Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

How complacently naïve.

Have they stopped demonising minorities yet?

So you're pro-genocide?

He's more boring Boris Johnson

A dozen politicians, aides and officials — including some who have worked intimately with the prime minister in Downing Street — spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity, because the matter is sensitive, and described a leader defined primarily by his absence. Starmer, they say, has no ability to manage a team; an aversion to conflict; no guiding mission for power; no energy to drive change; little interest in people; and no interest in political strategy. While not all agree, some suggest Starmer just isn't willing to do the tough work a prime minister must — perhaps because he likes his time away from the office more than he should.

Those things you heard about Starmer being good? A consummate manager with a thirst for social justice? At the absolute minimum, a hard-worker? All fake news I’m afraid

Diane Abbott, "It's one thing to say as he insists on saying: nobody told me, nobody told me anything"

"The question is, why didn't the Prime Minister ask"

1974?

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Oh? Why's that?

He was also pretty clearly being groomed for a presidential run in a couple of decades.

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.

Great work to all the transphobic pickme gays because you're next on the menu

Makes sense for someone like him - his entire raison d'etre is "Britain doesn't need Europe (subtext: because we have America)" so an unreliable US means the EU suddenly becomes a lot more important to the UK.

He wants a stable USA because he doesn't want to be proven wrong.

"Boris Johnson except boring" seems like a pretty good summary.

"Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth," said one Labour insider. "Wrong. He's an asshole who's out of his depth."

Just a whole series of leaders here who don’t appear to have any plans except for “I’ll be in charge, I’ll announce the crackdowns and do the belligerent war speeches, our friends will get the plum contracts”. We should be in charge because we are smartest and best www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Yeah, it's that and for two reasons:
1) They want actually smart AI because they want autonomous (but programmed to be loyal) robots as servants/guards/etc.
2) They think the jig is up and LLMs are the last roll of the dice before everything comes undone.

Renewables are too cheap to ignore. People will mumble agreement with Trump & co. for now and put projects "on hold" then pick them right back up again once he's done.

Every superhero is a metaphor that fights other metaphors of the same clade

The Flash is a physics, who fights other physics (mirrors, aerodynamics, cold). Superman is a god, who fights other gods. That’s so good, but Batman is a fear who fights other fears. That’s always the easiest match to sell.

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Well yeah, he's being told to take the fall. Of course he'll say that now.

You're assuming Starmer's telling the truth about the civil service?

Interesting.

So both Labour and the Tories are bad. We know that.

What's your point here?

Proof?

Sir Kid Starver is not the country, no matter what you sadsacks think.

Sad little "my team good, other team bad" centrist loser.

I note that you did not answer either of the points I raised.

Why do you believe that the elites we have right now are not fascist?

Proof?

"That doesn’t sound much like a description of our own time. In the west, for instance, we have – at least until recently – lived through an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity."

lol fucking what