and they start to develop a kind of cult like following, often not because they're shouting something useful but because charisma has a powerful effect on people. Me, I'm more than a little autistic so charisma just falls flat with me. But it's like porn, I know it when I see it.
folks developed for the 3DS because the install base was so huge. At $400 for a niche tech I don't see this taking off. Plus, well, a lot of the folks I know who want VR want it to be a bit more photo-realistic for... um... reasons. Maybe if they make games like this.
saying it is doesn't make it so. Democracy is everybody gets to a vote, they get one vote and they get to vote in elections that concern them.
You're straw manning when you say "anyone who walks in". Again, one vote per person and elections that concern them. I don't get to vote in California's Senate races. I have my own. The same goes for illegal immigrants. You're trying to distract from the main issue, which is the suppression of legitimate voters.
You know perfectly well what the "wrong" people means. It means people who disagree with you. You've made it very clear you'd like very much for those people to not be allowed to vote. And in the process made it clear that you're not really into democracy. Not when it counts, anyway.
I guess the question for me is, what if the shoe was on the other foot? I'm a dude, and it would feel really really weird if everyone referred to me as "She" and "Her".
Put another way, imagine if you showed up to work everyday in pants and a polo shirt and everyone looked at you funny because you weren't wearing a dress. Now imagine if you bowed to pressure and started wearing dresses to work everyday. How would that feel?
are much, much bigger problems than this. If we really care about democracy then we should make voting mandatory (doing so would end voter suppression), require all states to have vote by mail and apply open-source algorithms that are legally required to divide the population equitably (I don't know the algorithms off hand, but there are several that are considered fair and effective). Finally voting rights should be restored when you're done serving your prison sentence. The only reason to take voting rights away from ex-cons is to suppress their (left wing) votes.
But, well, I don't think we really care. There's a significant number of Americans who think it's a bad idea to let the "wrong" people vote. It's funny to see the double think involved when they somehow reconcile this thought with their love of democracy...
Was when I found out the appendix had a use. Completely ruined the Joke from Hot Shots: Part Duex about the inventor of the artificial appendix... Damn you science, damn you.
it doesn't matter if they're cherry picked. They were there to teach a lesson that is technically illegal. Amazon is skirting the law and they know it. It's a form of Dog Whistling. They're not going to be blunt about it. Not until they finish getting the last of the pro-labor laws left repealed. Man, is it going to suck for everyone when they do...
the ruling class' got much, much tighter control of the American population. China's problem is their population is over educated and largely secular in the cities. That makes for a population that's tough to control since you don't have the usual levers. They've also got big factories full of people that could Unionize. The US doesn't have those since, well, we shipped them to China. Finally the mega corps already own all the media that matters and use it to push their agenda. The occasional youtube video isn't really a problem since they don't get any real traction. e.g. nobody in America changes their vote based on a youtube video. Americans are too Balkanized to be a problem.
google's platform is it's own, and they're free to do with it what they will. You as a consumer are free to stop using their services as well.
If you don't like Americans doing business with China because the Chinese oppress their people then vote people in that will do sanctions like we do to Venezuela and Iran. As it stands the folks running our country and it's media are overwhelmingly pro corporate. Me? I'm already voting for the likes of Bernie Sanders and similar candidates when I can get them. I voted for several Bernie like candidates in my primary (red state, so they lost, but still voted).
The key is always pro worker candidates. None of this is about hate speech, social justice, oppressing white men or anything of the sort. It's always, always about money. About figuring out what distracts voters from economic issues long enough to rob them blind. And the Mega corps are all about identity politics. Don't fall for it.
and generally only the higher end cars have these features anyway. This is a first world problem for the top 10-20%.
I will say this, I got caught on the freeway in the rain once. Real rain, the kind where you just get the f*** off the road and wait it out because you can only see 5 feet in front of you. I kept having numbnuts in Audis and BMWs pass me at 70 mph because the had driver assist features that kept them in the lane. I did manage to get off the freeway without getting creamed, but those shmucks don't seem to realize that somebody in a 20 year old car can't do what they do.
left wing rhetoric since Clinton. There's nothing "new" about it. Corporate Dems have been a thing since the 90s. We didn't notice the damage done when a big chunk of the Democratic party turned against the working class because we had two major economic booms (.com and housing).
