It’s also a depressing statement about the state of the Democratic Party, as it is more interested in being just a hair to the left of Reagan rather than offer up major truly progressive policies that would cost the Wall-Street class anything significant… and it thinks that’s sufficient to boost enthusiasm for the candidate.

This is fucking insane and is literally how we get the ratchet effect that further emboldens autocrats, fascists, demagogues, etc.

People can’t fucking afford rent or housing, their jobs aren’t paying enough to cover the basics. Healthcare is completely broken save for the absolute baseline of “covering pre-existing conditions.” College is essentially a dice roll for whether or not you’ll land a job that doesn’t pay enough to pay back your loans, or just be added to the pile of qualified candidates who will never make it past the “A.I.” resume-scanning bot.

Billionaires are literally announcing their federal law-breaking plans to pay people to vote for the fascist who OPENLY talks of using the military on his political enemies… and the big policy proposals making headlines are “$50K loans for 1st time small business owners wanting to start a company?!” Are we fucking serious right now?

Harris is NOT a good candidate. She’s better than Clinton (partially due to the unfair “demonization” of Hill-dawg for decades… but also because the Clintons are narcissistic neoliberal idiots) AND better than the incoherent jello-brained 150-year old pile of sentient bones who insists we keep green-lighting shipping weapons to the guy who wants to glass countless innocents in the name of “killing terrorists”… but someone like Sanders or AOC or Warren or even just Walz himself would be wiping the floor with Trump… because they would be addressing the concerns that gave the demagogues something to scapegoat for to begin with.

Was gonna say - how long after Elden Ring did Shadow of the Erdtree DLC come out?

I know it’s in vogue to shit on Apple…

Apple does have a lot of vertical integration which allows first party stuff to function well and they work closely with a lot of their premium 3rd party software partners, but you try running an actual RAM hungry process like a local LLM model, for example, and all but the highest end latest edition MacBook Pro WILL shit the bed.

Neoliberals like Harris, Clinton, etc. would fill a swimming pool with any voter to the left of Reagan just so that they could shout at a single conservative voter a mile away to let them know they could walk across said pool now rather than be asked to bear the inconvenience of walking around the edge… only for the conservative to ignore them… or even walk somewhere further out of the way just to spite the neoliberal.

They just never fucking learn.

Completely laughable. Literally had 16 GB of DDR3-1600 for my 2600K from 2011 that I handed down to a kid nephew for their first PC to tinker with. Hell, my local NAS has more than that…

People are products of their environment.

A majority of this country did NOT vote for him. He never won the popular vote. He only won because assholes who crafted our systems of power did so to better serve the rich.

We are overweight because of our terrible deregulated food industry filled with garbage and our lack of walkable living spaces in most places Americans live. Hardly any place can be gotten to in the country with out a car.

We are uneducated because the rich have shaped our education system to remove any word about the Pullman Strike… about the original meaning of red-neck… about the bombing of Tulsa… as none of those things serve capital’s interests. So many Americans are angry because members from both major parties (with a few notable exceptions) mostly serve capital, which has allowed people’s material conditions to have worsened to a point that has ripened these same poorly-educated people for demagogues offering them easy scapegoats to shift the blame for their plight.

You can be angry, but to blame Americans for this is as if we have had much say kind of ignores what’s been happening here since at least Reagan’s time, if not longer.

It’s not that she needs to be perfect, but - unfair or not - she DOES have to make a case for a bunch of disconnected dipshit “undecided” voters and clearly show how she will tangibly improve their lives.

She already has my vote, but pretending people rolling their eyes at “I am going to add a Republican to my cabinet” is somehow a “purity test” isn’t compelling. The day she replaced Biden on the ticket she should have had been shouting “we’re going to bring our healthcare system up to modern standards and stop the barbaric practice of being the only major country on Earth with no universal healthcare solution” or “we’re going to remove medical debt” or “we’re going to tax all those billionaires like Elon Musk who are literally getting away with naked political corruption.”

Yeah… I agree it’s not fair… but whining about “fairness” instead of doing EVERYTHING you can with the hand you’ve been dealt in order to stop the lying McDonald’s cosplaying fascist from slipping BACK into the office he almost toppled last time is absolutely insane.

