I have fought hard to get a job I get to think and do science to help people, fascists and conservatives don’t give a shit about science, thinking or helping people… which is why they want to get rid of us.

It isn’t a homogenous group, but it is very clear who wants to hurt us and it is scary because frankly, the average USian is pretty much ok with it or thinks important things and expertise can be rebuilt in a day if they are “accidentally” slashed, destroyed and spit on.

We are in agreement in the sense that a bunch of people screaming in a runaway train hurtling off a cliff are in perfect agreement about how they feel.

US yes

The collapse of my country

I thought the title was complete word salad, but no, this is a legitimate case of snail pool, the full deal with all the dice, cards, and chaos that typifies this depraved category of recreation.

Say what you will, but I have never seen a game of snail pool that didn’t leave a trail of bad taste in it’s wake.

I’ll just stick with VSTi plugins

This is amazing!

It is like a mech suit in the sense that “mechs” are a fantasy conjured up by scifi artists to anthromorphize machines and they don’t have anything to do with reality except in very niche applications.

In reality heavily armored vehicles used for assaulting a heavily defended position such as main battle tanks and other armored fighting vehicles/personel carriers are from a design standpoint completely unrelated to mechs and the way mechs are portrayed in fantasy media.

Mechs are designed to look like people because they are robot superhero action figures… whereas a tank is designed to be as low to the ground as possible while still functioning as a tank because that is the best way to design it. A tank is also designed to have as little moving parts as possible (other than the turret) or fragile parts that extend from the armored hull, the precise opposite of a tall robot with legs.

I know this is a silly comparison stretched out too far, but when I look at “AI” I really do see a bunch of people pretending the mech they built is going to replace tanks because all the scifi/anime shows they watch have concluded mechs are the future and yet there is absolutely zero logical through line leading from why you might choose to build something like a tank and something like a mech in the real world and yet there is still an insane amount of hype around mechs and mainstream media has basically concluded tanks are obsolete already…

I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having… traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities absolutely must have magic sky cars in their skyline but there is ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.

We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.

The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.

No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.

Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?

The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.

Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.

Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)

Don’t support Terf Lord

Lol those poor lost souls

I genuinely believe people will look back at this moment and wonder what Nintendo could have done if they weren’t too limited in their vision to understand the opportunity they are throwing away here.

Apple isn’t popular with younger people the way it used to be, nobody likes Microsoft, everybody hates Android (I do too even though that is my phone os)… there is a major generational opening here for introducing kids to computers in a fun way and becoming “the computer” in the minds of kids.

Especially with the environmental crisis and climate change, people will look back at this and shake there heads and lament that if only Nintendo had copied Valve for that generation of Switches, Nintendo could have grown into an entire operating system and computer culture and there would be WAY less needlessly obsolete handheld computers laying around from when the next generation of Switches inveitably comes out…

What people still don’t understand about computers and people is that whoever introduces kids to computers capable of doing complex work in a fun way will shape the future, because those kids will grow up into adults who create, use and design tools that do cool amazing things. Nintendo needs to wake the fuck up and realize they are selling a handheld computer that is very good at playing games, the world desperately needs another company with vision, good UI design, and the capability to bring hardware and software together into a competent computer experience (Microsoft cannot do this, and undermines all its hardware partners that actually try to do this with their own incompetence).

As everyone knows that plastic is still copyrighted and owned by corporations so technically you should be paying rent.

No, you are living in a fantasy land for babies where your lazy deeply flawed visions of the future are more important than the blazing reality tearing everything down right now as we speak :)

There are actually two ways to make a self driving car.

1. make a self driving car that can be trusted to drive around pedestrian filled environments and not kill them (this option is extremely hard with literally infinite edgecases)

2. dehumanize pedestrians culturally and legally to the point that the bar for safety becomes a bludgeon to beat them with, then sell a broken self driving car

which do you think tesla is choosing?

Lol, yup and it is going so well.

The only reason self driving cars are legal on US roads is we actually hate pedestrians as drivers in the US and we don’t really give a shit about traffic safety.

I’d guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.

That is a terrible guess, and it isn’t even remotely close on the scale of decades.

What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.

What if you read too many scifi novels with AI while ignoring how politics were changing in the real world and have willingly mistook a vehicle of brutal class war (that has a MASSIVE carbon footprint) being used by the ultrawealthy to force everyone back into feudalism as a magic technological savior of our futures?

Do you realize how easy of a mark people like you are? You got played hard.

Check out modern board gaming, chess is a mediocre abstract game with no theme that is very unsatisfying to play unless you are evenly matched with someone.

Read good fiction or literature, those are the bread and butter processes of critically reading truly good fiction that doesn’t hamfistedly oversimplify the human condition.

Here are some recommendations:

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

or

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

I am not talking about scifi that is more interested in the technical details of space war than giving characters depth, though there is plenty of amazing scifi of course!