Yiazmat

(Trump’s) basic idea that, in a transaction, someone wins and someone loses is the most deeply anti-American, anti-capitalist idea you can possibly have. The idea of winners and losers being said about capitalism is a gross distortion of what that’s supposed to be.

Lol

a fate worse than death

we’re already seeing it with stuff like game pass, which is just paying a monthly fee to rent games. not to sound paranoid but I swear the amount of times I’ve seen the phrase “game pass is the best value in gaming” on social media like reddit/twitter/etc. makes me think they’ve been astroturfing this shit hard and it’s frustrating to see people fall for it.

If I can’t pay money and own the game then I’ll just steal it or do something else with my time

maybe it’s because I’m an old geezer compared to the average twitch viewer but I honestly don’t understand the appeal of these streamers. It must be some kind of parasocial thing

and every once in a while I’ll see a clip where some popular streamer is talking, little “donation” messages show up on the screen and I’m reminded that people who are presumably much less wealthy than the streamer routinely donate money to them and it just breaks my brain

when I was a lib I used to like The Daily Show because it was kinda cathartic to watch them mock conservatives.

However I remember one episode where they were covering a story about students at Berkeley protesting the marines opening up a recruiting office on campus, and basically the entire segment was them shitting on these kids. The students were anti-war and didn’t want the US military recruiting future killers on their campus. The Daily Show even had their news correspondent Rob Riggle (retired marine) interviewing students and trapping them in ridiculous “gotchas” to make them look dumb. It was one of the first moments as a baby leftist where I was like “wait… why are they doing this? those kids are right to not want the military at their school.” And watching this thickneck piece of shit Riggle bully young people who obviously don’t know enough to “debate” him while a camera is shoved in their face was infuriating.

Then later I watched Stewart perform at USO shows in Iraq and Afghanistan (among other places) to entertain these imperialist tools and I just lost any shred of respect I still had for him. He even had that awful “Rally to Restore Sanity” event in D.C. which was effectively a giant centrist circlejerk that accomplished absolutely nothing. I haven’t even paid attention to anything he’s done since but I’m not the least bit surprised that he’s still a dipshit.

yea I know I just said “onion-ass headline” out loud when I read it

onion headline

“monthly payments” hasn’t there been a bunch of stories recently about mercs in Ukraine mad that they aren’t getting paid lol

I fucking hate how everything is a subscription now

lol first thing I thought when I saw the new twitter logo was “that looks like x.org”

every year in late summer/early fall I get texts about preparing for rolling blackouts due to the heat and I have to start charging all my battery packs and stuff so when it goes out I can still use my phone. I bet if this happened in e.g. China or the DPRK there would be stories all over western media about how the commies can’t even keep their lights on

not to sound like a broken record because I’ve posted this before but I’m still a bit stunned at how almost everyone in the US just kind of stopped caring about the virus around the same time. Literally over a million dead and most Americans’ reaction to the virus today is just “shrug oh well.” My friends still give me shit for wearing a mask when I go out. A nation of clowns

Funding for education in the state has been cut many times over the last few decades. when I was in grade school (in CA) there were like, maybe 20 kids in each class. Now it’s closer to 40. My girlfriend’s mom is a teacher and routinely has to spend her own money to buy supplies for her class. And charter school/voucher bullshit is being pushed pretty hard here. I got a pretty good public education but gen Z and younger are probably in for a rough ride.

Honestly it’s not just men, it’s every Tesla driver. I live near the edge of a pretty wealthy neighborhood where probably 1/3 of the residents own a Tesla. I ride to work on a motorcycle, and when I lane split (legal in my state) I’m constantly almost getting hit by these fucking things. I routinely have people see me in their side mirror (yes, motorcyclists can see you looking at them) and they’ll purposely veer towards the next lane to “squeeze” the gap and prevent me from passing. About 70% of the time it’s a Tesla. They are quickly surpassing BMWs as my most hated car on the road.

I laughed out loud at the part where they explain they got around the height limits by just building certain floors with ridiculously tall ceilings. Also very funny that this gross monument to excess is having so many structural issues. Who could have foreseen an extremely tall building having problems with swaying in the wind?