This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.

There are a small subset of people who legitimately just don’t understand game development fundamentals though, and they actually believe that things would just be fully interchangeable. As in, you buy a skin in Fortnite, and you can then open up Roblox and set it as your player model.

Those ones are especially not the brightest.

The people who are like “you can just take your skin from Skyrim and put it in gta5 and it’ll just work!!” people really are baffling. The hubris and ignorance is so much

I have a family member that’s similar - they get really mad at inconsequential changes on the computer. But they also refuse to learn anything, so they’re just mad all the time. They also treat their phone like a capricious deity- they’re afraid to touch anything.

On the other hand, I have another family member that spends a lot of his time tinkering with linux. Years ago I got fed up fixing his windows machine I slapped xubuntu on his machine, and he took to it. He’s done several updates and fresh installs since.

Both of them are retired, so it’s not like they’re hurting for free time.

I feel like that’s long been a trend- instead of trying to lift users up and educate them, let’s just give up and hide things.

I really want people to roll up on the factory, shoot the management, and then shut it down.

This shit is a crime against the environment and humanity.

On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.

On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.

It’s frustrating that rich scumbags just get to live a rich life. Where’s the justice in that? Saint Luigi deliver us from assholes like Huffman.

True. Saying you got fired sounds like you fucked up. Maybe “dismissed” is more neutral without being totally PR Speak?

Anyone else dislike the phrase “let go” in this context? It sounds like you’re doing them a favor, or they were being held hostage, or giving them permission to do something. I’d prefer “fired” or “terminated”, even though those have their own connotation problems.

Meme’s relatable, though. This capitalist hellscape is awful.

I still want to see some sort of honey pot for ICE and the other goons. Like leak there’s going to be a big “illegals” celebration in a meeting hall, wait for them to show up, then lock the doors. Fill room with carbon monoxide. Let them pass out and die while looking for their victims.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.

Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.

Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.

So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.

Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.

Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

People act based on emotions, specifically feeling like they’re part of the in-group. You know the old saying “Would you jump off a bridge if your friends all were jumping, too?” Well, the answer is clearly yes. Most people are stupid like that.

I mean, we all are sometimes. It’s impossible to know and verify everything so we trust our friends. But for some people it’s reached a toxic level of “vaccines are bad” and “banning books is good”

With violence, though a lot of spaces will tell you it’s gauche to talk about violence. Stern words only.

Also, as a USian, even though my grandparents fought the Nazis the US was still garbage at home.

Spotify kind of sucks. I’ve been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.

Maybe. These aren’t normal times and I feel like being neutral in the face of a rising tyranny when you have a big platform is collaboration.

Trump is just the highly visible part of a whole cancerous growth. All of the right wing, with its “outgroups to bind and in-groups to protect” worldview, needs to go.

They don’t really take much of an anti-fascist stance. They’re more “neutral”, which enables the oppressor.

They don’t explicitly support trump et al, but they don’t really use their platform for good. They could do a lot more to resist and organize.

I guess riots break out all around the world?

I feel like this idea that people are just going to riot and do mass violence is some right wing fear.

Most people, most of the time, are pretty social cooperative creatures.

One, I don’t think RFK believes in HIV. He doesn’t believe in germ theory.

Two, everyone who works at ICE should be shot dead. If we have a future, people are going to look back at us with scorn. “You knew about the horrors that lead up to ww2, and you just sat back and let it happen again?” Basically yeah, we’re all scared and disorganized, and about a third of our country are rabid fascists who want this to happen.