There have been speed bumps with things not working intuitively or strange bugs or being esoteric issues with server hosting requiring significant time spent googling but after overcoming the initial learning curve it has been pleasant but I must admit I’m still early on my journey.
Discord works this time, streaming and all which is an improvement from last time.
It’s very good if you like RPGs and are a touch on the artsy side.
🎶It’s the circle of life🎶
I was a die hard windows user that recently installed Linux and suffered through the learning curve because windows was getting that frustrating
Reagan with relaxing corporate oversight and then Bush with the Patriot act and lastly Trump packing the Supreme Court really made a fascist’s utopia out of a system that barely had any accountability to start with.
Not to mention Citizen’s United.
Or died trying to cover Palestine or Ukraine.
Yes they are and I yelled about that too and you have no way of knowing who here did and didn’t. Yes the system is corrupt but the people you speak with here aren’t the system, we are individuals.
I think the issue is that they were executed in a situation where they posed no danger to the officer. This would be frightening for any legal citizen. Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever and all this logic does is force a useless purity test that gets us no where.
Oh I know, I meant the few media outlets that remain somewhat independent need too and by playing the game they they need to for survival still add to the noise.
How did they deflate the market? So it wasn’t social pressure but rather economic pressure that led to it?
The modern media is complicit in the situation we find ourselves in. It’s an issue of perverse incentives.
If they need to finance their operation as most that aren’t publically funded do, then they need to attract as many eyeballs as possible for ads or parrot the words of wealthy benefactors.
You can rationalize this as saying that you can tow the line where you need and then shout the truth when you are able but it doesn’t work out like that, the actual news peices will simply be drowned out.
It becomes a numbers game, a very effective tool for human psychology, it can sway public narrative via issues like the illusory truth effect. We need publically funded independent media, which is why those who which to distort the truth hate the idea.
Doesn’t China have an issue with 65 million of their homes sitting empty which belong to people with no intention to ever move in?
It’s my understanding that owning a home in China is seen as social leverage so people buy homes that don’t even benefit their lives.
This isn’t too be a pessimist, I do think China’s rising middle class is much better off than it has ever been. I just don’t idealize their housing.
I mean for the midterm elections of course
I’m hoping the government lasts until 2026 where they might wrestle some control back
You’re right, The problem is misaligned incentives created by a system that’s prioritizing for a select few rather than maximizing the production of the system and ensuring a certain minimum level of subsistence for people.
I guess the answer is we need to change the incentives and I really only believe that can be done on a policy level.
You make a lot of assumptions to think I wouldn’t also call those a tragedy. Whataboutism helps no one
The fact that a significant portion of his base want this is nothing short of a human tragedy.
I was yelling about it pretty loud but I was also 15 so like… no one really cared.
They’re not a dependable ally but they need them. I would never depend on the United States being benevolent but I would depend on needing Taiwan to secure strategically important resources like semiconductors.
when compared to the average? I’d say so