty good. Except one player just never learned the rules, and refused to read clues. Like they found a clue on site that was like 10 sentences and she was like "I'm not reading all that".

Who watches this slop? I just... why. There are so many good books, movies, tv shows, whatever. Stop watching slop.

Ok then no system works because any system can be sabotaged. Democracy can be subverted in various ways. Making a sandwich can be ruined by any number of methods. That's not a useful way to look at the world.