I remember thinking that “This Machine Kills” podcast was too niche and too in the nitty gritty of the machines of misery when I first started listening to them. But no, mainstream media is picking up this nightmare industry. A.I. used to scale is 666% ghoul shit.
I hate that tech could be used to make so much life easier and better but capital demands it not be used for the betterment of our condition.
It's very strange to me that "manly" men get all sort of bent out shape when any sort of kindness is expressed in the zeitgeist. They somehow pride themselves in their belief that life is "Nasty, brutish and short" and should always be. Basic compassion and empathy expressed in any generally public sense sends American (especially suburban American men) into a frenzy.
They don't want you to promote being nice, want you promote "being stronger". The world doesn't need to be less shitty to them, you need to be tougher. It's a bleak mindset, and they say "The Left™©®" is a bunch of amoral godless savages or whatever. It's just really wild to think "Be kind 🤗" is somehow some sort of vile indoctrination in the eyes of CHUDS.
It's so weird. A children's education program promoting kindness should be about as "apolitical" as it gets. It's just bonkers to me that real-ass adults are bugging out online over it. The mind palace of the CHUD must be a goddamn wasteland of Mad Max barbarism.
Anytime I hear "The economy is doing great" I parse it as "The king is so wealthy. The Lord of treasury boasts of his boundless coffers, he is rich, so I am too."
I know a lot of trans women who do consider being called 'dude' misgendering. I'm personally Fine with it (and calling people dude isn't a habit I've fully purged from myself) so I don't judge people too harshly for doing it, but being constantly referred to as one of 'the boys' makes playing multiplayer games really frustrating for me. Repeated misgendering is the reason why I really stopped playing multiplayer games with random people.
I see what you’re saying now. I feel you (not the corny liberal “I see you I hear you”, but in the comradely “I gotchu” sense). Appreciate you being cool with your explanation. I see where you’re coming from, I'll think this of this sort thing when talking to the trans friends.
(I have never seen an episode of Survivor (and similar shows), but I would imagine game-shows/challenge shows would probably still exist under socialism. People can and should have fun, and would imagine that sort of television would be still be made for people who want to partake. Though I imagine it would be better cause the people who know how to make good TV would ideally be more involved with the process rather than the suits)
It just seems like ideal show format from a Producer's standpoint. You don't have to pay for anything. You get the subjects to sign some weavers and everything else is just getting cameras, microphones, and locations setup. All of which they don't have to pay for, and can profit off of. They take zero risk get all the reward, like true slimeball capitalists do. Then they pat themselves on the back for their "revolution" in television.
There is really no "creative" vision for a reality show, they is no authorship or intent, it's really an exercise in "framing" which capitalists are sadly rather good at. They simply control what the eye of the camera looks at (because they own it) and they let the subjects do whatever its is the camera wants them to do. Reality shows are the "content" of television.
I think about how reality television has totally perverted the already deranged minds of Hollywood. I think due to the sheer cost-benefit of a reality show. They are dirt cheap to make, and you can get advertisers. It cost like $12 to make an episodes and they can get like $250 worth of ad buy-ins. Also all the labor is non-union, "unskilled" talent on screen, and you can probably edit and mix them in an afternoon.
Reality TV I would say is the "Capitalist's art". if that makes sense.
I'm not doing a bit, being genuine. I have would assume Phrases like "me and the boyz" being gender natural, I assume it's meant to be read as "me and my dumb friends".
I would assume dude/bro to be gender natural as well they seem to be applied to everyone. He/She/They/Them, the works.
Again just asking, not trying to be obtuse or weird or anything.
I thought "bro" was gender neutral, like "dude" or "boyz".
That makes sense. I should have put those context clues together.
As you continue to post OSTs for 209 days are there any trends you have noticed? Anything you have learned or experienced in this process? I'm just curious 209 days of posting good music seems cool, but also kinda hard. Just curious if there has been anything gained in this endeavor, and if not that's cool too.
I'd much rather see a world were people were working 4 hours a day and depressed than a working 8-10 hours a day and being depressed. If depression (short-term or long-term) is a natural part of being a person, I'd much rather people be depressed and not have to work so much.
From the article
"Meanwhile, although sentiment among Democrats has recovered to nearly where it stood before inflation began to rise in 2021, it remains well below its level at the end of the Obama administration. It may never return to its previous heights. Over the past decade, the belief that the economy is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful has become central to progressive self-identity. Among Democrats ages 18 to 34, who tend to be more progressive than older Democrats, positive views of capitalism fell from 56 to 40 percent between 2010 and 2019, according to Gallup. Dim views of the broader economic system may be limiting how positively some Democrats feel about the economy, even when one of their own occupies the Oval Office. According to a CNN poll in late January, 63 percent of Democrats ages 45 and older believed that the economy was on the upswing—but only 35 percent of younger Democrats believed the same. To fully embrace the economy’s strength would be to sacrifice part of the modern progressive’s ideological sense of self."