Either choose to participate in capitalism or they stick you in a box and commodify your imprisonment

I do method acting, like “in this next scene I am going to play an extrovert who enjoys making small talk at professional conferences with potential customers and employers”

Basically every single song from the Moby album Play was in basically every single commercial on TV

Thinking the stupidity meme won’t jump from one species to the next is just a lazy cop out, regardless of the species we just have to stop being stupid and there’s no one single switch that can be flipped for that

Yeah, me too, he’s a wicked good guitar player (like, he started off as a bluegrass player, which is basically acoustic death metal) and a hell of a lyric writer

Won’t say it’s entirely because he’s a black guy playing Americana music, but hard to believe that’s not a factor

I know it wasn’t exactly hard to predict any of it, but I still think it’s notable that this song came out months before names like Marimar Martinez, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Ruben Ray Martinez, and others were in the news - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAciON3IdE

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

There will be a brief moment of satisfaction when these types all lose their jobs to drones before things get even more dystopian

I see an arm beneath the hand, wrist is on the right side of it from our perspective and elbow is below the frame

The text spacing and punctuation (and probably that gradient) creates a really strong visual flow from top to bottom that works really well for this, it’s like a panel-less comic

For whatever it’s worth, whenever I am finally able to understand thoughts that come from a way different context than my own it is super satisfying. It’s like finding a hidden world that was underneath my feet all along.

“I have one main point I want to convey with five points of supporting evidence but actually each of those require arguing and some qualifications and point 4 is an essential part of the argument for point 1 and all of this reminds me of a funny conversation in a tv show that to me does a better job of explaining it but if you haven’t seen it what’s really important about that show is that it came out at the height of the War on Terror and -”

You probably stopped listening around the word “supporting” and I don’t blame you for that

Sounds like a political science and economics problem, don’t know why we needed to harass physics nerds about it

For the predatory games, either find some other way to get them…or don’t play/pay at all.

It’s good advice, but past experience strongly suggests not enough people are going to follow it to make a difference. I think the only way game pubishers and other media companies reform their practices is if there are enforced government regulations requiring them to do so.

Not surprising when I think about all the different ways the extremely wealthy have corrupted all of our democratic and regulatory institutions, but it’s pretty ironic that only privately held companies can respond to public feedback in a healthy way these days

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it

It’s shit like this one minute and then bawling your eyes out over Sniper Wolf talking growing up as an orphan during the second Iraqi-Kurdish war the next

Yeah, hearing the NYT decry hijacking of the public square is like hearing a Republican complain that Trump’s foreign policy is destabilizing the world

Instead of blocking them I wonder if archiving their posts and reposting their questions with the archived comment section would be better. I’m personally less interested in punishing an individual user who’s using this space selfishly (as much as they might deserve it) than I am in making this space more useful for everyone, and I don’t know how either of these proposals would do that in the short term (arguably they might in the long term by changing user behavior, but that seems like it really would take a long while).