I feel like he used to seem crazy, but it was like a Tik Tok trend you don’t get, but with racism, and there’s an audience for it, but ever since he got on that Hannibal Lecter thing… I think NOW it’s just crazy
I feel like he used to seem crazy, but it was like a Tik Tok trend you don’t get, but with racism, and there’s an audience for it, but ever since he got on that Hannibal Lecter thing… I think NOW it’s just crazy
The management culture emphasizes a workflow that’s heavy on low skill junior devs and cheap foreign labor of highly variable quality. You caaaaan do that well with infinite planning and QA and project management and test-driven design, but the reason you’re trying to do it that way to begin with is you’re an under qualified yes-man careerist dipshit trying to come in under budget and time, so you won’t. And these are the wages of low wages.
You gotta love how aggressively they prevent users from seamlessly running executables from the internet, a VERY legitimate common use case, but a desktop shortcut from the internet? Run away!
Heck, there was even overlap with the internet where you could briefly lookup anyone in any city’s white pages listing online for free! People used to sign their Usenet posts with their full name, phone, and mailing address, though. We were really stupid in hindsight, but it was a more innocent time.
The blue MAGA mass downvoters on here are a real problem for the platform. I don’t even get the point of it. I think they think that any disagreement from the party line leads to the DNC failing because it’s like Tinkerbell, and only kept alive by belief and clapping, not just a deeply corrupt neoliberal party in need of reform, that is terribly underperforming in only managing 50-50 while the GOP self-destructs.
I’d wager your DVD rips are same quality, most stuff from the 90’s touched by computer anything is 480p at the source. VHS, it would be an improvement probably.
Yet more austerity seems like the definition of insanity – trying the same thing over and over, expecting a different result
Neoliberalism is a right wing ideology, hate to break it to you. There is no left in 2024 America.
Starmer is going to single handedly destroy the Labour party. He’s such a typical neolib thief. What exactly is the point of even voting for his Labour over the Tories? Their policy positions and tendency to corruptly profit off power has reached full parity now that Starker has purged every real Labour candidate from Labour.
A DNC congressional majority passed every shitty thing he did except the Iran Contra stuff. There’s a great classic SNL from the late 80’s where Al Franken talks on Weekend Update about how it used to be someone who got old and rich like him would have to become a republican, but thanks to the DNC becoming a neoliberal anti-tax party, he doesn’t need to swap parties.
I would argue all of these things were possible sans “AI” (although it would have been sold as AI in the 90’s) via existing heuristics adequately developed if people knew that was the desired application
If ONE emo kid had befriended him in high school and showed him how he could talk to girls about Death Cab, all of this would be fine… There’s a mirror earth where Rivers Cuomo is this in the W era…
I stand corrected, I suppose the bar for less bad than the rest of the DNC was VERY low, even before the party of Cheney era of the DNC we live in now
The backlash to this is going to be fun. Having lived through the .com boom/bust, which wasn’t a scam, the web was actually the future and was undersold if anything, no one with the stink of computer on them outside of a tiny elite could get decent fulltime work for like 5 years. AI is a scam, full stop. It has virtually no non-fraud real world applications that don’t reflect the underlying uselessness of the activity it can do. People are going to go full Butlerian Jihad from Dune when this blows up the economy, and it’s going to suck so much more for everyone in tech, scammer or no…
Imagine maintaining your integrity for the ENTIRE pre-2020 decades of abject neoliberal domination of not just the entire political system, but the very intellectual framing of everything from the economy to morality, and then you give it all up for Joe fucking Biden…
The DNC is now the party of the neocons. Maybe Trump is so bad it’s “necessary” but arguably in a two party duopoly that’s effectively a sealed system, you’re just swapping voters with the GOP to wind up still relatively 50/50, and I’m skeptical there’s a geographical advantage to upper-crust, legitimately evil former republicans, who don’t care for Trump’s uncouth antics, as presumably most of those voters live in districts that are already blue-ish. You’re literally giving up pro-peace voters in random districts across the country, potentially in tightly contested congressional districts, to run up your VA margin of victory.
I find it works in most cases, but I have also seen it “just not work.” I feel like your good “this does everything you need for this one thing and just works” apps like Retroarch and VLC have become FAR less reliable in recent years.
I’d argue that’s more archeoconservatism, what Trump represents and what has reinvigorated the right is more a regressive progressivism – forging a sort of Dune/Handmaiden’s Tale future that resembles an idealized past but is more a SciFi future reimagining of it, and government has an active role in producing that just as in normal progressive progressivism because you need the government to drive the change.
The idea that actual swing voters, who are largely tuned out of 99% of available information, actually care about specific policies is overstated on all but a tiiiny subset of issues (which trans rights are not one of). Virtually no specific policy actually impacts electoral success on non-base turnout voting on its merits, it’s all campaign organization and media vibes, so I’d argue this is a false choice, largely. Nobody who isn’t already on a side cares about your platform, they care if you’re visibly embarrassed about your own platform (as democrats usually are about the 1% deviation from the GOP free market absolutism they dare in most cycles).
Would Liz and Dick Cheney support a bad party? Checkmate, commies!