Or a batshit one. It could just as easily be something like “well of course you need a couch gun. What if someone breaks in while you’re watching TV? Child proof safes take too long to open”

I hate that I’ve been places I can see this happening. And they’d all call themselves responsible gun owners because they tell their kid where the gun is and not to touch it

Yeah I remember when he was a big name doing that shit. Then he recently popped up talking linux. And in between it became a somewhat regular occurrence in my country for people to march with swastika flags. For all I knew it was edgy jokes from an era where fascism was still outside the Overton window, or he just became a low key supporter of modern fascism but without any stunts big enough to get noticed

To deny bodily autonomy is to engage in brutality. And I’m sorry UK you have a bad record on this specifically.

Yeah I’m increasingly unwilling to put up with subscriptions that arent reasonable. If you’re selling a piece of software, I’ll consider paying for it. I love foundry for that, its a vtt that I bought and it just works. They update it, but I don’t expect or demand updates beyond keeping it working. And if they were to offer more features in the future with a new model I’d consider paying for the new model.

And labour has decided to pick up as yet another tory government

So danegeld, surely that’s never backfired

Yeah comparing violent video games and propaganda for violent misogyny is obtuse

Yeah ultimately the reason misogyny needs to be taken so seriously is shit like this and the overturn of women’s rights in some countries.

That said, misogynistic violence is not new and it hasn’t been dormant. You have incidents like the shit what’s his name, the incel with a crush on his sister who shot a bunch of people in California like a decade ago and you can draw a clear line from the École Polytechnique massacre through it to here with many other stops along the way.

Tate is telling boys and young men that they aren’t real men unless they feel entitled to women and act on it. Incels had similar entitlement leading to Jordan Peterson’s “enforced monogamy” stance.

Yeah best get building your rainforest back up

Do you have a problem with the language that’s half l and y?

I’m not a Brit but I’ve eaten the same sandwich at lunch every day for years. It’s relatable to just decide “this is what I eat at work”

Yeah he’s a relative who started as a handyman and kept investing in rental property.

I don’t know why they seem to think they are. Yes some landlords do labor, but that labor is to maintain and improve value of their income from owning things.

This conversation is enlightening to me. See I just always assumed business people understood how engineering works, but were being obtuse to keep us on track or were just looking at the financial spreadsheets. But no it seems some people genuinely don’t understand that sometimes you spend a lot of time on things whether or not it goes anywhere because if you don’t you don’t develop any products or solutions.

If I owned a multimillion dollar company, probably yeah. There’s a limit but for a groundbreaking company the RCA labs are more a warning of “but they actually have to complete projects at some point and have direction” than a “everything needs to be rigidly directed”.

“Hey I have an idea for something I’d like to exist” is quite possibly one of the best things a business owner can hear out of an R&D engineer’s mouth. You provide oversight in accordance with the risk factors established by your financials, business plan, and how good of an idea it is. But if a bunch of them like it as a product that’s a good sign.

I never would’ve expected a handheld console that could comfortably play Baldurs Gate 3 on an airplane. I got it for indie games, but it’s expanded beyond that for me

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Oh hey, that’s why I hate capitalism as an engineer. The endless pursuit of profit first rather than making good things that people want is disheartening as someone who just wants to make things that make life better

Some cis queer people are transphobic. Some straight trans people are homophobic. I’m a trans woman and my best friends are cis lesbians. Most of the time though, even those who dislike the other groups in the community understand that it’s extremely politically advantageous to work together.

That sounds lovely. Y’all should send your transphobes there too