During his tenure at EA, Unity CEO previously floated cash micro transactions to purchase in game ammo if a player ran out but could not find any.
Generally speaking it’s not hard to argue corporate leadership has lost the fucking plot altogether and are steering everything in to a stone cliff face.
Data driven fiat economics and viral media is being weaponized as a mathematical minority hallucinate they are some essential element of reality itself and not just a few meat bags LARPing hand me down spoken tradition.
It's like the classic startup ideas around "People need to organize their consumption of X, so if we just put in a button allowing them to buy X next to their lists they'll buy it from us!"
Missing the point that most people don't want that.
> Only fair way to do this is just start during the last hour of the work day.
Why is that the only way?
> Does everyone here despise casual time with their coworkers or what?
What’s with the trend to hypernormalize human agency and preferences?
Why are alternative approaches to life forbidden? There seems to be a religious like statefulness in people where we see a typical human and assume “they must be like me, and they’re being negative if that’s not true.”
Well, you don't want to ask people to donate time. You don't want to disrupt work too much either and it shouldn't be mandated. A loud mixer mid day for people who really can't spare the time can be distracting.
Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing.
He’s saying what you said; people write things, fuck off if you don’t like what they write, trans people, right wing people, liberal people, HN people.
And it’s being spun here as if he doesn’t get the point we all just absorbed reading his article.
> Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing.
Then Dawkins needs to get off Twitter, because it will never give him what he wants. He hasn't found a problem in society, he's found a problem on Twitter. As it stands, he's yelling at the ceiling because it's blocking his view of the sky. He needs to go outside.
You made a grammatically correct point but I’m not sure it’s logically sound.
Human Twitter posters are members of society. How is it possible to wave off Twitter as not a problem in society when Twitter users exist as part of society?
> Then Dawkins needs to get off Twitter, because it will never give him what he wants.
Don't we all need to do it?
> He hasn't found a problem in society, he's found a problem on Twitter.
The overlap between the two is large enough, that I don't think you can find a non-technical problem on Twitter that isn't also a problem within society itself.
> he's yelling at the ceiling because it's blocking his view of the sky.
Only when you take the quote out of context. For the majority of the article he focuses on gender. And in the very same paragraph as that quote comes from he invokes J.K. Rowling. It is entirely reasonable to assume that transgender people are "the oppressed minority" he's specifically talking about.
My takeaway is it reads like a scientific publication; here’s authors premise, and author walks through an example of what they mean.
The title and subtitle are generic enough to apply to any of the tribal bubbles bleating online about a sense of persecution; Gurner and the CEO class, right wingers, politicians.
Hallucinations of persecution are not just coming from the trans community. It’s just easier to write a coherent article using one example.
You’re being weird. I thought you hadn’t read the article when you asked “Why did you invoke gender?”. They’re just talking about the same thing the article is.
That’s what the entire article is about.
Trans people: “Please don’t be rude to me. This is how you can be nice”
Dawkins: “My being rude to you isn’t the same as violence.”
Trans people: “Ok… why would you feel the need to say that unless you wanted to be violent to us?”
Dawkins: “You’re calling me violent! That’s policing my speech which is oppression!”
It only takes a volcano, earthquake, tsunami, viruses (which are not living organisms) and other such events, for life not to be a leading cause of death in a region for a good while.
“No such thing as bad press.” has been a thing for a while now.
PR teams peddle memes that play up character; “that persons a maverick and rebel” or “taken out of context” without ever providing the context, or retconning the clearly defined context the original comment was in response to.
It’s a form of obscurantism; use money to flood airwaves with spin, exhaust people with it so they move on; it’s intentional manipulation of innate biological systems; we get tired of the same old forms of information: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen...
That’s not just a teen biology thing, it’s just adults get conditioned to grit and bear their daily grind or reality will implode. Anecdotally I know more people tired of their repetitive office job than in love with it.
We’re stateful beings and while media does not have perfect mind control of an individual, media is good at manipulating state of the aggregate such we just start telling each other shut up when we’ve had our fill.
“We’ll take our ball and go play somewhere else” is an empty threat.
300+ million people don’t just vanish because CEOs move their companies. The leverage they have is politically manipulated fiat money traditions.
The leverage the public has is experience doing all the work. Ignore the mathematical minority when they cry about gen pop and keep doing the work.
Corporates real role in civic life is distract people from marching on their state capital. They’ll play it because there is no moat against tens of millions with lots of guns.
No matter how morally right one side might feel, it won’t stop competition.
The USA and Detroit had unions and the industry and city became gutted. Tariff and import laws to stay afloat only go so far. There will be times industry will be gutted because there’s something better.
Hollywood seems poised to lose itself - whether AI, moral grandstanding, or strange rules with skin color quotas. The writers strike is going poorly, the general American populace has no sympathy for them, and the big money maker of super hero movies is losing steam.
That 71% figure comes from AFL-CIO which is a federation of labor unions. As your link shows, Gallop showed 67% and a decrease between support YOY. Its higher than a long term average of 62% and lower than all time high of 75% following WW2 when unions were in their heyday.
> As your link shows, Gallop showed 67% and a decrease between support YOY.
Which just brings it to where it was in 2021, which is the highest it's been since 1965?
> Its higher than a long term average of 62% and lower than all time high of 75% following WW2 when unions were in their heyday.
Is "following WW2" January of 1957 where it was 75% or August of 1957 where it was 65%. I'm thinking there's some margin of error in those 50s numbers.
That’s fair with regards to specifics, just pointing out the comment being wildly out of touch I replied to. Par for the course unfortunately.
Union support is substantially higher among younger cohorts, and ~2 million of the 55+ cohort ages out annually, so support should skew upwards over time. Progress in this regard is a function of time.
> Union support is substantially higher among younger cohorts, and ~2 million of the 55+ cohort ages out annually, so support should skew upwards over time. Progress in this regard is a function of time.
If this logic held, we in democratic countries would only have left-wing governments. Actually, people like unions less as they age for various reasons.
History suggests there are two paths; human social norms evolve or an angry mob chanting catechism only they care about starts a war.
The bits about Detroit and Hollywood are easily explained by generational churn of less media savvy, science minded people. Next generations are far more in tune with how the sausage is made; it’s people making biased political decisions. They know there is no divine mandate to preserve old norms.
The minutiae of history is hardly relevant as we have a completely different understanding of what’s possible due to technological advances. Trying to compare agrarian/early industrial culture and modern culture in the early years of tissue and limb regeneration therapy is false equivalence.
All human institutions that have survived are like a Ship of Theseus; everything has been replaced a few times. We just chant a few old sales pitches.
Religious groups everywhere chant about death for non-believers.
Right wing fringe threaten to attack progressives regardless of their gender.
Apparently not liking Israeli government makes one anti-semitic and inclined to reopen the death camps.
Don’t be so disingenuous; hate groups and those that marginalize the existence of others are all over.
Or stay disingenuous, stare at one burning tree ignoring the rest of the forest on fire.