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  1. Comment on California Governor Gavin Newsom praises Charlie Kirk’s outreach to young men, suggests Democrats do more of their own in ~society

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    This gives me a lot of thoughts, and they are admittedly scattered. I think I'll just list them one by one with little real order: There has indeed been a generation now where men feel like the...

    This gives me a lot of thoughts, and they are admittedly scattered. I think I'll just list them one by one with little real order:

    • There has indeed been a generation now where men feel like the "default". You can see all kinda of statistics to see how this favoritism has influenced the generation. Especially in education.
    • As such, politics tends to not focus on the "default" that much. It is more of a way to gauge the Overton curtain than a way to really swing votes around. It's a base you don't want to anger, not necessarily one you want to directly appeal to. At least, not until recently.
    • There is some perhaps understandable anger as a result of the two above points. There is some credence to this loneliness epidemic, and it does seem to effect men more than women due to various social factors. But as we know, this anger was exploited and channeled into hate, rather than processed and used to better people.
    • I do agree the democrats can do more, but I also get that this is a naturally uphill battle. This alt right pipeline more or less channels fear and redirects it to other parties (even if those parties clearly are not intending to oppress them). A democratic influencer needs to teach empathy and solidarity. Which is theoretically something we all learn from a very early age, but if it didn't stick back then, then it's only harder to try and reinforce it at advanced ages.
    • And naturally, this continuously hyper-individualistic culture will mean their real life experience goes against this notion that "things will be better if we work together". Even on a micro level, there's more and more politics that creates distrust. Lots of broken windows these days that all add up to a broken village.
    • There's points to Newsom's words, but I think his position is also why his statements frustrates me a bit. The loneliness epidemic is partially societal, but a governor can also make initiatives to help gather people around. More third places are needed so people can gather and meet, better transportation (especially in SoCal) so getting to a town square isn't some grand trek. Personalities help, but truly curing loneliness requires building communities. That's hard to do when you need to balance the cost going out every time to buy a $7 coffee or a $15 drink just to "hang out".

    It's a complicated web of issues. I wish others in power would start laying down the groundwork of community. I think the aspect of "get more left leaning personalities" is very slowly starting to happen on its own.

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  2. Comment on California Governor Gavin Newsom praises Charlie Kirk’s outreach to young men, suggests Democrats do more of their own in ~society

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    Well the numbers speak for themselves as of late. Trump is trolling as president and mocking him gets a huge response. Esepcially in a year where so many others kiss the ring instead. Pitzker does...

    does trolling work as a political strategy? He seems to think so, but why?

    Well the numbers speak for themselves as of late. Trump is trolling as president and mocking him gets a huge response. Esepcially in a year where so many others kiss the ring instead. Pitzker does the same without trolling.

    Whether that momentum carries to 2028 is an entirely different question.

    I see lots of criticism of Newsom and little praise, which suggests that it doesn’t work very well

    He's California's govenor, and there's lots of criticisms of California, externally and internally. As Govenor, he's more or less a lighning rod, no matter how much control he really has on the issues.

    I see a lot of criticism, but it's mostly on superficial aspects of his demeanor. Others are based on CA problems like homelessness, the long long delayed high speed railroad project, and issues in Hollywood. But I question if any other person could have truly addressed those.

    The litte praise mostly comes recently from defying Trump. So I guess if nothing else, he knows how to position himself in times of crisis. That may be one of the most important aspects of a leader.

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  3. Comment on Is Tildes protected from malicious actors, aka paid trolls, aka bots? in ~tildes

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    Tildes is still invite only. Reporting it can have the mods/admin look into it and determine if there is spam-like behavior. For he above reasons, ban evasion isn't really that doable either. The...

    Tildes is still invite only. Reporting it can have the mods/admin look into it and determine if there is spam-like behavior.

    For he above reasons, ban evasion isn't really that doable either. The best exploit is using all your invites on alts and signing those up, But the admin can see who invited what and stomp that out just as quickly.

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  4. Comment on It’s the little things that make me not fully jump to linux in ~comp

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    That might not be for as long as we think, let alone as long as we wish. Between AI being shoved everyone, OS level ads, and potential computer difgitial fingerprints to control what you can do on...

    I really don’t like where Windows 11 is going, but it’s something I can live with as long it doesn’t get in the way between me and gaming.