Jeff Bezos, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer. Make no mistake they are not the left. They are far, far right wing. They couldn't care less about the problems of white males. What they care about is money and power. And you're giving it to them.
The goal here is to move money to the ruling class. right now you're focused on a imaginary race war against white men when they're busy crushing the middle class. Your class.
I keep saying it but the best bet is a group that calls themselves the Justice Democrats. They're a PAC (political action committee ) that who's members refuse corporate money.
There are some things you're going to have to accept though that might be bitter pills to swallow. There's going to be a few Ne'er-do-wells who get food, shelter and healthcare and don't work as hard (or at all) to get it. If you want to end the class war you've got to take care of everybody. That's because the primary tool of the ruling class is to keep the working class on edge non stop fighting amoung themselves (often over racial and caste divides, seriously, look up the Burakumin. When Japan didn't have a racial group to crap on they made one up). The way you end this is making sure everyone, even the worst of us, is taken care of. That nobody can become disaffected and be turned against their fellow man. Otherwise you'll get what we have now: a whole bunch of different groups fighting among themselves while the rich and powerful are laughing at us all the way to the bank.
they're being threatened. It's not longer free speech when it's a threat, and the article makes it very clear that the video exists to teach management how to make those threats while giving just enough plausible deniability that Amazon can hide behind a free speech defense when they go in front of a court stacked with pro-corporation judges or, worse, an arbitration.
Ok, I'm going to rant now, so stop reading if you've got no stomach for such things.
What the hell is wrong with the American working class? Seriously. My bro just took a new job and he's waiting for the background check to pass and praying they don't just change their mind. He quit his old one because his company was going around telling everyone they'd either work 60+ hours a week or be laid off. He has zero recourse for any of this. Companies can lie with impunity with no consequences. They can tell you you're hired so they can get you off the job market and change their mind on a dime and you're highly unlikely to get unemployment. All the power is with companies and nobody seems to give a shit. We won't change a thing because of some blind obedience to ideals that were crammed in our heads when we were children. Why in God's good name can't workers see past that and realize that if one worker's being abused than _everybody's_ open to abuse. How bloody hard is it to understand solidarity? That the only thing that can counter the enormous wealth and power of the ruling class is a united working class? That classes didn't go away just because the ruling class said so? What the hell is wrong with us? We're not this dumb. I know we're not. We're letting our feelings get the better of us, and if anyone should be better than that it's the nerds that hang out on a technology site like/.
but the USSR and China were not, are not, never have been and probably never will be anything that even remotely resembles communism. They were fascist dictatorships that borrowed Carl Marx's rhetoric. Calling them communist is like calling Jerry Fallwell a Devote Christian. It's so obviously a lie on the face of it as to be laughable.
This has nothing to do with theory. Again, communism is fundamentally a democratic process run by the proletariat. Neither the USSR and China have not been run as Democracies. What Stalin, Putin, Mao or Xi says, goes. And anyone who disagrees just disappears. This has nothing to do with ideology. It's the mechanics of government.
These are all acknowledged facts. You're purposefully ignoring them to fit in with your ideological bent. It hurts you and it hurts me when you ignore facts and reality. And I don't mean emotionally, I mean real hurt. Economic hurt. Political hurt. When we give in to propaganda and "fake news" of the sort that lets obvious dictatorships hide behind their rhetoric just because we don't like what that rhetoric entitles we ignore their abuses and leave ourselves open to those same abuses. Nows the time to get woke. You're being had. You're being manipulated.
isn't to improve their lives, it's to increase the supply of STEM graduates and decrease their pay. It's not nothing to do with Gender inequality. There's no shortage of non-STEM graduates and their pay is plenty low enough, so nobody's going to throw money at them.
Don't forget, our education system isn't there to enrich lives, it's there to make people (at the top) rich. Heck, it started out as a system to train farm hands how to put up with factory work. I suppose we could change that, but nobody seems to want to spend the money.
