People aren’t monsters or lazy - people generally just chug along. Obviously, stress, living conditions, and morale affect performance, but that’s not the real problem

People do what they can when they’re given. And nearly across the board, what are they given? Fewer workers to produce ever more, faster, with cheaper tools and supplies. And they ramp up the pressure, encourage turnover, refuse to listen to the actual workers on the ground, and just generally don’t give workers what they need to properly and reliably do the job

Hence the feathering. Nothing like having everyone come together to publically and physically humiliate you to make you rexamine your ass backwards opinions… Or at least learn to keep them hidden deep down

My friend asked me today if global trade really benefits the US so heavily, why is it so hard to afford things?

Rent. Healthcare. That’s it - it’s so insanely expensive to survive in this country that it doesn’t matter that games are cheaper than ever - the switch 2 is cheaper than the Nintendo 64 adjusted for inflation, the games too.

Food is cheap, entertainment is cheap, tvs and computers are cheap… But that means nothing when you have no disposable income

Luxuries are cheap now, but it doesn’t seem that way because living is unaffordable

They can slap a Ford sticker on their cyber truck and people will probably leave them alone.

This is contributing to making a billionaire bringing on fascism go bankrupt… Yeah, I don’t love personal property damage, but they’re disappearing people.

If you’ve got a Tesla, spend 20 minutes and $20 bucks and buy a sticker to disavow the company… Otherwise I really can’t bring myself to care

My first thought was “where the fuck did those numbers on the left come from?”

Tarrifs these days are usually protective - they’re done on specific goods or industries.

Turns out, those numbers look like they came up with it from trade deficits. They even posted the formula they used

Like holy shit Batman, the onion could have written this last week and I’d think it was solid satire. No wonder they didn’t want to do this on April 1st

Well sure, but I think the point is $20 million, which is a crazy campaign fund for a state supreme court election, wasn’t enough to win. Some analysts are saying his involvement might’ve hurt more than helped

If musk can’t primary Republicans or effectively buy elections, what use is he? It’s not like anyone likes the guy…

I mean, yeah, it’s totally imaginary value. But then again, so is all money… The current financial system is a nonsensical house of cards propped up mostly by how bad most everyone wants it to stay standing

Know what divides a mid level engineer from a senior software engineer? The ability to reduce anything into a theoretically solvable problem and justified superstition

My exchanges often go “this should work, maybe rebuild?” And my response is always “let’s give it a try”… Because we’re two people who have seen a lot, have been burnt a lot… And 2/5 of the time, especially when we’re both scratching our heads and insisting this should work, it just does after our rituals

Junior software engineers understand the computer does exactly what you tell it. Software engineers understand computers do what you tell them… Except when they don’t for no comprehensible reason. Senior software engineers understand the computer requires the sacrifice of an unbloodied goat on Tuesdays with an odd date

I mean, that score supposedingly means you struggle to put together normal sentences… So I’d assume it’s satire

I mean… What’s the alternative? Cows are also somewhat effected, while being way way less efficient or healthy

Beans are great, I’m all for reducing meat consumption

People will become malnourished when they can’t get basic foods. They can’t just work it out… Nutrition is so much more than raw calories

I mean…gyro support is such a niche thing. The PS3 controller introduced gyro support - what used it? There’s examples, but not many, because most games are made to be multi platform, and programming in gyro controls is a lot harder than most other controls

Nintendo is an exception because they have a lot of exclusives - gyro support is a lot more appealing to implement if all of the devices have it, plus they probably encouraged it

I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the incentive for exclusives to have it remains, this is a tool for porting to the switch and exploring new control schemes more than anything else

I mean, scientists still study space. We still send out probes and build telescopes. But do we really explore?

And I don’t mean manned missions - I mean at one point the world explored space as a proxy for war. Afterwards, we even came together to continue to a lesser extent… Now Musk is rushing the decommissioning of that aging monument early

What happens when the ISS comes down?

The world used to watch missions as a celebration of our species, but now we just get click bait articles about what other people found… What’s left of we don’t even have people leaving the atmosphere?

You’re make this sound like it’s a metaphor or something…

But Musk is that kid literally, and last year one of the other billionaires did try to fight him for being unbearable until his mom literally stepped in and helped him back out

He’s a rich manchild who people put up with when he let them play with his cool toys. Then he went from the weird rich kid to a total asshole the second he thought this was loyalty… Now he’s crying about being bullied because everyone is turning against him, despite continuing to fuck absolutely everyone over

Nah, that ship has sailed. They’ll never cut diplomatic ties, because why would they?

They’ve already decided they need to come together to live in a world without the US… They’re already making trade deals and new defense pacts, they’re already planning around us

There’s so much to unpack in such a short statement

There’s two kind of “both sides”… There’s “we need a middle ground” which is horse shit, it leads to a choice between fascism and fascism-light

Then there’s “our politicians are decrepit zombies, so let’s do a leftist version of the tea party”

People want change, not stability. Not anymore. Everything sucks, so who are they going to vote for… An openly fascist snake oil salesman saying he’s going to fix everything, or someone composed insisting things aren’t as bad as they seem?

It’s a toss up, apparently.

Change. Remember that campaign slogan? Because it won, and Obama delivered so little of it

If a sandwich shop gives you food poisoning, you absolutely should be telling people not to eat there. You should leave reviews and tell people every time the name comes up

The logic you’re using is “well, what if the shop closes down and people can’t get sandwiches at all? What if they’re forced to eat at the numerous food stands that also give you food poisoning?”

If you say nothing, people are going to look at the sandwich shop sign and think it’s safer than the street food… That’s not better

To get away from the metaphor, harshly condemning Schumer at every turn would definitely do something. It sends a message that “this isn’t what you can expect from Democrats”

You say everyone knows who the real leaders of the party are…I literally don’t even know the second name there, I know AOC because she does good messaging about who she is and what she stands for. And I pay attention

Most people don’t even know who their representative is, but they’re much more likely to know who Schumer and Pelosi are. And they hate them.

This shady shit is why people hate the Democrats. When someone hands Trump everything he wants without a fight, they try to downplay it, like people haven’t noticed. They don’t punish it, they barely mention it - they’re so desperate to not shake the boat that they do nothing

Democrats need to shake the boat and make enemies… That’s what wins elections today. They need to call people out, and tell them what they stand for, and then they need to follow through

Because “once you enter you never leave”. You can argue that prison is a necessary evil, but you can’t argue it’s not evil

Well if you do, try to grab someone from the team doing the new robotics models…I want to take that apart and play with it XD

On that point, Schumer flipped (and whipped up enough traitors to pass the bill) in like the 12 hours before the vote. They had been talking about this since the inauguration, as the time when they’d finally be able to force the Republicans back to the table and do something

There’s no way he didn’t get a call from someone.

Then he meets with Trump, goes on a talk show tour to try to justify his actions, and the Democratic establishment held their breath to see if people would buy it. They still aren’t coming out hard against him… The condemnations are lukewarm and hesitant at best from party leadership.

No, they gave MAGA everything they wanted. They didn’t even get to give input on the spending bill. This isn’t 5D chess, this isn’t a strategic play… It was just total capitulation

And the party still wants to wait and see if Schumer can salvage his reputation, if they can sweep this utter betrayal under the rug