To add to this, the game industry has had year after year of record-breaking layoffs worse than the 2008 Recession for about 5 years in a row now. They over-hired during the Pandemic, expecting things to not drop off afterward, but this is way beyond that. The big companies are devouring each other and destroying studios they bought for large sums of money only a couple of years later, bleeding talent and creativity out of the workforce along the way as there are too many people laid off and too few jobs. Most of them will never work in the industry again.
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I hate to say this, but you could go back 40 years and this would still be true. 6 years ago, TACO was still in office.
Exactly what I was thinking. The most effective way to fight bigotry is through lived experience, and that's one of the reasons that it's such a huge problem in the US outside of the cities. Most Americans will never leave their state and will die within 25 miles of where they were born.
Fun fact for the MiG-25: The engine lifespan is that low because it literally uses a pair of cruise missile engines. They're built to be used once. I can't speak for the MiG-31, though.
Unfortunately, this isn't how it usually goes, and few people are good enough at that to convince somebody. Most arguments end with neither side convincing the other of anything important. Humans are emotional creatures, and feelings often are justified into "facts" even long after they've been outright proven false.
People have tried this with Republicans for at least the past 20 years, and look at where we are now. All it did was allow the racists to couch their open bigotry behind the lie of "it's just a joke," and respond to any real pushback against their hate with "so much for the tolerant left."
They're a cult, and there's one depressing fact about cults: the deeper in someone is, the harder it is to pull them out - and after a certain point, it's almost impossible. There's a sunk cost fallacy to their beliefs that becomes harder and harder to shake because to admit that they're wrong would be to admit that their actions aren't justified and their core beliefs are bad.
My point was that that also applies to the military. Just because they have a duty to uphold the Constitution doesn't necessarily mean that they will perform that duty.
The swearing-in of the President starts with something very similar, if not identical.
And yet, here we are.
Personal responsibility only gets you so far when the big money actively fights against it. I think the answer lies in both holding companies like Google to higher standards as well as improving access to the knowledge we need to navigate what the world has become. It doesn't help anybody when the FBI has recommended people use an ad blocker for over a decade but nobody has ever heard them say it.
Yeah, the better idea is to rally the population into a general strike (wishful thinking, I know). 3.5% is the magic number for how much of the population is needed to bring the entire economy to a screeching halt through economic violence.
I think this law requires you to upload a photo of your ID and says that it's the website's fault if underage people use it and they face a hefty fine. It's a lot more than the standard "click to pinky promise that you're definitely 18" because PornHub already has that.
I guess us LGBTQ and black/brown Americans should just put a bullet in our heads right now, then.
Honestly, probably both. The fact that stuff isn't being deleted anymore and that they make carve-outs in the rules for hate against specific minorities would embolden people to post more hateful content.