I dunno, there some necessary context here. I think Requiem for a Dream is a better movie then Iron Man, but I sure as hell wouldn’t pick it as the only movie I’m ever going to watch again.

You don’t think voting demographics would change radically if people could go out and vote on legislation directly instead of a bribed politician voting for them?

Representative Democracy*

Alts aren’t throwaway accounts though

Am I so ruined by current events that genuine hope sounds like sarcasm?

I hope it helps too.

I definitely agree that they do stupid things because of short term gains and narcissism. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they’re just grumpy bosses mad that it’s harder to boss people around.

I also worry though about portraying executives as buffoons. Most of their short term decisions that look stupid make a lot of sense when you look at it through the lense of them just not caring that it makes life worse for other people. It’s honestly probably a combination of a bunch of dumb and greedy things.

Sure, but if everyone who can goes remote, all that rent money dries up. Most also don’t directly own buildings to rent, but rather have investments in companies that do. If those other companies go under then they lose money on investments. I don’t have any inside knowledge though, this is just the conclusion I’ve been able to come to. Other than just being control freaks.

I don’t think there’s some shadowy Illuminati organisation behind it. They are pretty blatent when they manipulate things.

That said, I do think there are a lot of investors and analysts that have come to the same conclusion and are talking to each other and passing info to their clients.

A lot of large companies and executives have investments in real estate. If everyone stopped using offices all of a sudden, they would lost a bunch of money because the space wouldn’t be in demand anymore.

They’re going to have to buy me a car and pay for gas and parking before I’ll take a job where I’m full time in the office

A nothingburger so stale and rotten that they’ve called a health inspector

TLDR: there are still hundreds of absentee ballots that need to be counted, so this story is nothing

I haven’t looked into kbin much because it was described to me as “you can look at Reddit style posts and twitter style microblogs on one place.”

I fucking hate microblogs.

I told my mother she was a terrible person because she said she was going to eat at a restaurant because I told her the owners were transphobes.

She got angry, we haven’t really talked since. I’m not sorry.

I get the impression that the author doesn’t think radical is a dirty word.

That said, I agree. As another poster said, those policies are progressive, but not radical. Radicals think the system is bad and needs to be replaced by something else. Moderates think it’s working fine or it can be fixed.

I mean, he doesn’t follow the trappings of a comic book super hero (don’t @ me about Star Wars comics). He has all the powers and motivations of a super hero though. At the end of the day, Iron Man is just a rich guy, what makes him a super hero is the framing of his media.

I was there 15 years ago as well. There were no Shapiros or Petersons because online video was still in its infancy, but a conservative upbringing and online spaces definitely pushed me down the path that the author writes about.

I changed when I went to university as well. It wasn’t liberal arts courses that got me out, it was simply being around a wide variety of different peoples and ideas. Universities don’t teach you to be “woke,” it forces you into contact with people outside your bubble.

Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Friends, and the Office

All three in combination will be the future

That’s my point, the algorithm doesn’t understand context.