Mao said he was a communist but did not run a communist country. He took complete control and ownership of all property in the country. That's the opposite of communism; where the proles are meant to have ownership and control via a Democratic process.
This was the cause of most of the deaths. Mao insisted they double plant, everybody knew that was a horrifying idea but couldn't override Mao because rather than being a communist country it was a fascist dictatorship. The double planting lead to a horrifically bad harvest and mass starvation. There are other examples of how bad Mao's economic ideas were. Everybody knew they were terrible too, but they were too frightened of Mao to say anything (or if they did they disappeared).
Bottom line: Words have meaning and can be misused for propaganda purposes. To suggest otherwise in the face of such obvious evidence is ignorant at best and dishonest propaganda at worst.
I was a little shocked things hadn't changed in the slightest. It's frustrating that there is zero discussion of the downsides or necessary controls for capitalism. It really was just a rah-rah-rah sis-boom-bah.
There are several things capitalism just doesn't work for. Paying for Healthcare being the biggie, but managing the food supply is another (given you're econ degree I'm guessing you have more than an inkling about how heavily our gov't is involved in ensuring a steady food supply). Capitalism works best for things where the consumer has lots of information, can understand that information and where it's not a matter of life and death. Twinkies, computers, cars, etc, etc.
A hybrid approach is fine (single payer works better than gov't run hospitals) but the current model is just plain broken. I think it's safe to say the Millenials have figured that out, but not what to do about it.
to 3 or 4 pointless wars. We've got a lot more wars going on now but we're doing it with less soldiers and mostly with career army. Actually, it's kind of scary. A few folks have pointed out that we've more or less got a hereditary military class....
you could send your daughter down the street naked with a ¥10,000 yen bill taped to her and expect her to be fine. Jokes aside the reason they have so many vending machines is they don't have much vandalism. Europe's generally a lot better than the US in that regard. And people crack jokes about how nice and polite Canada is.
I guess what I'm saying is that the US seems to have a reputation for being a nasty place. That said, crime's been dropping non-stop for decades. What hasn't been dropping is politicians using "tough on crime" rhetoric to get elected while screwing their constituents...
my kid's economics class was less economics and more like a cheer squad for Adam Smith. There was no discussion of socialism, Keynesian economics or anything else besides how supply and demand made the world great.
You're right about Mao though. But he was a fascist, not a communist and certainly not a Democratic Socialist.
Vote for pro-worker, pro-consumer, anti-corporate candidates. I said this elsewhere in this thread, but folks like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the entire lot of the Justice Democrats. Look for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. And remind your friends and family to do the same. That'll do more to help Uber drivers than the occasional $10 tip.
if you don't like it you're gonna have to vote pro-consumer, anti-corporate people in like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Start here. It's a non-corporate PAC that makes refusing corporate PAC money a condition of membership. I'm not sure if there's a Republican or Libertarian equivalent, but if anyone's got one I'm all ears.
is you lose a ton of flexibility from having trucks deliver goods. That flexibility let's companies like Walmart stock the bare minimum of what they need at any given point in time. It means never getting stuck with over supply and having to slash prices, leading to much higher profits thanks to tight control on supply. Sure, you've got to heavily subsidize oil, but that's what the United States Armed Forces is for.
Why does a gold mine or an oil field, a natural resource that was there centuries before the decedents of anyone claiming ownership was on that land mass much less born, get to claim ownership? Usually because they're they most ruthless or they got lucky and held onto enough cash during one of the economy's cyclic downturns to buy up property being sold for cheap by the desperate... Funny how nobody every seems to question that.
It's right there in TFS. They use the internet more and so the ones likely to fall for scams are easier to reach. It's harder to get to boomers since they're not very connected. This'll change out to older folks getting scammed more once the generation that grew up with the Internet ages a bit.
in about 90 days. Buddy of mine did it back in the day. But without a college degree you won't make it through modern HR filters. Why hire a high school grad for $80k + 40/hr/week when you can import a dev for $60k + 72/hr/week?
