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[–] commander@lemmy.world 56 points 7 hours ago

I have never met a person that thought boneless chicken could have bones in it. Asshole judges

[–] commander@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They could probably get away with a PS6 that's a PS5 Pro raster equivalent, improved ray tracing, and a modern AMD CPU and a bump in memory. Whatever can be sold for $500 in 2-3 years. Switch 2 is the baseline.

Microsoft can be twice as powerful, unless they had a multi year string of incredible exclusives, they're not doing better than this gen and
regardless they don't do exclusives anymore

[–] commander@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The BioShock games have a pretty timeless art style and don't have jank twin stick controls that devs were still figuring out ps2 and back. Water and ray tracing improvements would probably enhance the mood even further but I don't think modern gamers new to BioShock would think it as too ugly and distracting because so. I've had no appetite for remake 360/PS3 era games unless they never released on PC

[–] commander@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I learned that. It was the whole chain to get to that point and how that organization even came to be and how they came to be and how it's regulated that was a bit disgusting with how make shift it seemed to me. The whole stack all came off as a multi decade saga of stapling org on top of org until we came to the present of things mostly work but it's a bit fragile with a mix of public and private regulators trying to hold things together and make old paper systems work with modern technology

[–] commander@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It would but Trump right now is Erdogan-lite when it comes to control over all the different government departments and agencies and putting out bad data to try to make their policies not look so terrible in practice.

Why this will ultimately fail. There are many huge financial corporations in the world where a major part of their ability to be successful is having accurate data. More accurate data than their competitors so they employ their own data collection and analysis teams and don't fully rely on governments and other corporations to be truthful

Then companies that want investment/loans go to these big finance/banking companies and these finance companies have their own data on companies that want a loan or they'll require these potential debtors provide a look into their books and the bank will want accurate data.

If the potential debtors gives bad data, are all the retailers, shipping companies, packaging companies, etc all providing bad data. If the states labor department is underreporting unemployment, are the public benefits departments reporting bad data? How about independent non-profit food banks and other community organizations.

Every countries government in the world would want accurate data from countries and companies around the world too so they can develop policy with good data in mind with a mind for how global trade activity may be heading towards

Trying to lie about finance and labor statistics at the major corporation and national government level in the modern world is stupid

[–] commander@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing they haven't fully siloed the Canadian supply chain from the US one, it may not be worth it yet to fully silo them off onto separate shipping, packaging, and support channels

[–] commander@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I remember seeing a graphic that was about every layer of companies that are interacted with when you use a credit card. Must have been at least like 6 layers of companies each taking a fee from a company that took fees higher up the chain closer to the consumer. Similar when I read an explanation of, when you buy a stock through a company like Fidelity where is the stock actually held and that was layers of public/private companies/corporations

[–] commander@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Microsoft is really bad at first impressions. Like that initial Halo Infinite preview and the early Avowed preview with the skeletons and weird/lacking shadows. Or being shocked that the public didn't like Redfall and that it was comically buggy. Obsidian is perennially solid, but Microsoft is at least a brand anchor with how they can't seem to ever have foresight for any PR issues with their decision making

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Haven't tried this yet. Tried Pluvia which this forks off months ago. I remember getting a game running. I think it was Eastward. Worked fine enough but decided to not spend anytime on it and wait until things got a lot better. Pretty sure others failed. I'll try again eventually. Only care for installing games from Steam. Tried plain Winlator with a repack and that was too annoying to keep doing for any game

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would better if that came off paragraph after but instead they dipped into simultaneously dunking on individual efforts to build up poorly detailed communal efforts. Spends more time complaining about peoples individual efforts than explaining the how to's and benefits of communal efforts

When all your friends are going to a festival, are you really going to opt out because the event requires you to use the Ticketmaster app (because Ticketmaster has a monopoly over event ticketing)? If so, you're not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.

If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable – and you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification.

He should focus better on making his argument more tight and focused with minimal collateral damage. How does using Linux, Signal, Mastodon isolate people. People can have all that installed and more. Terrible examples.

Yes recycling is mostly green washing as it gets dumped/burned elsewhere. Why try make people feel like they were fools for sending things to recycling. They tried.

Not effective writing, not effective communication, not effective persuasion and so far in this thread he's not even hitting with leftist let alone centrist and conservatives. People are focusing on the hot take because the writer thought it'd be smart to frame his wants with a hot take about the individual actions people take as weak. Frame with click bait so get lambasted for being a click bait artist

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I read his article and won't read his book. I won't reach out to him. If he wants to engage better with people, he should try not starting with belittling people's efforts that they can do in there individual lives of which doesn't preclude anything they can do communally. I don't start with environmental or moral vegetarians and vegans with, "what you're doing will change nothing and not worth the effort. Join a animal rights organization. What you're doing now is weak." Just start with saying join an animal rights group and why they should framed not why what they're currently doing is a waste of effort but what else they could also be doing and how that can be effective

[–] commander@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Tldr; Join physical movements like a union to focus on actual laws being created and/or enforced while shitting on people for doing anything that else that may be positive


Also tries to sell their book bragging about how early reviews are raving about it. Provocative for clicks to say obvious shit that they're selling. "Bruh, join a union. We need to organize a popular political party. "

Also their conclusion doesn't read to me like it actually goes against personal conscious consumption choice. Like saying join a movement as if a movement doesn't start with a bunch of individuals making choices about how they spend their time, use their money, speak their opinion, etc and figuring out all these individuals have a lot in common and have a common point to organize around

Article is like, "ya Linux, Signal, Mastodon, etc. But they're all niche and you as an individual make so little difference so join a movement."

Linux is probably the most used kernel for operating systems in the world. Not a good example. Backend operating system for the Internet. Signal is far more popular than a decade ago. Don't know about Mastodon. Regardless if people aren't being encouraged to engage in more private and/or decentralized Internet, why the fuck would they be engaged enough to go to some political meetup about something they don't individually engage with and develop personal interest towards. Collective action starts with developing individual interests that converge to a collective group of individuals with shared interests.

Telling people to join movements while telling people, well actually not those movements

Also shit on people's good causes and their small actions and not realize that those little things keep people engaged and they're potential conversation points to bring people into more direct organized action.

Then after complaining about small niche movements that apparently won't amount to anything long term, they point out small niche organizations that for some reason will grow and amount to something long term for reasons I imagine being that they care more about those than using decentralized and open source software (services)

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