    That might not be for as long as we think, let alone as long as we wish. Between AI being shoved everyone, OS level ads, and potential computer difgitial fingerprints to control what you can do on your hardware, we might need to start adjusting to "the little things" quick. Windows has those "little things" as well but we work around it.

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  5. Comment on Some thoughts on violence in ~society

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    I mean, I don't WANT to resort to that first. But if they don't listen to words, stuff the ballots, and even pay off courts, there's only one box left if we really want change. Now the rich is...

    I've often observed leftists who seem to possess a genuine bloodlust beneath their high-minded ideals. You sometimes see it from the "eat the rich" crowd, some of whom I have heard unironically quote the murderer from Disco Elysium: "the rich are not human." This sort of dehumanization is something I wish the article had touched on, as it's also very common in games.

    I mean, I don't WANT to resort to that first. But if they don't listen to words, stuff the ballots, and even pay off courts, there's only one box left if we really want change. Now the rich is even in the white house, for however long his 80YO body holds out for. It all really proves the sentiment of "Science advances one funeral at a time".

    I think possibly I simply don't believe that murder, violence and terrorism can ever be justified, whereas even a lot of left wing people implicitly believe that if you do enough evil, inflict enough colonialism, you can forfeit your humanity, and anything done to you, no matter how pointless, gratuitous or cruel, can safely be justified.

    Every law has exceptions for a reason. Murder in self defense is justifiable, legally speaking. Because we accept that you have the right to defend your life if someone puts it in danger.

    The issue of course, is that it's rarely that black and white. Part of dehumanization is trying to convince yourself or others that you are under attack. So you see how quickly this gets contorted. I'm not a pacisfist at all, but I understand that we're in a post truth society that wants to justify violence. Oftentimes with flimsy logic.

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  6. Comment on My guess and opinion on the common blockers to Linux adoption in ~tech

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    I'm glad for this reason that my industry is very, very slowly trying to break that mold and is getting used to adopting other creative tools. Especially since Adobe and Autofesk has only been...

    I'm glad for this reason that my industry is very, very slowly trying to break that mold and is getting used to adopting other creative tools. Especially since Adobe and Autofesk has only been getting more obstructive over the years.

    But yeah, a lot of professional tooling just doesn't work or barely works on Linux. I have to use Unreal Engine for my professional work and trying to get that running on Linux is a herculean effort. Even if you do get it working, you're gonna clash with teammates for a while too. Most small studios literally can't afford to try all that just to "get off Windows".

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  7. Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games

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    Engage is probably the closest any of the legacy characters will get to having an HD game for a long whike, so i appreciated that as an anniversary title. But yeah, we all know crossover games...

    Engage is probably the closest any of the legacy characters will get to having an HD game for a long whike, so i appreciated that as an anniversary title.

    But yeah, we all know crossover games always sacrifice story: it's hard to marry anime OC to the tales of 10 different worlds of games even with an excellent writer. Engage using salad dressing for the main story and focusing more on the fanboying of the legends was pretty much how I would have gone about it.

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  8. Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games

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    I don't know why, but I just wasn't expecting much new. So my expectations were tempered. The only "new" things were pokopia, which is genius but not a genre I engage with, and next Fire Emblem....

    I don't know why, but I just wasn't expecting much new. So my expectations were tempered. The only "new" things were pokopia, which is genius but not a genre I engage with, and next Fire Emblem. Which is good, but I guess being behind by a few games made me less hyped.

    Oh, yoshi looked nice too. That's all I can reall say. Yoshi as a franchise has wlayes been more of a "experimental side game" for Nintendo.

    I don't know if I have any hot takes, per se. My best shot is: it's really funny that NOW we're getting virtualboy attention, but is that really want Nintendo needed for it's first year into it's new generation? I feel this came a mere year too late. It would have been a nice little nostalgia/novelty sale before the economy became too broken to ignore.

    So yeah, nothing crazy, but wasn't expecting much. Nintendo has plenty of up coming games and they just wanted to make sure they were in people's minds.

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  9. Comment on Sweden's health minister has urged the EU to push ahead with social media restrictions for kids while insisting it be treated as a pressing matter in ~tech

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    "unequivocally" is a huge bar, but I think we've seen more than enough studies to show that social media does change the way you engage with the world, and that phones in particular do impact your...

