blackbelt352

joined 1 year ago
[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Because they have lots of money and influence among the 18-35 demographic. Would I prefer if news corps didn't cover their every move and thought? Yeah I would, but unfortunately news featuring Musk and Swift gets clicks which drives advertising.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yup the flour is very likely to contain e coli. The eggs are still a risk with salmonella but the e coli is a much greater and more potent risk

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Personally I originally went to Discord because it was the alternative to skype which was increasingly becoming shittier and shittier when Microsoft bought it.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well... were not on the other side of this yet. Were still in the sort of early 1930s Germany era where the real problems people face haven't gotten all that much better, and the fascists have made many decently successful smaller attempts at power but haven't quite succeeded in that big push for power. like the stuff that is planned in project 2025.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I don't think fascism is capable of producing competent longterm leadership. Like the ideology preselects for loyalty above all, it's rabidly anti-intellectual and scorns anyone perceived as being an intellectual elitist. It's purely emotion driven and requires ever escalating emotional rhetoric to keep the based angry at external all-powerfully weak enemies (lazy mexicans stealing your jobs, sneaky jewish bankers crashed the entire economy, thuggish high school dropout gangbangers in the inner city are criminal masterminds responsible for all the drugs flowing through rural communities who would overrun everything if they were smart enough to unify, take your pick of contradictory scapegoat.)

That's not to say incompetence means harmlessness, there's a lot of blood that has been spilled throughout history due to incompetence.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I see, so the angle you're going for is that basically hiring practices don't prioritize the skills needed for backend and think frontend devs can handle full stack. Even then the front-end teams do know that the backend stuff is important even if they don't have a full understanding of the scope of complexity that goes into the nitty gritty of backend dev.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, you're not wrong but I'm not sure what you're trying to get at. Yeah front end and backend development are very different skillets, but my point is the people working and coding and making the game generally do actually know what they're doing, but its middle managers are given orders from on high by execs, most of whom probably haven't touched a video game ever in their lives, keeping the board of directors happy with quarterly profit increases.

I wasn't talking about the horizontal divide between front end and back end devs, but the vertical divide between management/executives and the devs and techs.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Its probably just... a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.

So a Group Hug of Death.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I mean, the devs and server techs know what's going on, its the execs and middle managers that need to get a live service on a shoestring budged to make the shareholders happy that you made them 25% more profit than last quarter.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was paraphrasing but yeah. Nothing will surprise you if you know how your enemy operates.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately US Billionaires have a lot of societal impact outside of the US. They don't care about the arbitrary borders that bound us plebians, they have enough money that the borders functionally don't exist.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

While more progressive people have recognized the pointlessness of gendering military service and playing football, conservatives haven't and its something we can use to our advantage. Like the entire calling them weird thing. It's literally the kind of insult a 5 year old would come up with but they're absolutely blowing gaskets over it and it's hilarious.

Know your enemy and you'll have the advantage.

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