> "I would argue that the countries that are going to be most successful are countries that have a shrinking population," said Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. "And the social issues around the replacement of people with machines is actually going to be easier to address because they will more quickly develop robotics/AI, transform productivity, create more wage inflation, and replace people with machines."
@mia@icedquinn@Mr_NutterButter This argument ignores that certain nation states and corpos are responsible for the majority of pollution and waste affecting our ecosystems
as we speak american and chinese corporations are literally practicing mass scale extractvism and pollution in Africa and Latin America, but nobody is going to talk about that or the fact that there are densely populated cities such as NYC and Los Angeles
@arcana@sun the only person I was ever truly gagged at and surprised about, along with many other women (who will never admit it) is Nikki Tutorials and she handled the blackmail well.
I think she was able to blend in because of the drag queen makeup she helped normalize alongside other gay men like james charles or manny mua and she was big and tall, but apparently dutch women are tall. I never realize how big she is in person because of her first person videos and such.
@sun@arcana I do not reference celebrities when it comes to passability tbh, but I get what you are saying. This is what I actually mean as indicators:
adams apple
hairlines
hands and feet, head size and other dimorphic traits like shoulder width and hips
bad fashion sense calls attention very quickly more than any of the above
having obvious injections or fillers in your ass that are in no way naturally proportional and proceeding to lie about it (it was so bad another trans mutual even said it was liess)
male dominated hobbies such as programming, a lot of the time (the stereotype is painfully true don't come for me lol)
@arcana@sun lmao its so specific but ngl a lot of women do this shit in general (esp celebrities) but if you are trans, yeah lying about fillers and plastic surgery is more noticable
Having second thoughts about proton drive. The app is way more invasive than I would expect from a company like them. Its running some kind of service to hook into file calls on the OS level. I get why they're doing it but I think its causing actual problems. When I say "quit app" I expect it to stop running like nextcloud does.
@icedquinn I just don't get what happened and why it was such a big deal. I was also very young when it happened, like maybe around 10. All I know is zoe Quinn sucked someone's dick or something ? Then men blamed feminism for everything. Idk the details
That entire argument of ethics of games journalism was so fucking stupid. There was never anything remotely ethical about game’s journalism it was literally just commercials. No one called out the real issues like EA buying up indie dev groups and cannibalizing and gutting them into shells of their former selves for what basically amounted to pocket change or the danger of micro transactions and DLC
I don’t goobergate 2 would make much of a difference. Most of the male gamers are malding over what they deem as “politics” in their games. Politics to them is a vague repellent to them that could mean a lot of things but from what I noticed is any kind of reference to mainstream political happenstances which is retarded because most of kojima’s games are literally just that lmao
The borderlands series cashed in on diversity/“sjw” rhetoric and made tons of money despite the games not being that good but so many normies bought them and liked them a lot despite the additions of they/thems, and corny ass storylines about the evils of misogyny and racism
I like how people focus on overwatch 2 censoring the girls and not that activsion-blizzard-Microsoft scammed a lot of people out of $60 on a free to play game promising them a story mode campaign that got canned
EA canceled alice maddness 3 too, I'm still pissed.
@Moon@icedquinn@aven@ic3l9 what is considered DEI at this point because there are plenty of games that have lefty politics and nobody is complaining about the fact that the entire premise of MGS is anti-nuke. the only major thing i can think of recently is TLOU2 but that was also attributed to awful writing and the gore devs watched.
@icedquinn if you have ever been to the east coast you realize they are super paranoid about another 9/11. Anything like suspicious bags or behavior will warrant a response like this.