    "unequivocally" is a huge bar, but I think we've seen more than enough studies to show that social media does change the way you engage with the world, and that phones in particular do impact your school performance.

    I'm not for banning it outright, though. First, we're really bad at it (I probably don't need to flesh out all the compromises we tried). If the website isn't requiring you to be logged in and to provide a legal document to prove you're you, you're not really enforcing much. And even then, kids will at best find alternatives that are too small (at first) to enforce such rules. Or even make their own small chat networks. It's a mess trying to regulate the Internet; much cheaper to do education initiatives.

    Second, social media has enough uses that banning it properly will cause adverse effects once you're over the age limit. These things are better in controlled, timed environments. Pacing them makes for much better habits when the times are lifted, and it gives them judgements on when exceptions are truly needed.

    The only ban I'm really on board for is no phones in the classroom. That's an easy enough restriction and the effects are quickly seen. But funnily enough, that's something more on the parents pushing back against. That can be a topic in and of itself on how we swung back to the helicopter parent phase.

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  10. Comment on Farewell to the fediverse in ~tech

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    Pretty much, we've seen from some 2 decades of social media is that it can be extremely sticky once you establish a daily norm. And most people either don't know nor care when some inconveniences...

    Pretty much, we've seen from some 2 decades of social media is that it can be extremely sticky once you establish a daily norm. And most people either don't know nor care when some inconveniences get pushed in as long as their core routine remains the same. You see here how bluesky seems to be rising as the best Twitter competitor and a part of is that it just feels like Twitter at its core.

    Fairly boring as an opportunity to really rethink such a website, but I guess this is the "faster horses" mentality of consumers. And admittedly it is very difficult to really innovate in a way that makes people "want" to switch.

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  11. Comment on Farewell to the fediverse in ~tech

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    It's a tough problem, because the people doing this need to have either the free time to just create and throw something out there, or an aggressive monetization model to make their time worth it....

    my wish more niche communities without so many tech people.

    It's a tough problem, because the people doing this need to have either the free time to just create and throw something out there, or an aggressive monetization model to make their time worth it. Tech is basically the only creative sector with a lot of the former.

    Getting an artist or designer on board suddenly skyrocketes costs, becsuse those industries are traditionally abused for free labor. And there aren't a lot of people who can do tech and art simultaneously.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on Charlie Kirk shooting: US President Donald Trump says suspect in custody in ~society

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    Based on reports coming out, it doesn't even sound like the FBI caught him. His dad recognized the footage and turned him in. Apparently the father as a policeman and a pastor, so it would have...

    which is probably why the FBI were so easily able to catch him.

    Based on reports coming out, it doesn't even sound like the FBI caught him. His dad recognized the footage and turned him in. Apparently the father as a policeman and a pastor, so it would have been extremely easy to get away with murder here.

    (Definitely correct me if these details change. I know things are developing fast so don't take this as gospel).

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  13. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    For political violence, it's legitimately hard for me to find an example in the last 20 years. It's disproportionately rare for political violence to occur to begin with compared to how much...

    For political violence, it's legitimately hard for me to find an example in the last 20 years. It's disproportionately rare for political violence to occur to begin with compared to how much general violence the US has.

    The Brian Thompson case is probably the closest it's gotten to "left wing political violence". But I'm using the term extremely generously at that point where "left wing" is "not blatantly MAGA" and "political" mean "he had some sway of power, despite not being a policy maker".

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Paramount Skydance prepares Ellison-backed bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in ~movies

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    Not in this administration. Lina Khan was ousted when she was needed most.

    Not in this administration. Lina Khan was ousted when she was needed most.

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  15. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    A variety of reasons. I can't really pinpoint one reason I comment on anything online. Coping mechanism for powers I cannot control ( I do tend to comment more when I am stressed, even if I try to...

    So why are you wasting your energy arguing about it online?

    A variety of reasons. I can't really pinpoint one reason I comment on anything online.

    • Coping mechanism for powers I cannot control ( I do tend to comment more when I am stressed, even if I try to avoid outright trolling?) .
    • Hoping to seek out encouraging or percipient perspectives of what's to come.
    • Feeling a need to discuss matters that I can't discuss with anyone in my day to day life.
    • Begrudgingly accepting that social media is "the real world" and getting a pulse on perspectives and reactions is just as important as being well informed of the news.

