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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It is plainly fuckin stupid. But it is the republican way.

    I think a lot of the people who don’t “favor republican politics” have a solid understanding of that platform and see the harm it causes.

    Like actual harm.

    My mom was laid off over 10 years ago by the decision of a republican governor. The ability for schools to feed poor kids was more or less cut off (i was one of those poor kids. They scaled back 21st century & state SNAP; thankfully my parents were able to achieve upward economic mobility before conservatives in indiana really squashed that.)

    Mitch Daniel’s claim to fame before Purdue was closing an orphanage. Thanks to economic uncertainty surrounding conservative leadership it is likely Purdue’s semiconductor manufacturing facility will not take off.

    Mike Pence helped to make sure more cases of AIDS would develop in his state.

    This place isn’t an echo chamber because “orange man bad” or “mike braun stole my elephant ear at the state fair” but because many of us critically analyze the impact of conservative policy and understand the harm it causes.

    I’ll be less biased against the conservative cause when they stop going after personal liberty and slowing down the economy so their favorites can get richer. Mike Braun’s leadership is hurting farmers and decreasing Indiana’s ability to make sure industrial waste doesn’t end up in the water table.

    I’m sure there’s more they are making suck but i was only involved at Purdue for the last decade, and family is in DNR - at least for now.

    I wanna empathize more with the conservative struggle but i don’t see how any aspect of life is improved by forcing us all to be a certain religion while ensuring we put women and minorities back at a disadvantage.

    Idk Indiana republicans suck. The progressives in indiana worked hard to make sure i could afford to pay taxes but i get the gist the republicans would never have liked me given I was on welfare growing up.






  • Tbh it’s just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there’s eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn’t ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.

    When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.

    We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.







  • I have 3 siblings, for a grand total of 6 in my family. Only my mom and I have passports. At present, despite all of us being born in the states and naturalized, only two of us have passports. So only two of us have standardized federal IDs that prove our citizenship. RealIDs are becoming more common, but nowhere near as common as a standard state driving license which does not prove citizenship.

    So the requirement is going to require people to grab their birth certificates and social security cards which are not always available to every family member.

    For example, my parents live out of state and have all the important family documents so 2 of siblings are screwed unless they make sure to grab those relatively sensitive documents and be prepared to carry them out and about then hang on to them for several hours.

    It’s impractical, and it wasn’t a problem for the years leading up to my birth (96), wasn’t a problem in '00 for bush, or '04 for bush, or '08 and '12 for Obama. It’s suddenly become a problem because the GOP is getting called out for election shenanigans and they generally know unless they can make voting more difficult or less representative (through gerrymandering and goofy election maps) they will lose.

    It does sound reasonable, but the existing mechanisms of enforcement and fraud detection have been, and continue to be, robust enough to keep voter fraud from having any meaningful statistically significant impact.

    It only stands to make voting more difficult for most people.






  • That’s just…that’s just not how this stuff works m8. By and large no, “video game workers” are not gig/contract most of the time. It does happen, especially at lower levels; but it’s foolish to believe anywhere close to the majority of layoffs come from contracts. Those often have built in buy-outs anyways - this is talking about the full time artists/staff/programers who are always working on something

    You don’t honestly think Infinity Ward laid people off after not getting the contract for Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) following Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) do you? Or consider the time between Naughty Dog’s Crash Team Racing (1999) and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001) - That’s two years. Two years without releasing a game, yet they didn’t lay anyone off?

    Buddy, there is always a next project. Project Managers will fill every single artist’s calendar of deliverables for supporting the current game (someone has to make DLC, though it is sometimes outsourced) and any future projects. They also do buy assets and employ contract work in these domains, but again, it’s small in the grand scheme of things.

    Programmers will always be optimizing the engine, working on patches for an updated build, or again working on the next game because every business worth it’s salt isn’t going to fire experienced staff in preparation for the next project as demanded by the need for more returns

    Unless other economic factors change - a company may choose to engage short term solutions to keep profits looking healthy. If it’s cheaper to lay people off then it is to compete on merit (make a new game) why would you from a business perspective?

    These companies are run by bean counters; not artists and devs anymore. Almost every game company was started by people who wanted to make good games, and now these same companies are laying people off regardless of their position in the market.

    Idk. Games come out way too frequently to support the idea that these people are getting laid off in between projects. It doesn’t add up. These layoffs are very recent in the grand scheme of the game industry.