yeah, the size of the chasm will continue to grow exponentially too, as they have more and more power and weight to throw around. It will accelerate until things become untenable, and that won’t be fun for anyone involved, be it the 99% or the rich, just for different reasons

He’s a treasonous raping pedophile that attempted a coup. Yeah he should have been put in prison for life or executed, but unfortunately 1/3rd of the US population has no critical thinking skills, and a burning hatred for anyone who doesn’t think like them (bigoted, racist, selfish, you get the idea). then another 3rd is entirely complacent and thinks politics are not their problem.

You guys get to watch the failure of a massive superpower in real time.

I get to get caught up in it all and likely thrown into the equivalent of a gulag because i openly express disgust and act against these fuckers. Already have had multiple shady black vans with no plates watching my home.

Least I’ll die knowing I tried my best, and was on the correct side of things

To your last point, The distance from Paris to Moscow is 1500 miles, while the distance from los angeles to NYC is over 2500 miles.

For the rest, yeah it’s ridiculous, our turnout is not even a 10th of what it should be considering the insanity

This world is ripe for an uprising against the ruling class and their bootlickers. The problem is getting everyone to agree on what they want.

I just have a constant pit in my stomach, knowing every day the constant thoughts in my mind egging me into impulsive action may one day lead me to do something that in the end will just be used as “moral” fodder against neighbors and people I care about.

But truly, when is enough, enough?

eventual? it’s here dude. Roving ICE (SS) patrols, people snatched up and thrown into god knows where, human rights abuses, ignoring our literal constitution and bill of rights. Soon enough they’ll start emptying our accounts of money if we speak out against them

laws tend to stop mattering when the vast majority of people stop believing in a legal system and start rioting and dragging the rich from their homes and bunkers though

really oughta stop calling them settlers, they’re terrorists, razing palestinian land and livelihoods, totally complicit in a genocide

there are so many more of us than them. If this is the path they truly want to go down, they won’t like how it ends

even better is the open weight, free models you can tailor to specific needs, which directly undercuts these massive “ai” companies.

So if/when those hikes happen, those self hosted models are going to look a lot more appetizing too

I really want to do the same after years of working in the field and watching it become more and more miserable, but financially I can’t really make the leap to starting my own business yet.

As the years go by I keep learning more and more from organizational practices:

• What raises morale and promotes healthy workflows
• What pisses people off and makes good people leave, and the circumstances that lead to the poor decisions made, since sometimes it’s a cascading effect that’s hard to trace back.
• What people who play games respond most positively to ( typically a mix of real authenticity in a core game design vision rather than pandering + good communication)

trying to keep track of the lessons learned, hoping one day I can make the jump, or at least jump on board with a like minded team

^ Racists actively doing backflips to avoid using their brains for a moment and considering thinking critically on the fact that the owning class possesses over 50% of all money and resources despite being less than 1% of the general population

I’m sorry for your situation. Other comments have pointed out that legally you don’t have to comply with the “no side job” bs, so i agree to keep proceeding with it, and if they try to fire you, bring in the lawyers.

On another note, stories like yours are why I want to watch the entire system burn, using executives as fuel for the fire.

Better to resist and flip the bird to these asshats rather than comply in advance.

Good luck to you, keep fighting, and never give up, if only to spite the bastards

let it fall, and let something else be built in its place. was rotten from the start

they should have their heads “off” too

if you want to know, the system by which we have elected officials to represent us federally has been pretty fucked from the start, with literal provisions and laws in place that actively fight against what the majority of people want.

Red (republican) states have way too much power for how little they provide the country and its people. their populations are miniscule yet they have an equal say in the senate.

Don’t even get me started on gerrymandering and voter oppression tactics.

We have a 2 party system that railroads any potential electoral candidate in congress into bending over backwards to appease one of the two deeply corrupt and entrenched organizations that run the show (no im not both sidesing here, republicans are pretty much a nazi party, but the democratic party is full of corporate shills).

Our “Supreme Court” is full of people that are appointed by a president (see: shitty two party system and voter oppression for why we have a problem here). And guess what, that supreme court is stacked with neo-nazi radicalists, literally stripping human rights from people.

This country has been fucked from the start. It was NEVER the land of the free. It was always about finding whatever way the rich could, to enslave or subjugate as many people as possible under their rule.

And I have the absolute pleasure of getting to live next to enough idiots that dedicate their entire lives to a raping, grifting, pedophile that literally shits himself daily, that even a lobotomized chicken would blush.

TL;DR yeah it fucking sucks, and what is written above isn’t even one micrometer of the gargantuan iceberg of how fucked this country has been, and continues to be.

women hate servies but sweeney caters to them, simple as

oppression breeds rebellion

corpo dems gonna corpo

Can this fucker and all his lackies just drop dead already? holy shit, so stupid, and so evil, it boggles the mind

at the very least don’t use it for the the most visibly apparent components of a game. Having it stub out scaffolding for underlying systems in the code is one thing, using it for visual assets is just dumb