Once again the US is an embarrassment

Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

As with all things involving humans, you can’t really change minds with facts. It’s just emotions and peer pressure.

Not a bad post, but I expect it won’t sway people who aren’t already on board.

I buy albums. Built up a nice library. No drm. No Internet required. I can even share it or pass it on. It’s a lot easier to share than my parents’ big record collection

I wanted this to go to trial so the jury could nullify, but this is a shit timeline.

Business Idiots. It’s a pervasive problem. The people making decisions are not the people doing labor. They’re often so far removed from normal life, that they can’t even relate to regular humans anymore. How is some asshole with a full time personal assistant and high six figure salary supposed to relate to someone making median income and renting with 2 housemates?

Fuck 'em. Labor should take back what it built.

Of course they are. I’m happy to never use twitch but I feel like most people don’t care or don’t have the self discipline to stop.

I honestly forgot that game even existed!

It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

Controversial take: doom 1 is better than doom 2. Doom 2 has a bunch of awful levels.

I didn’t really like doom2016 or eternal that much, either. Too much start-and-stop.

Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don’t really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.

They’re fucking soulless morons.

The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don’t really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.

New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?

And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It’s also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.

Most people don’t really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they’re no better than a toddler.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.