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and they start to develop a kind of cult like following, often not because they're shouting something useful but because charisma has a powerful effect on people. Me, I'm more than a little autistic so charisma just falls flat with me. But it's like porn, I know it when I see it.
folks developed for the 3DS because the install base was so huge. At $400 for a niche tech I don't see this taking off. Plus, well, a lot of the folks I know who want VR want it to be a bit more photo-realistic for... um... reasons. Maybe if they make games like this.
saying it is doesn't make it so. Democracy is everybody gets to a vote, they get one vote and they get to vote in elections that concern them.
You're straw manning when you say "anyone who walks in". Again, one vote per person and elections that concern them. I don't get to vote in California's Senate races. I have my own. The same goes for illegal immigrants. You're trying to distract from the main issue, which is the suppression of legitimate voters.
You know perfectly well what the "wrong" people means. It means people who disagree with you. You've made it very clear you'd like very much for those people to not be allowed to vote. And in the process made it clear that you're not really into democracy. Not when it counts, anyway.
I guess the question for me is, what if the shoe was on the other foot? I'm a dude, and it would feel really really weird if everyone referred to me as "She" and "Her".
Put another way, imagine if you showed up to work everyday in pants and a polo shirt and everyone looked at you funny because you weren't wearing a dress. Now imagine if you bowed to pressure and started wearing dresses to work everyday. How would that feel?
are much, much bigger problems than this. If we really care about democracy then we should make voting mandatory (doing so would end voter suppression), require all states to have vote by mail and apply open-source algorithms that are legally required to divide the population equitably (I don't know the algorithms off hand, but there are several that are considered fair and effective). Finally voting rights should be restored when you're done serving your prison sentence. The only reason to take voting rights away from ex-cons is to suppress their (left wing) votes.
But, well, I don't think we really care. There's a significant number of Americans who think it's a bad idea to let the "wrong" people vote. It's funny to see the double think involved when they somehow reconcile this thought with their love of democracy...
Was when I found out the appendix had a use. Completely ruined the Joke from Hot Shots: Part Duex about the inventor of the artificial appendix... Damn you science, damn you.
it doesn't matter if they're cherry picked. They were there to teach a lesson that is technically illegal. Amazon is skirting the law and they know it. It's a form of Dog Whistling. They're not going to be blunt about it. Not until they finish getting the last of the pro-labor laws left repealed. Man, is it going to suck for everyone when they do...
the ruling class' got much, much tighter control of the American population. China's problem is their population is over educated and largely secular in the cities. That makes for a population that's tough to control since you don't have the usual levers. They've also got big factories full of people that could Unionize. The US doesn't have those since, well, we shipped them to China. Finally the mega corps already own all the media that matters and use it to push their agenda. The occasional youtube video isn't really a problem since they don't get any real traction. e.g. nobody in America changes their vote based on a youtube video. Americans are too Balkanized to be a problem.
google's platform is it's own, and they're free to do with it what they will. You as a consumer are free to stop using their services as well.
If you don't like Americans doing business with China because the Chinese oppress their people then vote people in that will do sanctions like we do to Venezuela and Iran. As it stands the folks running our country and it's media are overwhelmingly pro corporate. Me? I'm already voting for the likes of Bernie Sanders and similar candidates when I can get them. I voted for several Bernie like candidates in my primary (red state, so they lost, but still voted).
The key is always pro worker candidates. None of this is about hate speech, social justice, oppressing white men or anything of the sort. It's always, always about money. About figuring out what distracts voters from economic issues long enough to rob them blind. And the Mega corps are all about identity politics. Don't fall for it.
and generally only the higher end cars have these features anyway. This is a first world problem for the top 10-20%.
I will say this, I got caught on the freeway in the rain once. Real rain, the kind where you just get the f*** off the road and wait it out because you can only see 5 feet in front of you. I kept having numbnuts in Audis and BMWs pass me at 70 mph because the had driver assist features that kept them in the lane. I did manage to get off the freeway without getting creamed, but those shmucks don't seem to realize that somebody in a 20 year old car can't do what they do.
left wing rhetoric since Clinton. There's nothing "new" about it. Corporate Dems have been a thing since the 90s. We didn't notice the damage done when a big chunk of the Democratic party turned against the working class because we had two major economic booms (.com and housing).