How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”

Payday 2 was a really novel idea a long time ago. Highly scripted replayable missions with unique aspects but RNG for procedurally variable elements like guard patrol positions, locations and security aspects… in addition to dynamic changes based off how successful the player was at doing a job without letting security escalate the mission to going “loud.”

It made otherwise boring repetitive loops of missions feel new and different enough each time that it was exciting. Being randomly matched with others fed into the unpredictable heist aspect as well…

But instead of focusing on constantly further improving upon those systems, fixing terrible issues related to both friendly and antagonistic A.I. (I remember how for the longest time your teammates could not literally pick up a duffle bag), they saw dollar signs with in-app-purchases… and with Payday 3, they doubled down on that aspect… so no one got on board… and eventually longtime players like myself stopped playing Payday 2 as well.

…a spellchecker on steroids.

Ask literally any of the LLM chat bots out there still using any headless GPT instances from 2023 how many Rs there are in “strawberry,” and enjoy. 🍓

To Republicans, “elites” means having a college degree.

Also depending on the context can mean “lives in a city” or “pays a mechanic to fix their car instead of gets their hands dirty” or “doesn’t go to church” or “makes fun of country folks / rural people” or “eats any food that isn’t fried or served in a disposable bag and eaten between 2 buns.”

…But they’re never consistent, b/c they think that Trump, a literal billionaire who lives in a big city, definitely never has gone to church or gotten his hands dirty fixing cars… is somehow not elite.

…I mean… he probably doesn’t eat anything that isn’t fried / between buns, but that’s about it.

It’s incomprehensible / inconsistent.

Oh man, I hate it when that happens…

…I mean… you should probably share the streamer’s Twitch handle so we can all avoid seeing those kinds of videos, since that would be terrible to be forced to see something that terrible.

Yattee on iOS works sometimes depending on whether or not YouTube has blocked an instance, but you could also try setting up your own local invidious instance to hook into it as a more permanent solution, though that was too much for me to figure out how to set up correctly.

I remember enjoying the movie and being angry at all the critics saying how they couldn’t enjoy it because it was “too on the nose.”

I am like “have you motherfuckers not been paying attention?”

Instead of wishing any game company to fail, I wish for them to unionize.

That would piss the CEOs off more, would result in a bunch of passionate good devs who have nothing to do with the bad decisions and who just want to make fun games NOT losing their jobs, being discouraged and then leaving the game industry due to constant cycles of endless crunch, followed by layoffs and studio closures due to greedy stupid shortsighted actions by management.

Gotta love mutual aid! 🫡 thanks for providing me the incentive to learn more as well.

I would argue that in their pursuit of worker rights they sought to prevent progress rather than supporting using the means of progress to lighten their own workload and then fight to receive the benefit that such machinery could provide.

Reading more on them via this article, so Luddite is the wrong term. Maybe I was trying to use that term instead of just saying “impressing a tech-ignorant boomer like my dad.”

I’m for worker rights as well, but I don’t think that means we should go back to the dark ages for production.

I just think that the bosses shouldn’t get all the money from the robot savings, while everyone else works their asses off for no additional benefit.

Sort of like how I can use a dumb “AI” music tool thing to share jokes with friends and dumb meme posts, but at the same time also think that Columbia records or whatever music corp or Ticketmaster should NOT be able to gouge the prices for concerts and then on top of that, not pass the increased profit to the actual artists.

No worries. It’s not for everyone.

I’m hoping the dumb songs that I have that company fart out for free as jokes supporting Lemmy comments, or as backing tracks for clips of my friends and I playing Fortnite that I share just amongst our group of 10 people won’t somehow upend and displace the countless artists whose works I’ve supported over the decades via concert ticket purchases, royalties via movie soundtrack licensing, and buying official merchandise.

Pretty fun dumb thing to play with. Use it to entertain friends and impress Luddites tech-illiterate boomers like my Dad.

Occasionally someone is able to manually finesse it into making it do something actually cool.

Edit : To be clear, I support artists and do NOT support the replacement of genuine and meaningful art created by individual minds.

At the same time, I also would pay to watch a live real human choir + orchestra performance of that “Newton’s Genius” song if someone put that LLM song to sheet music.

At this point, I treat Adobe like malware on my personal systems.

Enshittification seems to be accelerating.