I find this stuff so interesting, but there are never enough details to satisfy me when I read these kinds of news stories. It really tickles that part of my brain that just enjoys finding optimizations and efficiencies, but applied to a mass political movement and a people’s democracy. How can we ensure that all parties are involved, engaged, and that their ideas and concerns reach a national stage and inform broader changes? How do we bridge the gap between local, regional, and national characteristics and meet the demands of all three spheres? This level of organization sounds interesting, and I’d love to read about the details.

We need to start supporting game developers directly, cut out the parasitic middleman, because sure as shit you’re not supporting your favorite games when they take an enormous 30% revenue cut just for their monopoly.

Steam needs to be nationalized and transformed into a platform of the people! One means of gaming distribution to rule them all—an egalitarian platform that delivers only the highest quality button pushing and finger clicking! No longer shall our immaculate gamer proletariat suffer under the blazing hot sun of the capitalist monopoly that is Steam, and instead, they shall level up in the shade of a truly revolutionary gaming delivery mechanism! Socialism, with gamer characteristics!

LOL I love that they are trying to keep the MS in the name, when that has its roots in its initial partnership with Microsoft. I’m not sure what the point is even keeping it at this point, since NBC is the more recognizable of the two parts of that name. I wish I could have seen the focus groups they went through to come up with such an awful new brand name.

I mean, I’m a “dumb, lazy, stupid, and propagandized” American, and I actually enjoy reading theory. This is from somebody who used to tell people, “I’m not a reader”. Most of that stems from the fact that I went nearly 28 years without knowing I had treatable ADHD, and then another 10 years to realize America is built to keep people like me from getting the help I needed.

Lazy is a word I also can’t fucking stand, because it’s a whesel word; it’s not a real description of the reasons why people behave how they do, and it allows you to avoid doing the real work of actually getting to the root of people’s behavior, be it an individual or a group.

My great grandfather lived in a place where they pushed the switch and he had to flee the country.

Everyone who has ever pushed the switch has failed!

Turning the nob just a little to the right is just like pushing the switch actually.

Only authoritarian dictators and totalitarian governments push the switch, is that what you want?

Listen, the only way we can push the switch is by having continuous switch pushing.

Only the third world can push the switch, anyone else trying to do that is a nob turner in disguise.

One day aliens will arive and push the switch for us.

“Getting Your Shit Together” is another project on the pile of hobby projects you hyper-focused on for a week, bought half the required components for, then got bored of due to lack of immediate results or progress, or some unseen complications.

My wife gets more use out of my whiteboard then i do at this point.

Here is a good one for you:

I have an app that prompts me to do things every day, like take my meds.

I have to click Yes or No on the prompt to clear it.

Some days, ill take my meds but not clear the prompt.

Then ill see the prompt later that same morning and wonder “Shit… Did I take my meds, or did i forget to clear the prompt…”

I always err on the side of “I took my meds”.

I support the One NYC Principal.

Also turn this into a table you can roll d6s on and you have a nice character background chart.

Im playing on hard mode, Billionaire Socialist Podcaster.

Lol so mamdani has what, -30 points out the gate?

Good luck, steam has a lot of bullshit in it (looking at you market place) but it also has stuff i can’t imagine another company getting right, like steam workshop.

Every time i take the kiddo to dance class. He’s supposed to jump to but he always leaves me hanging.

I will push .reg files if I have to! I’ve gotten by this far with out needing intune.

What’s a good primer or introduction to eco-marxism?

Hey are you me?!

81 is young for a US Congressperson.

Chat is this real?

Yeah I also agree with this.

I would argue the American Left doesn’t include the Democratic Party and anyone running within it. The “left” in this country broadly does not engage in electoralism and anyone calling themselves the left and running as a Democrat will always show themselves to be an opportunist. Which i think makes it harder to see the activities of the actual left organizing in the country.

What America is going through right now is a transition from clumsy disorganized fascism to “the trains run on time” fascism. A return to liberalism with fascist characteristics.