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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

And I am reminded, on this holy day, of the sad story of Kitty Genovese. As you all may remember, a long time ago, almost thirty years ago, this poor soul cried out for help time and time again, but no person answered her calls. Though many saw, no one so much as called the police. They all just watched as Kitty was being stabbed to death in broad daylight. They watched as her assailant walked away. Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.

It can easily be argued that the constant kid-gloves approach with Trump and other rich and politically-connected defendants falls under “the indifference of good men.”

They understand the laws have been twisted to favor people like Trump, but they keep acting within the confines of the “law” like that makes them “good.” No, at best it makes them “lawful neutral” if we’re talking D&D alignment.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

If “good” thinks these rules that favor those with the most money, who spent a lot of money on senators and house representatives to make sure those rules favored them, that those rules should be followed with strict intensity, then yeah, good is pretty fucking dumb.

Society: You keep playing by these rules that favor the wealthy. We even have proof the wealthy paid for bills to be passed for the rules to be more favorable to them!

Government: Look, if we don’t follow these rules we’ve set up for ourselves where we’re always outspent by the oligarchs who actually fund us, we stop getting payche---- err, I mean, it all falls apart.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

I mean, I get it, but like… so the other side (Trump & co.) is able to make mistakes and be absurdly emotional over petty fucking bullshit, and it’s just sort of accepted and okay for them?

I’m so sick of everything being tilted towards we can never appeal the people who are obviously acting in bad faith and everyone who is operating in good faith has to endlessly cross every T and dot every I while the other side essentially plays the pigeon and knocks all over the chess pieces while shitting all over the table and strutting around like they won.

Like, I get that some people have legitimate grievances for appeals, but I’m so sick of a justice system that hands people with money an effective endless route to act in bad faith to drag out cases and get away with it. Why is there no legal recourse to deny such things to people who are painfully obviously operating in bad faith? Why do we have to keep letting them get away with it to make the case “iron clad.” I don’t fucking get it, it seems like the whole system is set up for people like Trump to actively exploit it.

Why the fuck isn’t there more demand for reform of our criminal justice system? Not just the painfully obvious two-tiered justice system that favors the rich and politically connected, but just this basic idea, that the rich can’t just endlessly look for fucking loopholes to try to drain the other side of money to fight the case. Too much of our system really comes down to who has the most “Fuck You Money” to spend on lawyers for the longest, and I’m sick of acting like that’s fucking okay somehow. It isn’t, period.

This kind of behavior should be grounds for denying future appeals, not handing them out like fucking candy, for fucks sake. He lead a fucking coup, and if our government can’t grow a pair of balls and start treating this accordingly, he’ll end up pardoning himself and then being an insane autocrat who gives out capital punishment to his enemies.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

Exactly, media moves so much faster now, so they literally had a smaller frame of reference and were exposed to far fewer of these ideas than modern audiences. We take it for granted now, but it used to be difficult to get your hands on media that was more obtuse or complicated, because often they didn’t have copies at your local library, and as such, audiences back then just wouldn’t have the frames of reference that we do in allowing us to understand the concepts and references to other existing media.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

Too right, exposure to those kind of ideas has grown over time, and thus given the modern era the ability to take those ideas mainstream, because of the simple breadth of media available. We often take it for granted that even a hundred years ago, it wasn’t super easy to get a hold of books, let alone catch every film release. Now a near infinite stream of media is literally available at people’s fingertips. The speed and amount of media that exist has contributed heavily to a more informed modern audience that can digest these ideas more easily, because they’ve simply been exposed to more media explaining the basics underlying such ideas.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

I know this is how people in the 80s and 90 imagined the future and a lot of concepts were probably too far fetched for them.

You also have to consider that TV executives were also considering this, and punting any ideas they thought wouldn’t be accepted by a TV watching audience of the 80’s/90’s. Like the planned gay characters who were scrapped.

I mean, think about that, being gay in the future was too much for some television executives to accept, I really wouldn’t be shocked if they gave thumbs down on lots of more esoteric and abstract episode concepts simply because they thought it would be too above the heads of a 90’s TV audience.

And to be fair, they were probably right. The communicator seems less amazing now that we live in a world with cell phones, but back then a personal communications device that was on your person at all times seemed definitely in the realm of sci-fi. Now we all have a near-equivalent in our pockets, as well as it being general purpose computing device that can be used as a personal communicator and much more. Our communicator is also a primitive tricorder.

Some of the ideas they did let pass were either already accepted tech from the original series or were close to existing civilian or military hardware that was in it’s infancy.

So a combination of “this was the extent of human imagination about these concepts back then” combined with “television executives are keenly aware of ideas the general public won’t understand, and doesn’t like confusing audiences, and thus will cut any content they deem too abstract or confusing” is what I think actually happened. One part actual limitation of imagination, one part purposeful limitation of imagination as to not to confuse the audience.

Which, honestly, is fair. Do you think sci-fi series like Rick & Morty would exist as they do without all previous sci-fi series laying down frameworks we understand for it to be based on? Human knowledge and ideas do build on themselves, and so, in a way, the TV executives are half-right that you can’t overexpose an unexposed audience. You kind of have to slowly spoon feed them ideas over time.

Like, what if we tried sending Rick & Morty as a show back to the 1960’s, and how many of the ideas would be entirely over the audiences heads? Simply because they didn’t have 60 years of sci-fi media relating different iterations of these various ideas until “the multiverse” is just talked about like it is just a given thing that exists, and nobody questions it. At least a few would have trouble wrapping their minds around it, because while many of these ideas were pioneered in the Original Series, their lack of depth might leave audiences back then really confused about some of the ideas presented.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to memes in ayy lmao

Hey buddy, I heard you were made of cake!

