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@ic3l9 @Moon @icedquinn @teratology
>just that people joining the outrage because they hate women was a key part of the dynamic
This. This exact reaction was the key part of the dynamic, that caused gamergate to explode. It wasn't the initial corruption. It was that when it was pointed out, this enormous coordinated simultaneous response from numerous outlets with the exact same message, slightly reworded, dropped all on the same day. It was later discovered that they did coordinate with secret email lists. And if you point it out, your post gets deleted.
This gaslight of "criticism of our corruption is invalid because you hate women and minorities", which grew to "gamers hate women and minorities and gamers don't need to be your audience." "gamers are over".
How dare they say the emperor has no clothes.
Now keep pre-ordering your AAA slop, and don't complain no matter how bad it is. The videogame industry is stronger than ever. If you don't agree then you're a white supremacist misogynist.
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@lain It's a cult-religion, not an economic or scientific model. It doesn't require or desire itself to be consistent or factual.
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@lain I got curious and used a calculator and you're probably right. It returned
$nan
because the number was so big. If he invested the $1 with 2% annual interest for 8200 years (10% of the years in the tweet), he'd have
$33,220,674,635,271,203,749,460,101,460,068,681,101,232,405,760,063,115,849,057,159,813,791,744
Elon Musk has roughly
$200,000,000,000
>Why didn't my seeds grow?!?!
<Where did you plant them?
>They're in the seed packet in the drawer. Damn farmers are cheating! Tax them and give it to me!!!
You have to be educated to be this ignorant. This level of anger and ignorance are not a human's natural state. They probably also think the bank gives 2% interest out of the goodness of its heart while storing the deposited cash in a box until you come back for it. Any other belief would admit the legitimacy of capital.
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@lain catgirlfriend / catgrillfriend?
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@thendrix @lain @Moon that is a worrying development. To be fair it's about animal products, but it does move in the direction where plants could be next ("omg bad lettuce! ban gardening!").
The talk about food-inflation always made me think "that's just general inflation", because food prices cannot spiral out of control in a free market, because more people will grow food as it becomes more profitable to be a farmer, putting a ceiling on prices (in terms of purchasing power, not dollars, as dollars can go up forever as money printer go brrrr).
Part of why cattle products are going up so much is because it is more regulated, compared to chicken. IIRC, the regulation is that if you butcher anything larger than a chicken, you have you employ a full-time inspector, whom you provide with his own office, which is in its own room, with a dedicated bathroom solely for that office. This is why small butchers don't exist. A small business can't afford that, but a factory-farm can.
There are only two ways that food prices spiral out of control: becoming a warzone, and socialism. If the government puts price controls on food, cracks down on "hoarding" food, or bans growing food, those are the only ways that a food crisis can be caused (or war).
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@thendrix @lain @Moon
>They couldn’t let people introduce supply to the market was their excuse.
Lol. The US gov pays Mexican farmers to not grow corn, for the same reason.
The shinkflation thing is such a misdirection, too. Companies have been very reluctant to be the first to raise prices, and "shrinkflation", selling a smaller amount for the same price is an alternative, albeit lousy and short-sighted. It's still all just symptoms of inflation, but they're trying to frame it as corporate greed ("capitalism"). If they're only doing it because they're greedy, then why didn't they do it five years ago? If they could make more profit by selling less stuff for the same price, why don't they just keep doing that? It makes no sense. Like you said, the point is to agitate and manufacture consent for price controls.
It's more like Venezuela or the USSR than Ukraine.
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@lain @Moon I like this comparison and I've thought about it before:
If "healthcare is a human right", then why not food? You need food to live, after all.
So why not treat food the same way we treat medical care?
Why is one industry exorbitantly expensive and fucked up, and the other not so much?
Because one is heavily regulated, and the other is a (somewhat) free market with low barrier to entry.
You can't start an insurance company these days (so they merge into monopolies), but you can grow your own food.
And yes, socializing or nationalizing food industry, would involve taking the CEOs of McDonalds and Nestle and Walmart, and having them lead the new state-owned corporation, to which no competition is allowed. Growing your own food would be banned, for the same reason that not having health insurance would be banned.
I don't have health insurance. I used to have health insurance, and initially it was considered a bronze-rated plan in Obamacare, but then they raised the standards, and my plan became illegal and they stopped offering it. Instead of paying 5x as much, I opted to pay the individual mandate fee for not buying insurance. So, thanks Obama. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan".
Oh! The single-payer McDonalds meme should include the penalty you have to pay if you *don't* buy McDonalds food.
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@thendrix
live by the bot trading stocks on your behalf
die by the bot trading stocks on your behalf
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@lain so many things:
Inability to separate the people of a country from its government. This shit actually chases Russian people toward Putin to save them.
"you know what to do" is the call of the arrogant reddit lynchmob organizer
Reminds me of "The International Cat Federation has banned Russian-bred cats from its shows". Those evil Russian cats!
Now do USA for what their government does.
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@Arcana @Moon to my surprise, I fully agree with ChatGPT on this one. If an image doesn't have alpha channel, it is opaque, so add_alpha implies adding transparency. The ":transparent" part could be the tricky part because some image formats and programs interpret the value as opacity (higher value is more opaque) and some interpret it as transparency (higher value is more transparent). So if this poll is a trick question or is highlighting bad code, that's where the trick might be.
The words "visible" and "invisible" are unclear in this context, so I'm assuming they mean "opaque" and "transparent".
I'm very surprised that I'm in the minority by choosing "This will make the image invisible".
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@Arcana @Moon now that the poll's ended, is there a correct answer or source for the code?
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@thendrix @augustus
>the WEF meeting last month was full of elites coming to terms with him and thinking they can use him better to restore trust.
