jtrek

I'm tired of all these profiles of trump voters. Profile sane people.

Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would just behave slightly differently.

If people would just stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn't be a problem. it's not asking a lot. It's not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it!

But that's not how people work. We barely function at all.

People think "violence is never the answer" even when violence is being done to them. People are stupid.

I like to think in the future maga-hats will be fodder enemies in video games like Nazis. You can just kill them without remorse because they are scum.

From what I've been reading, they're so delusional they'd rather die than have their out-group have anything nice. They will never learn and they will never change. Not in bulk.

Individuals can be changed through exhausting and thankless work of their peers. In-group pressure is all that works.

Someone in another thread recommended the book "dying of whiteness" and it's absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They're happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.

I'm not here to watch a movie. I'm here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.

I'm sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That's the bulk of the content.

• They still put crap in the environment from the tires
• much of the energy powering them isn't green
• car culture still creates horrible spaces to live in
• crashes are still a common, ruinous, event
• doesn't solve DUI
• still is expensive to own, maintain, insure
• car culture promotes isolated, sedentary life, which is bad for physical and mental health

Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.

I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

Personally I'd rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.

Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”

This is basically it.

I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you're going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.

Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it's like mixing your food up on the plate and that's just wrong!

They really are like children

We are the weird ones. But the only thing that changes people mind is in-group pressure. If people trust you, they'll at least humor you. Plant those seeds.

I tried so hard to get things done at work at first. Everything just grinds along through meetings and "research spikes". Things that should take 30 minutes take months.

So, I guess that's what they want.

Except they also want us to use AI to go faster. The problem isn't generating code too slowly. It's the numbing void of meetings and "process".