Oh trust me, it gets so much worse than the imperialism…

Their plan was basically like “what if tech-bros min-maxed absolutely everything, North Korea style?”

You don’t understand… If the slop is inoffensive, it’ll pour in everywhere. Your culture will drown in it, one day you will wake up and realize ads have decided how you should properly interact with your family

It’s good that you don’t like it. That means you have something to protect, you still have something you value

Do you understand how much Americans hunger for culture? It’s not because we don’t have it, we have hundreds of cultures. It’s because it has all been mixed together into inoffensive slurry that leaves us feeling empty

The important and unimportant are all mixed up and drained away, and it’s not the important things that remain. It’s the things that profit someone

And I’m saying you don’t actually want that. I’m pretty confident you want to keep your culture

The way you lose it is by slop worming it’s way in. The slop is inoffensive and tasteless

Just laugh at the bad localization, don’t try to fix it. It’s a bullet that missed you by a mile

No, of course not. Fuck her, she seems horrible

I just think the line is bad. It’s an evil meme. I think it shouldn’t be said, it’s that simple.

And in this case specifically, there’s not much wiggle room. Who is going to defend her seriously? On Lemmy no less?

So this is the perfect time for a negative social reaction and correction. It’s how you fight bad memes

I’m not saying you’re wrong, it’s the line itself I take issue with. I think using it is harmful to society in some small way. I think you don’t mean it to be, it’s a meme. It sticks in your head and comes out at opportunune times

I just think it’s an anti-society meme. I think it’s bad, and that we shouldn’t spread it, but instead we should react negatively to it

That’s what I said. She doesn’t seem very sorry, and society does need her away from elections

It’s the stupid pithy line itself I take issue with. We have an insanely disproportionate amount of people in prison, we can’t be dismissing prisoners as deserving to be there

I just think repeating that line is bad for society. It doesn’t matter if it applies, it’s an anti-society meme

If you haven’t noticed, culture radiates from the US, and all our traditions were made up recently

This wasn’t even a thing made to be shared. This is a stupid little toy website made for children

If you value your culture, make art about it.

Don’t blame our art for not including your culture, are you asking to have your culture assimilated???

Because that’s where that road leads. If American culture gains a deep understanding of German culture, that just means the empty corpo-slop will overtake the things you find special

Fuck that. It’s a stupid pithy line

Everyone in prison should have a good reason for being there. This woman interfered with elections. That’s a big deal. She should stay in a box until she can be trusted to not do so in the future. She doesn’t sound very sorry

A lot of people are in there just to generate money for private corporations

Of course they are, they’re full and doing great lol

I might be starting one soon with mostly family… It’s a long shot, but I’d interview you then the time comes if you want. No promises

Well… I didn’t mean straight. You play a typing game for 20 minutes occasionally, honestly you could probably just do that every day for a week and pick it up

And while you are proving my point perfectly, there’s advantages if you were to put in a little time… You make less typos and get better at power user features if you learn the positions

Nope, you sit down and learn it.

If you wanted to learn, I would find a typing game and keep playing until you can hit any key without looking. If you still weren’t learning, I’d put paper over your hands so you couldn’t look down and cheat

So if you want this skill, find a typing game and don’t cheat. It’s that simple… It doesn’t even take that long, maybe 10 hours total? Maybe even less

What they really want is to be cool and have people respect them, and they’re not getting that

You’d think so, but no. Project 2025 can be traced back through the heritage foundation to the Technocracy movement, which was a bunch of proto-tech bros like Elon’s Grandpa

They thought they were the smartest little guys and so they should control all aspects of society. They wanted to carve the world up into economic zones, and they wanted America’s to be from the Panama canal to the artic, including Greenland, so they could control shipping through the artic and across the Atlantic

They were really big about shipping lanes, which is why South Africa randomly comes up too

I’m saying it’s nice to think about how people could be better…

But office workers absolutely do not all know how to touch type. When you find yourself working at an office, your typing speed tends to get faster, but if you don’t already know how to touch type you just peck faster

It’s why I’m so militant about my young relatives learning it. It’s not that hard to learn, but you have to learn it before you actually need it or you never will

They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree

The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.

Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all

And everyone should understand basic science

But they don’t, do they?

Exactly.

Gerrymandering gives a 5-10 point advantage. If can backfire, and I think it’s going to

It’s not going away. Why do you think Congress members have resigned this post month? It’s not because they care, it’s because they realize being an incumbent is a liability at this point

Us, right now?

This isn’t a unicorn. Literally the entire Senate voted to release the Epstein files, that unanimously passed law in the Senate was not followed