They also adjustment in the business of throwing away money on PR nightmares…

The math doesn’t math here. Oil barrel prices are very low, so low they’d be investing billions to lose money operating them

Who gives a fuck about them really. Whether they die or live in exile, I’m cheering for the people of Iran

They’ve been fighting for freedom for a very long time, I hope they finally get it

Okay, let’s say you have a fuel injected car, but instead of using the 02 sensor to decide the fuel air mixture, it just squirts the same amount of gas every time.

The hardware might be able to achieve 400 hp, but the software means it only ever achieves 50 hp

It’s like that. The software drives the hardware. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, the software is the brain of the operation - if the software doesn’t know how to utilize the hardware properly, you’re going to have piss poor performance

Driver’s? They literally drive the hardware your computer is using

Yes, they don’t obey him, but he has a lot of soft power. Less so in America where money is the primary religion for most, but in South America? His voice has real weight

Well put

How does it break down? It seems like it would work normally, if a little strangely

Understandable, but it’s something to work towards. Talk to people you know about it, you’d be surprised how opportunities come out of the woodwork

It will take time, you can either go to networking events to try to speed it up or keep chugging away in a sustainable fashion in the meantime

Oh trust me, it gets so much worse than the imperialism…

Their plan was basically like “what if tech-bros min-maxed absolutely everything, North Korea style?”

You don’t understand… If the slop is inoffensive, it’ll pour in everywhere. Your culture will drown in it, one day you will wake up and realize ads have decided how you should properly interact with your family

It’s good that you don’t like it. That means you have something to protect, you still have something you value

Do you understand how much Americans hunger for culture? It’s not because we don’t have it, we have hundreds of cultures. It’s because it has all been mixed together into inoffensive slurry that leaves us feeling empty

The important and unimportant are all mixed up and drained away, and it’s not the important things that remain. It’s the things that profit someone

And I’m saying you don’t actually want that. I’m pretty confident you want to keep your culture

The way you lose it is by slop worming it’s way in. The slop is inoffensive and tasteless

Just laugh at the bad localization, don’t try to fix it. It’s a bullet that missed you by a mile

If you haven’t noticed, culture radiates from the US, and all our traditions were made up recently

This wasn’t even a thing made to be shared. This is a stupid little toy website made for children

If you value your culture, make art about it.

Don’t blame our art for not including your culture, are you asking to have your culture assimilated???

Because that’s where that road leads. If American culture gains a deep understanding of German culture, that just means the empty corpo-slop will overtake the things you find special

Find a partner. It can be a person, it can be a small business that might be interested in selling your software… You need at least one partner

You could try to take out a business loan or keep grinding as a side hustle, but if you don’t know how to build a product (and I don’t mean architecture) you need someone who does

And I say it as someone who has come to that realization the hard way

You’d think so, but no. Project 2025 can be traced back through the heritage foundation to the Technocracy movement, which was a bunch of proto-tech bros like Elon’s Grandpa

They thought they were the smartest little guys and so they should control all aspects of society. They wanted to carve the world up into economic zones, and they wanted America’s to be from the Panama canal to the artic, including Greenland, so they could control shipping through the artic and across the Atlantic

They were really big about shipping lanes, which is why South Africa randomly comes up too

They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree

The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.

Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all

Let me break this down real simple.

Everyone likes boobies. Literally all humans, even gay men and straight women, find them asthetically pleasing

The women bouncing around are complaining about their shirts. They don’t feel pretty, they feel creeped out

Don’t fucking drive them out… Are you insane? Let them pick their own shirts. They’re still going to want to look pretty. Stop making it weird

All you need to do is give them autonomy. That’s it. That would make it positive for everyone involved

But that’s exactly what’s happening here. The women in question are saying “I’m uncomfortable”

So now we don’t go “okay, but just make sure you stay fun to look at”

What we do is say “that’s not good, let’s give you agency over the situation so you can show off what you’re comfortable with”

The men just move around less, their plays are tighter and more rehearsed looking, but I just don’t find that very interesting. I don’t really care if you can perfectly spike the ball to the optimal place every time and they can recover and do the same until someone messes up the sequence

But women’s volleyball is full of movement. It doesn’t look rehearsed, the teams look coordinated. They’ll pass the ball around while they prepare and then suddenly surge towards the net for a spike/to block the spike

The intensity ebbs and flows, and it’s unpredictable when it’s going to happen

Most women enjoy being beautiful, and there is no downside so long as people aren’t taking it to crazy lengths.

When the women you’re looking at are saying “I’m uncomfortable with this”, you’ve taken it too far

It’s not that hard buddy. They’re people, they can talk

I like women’s volleyball. It’s genuinely better than men’s, it’s way more dynamic

I’m not going to lie about how my friends convinced me to go initially, but it’s one of the few sports I actually find interesting to watch