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Exactly. If the reason you are “conscientiously objecting” is because you’re a rich Nazi shitheel who is too much of a pussy to fight for anything yourself, no one cares because you obviously don’t have a real conscience to be conscientous with.

He is clearly fine with sending others to fight his battles for him. Can he be any more the Gen X version of Trump?

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to technology in 41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids

Via USA Today:

www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/…/71300954007/

Which states are filing the lawsuit against Meta?

In addition to Colorado and New York, the other states with attorneys general joining the suit are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Nine state attorneys general in Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and the District of Columbia have filed similar lawsuits in their states.

In all, 41 states and the District of Columbia have filed suit against Meta on the issue; another state, Arkansas, in March filed suit against Meta over the addictive nature of Facebook and Instagram.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Gen Z And The Great Office Debate Won’t End In 2023

the oldest of Gen-Z are still in their 20’s, and perhaps at the age where the desire to socialise in person is strongest.

I mean, I’d argue you yourself are guilty of what we’re accusing the article of doing here.

It’s not that older people don’t want to socialize in person with each other anymore, it’s more that after graduating high school, you’re separated from your high school friends by where you go to college, then after college, you’re further separated by where you are able to get a job, meaning “adults” don’t really have as many choices about “socializing in person” simply because every friend of theirs has been taken far, far away from them based on economic circumstances.

Source: In my 40’s and my friend group has been splintered all over the planet since I was in my mid-twenties. Kind of lead to having to be okay with keeping in touch over the internet.

We can stop attributing such things as a “choice.” Adults want just as much in-person socializing time with their friends and family, often they just simply don’t have access to it. *shrugs

See also: Death of the “Third Place.”

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to workreform in Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence

I think you might need to read A Modest Proposal.

The thing is, giving women the ability to extricate themselves from bad relationships where they explicitly have to rely on the income of someone else to take care of themselves and their offspring is a big reason why violence against women persists.

When we’re talking “violence against women” we don’t mean women randomly attacked in the street, more often than not, we mean women attacked by their partners, who are mostly men.

The impact of being able to financially extricate yourself from a violent partner is huge and is driven by economics. It’s literally why Lenin considered women an equal part of the Communist struggle. It’s why Russia under the USSR initially legalized abortion in 1920. This would unfortunately change when Stalin came to power, but at the outset, it was understood that women having economic independence was a huge part of allowing them to become equals to men in society, and allowing them to escape abusive men.

While A Modest Proposal shouldn’t be taken with any seriousness, it’s jokey demeanor makes very good points about the same ideas. There are all kinds of things you can do economically to incentivize reduced violence towards women.

The idea that higher pay wouldn’t have an impact on reducing violence towards women seems a bit short-sighted.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Gen Z And The Great Office Debate Won’t End In 2023

I’m further curious about this, because I completed a collegiate degree during COVID and the remote aspect made it one of the best school experiences of my life. Arguably, I am a millennial, and I had previously dropped out of school twice due to a combination of doing poorly in school because I was working so much, and not really making enough money to keep going without incurring massive debt to achieve it. COVID was the first time for me where everything came together well enough for me to be able to work, go to school, and not be at the mercy of an overburdened personal schedule to achieve it, because of how much time being school-from-home saved me in transportation time.

I heard about some online school horror stories for like… elementary school kids. You know, when teachers didn’t understand that not all computers could do the fancy Zoom backgrounds and stuff, and gave some kids their first taste of what it feels like to be a have-not among a group of haves. A lot of crying and wondering why they couldn’t do something other kids could do, because the old teacher who wasn’t familiar with technology was oblivious and did something dumb in an attempt to get kids excited about online school. Sure, if this was your first school experience, it sucked.

I heard far fewer horror stories about middle-school/high-school kids, but if you’ve got some, I’m willing to hear it out (Full disclosure: I don’t have kids, so I don’t have direct experience). However, I am certainly hoping for a more detailed response than a single sentence saying they were all alone and depressed with ptsd. Because I didn’t feel disconnected from my friends, although I do live a “digital native” life and so do many of my friends simply out of necessity as adults because we became separated physically over time as our jobs took us to different places in life. COVID didn’t knock me on my ass and make me feel isolated, because US life had already forced me to adopt such things, but maybe I’m in the minority here.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Gen Z And The Great Office Debate Won’t End In 2023

Right, which is a big part of why I feel the way I do about it, but I’m at least trying to engage with the OP here.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Gen Z And The Great Office Debate Won’t End In 2023

Yeah. How?

I’m curious on your opinion, because it feels like this article is fairly light on data supporting the assertion. (This is genuine interest, I’m not here to start an argument.)

It at least feels like another corporate “we’re going to spin the data the way we want it” kind of situation, where they’re making leaps to the conclusions they want based on data that may not support that.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord

Oh. And you expect me to be in the office? Then you should make an appearance daily in the office. I don’t care if you’re halfway across the US - you better show up to say hi and prove you’re there you fucking slacker.

This is the biggest reason people don’t respect the Return to Office mandate of some companies. If the C-suite jabronis can’t be arsed to show up and it’s okay for them to telecommute, they’ve given away the game. It’s rules-for-thee-not-for-me and it’s as simple as that. Treating adults well into their professional careers like children who must be watched endlessly is a slap in the face to these professionals. It’s why more often than not they’re just finding a different job that does respect them.

This is such short-term thinking. They’re going to lose their most productive and most valuable employees to this, and then their business will slowly fold like a flan in a cupboard.