It’s whiny out of context. But imagine doing public speaking for 60 hours a week with audience members recording everything you say to try and twist it out of context. Then throw in the endless character assassinations, death threats, and the fact he covers genocides… I couldn’t do the job he does.

This quote is out of context. He explained that streaming itself isn’t what is hard, it’s having everything he says taken out of context, the endless death threats, and the constant character assassinations. Also, he was working 60-70 hour weeks.

There is a paradox with safety features that is really interesting: the safer you make roads, the more aggressive people drive. Better breaks led to people tailgating more aggressively. Better crumble zones has led to bigger and heavier cars. It’s almost like there is a threshold of risk that people naturally gravitate to and that maybe the best way to improve traffic safety is through education

Someone add this to the Black Book of Capitalism

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I can see how car dependency feels like a lesser issue, but car dependency destroys communities and even our shared humanity to some extent which in turn gives way to much larger problems

This is super dumb, it’s the same logic all those movie studios used to have the government crack down on piracy (destroying our rights in the process).

Absolutely. Adobe made billions. Even if they think they’re entitled to all our money, they aren’t. Being worth $140B when you want to be worth $200B is in NO way a loss of any money

Agreed, but technically Adobe didn’t lose any money. They’ve made billions. Could they have made more? Sure, that is always possible, but that isn’t the same as losing money

I like it, the best of both ideas

Or any car abandoned on the tracks becomes public property and is auctioned off to improve the trams

Okay, that’s fair. No one should be forced to vote for a genocide ever. And any system that tries to force people to vote for genocide to defeat fascism is not worth saving… But even on the issue of genocide, Democrats were the lesser evil. Democrats protested genocide while Republicans proudly cheer for it.

Tbf, our two party system is truly awful. We need to fight for a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation

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If we were more civically engaged as a population it would not have gotten this bad.

Yes and no. Yes, if everyone fought tirelessly for years to force our politicians to actually represent us then our system could be much better. But, our system is so deeply and unfathomably undemocratic / corrupt that it is cruel and unfair to put all the blame on the people. Humans are finite creatures so pouring more of our life into politics takes it from other aspects of our life. If everyone is over worked and exhausted then they often don’t have time for politics.

Without disinformation, people will naturally work to improve democracy which will eventually expand it to the economy (socialism), so disinformation is arguably a necessary evil to protect the capital class from democracy

Socialism is democracy expanded to the economy. And I hope we can all agree that democracy is better than feudalism / oligarchy. The unchecked power disparities that capitalism creates betray every ideal that democracy stands for

Only to a degree. A terrible system like chattel slavery or fascism is always going to be terrible. Likewise, the wealth inequalities that capitalism creates will likely regress a country into an Oligarchy if given enough time.

It sounds ridiculous, yes, but there are US software engineers who basically work for minimum wage full time doing freelance work because that is all they can find

I respect your experiences, but we have a lot of data that shows these cameras actually do save lives.

I don’t care if the kid threw a brick through my window, murdering a child is completely unforgivable and there is zero justification for it.

Imo, the only time shooting someone is even remotely justified is in the defense of someone’s life or as a very last resort when there are no other options.