I've never heard anything solid to indicate that Trump became part of the club. I've heard ridiculous nonsense like that 2016 went as planned for the deep state and that Trump has been controlled opposition the entire time.
>your scenario of him instituting a massive purge
I said the opposite of that
>Trump is just a tourniquet
I agree, and have said since 2017 that the need to look forward to post-Trump MAGA.
>plan B Biden is going into the general as no one else wanted to own all these problems caused by the Democrats
I predicted that they'll swap him out as late as possible, so the public doesn't get a chance to scrutinize their real candidate, so that it's "Trump vs. Not-Trump". I still stand by that prediction, though I might be wrong. I was wrong about Biden, as I thought they'd get rid of him within a month of inauguration.
I still think that when he has a medical problem and is swapped out, they'll suddenly try to pin as much blame onto him as possible and unload as much baggage onto him as possible, and claim that their new candidate is a "fresh start", even though it's just another sock-puppet on the same deep state hand.
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@augustus @thendrix that's contradictory to them trying to take him off the ballot and make him a felon and so not legally able to run. He's still very much taking flak from being over the target. Your description better fits Nikki Haley.
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@thendrix most of that stuff is the way it is because pedo-puppets. That's what the captured intelligence and federal police are captured by.
Any attempts at reform will be blocked for nonsense reasons because an ever-increasing pile of nonsensically unsolvable problems is good for pedo-puppets, who are playing a very different game than any honest player.
Forgive me if I'm doing the "My pet issue is more important than every other issue, so it's not worthwhile to talk about any other issue" thing. I do think those other issues matter, and small but important wins can be made in them, but any major reform is inaccessible while this problem exists.
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@thendrix oh I agree. The FBI was created as a temporary agency during prohibition as part of the ever broader interpretation of "regulation of interstate commerce", and is a legal abomination that should be abolished. And that isn't even including rogue seditious behavior of recent years.
But abolishing it won't be allowed to happen by the pedo-puppets who benefit from its becoming ever more corrupt and incompetent. (incompetent people are easier to control and force to do corrupt things, so they are promoted, which is why corrupt organizations become weaker and weaker with incompetence)
Anyway, this is why I voted Trump in 2016 and 2020. I don't think he'll abolish the FBI (which I think he's wrong not to do), but he's clearly not in "the club" and he clearly wasn't supposed to win in 2016. I think he's the best chance to drain the swamp, despite his flaws, and I do think he knows that this time it's do or die, because they will never, ever, leave him or anyone who supports him, alone.
He's not perfect, he made the huge mistake of hiring the swamp in his first term, because he didn't know how deep it ran. He's still our best shot, however. Draining the swamp would clear the path toward abolishing the FBI. Also I suspect that successful prosecution of pedo-puppets would gut the higher levels.
People black-pilled out of "vooting" fell for voluntarily surrendering one of their best weapons (their vote), and will end up in a fed honeypot, providing the feds with the "right wing violence" they're so desperately low on. I'm concerned that the right is getting purity-spiraled like progressives into virtue-signalling ineffective feels-over-reals narcissistic posers.
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@thendrix I did miss it, in what "admin"? People don't seem to want to remember that he was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, among other, pizza-related things....
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@thendrix in my opinion, the absolute number one issue in politics that must be solved before anything else can possibly be meaningfully worked on, is blackmailed pedo-puppets occupying the seats of power and actively ejecting anyone who isn't also blackmailed. This includes both parties, and likely the 3rd parties as well.
Until this is corruption exposed and fixed, all of the regular political issues are inaccessible.
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@thendrix "climate diplomat". There's a money-laundering title if I've ever heard one.
We don't need a purge, we need justice. And not justice by their disingenuous Orwellian usage of the term. My ideal scenario is that the public needs to be shown their crimes in excruciating detail until their stomachs turn (a lot of this evil is protected by the "too horrible to be true" and "I don't want to think about it" psychology). They need to be prosecuted thoroughly and publicly, with lower-level grunts being given plea-bargains to sell out the mid- and high-levels. No plea-bargains for mid- and high-levels. Fair public trials. Everything by the book. No fake evidence or intentional bullshit that causes mistrials or doubt in the public consciousness. Justice.
I personally don't believe in the death penalty, but depending on laws and jurisdiction, it might apply. No lynch-mobbing, no guillotines, no revenge. Only justice.
The key things are showing the public until they can't deny it or the extent of it anymore, and discovery and verification of evidence (no "poison-pill" planted fake evidence that later gets disproven and taints the rest). If those happen, everything else will flow. Similar to how the country's problems will suddenly be really easy to solve, once bad actors who benefit from problems being unsolvable are removed.
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@lain @kaia @cell I agree with this sentiment regarding morality, but there's an important nuance in this particular case.
While TTS and translation are good for non-native english speakers, using AI to generate full scripts in often evil, and I suspect that might be what's being done here.
I've encountered this kind of auto-generated content before, a TTS voice reading Wikipedia or MSM articles, with stock video in the background that is relevant to the words in the script (which can be very funny when it portrays a turn-of-phrase or expression in the script with video).
But this video had zero original research, and is entirely MSM journo smear pieces about Notch, set to a combination of footage from the documentary "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang" and stock video.
It re-churns the churnalism into a new medium, and may have been generated by a bot and massaged by a human.
The channel's other content reveals it to be a clickbait algorithm farm.
So mind that most of what you learned in that video about Notch being evil was written by evil journos as smear, and has been uncritically copy-pasted to the video.
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@icedquinn @incognitum @olmitch don't fall for the Pavlovian word-association thing of "Socialism = things working well, Capitalism = things sucking, Socialist = Good honest person, Capitalist = Sociopath", because that shit is what actual sociopaths use "to con everyone in to obeying them".
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