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by pepperball 9mo ago
I think that makes you the communist
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by pepperball 9mo ago
Hilarious! HN post about sentiment analysis on the site and the top comment and thread is just “reddit bad xd”. So glad these sort of novel, riveting conversations are being had here.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> No way to escape that unless you live in the wilderness. The wilderness is all owned. Trespassers will be prosecuted.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
The problem is you’ve built an economy that rewards narcissism and attention whoring. Of course you aren’t going to get sane, intelligent politicians.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> Americans don't want to expend their tax dollars on folks willing to break the law for financial gain. Then why do they keep electing the lackeys of those people into office. The American people are idiots.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> Can't we just make the billionaires buy everyone a robot from China instead? Oh wait, their money will be useless in a post-scarcity society and they will just be like any regular Joe. Wait a minute. That seems like a massive conf
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> The crux of the matter is that those workers won't be able to afford the iPhones they're assembling, however. Of course they will, Americans banks and “tech” companies are always coming up with creative ways to extend shady l
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> What growth? You can get $15/h jobs and cheap, giant spyware TV’s now. Are you not impressed with your bread and circuses?
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> There are plenty of good paying non-backbreaking jobs for Americans but they just don't seem to believe it. Where at?
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by pepperball 9mo ago
Don’t worry, the next out-of-touch geezer you run will definitely have the charisma to win. It looks like they may be up against JD Vance for Christ’s sake.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set. In other words, you wasted time and energy becoming a programmer/software developer/whatever. Should have done something
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by pepperball 9mo ago
As many, I got into programming as young boy thank to video games. I remember one year, someone bought me an old book on game development. It was a book using DirectX 3.0. To this day, that was probably the most intimidating programming boo
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> It seems AAA game studios are missing what gamers want at every turn. I’m really not sure what it is. Usually, when a company begins to abandon/shaft their user base like that, it’s because they found a more lucrative market to ch
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by pepperball 9mo ago
US voters have no principles. Even republicans started artistically screaming about nationalizing companies when they didn’t want to play ball with the president.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> Specialise in an industry vertical that is not just web development. I have rarely seen a “non web dev vertical” job that’s required less than 5-10 years direct professional domain expertise.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
Before ChatGPT, the web in general offered vast amounts of knowledge available to anyone who could find it. Nobody gives a shit about knowledge. They want domain experts defined by years of experience in a domain, not a few months internet
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> It's sad, but I think our generation is partly to blame, since we demanded that from them. At least you can recognize that much. Too many people involved in building an economy based around narcissism are suddenly wondering why th
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> They hate communists because communism is atheist. A few years ago before the election, a friend and I often joked that you could probably sell a sizable portion of American right on something of a “five year plan” The MAGA communism m
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by pepperball 9mo ago
At least the USMC is staffed by competent alcoholics.
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> I see the Christofascism as more a flavor of the month than a serious unifying ideology. I’ve joked occasionally we should just hand the zealots power as they’d quickly go back to just killing each other over theology. Wouldn’t you kno
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by pepperball 9mo ago
Agreed it’s incredibly unrealistic, but something has to give. We’re quickly approaching a country where there are two overarching groups with near zero overlap on their vision for society. That cannot end well. My guess is as the American
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by pepperball 9mo ago
> Out of curiosity, what is the timeline here? I give it a decade. By that time social media had done irreparable damage to society.
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by pepperball 10mo ago
Realistically, probably nothing great. I enjoyed programming and computers as a hobby in high school, but had eventually decided it was not something I’d like to do as a career. But my initial plans after high school fell through and I foun
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by pepperball 10mo ago
Even bigger than that, it’s all a slow march to a sort of narcissistic feudalism.
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by pepperball 10mo ago
> Community is dead, culture over generations is dead, building and making is dead, even cooking your own food is dead - "just order it". And people sit around stupidly asking why everyone is pissed off and angry.
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by pepperball 10mo ago
As a reminder of how little things change. I remember watching an old video from sometime when seatbelt laws were mandated in Texas. People were rambling on about how they basically live in the Soviet Union.
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by pepperball 10mo ago
> I'm kind of ok with it. All the kids who fucked around in school and picked on the nerds for just existing are kind of getting their comeuppance I have yet to see it. All the stereotypical “asshole jocks” I can recall from school
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by pepperball 10mo ago
> Amazing how they continue not to cater to their core audience. I’ve seen this across several industries now. The “core audience” is too small and too particular. There is another audience, much easier to please, much much larger, much
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by pepperball 10mo ago
A civil war is needed. It’s clear that there are a handful of ideological blocs with inherently incompatible ideologies. These people cannot all live in the same society and have peace exist. Logistically this problem can’t really be solved