If your love letter isn’t given in the form of highly obfuscated C, is it really a love letter? I don’t know, but what I do know is that I love you! <3
If your love letter isn’t given in the form of highly obfuscated C, is it really a love letter? I don’t know, but what I do know is that I love you! <3
Everyone is missing the most mundane explanation (which may or may not be the entire reason) which is vaccinating populations you don’t actually care about is still necessary for herd immunity. (Ie the argument about why the US / rich countries should finance covid vaccines for poor countries. There is still benefit because it prevents it from spreading and mutating external to your own vaccinated population)
Especially when they’re your next door neighbors and your own people will interact with them.
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This whole message reads like “we don’t actually care but we have to say that we do 😉🙂↕️”
I’m sure this is a very principled position and not just an opportunity to score points and sow division
I thought it was a reference to the mob
Honestly this is pretty much it. Sometimes you have to be pretty aggressive to get companies to do the thing you need; they will take advantage of the social friction required to keep you in predatory arrangements. They literally design it to be frustrating so you’ll give up. Like you, I try to make it clear to the person I’m speaking with I have no problem with them just the business. But if the corporations require me to get mad to do the right thing I will get mad.
Fair enough but imo it flirts with the line of not being able to tell which group it’s criticizing. I think you could see this video posted in right wing circles with them thinking it’s funny. It’s just a little too naval gazey about how silly the whole thing is without saying which part they think is ridiculous. Trans athletes are not ridiculous for existing
I’m not really sure what point they are trying to make other than absurdism. They aren’t actually satirizing or criticizing the argument.
Omg she likes ice cream she’s just like me so relatable I love her stannnnn
Because its not socialist it’s state capitalism
BuT wE hAvE jOuRnAlIsTiC iNtEgRiTy. AlSo FuCk DaVe SiRoTa
I’m out of the loop what tech gizmo startups? Are people buying unitasking devices that a smartphone can do?
Like the gungan delegation in the senate moving to give Emergency powers to the chancellor
Turbine should connect to loudspeaker to make this a closer system lol
If your boss is otherwise a dick yes I’d be concerned. (Had my own bad experience with something like that. Dick boss giving you a pep talk can be the warm up act for worse things…) If they seem to actually give a shit about you in general then it’s probably just them being genuine.
I don’t disagree with any of that; I think we’re basically saying the same thing. I think ultimately what you described applies to all first world inhabitants, particularly Americans, regardless of their job. The cheap comforts of capitalism via third world exploitation even for low paid workers is a significant barrier to class consciousness but the magic sauce is quickly evaporating. We’ve all been brainwashed at some point in our lives and eventually we woke up. Everyone is on their journey, and we’re all going to be on the same side in the end. my goal is to reduce exclusionary rhetoric to accelerate that goal but ig that just comes across as “um ackshully” to some folks.
Also I like your username lol
Not interested in a flame war but I would describe that as an inaccurate characterization of what I was saying. all I said is you’re mad at the wrong people
What’s the cut off do you suppose? 100k? 150k? 70k? 40k? How poor do you have to be to count as a real socialist in your mind? Anyone who is having a portion of their labor being extracted by a capitalist owner can be radicalized. At worst you could classify middle class Americans as the petit bourgeois. Many have been fooled by being successful in a system where not everyone can be a winner but even Marx thought in the end the petit bourgeois would side with the proletariat. Look it’s not a great place to occupy for sure but the effort is to find coalitions not subdivide further
And anecdotally I find what you said to be untrue but maybe that’s just me
There are over 1.5 million software engineering jobs in the US and less than a third of them are in Silicon Valley. Neoliberal horizontal hostility trap. average software engineer makes around $150k. Yes that’s a fantastic salary beyond what many people could imagine but that’s not a quit your job at 40 kind of salary. Y’all are mad at the wrong people. Did you quit your job when the frito lay strike happened? Why not? No class solidarity smh
AI is cool. AI research is valuable. AI has the power to be a transformative technology.
Corporate AI hype for tech fueled neofeudalism is not cool. Commodification of AI is not valuable. LLMs will never substantively change the world.