Jeff Bezos, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer. Make no mistake they are not the left. They are far, far right wing. They couldn't care less about the problems of white males. What they care about is money and power. And you're giving it to them.
The goal here is to move money to the ruling class. right now you're focused on a imaginary race war against white men when they're busy crushing the middle class. Your class.
I keep saying it but the best bet is a group that calls themselves the Justice Democrats. They're a PAC (political action committee ) that who's members refuse corporate money.
There are some things you're going to have to accept though that might be bitter pills to swallow. There's going to be a few Ne'er-do-wells who get food, shelter and healthcare and don't work as hard (or at all) to get it. If you want to end the class war you've got to take care of everybody. That's because the primary tool of the ruling class is to keep the working class on edge non stop fighting amoung themselves (often over racial and caste divides, seriously, look up the Burakumin. When Japan didn't have a racial group to crap on they made one up). The way you end this is making sure everyone, even the worst of us, is taken care of. That nobody can become disaffected and be turned against their fellow man. Otherwise you'll get what we have now: a whole bunch of different groups fighting among themselves while the rich and powerful are laughing at us all the way to the bank.
they're being threatened. It's not longer free speech when it's a threat, and the article makes it very clear that the video exists to teach management how to make those threats while giving just enough plausible deniability that Amazon can hide behind a free speech defense when they go in front of a court stacked with pro-corporation judges or, worse, an arbitration.
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Ok, I'm going to rant now, so stop reading if you've got no stomach for such things.
What the hell is wrong with the American working class? Seriously. My bro just took a new job and he's waiting for the background check to pass and praying they don't just change their mind. He quit his old one because his company was going around telling everyone they'd either work 60+ hours a week or be laid off. He has zero recourse for any of this. Companies can lie with impunity with no consequences. They can tell you you're hired so they can get you off the job market and change their mind on a dime and you're highly unlikely to get unemployment. All the power is with companies and nobody seems to give a shit. We won't change a thing because of some blind obedience to ideals that were crammed in our heads when we were children. Why in God's good name can't workers see past that and realize that if one worker's being abused than _everybody's_ open to abuse. How bloody hard is it to understand solidarity? That the only thing that can counter the enormous wealth and power of the ruling class is a united working class? That classes didn't go away just because the ruling class said so? What the hell is wrong with us? We're not this dumb. I know we're not. We're letting our feelings get the better of us, and if anyone should be better than that it's the nerds that hang out on a technology site like
Ok... done ranting.
but the USSR and China were not, are not, never have been and probably never will be anything that even remotely resembles communism. They were fascist dictatorships that borrowed Carl Marx's rhetoric. Calling them communist is like calling Jerry Fallwell a Devote Christian. It's so obviously a lie on the face of it as to be laughable.
This has nothing to do with theory. Again, communism is fundamentally a democratic process run by the proletariat. Neither the USSR and China have not been run as Democracies. What Stalin, Putin, Mao or Xi says, goes. And anyone who disagrees just disappears. This has nothing to do with ideology. It's the mechanics of government.
These are all acknowledged facts. You're purposefully ignoring them to fit in with your ideological bent. It hurts you and it hurts me when you ignore facts and reality. And I don't mean emotionally, I mean real hurt. Economic hurt. Political hurt. When we give in to propaganda and "fake news" of the sort that lets obvious dictatorships hide behind their rhetoric just because we don't like what that rhetoric entitles we ignore their abuses and leave ourselves open to those same abuses. Nows the time to get woke. You're being had. You're being manipulated.
isn't to improve their lives, it's to increase the supply of STEM graduates and decrease their pay. It's not nothing to do with Gender inequality. There's no shortage of non-STEM graduates and their pay is plenty low enough, so nobody's going to throw money at them.
Don't forget, our education system isn't there to enrich lives, it's there to make people (at the top) rich. Heck, it started out as a system to train farm hands how to put up with factory work. I suppose we could change that, but nobody seems to want to spend the money.
that Lionel Hutz is not, in fact, a lawyer?
