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I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job

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Man, I'm a laid off dev too. You really should know by now how scrutinous people are about AI anything.

You're not even getting the 100 dollar monthly payments off steam. Forget "just use google translate like pre-AI", why not just focus on one language and look into localization later if this game catches on? Now instead all languages will be scanning your game with a fine-toothed comb.

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Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo

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Yeah, I know what you mean. Sadly, our fascism is a really, really stupid form based around a teenager's fantasy of a dictatorship. Trump doesn't care about the potential of large private corporations usurping the throne so he let's then run free as long as they kiss the ring.

If this managed to extend to decades instead of years (and somehow Trump lived that long), it'd be such a predictable ending for him.

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Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo

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They really will do or say anything but their job, huh?

If we're being real, Mamdami hasn't even gotten his big plans rolling yet. He passed an easy tax (for people owning houses that don't even live in NYC) and fixed some potholes. His biggest win was bartering with the state government to get more support (instead of the dreaded "tax the rich"). The rest was normal stuff with good PR aimed at the 21st century. That's it.

But these relics spent decades minmaxing for cable news and can't look human on social media at all. They are used to saying words then doing nothing. The bar is that low and they are scared at a dude bending his knees (he hasn't even jumped yet).

At least they are finally breaking their fake decorum and sayong the quiet parts out loud. Makes it so much easier to tear down in the long term.

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What I Learned Debating Fascists on a Phone Sex Hotline

Definitely a new lens. I'll admit even then I was surprised reading about someone treating leftism as a kink, as if Tue idea of agreeing that the gig economy is unsustainable in a public setting is an absolute taboo.

On men's porn sites—including gay porn sites—there is a complete absence of any kind of explicit politics. The only exception is the rare importation to support free speech." Though there are far fewer female-targeted sites, the authors say the ones that exist contain an abundance of messaging around issues like inclusivity and feminism.

I guess that's not surprising. Unless the site itself is in danger, it's not very "sexy" to care about politics. And sexuality should (but definitely doesn't) run on a different axis to political philosophy. Everyone wants love in some form.

But alas, that was 2012. So much changed so quickly.

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Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.

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Most the pieces of shit usually don’t also insult their customer base on a regular basis on top of being pieces of shi

These day? Yeah they do. Sony is in the fuck around stage as we speak. Microsoft was long into the Find Out stage.

Valve's credit is that they are pretty good at not saying the quiet parts out loud. But that should have been the bare minimum.

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AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update

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ahh. I might have mixed up threads.

Yeah, the age thing doesn't matter as much. You can technically be 30 and still be seriously hospitalized like this. You can be 80 and genuinely have the best interst for the country. it's just more likely at 80 that you end up this way, on tubes and bitter at the world. T

he issues here is that represenatives have no incentive to actually do their job, or at least have minimum accountability from not doing their job as long as they are "the right people". I beleive other countries have either recall processes for situations like this, or require X days per quarter in session before special elections can be triggered.

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AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update

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really hard to say. We first need to stop breaking our government and get adults back in the room. Then we need chains of actions that rebuilds trust amongst all of us, or enough of the apathetic to rule out the inevtiable MAGA propoganda. It's not impossible because term limits are generally a positive topic (very few people like the idea of career politicians to begin with), but still an uphill battle

Alternatively, we could somehow garner massive support that even Trump can't ignore. But that's a harder order than the above.