This is actually not true. While BlueSky may not be the perfect site, it uses protocols that allow for federation. Thinking things have to be like Twitter is what Twitter wants.
@Untrustedlife This makes sense for people with waterfront properties, but Helene destroyed homes in Appalachia. The are hardly the bourgeoisie, and who could anticipate hurricane flooding in the mountains?
@JoshRaby@YouTube Speilberg had to work around the shark in Jaws, because the shark kept sinking and the animatronics kept breaking. If he'd had AI, they would've shown the shark.
@tragic_endings_ This implies these people are coming at this from some rational basis. I think the right taps into a fear that is irrational, but needs to be explained away. This is made worse by the fact that most people aren't doing as well as their parents did, hence the young people.
@PPdroptheT @Notintheface1 @tragic_endings_ I'm not saying this attitude is justified. Just the opposite. Pervasive misandry can be navigated by the Max Landis style softboy who is the real threat to women's spaces.
Twitter user: this director included a scene of a character eating a baby! That’s morally reprehensible!
Me: okay but that doesn’t mean the director thinks eating babies is good
twt user babyeater3000 #babyeatingtwt: yeah it depends on context
Me: yeah exactly thank y—hmm.
@GobaDev Rising costs often go hand in hand with risk aversion. Big budgets have to be justified to boards and investors, and they're not looking for a good game, they want a return.
@tragic_endings_ This is true, but it's also true that our culture promises the most to white men, and it's no surprise that white men have the hardest time coping when capitalism fails to deliver on those promises.
Elon has stopped engagement with this tweet because it is exposing his strategy, I’ve heard from 3 accounts that they aren’t able to retweet. I’ve been told he can’t stop screen shots however.