I feel like a water slapper sometimes in how pointless my job is
The entire marketing industry is gross and needs to die.
But let’s not act like it’s pointless. Propaganda (advertising) works, and works well.
it works, but it only works because we’re propping up capitalism with the bodies of workers. Marketing serves no fundamental purpose for society
If your product is good, it will sell itself with the most minimal of advertising.
This demonstrably untrue otherwise there would be no reason for huge market controlling products to advertise. I don’t believe in the wisdom of the markets and I’m not sure why you do.
My job is basically to do things to the pixels on my screen in a way that the pixels on your screen do something interesting/helpful/valuable.
Sit next to a pond and slap water? Hell yeah. Fresh air, nature, automation. What’s not to love
I wonder if the ultra rich understand just how much genuine malice is directed at them.
People were cheering for the submarine to implode.
It really seems like the world is full of tinder, waiting for a spark.
Nah. People get really pissed when they’re REALLY hungry.
We’re kept at a perfect balance, we can’t afford top shelf stuff, but most people have enough to get by.
Sure, it feels like everyone is a medium-sized misadventure away from financial collapse, but still, we get by. We have Internet, shows to stream, cheap shitty fast food next door.
No one can be bothered to go outside to chop heads demanding to redistribute wealth.
Especially considering that half the population has been talked into believing that by pulling your boot straps you can get as rich as Elon Musk, and Trump is literally Jesus.
There’s no revolution incoming, just occasional angry tweets.
Revolutions are most closely correlated with food insecurity, yes.
But in today’s JIT economy, and the vulnerability of our supply chains, it’s not hard to imagine a set of circumstances where suddenly a huge swath of the population suddenly not knowing where their next three meals are coming from.
Good point. COVID exposed the weakness of the JIT model, and then we all went “huh, that’s a funny noise for an engine to make” and kept using JIT.
80% of Americans deal with precarity. Food precarity, rent precarity, job precarity, family precarity, health precarity.
So a lot of us are feeling the discontent.
But we lefties arent used to planning violent protest (say sabotage and mischief. We’d rather not actually kill anyone.)
One possibility is the right-wing doing some sparking. A group of militant extremist reactionaries might load up and massacre a venue to get the civil war started.
Or the government could pass some laws resulting in mass incarcerations of non-violent offenders (say abortion seekers or LGBT+). Once that starts turning into capital punishment of young women protests might turn into arson of police and state facilities. We saw a bit of this with Iran with the Mahsa Amini protests or in 2020 US with the George Floyd protests.
I’m unsure of the relevance of a gamepad
Nevertheless, the seeming absurdity is funny and I’m here for it
The choice of a game controller to steer the Titan was the least-sketchy and most-defensible design decision made in that case. As a tinkerer and maker myself, you want to invent the fewest number of new things when inventing a new thing. It just makes sense to focus on the central goal. The goal was build a sub (poorly it turns out), not invent a new way to translate button presses into motion. That’s a solved problem.
Disagree. The fact that he chose a cheap third party controller instead of sparing no expense and using something better tells me he probably cheaped out in other places too.
Apparently he did with the hull, using leftover material from NASA that was full of micro cracks.
As far as the controller, military uses Xbox controllers for quite a lot of stuff. I imagine those are hardened enough to not Stick Drift too unlike our shitty civilian ones. In fact just the fact that stick drift is a huge problem across the board with controllers made in the last decade I would definitely reconsider a gamepad solution unless it had some Hall Effect sticks at minimum. But I know this cuz I’m a gamer whereas to Mr. Billionaire, any controller is good just get the damn Great Value one off the shelf.
Also he used it wirelessly. Come on. I don’t wanna trust Bluetooth underwater.
Too many rookie mistakes just with the gamepad. When I saw that photo of him with it the day they went missing I knew they were dead as fuck.
And the folks in the USA trying to make the rich richer have also hung their hat on arming the country. Interesting logic
I’ve worked for a lot of super rich people over the years in high-end construction. Most (not all) of them are deeply un-self-aware and have no idea how they are seen by regular people because it would never occur to them to ever think about it. The lives of most people are like some strange and exotic foreign country that they’re vaguely aware of but that they have no real interest in. They’re aware of poverty as a concept, but that’s as far as it goes; it’s not something they actually understand or have any desire to understand or even think about.
A lot of this, I think, is somewhat deliberate in that it allows them to ignore how unjust their hoarding of wealth and resources is.
“Nobody wants to slap pond water anymore!”
I’d think the sounds of random pond slapping would be more annoying than frogs, but I guess I’m not rich enough to have the correct opinion on this
Russia has been a horrible place to be a peasant for a long time. In most of Europe peasents gained a lot of freedoms after the black death. But in Russia peasents, or serfs as they were called, only suffered worse. The serfs in Russia couldn’t even marry or move without the permission of their lord. The lord, or boyar as it was called locally, had pretty much full ownership over you. Russia pretty much enslaved their whole population until the mid 1800s. Complete disregard for the life of the commoner has been a constant theme of Russian life for a long time and it arguably continues to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia?wprov=sfla1 Some dark but enlightening reading about the historical situation of peasents in Russia. Peasents were de facto enslaved there for far longer than anywhere else in Europe. I can’t imagine living through such a time. Dedicating your whole existence and work to serving some fat boyar who cares nothing about you. At any time you could get drafted for a deadly war which you probably are not going to be returning alive from. This arguably still happens there today.
