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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know Daniel somewhat from some years back, and calling him extremely toxic is just wrong. He is and has always been rather bad at communication under stress and is clearly on the spectrum in some way. Technically a genius person, but perhaps doesn't have the right set of qualities to lead things, except from a strictly technical pov.

Very good decision from him to withdraw from social media. I hope he manages to contribute in the future.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, looks like I wasn't banned before.

Oh well!

I sometimes wish getting a ban would mean that I wasn't allowed to read that shit either. That would help so much.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bluesky is experiencing a hockeystick scenario currently, apparently. Probably entirely coincidental.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l2ye7wjt662c

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not angry. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU IMPLY THAT I'M ANGRY

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Are there news sources that are moderate or conservative enough that this piece of news could be pushed into conservative subs? I'm perhaps banned from them all already but doesn't cost to try.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I guess I should a) read the article and b) have a slightly better outlook of the field I'm in.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Is that better or worse than IT and software projects in general? It sounds like it might be better.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I was surprised that I pretty quickly started to like the UX simplicity of Tesla. I thought I would've hated it, but they did a really good job there.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 months ago

I played it for a while. It was ok for the time, when there weren't many pseudorealistic tactical FPS games.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Respectfully, fuck this noise and take the thing seriously. The election is not decided until the votes are counted and the secessionists (if any) are shot or incarcerated.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The golden age of classical liberalism, when capitalism actually worked, the 1700-1800’s, more closely resembles what we would today call market socialism.

I don't think that's a valid historical claim. 1700s and 1800s were largely influenced by Adam Smith, with a limited level of governmental intervention and high amount of private liberties.

What western countries currently have is much more like market socialism than classical liberalism. If we take Elon Musk as an example, a large part of his success comes from governmental corruption: direct financial assistance (multiple billions of dollars), tax breaks and subsidies, and several government contracts. Even fucking Ayn Rand would call him a parasite.

I think the proper fix would be to return to actual classical liberalism and reject or at least limit the amount of market socialism. No idea how that could be done now that the problem has become so bad. A neoliberal revolution? lol.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Twitter isn't capitalism, nor is Elon Musk. He says "I love capitalism" in the same way as Emperor Palpatine says "I love democracy!"

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