I guess it’s Harris vs whoever Trumps running mate becomes

We have less immediate issues on that front, but we still got some work to do

The Way I Am - Eminem

100%. A full on IT Workers Union would immediately become one of the most powerful weapons in fighting the oppression of the capitalist class. An IT strike could be effective enough that a general strike wouldn’t be necessary

I feel like doing really great adaptations like he has is a really rare skill in his line of work. Dune was considered to be unfilmable even David Lynch failed to do it. But he did it extremely well

This is about a succinct of a deconstruction of the DNCs hand in this cycle as I’ve seen. They’re effectively Ned Stark

I never even lived there and I immediately knew this was both NYC and totally normal

I mean yeah

Light blue for me but Reggie blue will do

It wouldn’t surprise me at all, that thinking has infected everything.

I don’t disagree with him on the point that the old model has been broken but I think it’s more complex. I think it was Matt Damon that said steaming has hurt the creative side of the industry because dvd sales can’t make the budget back for risky project anymore. That’s not the full issue either though. Theater experience has been going down and there’s a billion other ways to get entertainment in a social way now. This all leads to studios desperate to keep the spice flowing to only back what they believe are sure returns on investment while simultaneously trying to cut costs by reducing or at least limiting the compensation to creatives. There aren’t as many risks getting taken and producers are reclaiming the power that had long been surrendered to directors and writers.

We’re almost back to the old studio system, if we ain’t already there

Look Billy Carter was a drunk but no one was ever as drunk as Nixon in the White House

Disney the company being evil doesn’t mean the folks that work on their products are too

Google would likely be the subject of several lawsuits from other companies big enough to damages them if they just suddenly pulled the plug on Drive without an off ramp time. So even if one was worried, they’d have to have time to move the files somewhere else.

Whenever I get hit with a wave of depression, it does help me to remember that if I get through it I’ll likely feel like a god for a few weeks

I’m a systems analyst, I had to get really fucking good at assessing the stupidity and dishonesty of other people because I have to write documentation for people that couldn’t tell the differences between windows 10, windows 11, macOS, Linux, and Android. Not tell you the difference, tell the difference at all. But they tell you they worked with one of them for ten years starting in 01

Ok hear me out, we let the GOP fight big tech over lesbian AI, whoever wins gives us one less big problem to deal with, we’d lose out on sapphic robot love but the upsides are huge

This is a weird question for me, I’m from the American southeast, I remember having fall when I was a young man and it was wonderful, but those years weren’t common, the seasons I knew were hot n humid and winter(which was often hotter and humider than it should’ve been). Now I’m in the PNW and I think summer is far and away my favorite, although fall is still superb

Stardew valley could bring you hundreds of hours if you already have something to play on

Eh everything is political in one way or the other, but you can appreciate the craftsmanship that workers put into building or designing something like a coke machine or antique phone without validating Coca-Cola or AT&T(formerly Bell along with every other phone company) as good forces.

They influenced and defined parts of our culture for good or ill, I myself tend to think it’s the latter in the macro sense, but it’s still interesting as a piece of history that someone imagined, someone else built, and countless other people used. It’s not like confederate statues or something else akin to monuments which were purposefully put in place to try and define and frame history, they are parts of our living history and that will always be kinda cool.