Mao said he was a communist but did not run a communist country. He took complete control and ownership of all property in the country. That's the opposite of communism; where the proles are meant to have ownership and control via a Democratic process.
This was the cause of most of the deaths. Mao insisted they double plant, everybody knew that was a horrifying idea but couldn't override Mao because rather than being a communist country it was a fascist dictatorship. The double planting lead to a horrifically bad harvest and mass starvation. There are other examples of how bad Mao's economic ideas were. Everybody knew they were terrible too, but they were too frightened of Mao to say anything (or if they did they disappeared).
Bottom line: Words have meaning and can be misused for propaganda purposes. To suggest otherwise in the face of such obvious evidence is ignorant at best and dishonest propaganda at worst.
I was a little shocked things hadn't changed in the slightest. It's frustrating that there is zero discussion of the downsides or necessary controls for capitalism. It really was just a rah-rah-rah sis-boom-bah.
There are several things capitalism just doesn't work for. Paying for Healthcare being the biggie, but managing the food supply is another (given you're econ degree I'm guessing you have more than an inkling about how heavily our gov't is involved in ensuring a steady food supply). Capitalism works best for things where the consumer has lots of information, can understand that information and where it's not a matter of life and death. Twinkies, computers, cars, etc, etc.
A hybrid approach is fine (single payer works better than gov't run hospitals) but the current model is just plain broken. I think it's safe to say the Millenials have figured that out, but not what to do about it.
to 3 or 4 pointless wars. We've got a lot more wars going on now but we're doing it with less soldiers and mostly with career army. Actually, it's kind of scary. A few folks have pointed out that we've more or less got a hereditary military class....
you could send your daughter down the street naked with a ¥10,000 yen bill taped to her and expect her to be fine. Jokes aside the reason they have so many vending machines is they don't have much vandalism. Europe's generally a lot better than the US in that regard. And people crack jokes about how nice and polite Canada is.
I guess what I'm saying is that the US seems to have a reputation for being a nasty place. That said, crime's been dropping non-stop for decades. What hasn't been dropping is politicians using "tough on crime" rhetoric to get elected while screwing their constituents...
my kid's economics class was less economics and more like a cheer squad for Adam Smith. There was no discussion of socialism, Keynesian economics or anything else besides how supply and demand made the world great.
You're right about Mao though. But he was a fascist, not a communist and certainly not a Democratic Socialist.
Vote for pro-worker, pro-consumer, anti-corporate candidates. I said this elsewhere in this thread, but folks like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the entire lot of the Justice Democrats. Look for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. And remind your friends and family to do the same. That'll do more to help Uber drivers than the occasional $10 tip.
if you don't like it you're gonna have to vote pro-consumer, anti-corporate people in like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Start here. It's a non-corporate PAC that makes refusing corporate PAC money a condition of membership. I'm not sure if there's a Republican or Libertarian equivalent, but if anyone's got one I'm all ears.
is you lose a ton of flexibility from having trucks deliver goods. That flexibility let's companies like Walmart stock the bare minimum of what they need at any given point in time. It means never getting stuck with over supply and having to slash prices, leading to much higher profits thanks to tight control on supply. Sure, you've got to heavily subsidize oil, but that's what the United States Armed Forces is for.
Why does a gold mine or an oil field, a natural resource that was there centuries before the decedents of anyone claiming ownership was on that land mass much less born, get to claim ownership? Usually because they're they most ruthless or they got lucky and held onto enough cash during one of the economy's cyclic downturns to buy up property being sold for cheap by the desperate... Funny how nobody every seems to question that.
It's right there in TFS. They use the internet more and so the ones likely to fall for scams are easier to reach. It's harder to get to boomers since they're not very connected. This'll change out to older folks getting scammed more once the generation that grew up with the Internet ages a bit.
in about 90 days. Buddy of mine did it back in the day. But without a college degree you won't make it through modern HR filters. Why hire a high school grad for $80k + 40/hr/week when you can import a dev for $60k + 72/hr/week?