@Arkana@Khrys@corfiot Why fuck Antifa and Neonazis? Because most of both are effectively criminal enterprises. The Neonazis are hawking their propaganda on the black market, because it is illegal and I suspect some companies run by them launder money. Antifa on the other hand is not a mere violent street gang. Some of the motherfuckers involved in it are terrorist and doxers.
One of the reasons why Antifa suddenly became active on the Northwestern pacific coast is some of the doxers from Germany getting a dose of their own medicine from then Neonazis and had fled from the country as a result of this. Now they are up to same crap they were at home against some Trump voters. If want some concrete proof that Antifa are doxers, look no further that this fine blog: https://rechtemedieninfo.blogspot.com/
They started that shit with flyers by the way.
Both perpetuate the thinking of violent bydlos. i.e. they gonna kill you if wearing certain shibboleths just Crips and Bloods would. Both are the cause of confederate monuments getting taken down effectively reverting the post bellum healing process of the US. If these things are magnet for violent idiots, why keeping them around? Both tedious, both keep a shit subgenre of punk rock alive, both are used a hooligans of the state for the state is not allowed to use force against for criticizing it.
@augustus@lain > No Supermarket wants Cocal Cola pull out of its stores
Make a trip to northern Germany and check out merciless Edaka can be. They didn't have any Coca Cola for months, because they didn't like the conditions and now everything Mars Foods is effectively banned from there, because its time for another price beef. They pulled the same with Unilever until they cucked out and accepted Edeka's conditions. They are made of ice, man.
A lot of what we see in tech journalism is either consumerist content or standard business journalism dressed up in a Steve Jobs turtleneck. The consumerist stuff shows up as weirdly breathless reviews of new products that are mostly the same as the old products or descriptions of updates to existing tech (“three exciting new features in iOS 16.2!”). The business-journalism stuff is all about stock prices and mergers and acquisitions. For some reason, people who would never read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Procter and Gamble acquiring a new shampoo company will devour content about Microsoft acquiring a tech startup they’ve never heard of.
Tech journalism serves these purposes pretty well. I have certainly read my share of reviews of tech products and I am far more familiar with the business activities of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos than I really need to be. But what happens when something big happens in the tech world that doesn’t fit the standard narratives?
I was prompted to write this post when I ran across the following post on Mastodon by
Annalee Newitz:
Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as “that impossible-to-use website.” First of all, it’s an app. C’mon. Second of all, aren’t these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?
Like Newitz, I’m an increasingly enthusiastic adopter of Mastodon, and, like them, I’ve been kind of confused by the press coverage around the platform. The media seems to be regarding Mastodon as a bizarre curiosity, something that the general public couldn’t possibly grasp. Sure, the guys with a Linux server in their basement might geek out on it, but this thing isn’t for the masses.
Maybe.
But maybe the problem is that tech journalists don’t know what to do with something like Mastodon. You see, Mastodon doesn’t fit the standard tech narratives.
[...]
Mastodon’s values are antithetical to the way we’ve come to understand the purpose of technology and technology companies. We’ve been trained to favor ease of use and affordability over everything else. If a product is slick or free, then we are expected to sacrifice whatever’s necessary — usually our privacy or our attention span — to use it.
Tech journalism usually operates on and amplifies these assumptions; they’re baked into most of the coverage of the technology world.
@realcaseyrollins The better question is what was #WeirdTwitter? Weird Twitter was a long term raid from the Something Awful forums of twitter that consisted of shitposting the same jokes over and over again and being a shit person overall. Something Awful is also responsible for most of the horrible shit we are experiencing for the last ten years.
@Xeraser@JapanAnon Takes place in Prague, because Warren Specter wants to make a autistic live simulator.
I've already got it. Cyberpunk just isn't as good as CDPR has promised. Never will be. Other games you can play instead are Shadowrun Dragonfall and Shadowrun Hongkong. Just avoid Returns which is shit because it has been overshadowed by by the two other games.
@udon@JapanAnon@ryo Thank God the mandate failed in parliament here. All what is needed is another failure for the permanent state of emergency. Meanwhile, I have never gotten a dingus since March 2020 while ignoring most of the old rules wherever I can.