Yeah, kinda funny how it's OK when there's a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC's bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

No, it gets much worse.

Yes, Eugene Debs, please.

• who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still..

I mean.. yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities.. then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don't understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.

But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they'll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.

Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI's instead.

Matrix

NYC and the costs are NOWHERE NEAR offset.

Then again, that is primarily because landlords are disgustingly greedy.

No, most people would not.

Most people would share, or hit a point and think "OK, that's enough for anything I really want personally... I'm gonna try and help out now.."

Nobody in their right mind should want a world where they are privately wealthy, but publically impoverished.
Because then, you have no security.
Someone will always be gunning for you.
You can stave it off by layering brute force, and laws, but there is no such thing as 100% secure. Eventually something will make it through, and wreak havoc. And because all you now care about, over everything, is whatever paltry "wealth" you've managed to secure, the catastrophe is magnified orders of magnitude. You have no real friends or community to turn to, nobody who would support you if you didn't have the most, and the rules didn't make you "king" because of it.

It's a sickness.

I wish they'd give SteamVR on Linux a long overdue upgrade.

And by upgrade I mean "Make it look like it's a project which is even alive"

STALKER for that horror undercurrent, Deus Ex Mankind Divided probably has the best atmosphere of any game I've ever played and the fact the franchise was abandoned for that marvel brain-rot is a crying shame.

I've already decided it is, so I don't care what they say. I also refuse to purchase games with digital restrictions management like this - franky, these days I have better things to do with my time.

So far the atmosphere here seems far more cooperative and optimistic... like a certain other place circa 2008.

I'm liking it, it's a breath of fresh air and I'd forgotten that smell.

@TheDude@sh.itjust.works - Keep commercial interests / astroturfing etc. off this place like our lives depend on it!