    All of that is also why I comment here on Tildes; I appreciate that most comments here are in good faith. I'd definitely react differently when hearing this on Reddit and not take the time to seriously introspect on the action.

    I'm more concerned about the state's weapons at the moment, and their real and concrete harms, than convincing you to agree with me.

    I don't think we're disagreeing here in particular. Things will sadly only get worse.

    I wasn't joking about my responses to your points, and I'm not weaseling out of defending my principles, I'm just not going to do it for the sake of sport in the comments about a dead man, because you asked me to.

    I don't want to force you to engage with any particular point. I simply, genuinely don't know if they'll be a better context to talk about it. The next context will likely be even worse. I was being genuine as well with my response.

    I hope for things to get better, but I don't think we've hit the nadir yet.

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  16. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Given some of the rhetoric out there and reactions in real world venues over this, I don't think we'll have the luxury of "reasonable context". In many contexts, it is.

    Given some of the rhetoric out there and reactions in real world venues over this, I don't think we'll have the luxury of "reasonable context".

    don't claim we need a well-armed militia, I just think murder should be legal.

    In many contexts, it is.

  17. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    Artists, or anyone else who requires high quality video feeds. Vimeo videos are uncompressed (or at least, much less compressed). It also has time stamped annotation, so you can actually send it...
    1. Artists, or anyone else who requires high quality video feeds. Vimeo videos are uncompressed (or at least, much less compressed). It also has time stamped annotation, so you can actually send it to a recruiter or client and they can comment on parts of interest.
    2. Ad-free. If you rally want to make sure Google doesn't disrupt your content, Vimeo is one of the most well known alternatives.
    3. Directly downloadable with no strings attached.
    4. More control over your video. You can edit it after the fact without changing the link, unlist/privatize videos, require passwords to access a video (perfect for NDA stuff), and more.

    Basically, its great for creatove professionals who aren't relying on as revenue to keep them afloat, and it fits their workflow better.

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  18. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    Grim for roughly 2-3 years. Today, it's only added more sectors that became rough.

    Grim for roughly 2-3 years. Today, it's only added more sectors that became rough.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    These days, it's only good news for whoever owns the company. The rise of Vulture capitalists makes this pattern all too common. Acquire the company, lay of all talent, extract whatever value you...

    Getting acquired is usually amazing news for a company

    These days, it's only good news for whoever owns the company. The rise of Vulture capitalists makes this pattern all too common. Acquire the company, lay of all talent, extract whatever value you can for a year, and repeat as you leave the carcass behind.

    I guess artists will need to find a new place to post their uncompressed portfolios.

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  20. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Vietnam is the best example of optics losing a war. America didn't lose because it lacked firepower. It lost becsuse it realized that going WW2 on such a small country would devastate their...

    Vietnam is probably the most famous US loss due to this,

    Vietnam is the best example of optics losing a war. America didn't lose because it lacked firepower. It lost becsuse it realized that going WW2 on such a small country would devastate their polling for years to come. If America truly "won" Vietnam there wouldnt be a President Regean. That was all "fixed" for the Iraqi war later on, though (and even then STILL devastated the GOP. Making their own Vice president unelecteable is quite the feat).

    That's honestly what scares me the most about a potential Civil War. We've spend 50+ years being desensitized to the aspect of killing. Once optics can't stop a war, all bets are off. And as we speak we are being desensitized to the idea of military invading cities. The fact that no one is imoeeaching Trump over even the threat of that speaks volumes.

    . "well they'll never win, we can use missiles/drones/helicopters/etc" shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what the point of an armed populace is and how many many many examples throughout history have shown otherwise.

    I don't think a modern civil war within a super power will be anything we can refer to history on. Unlike a normal war, a civil war isn't fought for resources and then "won/lost" after the fact. Its intent would either be to ursurp the government if started by rebels, or to weave fear in its own people and potentially annihilate them of stated by the ruler.

    The latter makes no logical sense; even dictatorships don't aim to do this, because what is a king with nothing to rule over, and no one to command? But we're not in logical times, sadly.

    This is a lot of morbid talk, but do I truly believe we're going to have a civil war? As things are now, no. But we are maybe, 4-5 big events away from one and we have maube8-10 increasingly plausible events. 4 of of those potential events lie in the courts. It's going to be a bumpy ride even if we manage to avoid all those events.

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